What's not so new with the Youngbloods
July 4th fun - This is how the Youngbloods spent the 4th of July 2007 |
Shelley
goes down the slide with Hayden. He would go down all day long if
he could get someone to ride with him. |
Riley,
Abby, and Mary Clair |
Ben
and Tim make a graceful landing at the bottom of the slide. |
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They guys relax in the pool |
Riley finally got the courage to go down the slide and now she can't get enough of it. |
Shelley
gives Caroline a ride down the slide. |
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The annual 4th of July fireworks show at the Bright's house. English came through this year with some really good stuff. Not just the snakes, smokebombs, and bottle rockets we usually do. |
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Travelers Night On July 6th we went to the Phi Sig alumni Travelers game. We had been in Hope all day and stopped off in Little Rock to meet everyone. It was a really good turnout and everyone had a great time. Lots of kids for Riley and Hayden to play with and lots of beer for the adults to play with. |
Riley and Abby must have needed to clean up after eating cotton candy. They each asked for a quarter and went to the bathroom and came out with some napkins. Shelley and Holly had a nice talk with them about female things later. |
John, Hayden, Riley, Abby, Gillian, and Bailey |
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Must be 6th inning chicken dance time |
Tim and
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| Hayden has a new toy he likes to play with. A set of hillbilly teeth. I finally had to get out the video camera and film him in action one night before bedtime. |
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September 8th
After going bowling several times during the summer with her daycare, Riley was an old pro at the bowling thing. |
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Hayden gets ready for his second frame ever of bowling. He thinks this is an awesome game
He cried for 5 minutes after that. He was so upset that he didn't get another turn. Riley and Abby both offered to let him roll one of their balls to help him feel better. |
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Shelley got to take Riley to work with her for the 'take your kid to work with you day'. That may not be the actual name for it, but Riley had a great time just the same. She made a couple of new friends and got to do a lot of artwork.
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Riley's art project for the day. |
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Toadsuck Daze has become pretty much a 'run
downtown and let the kids ride a couple of kiddie rides' kind of
event for the last few years for the Youngblood family. So we
didn't bring the camera this time. Of course, both the kids
decided to be brave this year and ride the big rides. Hayden
and Caroline rode the ferris wheel by themselves and had a great
time. Ben took these pics with his phone. Riley rode
with Mary Claire on the tilt a whirl and with Shelley on some other
big scary ride.
From now on we take the camera everywhere |
![]() The first slip and slide day of the summer
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![]() Riley got a new bike for the summer. 5 minutes later she ran into the house crying over two skinned knees. |
![]() The neighbor kids all came over for the fun |
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On December 1st, Shelley and Riley went to the
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert in Little Rock. Holly and
Abby, and Amanda and Mary Claire and Caroline went with them.
Tickets were hard to come by, but Shelley and Holly and the girls
got tickets on the floor 12 rows back.
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If you've never been to the old mill in Little Rock, you should really go. I always thought it was just an old building that was long ago a mill, but it's really interesting. We had a photographer take some pictures and some of them turned out really good. Mostly because the kids were so happy to be there it was no problem getting them to smile. And we found out it's haunted. One of the pictures we took with our camera of Shelley and Riley had an orb show up in it. Look below for that one. |
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This bridge was made of rock and petrified wood |
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This is the orb picture. All the other pictures we took right there had nothing in them. Ghosts are attracted to children. |
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Riley is a square dancer! February 13 Marguerite Vann 1st graders had a square dance. She did great! We got a video you can watch by clicking on the icon to the left. (scratch that...the video was way too big)
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Shelley started her new job at Windstream on Monday February 12th. She'll be doing a lot of the same things she did at Alltel and working for a great boss. And once again working for the same company as my dad.
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I had
a United Way conference in Los Angeles at the end of January. I
managed to do all the tourist things and even get some pictures. I
was by myself for the first day so I decided to do some self portraits
in front of some of the LA landmarks.
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| Here is the latest picture of baby Chandler,
soon to be son of Ryan and Jill Chandler. And.... they have named
him Travis Hayden Chandler. What a great name!
You can keep up the their progress here - http://www.babychandler.blogspot.com/
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Kyle and Heather Chandler are also expecting a child. Madeline Reese Chandler. See more of their ultrasound pictures here |
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It's 2007 and everyone here is doing great. We're glad to be back home from all our Christmas traveling, and trying to get back into our work/school schedule. The kids got a trampoline for Christmas among other things and have been on it every day. It's been really cold out but that doesn't slow them down. We had friends over for New Years Eve. Tim & Holly and Ben & Amanda came over with kids. We played scene it Nickelodeon for the kids and then scene Friends for the adults. The women won both the scene it and the karaoke competition.
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