Photoshop!!

My Mom took some pictures of us up in canada!! i messed around with them on photoshop and this is what happened...!! Tell me what you think?? is it Fantastic, Could be better, or should never do photography again???? -jess

SUMMER FUN

JESSICA AND MARIAH IN FLORIDA 

(they went in June before the Canada trip scroll down for pictures)

the girls took their first trip on an airplane all by themselves.   They went to Florida to visit Heather, Aaron and Holly.  They went to quite a few places and most of them were free or very inexpensive.  Orlando and the Temple, Beaches, parks, Museums, and hanging out with family is always fun.   They even got some free food.  They stayed 3 weeks and enjoyed all of it.  Yes it was hot and humid but they kept cool at the beaches and the pool.  Thanks Coons for putting up with them.  Lots of pics on Heathers Blog.

                                                                   Orlando Temple
                                              What some people will do for free food

                                              Free Chick-fil a if you dress up like a cow
                                                           Hangin with Holly
                                                     On the Beach
                                                      On the plane

WORTH ALL 3100 MILES

our view of the parks on the way home with John's foot

Baniff National Park

The waterfalls

                                                          Cool spray from the Falls

                             The return trip we went through Alberta and the parks you drive for about 

6 hrs through the Baniff National Park wich is part of the Rocky Mountains.  Very beautiful drive.  Amazing scenery we stopped at these cool water falls.   

People from all over visiting.

            The entrance into their little town Vanderhoof BC

                                                       The road to the Gulbranson home

             Having fun outside the evenings are nice and long it doesn't get 

              dark until after 10:00 and the sun comes up early 5:30 or so.

                             

                     Emma and Kael and the 10 puppies they need to give away
                                          Checking out Mel's animal room
                                              John on a job site with Kaelen
                                          Being silly while going to Prince George 

                                        the next major town about an hour away.  

                                              The kids are very good riders

     Fun at the Lake the weather got warm and everyone went in.

  It rarely gets even 90 but I guess we brought the warm weather                                        

because everyone was hot at 85, most people don't have air conditioning

Everyone was Haying at this time because the weather was warm.  A family cam

 to the Lake and brought their dad out of the hay field and he took his

 boots and shirt off and  went swimming in his wranglers.  True farmer.

                                              I think Max ate half the watermelon
     Emma and the start of her dream playground that grandpa and Kaelen                                             started.   she told all her boy cousins up there they had to pay to play on it.
 Posing by the wild flowers while waiting for the second flat on the second day of the trip to         be fixed. Not 10 minutes prior to this we saw our first bear along side the road.
                                       Day 2 second flat in Canada good we had the other tire fixed
                                                         First day first flat in the U.S.
                                                        Wow we have a long ways to go
      But there well worth every hassle and long sit in the car.............

IN THE BACK IS WHERE WERE AT

Well I guess its where John is at.  People drive by and think were not 

doing much on the house.  But the work is going on in the back. 

He has been working in the back getting practice 

in rock laying.  It looks pretty good I think.  We've put in more grass

and more sidewalks.  Its coming right along.  

Thank-you John for all the hard work.

                                                The back walk out

                                          New sidewalks and sod

Elder Dallin H. Oaks office

Last week we had the privilege of going with my brother Sherman and 

Linda Doll to be set apart as  Mission President Doll and Sister Doll 

of the Chicago North Mission it was an awesome experience.  

President Oaks was very kind and friendly to everyone.

The girls went to help babysit some of the little kids during the setting apart. Then his secretary invited them up to meet him and take a picture.  They were thrilled.  They saw quite a few who's who in the church office building foyer while tending the little ones.  We ate lunch in the church office building which is usually only for those who work there.  But we got special permission, food selection was good and priced well.  We went to the gateway after to kill a few hours until our temple open house appointment.   We were sitting in the shade at a table and up  the street a ice cream truck parked.  We were watching the guy unload his order.  I noticed their was a cardboard box or something on the ground.  We kept watching him go back and forth and he never picked it up.  Then I started noticing something white on the ground, it was ice cream melting out of one of those 5 gallon cartons and the driver wasn't picking it up.   Stefani dared Mariah to go in the chocolate factory store and ask for a cup and go scoop some up and said she would pay her $5.  It was Haagen Dazs after all.  The girls had gone over to take a picture of themselves pretending to lick it up.  Yes, they were still in dresses. By now people were starting to watch.   Mariah had got a cup and spoon and asked the guy if they could have some, he said sure take all you want.  So she scooped up a cup full of luscious butterfinger ice cream as the driver drove off leaving his mess behind for the scavengers.  Just as Jessica scooped some up a lady came over to her and said that's been on the ground I don't know if you should be eating it.  But as you can see by the picture only the lid had popped off.  Anyway as she was walking away a homeless man(the shelter is around the corner) with a child in a stroller walked up grabbed the carton and walked off.  Hooray for him they will have a nice treat and he cleaned up after the ice cream man. 

       (Do you think Tim's trying to be a look-alike)

Where did you get that ICE CREAM?  Who paid you $5
From the Haagen Dazs truck?

Off the GROUND?  Your Dad would be proud!

The family at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house

Girls Camp!

Me and mariah went to girls camp a week ago. It was up in Heber Valley!  It was super fun, but also super cold the whole time. But we made the best of it and its a good thing we had cabins or we would have been frozen. It was with our whole stake and the theme was Super Heros and each ward made up a super hero to go along with a topic out of the strength of youth book. Our ward topic was family. So our super hero was the Super Sisters! I must say that our ward was one of the cutest and most creative wards up there. Anyways we did lots of fun things during the week like the challenge course then we went to the lake, hikes, stayed up way to late, played tons of silly games and had a vary spiritual time! 

Super Sister Flag!!

Pie Eating contest! I won but then they said it was a tie between another ward
The Lake

Challenge course 


                                                Bus Ride up!

New progress sort of!

Jessica and John laying sod we ended up putting it 

all the way to the back.  Good thing we got it in

just before all the rain, its been great not to 

water all the time.

John has tore into the old front door area

tarring it out and moving the door out front.

No more GOLD glass window.