Logan and Gabbie sleep over

Jordan and Jamie asked us to watch Logan for them after Molly's baptism, so they could go to the sheep herding contest at Swiss Days.  We were MORE THAN HAPPY to do it!  We invited Gabby to come and sleep over too.  

Our first stop on our way home was Cabellas to check out the big fish

and all the cool animals, (so nice they don't hide like the ones at the zoo!)

They had these cool bunk bed cots that they enjoyed checking out

and a guy talking about camping

They sure can run fast!  

There were 3 dogs that they had to give hugs to.

Practicing their shooting skills.

After we got home they had a quick lunch

then out to the back yard for some fun, I can't believe they still LOVE the baby swings.

Logan loves to chase Gabbie on the trampoline!

Run Gabbie, Run!

Next out for a walk around the neighborhood.  It doesn't seem that long ago that I was taking Libbie and Hailey for a walk in this same old stroller.

Logan LOVED pulling the shade canapy over his head and disappearing.

Logan is a dipping guy, he dips his graham crackers in milk

and had his first fun dip

oh yeah!

After naps, we went and got pizza and took it to a park

There were lots of kids there, and it was right on Redwood Road, and these two love to run, after just a few minutes, 

we went to Arctic Circle for ice cream and to keep them a little more confined.  

Cheers!

They were the only kids in the play area, so they had fun and we could relax.

This was the worlds SLOWEST slide and Logan loved it!

Gabby could get going a bit faster so she enjoyed it too!

Gabbie brought her tiny little fire truck that Logan had loved at her house when he's been over there.  He chased her around the house saying "Whee oooo, whee ooo"

Before bed, they made a few repairs on the playhouse roof

and made a little bedtime snack.  When we put them to bed, neither of them made a peep, and went right to sleep!

They were up bright and early in the morning playing playdough.

Logan was quite thrilled to be able to play with scissors, (I don't think his parents have turned him loose with those yet)

What a fun sleepover with these cute little cousins!  We can't wait to do it again!

Molly's Baptism

Today, Saturday, September 5, 2015 is a very great day for our family.  This beautiful little girl got baptized.  Molly is such a special little girl, she has a very tender heart and tries so hard to do what's right.

She was baptized by her dad in a special dress that Robynn made from one of mom's beautiful nighties.  She had the idea when her granddaughter Brooklyn was getting baptized and offers it to any of the great granddaughters who would like to wear it.  Molly was thrilled to wear it and it felt like a little part of Gigi was there with her on this important day.

Here's a picture of her family before the baptism.

There was a room full of people there to celebrate with her, including her school teacher!

Molly and Libbie

Me and Mike with our sweet Molly

Grandma Cline

Grandpa Cline

Grandpa Birks

Lani

and lots of others that we didn't have time to take pictures of since they were running off to Molly's cousin's baptism.  Here's a cute one of her whole family after the baptism.

Lauren's Bridal Shower

Last Saturday morning, we did a bridal shower for our "bonus niece" Lauren.  When Jeff married Jen, she had a darling daughter Lauren, who is getting married in Oct.  Robynn made the cute invitations.

I pushed my couch back about 4 feet into the kitchen area, and made the living room bigger.  When we took out the wall, we did it to make my kitchen bigger, but I hadn't even thought that it could make the front room bigger when needed too.  Sweet!!!

We did a sunflower shower, since my house was all decorated in sunflowers. 

We had bagels, cinnamon rolls, muffins and chocolate zucchini bread with fruit and juice. 

Jamie made the cute tags for the food.

We had a very fun group.

Jamie, Lani, Jen, Me, Robynn, Merijane,

Elycia, Krista, Lauren and Emily

 and all 9 of our granddaughters

and all 3 of our grandsons.

Here's Jen and Lauren

Lani found these cute hand sanitizers and Tatia made the darling tags.

It was so much fun!  

Cousins get together

Growing up I loved to go to Idaho to visit my cousins.  2 weeks ago, I went with Marie, Michelle and dad to a wedding of Sandy's daughter.  While there, she told me her sister Bonnie, who is my age would be coming into town and they were thinking of spending a few days in SLC.  I invited her to stay with us since we have plenty of room.  I didn't hear from her and so I assumed it hadn't worked out to come.  Thurs evening, I get a call and find out she and Bonnie are in town, and have been trying to get ahold of me for the past 3 days.  (I need to remember to check my answering machine)  I invited them to come on over for a sleepover.  They were only going to be in town until Saturday morning, so we made a few phone calls and got Lani and our cousins,  that are close to our ages to come over for dinner on Friday night.  Luckily they were all available!

We had such a fun time catching up with each other!  I hope they can come again soon.

Family photos at Murray Park

For Mother's and Father's Day, the kids got together and hired a photographer to do a family photo shoot for us.  We have been looking forward to this since May.  We now have 22 in our family, so it is quite the project to find a day that will work for all of us and the photographer.  We found a Saturday the end of Sept. that seemed like it would work.  We decided to have everyone dress in red, yellow, grey, white or black.  On Tues, Krista got a call from the photographer, telling her that she would be out of town the weekend we had scheduled, and was there another that would work.  In talking with everyone, the only one that we could make work with our schedules and the photographers, would be this Saturday night,, just 4 days away.  Everyone started madly trying to find clothes the right colors so they could be prepared.  Friday night a bunch of our kids headed to the canyons for a fun time.  The mosquitoes were out in full force.  Gabbie got bit just under her eye.  Saturday, 2 hours before pictures, Josh sent me this photo of Gabbie, #allreadyforpictures.  Yikes!

He said he was on his way to Instacare to have it looked at.  It ended up that it was infected, and they put her on an antibiotic.  He zoomed back to pick up Merijane and the kids and made it to the Park just a few minutes late. 

 (We did individual family pictures first)

Here are some I snapped with my phone, behind the photographers back.

Krista's family

Josh's family

Jamie's family

and Jordan's family

Then we did a family photo.  We all stood on this bridge, I hope it turns out great!

Then came the real fun, a picture with all 12 grandkids.  By this time they had had the program.  Josh and Jamie's family hadn't had time to eat dinner, so their kids were hungry, the babies were tired, so it is not the best picture, but they are all in it.  I hope the photographer got a little better one than I did.  I only took a couple pictures, then stood behind the photographer jumping up and down with several of the parents trying to get everyone to look at the camera. 

What a wild and crazy night, I can't wait to see the pictures.  

Thanks everyone for all your efforts to make this possible!