The Long Awaited Letter From Tagg & Darc

Saving the best for last!!!!!
Well, we have had a good summer. (The kids have kept us very busy this year. It is just so much fun chasing them around the house, they just tucker us out so fast... )

Well, some things that we have done this summer that you may not know about is we went to Bill's Island with a bunch of friends and rented a cabin that Merrill Hoge owned. It was very fun and all BUT, the snoring that was occurring on ALL 3 floors! Also, I am very confused on what a Bede ( pronounced B-day) is used for could someone clear that up for me???? Logan perhaps? All in all we had a good time.

In the hella hot month of July (and the Saturday before the 24th), we took Sicilee and Haddi to Lagoon. We stayed at a motel 6, and the room was smaller than the one and only Brown Derby. ( for those of you who don't know what the Brown Derby is maybe you should join the rest of the family at the annual Anaconda Reunion, going on 8 years) Anyway, at the Motel 6 we crammed 9 people into the room. That means it actually only cost $4.47 a person, also known as a steal of a deal!!!!!!! So, we went to Denny's to eat that Friday night and we waited to be seated (at a Denny's???) for 25 minutes, ya I have never felt so white trash in my entire life. Then we waited another 45 minutes to get our food! (Again, at Denny's???) Saturday - we took Sic & Had to Lagoon and it was a lot of fun. We started them out on the kiddie rides and they got off of those all dissapointed because they wanted to go on the big ones and they never chickened out. (unlike their dad who stayed home)

Darci is still slaving away. She enjoys her job but it is still a job. She has been doing quite a bit of hair and bringing smiles to the women around the world, every once in a while I sneak in and get a cut also.

I have been busy with work. I do enjoy what I am doing though. I seem to have an experience with people everday that makes me laugh. For example, the other day I stopped by the gas station in Rigby to get a pop. As I am standing in line, I noticed that there was a cop in the back office looking at surveilance tapes of the gas mps. Through thorough thought and process of elimination I had come to a conclusion that someone drove off without paying for their gas. Just as I step up to pay for the pop in my hand (and not the candy bar in my pocket.....SHHH) the attendant asked the cop if he had caught the perpetrator. The cop states with a dumb look on his face, "ya, the guy had his phone number on his pickup" so without hesitation I just blurted out, "what an idiot!!! So they caught him and I was excited to tell Darci when I got hoime but I forgot. Anyways, I get in the truck with Lex the next day and he says, "Let me tell you about my day yesterday." He starts by saying how he needed to get a bid in by 3:00 for a job in Jackson and he found this out at 1:00. So, he said he hurried and stopped by the gas station to fuel up and get a drink...since he was in such a hurry, he forgot to pay for the gas. So, I look at him...laugh, and say: "So....YOU'RE THE IDOT???!!!!" And then I laughed harder. Now I am unemployed due to the fact my boss is serving his debt to society.

We had fun seeing everyone (and laughing at everyone) at the family reunion. And like everyone else, we enjoyed very much - spending time with Robbie and Grandpa. It was a great highlight to our vacation!

For the traditional words from Tagg, who do you feel bad for, the Zebra or the Cheetah?

Kunz Tribe

I am excited! I think this blog is a lot of fun. Thanks for all the letters and pictures. I am officially coveting all of you for your fun Summers. The most fun we have had is coming to Idaho. The Island Park reunion was the best part of my vacation and I will be the only mature child to admit that I enjoyed hanging out with you all. Other highlights of our trip was the Hamer parade-thanks Grandpa Jerry. Waklee was an Indian girl and rode Grandpa's horse and even won a "cute pie" trophy. Eric and I hiked Table Rock, okay I rode a horse half the hike and now that it's been a month I can say it was a pretty cool experience minus the horse bucking Eric's Dad off and I was the only person with him and was suppose to know how to save a life, saddle a horse and be calm. I knew how to do that latter two and thankfully I didn't need to save a life. But whoa! It was a little scary. I sure you can imagine but once we got back to safety and the rest of the family I just burst into tears and was sobbing hysterically. I was exhausted, hungry, sore and scared to death his Dad was going to go into shock, so I think tears were permitted. But we thoroughly enjoyed our trip and hope to come next Summer. Eric is busy with school and his calling. Oh my how busy he is with his calling but I will say that is why he is doing well in school. Waklee and I have been learning our states and we are getting very good. Anyone want a challenge give us a call. Reese is getting easier.......... I think or I am just getting alot more patient. Waklee starts school in a month-I can't beleive it! The other day Waklee asked me who was going to watch Reese while she was at school, not that Reese has a mother or anything. But what a nice big sister she is to Reese. The big achievements around our house is 1. Reese can walk, but chooses not to. 2. Waklee learned to tie her shoes! Yeah! She will tie her shoes and untie she shoes just to tie them again and offers to tie the neighbors shoes too. We are hoping to plan a trip to Canada the end of September and maybe just maybe Mom and Dad are going to come, what fun we would have. We will have to find some rope swings because I really want to see that LIVE. You are very cool Grandma's and Grandpa's. Grandpa Jack and Robbie thankyou again for coming to our reunion it meant so much and we hope to see a letter from the two of you for our Blog next month, I'll email when it is due. Love You All!

Lex N Crew

DEAR FAMILY
IT HAS BEEN AN EVENTLESS MONTH SINCE THE FAMILY REUNION! THE KIDS ARE GETTING READY FOR SCHOOL AGAIN. ALIVIA IS LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING TO KINDERGARTEN. SHE WAS THE FIRST ONE TO PESTER MOM INTO GETTING HER SCHOOL CLOTHES AND NOW THAT SHE HAS THEM, SHE WANTS TO WEAR THEM EVERYDAY! MELISSA GOT A JOB AT APPLE ATHLETIC AS A FLOOR TRAINER AND IS STUDYING RIGHT NOW TO BE A PERSONAL TRAINER. WHEN SHE STARTS TALKING ABOUT IT SHE MAY AS WELL BE SPEAKING ANOTHER LANGUAGE! SHE HAS ME QUIZ HER AND SHE WILL GIVE ME THE ANSWER AND THEN ASK IF THAT SOUNDS RIGHT AND I WILL USUALLY REPLY BY SAYING ?@!#^*@!??? OR SOMETHING ELECTRICAL THAT SHE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND EITHER. SHE HAS BEEN DOING REALLY WELL AND REALLY KNOWS HER STUFF. SOMEDAY I WILL HAVE HER PUT ME ON A DIET. I HAVE JUST BEEN TRYING TO KEEP BUSY GETTING THE WORK THAT WE HAVE DONE (AND I MEAN THAT BY SENDING TAGG TO GET IT DONE) AND BIDDING ON NEW WORK. I AM HOPING THAT WE CAN GET ENOUGH WORK TO KEEP US BUSY DURING THE WINTER. I CANT BELIEVE I AM SAYING THAT ALREADY ITS AND ONLY AUGUST! THINGS ARE GOING REALLY GOOD & ITS BEEN NICE HAVING TAGG AROUND. IT WAS GREAT TO SEE EVERYONE AT THE REUNION. GOOD THING WE HAD ONE BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE SINCE! DON'T YOU GUYS LIKE US? IT WAS REALLY GOOD TO SEE GRANDPA AND ROBBIE AGAIN TOO. GOT SOME GOOD SNAPSHOTS OF YOU. WE HAVE TAKEN THE KIDS SWIMMING A LOT AT RIGBY LAKE (EVERYONE IS FREE TO JOIN US ANYTIME) OR AT THE APPLE. THEY ARE ALWAYS ASKING TO GO FISHING NOW TOO, THANKS A LOT UNCLE JOHN! WE HOPE YOU ARE ALL DOING WELL. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT GET TOGETHER! LOVE, LEX, MELISSA & CREW

Herring Family

Hello Family, (didn't we just see you people? :) )

Life is pretty routine at the Herring's, different season different sports. The best way to do this letter is to give you the run down on each person, so here we go.

John has been working 2 days a week at the golf course. He's golfing everyday and busy building our Xango business. He traveled to Ireland in January to work with our Xango group there so that was a treat for him. He's getting ready to go out East to see his mom and work our business out there.

I've been enjoying each second of Jack. I haven't really been able to do much else. He takes up a lot of my time but I'm soaking it all up. Other than getting the kids to their games and hanging with Jack that's about it for me. I'm finally starting to get back into helping John build Xango so that will start taking up more of my time. Life is good!

Logan completed his baseball season hitting 8 home runs. He had a great season. Since the last letter Logan has turned 12 and has been ordained as a deacon. I can't believe that he's in Young Men's. He's getting ready to leave for a week at scout camp. He's looking forward to that. Football season has started so our summer is officially
Over. :( Logan graduated valedictorian in his class and gave a speech at graduation. He will be starting Jr. High this year (yikes). (Attention family!!!!! Logan wants to come and live in Idaho so he is taking offers on who wants him for a week next summer. He says the best offer wins.) (by the way he does laundry, windows, dishes, cooks breakfast........ I'd take him)

Kimbri started playing fast pitch softball this year. I was able to coach her team again. She was one of our pitchers and I have to say that it was a pretty uneventful season. Everyone's learning and not much going on. (boring) She's competed in a few horse shows this year and has some up and coming, she's out grown CoCo so she's jumping my mare Ivy this year and is working hard. Kimbri will be starting 5th grade. She ended really well in 4th grade, she was 1 A- from a 4.0 average. We are so grateful that they are smart and don't struggle in school.

Josh can't wait for soccer to start up, he's soooo excited. He's also counting down to when he starts 1st grade. Except for soccer his great love is the play station. He gets up earlier than the other kids so he can get "dibs" on the play station. The funny thing is the other kids don't care and aren't racing him. Maybe he should figure that out so he can get more sleep. Ha.

Jack Henry is 5 months old. He's such a good baby and he's already a veteran at baseball games, horse shows, soft ball, and boating . Jack is definitely going to know the meaning of the word "GO". He's growing so fast and is such a blessing in our home.

School is just around the corner but we have had the summer of a lifetime. We made a decision this year to get out and do something as a family as much as possible. We have been camping and boating at Yuba Lake in Utah, we've been boating on Willard Bay in Utah. We enjoyed fun on the water at the reunion and it was great hanging with all of you especially Grandpa Jack and Robbie. On our way home from Island Park we took the kids through Yellowstone to see Old Faithful. We got to Jackson Lake and saw the water, we couldn't resist so we rented a cabin and stayed the night and boated the next day. It was incredibly beautiful. Then we stopped in Swan Valley so the boys could fish in the Snake River. No one wanted to go home. Josh kept saying everywhere we went "I wish Grandma and Grandpa lived here so we could stay the night and not go home. After a week of re-cooping from that trip we traveled down to Lake Powell to play with Chad's family. On our way down we took the kids to Bryce Canyon National Park. We had soooo much fun at Powell. (Taun we need to plan the next trip). On the way home we took the kids to the Grand Canyon and then we stopped off at Zions National Park. We loved it so much we stayed an extra day and hiked into the narrows. It's soooooo beautiful there. After being gone for 7 days we had so much fun that no one wanted to go home. It has been a priceless summer.

Well, there you go, this is extra long because no one got their crap together to get their letters in last time except ME. Keep updated would ya!!!!!!!

Love to everyone!

Empty Nester's

Hello Family!!! No one can say that grandparents are sissies---Grandpa Jerry and Granny Janny have been very brave this summer. We have had a great summer with family!!! Sure enjoyed the reunion with you all in Island Park and especially Grandpa Jack and Robbie getting to come. I just want you to know that those 15 grandchildren have never been that quiet as they were when Grandpa Jack was telling us a few stories. Island Park was a great memory for all of us.
We went to Palisades reservoir with Chad and Taun and Penny where Granny Janny had to prove that she could still water ski. Well I don’t know about the water skiing part but I think I got the award for the day for a “Royal Face Plant”. But I am not giving up yet---you know me, I can’t stand to fail.
Grandpa Jerry killed a rattlesnake at the ranch where our cows are. It had 12 rattles on it---yikes. He tried to get me to hold it while he skinned it but that is where I qualify for “sissy”----I wasn’t touching that thing, dead or alive!!!
For anyone not living in Idaho, it has been hotter than hot this summer----everything is so dry and hay prices are sky high. We have had one rainstorm and that is it. Hoping for a break here soon.
Guess you have all seen our house painted. The one bedroom paint job turned into painting the whole upstairs, the patio, a car trailer that we bought and now we have paint to paint the horse trailer (just in case anyone wants to drop by to help). Needless to say, after this summer all paint brushes will be destroyed at our house. We are sick of painting but everything sure looks nice.
Well, we love you all and think you are great. We love to hear about what you are doing so keep in touch. It makes our day---since we are “empty nesters” we can always use a little excitement!!!