"45 Years and More!!!

How time flies when we are having fun! This is the same weather we experienced 45 years ago in Soda Springs. The storm was so bad we couldn't drive to Pocatello to celebrate our Wedding. We were to stay at the "Lamplighter Motel". We have had many Happy Times, Many Trials and Most of all Many Learning Experiences! We hope to have more to come! Our reward is our Great Kids and Grandkids! Thanks Family We Love You!

Conor's 12th Birthday!

I can't believe it has been 12 years since he came into this world. That is when I quit work at AAA Travel to care for him so his mom could go back to work.

Christmas day with the boys!

It was fun having the family together as we celebrated Christmas. It would have been nice to have Mike's family with us too. They are always in our thoughts and we are looking forward to spending time with them this summer.

Dan's Birthday!

Here it is!

This board was made by Duane Stokes, husband of Pam. He will be glad to make it for anyone and ship it. He is working on the price. It comes with the plug in strip which holds 3 plug-ins. He will paint it then you can decorate it. I have used mine for over a year and it works GREAT!.

Plug-in boards

Bears, Bears, Bears

Some of you have seen our brave and ferious cat just waiting for the bear to come down from the tree. The bear was so afraid of the cat he stayed in the tree for 12 hours, whining, coming down the tree and then racing back up and finally I had to chase him off at 5:30am the next morning. He went to tell his friend and the friend came back climbed the tree and cleaned out the bird feeder.

Since then we have had a bear that thinks he has to play in our fish pond, pulling the pump out and squirting the water out on the ground. The funny thing is he has never, so far been able to catch the 5 gold fish in the pond.

I'm thankful I could enjoy the wildlife out here.

It's time to take a break!

That was a lot of leaves and he still has more to go.

Fall is Here (and so is the clean-up!

Cliff came home from his Virginia trip to find many leaves to be cleaned-up and so he is doing his best to complete the job before the winter comes on us. We love living in the woods and really enjoy the deer and even the bear even though they both can be a bother when it comes to all the flowers getting eaten up and the pond being torn apart because a bear wants to get my fish but we survive. and still love it.

Okay, mine doesn't look as good as it tastes!

But you really need to check out Vicky's cake on her blog. It is just the cutest and most awesome ever. Somehow if you know Vicky you know it is her cake. All it needs is a frog!!!

Great job, Vicky!

Is this how it is suppose to look?

Vicky and I are taking a fondant and gum paste class from Michaels and we are learning a lot.

This is our calilily. It was fun and we have two more classes. I did have a success in covering a cake with the fondant. I made my own fondant which does taste a whole lot better than the store bought but I had little powdered sugar lumps. Oh well, it was my first try.

From Primary to Seminary!

I teach the CTR class which consists of from 3 years to 8 years and this is Davey with one of my Seminary Students and I don't have many. That is what happens in a small branch. We are pretty close in our little branch and we love it here.

Sometimes you need a watchful eye in the forest!

Our trees have personality even though they don't keep the bears away from the bird feeder. The air is cooling and I know we will soon be seeing the leaves changing colors and then comes winter. It seems this summer has gone way to fast. I don't even remember enjoying the sitting on the back deck and watching the deer and squirrels. My favorite time is at dusk as the sun is going down the fireflies come out and do their little dance and make the back yard a twinkling forest.

Tucker and Grandpa are paddle boating. Who do you think is doing the most peddaling? They had fun playing and checking for the fish as Isaiah was fishing. It was two weeks of fun at the Hershey Thousand Trails park. I enjoyed it because I was close enough to home to run home and still do my Scentsy and pick up a few more grandkids and bring them back for a few days.

When they weren't fishing, swimming, or boating they were playing DS - Sims Animals. They kept busy with all the activities like the scavanger hunt where they came in first and won free ice cream cones.

The Gettysburg Bike Tour!

Pat took Tucker, Conor and Isaiah on the Bike Tour of Gettysburg battlefield. It was great fun and even though the rain soaked them good they never complained because they were having so much fun. Tucker loved being with the big boys and even though he is just learning to ride he could go along. What a good dad Pat is and what an education they can receive as they toured this very special place. Many of our ancestors lost their lives fighting for our freedoms.

The Graduation Cake! Woops!!!!!

This was Rachel and Prenna's Graduation Cake made with dark chocolate, very dark chocolate with a lot of Black Coloring. Well maybe a little too much black coloring.

Grandparents Rewards!

Parents struggle to make sure their children get good educations, growing up to be an asset to the world and not a burden and watch their children gain self-confidence and wonder what is to come in future years.

After those kids have grown and now have grown children of their own and you sit back and watch, it is our reward to watch these grandchildren achieve and grow.

Rachel has given us that reward as she has worked hard to obtain her goal of graduation from High School and received the High Acheivers Award from her school and now sets out to become a professional skater. She started her new job at Dorney Park entertaining the amusement park goers as she joins international skaters performing 3 times a day on week days and 4 times on Saturday and Sunday.

School is almost out and Summer is on it's Way!!!

Miranda was so happy to have her big brother, Anthony come to her pre-school graduation. He lives in New York City and she doesn't get to see him very often.