Father's Day and other stuff

 We got to log in and listen to Scott give a talk in his Sacrament meeting. I always love to hear him speak. I don't know if I'm partial because he is our son, but I don't think so. He is such a great speaker.

Fred and I were asked to sub for our friends in their Primary class on Father's Day.

I took this picture of Fred because he was wearing the Father's Day tie that the Primary in Bremerton gave out probably 10 years ago. This is one of his favorite ties.

I hosted Father's Day in our kitchen. I bought a bunch of Seahawk decorations to honor Brian. I asked M to come and help me decorate. She is such a darling girl. I never get tired of her. 

I think Brian appreciated my efforts. I made spaghetti, fruit salad, garlic bread and a Holy Cow cake. 

I took the kids to Urban Air again. They have a year membership so they get to ride everything, get a free slice of pizza and a popcorn each visit. I bought them an ICEE this time. 

For Shannon's birthday they bought tickets for all of us to go to a Colorado Rockies baseball game. It was a good game, but when we parked it was overcast and looked like it was about to rain. Both Fred and I left our hats and sunglasses in the car. Wouldn't you know the sun came out and we were blind. Luckily when the sun went down, it was perfect weather. We won't leave our stuff behind anymore.

It was a beautiful sky that night. 

This and That

We have been doing some home decorating. 

Fred got our family pictures hung. I found this cute music staff to add. We are getting some vinyl lettering to add. We will raise the biggest family picture about 7 inches and put the lettering there.

One Sunday I wanted to bake an angel food cake for our family dessert. It was a puffy flop. We still ate it, but it wasn't pretty. 
 

These pictures are out of order. I have not mastered how this blog posts my pictures when I select them. Drives me nuts, but I'm too lazy to work it out.

We have been to Utah for Richard's graduation, a visit to St.George and to Panguitch and Junction to decorate family graves. 

We brought Henry back with us so he and Marissa could play together. The first day I took them to Chick Fil A, the library and this park. Henry wasn't thrilled sharing this swing with Marissa.

Here's the library book drop. These two are pretty cute together.

The kids choose Chick Fil A because their play place was open. 

This is Puffer Lake. When Fred was about five years old, he wandered off from the lake to return to the family picnic spot. He took a detour. Scared his Mom to death. He made it back obviously. 

We drove on down to St. George. The temple is coming right along. It's going to be beautiful. We will go back for the open house for both temples.

Here's our neighborhood Red Cliffs Temple.

This is the Howes family plot area in Junction. It was hot, windy and very dusty.

Here is the Daly's gravesite. This is a pretty cemetery in Panguitch. 

Corinne brought all of the family to participate in the grave decorating. That was so thoughtful and fun to do together. 

We took a pitstop in Beaver for a picnic lunch and then ice cream at the Creamery.

Here we are at the graduation. Pretty unbelievable to have a grand child this old.

A Jimmy Johns post graduation lunch with gift opening.

The graduation took place at Weber State.

All the proud parents and grandparents. It was great to see Gary and Margot again. It's been years.

Our traveling selfie.

We met up with my brother Craig and his wife Lynette for lunch. It's our tradition. I don't take pictures though. I probably should one of these days. Document us together.

We also met up with Fred's uncle Jay and his wife for lunch at their home. 

A great trip. We went to church in St. George, but there were only a dozen or so people actually at church that we knew. It was a holiday weekend. We stayed with our old neighbors Sharon and Richard Rawlings. It was such a good time together. It no longer felt like home. When we got to our neighborhood here in Aurora, now that felt good.

Phoenix Spring Visit 2022

We wanted to get to Scott's before it got much hotter there.

We decided to drive this time to see what that journey would look like.

We decided to cut the drive in half and spent the night in Albuquerque.

Here's my driver.

 I have not been taking as many pictures lately when we go visiting. 

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking pictures and not being in the moment.

Action picture in the kitchen. Fajita night. YUM

Saturday night Scott was performing in his Stake's music concert in the park. Every time this train came by, Fred would walk with the boys up to see it. They are so fascinated with trains.

It was shady and perfect weather for an outdoor concert.

Saturday morning we all went to Evan's t-ball game. It was hot on the field for the team, but Jess and I found some shade. Thank goodness!

This marble set came in the mail the day we arrived.

It was very popular!

Scott is the coach for Evan's t-ball team so he recruited Fred to be First Base Coach.

Evan looked very official in his uniform. 

On Sunday night I received a message from Janene Barrett in Bremerton. She said she was cleaning out the Primary closet at the Stake Center and found this hat. We were all rather stunned at how it was even possible for us to miss that Scott returned home without his cub scout hat. 

Janene and I sent messages back and forth for a while. She said she would mail it to Scott.

Then on Monday, I received another message from her.

Apparently, we are worse parents than we thought. 

She found his Webelos hat too!

So much fun was had with that turn of events. 

We had such a good time.

Graham finally warmed up to us and that made a big difference.

We didn't feel so useless. 

It was a long drive home. We hit heavy rain and traffic jam in Colorado Springs.

It felt good to get home after all of that driving.

Totally worth it!

March stuff

I bought $10 tickets to the Lamb of God.

I honestly expected it to be a snoozer type performance.

Lots of soft music that would put me to sleep.

WOW - it was nothing like that.

Beautiful music and lovely voices. 

There were about 7-10 characters dressed in performance black that portrayed

the people in the scriptures covering the Crucifixion. 

It really was amazing. 

We invited our new friends (that we hope to do more stuff with)

to come with us. 

We ate at the Cheesecake Factory first. 

Most delicious cheesecake ever!!

Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake!

During the month of March we had quite a bit of snow. Fred offered to drive me to and from work. I was more than happy to let him do that. Not so much because I was afraid to drive in the snow, but getting out of work at 8 or 9 PM and having to brush snow off the car - Terrible experience.

Scott and Jess and the boys took a vacation to the Bremerton area. I asked if they could stop by the Tahoma National Cemetery and take some pictures of the headstone for Mom and Dad. The headstone, of course, was not complete when we had Dad's services. The finished headstone is so beautiful. Even more so because of the flowers they took for display. I was so grateful for their willingness to do that for me.

We went with Shannon and Brian's family to see the Harlem Globetrotters. Very entertaining. Shannon tries to take the kids to some type of sporting event each month. We will try to tang along with them for those.

So those are our March highlights!