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Thanks Jeanette for the Tag So many of you may or may not know about the "Dream Mine" or the "Relief Mine" but my great, great grandfather was John H. Koyle who had the dream and started the mine. The mine was always something that we were curious about growing up but my grandparents didn't talk about it much because of the controversy surrounding it. As we have grown we have had to do our own research about it and finally get our grandparents to open up about it. Anyway, it is quite the history in the Salem Utah area. For those of you who live in this area you can see the mine from the freeway. It is the big white thing on the mountain above Salem.

My sister and her family came down one weekend and we decided to go take a look at the mine. It is off limits to people wanting to go up but we talked a guy in to letting us go up because it is part of our family history and thank goodness my sister had an Idaho license plate, he knew we had come from a ways a way so he let us up.

Here are some extra pictures of our trip to the mine.

What a beautiful veiw from the top of the mine. You can see the whole Utah county valley.

This is the house that my great, great grandfather lived in.
Here is a picture of my sister and her beautiful family. It was so fun to go up to the mine with them

Oh I tag: Danielle, Nelly, Erin & Kristi

Rules: Here are the rules: Open the 4th folder on your computer, post the 4th picture, and then offer a brief explanation. Then tag 4 people to do the same!

Happy Birthday Eli... How time flies. (Part 1)

I’m a couple of days late in posting this but I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my dear sweet little boy. Happy Birthday Eli! I can’t believe that he is already two. I had the hardest day on his birthday. I felt like I just needed to sit and hold him as much as I could. I felt like I couldn’t get enough of him but all he wanted was to get down and play. I guess that is why I was so sad. I just hate for my kids to get older because I know that all too soon they will be grown with families of their own.
I thought I would post some of my favorite pics of Eli. He was such a darling baby and has been a joy in our house. He makes us laugh so much. I am posting this from work because I don’t seem to remember to do it once I get home. I don’t have very many pictures here on this computer so I’ll have to post more when I get home.

This is our first little picture of our family. Don't you just love pictures of yourself right after you have had a baby. We were sure excited to have him here. Since I was enduced I pretty much knew about when he would be born. I usually get PIT and get my water broken by 8 and I told everyone that I would have this baby by noon and sure enough he was born at 11:49 am. I made my deadline. He was 8lbs 6oz.

This was Eli's cute little baby announcement. It says "Mandalyn welcomes her new little brother Eli. Born March 22, 2007 8lbs 6oz"
What cute kidlets. As you can see here Eli was born with some hair. It was the cutest thing. He was born already in style with the hair growing over his ears. How funny. It didn't last long before I cut it but I wish I would have waited longer. Mandalyn sure loves her brother and was so excited to see him when he finally came.
All I can say is precious!
See why it's so hard to let them grow up?
Oh look what a chubb-a Chubb he was . So cute. There were so many at this age I couldn't just pick one or two.

Handsome Eli is right. Do they get any cuter than this?

He was so funny during this photo shoot. He was really good at curling his tongue.

What a handsome little man. Mwah!

I think these pictures really show Eli's true personality. He is ALWAYS happy, and smiling.