Kristine's Graduation!!!

It was so fun to be able to attend Kristine's graduation from Ultrasound school today! She finally did it! We are so proud of her and her journey to this point! Congrats Kristine!!!

Mother's Day!

Megan sent this cute picture of Logan over this morning! This little guy has my heart big time... love him! He's at such a cute stage right now! It was a fun mother's day! The guys made us all a yummy tri tip dinner with mashed potatoes, green beans and a yummy green salad and berries and cream for dessert! We went over to play games at Megan's house later after the boys went to bed. We've gotten in a lot of games this fun weekend that Katelyn has been here! It was such a nice and restful mother's day and the girls got me gifts and wrote me the sweetest notes! I really enjoyed reading their thoughts and feelings about me and our relationship over the years. It is a sweet relationship I have with each of my girls! They are all doing such great things with their lives and I love watching them grow and progress-- even as adult women! It's been a great day!

A Shower for Abigail!

It was so fun to celebrate the coming birth of sweet Abigail into our family! Robin came down for it and Shelby drove over for it as well! Katelyn flew in yesterday to stay for the whole week and go to Kaden's track meet with us next week in Tucson. (We got a 3fer with Katie-- the shower, Mother's Day and the track meet!) We had so much fun eating and visiting and the food was so good! I've forgotten how good the food is at Mimi's. It was also kind off nostalgic too, because I used to take the girls to Mimi's on the last day of school every year... it was such a fun day! Megan got lots of cute things too! (Shelby is due right after Megan in August!) After, me and the girls went and got pedicures and they got us right in! It's been a fun girls day! Later on we went to go see the movie Michael with the family. (A movie about the life of Michael Jackson and his music.) It has definitely been a super fun day!

We Have a New Member of Our Family! (Leo)

Bill and I decided to replace the Suburban this week after Jim recommended we do. It's making some funny noises and after 108,000 miles we figured it was time--before it needed a new tranny or something expensive. It was a great car for us and we loved it a lot! We decided to get a new car and have been test driving all week to do our homework. We liked the Lexus TX hybrid the best. It has 3 rows, but the most headroom and space in the back for when our tall sons in law and adult children ride with us! We tested a lot of vehicles and liked this one overall the best and taking everything into consideration. It was a time consuming process!!! (Especially the buying part!) But he's a nice ride-- welcoming "Leo" into our family! We took him over to Brooke and Ben's and then to Megan and Todd's houses after the long purchasing process. Ben especially loved the car! He kept ooing and awing over all the features! It's going to be a great car!

A Visitor...

...of the slithering kind! This big guy came to check things out today and stuck around for a while in the shade of our patio...just hung out on the ledge of our basement and ground level floor! He's a good snake-- a gopher snake. He will eat rattlers and scorpions so he's nice to have around. I just wish he didn't look so menacing! I mean that face-- gives me the creepies!

A Slice of Heaven...

Today was one of the BEST days! I got to watch the boys and we had SO MUCH FUN!!! I took them to the park (after we played at home for a bit) and we fed the (aggressive) geese... they were getting so close to the boys and honking so loud! The others from the other side of the lake were swimming over as fast as they could because they wanted food too! The boys loved feeding them! It was a gorgeous day and Logan was happy as we strolled and Luke was happy on his bike-- good thing, because I parked a little far away from the playground! (It's been a while since I've been to Rio Vista!) They loved playing on the playground and running around and trying all the different things! Luke pretended that he was commandeering a space ship! Logan was just having fun with me playing hide and seek as he ran up to slide down over and over! He would peek up over the edge of the slide at the top and wait for me to pop out and say, "I see you!" He laughed so hard and LOVED this game. (Last couple of pictures.) They were having so much fun that they didn't want to leave! I knew we didn't have much time before Todd was supposed to come get them and I knew they were getting hungry so I kind of talked them into going to eat... I wish we'd had more time because they were having so much fun! While getting into the car, Lukey said, "Grandma?" and then I said, "What?" And then he said very emphatically, "I love you!" And I said, " Good, because I love you too!" and he got the biggest and cutest grin on his face! We went to Chik-fil-A for lunch and Logan kept saying over and over, "sauce, sauce" and "loon, loon". He wanted to make sure I knew that he wanted the sauce for his chicken and a balloon! He was able to reason with me this time to wait until AFTER we ate and played in they play area to get his balloon! (He couldn't do that last time and we ended up having to get a couple of balloons because he lost them!) Logan ate really well, but Luke got in a hurry and didn't eat much! He wanted to play! Those boys had so much fun just playing in the play area-- they wanted me to play hide and seek with them, so I counted while they found each other. There was lots of giggling and fun as I would come to the end of the slide and they would shout gleefully as they came around the corner! I could only chase them so far, too! What a fun day!! Todd ended up coming there to get them, since it was closer than my house, and that gave them more time to play. I'm sure they both fell asleep in the car on the way home. They played hard! Every time I think about the day, I'm just filled with so much joy and happiness! It's so fun to have these little guys around and they are so sweet and innocent! It was such a cool and breezy but sunny day-- literally perfect for going to the park! At each stage, they didn't want to go to the next because they were having so much fun, but then realized how much fun the next place was! We had such a fun adventure today! I love those boys!!!

Happy Birthday to Brookie!

We had a super fun evening celebrating Brooke's birthday! First we went to PF Chang's for dinner (haven't eaten there in so long!) and then we headed to Megan and Todd's for cake and ice cream. The boys were especially excited for cake and ice cream! We had fun and played a new game but I can't remember the name of it! We had a fun time... It has been so much fun to have Brooke and Ben here! They arrived and moved in this week! They live just down the street from Megan and Todd and are in their ward! It's going to be great having them so close!