Trip to Banff, Cananda

Some of the family went to Banff, Canada for our family vacation!! It was an incredible place, once we got there. We had bought a suburban so we had room for more of our family and it decided to have transmission problems along the way. We were blessed to be in a town, Shelby, Montana, when the transmission would not shift out of 1st. We found a repair shop, found a way to rent a different car and continued on with our vacation. The Canadian Rockies are truly spectacular and we saw and did wonderful things. We hiked, camped, saw 5 bears, 2 moose, many deer and other wildlife. We went out on a glacier, walked around, it was awesome. Eph and Steve, climbed Mount Temple, the rest of us went up a ski lift and had a spectacular view, of both the valley below, Lake Louise and Mount Temple. It was a great trip.















Kathryn testing the waters of Lake Louise. Notice the glacier on the mountain in the background.









Kathryn and Amy on Athabasca glacier in Jasper National Park. So cool to walk on the glacier.


















Kathryn, Steve, Amy, Eph, Mandy and Ellen on the glacier


























After walking on the glacier with a group, Eph, Mandy, Kathryn and Steve put on their crampons and used ice axes and went for a walk. It was fun for them and I loved watching them, as did many others who were wondering if they could also do it wearing the "funny shoes"!

















Steve, Amy, Kathryn and Ellen at Bow Valley. The lake is green because of rock flour, ground up rock from the glacier grinding over rocks and that being deposited into the lake. The light reflects off of the rock flour and gives the lake a green color.
















We hiked up Johnston canyon, to lower and upper falls. This is us at upper falls. Great hike and beautiful all the way.















Moraine Lake and the valley of the 10 peaks. Wow what a place. We hiked around this lake to the inlet, a glacier-fed stream.

Johanna's wedding

At the temple for Johanna's wedding to Jared Hughes. Chris and Natalie and family. Aaron did not want to be in the picture!!












Her siblings are holding her up, not as easy as it seemed at first. They almost dropped her, but held on!!






















Johanna and Jared, newly married
































Amy and the nieces and nephews--this was not an easy picture to take, many wiggling bodies, some who did not want to be in the picture!!












Kathryn, so grown up!!

Wow What a summer this has been. I really thought I would keep up with this blog each week, but I have not even done so for 1 week. We had a wedding--Johanna married Jared Hughes in July. It was fun getting the yard ready for it, even though the weather made it so we held the reception indoors. After the wedding Kathryn, Steve and I attended Young Women camp. We took a family vacation to Banff, Canada (complete with a car breakdown), attended marching band camp, have had lots of fun family adventures with Chris and Natalie and family here for a week. Following are a few pictures of the summer.

Pictures of Josh, Tiffany, JJ, Kelsie and Max
and Eph, Mandy and Ellen

Kathryn and I went to Ohio over Spring Break to visit Chris and Natalie and kids. We had a great time.




We went to a State Park called Hocking Hills. It was about an hour from Columbus and was really fun. There were caves to climb in and a waterfall and river, which we threw rocks in. Chris had been very busy, but he had Saturday off and went with us.






Kathryn swinging with Aaron at a park where there was an Easter Egg Hunt. It was cool and rainy, but the kids had a great time anyway. The rain actually did not start until we were in the car, what a blessing.
















Laura and Steven in an indoor slide at an Ice Cream Parlor, they know how to do it right in Ohio. What fun to eat ice cream and play on the slides and climb on plastic ice cream cones!!!



























Kathryn went to Jr.Prom with a good friend Tyler. She looked beautiful and had a good time. Tiffany did her hair and it was a great "up-do" Hard to believe that she is growing up so much.













Johanna and Jared, the happy, excited couple. We are deep in planning a wedding and it is fun.

















I will try to keep up to date more often on this blog.

Family Fun!!!

Kelsie enjoying cake and ice cream!!
Amy and Ellen, Amy is a sweet aunt who loves to hold her nieces and nephews!
JJ helping Tiffany open presents!! What fun he had.
Kathryn at the cabin dug a hole in the snow on top of this log. She is looking through the hole. We had a great time at the cabin, sledding, eating and playing games. Wish I could live at the cabin sometimes.

Ellen"s Blessing Day

Mandy and Eph with Ellen
Grandma and Grandpa Mahoney with Mandy, Eph and Mandy
Johanna holding Kelsie and Jared
Grandma Janette Lundstrom holding Ellen

Ellen Janette was blessed by her father on Feb. 1, 2009 It was a wonderful day. Many attended and then we all gathered at Eph and Mandy's home for yummy soup and bread and goodies!!

New Baby Ellen

After more than 20 hours of labor Mandy had a beautiful baby girl on Dec. 30th. All were excited, especially Eph who got his tax deduction!! :) They have named her Ellen Janette, after her 2 grandmothers, what an honor. She is a sweetheart, and as with all babies, sleeps, eats, cries and steals her grandparents hearts.