Quick Trip

Last Friday grandpa and I went out to our property for a quick trip to take some nuts to the critters and fix an itty-bitty screen on the well cap. The first thing we did when we got there is fix the screening which involved taking 6 bolts off the cap to remove it. There is this little screen that prevents bugs and dirt from getting sucked up the vent in the cap. We had taken out all the old nuts (except for a couple bags of good ones) and I scattered them around while grandpa puttered around with something. I couldn't help but wonder what the critters will think of all those walnuts under the pine trees! Then I grabbed grandpa's camera and decided to take pictures of all the stuff the girls painted hanging in the trees. It's so weird... I couldn't find the bird feeder. My theory is that it was painted so well with tree colors that it was camouflaged. Grandpa's theory is that a critter chewed its rope and ran off with it for the yummy bird seed goo I put in it. What's your theory?

Out of it

This last week I went to buy some scrapbook paper. I was scrapping when the YW Progressive dinner came to my house. I had in my mind to get cute pink and brown paper only to be told, "that was popular two years ago." As if I care! So I'm behind the times and am 'so two years ago". Actually, that's pretty good. At my age, it's amazing I'm not still back in the 80s! I got a bee in my bonnet and decided that even if I can't have pink and brown scrapbook paper, I can at least have a pink and brown background on my blog!

Sleep-over with Grammie

This last Friday I make the trek up to Syracuse to relieve Hillary and Marc of their parental duties. For some crazy reason they decided to spend their 9th anniversary (a couple days late) at Anniversary Inn. They came home bushed. ;>
While they were gone, Adelyn was so dang cute and as sweet as could be. She never fussed. When I went to get her out of her crib on Saturday morning she looked at me like, "now wait a minute... where's my mom?"
James came up for Friday evening to play and after dinner we all went to the park. There were a ton of mosquitoes as it got dark and everyone ended up with 2-3 bites. James had to leave after that to get home and prepare for his Orienteering competition bright and early Saturday morning. They got 4th place and he felt pretty good about that. He also came home with several dozen mosquito bites!
Friday night I discovered something about Sami, she gets stubborn when she's tired. Saturday morning she was back to her sweet self. Tasha and Emma spent Saturday morning visiting. First to Halley's, then to Jacobs and finally to Tasha's Primary teachers house. I thought it was funny that after being gone all morning, they didn't want me to leave when their parents came home. Silly kids.

Troop Review

“Gov. Huntsman reviews his troops

September 13th, 2008 @ 3:38pm

(KSL News) Rice-Eccles Stadium was filled today, but not for any football game. The Utah National Guard hosted Governor's Day at the stadium. It's an annual event to provide Gov. Jon Huntsman, who is commander in chief of the Utah National Guard, an opportunity to review his troops. The ceremony also recognized individuals for their distinguished service."

First all the troops filed in past the crowd in the stands and around to their spot on the field. They were 4 across… except James who was ‘all by my onesie’ because he was representing Company B who had no one there. There were also fly-bys with helicopters and refueling tankers. Before and after the ceremony they had activities for kids, such as rock walls and a mechanical bull. It was pretty funny to watch everyone fall off after one turn of the thing. There was a National Guard band playing good music and lots of food. Roxanne and I had a great time.

The Birthday Boy

For James' birthday we went camping on our property. James built a wonderful fire and we grilled chicken, potato and onion shish-kabobs and played cards with Sonia and Blake. It was a good camp. The next morning Hillary's family picked up Roxanne and came out. I'll refer you to Hillary and Sonia's blogs for Saturday activities as they put up great pics. The one thing they didn't mention was grammie's fabulous potty. We set up a tent with the porta-potty in it and Hillary's girls thought it was the neatest thing. We just stayed through Saturday, having bacon and pancakes for breakfast and hoagies and chips for lunch. Sunday evening we had the official presenting of gifts, after a delicious steak dinner.

James got money from Hillary& Roxanne (and this play money from Emma) and some protein drink stuff from Leland.

From Sonia he got a good Camelback cleaning kit with a nice long
brush for cleaning out the hose.

Dad gave James a little camo throw and I had made this Underground Railroad sampler quilt for James while he was in Missouri all summer. He loved it right off and it went straight onto his bed.