Our Very Own Secret Garden

Makes a great place for taking pictures!

Have You Ever Wondered What Would Happen...

...if you left your 23 year old and your 19 year old alone with the camara while you went to get your peanutbutter bars out of the oven?

Well here is the answer to that age-old question.I love my family! We are never too old to have fun.

Road Trip!

We took the Young Women from our ward to the Manti Miracle Pageant. This is the view from our car while we were driving into the city.

We stayed in an old college dorm that was empty for the summer. I am sure that it's great money for the owners during pageant time. There were 5 bedrooms with two beds in each room. So most everyone had a bed to sleep on.

Rock on!

All the amenities.

Famous quote early in the morning while jumping around the kitchen,"I'm not even tired!"

We had a while to play games and walk around while waiting for the sun to go down.

It's almost sunset. Lots of smiles all around and were ready for the show to start.

The pageant was amazing and we had a great time.

This video was just the casual ride home in the car.

Hope you enjoyed!

Dance Recital

The girls work so hard all year for this big night. I was so proud of our girl for how much she has progressed with her dancing. She had a big smile on her face and she looked like she was really enjoying herself. I took all of these pictures the night of the dress rehersal. That way on the night of the actual recital, I got to sit and enjoy the show. No worries about getting the right pictures or videos. I actually think I should have invited more people to the dress rehersal. That way they could see our girl dance but not have to sit through the whole recital. I might remember that for next year.
After reading about my sisters experience with her daughter's recital, I really shouldn't complain. Our recital was done in about 1 1/2 hours.
Check out this video. I wish it would go bigger. I tried to center the camara on our little dancer.

Happy Birthday to Me

Look at this great birthday cake that L-made for me. It tasted even better than it looked! I was in chocolate heaven.


These are some of the honored quests, great grandma and grandpa and little great grandson.


I got the pillow I wanted. It is so comfortable to sleep on. I have said over and over again how much I enjoy sleeping on this pillow. Thanks everyone who went in on it. Did I say how much I like this pillow?

Zions National Park

In May G-and I had a chance to stay at our friends parent's house near Zions. We had a blast! There were several other couples with us and we got to swim, relax, hike, do kareoke and laugh...laugh alot! Need I say more?



Thanks to Shawn and Linda. We so enjoyed the time spent and memories made.

Roll, Baby, Roll

So here is baby E- performing his beginning style for rolling over. This was taken a month or two ago so he is much better than this now and can roll from back to tummy and tummy to back quite proficiently.