Christmas 2011 with the Parkers, Hogges and Holden families. Just the picture album, no real stories yet…

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Just got back from the annual Tahoe vacation. I had a great time, this year, and found some new hiking trails from Spooner Lake up to Marlette Lake (on the east side of the lake), since the normal playground from Echo Lake up to Aloha was still buried under snow (and a whole lot of snow at that)

I got there a day early, so I got to hang out with the Hogges on Saturday night, going to a Sacramento River Cats minor-league game and off to Leatherbys for a late night snack. Kelsey was showing up with her new fiance at 3am, so we had to set a little trap for them (think of a bunch of cans stacked by the door). That’s what Evil Uncles are all about…

My brother came down with the whole family this year, so we all got to see Candice, Riley, Elle and Cameron. I’m pretty sure they had a great time, but as a single traveling consultant, there’s no way I can imagine the “travel day” thing with a large family like that. We all  headed up to the lake (pure chaos at checkin, something unusual must have been going on.

My normal hiking spot from Echo Lake up into Desolation Wilderness, was still under large amounts of snow, so when the Vachuska’s came up, we did a trip on the east side of the lake instead. We did a 9 mile loop from Spooner Lake up to Marlette Lake. In all these years, I never even knew Marlett lake existed. Funny how you can find new things even in locations you’ve been hundreds of times.

On Saturday, I went down to Doug and Peggy’s for the annual “Fourth of July get together (and birthday party). It was great seeing everybody again.

I didn’t get out the camera like I usually do, so I don’t have a lot of pictures, but the ones I took are below.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Everybody welcome Cameron Scott Parker, son of my brother Scott and wife Candice, born on July 22nd, 2010 just after 5 in the morning. 10.5 lbs, 21.75 “.  Yes… That’s a big baby.

See Scott’s Facebook page for more information.

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Now that I have your attention, my brother got married today to a wonderful young woman.

Scott and Candice Parker

Scott married into the “Knotts” family from Spanish Fork, UT, and Candice married into the Parker family from Pollock Pines, CA.

Scott’s entire “extended family” headed for American Fork, Utah, with only two exceptions: Kelsey, who’s on her mission in England right now, and Chris, who’s busily studying for the California Bar Exam. We missed them both! We took over one end of a floor of the new Springhill Suites in Lehi, UT (nice place, by the way, and Ashley was invaluable in our planning).

The wedding was held at the American Forks Temple, with a luncheon at Maglesby’s, followed by a reception at the Bungalow.

I’ve posted a temporary gallery of pictures at http://www.parkerpress.com/Misc/Parkers. Be aware that the location of that gallery and it’s content will be changing. I’ll be updating this post soon, but wanted to get it up on the web ASAP.

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A while back, my Mom wrote a book called The Pollock Pines Epic that contained the local history about the town I grew up in (and where my parent’s still live today). The first edition of the book was published in 1988, and was followed by revision 2 in 1995.

This book has been out of print since then, and Mom has finally sold all the copies she printed. Rather than update it and do another print run, we discussed putting the content on the web.

While we’re not relinquishing the Copyright on the book, we did want to make it available to others for reading. So… being the “geek” I am, I created a website at http://www.thepollockpinesepic.com/ to host the uploaded book. I’ll be adding the embedded photos soon, as well as a photo album for pictures that weren’t originally associated with the book itself.

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Kelsey Hogge is getting ready to leave on a Mission to the Manchester, England area (not England Manchester!!!) for the next 18 months, so we all decided we’d better get together, as this may be the last full family reunion opportunity for about the next 12 years as each of the kids start out their young adult lives. I’ll be adding some more detail to this post as time allows, but wanted to get the pictures posted as quickly as possible.

	As part of the weekend, we attended Sam and Will Holden’s Lacross games down at UOP in Stockton. I’d never seen a live game before and although it’s a little more physical than I thought, there’s quite a bit of finesse that goes into it.
	After spending the afternoon watching the two games, we returned back to the Hogges house to to just hang out and play.
	On Sunday, Kelsey gave a presentation at Church, and we took that “all dressed up” opportunity to shoot some family pictures.

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It’s been a couple years (literally) since I updated the web version of the Genealogy research that Mom has been doing. Click on the “Genealogy” page on the left, or on this link to see the updates.

As always, please let me know if you have any issues with the data that is there.

Steve

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I’ve added a new “feature” to the yearly Family Faces gallery that shows everybody at 1 year old, 2 years old, etc, up to 18 years old. Let me know if you forgot (or never had) the password.

I’ve also sent a request to each family for the missing pictures to hopefully fill in all the blanks.

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Most people who know me know that I sign emails, letters, and other notes with the initials SRP. Little did I know they’d name an entire company after me!

SRP working at SRP (Salt River Project) in Phoenix, AZ.

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