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.

Easter 2011

Easter is one of those favorite days of the year that we look forward to all year. It comes and is gone all to fast. I'm grateful for my testimony of our Savior and His resurection, the reason for the season. I also love every holiday that brings the family together and for all of the wild goings on that 12 grandkids bring. I love it all. Here are 11 of the little darlings. Tim, brandi and Elsie weren't able to come this year, so we did miss them. Our friends, the Kapapas, (from our ward in Hawaii) have been with us this week, so we enjoyed their company for the day also. John prepared us a lovely meal (as only John can do).

Welaxing the Waikiki Way

In keeping with my wishes to always be in Hawaii, we went on our annual winter trip with our friends. We left Friday, March 11, the day of the earthquake in Japan and tsunami in Hawaii. They delayed us a few hours but we were just glad that we made it at all. There was quite a bit of damage in Hawaii but none where we were.

We stayed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki. We have stayed here the last 4 0r 5 times, so we feel very at home here. It is very nice and really is a small village with everything that you need. It is right on the beach, has multiple pools, spa, lots of restaurants, lots of stores, beautiful gardens and even a chapel if you decide to get married!

We of course love to go visit all of our favorite beaches and places on the Island. We were with four other couples so it was fun to always have someone to do things with. The guys got in a lot of golfing of course. Every evening we all met for a wonderful dinner together and ususally ended the evening with games.

We got to go to our ward that we lived in when we lived there and that is always wonderful to see old friends. The shrimp truck, the shave ice, the weather, the ocean, the beautiful full moon, everything works together to make the Hawaiian experience addicting. It draws me back time after time.

Goalllllllllll

For Deskin's birthday, a bunch of us went up to Salt Lake to a RSL soccer game. That Rio Tinto stadium is so beautiful and the enthusiasm of the crowd is quite exillerating. The game was really exciting, Real won 4-1, which is a lot of goals in a soccer game. It was fun to be with the family and we missed those of you that couldn't come.