Spring Break Adventure

We began our journey bright and early Tuesday morning. It was non eventful drive until we came into Boise, where we ran into a spring snowstorm. We thought it was very fun since we had very little snow at home this year.We got into West Jordan around 6:00 and Chris brought the kids to our hotel room. Josh got Serenity and Terran into a pillow fight. We had a fun visit until the kids needed to get home to bed since they had school today.

We woke up to SNOW...it followed us from Boise. While the kids were at school we took a drive into Salt Lake to Temple Square where we saw Sister Carnahan from our ward who is serving her mission on the Square. Then we drove to "This is the Place Monument". Even though the heads are cut off, Richard and Josh stood in front of the statue of Brigham Young and Joseph Smith...Westward Bound which is the same statue that is in Nauvoo. We got a picture of it when we were there.
Here is a shot of the monument...it is so beautiful...there are different statues within the monument paying tribute to the Pioneers, the Donner Party, the Indians, Trappers....and more.
We had a fun time with the kids after school. We went shopping for some new clothes, then went to Wendy's before we headed to Gunnison to see "the pregnant one"
And here she is.....It's debatable who has the larger tummy...hee hee!
Stay tuned for more adventures!!

Days Go By

My friend Michelle has a blog entitled "Days Go By" and it's just the perfect title for this blog entry. When the boys were little Jon and Jared were inseperable.They must have been about 5 years old when Jareds family moved into our ward and around the corner from us.
Of course, where Jon and Jared were, usually Josh was too.
I have so many fun memories of the boys when they were young. They would spend hours and hours playing beanie babies and action figures, building things with legos and K-Nex, climbing our beloved "tree", building forts....and just having a wonderful time together. I reminded Jared of the years they would put the army men in our Christmas tree and in the train and when we took it down we would find the army men...still lodged in the branches of the tree.
They had a grand old time playing together. Jared's family moved to New Hampshire about 8 years ago.
Well, they're all grown up now and even Josh is now almost as tall as Jared. Jared is getting ready to go back to college to BYU Idaho in a few weeks. He's been out here in Vancouver for a few months. We had him over tonight for dinner and had such a fun time talking about the days gone by....We looked through some old scrapbooks with pictures of them together. Jon and Jared playing soccer, basketball and baseball together when they were little...usually whatever Jared did, Jon did. Eventually because of their being in different grades, they got put on different teams. When Jon started school, Jared and Josh would play together when Jared's mom was at work...Jared reminded me about the times the boys would get the keys to the trailer and I would let them play in there. As I recall they would be hiding from Josh (little brothers can get on the nerves) We were so happy to see Jared and hope to see him again before he leaves. It would have been great to have a picture of Jon and Jared together. Even though Jon is on his mission in Missouri, he has those same memories and I know that he remembers them fondly. We love you Jared!!

Spring Fever!!

I had a very productive day today! Our mattress has seen it's better days so today we took the plunge and moved the queen bed from Jon's room into our room and got rid of our king size bed. It was a much needed move as I have been having some back problems lately. I've been wanting to have more room to scrapbook and sew, so when I saw these really nice folding tables at Costco a few weeks ago, I knew what I wanted to do....and today I had absolutely NOTHING I was responsible for...so this was the perfect day!! I had Richard and Josh go buy the table after they dropped the bed off at the Goodwill.

We're going to have to get another bed, especially when Jenny and Logan and baby Sadie come, but for now I have this great room to scrapbook in. Plus, my room is much more spacious with having gone from a king to a queen. We have some painting and re-carpeting to do upstairs when we can and today I was just itching to do it all. I kind of don't want to mess with Jon's room...he will come home a man, but for now I want to keep him close to me by being in his room. I'm eventually going to paint it and put some of his stuff back up. The yellow was from Jennys room years ago. She never got a shrine....Jon moved in as soon as she went to college. For now I will love doing projects in my little project room.