Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
What an adorable face!
Wendy was always up to jumping on the trampoline, playing in the river, climbing on the monkey bars!
Gene singing
The two boys were singing in the truck and one would sing and say now it's your turn and the other would sing and it continued each taking many turns.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
When the dad graduates the whole family is happy!
Congratulations to Katrina who made it through Garin getting two Masters and having a new baby too!
Dance Recital 2011
Aren't my dance girls adorable. The recital went really well this year. I taught them harder dances I was really pleased. One of the mothers said that they put their daughter in Ballet Idaho and were disappointed at the recital but were extremely happy with mine.
Friday, May 6, 2011
My grandparents
When I was a child we lived by my grandparents for my first four or five years. My grandma Martin lived down the street. I remember snapping beans with her on her front porch. We also had round the block parades in primary and we passed her house as she waved from us from that same porch. I helped her by swatting flies and collecting eggs. Mostly I remember walking down to see her dressed as a princess. When I got there she had company and when I looked down at my princess dress it was a towel. Grandma thought I looked beautiful.
After we moved to Utah we traveled back every year to visit my grandparents. It was a two day trip that my parents usually made in one so that we didn't have to get a hotel. It was hard traveling in the hot car to Arizona but my parents were very committed to us knowing our Arizona relatives. On one trip I didn't get my ride on grandpa's tractor and I pulled a big fit until I got my way before we started our trip home.
When my grandma and grandpa Carpenter retired they visited us for an extended visit in the summer to get out of the Arizona sun. Those are special memories. I trusted my grandma's judgement and I didn't want to get engaged until she met Mike and said that she approved.
When Mike and I were going to get married He wanted to get married in the same temple as his parents. We planned a trip to Logan and took pictures of us at the temple. Then, my grandma Carpenter called and said that she would come if we met her half way and got married in Provo. I was so excited and didn't even think about it. It was wonderful to have them there. Because we were always the family that lived away it was special to me when my grandparents visited or we visited them.
When Mike and I got married, we were both from the same town, just like my parents. However, we stayed and my children knew both sets of their grandparents. Like my parents before me it was a priority. We sacrificed to go to as many reunions as we could.
Now I am a grandparent and I have 17 grandchildren. I only have four of them in town and I love being apart of their lives. It is painful not to be close and miss out on so many special times.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Our Bird wants in the house!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Those who got beenies
Corden and Troy were signed up for the race but Corden hurt his leg. They all got beenies.
Mad Hatter Race in Boise
Showing off their hats are the runners. Each ran two legs of a two mile relay.
Images for grandsons that like big machinery
Here are the pictures of our sidewalk getting fixed. I took pictures of the backhoe and cement truck for any grandsons that like to see the big machinery at work. When I was in Houston I read a book to Carter about the big tracks that these trucks make. I thought it was interesting that when I got home there were some big track trucks working outside my house!
Cape for Corden
I cut out these felt letter and sewed them on a cape for Corden to wear for basketball games.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Living Legends
Monday, January 24, 2011
Genealogy
What happens when you start to look on family search? You get started and can't stop. There are so many things to update and so many names to look at. This week I changed about a thousand places on my computer so that the family search could recognize them. Was it fun? No but it is time consuming and then next time I search it will be faster. Spend 6 hours of tedious mind numbing work so that you can search faster next time. I have thousands left to do. My friend at the temple said that we are the clean up generation. That's what I am doing. Fixing the places, recording the work that has already been done and merging the same people into one entry. All for that time of finding one that has been overlooked to get their temple work done!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Great weekend
I had a great weekend. Landon and Jaden Jarvis and Destenee, Thomas and Isabel Fuhriman came over friday night. They spent the night. The next morning was pancakes because that's what I always do when they come to spend the night. Destenee and I made mickey mouse, ogre and bunny pancakes. One of them looked like a dinosaur but was suppose to be a star!
After breakfast we went to Monkey business. We got there at 9 am and stayed until 11am. They went down the big slide, climbed and went through the obstacle course getting tired and sweaty. Landon and Destenee were helping the kids keep organized on the slide. The kids were easy to boss but the parents weren't so cooperative. Destenee said that adults don't like to be told what to do.
We then went for a hamburger and more climbing. Landon was so helpful and went for napkins for all of us. After an ice-cream it was back home to pick up the pass for Discovery Center. We needed to rest for a while so the kids played video games while Mike and I rested.
At the discovery center Landon loved the robots that you build yourself. Jaden and Thomas were the best buds trying everything. Isabel stuck close by Mike and I and Destenee roamed. They even brought out the stuff to make goo. Thomas and Jaden were the first in line. The kids were so cooperative and nice.
I made pizza scones for dinner. Then, we watched a movie and the great weekend was over.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
New Pajamas Christmas Eve
Some hero pajama bottoms for Troy and some Tickle Me Elmo sleeping shorts for Corden.
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