Happy Trails at Beaver Ridge Camp

Steve and Adele Knudson Service Missionaries at the Beaver Ridge LDS Girls Camp, 8 June – 23 July 2015 Located in the lovely mountains west of Coalville, south of Morgan, and north of Park City, Utah Introduction Near the end of March 2015 Steve and I were asked to be service missionaries at the Beaver Ridge LDS Girls Camp and…

Four-wheeling Fun

I love to go four-wheeling! For over ten years now  Steve and I have loved the many experiences we have had with our friends and family taking our quads out in the hills. We have ridden up into the tops of the mountains, along the hillsides, down by the lakes, through small streams, on trails that go through tall pines,…

Family Camping at Soapstone

On July 15-17 we had our 2nd annual family campout at Soapstone campground with Curtis and Matthew’s families. It’s along Utah’s Mirror Lake Highway in the tall pine trees and has the Provo River running through the campground. There were ten of us–Steve and I, Curtis and Kelly with their children Katelyn (4 yrs) and Cody (5 months), and Matthew and Natalie…

NGS Conference in town

The National Genealogical Society Conference was held in Salt Lake City the end of April 2010 and I got to attend. My brothers Steve and Terry flew in to attend also. It was quite an event. There were actually three genealogy conferences going on at the same time in town and there was a lot of media hype about them….

Disneyland 2010–Yea!

Steve and I got to go to Disneyland. I love Disneyland! I love the rides and all the fun things to see and do there. I love to go through the shops and look at all the stuff, try on the hats, and even buy stuff. But not too often. It’s way expensive. And I love to just sit and watch…

A Sweet Little Boy–Cody

Cody Curtis Cronkhite was born 18 February 2010 at 5:23 a.m., the son of Curtis and Kelly Cronkhite. He weighed in at  7 lbs 6 oz, and was 20 inches long. And he is just beautiful. He has the most beautiful golden hair. It will be interesting to see whether it changes to more red or more blond. And it…

Christmas 2009

Another Christmas in the rear view mirror. It’s a long and careful preparation for the best celebration of the year, and it’s all worth it. We drove up to Layton early Christmas morning and visited Stephanie, Sydney, and Mary at their home in Layton for a while. They a Skype connection to Brian on the internet and we felt like…

Family in town–Dec 2009

We had family come to town the week of December 6th through 9th. What a great time we had. Mike and Phyllis drove up from Sonoma, California. Monty and Sammy drove up from Las Vegas. And Terry flew in from Southern California. Mike and his sons and Terry and his son Greg all went snow boarding Monday and we had…

Road Trip to Illinois

What a wonderful experience Steve and I had on our two-week road trip to visit Steve and Carolyn in Champaign, Illinois. We left very early the morning of Thursday, Oct 8th, and followed I-15 through Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois. We were so lucky to have good weather all the way. It seems we were following a pretty bad…

Happy Birthday, Mom

Just thinking about my sweet Mom–Goldie Adelade Heath Newman. She would have been 92 years old on the 16th of this month (Nov 2009) if she were still living. Hope you had a Happy Birthday, Mom. (You do read my blogs, don’t you Mom???)