Our Te-aH camping trip

We got to go camping last wenesday up on Cedar mountain by Navajo lake. We were happy that Nadine invited us to go with camping with her and Coy and a couple of their children. When we got close to the campsite it looked like it would soon be raining,so we hurried up and set up camp. It took us a good 2 hours to get set up. We got done before Nadine ,Coy,and Kenneth ,and Ashly got there. They got all set up and then it decided to rain,not alot ,it would rain for a few minutes and then stop. But it was all good,because it didn't have a downpour. We had fun visiting and the area is soooo pretty. The next day we decided we would go to the lake and watch those Christensens fish, me and Jeff don't like fish and we don't do the fishing thing. The lake was pretty and Kenneth and Coy got out to the middle of the lake and were fishing,Nadine was going to fish from the shore. Me and Jeff set up some chairs and were doing our word finds, when I decided I was too cold ,so we decided we would watch from the car.About 10 minutes later it started raining and there was thunder and lightning, needless to say Kenneth and Coy had to come to shore, and we went back to the campsite for lunch. We decided that on thursday night we would have dutch oven chicken at Nadines campsite,Pam came up for dinner that night. Nadine had a campfire going and we were getting ready to put the dutch ovens in the fire, it was a little rainy but not bad. Coy and Kenneth had gone back to the lake to try fishing again. Then at about 7:30 p.m. when we had everything on the fire we had our down por, then it started hailing, the fire went out everything was wet. We took our dutch oven to our campsite, and proceded to put it on our campstove to try and get it cooked. Ashly went to see if Coy and Kenneth were alright cause it had been a while since the storm had stopped. They found them they were fine wet,but fine. Meanwhile,we thought that our tent had held up pretty good to the storm. It looked like there were some blankets that got a little wet,but all in all it looked okay. We put our cover over the table back up. and got the food done, we decided to just stay at our camp cause it was to far to carry it back to Nadine's campsite. The dutch oven chicken tuned out fine...but our cherry cobbler didn't work,we ended up throwing it out. When we went to bed that night ,we discovered our blakets were soaked and there were places in the tent with puddles. I froze that night and told Jeff we needed to go home and dry everything out. So Friday morning we folded up camp and came home. Nadine and Coy and their kids stayed for another night, I hope it didn't rain on them again! Nadine said the down pour was worse then what happened at Elkhorn, she say's whenever she goes camping it rains. It's funny but it didn't start raining until Nadine got there. We loved the area and will go back there another time, but we decided we would do it next year in mid august after the rainy season is done!!!It was still fun right up until the hailstorm that brought 1/2 inch of rain in 35 minutes.My Kimi will post pictures for me on this blog a little later tonight, i'm not that smart I can't do it. Any way we still love camping and we will try again next year. Thanks Nadine for a fun time...we love ya.

37 Wonderful Years

So this last weekend we celebrated our 37 wedding anniversary. It gets you thinking of all that has happened in those years. In our first 7 years we moved 9 times.When we moved to Midvale we stayed in the same house for 21 years. We moved to St.George June 1 2001, then in Jan. 2002 we moved where we are right now. It's the first house we ever bought, we were both in our 50's crazy huh!
We've had 7 children and 2 miscarriage's in the first 9 years. Now we have 5 of the 7 married ,we have 1 daughter-in-law, and 4 sons-in-law, plus 16 of the most beautiful grandchildren ever!!!! We are sooooo blessed we love you all so much.
We've had a countless number of pets of every kind...when we left Midvale we said that if anybody dug up that yard,they would think it was a pet cemetary. I'm still a person who absolutely loves our pets, Jeff loves them too, even though he says he doesn't ,he has spoiled our dog Dolly beyond belief!
Jeff is the best husband ever...he has had to put up with me for all these years,and still a day doesn't pass that he doesn't tell me he loves me, he still opens the car door for me, he has always been a hands on dad....he has changed so many diapers in our baby day's . He's always been a good provider,even though we had a few rough spots when he couldn't find work, but we got through them. He has always honored his Priesthood and been able to give blessings when they were needed. He is just the best husband ever, I love him dearly..more with each passing day.
We've enjoyed many family camping outings when our kids were home, we don't go that often anymore and we both miss that. We are retired and money is tight ..but we still have each other,and that's what keeps us both going. We have become fans of jigsaw puzzels and watching some of those addictive t.v. programs ...like Bones, and all the csi's and Dancing with the stars. Jeff still reads ALOT, and I do facebook. All in all we are happy,and we look forward to our "golden" years together.

June is gone!

June was a month of getting things back to normal,and rearranging rooms to fit different beds. I started by cleaning out closets,lots of them,then figuring out what to put where.We had to put our 4 poster bed in the guest room, because we traded Kimi our bunk beds for her king size bed. It was a chore, but we finally got it done. We moved around the furniture around in our frontroom so we could put our couch under the window so Dolly could see outside easier. We also were able to get out my cat decorations and put them back out. Then we needed to clean out the trailer, that took one very warm day of cleaning to get everything clean and back to normal. But if I had it to do all over again I would take Kimi's family back in a heartbeat if they needed to come back again. I love them and miss them,and thier cats.
We were saddened by the news that uncle Arnold passed away early in the month of june(june 7) we will miss him We will be going to his memorial later this week, we will be going with dad and Dockie,it will be country I haven't seen before so the ride should be nice. I've heard Solvang is in pretty country.
We went to Pam's wedding in Richfield, it was a beautiful wedding, everything went off well and the Dinner was very good,and we enjoyed getting to see family. After the dinner me and Jeff headed to West Jordan,we went to Kimi's house,and we got to see our children that live in that area. We went for the purpose of seeing Jeff's brother who was in intensive care earlier in the week, he is doing better and we hope he has a speedy recovery,when he gets out of the hospital he has to go to a rehab center to help him recover better. Penny looked tired,but she seems to be doing okay, it's alot of stress, I'm sure.
Our new addition Petal is doing really good,she's adjusted to us and our home and the two other animals we have. She loves to cuddle, she talks alot,and she is soooo hairy,she leaves pieces of her hair everywhere,but she is cute and well loved. I watch our little neighbor boy next door,his name is Xave,and he loves to chase the kitties,so they go into hiding when he is around. Petal doesn't seem interested in going outside,so she is basically our only indoor cat, Dolly and fluffy go out whenever they want through the doggie door, and Petal watche's but never follows them out.
We went and saw Eclipse for my birthday ,and we both thought it was a really good movie, it's the first time we had to wait in line to see a twilight movie, but all in all it was a good time ,the people in line were freindly ,so the wait wasn't bad. I'm now in my last year of the fifties, crazy how fast time goes by. We enjoyed the fireworks on the 3rd of July , they were pretty and it wasn't to hot outside, there was a breeze so it felt nice .
I guess that's it for me this month, so till next time "Keep Smiling"

We're empty nesters again!

Our sweet family of houseguests have decided to go back to thier home in West Jordan. We are missing them...and we are getting use to the "quiet".We were able to go and help them move , we did a game of switcher-roo, we traded our bunk bed and a chair for a King size bed and a lawn mower. Our trip there and back was interesting, we took Rae and 2 of thier 4 cats with us,we followed Jesse, Kim,Payton Little Jesse and Logen,and thier other 2 cats. They pulled a trailer full with all the stuff they had, plus the aquired items they have gotten since they moved to St.George. We got there( West Jordan) and they unpacked and we took a fridge to Shane's house ,then we went back to Kimi's and loaded the bed and lawn mower, and got ready to travel home. Our tarp didn't completely cover the bed, it looked like it "could" rain ,so Jesse offered us another tarp .Jeff said no it wasn't going to rain. So we headed for home, when the raindrops landed on the windshield Jeff said it doesn't count as rain unless he had to turn on the windshield wipers, the rain happened a few times, but the windshield wipers never went on.. It was a long day we got up at5:00a.m. and left St. George at 6:30 a.m., we got back to St.George at about8:30P.M. We had to put oil in Jeffs truck every 40-45 miles at 3 quarts each time ,we spent 100 dollars on just oil, we need to get his truck fixed!!!
So since we've been empty nesters again we have been rearrangeing all the rooms in our house. We had to move beds around we put the King size bed in our room and moved the 4 poster bed to the guest room. ,I think we are through with moving stuff, now we are in the process of cleaning out closets and then some drawers. I can hardly wait till everything is done...we also cleaned out the camp trailer...and got it back to normal.
So we have been blessed with another beautiful new cat. Our friends the Telfords gave us thier 1,100 dollar cat . Her name is Petal, she's gorgeous ...and she loves to talk alot like fluffy , Dolly (our dog) gets along well with both cats, the cats are not quite getting along yet, we figure it will take a few weeks, but both cats like Dolly, go figure!
On Memorial day we got to go to mDad and Dockie's for a barbecue, it was good, and fun, we don't seem to see them as much as we used to , cause they are gone so much with thier calling at the Meadows.
We finally turned on the A.C. on friday, it finally got hot like 98 degrees, it's suppose to be around the 105's for the rest of the week, so Summer is here. We are looking forward to a great summer.
That's it for now, keep smiling!!

Not much is going on.

Hi, This is May...can you believe it.This year is flying by! This has been a month where not much has happened. We are still doing indexing,and I have done a little with New Family Search, I think it's kind of confusing,but interesting. I think I like indexing a whole lot more!!!
Our yard has had alot of flowers blooming,it smells so pretty outside,we've had sunny wonderful weather for a day or two,then it changes to windy and cold again...It's been a roller coaster ride,but at least we haven't had to put up with the snow that many of you have had to do. This week should be nice in the 80's, I'm looking forward to it.
Kimi and Jesse and family are doing good...the girls did a hula dance, they did a super job.Kimi has been making baby blankets for the ward,she does well. She is also my visiting teaching companion. I have been so blessed Kimi keeps me company and helps me with my computer, and my cell phone,she's so gadget oriented she can figure out anything. I don't know what we are going to do when she leaves, we hope that thier home in West Jordan will sell so that they can move to St.George permantly.
The cat's are doing good Cloe (the one who got hit by a car) is doing better,she walks with a limp now,but she is making great progress. The rest of the cats are enjoying thier freedom,and they are getting big and fun to watch.
Jeff fell backwards and something snapped at the back of his knee, he has been on crutches for a couple of days, he say's it's starting to feel better...It gives him a good excuse to read and read and read,he's read 4 books this week. He also has been visiting and helping one of our families that we home teach(before he fell) and helping him with anything he might need. He's very great to help people in the ward, he's a good man,and I'm so glad he's mine!!
We are trying to go to Elkhorn in July...We haven't been camping for a long time,I can hardly wait,I love camping. We will take our tent, because our truck isn't working good enough to pull our trailer, it will still be fun, we've only been camping with our trailer once, we've used tents all our married life,so it won't be anything new!
Shane was made an Elder the first part of April,and Jeff was able to ordain him,it was a nice day, he had a brother in law and some people from our old ward in Midvale,and some people from the ward he's in now. Shane is blessed that he has such a special wife and kids that are so supportive. We thank Britt and Raymond and thier family who came and Wayne and Jean Perkins,and Randy Oliver,it was great that they could come.
I guess that's all that's going on for now,we hope that all of you are doing good. Keep Smiling!

Animal Lover?

So I need to do a post to explain whats been happening around here since Easter. Anybody that knows me knows how much I really love my animals. Since we came home from Shane and Anngee's, we have had some hard and sad experiences with our pets. Seems how the first day we went to Salt Lake my sweet George died(my pom), then when we came home we would walk dolly and I would miss george to walk...so we decided to get me another dog. We went to the Humane Society and picked out scooter(a terrier mix) We had him about a month , he loved to go for walks and he loved to play, but he was to hard on Dolly(our dog, that is George's daughter)so we had to take him back, he was adopted 3 hours after we took him back. Then for mothers day I got a kitty ,we named him Tippy. We then adopted a pom from a friend in the end of june,his name was Corky. So all our animals got along well. Tippy loved to run he was a super fast cat ,he loved outside, he would come in in the middle of the night and run all over us on the bed,meow and then run back outside, I loved that kitty sooo much. Then in October he ate or drank something that poisoned him(we think it was anifreeze from one of the neighbors), he only lived 12 hours after that. I was so sad . But I decided to put my full purpose on Corky, He was doing so good until thanksgiving, he then went blind, soon after that he went deaf, he would just go in circles,by december he to passed away. We had Kimi and Jesse and cats, and kitties moved in. I adopted one of her kitties, we thought it was a girl so we named her Precious and had so much fun with all these kitties, we later decided Precious was a boy. This kitty is so cute I have loved him so much. Well on Easter Sunday we discovered one of Kimi's cats (chloie) was not moving from the rug, Kimi went to pick her up and that's when we knew she was hurt, she yawled and cried when we moved her, we figured she had either been hit by a car or fallen off from a high place. So they decided on Monday morning they would take her to the Vet.....Monday morning came, I decided to find my cat...I went and called him ,and he didn't come, so Jeff came out to help me find him. Jeff found him....he had been hit by a car...he had been drinking water out of the gutter, he died,he was still warm Jeff said it had just happened. I can not express how sad I have been ....I MISS my kitty, I wish he could somehow come back. You would think I 'm not good with animals, but I love them and I amfeeling a little picked on...what are the odds that this keeps happening to me. Kimi's cat has a broken pelvis,and the vet said that she was definatly hit by a car...she should recover but will likely have a limp. So Our daughter Britteny needed someone torake care of her cat Fluffy Butt sooo I have Fluffy,and she is doing good, we don't know how old Fluffy is ,cause Britt adopted her when someone moved and left thier cat,sooo Britt took her in. Now Britt lives with her in-laws and they are allergic to cats, so I have this cute cat, she's adjusting well. Hopefully she'll survive us, we love her, she sleeps with us,and after a couple of weeks she likes all the other animals here too.
So that's what has happened to us as of late. Take care everyone,till nex time.

April...Spring...Yeah!!!

Hi, we are having a fun spring around here. We are looking foreward to Easter this weekend,and enjoying sharing it with Kimi,Jesse and family. We are going to color eggs tomorrow, it's suppose to warm up nicely,so maybe we can do it outside. The kid's wore thier Easter clothes last week to church seem's how conferance is this weekend, they looked so cute!

I watered the lawn out front for the first time this year, Jeff has had to mow the lawn twice so far this year. Our lilac bushes are getting ready to pop, a few of them have and they smell wonderful!! I love spring!!!

Our cats got fixed, the Washinton clinic let us borrow some pet carriers, so that made it easier. Kimi and Jesse took them in early last Saturday by 7:a.m., then at around 1:00 p.m., they went and got them and brought them home. My kitty Precious still was having a little problem, his back leg didn't want to work, but, by Saturday night his leg was back to normal. We had to make sure they didn't lick thier incision's so Jesse went to see how much it would cost to get cones to put on thier heads,$22 buck's each!!! So Jesse made cone's for all of them, it cost about $3 buck's for all of them!We took the cone's off on Wednesday night,they were sooo happy to get them off. Our cat that we got from Britt has began to be nice to the other kitties around, she loves to meow, she quite the talker, we decided her name should be Chatty Cathy.

I made it through the R.S. Birthday Party, so now I guess I can focus on Indexing again, I've been slacking off and I need to get back to doing indexing regularly. And it's fun to go to Relief Society and sit on the back row,and just enjoy the meeting, I love it.

Later this month we might get to go to Salt Lake,whenever we get the call from Shane saying he's ready to be made an Elder so his dad can go and ordain him . We are so happy for him and his family, to see them expanding thier horizons, and accepting the calling's in scouts...I know they will do a super job.

We are looking forward to a fun month,I love April and May,they are the best month's of the year for me.It seem's like St.George was wetter and colder than normal this year, but it's great that we should be great for water this year. I will enjoy the warm weather when it decides to come and stay...right now it's warm for a couple of days then cool for a couple of days,so I haven't been able to open my window's yet, and keep them open for a couple of month's before we have to turn on the a.c. I guess this is it for this month...Keep Smiling till next time!