Zoo Day--It WAS going to be 80 today...

No arachniphobia here......

So much to see....do we look up or down?

Cade, evolving

Definately from The Thornbrue side of the family

Brenna saying howdy to Aunt Sheeba

Visiting Sheeba from India

Cade visiting his Sahara Desert Cousins

Uncle Bob

Cousin Freda

Visiting great, great, great, great grandpa......(Ha, Ha)

White Alligator

Got the shades...ready for anything

Some pictures from EmmaRay's Blessing

EmmaRay

The Star of the Show

The cute cake made by Annie

Mike's sister Katie, Max (Kathy's husband) and random background people

Annie, her neighbor boys, Jenna and Justin in the back, Seth

Lisa, Annie, Seth, Andrea, Mike and someone's backside!

Mike's mom and aunts plus Grandpa

Seth and Andrea

Gary Clark and Grandpa

Steve Clark and Angie

Melissa Clark holding Kathy 'Pond's' baby

Cute sleepy baby girl

I thought I had more pictures of other people...didn't even get one of Kristen and Alex. They looked very cute........Well, having a host of people at your house is a little busy, especially with lots of little kids.......Would have been fun to show you some more of your random relatives....

Next time!!

More AZ Pictures

Marie at School

Tessa getting in the water

Darling little Grace

Sitting on the cupboard in the kitchen

Handsome James.......I love that boy 'man' child of mine!

Some AZ pictures.....remember these weren't digital, so put up with closed eyes, etc!

James

Enjoying the back yard

Tessa wanted green popsicle, Marie didn't want green popsicle....Ben didn't want anything the girls thought they wanted (it was bedtime when we went to the store)--so Grandma solved the crisis by buying a box with only yellow popsicles. Everybodies all time favorite!!!

Marie at School......

Showing off the puppets they made

Darling children ready for church (minus the shoes)........

Grace and Allie getting ready for swimming

Fun at the pool

Ben got a new Golf Club set. After about one hour, this was all that was left......the wheels from the golf bag. That's ok, though, because he had tons of fun with them!!

Marie happy with her two new dollies!

Yeah for Mom and Dad

Grandma Jo and Grandpa Dale just called and said that they are taking all of their children/spouses (Bobbi Neil, Dad and I, Rick and Stephanie.....plus Dale's kids/spouses) on a cruise to the Camen Islands November 22-29 this year for our Christmas present!!!
(That is over Thanksgiving, so someone will need to be in charge of the Turkey Cooking, etc. for our Salt Lake Family.......and a home for Kristen for the Holiday........)
But, won't that be a fun time for us? Better start now to loose 60 pounds between now and then!

Of course

Well, today it snowed all day long.....didn't stick, but still!!! It is nearly May!!
I took my camera to Walmart to have the pictures put on a disc at the one hour while I was grocery shopping. Well.....of course their disc thing was out of order. Blah.
I got the house clean, all unpacked, laundry done, another Scrabble game started (when dad picked me up he said, "I played my best for you but you lost........he finished up the game we had started and I lost by 80 points!!" He said we didn't have to 'count' that game.
Annie has worked her little heart out getting ready for this baby blessing. Geisler's even said that they would come. That would be fun, I haven't seen them 'forever'.
One more half day of subbing tomorrow......
That is about my day/week.
Except that I miss everyone.

Home Again

Well, I am back from Arizona. It was nice to have a bit of Summer, as it is snowing here today :)
It is very hard to wrench yourself away from beautiful little grandchildren. They are so sweet--just play, play, play, read stories, swim and color. We played lots of Mother May I? and Red Light, Green Light which was very fun. It is nice to have 3 little bodies snuggle up to you to read them a story.
I bought a little one time use camera, so hopefully they can put it on a disc and I can get some pictures on the website. Very very annoying to leave a camera behind.
I love you all and miss everyone.

Sad mom

Here I am in AZ with these darling little grandchildren, and I forgot my camera. That is very sad.
Then, Lisa had to get a sub today, and i wasn't home to help her.....hopefully she will get well soon.........

My cousin

My cousin, Jon, Aunt Edith Sealander's boy......was found dead in his home in Aspen Colorado yesterday. He had been dead at least 2 weeks. Can you imagine anything so sad as to be so alone that you could be dead for 2 weeks and no one would come looking for you? It looks like he had perhaps had a heart attack while on a tread mill......He lives alone, and is a ski instructor at Aspen, so not working at the moment, so no one missed him. Very sad!

Check it out

Just in case you hadn't noticed, Lisa has a new post.....check it out!
Love you all.

I'm trying not to be a slug........

Today I 'taught' biology for half the day, then on the way home stopped in to say hi to Brennan and Cade and Annie and EmmaRay.....(they were at the store, so I went in to see them there, at old Navy)......then I came home. I made bread, did all the laundry and ironing, cleaned up, called all of my children (some of you twice), ate fresh bread and hot chocolate for dinner and it is only 6:00. Dad won't be home for several hours--I guess I will go sew for a while or something. 'teaching' at the jr/sr/high basically means 'reading', so I don't really feel like reading any more tonight. But, the 'fam' is having fun: S&A are going out to dinner at a friends house, M&L are going up the street to a birthday party, A&M are going out to dinner, K is flying a kite, J&A are hopefully relaxing, and Lisa didn't answer her phone (either sleeping or doing something!!). Dad is up painting the Clearfield house. I had already been up there cleaning for 2 days, and will go again tomorrow, so didn't want to go up again today. The wind chimes are blowing, and the sun is shining, so I thought I would take a walk. I stepped out side, a huge microburst of wind came through and pushed small rocks and dirt in my face and almost blew me over, so I guess I will just stay home and look out the window. That is my day.

Boring.......

Today I subbed for math classes at a jr. high school in Magna. It was a long, BORING day....
They had a short worksheet to do.......and then 'free time'.....So, they all just sat around on desks and chatted.
Good enough kids, and a beautiful school, but WAY boring. I read 3 books today!

G & G come to visit while Merilee and family were here

Jarom's "Not another picture, grandma...."

Grandpa saying his howdy's

3 little boys sitting on the sofa

Annie and Grandma, chatting

Visiting with Grandma

Meri, Ezra and Grandpa

I, unfortunately, miss placed my camera, so I didn't get any pictures of Meri's birthday celebration, or any pictures with Lance in them. However, it was wonderful to see everyone...even though I was sick before they left, and could only lay on the sofa and watch them pack. What a pathetic grandma. Anyway, Ezra is the smilingest boy, and Jarom is the 'thinkingist' boy. Both are sweet as the day is long. Meri and Lance looked great!! My visit with them was short, but sweet. I miss them already. Like dad said, "The house is sure quiet"