Memorial Day Weekend

We talked Kailey into trying on my prom dress.

Jess and the little kidlets making her famous cookies.

Elsa finding Grandpa Brown's name on the Veterns Wall.

Digging out the old Rose of Sharon

The kids love to play in the back of Joels truck.

Jess throwing on some chicken and hot dogs.

Deskin and Scott figuring out the best way to to fix the ugly utility box problem.

This is the before picture of the ugly box problem.

Memorial Day Weekend started out great with a big work project in my back yard. For Mothers Day my kids gave me the gift of working on some projects at my house that I wanted to get done. One of the projects was the back corner of our yard. The utility company came and dug it out last year and left it a mess. We needed to figure out a way to make it look better and leave the ugly green utility box accessable. We have been redoing a lot of our yard so we have been taking out some trees and were overgrown and really cutting back some shrubs and such. So we did that and also an indoor project. They wanted to replace the thermostats in the house with programable ones that you set and forget about. My kids are so good to me! So we combined the work projects with several barbeques, family parties, visits to the cemetary, and you have a great weekend all in all. We did have a very sad, sad event on Monday but I will save that for another post, another day.

Bella and Ellary's Spring Dance Show

Bella and Ellary completed another year of dance at the Confidance Studio. They had a wonderful spring show. It looked like they were having so much fun. Congraulations cutie pies.

Just a bit of silliness really

Some of the fun things that our kidlets like to do when they come to our house.

Zoey's Graduation from Preschool

Congratulations to our darling little Zoey on successfully completing two years at Miss Cathy's Preschool. It was a lovely little graduation last night. Now on to kindergarten through vet school!

Fun with Tim and Brandi

We had a great weekend with some of the grandkids. We kept Elsa for Time and Brandi so that they could go to see "Sunset Boulevard" in Salt Lake on Thursday night. On friday Ashley took off for Moab for a race and Scott was already in New Mexico playing in some golf tourneys so we kept Byerly, Lily and Ivy all weekend. After work on Friday we took all of the collection of kids up to Tim and Brandi's house for the weekend. We did need to returen Elsie to her parents after all. It was the perfect weekend to have the kids there since there was a parade in the morning. In small town USA all you have to do is walk around the corner and plop down on the grass to watch the parade. There were plenty of floats, cars and trucks in the parade throwing out candy, so the kids were having a great time. Elsa figured out pretty quickly that if you run out into the road trucks will throw candy to you!

In the afternoon I took the kids to the zoo and as it turns out they had all kinds of booths set up for kids. The activities were really fun and the kids had a blast.

Meanwhile, Joel and Tim were home all day doing house projects and having a great time working together. They installed a new water heater and framed in the storage room and one bedroom. They also got shelves built in the storage room. They both love projects! All together it was a fun and relaxing weekend.

James Henry Martineau and Susan Ellen Johnson: A Leap for Life or Death

James Henry Martineau and Susan Ellen Johnson: A Leap for Life or Death

If you click on James Henry Martineau it will take you to a blog that has a wonderful story of one of our ancestors.

Hail to the Queen

Congratulations to our beautiful granddaughter Kailey for being elected Prom Queen 2011 at Provo High School. She is a very talented, beautiful girl inside and out and such a sweetheart.