Cabin over July 24th

Starting the Holiday weekend out "Tripp Luck" style. On our way to Island Park our back window was shattered by a semi-truck loosing something off his trailer. No replacement glass available in Idaho until Monday due to the holiday weekend. Luckily we had a tarp with us and broke out the remainder of the glass and shut the tarp in the tailgate to hold. It actually did very well especially since it rained and we had to drive home with the tarp too. We were lucky it only broke the window and no one was hurt. "Let's get it started"

How many people can you fit in the cabin? It was fun and the kids loved it.

Tripps (5), Granny & Pa, Grandma Great, Hamiltons (6), Miyasakis (4), Hills (2) and 3 dogs

Jason and Jenn makin' smores

Carter and Jenn eating smores

Jason chillin'

Madison, Daddy, Carter

Madison, Jaiden, Mariko, Carter, Nate, Kaia, Conner (Austin???)

Madison and Kaia enjoying Barney, Mickey Mouse and Elmo

Mariko and Carter (be nice Carter)

Kaia and her little mother - Madison

Mom and Madison enjoying the shade

Jennie, Grace and Jaiden

Jason took a full crew out for fishing - filling Grandpa Great's role (what a good/patient guy)

Proud moment fishing - even caught one over the weekend (no camera)

Check out those sticks (legs)

First Day in 3rd grade

Jaiden just started 3rd grade with Mrs. Johnson. She is lucky to have so many friends to walk and attend class with.

Ellie, Jaiden, Hannah, and Lauren (The girl crew)

Ellie is back from their other classes - yeh!

Normal Life

Just a few random pictures of the Tripp's normal life ...

My boys grilling dinner and chatting about life

My girls hanging at the table doing crafts.

Love this smile.

Only his dad can fill this role to make Carter laugh like above

Alarm Needed?

The other night was not the most restful nights sleep. Jaiden has been having problems with sleeping ever since I got home from YW camp. She cries and gets upset and one night to the point of throwing-up (yes regressing to when she was a year old). She tries to sleep in our room but we know if we give in once it will never end. We give her the option to sleep in her brothers room in the bunk beds. She still wasn't happy and was coming in 5-7 times a night.

Finally one night I heard her walking around the house and then she came in our room. I could tell the wasn't fully awake and took her back to bed. Then Madison woke up crying about every hour for really no reason - she also wasn't fully awake. During one of my breaks from Madison I was laying in bed and heard screaming. I jumped up into the hall waiting for the scream to happen again to figure out which bedroom to rush into. The scream came again and it was Carter. I ran in to find him with blood every where -another bloody nose. I needed some wipes and towels so I headed to the kitchen. I was walking past the entry way and noticed the front door wide open (3 am). I was frozen.

Thoughts ran through my mind - should I go to the kitchen? What if someone is in there? Jason won't hear anything? I immediately decided I needed to wake Jason and tell him I was heading into the kitchen and not sure if it was safe. I turned around and headed to my room. I said, "Jason" and no movement, again , "Jason" nothing. Finally I walked over to the bed and shook him. He finally came awake and I told him what was going on but that he needed to start waking up so he wouldn't pass out when he got out of bed (has happened before when he gets woken up in the night and jumps out of bed).

I headed to the kitchen, shut the front door, and went to help Carter. As I was helping Carter I noticed Jason sitting in the living room. When Carter was under control I went and talked to Jason. Sure enough he had started to feel light headed and headed for a couch before passing out. We talked for a minute and then he went through the house checking to make sure everything was OK. Everything seemed fine but we know that the door was locked before going to bed. The only thing we could figure was Jaiden must have opened it when she was walking around the house at 1am. She has been known to sleep walk but never open a door. It is disconcerting to know the door was wide open for 2 hours. I think we will be getting an alarm. FUN TIMES!!!

Grandma Great ...

Ellen Mae Jones passed away peacefully on July 4, 2009.
Hansen Children (Emma & Bridger)

David Jones Family


Dorthy's family

Dazleys

Jackie and Ann

Each son shared memories (Allan Jones)

Brent Jones

A recording of Grandpa Great (Vernon Jones) was played as a tribute. He was quite boisterous. Guess we won't play it at Savanna's wedding :)

Mervin Jones

Zan Jones

Grandchildren and great grand children sent balloons to heaven for Grandma-great.

Kids played while the adults visited

Grandchildren (Mel, Kim, Jenn, Beth, David, Heather - Mike unable to attend)

The four sons (Zan, Mervin, Brent, Allan)

This is what I remember every time we tried to take a picture - Merv trying do bunny ears and Brent smacking it away. I guess your always a child.

Carter, Jaiden and Madison

Allan and Mervin discussing an important topic?

Nana visiting with one of Grandma-Great's medical assistants