Bingham Canyon Mine

We found out that the Bingham Canyon Mine was having free admission this week, so we decided to take the grandchildren for an outing. Micah has the most pictures because he wanted to sit with the big rocks that were inside the old cart and didn't get out until everyone else had a picture while they were there. Evan came along to help and Daniel and Elisabeth were great helps in watching the younger ones for us.

Parade!

I took my miniature horses in the Lehi horse parade again this year. I just do it for the fun of it, but I got a call from the parade organizer on Monday and she said that I had won a prize for "Best Pony Cart"!!! I am still laughing to myself over it.






Lehi also has a miniature float parade that has been going on forever. I have not been involved with a float very much except getting costumes for my children when they were in it. This year, they asked me to help design and build it. This was the finished float. We didn't win a prize, but we thought we should have.

Bear Lake Fun

We had a family trip to Bear Lake, Utah. We rented a cabin there and on Sunday morning, while we were eating breakfast, we looked out the window and there were two moose wandering the yard. It was quite a site to see them so close up. We didn't get pictures of it, but we also saw some wild turkeys.
We all played at the beach on the south end of the lake. The grandchildren all loved it. That was the funnest part of the trip for me, because they all kept asking when we were going to the beach. When we got there, I was not disappointed by how much fun we all had, from the older kids; Rachel, Evan down to Daniel, Elisabeth, Preston, Jacob, Evelyn and 21 month old Megan.

Minnesota Trip

David and I traveled to Minnesota in April for my Mom's 90th birthday celebration. It was a fun trip and we had a picture taken with all of my siblings that were there. My sister, Karen, couldn't make it. The back row from left to right are: Brent, Randy, Jared, Dana, Mark. The middle row are: Zina, Adell, Ann and Lowell. The front row are: Merilee, Dad, Mom, Linnea. We also made quilt squares that represented each of our families and gave that to her.

Ice Castles

David and I went to Heber the other day to get the skis and snowshoes for his 5th grade class going to Clear Creek. We stopped at an ice sculpture that had been advertised. We have had several days above freezing and it has made the sculpture unsafe to walk through, but we still got some pictures from the outside. It would have been fun to walk through. It looked amazing. Some of the structures were about 30 feet tall.

More Photos

This is the other photo of the Grandchildren that I love.

Here we are with (from left to right) Elisabeth, Zina, Megan, Daniel, Evelyn, Micah, David, Jacob, Preston.

Our children with us, (left to right back row) Ammon, Seth, Rachel, Caleb, Evan, (front row left to right) Kadie, Zina, David Alisa.

Just the kids: Ammon, Kadie, Seth, Rachel Caleb, Alisa, Evan.

Christmas Time

Evan arrived home safely on November 25, 2009 and so we had new family photos taken. We just wanted to post a few of them here for you to see all of us together.

We just had to do the kissing one for the sake of our unmarried children!

I think I have the cutest grandchildren! Here are all seven. Can't show you number 8 until it is born next summer (Ammon and Tiffany will be doing us the honors)

Evan brought home a gaucho outfit from Argentina. He is only missing the hat!