End of April and we have Spring!

Okay, finally it is spring! The plants in the development are coming up and it fun to try to identify them as I walk around. Today I am going to plant some pansies that I have been hardening off and see how they survive while we are away for a week. I would like to plant all my pots and may try some geraniums before we go away again. I do not want to miss out on all the good annuals because we are away.

We leave tomorrow to go down to the Kaysville area to be there on Friday morning early and attend Julie's graduation! We are so proud of her and her accomplishments. I will post pictures as soon as I can.

We will spend the weekend and then we leave Monday morning on a Missionary Friends adventure down to Zion National Park. We will be away most of the week and come home for Mother's Day.

The following weekend we leave for Lousiana and the Stirling Family reunion. We will have a very busy month of May. Understatement of the month, I am sure!

Above is a picture taken while the Parkerson's were visiting last week. Now all the patio needs are some flowers in the pots!

Parkerson's arrive to visit

Geoff and Linda Parkerson -- oops Elder and Sister Parkerson have arrived to visit a couple of day before they go to the MTC. We take them down to Salt Lake on Friday to their daughter's home and they report to the MTC on Monday. What a great adventure they are going to have. 23 months in Palmyra at the Histpric site. They even get to live in an apartment in the Martin Harris home.

The picture is one taken when we met them at the airport.

We have wonderful weather and are enjoying the sunshine and being outside more.

Update for Thursday - this morning we went to Paradise for breakfast - then we drove up into a canyon nearby and found a wonderful dam with gravel roads surounding the lake. It was so beautiful it reminded us of Alaska.

Easter Sunday

We had a simply wonderful Easter weekend! We took Sarah to meet her Mom on Friday and came home to get the place ready for our son, Scott and his family, to arrive. They came in around 9 pm after driving 3 hours from Twin Falls area of Idaho. We had fun visiting and oooing and awwing over how much everyone (the kids) had grown! Kade is now about 6 feet 5 inches. Taller than his Dad and Papa.

Saturday we had a good day shopping and playing games. The boys went to shoot at the range for a couple of hours and then the kids swam. Konnie and I made salads for Easter dinner and enjoyed a good visit. That night we watched some of Planet Earth. That has been so interesting that most folks who come have not seen it and we can share it with them. For dinner Saturday night I had made pulled pork and we will be eating that most of the week. But it was good!

Easter Sunday we went to church and sang in the choir and just enjoyed our meetings. It was nice for folks to meet some of our family. We came home - has a snack and then drove down to Julie and Dave's for Easter dinner. Julie is a real trooper to have 17 or us. I realised that most of us were married couples, or soon to be married couples. We only had Tyler, Kade, Zane, Avery and Sarah for children. Strange how the family dynamics change over the years. We enjoyed being with all of them and were tickled to have Kate and Nate sit at our table and be able to visit. They have less than 2 months until their wedding.

Sarah comes to visit during spring break

This morning we went down to pick her (Sarah) up and stopped for lunch at Taco Bell on the way back. After we got her settled and her bed made we took off to our appointment to have a pedicure! Now I hate to admit it but I have never had a pedicure in my 67 years. Sarah likewise had never had the experience -- but we both loved the pampering and our feet look great. Check out the pictures! I even handled the massaging my feet with only a few giggles!! Sarah chose purple nail polish and they painted a flower on each of her big toes.

Tonight we plan to go out for dinner and continue the spoiling process.

Tomorrow will be a busy day, we will meet Julie to let Sarah go home and have lunch. then I have a hair appointment. Later in the evening Scott, Konnie and their family arrive for the weekend.

April has arrived! So where is spring???

We are two days into April and are still looking for those warm spring days! I checked the weather it it tells us that Monday will be partly couldy and in the 50's So I guess we will have one day with the Hall's that is spring like.
We have had a really good couple of days. Yesterday we drove down to Salt Lake again and met some friends of the Hall's and Angela Brown, their daughter. We had lunch at the Lion House - where Brigham Young lived with his family. The lunch was wonderful This is also where our grand daughter Katie is having her wedding dinner instead of a reception at church. It will be grand!
Then we drove up to the Salt Lake Cemetary and found a grounds keeper who gave us a copy of a map showing where the prophets and other church leaders are buried. We drove around to see several but the wind was cold and we did not see as many as we had hoped to. But we can return another day.
Today we drove over the "The Golden Spike" historic site. That was fun - we enjoyed the presentation at the site and then were able to go over and see the locomotives in the engine house. Of course Felt talked to the workmen and we had a nice time.
Tomorrow we plan to go to the Logan temple in the morning and then drive down to Ogden and eat at the Timbermine! Yummy. Our favorite new place to eat.