General Conference weekend with Corinne's family

Corinne and her family came down for Conference Weekend. 

We had to transition to new sleeping arrangements now that my Dad lives with us. 

Spencer and Henry slept in the office and Richard and Garrett slept in the living room.

That means that Fred can't stay up until 1 or 2 am "watching tv" (sleeping).

Here we are for the Saturday morning session.

Ben and Corinne had some Conference packets for the boys to work on.

They worked on them and did some quiet playing. 

We think the boys did really good for Conference. 

 I took a picture of Fred. 

 Henry would wander down to Grandpa's room. 

Henry is quite taken with Grandpa Burke. 

Grandpa Burke thinks Henry is a kick.

Fred has been stocking up on some new outdoor toys for the boys. 

The boys seemed to like them. The weather was perfect this weekend.

 Henry and Spencer put together their Golf Toss.

 Usually the boys come in the summer when it is too hot to even go outside.

This spring weather was fantastic!!

Next we packed up and headed to the Tonaquint Park. 

We bought tickets to ride the train last weekend when we took Shannon there.

The line was quite a bit longer today. The park was a whole lot busier too. 

Lots of families probably visiting for Conference weekend just like us.

 On Sunday after the morning session, we went to our neighborhood park. 

We took our wagon full of toys.

 Garrett was playing with the big styrofoam airplane.

 Mom and Henry were playing with the bubbles.

 This is a great shot of Spencer tossing the styrofoam plane. 

 After the park, we headed to the Daly's for a little musical performance.

Spencer played first. 

 Next was Garrett.

 Richard played last.

Corinne made us dinner Saturday and Sunday nights. I always ask Corinne and Ben to do the cooking when they are here. That way the kids get to eat what they are used to plus I don't have to stress about it. Then I also get to enjoy eating something new and different and yummy. 

Monday morning I went to work. Corinne and the family stopped by my work to say goodbye.

Two moments that meant a lot to me this trip.

When they arrived Friday night, Spencer came in the door and came straight to me and then Fred and gave us both a hug. No prompt from parents. That is meaningful.

While everyone was giving hugs goodbye, Garrett just held on and we hugged for quite a while. 

 I noticed.

Shannon's Spring break visit

Shannon and Mima and Buddy arrived at 1am Friday morning after driving for about 13 hours. She wanted to miss the snow storm coming in. Brian was going to come, but his grandmother passed away the previous weekend and he flew out Friday morning to attend her funeral in Bremerton.

I went to work as usual on Friday. Fred, Shannon and the kids came to see me at work at lunch time on Friday. Unfortunately all my favorite people except one or two weren't at work so I couldn't introduce them to many people. 

We took the kids to Del Taco for dinner and to the indoor play area.

Saturday the RV Sales place was having an open house. They had bounce houses, face painting, balloon animals, drawings and FREE food. So we went!

After the RV show, we went to the cheap theater to see Moana.

Sunday was church. Then we visited the Daly's. I took the kids back to the house while Shannon and Fred visited a little longer. The kids played outside with the cars.

I took Monday off work. We took them to the new park in town. It has the only rail train in St. George. It was pretty cute.

After naps, we took the kids to the Washington Rec Center to the pool. I took pictures and read my book.

Tuesday morning they were loaded in the car by 7:15 am and headed home. 

It was a really nice visit. It went by really quickly.

The best moment was when Mima said to me "I love you Grandma".

It was so sweet and not prompted by Shannon. She just said it on her own.

Evan's Blessing Day

Evan's Blessing Day arrived  and we all met for a wonderful breakfast made by Jess's Dad.

 Jess knows how to make everything beautiful and festive. 

Evan wore the blessing outfit that Jess's brother JT wore. Evan has his middle name ~ Thomas ~

 Getting dressed.....

 I'm thinking this Mom is mighty happy and glowing today!

 Here we are after Sacrament meeting is over. 

 Jess's family here.

 I like all the pictures of us with Evan so you get to look at them too. 

It was why we went. 

  Here is all of our family.

 All the men in our family. 

 My babies all grown up. 

 I'm a munchkin. 

 Corinne and Shannon wanted to get the house cleaned up for Jess and Scott before we left.

The three of us ~ it's our love language.

 Here are a few pictures of the lodge we stayed at. It had three bedrooms. The girls shared a room, my dad had his own room and we got the master room downstairs. It was really nice!

 Time to go back to reality.

 It seemed like we had this trip on the calendar forever. It was so exciting to anticipate going to meet Evan along with the added joy of having Corinne and Shannon come too.

I don't think anything could have made the trip any better (other than lasting longer).

Scott and Jess are such wonderful partners in parenting. Evan is so blessed to have them. 

He is such a darling and sweet natured little boy. 

I'm so excited to see how he grows and develops his personality. 

So much in those eyes. I can just see it!!!