May 2023

May 1 - My dad is helping Mom stand up again.

May 2 - Brian came and helped Randy put some shelves up his garage. Hallie loves to hold Penny.  I painted this sunset at a Relief Society Activity, I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

May 4 -  Such a beautiful sunrise! Hallie said that I have two babies to tend.

May 5 - We got to have Maden and Clark spend a couple of nights. Blake and Maden went to Matsuura's to play tennis, Clark played the switch while they played.

May 6 - Blake took the kids to Ridley's to get donuts, they had a great time playing air hockey, and playing in the boat while the shed was getting reorganized, going to A&W and swinging on the big swing.

May 8 -  Blake and I took a little trip to the Salt Lake area, We stopped in to see his sister Natillie and Mark, who have moved to Lake Point.  We went to eat in Tooele at a great restaurant called Virg's. I'm sad I didn't get any pictures of their cute new house.

May 9 - We went to the Provo City Center Temple.  It is very unique, and beautiful, and of course peaceful.

We found a Krispy Kreme! We were given a gift card to the Melting Pot, and had a great time eating a lot of fondue!

May 10 - Blake got a new haircut!

May 11 -  Penny is happy to try out this new to her bouncy chair.  Hallie took this picture of Randy and Blake. Hallie wanted me to take a picture of the Mother's Day flower for her mom. I got this beautiful Hydrangea from Cindy and Ken.

May 14 - Our May Day Tree is blooming! And it smells so good! I love all the gifts for Mother's Day! Isn't the shirt cute from Jared and Nikelle!

May 15 - Another beautiful start to the day!

May 16 - Oh this Penny girl is a wiggly one!

May 17 - I. got to spend the afternoon with this cute Ryder! First, I went to his school for Young Author's.  I forgot to take a picture at the school, but here's his cute book.  He has really improved in his writing.  Then we went to Idaho Falls to celebrate his birthday coming up on the 23rd.  He will turn 8! We went shopping and he found the video game he wanted, then we went to eat at Red Robin, he was thrilled to play the video game on the table.  Then, we stopped at the Sunnyside Park where he had a great time on this fancy slide.  He is such a smart, happy, talkative, inquisitive, caring, fun young man! We love you, Ryder!

We are loving spring! The May Day tree is gorgeous! The grass is looking good, too!

May 18 - Another wonderful sunrise! The Lily Blake gave me is just beautiful too! It only took an hour for this blossom to fully open.

Randy came over to try out the new scooter, he took Ryder for a couple of spins, then of course Hallie wanted a turn, so Ryder tried to run along.

May 20 - Now, there are two opened blossoms!

Blake bought some vines to plant by the barbed wire fence in the back yard. Hopefully, they will grow up the fence and become like a fence.  We kind of had to tease him, if there's dirt, you gotta plant something in it.

May 21 - Now, three have opened up, it's almost like you can sit and watch them open. So pretty!

Brian and Aubrey's house is coming along! Windows and outside doors are in, plumbing is roughed in, HVAC has started.  It's going to be so nice!

May 22 - We had some of our flowers that didn't survive all the snow this year.  We had to replace 6 plants.  I guess it could have been a lot worse.

Now, there are four blossoms opened up!

May 23 - Blake had some skin cancer removed from his forehead.  He took the first selfie in the bathroom at Dr. Marshall's office.  We went to Longhorn after, and he thought he was scaring all the customers.  He decided to wear one of his  surgical hats to keep pressure on it so it didn't bleed down and give him black eyes.

We had a huge storm! The rain gutters couldn't keep up! The neighbors yard was just a mud pit.  I saw hail that looked like snow on some roofs.

May 24 - I got to go to Hallie's end of the year preschool show.  She knew every word to all the songs! it was cute.

Ryder got to spend the night! We played some air hockey, then went and got Molly and Hallie and went to McDonald's.  They all had fun!

May 25 - I went to help Mom after her shower, she can kind of do her hair alone now.  Just look at that beautiful full smile.

May 26 - They have all opened up! I have loved watching them bloom.

Blake was helping Jared do some wiring, and then they ended up meeting Nikelle, Molly, Hallie and Penny at the cemetery.  

May 29 - Memorial Day - We started the day by getting some donuts, then going to the Cemetery, then going to Jared's house for some swinging, playing and eating!

May 30 - Another hard rainfall!