15
Aug 2010
Summer has almost come to an end. You wouldn’t know it by looking at a calendar, or stepping outside for that matter, but it is true. It is a well known fact that once school starts, summer is over. School could start in the middle of June and summer would be over. That’s just how it is and there’s nothing that anybody can do about it.
Since school starts on Wednesday for the kids, we decided that it would be good for us to squeeze in one last camping trip before weekends become filled with homework and soccer games. This was no spur of the moment decision though. We have been planning this trip for months. Actually, I think that the seeds of the idea were planted last year after our very successful Zohner family camping trip where my side of the family retreated into the mountains for the weekend.
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Category: Family, Vacation
Tags: camp, Camping, Family, fishing, guns, Hades, homework, hooks, Kids, mountains, preschool, soccer games, summer
29
Jul 2010
I have always enjoyed doing puzzles. This is something that has been passed on to Hannah who will sit down at a puzzle, it doesn’t matter the level of difficulty, and start trying to put it together. In fact, Hannah will choose to do a puzzle over playing video games or just about anything else that her brother and sister want to do with her.
Sometime within the last year or so, Holly has also decided that puzzles are fun. I’m not sure what brought about this change, but she now loves to do puzzles. It used to be that I would suggest a 1000 piece puzzle with a really cool picture and Holly would complain that it had too many pieces and that puzzles were dumb. Now though, she actively seeks these large puzzles and looks forward to doing them. She has even gone so far as to hitting up garage sales and thrift stores looking for them at discount prices. Since I’m always up for a good puzzle, I have no complaints about this since people usually do a puzzle once then either get rid of it or leave it on a shelf to collect dust. Almost new puzzle for 50¢? What’s not to like?
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26
Jul 2010
A few months ago, Holly had decided that we needed to go on a camping trip over the 24th of July weekend. I had Friday the 23rd off and she didn’t work at all that weekend so she thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get away. For reasons that I can’t seem to remember at the moment, the camping trip for the 24th got moved up a few weeks leaving us with a three-day weekend full of nothing to do. Sure, there are plenty of things that need to be done around the house, but where is the fun in doing chores over a holiday weekend? After a quick call to invite my sister, Chelsea, it was decided that the Zohners would once again travel into the mountains.
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Category: Family, Vacation
Tags: Alex, awesome, camp, Camping, Chelsea, Duchesne River, Emma, Family, fishing, gun, Hades, Hannah, Holly, Jeremiah, Kids, mom, Red Ryder, shooting, trip
11
Jul 2010
Those who know us know that we’re avid campers. We go camping multiple times each summer and hate to see each weekend go by because we know that it’s one less chance for us to go camping. This year though, I was a bit concerned about going camping because of Lincoln. In the past, when we’ve taken our babies camping, it’s usually an exhausting experience that involves listing to a baby cry for a few days. Being the family of campers that we are though, Holly was determined to not going to let a little thing like the potential for a crying baby deter us from sleeping in the wild.
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Category: Family, Lincoln, Vacation
Tags: Camping, Family, fishing, global warming, Kids, Lincoln, Mapleton, Ozark Trail, Springbar, tent, van, Wal-Mart
01
Mar 2010
As many of you now know, we had a baby a few months ago. Yeah, I know that I’m late but better late than never, right? While I actually Tweeted our time at the hospital, I know that many of our readers don’t follow me on Twitter. Consequently, they may not be familiar with the events surrounding Lincoln’s birth.
Because I have a serious lack of time, and because I’ve also typed this all out once, here is a Twitteriffic time line of Lincoln’s birth:
- At hospital. It looks like there may be a new Zohner tonight. 10:36 PM Dec 21st, 2009
- Waiting for the doctor to come and let us know if Holly gets to stay and have baby or if we have to try again another day. 11:48 PM Dec 21st, 2009
- Contractions are 3-4 minutes apart. I hope they don’t send us home. 11:49 PM Dec 21st, 2009
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04
Aug 2009
For those who would like a brief glimpse into a few of our camping trips this season, I’ve posted some pictures from our stays at Hades and Tanner’s Flat in the gallery. The gallery is still password protected so if you don’t already know the magic words to get in, just ask us and we’ll be happy to oblige.
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03
Aug 2009
Over the weekend, we had our final camping trip of the season. This time we went to Hades campground which is along the banks of the Duchesne River in the Uinta Mountains with my side of the family. This is a location that we discovered last year. It immediately became one of our favorite places to set up camp. When I learned that some of my cousins had never been camping or fishing, I took it upon myself to remedy the situation and organized this family reunion of sorts. Hades made perfect sense because not only is it beautiful, but the fishing is amazing.
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Category: Family, Vacation
Tags: Alex, beaver, Camping, Duchesne River, Family, firearms, fishing, gun, Hades, Holly, Kids, tent, trip, Uinta Mountains
30
Jul 2009
Yesterday Holly and I paid a visit to the doctor to find out the gender of our unborn baby. As we suspected, we’ll be having another boy. He appears to be developing very well and is still scheduled to join us in mid-January. Alex and Hannah are both very excited to get a little brother. Emma, not so much. I’m sure she’ll come around though.
Unfortunately we didn’t get any pictures of the ultrasound but I can assure you that he has one head, two brain halves, a spine, at least one arm, at least one leg, and a “boy part”. Surprisingly, that was all very clear to identify for my untrained eyes. Normally when we see the ultrasound image, it’s just a bunch of gray and black. If I’m lucky, I can sometimes see the heart but that’s only because it’s rhythmically beating. Yesterday, it was as if I had spent the last 20 years looking at ultrasound images because everything was easily identifiable and very clear. It was very cool.
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27
Jul 2009
This past weekend we took the family into the mountains again. This time we spent three days up Big Cottonwood Canyon with a lot of Holly’s family. All in all, there were close to 30 of us which made for a lot of fun.
It was a pretty uneventful trip. There was no fishing but we did spend Friday morning hiking to Donut Falls. Apparently the “donut” was destroyed a while back so now it’s just “Falls”. It was a relatively short hike but with 12 kids in tow, it took us longer than I expected to complete. A few of us finished the hike with some bumps and bruises but nobody was seriously hurt which is good.
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06
Jul 2009
The Fourth of July is always a big deal in the Zohner household, and to be honest, why wouldn’t it be? After all, I come from a long line of rednecks (my grandma used to have a TV that worked on top of her TV that didn’t). The Fourth of July is the perfect redneck holiday! Not only do we get to celebrate the birth of our nation but we get to blow stuff up and cook meat on fire. Who could ask for more?
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Category: Family, Holidays
Tags: Alex, America, Black Cat, city parade, country, dinner, Family, food, fourth of july, fourth of july celebrations, Granite High, Hannah, holiday, Holly, Kaysville, KFC, Main Street, meat, movie, Music, pride, south salt lake
