November 1, 2009

What a great month October was for me. I turned 60' which for me was alittle hard to take. I don't feel 60' , it seems impossible that I reached that milestone without my noticing.
LeGrand felt that we should go to Utah to celebrate with my parents. After the working at the Temple on Thursday 22nd, we left for Orem. Stopped to see the eye Dr. and then on to visit with a Missionary couple we worked with in Vermont.
Earlier in the month, I was online when I received an IM from by neice..asking "what this sisters reunion was coming up" , I didn't know anything about it. but it got my curiosity going. About 3 days before my Dad called, during the visit, he asked when I was giving my Mom a perm?", I said probably Friday AM, to which he replied, "Oh , Kathy and Beth are coming on Friday , did you know that?' , of course I didn't but that added fuel to my curiosity.

So on Friday I began to try to figure out when everyone would come in and when I should expect the big "SURPRISE" , I checked flts and arrival times to see if they coordinated. Then I over heard my Dad (on the phone) , say "call when you get to Flagstaff" So I knew it would be late in the day before they showed up. I began to relax.

In the afternoon LeGrand and I went to Costco and the Post office for my Dad. trying to be so careful with the key ---(so as not to loose it) , I promptly lost it. couldn't remember where I had put it , so we stopped in a parking lot , dumped my purse, checked all over the truck--it was no where to be found.

We headed back to face the consequences for losing my Dad's postoffice key. Walked in the house thru the back door --into the living room and there on the couch were our three daughters. Tricia, Marie, Lynn. \There was no car in the front , I was really surprised.

I spent Friday, Sat and part of Sun with the girls, Lynn's in laws have a cabin at Sundance that they let us use. We had so much fun ....
then on Sun the girls had to leave and they took my down to church --where I met my Sisters. We went back up to the cabin until Tuesday. We laughed , and talked , and talked , and laughed...what a great way to start a new decade.

thanks to all of you that thought of me on that day. Family and Friends are what are important in this life.

It looks like I only post once a month. So to be true to form here is my Sept. post. We went camping by McCall, Marie and Tricia's family came with us. We had bikes to ride, lots of food, watching squirrels, walks to the lake, and the ever famous "collecting of organic material". UGH!!
Good thing they didn't want to bring it home.
The down side of this trip was first Tyler got sick for about 12 hours, then Hunter, the babies did not like being disrupted (so they slept lousy). We went up on Friday and by the middle of the night Sat. we had all decided to go home, where sick would be easier. Before we could drive away, Gwennie was sick. The trip down the hill was interesting to say the least.
Being home is sure easier and everyone seems to be better. So we came home a day earlier, which has another positive side, the traffic was not as bad as it will be today.
Pictures of our trip.

Oh I forget to mention that Dallin feel out of the trailer onto his head. Poor little boy, Grandpa was right there but just couldn't get him fast enough.












Memories, We sure miss our other Children and wish they could have enjoyed the experience with us . Not the sick part though.

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Have you ever seen such cute grandkids in your life? Well, aren't they cute even tho they are not yours.

Family Reunion

We just concluded our family reunion. We were blessed to be able to have almost all of our children here with us. We surely missed Scott , Brittany and Jackson(but life kicks in sometimes and limits us).
We had a beautiful lodge in Featherville, ID. right on the south fork of the Boise river. I will let the pictures tell the story.

We took Hunter with us to camp with my nephew and his family for a couple of days. He learned more about building a fire. (Pix 2) collecting frogs.... (pix 3) going in for the big one and finding it is deeper than he thought.
Pix 4-- getting to ride his cousin Marissa's dirt bike. He was so good and patient waiting for his turn. He even picked flowers for her to tell her thanks for sharing her bike with him. He loved riding . He was reluctant to get off even when it was dark.

We had an enjoyable time with family and being able to take one of our grandchildren. we hope to take more of them other times.

We look forward to family reunion.....

We are finally home . We have been to Red Mesa(as noted in the previous blog) . We then went on to meet our friends , the Wood's in Arizona(around Greer) We had such a good time with them.











We were with them for 4 days, we headed for PHX and the dry heat of the desert. We got there in time to see Cayden and Devan competing in a swim meet. What fun that was. I wish I could have been a competitor- as it was cooler in the water I am sure.

















Avery was there with her "Pink" umbrella and Mom and Dad.


The rest of the time we spent helping Brittany and Scott and of course Jackson move across the valley to Avondale. I had the most fun job--caring for Jackson. He laughs at everything and loves to be talked to. On Sun. we left with Jason and Tasha for Cancun.

boy!!!!!Have things changed on the airlines , they charged for the 1st bag, not music, no video(and it was a 4 hour flt), and we had to pay for any kind of food. $3 for just a snack. Oh well we got there in one piece--except for the bend in our suitcase frame.

We were at a very nice resort. good food and pristine pools. We went to Tolum and Xell-ha(shell ha__). that was very interesting and fun. the only draw back to the whole trip was the heat, and it was not a dry heat. I am sure it was 98% humidity. Oh my== everything was wet before we put it on.