The Atkin Fam Blog: 2010

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Many Cheesy Smiles of Naomi

Well, perhaps the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree! Naomi loves taking pictures. We have a camera that has a front LCD screen so you can see the picture you're taking from the front. This is a feature that Naomi loves because she can see herself while I'm taking her picture. She makes the funniest cheesy smiles while looking at herself in the camera! Please enjoy the many cheesy smiles of Naomi...

Monday, November 1, 2010

LuLu the Fairy

Monday, October 18, 2010

Halloween Decorations at the Atkins

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Look at the Hot New Grammy minus 95 pounds

Modified Family portrait

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Grammy & Noah in Moab

The Taylors

The Gardners in Moab

Sisters!

The Elliss's in Moab (Noah wasn't very happy)

Grammy Pappa and grandkids in Moab!

Naomi and cousin Ellie on her birthday!

Naomi and her grandparents & great grandparents

Naomi is 1!!!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Happy Birthday LuLu

I can't believe you were this small once.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

The House!

Here are pictures of the house that we bought! We accepted a counter offer today so we should close escrow around the first week in September if all goes smoothly!

front

backyard

living room

kitchen

master bath

Monday, July 19, 2010

Look at the Hot Skinny Grammy!!!

Weight Loss 83 pounds - Dress Size 18!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Check out our new van!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

What we've been up to

We saw Toy Story 3 in 3D!

Ellie has had swim lessons M-Th the last 2 weeks

Hannah's learning to master the fork!

And we traded in our Honda for a Mazda 5 Sport which is like a cool mini- minivan! We love it!

Monday, May 31, 2010

Hanna likes the Bunny Wabbitt

3 Generations

Naomi woke up just in time to see the cows

Morgan and the goats!

Kurtie & Ellie in the race cars!

Grammy & Papa

The rest of the kids!

Kurtis & Ellie 2010

One of my favorite memories of Kurtis The Original is: Kurtis used to call me several times a week from high school to "see what I was doing". During one call he was disgusted with Anna who kept calling him a "Mama's Boy". He said, "Mom, I just had to call you. Anna has been saying that I'm a Mama's Boy, I'm not, right?" I laughed and told him if he had to call and ask, he was definitely a Mama's Boy! Kurtis taught me about unconditional love and seeing to the heart of big spirit. I miss him more than I can say. Love, Mom

Memories from Kelly

When Kurtis was at our first apartment (a little before he passed away) we started to look through my family scrapbook. Kurtis and I laughed at some of the pictures of times passed. It was so nice to have the one on one time with him and for him to take the time to share in something that was so important to me, meant the world.A funny memory I have was when I must have been 6 or 7 years old and kurtis was 8ish ( i think) this is when vicki and kurtis lived in Chateu East apartments. Kurtis and I were wrestling on vicki's waterbed (if my memory serves me correctly i think it was a waterbed) and when kurtis wanted to stop playing around I wanted to antagonize and instagate, after all that was my job:) when kurtis did one of his karate moves on me and my gum fell out of my mouth and into my hair! Vicki had to cut it out.another one i have was when kurtis and i were between 5 and 8 years old, we would frequently spend one night a week with Grandpa and Grandma Shannon. Some nights Grandpa would tell us his infamous stories where we would be the stars of the story..."long, long ago and far, far away, down in the valley, accross the river and into the woods there lived_______. " I can remember crawling around their great big bed (or it seemed at the time) with kurtis. and periodically kurtis would chime into grandpa shannon's story because kurtis wanted to add a sound effect, or to make sure something important was included. Some nights we would go and rent a Shirley Temple movie and we would always get a diet right soda and get to choose one candy bar. I can still remember going to Ray's video with kurtis and Grandpa Shannon to rent the movie.

Memories from Sara

I was thinking about some of my favorite memories with Kurtis and one that I remember fondly, is when we went camping. If I remember correctly, we were all sleeping on a tarp under the stars and Kurtis and I kept on making jokes and laughing and everybody was yelling at us to be quiet and go to sleep, but we just kept on bugging everyone. We thought we were pretty funny, I'm not sure anyone else appreciated it....
Another, more recent memory was when Kurtis was living in Utah. My family and I got to visit Kurtis up in Park City almost every Monday night. It was our family night activity and I was so grateful that we got to spend that time with him. Mackenzie would always be really excited to see him and the dogs that were there of course. Also, Kurtis flew home with Mackenzie, Shelby and I. Ryan, wasn't able to come, and I was so happy that Kurtis could come with us. I don't know what I would have done without his help. I was pretty flustered with a two year old and a newborn and Kurtis just took Shelby and held her the whole time. What a great uncle and brother.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Monday, July 19, 2010

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Us!

Family Pictures

Grandkidlets

Noah

Morgan

Hannah

Naomi Jane

Annmarie

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Ode to Kurtie Burtie

Memories from Kelly

Memories from Sara