August 4th

Here's the birthday boy home from a hard day at work!!!! Not sure ,but that looks a bit serious for birthday cards, and present opening if I asked him he'd say " I am smiling!"

Now that is the smile the day deserves.

Then it was off to Discovery park... for the end of the summer Bar-B- Que

for the youth. Ron is finally relaxing a bit while he talks with Crystal.

Brother and Sister Angus seriously this is gonna be a fun activity!!!

The burgers and hot dogs are ready and the food has been blessed

Time to eat...

And visit a bit......

Then it was time for a fun game of kick ball,

boys against girls, I believe the girls whipped them good.

Even Sister White got a run,

The guys all full of confidence , which was quickly dashed.

So it was time to lay down the plastic on a side hill, add some

dish soaps and water, then hose the kids down and you have guaranteed

fun!!!

All you need is a running start, then leap and fall gracefully and gravity takes care of the rest.

their were some fun techniques,

And everyone had lots of fun

Amazingly we can even look fabulous while wet and sudsy

Their was even some group slides

And eventually every one took a try...Well almost Then we had to see who could go the farthest.....

most managed to miss all the rocks.. and some even went past the plastic

Once we decided it was time to close down Brother Christianson even gave it a try.

So of course then everyone had one more turn so a half hour of water games

turned into over an hour. but was lots of fun and only a couple minor injuries

And as it was getting dark we packed up and all headed home.

We'd ridden the motorcycle and this was how awesome the sunset was

By the time we got home the moon was out and looking pretty fine itself

So it was a long day for our guest of honor "The Birthday Guy"

but a fine ending to the day. Ron is now 53 and still the love of my life.

I can't imagine going through life with out him being part of it. So am

looking forward to many more years of fun filled days together.

My idea of a fun time

After the parade we headed up the canyon, We stopped by the "C" We had a lovely ride ...

Only go t sprinkled on a bit,

If you have really good eyes you could probably find the house

Then we went up t Bryce Canyon...

This is so you can see that we were both there

It is pretty but always on the chilly side.

We road around and down thru Brainhead and Parawan,

Ron even stopped by Sew Crazy as she is closing up her shop

on Tues only going to do long arm quilting from her home.

Next we went to lunch at the Parawan dinner and headed home.

Was a nice ride but looked like rain so we watched a movie and

and relaxed the rest of the day.

Pioneer Day

So what is Pioneer day with out a parade. which includes sitting in the sunshine and watching the firetrucks scirens blaring go by. then some old cars... Drill teams...

Thought Chris would like this one...

The Hamilton Fort ward... We spriced up our float a bit this year...

Thought tis was a clever float>>>>

This float had a bunch of kids following it dressed up as jello boxes

So that was a fun beginning to the day.

Almost back to normal

The beds are empty and its time to get busy, I haven't done much cleaning the past couple weeks. Was gonna just vacuum thru as tonight is the beehive sleepover here but... the closet is not clean...

Nor is most of the basement where we'll be most of the night, soo

I started cleaning when Ron left for work, in between catching up on my blog I have

part of the upstairs done and all but the bathroom done in the basement. It took me 2

hours to pick up toys and put away in play room. Promting a new rule at grandmas

house picking up toys each night before dessert and before leaving I'm getting too old

for this stuff. I need to go for groceries Thrn I'll finish cleaning before 7p.m. When the

girls arrive.

and then I'll come home and tackle to basement.

Victoria has cought the quilt bug

Victoria had loved tying the quilts so asked to make her first quilt..Music to my ears. /so Sat while grandpa was doing temple confirmations with Young women and us girls were having craft time we got started. I did the cutting but she did the rest with a bit of guidance. First we cut 12 51/2 " blocks of 9 different fabrics. Then she sewed them together into 9 patches. she sewed on my featherweight...

once we got all the nine patches done we cut them in half twice each

Then sewed them back together after a turn or two.

Next it was time to line them up in the order she wanted.

We wrote out her tag and she sewed it onto the back...

Sewed the blocks into rows, and then all the rows together

Ta... da... the top is done...Did you notice she was sewing in her pj's

she'd get up and had to do some before breakfast.

Next we made the sandwich of top batt and back.

Sewed around the sand. in an envelop. I let her do

the trimming of the edges, and flip it right side out.

She picked a decorative stitch she liked and Went around the outside again.

So by Tuesday morning before they left for home Victoria had done her first quilt at age 9. She did an awesome job and all she has to do is add a few ties to keep all layers in place. It was truly a joy to see her so excited to get it done and she was so proud of her accomplishment. As was I.

Once she gets it tied it will be ready to enter into the fair.

Crafts and fun

So Saturday Grandpa went with the young women to the temple. The girls and I did crafts.
we cut little strips of fabric and decorated flip flops way fun.

Friday night we went to the Green Show.

there was dancing

Singing

fun for all