Happy Birthday Ashley!

This is the day Ashley joined our family: December 4, 1991. Her brother and sisters were so excited to have a new baby in the family!

Here is Ashley at about 2 or 3 months old. She was such a happy baby! She hardly ever cried. She was also a very beautiful baby.
Ashley is 3 years old in this picture. What a cutie!
Here she is at age 12. She is in her dance costume.
This is what Ashley is into today. She likes riding dirt bikes.
Today Ashley is 18 years old. I can't believe how time has flown. She has turned into a beautiful, wonderful young woman. She is so fun to be around and has a great sense of humor. We are very proud of her and love her so much. She has brought a lot of joy into our family!

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. Aimee and Erica and their families were here, and so was Betty. (We had to share Matt and Alice with her family this time) I am truly blessed and grateful for my family. I have a wonderful husband who is fun and loving. I have such awesome children whom I love very much. And grandchildren who bring so much joy into our lives. We live in a wonderful place and have been blessed so much. We had a good time and enjoyed each other so much.

My wonderful family

Ty brought his little motorcycle. Ashley is having fun buzzing around the yard!

Here is Bryce getting in on the fun!

I did this scrapbook page of the boys showing everyone their new hats. They were so cute, and it was fun watching them play together.

I am so thankful for my wonderful family and the joy that they bring into my life!

One Year Ago

Last year at this time we were in beautiful Hawaii with Bryce and Erica and Logan. We had such a wonderful trip! Here are a few scrapbook pages that I did.
Tylor and me on the beach. Kauai had such beautiful beaches. A lot of the beaches had few people there, so we pretty much had them to ourselves.

Logan loved the water. It was so much fun to see him exploring new things.
We spent the first three nights in "Turtle Cove Cottage" on the South shore of Kauai. The cottage had two suites in it, so we had one and Bryce and Erica was in the other one. We had such a wonderful time! Thanks, Bryce and Erica, for taking us!!

Getting Wood

A couple of weekends ago, we went and got a load of wood. We had fun, and we were surprised when we got up there and found snow in the canyon. I don't think I am quite ready for snow yet!


We had a pretty good system down and was able to fill the trailer quickly.
Matt and Tylor ran the chain saw
Then Tylor threw the log to Megan...Then Megan threw it to Ashley...

Ashley threw the log to Alice.


Then Alice threw it into the trailer.
Stacking the wood in the trailer. It was a lot of work, but we had fun!

Talented Daughter

This is a picture of a beautiful wood-burning that Erica made for me and Tylor. She is so talented and thoughtful, always sharing her awesome talents with us.
Here is a close-up of the face on it. The detail is amazing. This was done by looking at a Greg Olsen painting, and she drew it on the wood without tracing it. I need to get a picture of her holding it. She is very talented, she taught herself how to wood burn. Thanks so much, Erica we will always treasure this!

Things a Mother Doesn't Like to Watch her Children Do

Matt needed to clean out the chimney of his house, and couldn't find a ladder long enough to do it. (The roof has metal shingles that are too slippery to climb up the steep pitch) So he brought home a tractor from work. But that didn't get him up high enough either. So he had to put the ladder in the bucket of the tractor, then Tylor had to climb up and steady the ladder while Matt climbed up it. Then he had to shimmy around the ladder to get on the peak of the roof. (I didn't get any pictures of him on the ladder, because I had my eyes closed)
Then he had to balance on the peak of the roof to clean out the chimney. He was about half way done, and the rod broke. So, he had to come down, fix the rod and go back up again. This is definitely one of those things that a mother doesn't like to watch her children do. (Next time, I might just stay home!)

Happy Birthday, Aimee!

Today is my firstborn's birthday. Aimee has brought a lot of joy to our family. We love her very much and are proud of her.

Here she is at about 2 months old. She was such a happy baby. She was sleeping through the night at a very early age. She had such beautiful blue eyes.
Aimee is 3 in this picture. She is sitting on a huge pumpkin that her dad grew.
Here she is at 9. You can see that she is growing into a beautiful young woman.
Aimee on her 10th birthday. I cant believe that was 17 years ago!
Here she is today as a wife and mother to 3 precious children. She is such a good mother, and we love her and her family very much.

First Day of School

Then . . .
Here are Ashley and Megan on their first day of school five years ago. Ashley was in 7th grade and Megan was in 5th grade. They were so cute!

And here they are

Now . . .
I can't believe how grown up they are now. Ashley is a Senior and Megan is a Sophomore. They have both turned into beautiful young women. They have fun together and they are also lots of fun to be around!


Here is another "First Day of School" picture that I just had to put in. This was in 1992. Aimee was in 5th grade, Matt was in 2nd grade and Erica was in kindergarten. Aimee and Erica were so cute in their matching outfits! Time just flies way too fast. I can't believe all three are grown up and married now.