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Friday, April 17, 2009

!!! EASTER FUN !!!

Each year they ask me to come to the Community Easter Party in my Easter Bunny Costume. It is great fun for me. I love to dress up in costumes as most of you know, so this is right up my alley. I look for a reason to dress up and make people laugh.

Easter Bunny with Kallee's Boys

Easter Bunny with Monica's Kids

Grandkids with the Easter Bunny

Maycie had a hard time and was afraid of the Bunny.

I kept telling her it was just Grandma dressed up.
I would lift up my costume head so she could see it was really me inside.

She eventually tolerated me but was still leary.

Jay loves to pull my tail.

We also went to the Arts Festival over the weekend. The grandkids decorated paper hats there.

By the time we got there most of the things to decorate the hats were gone, but the grandkids still had fun making them and wearing them.

Getting ready to dye Easter Eggs

Easter Morning with the Grandkids

Jay and Moises loved the red rocks of St. George by Dixie Rock.

WE HAD A GREAT EASTER WEEKEND!!

BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART WAS REMEMBERING THAT OUR SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST LIVES!!!

Hope all of you had a great Easter too.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

!!Paris!!

There is a song that says "I Love Paris in the Springtime." I am not ready to say I love Paris, but it was fun. Well we found out that Paris can be great at this time of year.

I have a husband who is a travel bug. I like to travel, but not as often as he does. Whenever he is going to be off school and not teaching over a holiday he is looking for a place to go. With our daughter working for the airlines we are able to fly free which facilitates our traveling.

We just had Spring Break so you guessed it, he decided we were going to fly to Paris, France, since we couldn't get flights to places like Hawaii, with it being spring break and most people go to warm places on their break. We left on a Sunday night and got back on Wednesday night. We spent just a couple days there. For me it was too long of a flight for being there for such a short time, 9 1/2 hours there and 10 1/2 back, but we did get 1st class coming home so it wasn't quite so bad.

Here are a few pictures from our getaway there.

Monty on balcony of our hotel

Our hotel was a block from the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is huge. We walked up the stairs of it.

Some romance in Paris

Great views from up there on the tower!

Pretty flowers planted and growing in Paris

This is the boat that we rode down the Seine River.

One of the bridges you go under while riding down the Seine River on the boat.

You can get on and off the boat at the different sights for the whole day with the pass you buy.

This is the Notre-Dame Cathedral

This is Jesus and the 12 Apostles on the outside of Notre Dame.

Stained glass windows inside.

This is the Louvre.

It was closed on the day we were there so we just walked around outside. Luckily we had been inside before, but it would have been great to go in again and see all the art. We at least got to see the pyramid outside that wasn't there the last time we came.

This is the Champs Elysees, a long street that runs into the L'Arc de Triomphe.

This is the famous shopping street with major stores. We didn't do any shopping though. We did walk down this long street and ate lunch at McDonalds there. I was tired from all the walking.

This is looking from the L'Arc de Triomphe back down the street to show you how long it is.

There were stores like Louis Vuitton and Hugo Boss. I took this for Traci. She would love to shop on this street.

Guess who at the L'Arc de Triomphe

Monty loved all the tiny cars that people drove over there.

Maybe we should get one for St. George.

And to finish off with the Eiffel Tower lit up at night.

Thanks Paris, it was fun!!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Grandkids

Josh, Traci, & Ian came down Sunday night to visit for the week. I can't believe that Ian is already 4 months old. He is so cute. I don't get to see him often and it took about a day before he really warmed up to me and now he smiles all the time at me.

Josh & Ian

Traci hiding & Ian

I flew up north last Thursday to tend the grandkids, and to help Heston and Brandi pack up and get ready to move back to North Ogden.

Deklan

Dallin

Kate

Smiles for grandma

I spent Friday night at Kallee's House. Kallee and Chad went to a wedding reception. Moises and Jay built a hut out of blankets. The three of us went inside the hut. I got my flashlight I brought up and I turned off the lights. We were getting ready to play the game "CLUE" while in the hut with just the flashlight on. It was a spooky atmosphere. Chad and Kallee came home from a wedding reception right then. We were hiding in the hut and had the lights off. We were going to scare them, but they figured out where we were before we had the chance. The boys wanted to watch a video after that, so we didn't end up playing Clue, but it was fun. Thanks Moises and Jay for the fun time. Kallee and I made bread while Moises and Jay watched the movie. Chad went out and worked on a car. I flew home the next morning to sunny St. George.

When I got home and saw Demmy, she was so excited to show me that she was able to take out her first earrings and put in other earrings now, so I snapped a quick picture on my cell phone of her with her new dangly earring. You are so cute Demmy.

Demmy, Grandpa & Dylan in the background

Grandkids Are Great!!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's I purchased tickets for a concert for Monty and I to go to one of my favorite pianists. His name is Marvin Goldstein. I first went to one of his classes years ago at BYU Education week and now I go to him every year at Ed Week. He is a Jewish convert to the church. When I saw that he was going to be here on Valentine's Day I just had to get tickets. We got seats on row 3. They were awesome. Of course in his concert he couldn't bear his testimony like at BYU, but he has a wonderful sense of humor and had us all laughing. He did tell jokes about Jews, Mormons, Catholics, etc.

He is such an amazing and talented man. He doesn't know what songs he is going to play when he does a concert. He just starts playing and plays whatever songs come in his mind without any music in front of him to read. He also takes requests out of the audience and then does a medley of those songs requested. Monty raised his hand and requested a song. He requested "Anything you can do, I can do better", a song from Annie Get Your Gun. I didn't think that was a very romantic song for Valentine's Day, but he said he couldn't think of another song to request. Monty was in that play when he was is high school and knew that song. Marvin just played it in a medley along with the other songs the other people requested.

I have about 12 of Marvin's Cd's that I have purchased over the years. He has truly magnified the talents that God has blessed him with. Before the show we saw him out in the Lobby walking with a cane. He has had a bad back for years and that night they told us that he was in a car accident a few weeks ago and that when he went home after the concert, he was going to have 2 back surgeries. He lives in Florida. You could see he was in pain, but he told us when he starts playing at concerts the pain seems to leave temporarily. He played for a little over 2 hours. If you think about it, keep him in your prayers that his surgeries will go well. I love to listen to good music. Monty gave me roses and balloons. It was a great Valentine's for me. I hope all of you had a great one too.

Family Activities

We have had a lot going on these past couple months and I haven't posted for a long time. Monty's Birthday was on February 11th. He turned 59 years young. He hates big celebrations for his birthday so we kept it small, but who knows what will happen next year when he turns 60. I told him to plan for a big celebration, but he has threatened me not to have one. Got any ideas??

I just thought I would post a few of the pictures from the many family parties & celebrations we have had including Demmy's baptism, tending Autumn's kids in January, and playing at the park with the cousins. We love having the family together and wish we could all get together more often. We love all of you. I have pictures of moms and dads too, but I am just posting a few pictures of the grandkids. It takes too much time to upload lots of pictures.