Mirra's 1st Birthday

 Jack with our sweet friend Hannah bug.

 Celie ready for gymnastics.  We don't have many pictures of gymnastics, but it is a big part of our life.  Celie and Jack work hard at practicing almost daily.  They really enjoy it.

First day of 2nd grade!  She is growing up so fast!

Happy Birthday pictures for Mirra's 1st birthday!  Her and Cora celebrated their 3-day-apart birthdays together with a gathering involving cake and blueberry cobbler of course!  She has grown up so much too.  Her personality is so fun to have as a part of our family.  We love her.

Mount Evans

 Mount Evans:  Celie and Dad ready to hike the thought-to-be 2 hour hike up to the top - 14,000+ feet high.

 Reached the summit!  (4 hours of ridge climbing, boulder jumping and altitude headaches)

On our way home.  Such a beautiful view atop Colorado mountains.

Homestead 2011

 Mother Dear

 Thanks to the Newtons and Grandpa the Homestead now has a wonderful flag.

 Jack picked it up on no time.  Like father like son.

 Rock climbing (they called hiking) in Wyoming.

 Yes, this is our vehicle.  Marty lined up the rocks just right so we could make it acro

More summer adventures

 Salt Lake Temple

 Fishing at Yellowstone with Papa

 tetons

 Wyoming beach; believe it or not!

Beach

 My side of the family decided to spend all day together this summer at Bear Lake.  Everyone had a great time. . . obviously.

Summer at home

Most of the Benson grandchildren all together!

 Aren't they cute?

 Celie along with cousins, aunts and uncles ran a race.  She did great!

 Here are all the runners.  Go Allsop family.

 Daddy shooting in Grandpa's backyard.  Isn't it beautiful?

Crawling

Mirra crawled for the first time today!!  She is a little over 10 months.  Late bloomer I guess.  It is the funniest looking crawl.  She takes a step and then pulls onto her knee.  So funny.

Blueberries! And lots of them.

 

This has got to be the best picture.  After picking blueberries for a while we had to stop and hopefully get Mirra to fall asleep - nope, didn't happen.  But we quickly found out that she loves to eat blueberries - by the handful!  She went diving into the bucket and didn't stop until I made her.  Silly girl.

 Aren't these beautiful.  They are good too.

This is Mirra diving.

 And diving some more.

 Stuffing her face.  The blueberry stains were worth it.

Like father like son.  They are so similar.  This is Jett by the way - for those of you who can't tell. :)

Jett again.

Jack

And blue teeth Celie

I wonder how many she ate?

We ate so many blueberries that  most of us didn't function normally for the next couple of days - even Mirra.  Thanks, Becca, for the pictures.