Most Recent Updates (Aug 2010)

Check out the latest Blog Update.  All of these entries were recently added:

1.  Cody & Whitney’s Wedding:  Getting There
2.  Cody & Whitney’s Wedding:  The Bridal Shower
3.  Cody & Whitney’s Wedding:  Aunt Sam’s House
4.  Cody & Whitney’s Wedding:  The Salt Lake Temple 1
5.  Cody & Whitney’s Wedding:  The Salt Lake Temple 2
6.  Cody & Whitney’s Wedding:  The Reception
7.  Cody & Whitney’s Wedding:  Getting Home
8.  Grandma Nolden’s Book:  “Escape from Hellfire to Freedom”
9.  Fallen Trees
10.  Happy 50th, Frank!
11.  The Missionaries & Laurie Hale
12.  Youth Temple Trip:  South Carolina
13.  “Mormon Night” at the Atlanta Braves Game
14.  First Day of School 2010
15.  2010 Ward Pioneer Party
16.  Frank at Work

Fallen Trees!!!

The night we got back to Georgia from Cody’s Wedding (in Utah)…we found that we had a tree down in the backyard…and it just happened to slice right through the play structure out there. We learned later that another tree had fallen in the forest behind the house…and it was attached to our deer stand/tree house that the kids (used to) play in. One other tree (that we know of) fell across one of our four-wheeler paths (see photos of Liz).

I guess a major storm moved through the area while we were gone for a week. We do feel blessed, however, that none of the trees fell on our home or hurt children while they were playing outside.

Oh, one of our air conditioning units broke while we were gone too. Most of the bedrooms were too hot to sleep in. So after driving through the night (we left Utah Sunday morning and got back to Georgia Monday evening) we couldn’t sleep in our beds and get a good night’s rest .

A direct hit! No more playing here :0(

...I guess Donovan didn't get the memo...

This is a BEFORE photo. This was taken back in July...you can see what the playhouse was supposed to look like.

The two trees had grown too closely together...I guess that's what made it unstable.

The bottom of the playhouse....

A super ugly crawl-a-mochie on the trampoline. Just par for the course in Georgia.

Looking at the play structure from the opposite direction.

Donovan and his buddies Dillon and Daniel went into the forest to play today and this is what they found....no more treehouse!

You can't see it here, but the two trees that supported the tree house (deer stand) were right at the edge of a "deep" ravine. A lot of the roots were exposed into the ravine. You could see (after it fell) that a lot of the tree was very rotted inside.

Donovan with Dillon and Daniel (twins) standing near the fallen tree (maybe not the best place to stand...now that I think about it).

Donovan has a lot of fun with Dillon and Daniel!

And this is the other tree that fell across one of the paths...and Liz...showing how sad we are about it ;-).

Frank at Work

Frank is really enjoying his position as Area Director.  These are some pictures from an “All Manager’s Conference” that he recently held in Cincinnati, Ohio, for all of the manager’s that are under him.  They did their annual awards at this meeting, hence the photos with people standing around holding certificates .

Frank (center) and all of the manager from Area 2, plus Leslye, his boss.

Frank and the Customer Service Award Winners.

Frank with his immediate boss, Leslye.

Frank conferring with another Area Director...

 

Frank a co-worker who was MC-ing the event.

Frank giving his "212 Degrees: Step it up a Notch" presentation.

During the week of the "All-Manager's Conference," Frank's group was able to do some community service as well. This is he and a co-worker at a soup kitchen in Cincinnati.

One of the events of the week took place on a Riverboat.

Most Recent Entries (July 2010)

Here are the Blog Entries that were added most recently:

1. Donovan Turns 10!
2. Cody is AMAZING!
3. Summer 2010 Misc.
4. 2010 Young Women Camp
5. Temple Trip – South Carolina
6. 2010 Trip to Washington DC – 1
7. 2010 Trip to Washington DC – 2
8. 2010 Trip to Washington DC – 3
9. 4^th of July BBQ & Fireworks!!
10. Another Six Flags Trip
11. Cody & Whitney Engagement Photos
12. Pioneer Trek 2010
13. Veronica Visits from Vegas

REMINDER:  You can click on a photo to see a larger version of it…and that also allows you to scroll through the photos as a slideshow.  For the videos, you can click on the video itself before you play it to get a larger version and/or you can make it FULL SCREEN.

2010 Summer Misc…

Here are a few odds and ends from Summer 2010:

(Elder) Brandon Johnson came back for a visit with his parents in July of 2010. He had been gone for over a year and it was so great to see him! He was an awesome missionary and did some great work here in Conyers.

The Noldens with "Elder" Johnson.

Liz and Sister Williams. This was right after we had our Video Scavenger Hunt at church...which was WAY FUN!

Ashley is a water child...she LOVES to be wet. This is one of her super-duper bubble baths.

PJ got to go to Scout Camp for the first time ever this summer. They were in northern Georgia and got to do a lot of cool stuff like river rafting...we have some awesome scout leaders. (PJ - far right, middle)

Most Recent Entries (June 2010)

It’s a HUGE update this time .  These are the most recent entries to the blog:

1. Overnight Campout with the Young Women
2. Father’s Day Video
3. Megan – 4^th Year High Adventure
4. Trip to Brunswick 1:  Coast Guard Beach
5. Trip to Brunswick 2:  50^th Wedding Anniversary
6. Trip to Brunswick 3:  Jekyll Island Walk
7. Trip to Brunswick 4:  St. Simons Island Pier
8. Cody & Whitney are ENGAGED!!!
9. Cody’s Birthday!!
10. Liz – Mormon Prom
11. Mikayla Turns 14!!
12. What else is LIZ up to??
13. Date Night – Covington, Georgia
14. Donovan – Field Trip to Fernbank Museum
15. International Day at School
16. Field Day – Ashley & Donovan
17. Ashley – 5^th Grade Advancement Assembly
18. 2010 Spring – Misc. Happenings 1
19. 2010 Spring – Misc. Happenings 2
20. Random Video Array – from the Past…

Overnight Campout with the Young Women

In order to get ready for Young Women Camp this summer, our young women had to have an overnight campout to pass off some of their requirements (like building a fire, cooking something outside, setting up a tent, etc).  This is because when they get to camp they will be sleeping in air-conditioned cabins .  Wimpy, I know!  But my kind of camping! 

Not all of the girls were able to attend, but I think those that did had a lot of fun.  Check it out:

Setting up tents: Sister Mitchell (leader), Eileen, Megan & Janna.

 

Kissa, Megan & Eileen

Megan learning how to put up a tent...

They were so proud of themselves! Sister Joyner (leader), Tajheeta & Megan

Sister Shipp (right) taught the girls how to cook in a dutch oven: (LtoR: Mikayla, Kadison, Tajheeta, Katie, Megan, Melissa & Sister Shipp)

Janna modeling our lovely green tarp...

This was the "campsite." Ok...so it was the Pyne's backyard! You're pretty much in the forest wherever you go in Georgia...so you might as well have running water too, right? ;-) Don't they have a beautiful backyard?

Sister Mitchell enjoying her dinner....

Sister Kimble: "You did NOT just take a picture of me eating dinner." :-)

See if I let you do that again...

Kadison and Liz...don't you love Liz's boots?

Vikki taught the girls about cloud formations...

 

Mikayla, Janna, Kissa and Tajheeta...practicing the skit they will do at camp in July.

Liz is pretty comfy to sit on ;-).

Can you see the cutest little boy sitting at the corner of the house? He lives there and had been playing in the backyard...I looked up and saw him sitting at the corner of the house just clapping his hands over and over....he is sooo cute!

Kadison, what numerous hands and feet you have!

Young Women Campout 6/2010  – The Shipps taught the girls how to make “Dump Cake” in a dutch oven.  It was YUMMY!

Father’s Day Video

Check out this video – just in time for Father’s Day!  It has a great message about the relationship between Fathers and Sons.  It’s also cool, however, because it stars friends of our family from our ward (church group) in Las Vegas, where we lived before we moved to Georgia.

Here is the one that was made for Mother’s Day as well….also a good one:

Trip to Brunswick 4: St. Simons Island Pier

Before we headed home we had to head to St. Simons Island and check out souveniers at “The Shell Shop” (not the true name, but what the family calls it).  It has been a tradition in Frank’s family to go there every time they visit.  The kids love it there and find all kinds of cool stuff (like puffer fish hanging from a string – PJ; or shark tooth necklaces – Don).

After The Shell Shop we headed over to the Pier.

The crew looking over the pier. They always do that...there must be cool fish down there or something... :-)

Frank and his favorite light house...

We saw this guy had hooked something big, so we ran over to watch. Luckily I popped the camera over to video mode...check out the video below of him reeling in a hammerhead shark.

He let the kids touch it and then he threw it back in. I guess you can't keep them if they are under a certain size.

 

 

Leaving the Pier 1

Leaving the Pier 2

Leaving the Pier 3

And, finally...we're really leaving...

Catching a Hammerhead Shark – May 2010

NOTE:  You can make the video LARGER by clicking on the icon at the bottom of the video that shows 4 arrows pointing out to all 4 corners (Full-screen mode).

2010 Spring – Misc. Happenings 1

It seems like there is always SOOOO much going on!!!  Here is just a little snippet of some of what we have been up to lately.

Megan and Mikayla's Mia Maid (church) class recently had a "Mermaid Party" at the Kimble home. Mikayla is in the middle and Megan is on the far right.

Donovan is active in Cub Scouting and is currently working on earning his Bear. This is him at a recent Pack Meeting doing a skit with his fellow scouts. Donovan is second from the right.

In order to get ready for Young Women camp in the summer, the girls from our ward (church) recently participated in a hike. Campers are required to do hikes of different lengths depending on how many years they have been going to camp. This year we all did the 5 mile hike together. You can see Mikayla and Megan in there (front, left), but Liz was trying to jump in the back and ended up not being in the picture.

The girls getting ready to start...

 

Our Stake (church) recently held a 5K in order to gather food for local food banks. The entry fee was 10 cans of food. It rained a little bit, but it was a great event overall. It was such a beautiful setting as well.

Our Stake President's son won the race.

 

 

Megan at the pavillion...during the race.

Frank is enjoying his new duties at work as "The Big Cheese." ;-) He is currently serving as an Area Director and travels to a bunch of offices that are under him. Here he is in Cleveland, Ohio...they even made him a sign :-).

Frank and more of his "peeps." :-)

Frank and coworkers.

When Frank travels, he gets to see a lot of cool things...Shayne is very jealous :-). Recently he was in Washington D.C. and got to do a session at the LDS Temple there. It is a gorgeous temple!

More of the Washington DC Temple.

Frank also had a recent week in Baltimore, Maryland (actually, the same trip as the DC Temple excursion...it's not far from there). He really fell in love with that city.

More of Baltimore, MD.

More of Baltimore, MD.

More of Baltimore, MD.

Donovan, who used to be painfully shy, is coming out of shell these days. Even so, this is a side of Donovan that most of you won't see :-). He's a pretty funny guy. He recently had to do a report on Abraham Lincoln at school and he had this costume for the oral report. See the VIDEO of him below attempting the Gettysburg Address.

More of Donovan as Abraham Lincoln.

Donovan does Abraham Lincoln 1 (5/10)

Donovan does Abraham Lincoln 2 (5/10)

So, I guess most people learned the Gettysburg Address as this:   ”Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

We have a debate in our house about that sentence…because I swear I learned it in high school as “forefathers” instead of just “fathers.”  My kids are learning it as “fathers.”   I did read that there are about 5 versions of the Gettysburg Address.  Did anyone else learn the Gettysburg Address saying “our FOREFATHERS”???  Just curious…it could just be my faulty memory…

Run from Hunger 2010:  “Alex Wins the Race!”  She was just pretending…she hadn’t run the whole race .

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