Cutest Grandkids Ever!

Xlear at Lagoon; Swim Meet; IHOP

The next weekend was Xlear's Friday at Lagoon. Michelle took Joe & Jessie (I never even saw Joe), and Peter & Adi were there with their kids but Timothy and Joelle were overbooked for the weekend so they missed out.

Julieanne and Jessie came home with me for a sleepover and then in the morning we went to watch Timothy and Joelle in relays at the swim meet. After that we headed to IHOP for breakfast and then back to the meet for a bit. Joelle came over later and we had another teaparty while watching Hotel for Dogs.

Seattle to Welcome Rebecca

The weekend of the 11th I went up to Seattle to the shower for Rachel and Rebecca -- at least that was what the invitations said. It was a lot of fun -- particularly seeing the books that everyone chose.

Morgan is a real cutie pie -- and Vixie is looking great!

After everyone else left we went down to the lake. Looks like Patti was missing her kids who were scattered around -- Heather & Chris in Reno, Katie in India, and the rest with Dave in Boise. Paige, despite the picture, had a lot of fun in the kayak with Tim. Hunter, on the other hand, was a very reluctant kayacker.

Born on the 4th of July

That would be Jessica (who was born on the 4th of July) -- we started the celebration the evening before with a barbecue at the Scera Park. Bugs' karate team was in the parade, so they didn't make it but Hinckley, Dean, Joelle, Timothy, Nathan, Jessica, Mark, Amy, Tessa, Sawyer and Rigdon, and Jim & I showed up -- along with about 40 from his side! Unfortunately, Elizabeth was in London that weekend.

Tessa and Sawyer and I had to make a trip to Wally World to get him a birthday present. He tried out lots of things but finally settled on a little plastic horse. I might have expected that from Joelle or Jessie, but was surprised at Sawyer. Then he had to have a ride on the Wally World Stallion. You can't tell from the picture, but the horse was broken and wouldn't gallop at all.

Tessa preferred posing on Dumbo. Gee, I do have cute grandchildren!

Of course we all went to the parade on the 4th. Jim was a great chef and we had pancakes, sausage, and juice -- to the envy of all around us. We had a pretty big crowd so nothing to share!

Look at all the Red White and Blue. That's Mike Lee and his twins in the back ground. John was just diagnosed with Crohn's Disease and Sharon has had to feed him with a nasogastric tube every night.

Yvonne's Potluck

Since Cory and Jacob (with Zion and Enoch) are moving to Texas, we had a potluck at Yvonne and David's. Lots of good food and good visiting.

Cinnamon with her husband and daughter Moriah -- Yvonne, as you can tell, looks great. She just finished putting a roof on Joshua's house and is working full time as a pharmacist tech.

David and Nathan weren't exactly excited to be caught on camera -- but they never are and I think they enjoyed themselves.

Adi, Dean and Hinckley in front of the

neat, enclosed, over a pit trampoline. Nathan

offered to jump with the kids but no one else

liked that idea. Peter didn't even volunteer.

Difficult to believe Robert & Tawnie have seven kids (six girls with a boy in the middle). Here they are with three of the girls (Lorelei, 3 weeks old, is under the blanket).

This is Noelle, Julia with Marti, and Robert & Tawnie's other three daughters on the slide and swing.

Taylor, Chris, Heather & Mason went with us. This was really my first chance to show off as a great grandmother, and of course that was fun.

Taylor is sitting next to Heather with Mason next to Peter. Hinckley's head and Julieanne's arm.

Robert & Tawnie's son is the one in blue, Cory is at the water jug, Jacob is sitting next to Noelle's husband and Ben has his back to the camera.

Elizabeth & Chris caught at the ice cream. Bugs

with his back to us and Noelle's daughter next to

Cory.

All the kids had such great fun playing on all the playground equipment that I was thinking we needed to get some for our yard. That thought lasted about five minutes until one of the kids

came and asked his dad what to there was to do because he was so bored. Guess the kids will have to settle for dressups and legos and pool and BOOKS at hour house.

This is a cool piece of equipment. It's an airplane that tips every which way but doesn't turn over. Timothy is pilot, Cinnamon's son has back to us, Joelle is standing with Julieanne just below her. Enoch is sitting in back of Timothy and I think Bugs is on the other side of Julieanne. I think the girl with her back to camera is Noelle's but I'm not sure at all about the one facing camera on the other side of Timothy.

Elizabeth's ACCIDENT

Elizabeth finally had her first accident. As she says, at least she could drive away while the other person (THE ONE AT FAULT) was in a brand new car -- because she'd totalled her other car the week before -- and that had to be towed away.

MORE 4WHEELING PICS

Timothy turned out to be a great driver. He also turned out to be
a pretty good helper when it was
time to clean things up and put them away.














Porter wasn't too sure he wanted to ride, but once he got started it was difficult to get him to quit. Guess that is normal for kids his age.