Change Is Good

When we moved into Willow Canyon 1st ward John and I felt right at home. John is in the High Priest Leadership and they put me into Primary as the chorister. My life has been blessed for being a part of those children's lives. I loved every minute of the time I spent preparing and presenting the songs to those children. We have been working so hard on the new songs for the Sacrament Meeting Primary Program and the kids are doing so well. I never in a million years thought that I was not going to be a part of this program.......but, I was wrong, I was called to be in the Young Women's program, can you believe that? I still can't believe what has happened. An Old 60 year Old Grandma. I guess that's where I need to make some changes......I have become a "Rocking Chair Grandma," not to say I don't enjoy rocking my Tayler to sleep, I can't wait for those moments, but I have put myself into the category of Old Folks......shame on me......there is wisdom in Heavenly Fathers plans and I know I will enjoy spending time with our wards young women who by the way can talk very intelligently..........FOR SURE........my kind of language!

I will miss those little darlings, and today just added to it when I heard those sweet primary children singing in General Conference. Some of those songs are the songs the children are learning for the Sacrament meeting program. Oh well life goes on.....It will be nice to sit in sacrament meeting and not worry about the songs. I can just sit back and enjoy their angelic voices, that will be sweet!

CALIFORNIA KIDS

So here are our Cally Kids! Aren't they so cute! I had so much fun with them when I babysat them while their parents went on a great trip. This was Sunday, Aug. 31st. We went to church and had a great time! When Wednesday came around we had Spaghetti Dinner, that's a tradition! Savannah was thrilled to think she got to be a part of the Strong Wed. night fiasco.

I let Savannah and Cole have a picnic up in their play house, I learned quickly that tuna fish is not Savy's favorite sandwich, we changed it quickly to cold cuts.

We spent a few days at the park. It is really nice and the kids had a lot of fun. A really nice lady took this picture, she wanted to know if Nicole needed a Nanny, she thought the kids were really cute. Cole wasn't too happy about being placed in a tree.

But he sure likes the swing.

Our favorite place was the water features at the shopping center. The first time we went I learned quickly who was in charge. Not me! After I realized that wearing water shoes or not really didn't matter, we all had fun! We went there three times during the week.

I think the most fun part of my trip was spending time playing princes board games with Savannah and reading spider man to Cole before bedtime. I miss those moments the most!

Let the Roofing Begin!

While the rest of the world are watching the Olympics, we are having an olympic marathon of our own! With family members running up and down the ladder, crowbars and hammers in hand. The sun beating down and sweat pouring off everyone hoping that the roofing will be done.
These pictures do no justice. The hard work and many hours have been trying for everyone, but the kids came to our rescue, helping us take off two layers of shingles and replace wood as well as put down particle boards, starting over has been overwhelming but everyone pitched in with out complaining. Now we are ready to start shingling. Yeah!

We Love Having Our Family Visit

We are so excited to have a new queen size bed in our guest room. So will all of our visitors! The bed was given to us by Nat and Jay, they bought a new king and they were nice enough to give us their queen. So our little California kids and our St. George, Arizona and Texas families will have a much nicer bed to sleep on. We're still working on the shower, but promise it will be done maybe after we get the roof on. It's been a very busy summer, with working on a shed under the old deck and wanting to build a new deck off the kitchen, but for now we need a new roof. The Deck may have to wait, we'll see.

Another Year Older

August 9th, John celebrated his birthday by going to guard, helping Brandt and Shannon with windows and sprinkling systems and going to bed. But we made up for it on Sunday the 10th. We had dinner and a birthday cake. Happy B Day! We really do appreciate you and love you lots!

"Space Sisters"

So John and I went to Byron Putnams wedding reception, Wednesday night. It was great! We loved visiting with family. Vince, Jean and Gloria came up from St. George for the evening. The funny thing was Jean, Gloria and I were wearing black and white, Jean and I had on black and white polka-dotted skirts and Gloria had on a floral/polka-dotted blouse. Honest, we didn't call each other up and plan it out. Probably no one else even noticed, but I did. Vince calls us the "space sisters." Vince, we may be ditsy but we are well coordinated. I do remember one time when I went to St. George, it was for some church thing on Sunday. Jean and I had on the exact same dress. This was when I was very heavy and I made Jean go change because I didn't want people to notice the fat lady next to the skinny lady in the same dress. Do you remember that Jean?.......Oh wait a minute we need to get Jean blogging.....somebody help her out!

FLOWERS & BUTTERFLIES

When we were up on Ephraim Mountain we saw the glorious spring/summer flowers, they are at the end of their bloom, but still beautiful. I Especially enjoyed watching the butterflies flying all around. They were spectacular! There were three different ones that I could pick out. Only one Monarch out of the hundreds we saw, but there were some others that I thought were just as beautiful. The one I posted was my favorite, but there was another one I liked too, they were little orange ones that were spotted almost like a leopards skin. Anyone know their names and how I can start my own butterfly garden?