Sun was Papa Wendell's birthday breakfast. Clay, Tara ,Killian and Kinzi were his surprise.

Waiting at the front door for Papa Wendell to answer.

K fishing with Dad.

Cute little sun bonnet.

 Laughing with Tara's Aunt Yvonne.

K going for a boat ride with Uncle Travis.

Getting ready for a group photo of Wendell and his kids, and grandkids and siblings.

Our cute little grandkids.

 Peter and Boo.

 Getting ready to go to dinner and K playing video games. He didn't want to go to dinner so I stayed home with the boys. The parents said no video games if they stayed home, so we played Memory and Dominos. Fun quality time with them.

Spur of the moment trips are the best.....

Clay & Tara decided a couple of days ago to come to UT. We're so excited. They arrived
Sat night around 10:30. Gavin drove us crazy on this end asking Are they almost here? and Killian
drove them crazy on that end counting mile markers and minutes on the clock. The bonus room always gets used when they're here. We stayed up until 1am.  It took Kinzi a minute to warm up to us, but she finally did. And every time I look at her I can't believe how beautiful she is.

Opposite Day for Dogs, NPS and taxes, and MT kids a swinging.

Punkin was being wild and Gavin said he was the dog whisperer and whispered into Punkins ear "Be a good dog."  Then Gavin told us "Punkin said it's opposite day!"

Taxes are finished and into the taxman. As my reward I decided I was going to NPS because it was on the way to the taxman. I shopped for an hour and ran out of time.  Then on the way home I decided it was on the way home also so I went back. Kind of sad I could've went to Gateway or City Creek or anywhere and I chose NPS twice. Our taxman said they went to Maui before tax season and going to Costa Rica as soon as it's over. Guess I need to raise my standards a little higher.

 Kinzi swinging for the first time. She loved it.

Date Night on Easter Eve

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Princess Kinzi got to go for a walk with her Daddy while Killian & Mommy went on a fieldtrip to the Veterinarian.

Chels & Boo at graduation for Chels who was graduating from Dental Assistant Classes.

And Tommy and his new sign that his lovely wife made & helped him put up today.

Uggg. Only 21 months old. We've driven it to Den, MT, Moab, Yellowstone, Big Tom's and St. George. But mostly just me driving to work....

Dad's 80th Birthday Party-Sun

Tattoos for everyone.

Sisters

The snow finally cleared up so we could all meet at Lori & Tom's for the birthday party.

Dad's 80th Birthday Party Week-end~SAT

It snowed all day Sat, but we made it to Grandma & Grandpa's and hung out all day and
ate and played cards.  In the evening Bobby, Cindy & their grandkids came back to the hotel
for more swimming. Even Tommy & Bobby ended up jumping in as the kids were having so much fun.

Dad's 80th Birthday Party Week-end.

Fri AM: We're leaving on a jet plane....Just started snowing in UT.

The snow followed us to CO.

 We flew in Fri at noon and

had lunch with Grandma & Grandpa.

Then we headed to the Aquarium with Nicholi.

By evening the snow was coming down pretty hard but the McCarty cousins came to our hotel swimming.

Happy 80th Birthday Dad.

Gavin's Mimi

Once you're a mom you lose your own identity. I've been Clay and Chelsea's mom for so long.
Well last night I was walking Punkin and I heard this little voice holler "Hi Gavin's Mimi".  That made me smile!

Park Day

Chels and Boo went to the park with friends. I decided to walk over and meet them. It was a lot further than I thought. I was sure happy to see their car when I got close but I got a good work out in.

I was talking to Clay today about something on facebook and K says " I want a facebook friend named Clara on my computer".  Clara is his girlfriend at school. They are crazy about each other. Clay and I were talking that Clay + Tara = Clara. She is one of those people meant to come into his life. And it would be the perfect name if there's a Baby #3.

And we got to watch Kinzi crawl last night via skype. The next best thing to being there.

Almost as much fun as fishing.



It was a beautiful evening. Most of the ice is gone, but still a little behind the clubhouse.



Looking in the dumpster at all the smelly fish thinking I could've caught you this summer....

This year our lake was frozen for over 3 months. It's the longest since we've lived here. The problem with this deep freeze is when the lake finally started thawing we have dead fish everywhere. Thousands of them. They're saying it happened because of the lack of oxygen. Gavin and his friend Rhett thought it was mighty fun to stab the dead fish and drag them onshore. They were so big (about 3' long and 30 lbs average so Papa had to come to the rescue and help them dispose of them. The Stansbury Service Agency got a dumpster to put all the dead fish in. Pretty strange. Hopefully it will
help our lake be better, somehow.

zions national park and saint george, ut trip

The sand was as pretty as sand beside the ocean so I had to take a pic with the date in it.

We went off the beaten path and walked this dried up river bed looking for rocks. We had never been to Zions when there was snow on the rocks.

We found these foot prints. Maybe a bobcat?

There was a girl taking her picture here with her hands raised up in the air like a super model. After she left Tommy decided to do it. Hers looked nothing like this. ha

Me on the bridge.

Frozen waterfall with the ice dripping.

We stopped at a rock shop and Tom bought me a heart shaped rock.  The owner recommended Oscars restaurant for lunch. It was delicious. We split a $13.00 hamburger.



We have about 100 pictures of this little guy and his friends. The park now has a $100.00 fine if you feed them.



Tom, Ronnie & Mikey ready to golf. Haven't seen Tom this excited in awhile! ha

We have had the longest, coldest, snowiest winter with horrible inversions and decided we needed some sunshine so we headed south. The first night was spent in Springdale, UT outside of Zions. The next two nights were spent in St. George. Sunday Tom golfed with Tom Gappmayer, Ronnie & Mikey. Karen and I went shopping and bought matching scarves and necklaces. And I got to trade in my snowboots for my flip flops for a couple days.

Until I found you....

Killian wanted to Skype again tonight. When we got connected and asked him what he was doing he said "just playing the mud game until I found you."

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I asked Boo if he wanted to go to a movie this afternoon and he said No, he thought he'd like to go to the park. I told him it was pretty cold out and he said well we can get bundled up.  So we did and went for a nice walk with Punkin. Much healthier and cheaper than a movie. And luckily Boo survived trying to teach Punkin to go down the slides.  Later in the evening we got to babysit Colby's 1 week old baby while she ran to the store. Also her two older boys came to play with Boo. In the middle of all of this Clay skyped us. Papa and K gave each other High Fives via Skype. And as we're skyping and phones are ringing and kids are being loud Clay says "Mom, I really miss your crazy house....for about 5 minutes!"   Ha

Dewaynes Memorial Location

We decided if we were going to have Dewayne's memorial at the Camelot Resort we better go check it out before putting our deposit down. We Loved the location. The rooms were just OK. Then we went to Big Tom and Peggys' for lunch. They're only about 1/2 hour away. It was a nice day.

kinzi pooh ~ I love you!