President Hinckley's Words on my wall

Words on Walls

I fell in love with this quote from President Hinckley

and I have been waiting not to patiently for the letter to be finished.

Last night @ 9:00 Garianne and I started the project of putting up a whole

wall of lettering! Wow was this scary, we were both sweating not wanting to make any mistakes

But three hours later we were done and it turned out perfect!

I can't thank Garianne enough for her help and her ideas, because I would have done it different, and she was right this was the best way.

Well now I can lay in bed and read this quote and remember that

"Love is the essence of life"

Easter Sunday 2010

We were all invited over to the Stephen's house for the

Annul Easter Egg Hunt

Lots of fun and lots of eggs

Thanks Stephens Family

All the kids on the Easter Egg Hunt

Stryker's First Easter

Drake keeping a close eye on the eggs

Stryker Hunt

Vincent Burgess

Clint keeping eye on Valencia up in the tree!!

Amia found the "BIG EGG"

Kodi checking out his eggs

Valencia with all her loot

Trip to Vancouver

What a great weekend, we had the opportunity to drive to Vancouver

and visit with family and attend our Granddaughter's baptism

We also were able to go our first Great Grandson

Lakai's First Birthday Party

Wow what a fun time!

It was great to see everyone on Gary's side of the family

Columbia River on the drive to Vancouver Washington

This was Chelsi's special Day

The day she was Baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Chelsi we are all very proud of you for the choices you are making

Chelsi with the Missionaries

Our Family after the Baptism
All six of Gary's children and almost all our Grand children,

on his side of the family we only had one missing, and one Great Grand Child


We all went to Mark and Aimee's for a Bar B Que
for dinner

Mark and Aimee have this beautiful yard
It has ponds, creek, bridges, patio

Gazebo

It really is wonderful

Great job Mark

Lakai's First Birthday

Lakai's Birthday Party

This is Lakai, our first Great Grandson

What a sweet little man he is

Lakai and Aunty Garianne

Grandma Aimee, Aunt Lucy and Aunt Garianne
having a fun time at Lakai's Birthday Party

Tristin made these Great Cupcakes for Lakai's Birthday
Yummy

Here is Lakai checking out his cake

not quite sure what to do with it yet !

Oh so tired Little Man

been a long day and a great party

ready for a little nap now

My Trip to Seattle

Thanks for the beautiful Spring flowers

My Son Jeremy was flying into Seattle for a much needed vacation

He has a high school friend Shawn Elliot that lives there and Jeremy flew in

from Littleton Colorado to spend a few days with Shawn

I haven't seen Jeremy in almost two years

He works and goes to school, I work and it is too expensive to travel

as much as we would all like to. So when I heard about this trip I thought

What a GREAT time to fly over to Seattle for the day

My daughter Kim was driving over to take her daughter Capri back to Orcas Island

Capri is a counselor at a camp on the island

Kim's other daughter Catrina lives in Seattle, she is getting her Masters Degree at Antioch

I flew into Seattle and Jeremy picked me up from the airport and we

met Kim and the girls at Pike Street Market

We all went shopping and then headed to the Space Needle

Jeremy was raised in Washington but had never been up to the top of the Space Needle

We made a stop on the way at the "Experience Music & Science Museum"

Catrina is a member and showed us around

Then we were off to lunch at "Dahlia's"

This restaurant made the "Best List" on the Food Network for its

Crab Cakes

Yummy Good, we agreed with the Food Network !

After lunch we took a great walk thanks Catrina I needed that!

After a day that was too short Jeremy took me back to the airport

I had a GREAT TIME with my FAMILY

Love You All

Our Day in Seattle

Seattle for the Day

We went to Pike Street Market

Spring Flowers at the Market

A Ferry from Pike Street

Jeremy checking out the produce at the market

Catrina, Kim, Jeremy, Capri

Jeremy at the Experience Music & Science Museum

Capri trying on a hat for Grandma

look who is in the mirror behind her?

Inside the Museum

I thought these were really cool

Jeremy and Kim holding hands

with a Robot

A gray day from the Space Needle

looking out over the sound

Looking at Lake Washington

Lunch at Dahlia's

Great Day

Gary's Recover

Here are a few pictures of Gary recovering from

knee replacement surgery

As you can see he has two little helpers

Mactavish and Jill

and they don't let him get out of sight, especially Jill

This is her Dad and she is going to take care of him :)

Gary is doing very well, he even went to visit at the kids

house last night as we celebrated three grand kids

Birthdays!

This picture is Mac with Gary both snoozing

While they take a nap Jill is watching over

them from the chair

Here is Jill keeping a close eye on Gary's good

leg while he has the other one on his machine



Here they all are just hanging out in
Gary's recliner together