More fun with the Grandkids

We went to SLC for Conference Weekend and arrived on Fri. I have been wanting to see all the baby animals that have been born this fall so we went Fri afternoon. We had a good time and I love seeing those cute little babies. There was a baby elephant, three tiger cubs, baby Giraffe, and a baby monkey you can see the little white head between the moms arms. There was a baby snow leopard as well but didn't get a good picture of him/her. All in all it was fun and I had my fix of seeing the baby animals.

The first part of Sept. we went to SLC for Logans eye appointment and Ellie decided she wanted to come home with me so I had her for a week. She did very well being away from mom I was surprised. It was great having her here and getting to know here cute little personality.

Garfield #2

This is Garfield #2, Monday Laurel (my friend) called and wanted me to come to her house for a minute. So when I got to her house, she said I have an early birthday present for you, and at that time her cat (Tigger) walked by or at least that is who I thought it was. And I said oh your going to give me Tigger for my birthday and she said no that is not Tigger it is your birthday present. So we now have a new kitty he is a sweet kitty he is between 1-2 years old it has been fun to have a kitty in the house again I was missing having a kitty in the house. So thank you Laurel for the great B-Day present.

The very top picture is a picture of Garfield #1 just so you can see the similarities (garfield #1 is alittle bit on the fatter side)

Fun with Grandkids

Brittany and Josh's schedules overlaped so the kids came to play at grandma's house we made some cookies they had fun but it wasn't a real goode idea because then all I did was eat them of coarse I had alot of help but I ate way to many. But we had fun making them anyway. Looking and cute Lucas and his chubby cheeks it looks like he joined in on eating to many cookies. :)

Monday Aug. 31 I received a phone call from my brother in CA. he told me that mom was on her way to the hospital, when he called her she was very confused and he was very worried about her he kept her on the phone as he called my sister in SLC and anyway long story short Kathy called 911 and off to the hospital mom went with a blood pressure of 50/20 not so good. They found a hematoma by her right kidney, which they figured she got when she feel on July 22nd. A UTI (urinary tract infection) which turned into sepsis so at the time Kim called she was in septic shock not good considering that only 25 percent of the people make it after getting it. THANK YOU KIM for calling when you did. They drained as much off of the hematoma as they could and the body will take care of the rest. She is home now on antibiotics and doing pretty good she is weak but doing a little better everyday. We love you mom and remember when you come to visit I am going to take you on a Rhino ride in the red hills of Southern UT.
On Tues when I went to water the flowers at moms I saw this cute little lonely petunia in the driveway. As I was thinking and remembered the picture I took of the ambulance that brought Dad home the day he past away, it is sitting pretty much right where they brought Dad out of the ambulance. I am thinkin it is just a nice little memorial from his beloved flowers that he cared so much about. We love you Dad, keep those gardens beautiful. :)

Craigs Mission Call

Most of you know but for those who don't Craig is Sharise's boyfriend and he just received his call. He actually received it on Thurs Aug. 20 but his Dad was out of Town so he keep that white envelope sealed until this morning when his Dad could be here when he read where he will be serving for the next two years. He is way excited to get going and I will let him tell you where he will be going.

If you didn't catch it, it is the Jackson Mississippi Spanish speaking mission. He is way excited to serve there. He will be leaving Oct. 14th. So just enough time to get ready to leave. Good luck Craig you will be awesome!!!

Some fun short videos

Some more of our little get away. These are video clips that I told Danette I would put on. I will practice on taking better video with my camara for the future.

Des and Ellie enjoying a ride on the on the zipline

Daniel taking a ride he was going a little slow, grandpa needed to grease it up

Ron's turn, notice Daniel forgot to take the box away, made it difficult for Ron's landing. :)

Logan, Raylie, Ellie and Abbie flying. They all had a great time at Lagoon.

Summer Fun in the Mountains

Saturday we went and visited Grandma and Grandpa Great (Fowlks) who are up at Oak Crest Girls camp helping out for the summer. We went on the zip line and road 4 wheelers and the kids did some archery. It was a fun day, we all had a great time Thanks for inviting us Grandma and Grandpa

This is a Diner that we stopped at for dinner on the way home from Oak Crest. The Diner traveled all the way from Rhode Island and was planted here in Oakley. It was a fun place to eat and had great food.

The building you see is the the condo we were in it was a nice one. The other pictures are different views of beautiful scenery around the condo and on the way home from Oak Crest Camp.

Tues. was the day we spent at Lagoon, it was a perfect day. It was not croweded the kids did not have to wait in line at all they went from ride to ride. We had to drag them away around 8:00 they all were troopers they could have stayed till it closed but the adults were tired. :)

We had fun at the pool

We had a day at Pine View Reservoir. We had fun on the wave runners and playing in the sand and Raylie and Ellie had a great time feed the Seagulls, they went through a bag of tortilla's and a loaf of bread I think that the birds where pretty full at the end of our stay.

The last of our days at the condo and on the way home. The sunsets were beautiful there. The scenery was gorgeous and the kids loved playing with uncle Daniel.