We started the day out eating breakfast with the ward.  The kids got to have a bike parade.       Then it was off to the Grantsville Parade.  I thought it was kind of a lame parade this year, but the kids still had fun.  Sitting at the end isn’t really a great idea because…

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  Loved the movie.  Anyone else????  From left to right BACK:  Jill, Kate, Kim, Marrya, Sabra, Rachel, Me, Jandi  FRONT: Camilla and Andrea I love these girls!  We ate first at Macaroni Grill.  Yum!!!   Andrea looking very Kristen Stewart-ish.  Check poster above her head.   Have to add another awesome one—just like last time…

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This post is only the beginning of much more fun we’ve had the last week.  So stay tuned for more (if I get my behind in gear and blog them soon!!!)   I watched my friend Sabra’s kids last week and told my kiddos that we’d get the pool out for the first time this…

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I forgot to post the fun fliers the boys made for their lemonade stand.  They just handed them out on our street.  It was the only way to convince them to wait a day so I could have more time to make the cookies and prepare to help them more.  I LOVE the lemon and…

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It’s 10:15 right now and the kids just barely got into bed—normal bedtime is at the latest, 8:30 pm!  Today, after the initial drudgery of getting the kids to do their chores and me mowing the lawn, we got to go with some friends to the park for a picnic, then went VT, came home…

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My Dad came to visit one last time before moving to Thailand to live and marry a sweet lady named Yoyo.  I’m not sure I spelled that right, but it is said just like the toy Yo-Yo.  It was good to see him again and sooner than usual as we see him just once a…

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Dillon’s band had their first performance of the year at the Tooele Arts Festival.  They did so great!  They sang all originals except for one song, which was The Eagles Seven Bridges Road.  They did so great!  Thanks to all who came and supported them!  I wish I had taken pictures but it’s really quite…

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Just some random pictures that I’m combining in one post!   Bailey sitting with her favorite little boy Jonas.  She loves him!  He’s SO cute, too.  Obviously!   Upstairs, the boys set up a whole campground.  Here they are telling me they need some real marshmallows to roast.   The fire pit.   Carson pretending…

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A couple Sundays ago we were able to go to the 150th anniversary of the Pony Express in Simpson Springs.  It was a neat event!  They reenact it every year and Jerry and Dillon’s cousins and Grandpa all rode in it!  Here is an article about it.  Dillon and his buddy formerly in the Forty…

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