Good luck Kelsey, She is off to college!

Christi this past weekend floated us donw the Provo river. She is one strong chick and it was fun to be out on some kind of water although it was freezing. Here are a few pix. We sure had alot of fun.

A beautiful view down this great canyon!

daddio!

having Fun with his family!

Killians river rafting down the mighty Provo!

This weekend Kelsey the nimber four daugter began her first semester at BYU! Mom and Dad were kind enough to make the long trek up to party with the girls up here in P-town. We had alot of fun. Some river rafting, free eats at Red Robin , movies and more. Christi is applying for a river rafting job and was brave enough to take us down the river. She did great and will have some great guns after rowing down the river all summer long in the sun.

Because I can!

So this is really Jess. I have access to some great pix of mom and Blob. You should have seen these two! they gigled and posed for 20+ minutes with my camera as we waited to be seated at Cheesecake factory. Mom is like one of the girlfriends... and so.... if any bloggers want some great laughs check our blogs regularly!

Brad's Graduation from the U of U

Brads family the Olsen's and Bairds' celebrating at Red Robin.




My new son in law, just graduated in Biology and Chemistry from the U of U and we couldn't be more excited for him.

We flew up to celebrate this great occasion and also to party with Jess for her big 25th birthday. We went to the cheescake factory. It was great.

Family time

This is Hayden. He is a pug and Beagle combined. Hes the first dog that has been indoors, and yes hes a rat dog.


Carol is also a recent Grandma. Ray and Brad had a baby girl named Brooklyn Rae in Feb. Grandma loves this baby and spoils her completely on every occasion possible.

Mom is supper woman( shh dont tell anyone)

So, if anyone is up for a great story just talk to my mother about what went on for my reception. My mother, did ALL my food which was Cafe Rio, all my flowers from Costco, and still had time to do the bridesmaids dresses, be at my sealing and also spend that one on one time with me in the brides room. My whole reception was changed in a weeks time and redone so that her spoiled drama queen daugter could have her big day.




I have the best mom in the world. These pix are from january but I thought it is fun to see differnt perspectives.

... more trek

My dad not only does the mojority of dished at home but, here you can see that he did alot of them out of a make shift sink on the cooking trailer. He is dressed as a preacher, even the cooks had to dress up like pioneers. 

The lady 
walking next to the carriage wasn't a member. She brought her daughter up because they love church history and wanted to be a port of this experience. They were kind and helped out alot. It is a great oppurtunity to feel the love and sacrifice and determination of the early saints as they sacrificed and crossed the plains. 


This is a table of peanut butter, honey, jelly and more. the youth went down the lines and made their lunches. Ive never seen so much jelly and butter on bread before. the youth thought that they were never to eat again I guess. Some boys had 4 peices of bread stacked with jelly squishing everywhere. 

They youth had a great time and it was good to report that their were not to many injuries from walking 20+ miles in 3 days.  

Trek

We show up to the camping site wednesday night and winds were 50+ mph. I had dirt in places that I didnt know were possible. Everything was coated with dust and it wasnt very condusive for cooking out doors. Dad decided to put a prep table in the food trailer so that we could make food and not have to worry about the extra dirty seasoning ending up in the food. Here are pix of Kelsey mom and I cutting up stuffs for the yummy salad that we made for the 40 leaders who where their setting up early.  

It was quite funny, but someone forgot the spaculas to help get the peanut butter out of the 6 containers we had for 320+ people. Here is a pix of Kelsey digging it out with a plastic bag on her hand. We were laughing so hard that we were crying. good memories. 

MAKES Pioneer Trek 2008

So my mother is new to this blooging idea so her daugter, Jess (Whom apparently has lotsof excess time has decieded to help mom with her blog and get her started on this new adventure. This past weekend was the Mesa Arizona kimball east stakes Pioneer trek. Thefabulous Killian Duos were asked to do the food for the whole event so here are some pix.  




Dad and Jess working the grill. We had 320+ people to feed in the middle of nowhere. It was a huge challenge but alot of fun. I think the youth ate more than they would have normally, but since treks are known for being real and exact youth thought that we were going to starve them! We didn't and the food was really great!. We had a BBQ, beef stew, homeade bread with honey butter, full skillet breakfast and lots more.