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Monday, September 23, 2024

Back to school

Summer is over and it's back to school!

Logan is in 6th grade and Parker is in 3rd.


Savvy is in Pre-K


Molly is a Senior at Sky Ridge High, Oliver is in 4th grade, Abi is in 9th and Kelsi is in 7th.


Libbie is a freshman at SLCC


Katie is a sophmore at Riverton High


Gabbie is in 7th grade


Jack is in 4th grade


Hailey is a freshman at BYU Idaho


Sophie is in 6th and Aida is a sophmore at Alta High


Zac, who just turned 2, is our only grandchild not in school this year.  We hope they all have a great year and learn lots !





Sunday, August 25, 2024

End of summer fun

With summer drawing to a close, I thought it would be fun to give each of the kids going to school a little money to buy something fun for school.  


These girls shopped at a mall out in Riverton and then we went to Subway for lunch.


The boys opted to not shop for clothes, but to go to Airbourne, a fun trampoline park with their money.  They opted for Wendy's for lunch.


The Littles had a sleepover and went to a balloon festival in Sandy in the morning.  Then we went to Southtowne mall and found some fun things for school there.  We went to Cafe Rio for lunch.


I totally forgot to take a picture with the Bigs, so heres an old one of these cute girls.  We went to a mall in Riverton and shopped with them.  They also found some fun things and the went to the Shake Shack for shakes and fries.  


I picked up Savvy and took her shopping, but there are no fun places to find clothes in Eagle Mountain.  She wanted to go to Pets Mart to look at the fish, so we looked at all the animals there and she saw a lego set of a unicorn that she really wanted, so we bought that and a few other fun things we found at Walmart.   Then we went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch, Savvy is such a cute girl!

 

Shannon's Bridal Shower

We are so exicted that our nephew Skyler has found a wonderful girl!  Lani and I gave a shower for Shannon at Lani's beautiful home last night. 


 Shannon's mom lives in Eagle Mountain and joined us.


We had lots of our family too!  (Savvy and Gabbie were downstairs playing)  So nice that Bonnie was in town so she could meet her and see so much of our family.


We had tons of delicious food!
 

Fruit tray, vege tray, cheese and crackers, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, apple bread, chips, salsa, queso, and guacomole.  so yuimmy!  It was fun for everyone to get to know Shannon.  We had some get to know you questions that we passed out and they asked as she opened their present.   What a great night!

Thursday, August 1, 2024

Flower Power

This morning my cute neighbor Mary, called and told me that she has a friend who owns a flower shop.  Her friend had dropped by a bunch of flowers that she had no idea what to do with.  She asked me if I would like to arrange them and deliver them to people who might enjoy them.


I was more than happy to do it!  I called Krista and asked if her girls might like to help me.  Sophie had a lesson in young womens on Sunday about faith.  Her teacher had shown them a pack of seeds, and taught them about what you have to do to help them grow into flowers and realated it to how to help your faith to grow.  She had a bunch of flowers and let the girls each make an arrangement to take home.  Sophie's was beautiful, so I knew she would be a big help!


Lucky for me, she was available and did a great job of teaching me how to do it.


I delivered some to Lauren and Emmy


Jeffrey and (Jen not pictured) but Emmy with Jeffrey


Kathy who was not feeling well at all.


Lani


and Ila Fae who had just had shoulder surgery.


I'm so glad my sweet friend Mary thought of me and I was able to make lots of people smile today thanks to her and her friend.  (I also delivered one to Mary, but totally forgot to get her picture.)  I left for Krista's about 10:00 this morning, and didn't get back home until 4:00 this afternoon..  So many fun people to visit!




  

 

July Birthdays

July is definatly birthday month in our family.  We have 9 birthdays, so that means lots of fun lunches or dinners.


Logan wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse


Parker chose MOD pizza


Hailey went to a fun sandwich shop that I can't remember the name of.


Kelsi and Oliver chose In and Out Burger


We celebrated Krista and Jamie's together and went to Villiage Baker


The boys went to Virgis for Mike, Jordan and Josh's birthdays while I was on my cruise.  It's been fun taking our kids and grandkids to lunch or dinner for their birthdays.

 

Monday, July 22, 2024

Cruising with Bonnie




A few months ago, Bonnie called and invited me to go on a cruise with her.  (Dennis was going on a fishing trip to Alaska with his buddies.)  I jumped at the chance to spend time with her and go on a cruise.  Because we wanted to make sure we both made it to Florida together, I flew to Arizona and spent a day at Bonnie's house. before flying to Florida..  There were quite a few glitches with my travel, but it all worked out and we made it safely to the cruise ship.


There are always fun things to do.  We went to a fruit and vegetable carving demonstration.


Quite a few game shows, spent time in the hot tub, that thankfully wasn't too hot.


We went to a mentalist show that was mind blowing!  This guy was incredible.  We went to a dance show, several shows where there was singing and  piano playing.  So much talent.  We listened to some books on tape, ate LOTS of food, worked in a nap almost every day, and met so many nice people.  That was one of our favorite parts.


We visited the Dominican Republic


St. Thomas and another island in the Virgin Islands


It was all so BEAUTIFUL! 


Our last stop was an island owned by Norweigan Cruise line where we laid on the beach, got in the water and did a zip line.  I was very nervous, but it was Soooo Fun!


The night before we were to fly home, Bonnie went to check in for her flight, and realized that it had been cancelled.  Unbeknownst to us, there had been a world wide IT problem that affected the airlines.  Thousands of flights had been cancelled and thousands more delayed.  We talked to the cruiseline who had booked our flights, but they said it was the airlines fault and wouldn't help us.  Bonnie called Dennis and he went to work on getting her a new flight.  After waiting on hold for over 2 1/2 hours, he finally was able to talk to someone, and was able to convince them to book her on another airline since theirs couldn't get her out of Miami until Monday.  It was so crazy at the airport!  There were mile long lines everywhere.  Luckily for me, my flight wasn't cancelled,  it just ended up being delayed 6 hours.  We arrived at the airport at 9:00 in the morning and I didn't get out of there until 12:00 midnight.  There was no place to sit and wait, so people were all over the floor.  I sat on my suitcase for much of the time.  Bonnie had a flight at a different terminal and had to leave for her flight at noon.  It was a long day, but I met lots of nice people who were also waiting. I finally arrived home at 3:00 in the morning.  Cute Jordan came and picked me up.  It was so late I didn't want anyone to have to come and get me so I was trying to figure out how to get an Uber.  Jordan was trying to help me but then said he would just come and spend the night at our house and I could call him when I arrived.  He is so sweet!  When I got to the luggage area, the above picture was half of the unchlaimed luggage in SL airport!  I was  grateful that my luggage made it and very happy to be home safe.   It was so fun to spend time with Bonnie, she has been my best buddy since I was born.   



St. Geroge Getaway

Robynn's family rented this really fun house in St. George this summer for their Thiot Family reunion.  When she was telling me about it, it sounded so fun that I checked to see if our kids would be available to spend a few days there.  They were able to find a time that worked amid girls camp, Oakcrest, FSY, Youth conferences, and sports camps.  Unfortunately, Matt was not able to get off work, but his family still came.


It had an awesome pool!  Zac got this duck floaty and fell in love with it.  He wore it all over the house and just kept saying, Duck, Duck.  He is so cute!


There were several pools, and water slides.  The temperatures while we were there hit 114 degrees, so if we were outside, we were in the pool to keep cool.  The kids LOVED it!


There was a fun air hockey table that was busy a good share of the time.


Some of the kids did some fun sand art, 


They watched TV


they played games


We were able to visit 2 temples, the Red Cliff


and the St. George temple.
  This is our 9 oldest granddaughters, and our daughter and daughter in laws.


We went to church and after church got a picture with all of us.  We had so much fun being together, I'm so very grateful for our wonderful family!