OPEN HOUSE FOR JOHN

AUGUST 9TH 2009

John wasn't about to have an open house. I had a hard time convincing him that it would be fun. It took a lot of badgering before he finally consented. He was glad we did it for him. He enjoyed visiting with all our old and new friends. Thank you Shannon, Nicole and Soupie for all your help with the kids and food preparations. Thank you Mike and Brandt for visiting and helping with the guests. Thank you Larry for taking the pictures. The Open House went perfect.

Opening gifts from children before the Open House, Cole loved Papa's cards

John and I enjoyed our company so much!

These were the only pictures I took, I haven't looked at Larry's yet, I look forward to putting them into my scrapbook

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAVANNAH

Savy will be 5 years old!

We had fun putting together an early Birthday Party for Savannah. We only had one day we could do it and that was on the Saturday before Papa John's Open House. Shannon, Larry, Dresden, Logan, Brandt, Soupie, Carlee and Tayler were there. Nicole's sister, Jenna came up from the Y and even her boyfriend showed up. Savannah got a lot of presents from her cousin's and others, even Collin and Sydney left her a present (they were vacationing with their Grandpa Bob and Grandma Jo in Arizona) We had cupcakes, balloons and a park to play in. Savannah looked so cute and we all had fun watching her open her gifts. We will be thinking about you on the 23rd.........lots of love to you, our little Cali girl.

Aunt Jenna, Nicole, Cole and Savy

Aunt Soupie, with baby Creed, Tayler, Uncle Brandt and Michael

Uncle Larry, Aunt Shannon, Dresden and Logan

Grandpa Bill (just got out of the Hospital), Grandma Ellen & Savy

THE CALI STRONGS ARE IN TOWN!

FAMILY GATHERINGS

We were so excited that our cute kids from California could come up for a few days. They had to cram in a lot of things with this short vacation, but I think they had fun doing it. They got to see Grandpa Bill and Grandma Ellen, we had our family spaghetti dinner, Nicole's sister, Jenna came up from the Y. We pulled off an early Birthday Party for Savannah, an Open House for Papa John etc, etc. Natalie and Jay couldn't be here because they had sceduled a cruise for their anniversay, we're glad they had a lot of fun on their cruise, but we still missed them. Thank you Shannon and Brandt for spending time with your little brother.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLLIN

Collin turned 8 years old on August 5th. Happy Birthday our cute grandson! Family and friends were invited to a swimming party in Draper, but because of the stormy weather they had to cancel the swimming. The kids didn't care, they packed up and went to the Rudels and still had a lot of fun. Natalie and Jay went to a lot of work for this party, so they felt a little bad that it didn't turn out quite like they wanted. Uncle Brandt, Carlee, Tayler, Aunt Shannon, Dresden and Logan were all at the party. Aunt Soupie had to work and Papa John was headed for Ephraim to pick up Grandpa Bill for an emergency operation. We are glad that all went well for Grandpa Bill. Thank you for inviting us to your party, we had fun. I am very proud of Collin, he is
growning into such a wonderful young boy.

Family & Friends

Opening Presents

An awesome shadow box of the piece of wood Collin broke with is bare hands

(his dad made the shadow box)

The kids had to eat their cake with their new goggles

Happy Birthday to you..........