Kyle's & Stacie's Birthdays!! :-)

The picture's below are of "Summer Fun-filled Days"!!!! :-)

There are more picture's below these two. I was having a hard time getting the picture's to post so I had to do more than one posting!

Giants Game----Fun day but they lost! :(

Discovery Kingdom

Fun with Kyle & Kayla :-)

4TH OF JULY

SUMMER

We had a great summer...it was a lot of fun sharing lots of fun with our family!! I thought I would share some picture's with you! They include pictures from the 4th of July, a Giant's game, Discovery Kingdom and a couple of picture's from Kyle's and Stacie's birthdays.

HOPE OF AMERICA

Our granddaughter Kayla invited me to go to a production that I'm not sure how many, but a lot of schools in Utah participate. They are all 5th graders and they practice for this event most of the year. It is an AWESOME production, the kids were amazing and it made me proud to be an American!! Thank you, Kayla for inviting me! :-) Kayla was one of the blue students. The picture below the students all have flashlights and they perform a beautiful song and use their flashlights during the song.

After the production Kayla, Stephanie and I went to get frozen yogurt at our favorite yogurt place in American Fork.

Karianne's Surgery

Greg and Karianne the day of the surgery. You can probably tell but the pink thing on her arm is the IV. Dr. Heidi said that her tonsils were huge and we actually saw them, but I'm not going to post the pictures of them. Greg wanted to take them home, but they wouldn't let him. Karianne was so BRAVE! When it was time for her to go into surgery she just took the Dr.'s hand and walked down the hall! Made me cry picturing it! Karianne loves her daddy, so I'm glad Greg could be there the day of surgery. The picture with the doll in it (on the bed) is a doll the hospital gives them before surgery. Isn't that nice that they do that.

The picture to the left was taken right before Karianne got to go home. The Care Bear (Cheer Bear) and the Bunny are "Get Well" presents she received. Just two days later Kyle (Karianne's older brother) was hospitalized with strep throat and an absess on one of his tonsils. It was a crazy week!

Karianne's Surgery

The picture to the left is Karianne leaving the hospital after her surgery--she had her tonsils out and they were HUGE!! The picture below is also when she was leaving; she didn't need to wear the mask, she just put it on for the picture.

The picture to the left is also of Karianne leaving the hospital. If you look close at her shirt you can see it says "Claus"---Stephanie told her she could pick out what ever she wanted to wear that day and that's the top she chose! She is quite the character---the nurses got a big kick out of it! The picture below was taken the day after her surgery, Karainne came over to see me.

Women's Conference at BYU in Provo, Utah

We like to go to Women's Conference every year---all of the women in our family are invited. This year Linda, Faye, Stephanie and I went. We were spiritually uplifted! We had late nights and early mornings---it makes me yawn just to think about it, but we had a lot of fun!! We did our traditional dinner to Outback the night before Women's Conference started, and we had brownies (this year they were from Shirley's---YUMMY), we went to have hamburgers with our families on Friday night after Women's Conference and then we went to the movie! We were on the gooooooooo!

Thank you, Ron (my oldest brother) for taking us and picking us up on Thursday! :-) Linda (Ron's wife, my sister-in-law) is in the picture too, but it is kind of hard to see her--sorry! We're so glad that Linda could come with us this year!

EASTER at Scott & Christine's 2009

Easter night--- these are some more pictures I took after Carissa, Maia, Bryan and Anthony had gotten ready for bed. As you can see Stacie is reading stories. I'm not sure if Anthony is crying or laughing!

I'm not sure what Bryan is pointing at---maybe Grandpa. Scott is down the hall combing Carissa or Maia's hair after their bath. He is such a good daddy! :-)

Steve and Scott---just chillin!!! Sorry Christine you're not in any of the pictures--I'm not sure where you were at.

Easter in CA---2009

This is a picture of the Easter bunny cake I made for Easter Sunday. It is a tradition for me to make a cake for Easter. The one I usually make is made from a pan that I had left in Utah, so I bought this pan at Target. Steve said that he likes this one better, so I'll probably use this one from now on.

TURKEY'S ON THE ROOF!!

About a month and a half ago Steve came home from work and asked me if any thing exciting had happened that day and I replied "no not really, just the usual day". Then the next morning around 7 a.m. I heard dogs barking and what I could swear were turkey's, but I thought no that's silly; I don't think there would be turkey's around here. Well I got up and looked outside and wouldn't you know it on the building next to us there were turkey's on the roof!! Pretty crazy! Count them...there are six! It's a good thing it wasn't Thanksgiving!

SPRINGTIME AT OUR CONDO

I wanted to share some pictures I took around the first of March. The first one is a picture of a wreath I made. Around the first of February I started looking for a wreath for our front door that would be springie (I know that's not how you spell it---I'm pretty sure it isn't even a word in the dictionary, but it sounds fun)! All of the wreath's I looked at were expensive, so I decided to get creative and crafty. So I made a trip to Michael's...(we don't have a Robert's here, it's sad :-( but true) and bought the stuff to make a wreath. I had a lot of fun making it. I have to confess I didn't make the bow; I just can't make bows! So I'll thank some one very special (I can't tell you who) for making it for me!




The following pictures are taken from our deck. I took these the first part of March also. I was watching our twin granddaughter's, Carissa and Maia one day and they thought we had "popcorn popping on our trees"! The blossoms were absolutely beautiful, but now they are gone! :-(

I'VE BEEN TAGGED

I've been tagged. So here is how it works. You go to your fourth folder in my pictures and then go to the fourth picture...post it and write some thing about it. I don't have very many friends that have blogs...so I tag my friend, Lynette. When I went to my fourth folder I only had three pictures so I'm going to post the third picture and tell you about it. This picture is actually a really special picture. It was taken at Adam-ondi-ahman on a trip that we took in July 2005. What a spiritual and great trip that was. We took this picture because we were wondering if it was the altar that Adam built after he and Eve were taken out of the Garden of Eden..

A COUPLE OF PICTURES FROM STEVE'S PARTY

STEVE'S 60TH SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY

I had such a great time planning Steve's 60th Surprise Birthday Party! And he really was surprised!! I already mentioned in my previous post that Stephanie, Greg and kids came a couple of days before his birthday, but didn't actually surprise him until the day of his birthday. We met at Applebee's where they surprised him---he was delighted to see them! I had a lot of help from my kids with the party and I really appreciated it! On the day of his party the weather actually cooperated with us and the guys took Steve golfing in the morning and then that night Scott & Christine had the party at their home. When we arrived I had arranged a Scottish piper to be out front playing. We had dinner, played a couple of games and I had also arranged for a couple of Highland dancers. It was a lot of fun to get together with family and friends! Hope you enjoy some of the pictures we took.

MORE ABOUT MY WELCOME TO CA!

I didn't get to take a picture of Scott, Christine and the girls the night I arrived, so I took a couple of pictures a few days later. Christine doesn't usually wear glasses but she had eye surgery about a month after I arrived so she couldn't wear her contacts.

WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA!

Well I finally got my pictures downloaded from my camera, so I thought I would go back to the middle of January when I left Utah. Below is a picture of what our yard looked liked when I left (Steve was curious about how much snow we still had in our yard). And also a picture of our granddaughter, Karianne waiting at the front door to take me to the airport. I miss you, Karianne! :-( I also miss Kyle, Kayla & Kameron! And of course Stephanie & Greg!! But we got to see them about five weeks later when they surprised Steve by coming to California for his 60th birthday party! I'll write about it in another post. It was such a great surprise and we appreciated them coming! Thank you for coming...it meant a lot!!

When I arrived in California Scott, Christine, Carissa and Maia surprised me by putting a saying on the rug at our front door. The picture of it is below. Then they surprised me by also being at the condo! It was fun to see them and such a warm welcome! Thank You!! :-)