Jared

Another good pose of our basketball star.

Mother's day bag

When we were in Springville Friday we dropped by the Corn Wagon to see if there was anything that would please an old mother for Mother's Day. Now, that's a silly thought. Of course, there is always something that would catch my eye in the Corn Wagon! Anyway, Alison and Merrill bought me the fabrics and everything necessary to make a bag. It is rather a large bag, one I need to tote my music books to church when I play for RS. It only took me a day to make and I love it. There was only one problem. Some of the gromets wouldn't snap together so its not quite finished. If you could see the back you would discover the sash pinned instead of being threaded through the gromets. I called them on the phone and they said they would send another package.

Siennah, you're sure getting into a bunch of mischief!

Duke Gardens

I pasted a picture of Siennah on a lily pad in Duke Gardens. This was taken last October when we went to the beach.

Bretten

Just wanted to let you all know that Bretten goes before the parole board on Tuesday. We would ask that you all remember him in your prayers and that the board will make the right decission that will benefit him the most. Thank you.

Rachel & her dad

Rachel receiving diploma

Rachel & the cougar

Rachel

Here is a good shot of our beautiful BYU Graduate. We had a fun day as we watched her "walk the path and accept her diploma". It gives you goose bumps to have a granddaughter graduate from college. We are so proud of her.

Siennah on flower

I don't know how clear this will show up but this is the last thing I learned in my Photoshop class.

Tristan Turns Four

Tristan's birthday was Saturday and so was his party. We decided to do a construction theme. We had seven kids all together. Kennedy was off at a party for her friend and Jack slept the whole time so we were able to give all our attention to the party.

For decorations I used yellow caution tape. I taped off the driveway and made some orange signs that warned, "Road Work Ahead" and "Yield For Fun". I placed the signs near the road. I also used orange table cloths to match the construction signs. The kids all wore yellow hardhats and Home Depot was nice enough to donate the kids aprons.

We had three games for the kids to play. We split them up into two groups for the first two games. One group tossed beanbag "bricks" into the wheelbarrow while the other group dug for prizes in the sandbox. Then we had two teams race each other in a dump truck relay. They had to race their dump truck through the caution cones to a pile of rocks at the end, place one rock in the bed of the truck and race back to the starting point and empty the truck. The kids really enjoyed these games.

The cake was my favorite. I got a cake from Sam's Club and decorated the top with Oreo cookie "dirt" and colored coconut grass. I bought a package of Matchbox Cars construction vehicles-see the dirt inside the dump truck? I also had a big bag of foam road sign stickers. I stuck some "road work ahead" signs to some toothpicks and put them around the work site.


All in all the party was a smash hit!

Tamsyn and Megyn

We had fun taking pictures of Tamsyn and Megyn in the barn, especially jumping off the fence!

Siennah

Same picture, just retouched the stray hairs

Vintage Siennah

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I have so many cute pictures of Siennah, Tamsyn and Megyn, it will take me a month to post them all.

Heavenly Father, are you really there?

Jared, basketball

Steve sent me a picture of Jared blocking a shot which I converted to b&w then colored the main character.

Sunset

Another sunset from our front porch

snow, b&w

April snow showers

We had six inches in Beaver and I hope that's the end for this season. I'm ready to take some spring pictures.

Its not nice to be fooled by Mother Nature

Or something like that. Mother Nature had a nice little April fools waiting for us when we woke up this morning. 11 inches of the "greatest snow on earth" piled up everywhere. Love to shovel snow on my day off. At least I didn't have to drive in it at 4:30 in the morning to go to work.