Lolly and Gumpy

Don't ya just love when people come to visit? Especially grandparents!?! Lolly and Gumpy were here from Wed. night until Mon. night for a convention. They stayed with us Wed. night and much of Thursday and then we saw them again Sunday and almost all of Monday. On Mon. Gumpy (or Pinky as Keddi calls him???) helped Joel begin to build the new mantle for our fireplace. He always helps us move along our renevation projects when he's here. We enjoyed their visit, were unhappy about their leaving and can't wait for another visit!

By the way, we did not give Gumpy his name. One of his other grandkids did! Sometimes Shinara forgot and ended up calling him grumpy (but he's really not) and of course Keddi called him Pinky several times.

The big switch

O.k., every new season there is this big ordeal of having everyone try on the new seasons clothing. Boxes and clothes all over. This was one of those weekends! Friday was barely tolerable in jeans and long sleaves and by 11:00 Sat. morning, I had to break out the shorts and short sleaves. (High 70's low 80's.) Gotta love it. Here's the thing. I never put away all the previous seasons stuff because I always seem to jump the gun! Every time I do this it seems that in a week or two we have anywhere from three days to a week of the previous seasons weather out of the blue! So one drawer still has winter clothes in it, Just in case!
Here's one you probably never got to see. I threw this picture in from last year of the two older girls and some friends 'cause I like it.

Happy Birthday Connman!

Connor James Wilson (dubbed Connman by me when he was still very little) turned four and we were invited to his pirate themed party so everyone (except mom) dressed the part. Joel got them all to say "Eyi matey" and growl in greeting him. (Which he kind of backed away from as though they were crazy.) We played at a park ,which at times was windy, but had a good time. Mandy had a fabulous spread for dinner, as usual and it was nice to visit. At the end Mandy gave out the party favors she'd put together and the older girls dressed up in that stuff so I took another picture. (They did'nt make hats out of their new skull covered bandanas!)

Shinara's first Primary activity

My baby is in Primary now and we are having a very difficult time convincing her that this aspect of growing up is as great as some other things she still looks forward to getting to do! Sunbeams is not all it was cracked up to be and Joel still sits with her through opening excercises. (Mom thinks it's time to nip that in the bud!) Anyway, she got to attend the primary activity a week or so ago. It was a missionary theme. Dad taught in the Receife, Brazil mission which was mistakenly thought to be a Portuguese mission. Oh well! Shinara was called to the Guatemala mission with the others in the picture with her. Keddi was called to a Brazil South mission and the older girls were called together to a stateside mission but I didn't go with them so I don't remember which it was.

Spring has sprung

We have lived in Vegas for almost eight years now and it never ceases to amaze me that the trees begin to bloom in February! I took this on Sun. Feb. 25th. It surprised me too because I'd been in bed for a week and then all of the sudden (it seemed) things were blooming!