Father's Day - 2010

We had a very nice breakfast with Dan's family - always a pleasure to sit and visit.
Had dinner at my parent's house. Celebrated Josh's 27th birthday that was on the 17th. The guys finished Dad's new room enough for him to shower. I was going to take pictures and then forgot. I'll catch them the next time I'm out there.
Happy Father's Day to all our fathers and acting fathers - we love you!!

Yes, we are extremely excited!!!!

Congratulations, Tracy & Preston!
We are so happy for you and we love you both so much!

Remembering My Friend Lorraine...

February 16, 1957 - May 19, 2010
Went to my friend Lorraine's funeral today...
I have been reminded, yet again, how very much our Heavenly Father loves each of us. He truly does.
I will miss you Lorraine but look forward to seeing you again!

Our Friend, Jen...

I have a very good friend - her name is Jen. She dropped off this beautiful loaf of bread, homemade berry jam and this very cute card while we were gone this evening. Someday I'll tell her how absolutely perfect it was that she remembered us on this specific day but for now I would just like to say "THANK YOU, JEN!!". What a great example of our Savior's love!

Now, if you turn that loaf of bread around you'll get the rest of the story...I thought you'd like to know that we followed Jen's example and were good neighbors (kinda) - we shared our bread with them (not that we had much choice) - unfortunately "they" were "neighbors" of the 4 legged variety - my guess would be a raccoon. Dan & the boys were the first ones home - they said they found it in the driveway...sorry, Jen - I know you must have put a lot of time, effort, and love into this bread and it does smell yummy, but we'll definitely enjoy the jam and we'll always remember the day Jen brought us the yummy smelling bread!! Thank You so very much!!

Ransom's Birthday Weekend...

Ransom's birthday weekend started out Saturday morning with a surprise visit from Elder Pitts - now Brother Pitts - who is the Elder that baptized Ransom. Very cool surprise!!
Then Ransom and I went in search of "gold coins" as part of his birthday present. After an interesting encounter with a bank teller who didn't know who/"what" Sacagawea was, we scored when we found Millard Fillmore gold coins.
Then today - his real birth date - we had a family dinner at Grandma's house which included a pinata. Everyone seemed to have a good time trying to break it open, though I think Deirdre was taking out her pent up anger on the thing!! Pretty funny!
Uncle Andy pointed out that the pinata served 2 purposes - first as the pinata then as party hats! (See the pictures below.)
Ransom invited his first Primary teacher, Sharon Bassi, to dinner and she was so sweet to come!
All in all, I think it was a good birthday for Ransom.
Happy 13th Birthday, Ranny!
We love you!!
And Happy Birthday to Uncle Jeff, too!!

Birthday Party...

Look what I was given today...

How cool is this??? Ryan MADE this wallet for me!! It even has 3 pockets so I can separate my cards!! I've been using a rubberband since Emmy ate my wallet so many months ago! This is perfect!! So cool! Thank you, Ryan!! I love you!