Vine Removal

In the background you can see the vines
on the house


Kenny and Bucky helping out

Coming down!

Dad working hard!

We decided we finally had to take the vines off

of the front of the house. First of all the house

needs painted very badly and secondly they

were dying underneath and getting ugly. They

also bring on wasps and spiders and grow under

the siding and cause alot of problems. Once

we get the house painted we will be working on

redoing the entire front of the house which will

probably take until next summer. In the

meantime, it looks pretty ugly and bare!

La Casita!

Oooo a lemon looks tasty!


A little sour!

Joey, Lynsi and Bridget get a kick out of

watching Bentley and the lemon

The group eating at La Casita on Sean's

birthday! Happy Birthday Sean (he was in

Las Vegas!) Chris was on a flight and got

left out of dinner :(

Bentley's First Birthday Party

This is Bentley's first birthday cake made by
Leslie. She decided to replicate Kenny's first
birthday cake shown in the small picture to the
left. It was great!


The birthday boy BEFORE the cake!

Not sure what he is doing

Mmmmmmm! Thanks Daddy - nice bite!

Fully into it now!

Since Kenny and Leslie were moving home

shortly after Bentley's first birthday which

was on August 8 - they decided to have his

party when they got home. It was held at the

Perkins with lots of cousin in attendance. He

had a great time!

Elder Skippy goes to DQ!

Elder Skippy sent me these pictures of a North

Carolina DQ experience! When I asked him

how it was he said "OK, but it wasn't home."

Awww - nothing like Mom's Dairy Queen - the

best in the world!!!!

First Grandchild goes to school!

We must be certifiably old now because our first

grandchild is attending school! Here is Tim &

Cara's daughter Kaitlyn on her first day of

Kindergarten. I may be a bit prejudiced but

I doubt there was a prettier little girl at school

that day!

Kenny Graduates from BYU! (and moves home!)

So the pictures ended up all mixed up from how I

wanted them - but anyway we were able to attend

Kenny's graduation from BYU last week. He

had a commencement exercise on Thursday and then

his individual college where he received his fake

diploma on Friday (they never give real ones here!)

We celebrated with dinner afterwards at PF Changs

and Bentley pretty much destroyed his area

entirely! We borrowed a trailer from Bob and were

able to move all of their belongings back in it. We are

happy to have them living with us for awhile until

they decide for sure what they are doing. It is so

fun to have a baby in the house! The graduation

was very nice and also very quiet compared to the

two previous ASU graduations! It is sort of like

general conference :) We are so proud of Kenny!

And of Leslie - she graduated from BYU as well

in April of this year.

33 Years of Wedded Bliss

We have been married for 33 years as
of August 7 last week. It has been
up and down - just like life! But mostly
up! We have five wonderful sons, four
gorgeous daughter-in-laws and five
of the cutest grandchildren in the world!
Here are some retro shots and then
a couple on our date night!

walking down aisle

cutting the cake

just married


The video below...

Kirsten & Brock get married!

Brock & Kirsten with nieces and nephews

My niece Kirsten was married yesterday in the

Snowflake Temple to Brock Lewis whom she

met at BYU Idaho. We had a funfilled week of

wedding preparation and family time. Everything

turned out great and we are counting down on

one hand the number of weddings we have left

between us!

Wedding Reception

She wanted a "candy bar" and they had

every candy imaginable all in pink and green!

Sisters!

A crazy topsy-turvy cake made by Bridget

and Carla

The wall design created by Chris and Darbi

and Carla using paper plates

Baby and Bridal Shower

Kirsten's bridal shower
Lynsi's baby shower


The next day we had a "girl's lunch"

My sister in laws and nieces

Bringing in the goods

Nice crowd of family and friends

Last week my niece Kirsten got married and

so we took the opportunity to have a bridal

shower for her and a baby shower for her

sister Lynsi who is expecting a little girl on

August 16. It was fun to get family and friends

together to celebrate both great occasions!

Tim's kids visit!

We had Tim's three kids for four nights a week

ago while Mom and Dad enjoyed a "staycation" at

their home in Mesa. They were able to eat out, go

to a water park, see WICKED (I'm super jealous here)

and just spend some "alone time." We had a

super time watching their kids for them. We were

focused on doing fun things the entire time. We

fed the ducks twice, played at three different parks,

went to a movie, road the train, visited Grandpa,

ate plenty at DQ and took a walk every night followed

by a movie and popcorn - loads of fun! I'm not really

sure who had more fun!

One of the favorite toys of the week

We bought a new Thomas the Train set for

all the grandboys

Kaitlyn gets a new Disney Princess set

Ducks Feeding Round One


This is what Makenna did both times we fed the ducks




Having a Ball!

Getting ready for the one mile walk around
the park

Immediately Konnor decides not to ride the trike,
Papa carries it the whole way . . . . almost

Grammi helps out with the trike transportation

Of course there were plenty of visits to DQ!

Feeding the ducks round two

Waving from the train

Fawnbrook Northern Train


Makenna is not too sure about Grandpa Great

We visited Grandpa Great at his house

Who needs toys?

Mackey gets bored in the stroller

All squished in!

Her very own bowl of popcorn every night!

Nightly movie ritual complete with popcorn!