May 2021

 

May 1 - The tulips are looking great! Hallie chose Randy to trim her toenails.

May 8 - Celebrating Randy.  He turned 33 on the 7th!

May 9 - A very frosty morning.

May 15 - Ryder got to go to the Range and shoot arrows! He almost got a bullseye! Jared helped Brian put some new blinds in his camp trailer, he almost had to become a contortionist.  Randy was cooking some hamburgers and had a pretty good grease fire.  You can see Ryder running away!

Fun at Cousin James birthday party, pinning the wheel on Blaze.

More party fun! Car races, leg races and throw the wheel (plate) in the chair or hoop. For some reason, I don't have a picture of James playing the games.

There's the birthday boy! Baby Paul loves me....because I have cake, and I'll share!

May 22 - Annie and Molly are helping me organize and get rid of some things from the basement.  Annie was able to lift many heavy boxes and carry them upstairs for me.  They were amazing help!

Annie got a new bow, and Brian was teaching her how to use it.  She practiced a lot, then she got to go the Range and try out her new skills.

Clark was being so cute, he said he didn't want me to take a picture of him with the bunny ears on.  He would run as fast as he could daring me to snap a picture. He was so smiley and laughing so hard.  It was a fun little game.

Celebrating Ryder! This guy turned 6 on the 23rd.  He had a race car party! 

May 23 - How does this happen so quickly? I can't believe Ryder is 6! He is a fun, polite, happy, smart little guy.

May 25 - Ryder graduated from Kindergarten at Moreland Elementary! Look at the that, Class of 2033!

May 28 - OK, we are doing something different!  We are building a new house, so we moved out of "The Red House" and into an apartment! Jared and Nikelle are going to move into the "The Red House".  Randy and Jared and my nephew Logan Terry did all the moving, and it was a lot!

Here's our apartment, it's really a duplex or a townhouse. It's in Groveland, and is three bedrooms.  It will work just fine for a little while!

May 29 - Back at "The Red House" doing some work, and Molly, Ryder and Hallie were playing some games in the yard.  I got a huge kick out of Hallie trying to figure out the bubbles.  Look at those beautiful Iris'.

May 31 - All settled into the townhouse.  I didn't want make a lot of holes in the walls, so I found a way to display my pictures without hanging them up.  I think it turned out well when I got it all figured out.  We made a "man cave" for Blake in the room with the computer. He has his chair, his heater and TV, so he's all set.

Celebrating Memorial Day on Sunday.  We went to the cemetery, and had a nice lunch at Jared and Nikelle's.  It was a beautiful day.

April 2021

April 2 - Randy and Courtney are finally getting their cement in the driveway and sidewalk!

April 3 - Annie is practicing with a bow that Blake bought, she stayed at it for a really long time.  I watch the Utah Jazz by streaming the games from my computer to the TV, Clark thought he had his own personal private showing on the lap top.

April 5 - Well, now it is my turn for surgery.  I had my right hip replaced.  It has been getting bad for quite awhile, and I decided I didn't want it to get as bad as the left one had. Blake had the week off to tend me. He was able to do my anesthesia, which was a huge comfort to me. The surgery went well, I had a lot of post op pain, but it only lasted a few hours.  It has all healed up nicely.

April 6 - This was the scene as Blake left to come visit me at the hospital.  I was glad I didn't have to go out in it!

April 8 - Cindy had these beautiful flowers sent to me on the day I got home from the hospital!

April 13 - We have some daffodils and crocus blooming!

April 15 - More snow!

April 16 - Randy rented a tractor to move some dirt around in his yard, then he and Blake went to Home Depot to get some supplies and look who they found there, Molly and Hallie!

April 17- Putting in Randy's sprinkler system.  Blake, Brian, Jared and Randy worked hard all day, but got it done!

April 19 - Look close, you'll see snowflakes!

April 24 - Brian moved into a new rental house in Ammon. The kids were really good, and they enjoyed a snack when the table got set up.  Maden was busy getting the TV and games hooked up.  Blake had to run to Home Depot, so Hallie got to go along. A pretty stray cat came to visit, Annie and Molly went out to pet it.  Molly had a dance recital, and Annie got to go see it!

April 27 - Mowing the lawn for the first time.  It was a little chilly, but Blake got it mowed and all the pine needles and pine cones picked up.

April 28 - Blake and Brian rented this cool post hole digger to help Kylee fix her fence. It worked really well.

April 29 - Randy had some gravel delivered for the driveway to the side of his house. So in typical redneck fashion, they figured out to use the snowplow on the four wheeler to spread the gravel out.  It actually worked really well.

April 30 - Molly and Hallie got to spend some time with some cousins.  Hallie and Kenzley weren't really sure that if they wanted to be friends, but I think with time, they will become great friends.  Molly, Michael and James had a great time playing at the school playground.  Molly Beth is hugging Grandma Beth.

Molly was so proud that she could give Hallie an underdog! I was pretty impressed too! The caption Nikelle gave the bottom picture was "Are they praying or pouting?" I'll give you a clue, it was time to go home, so ...... pouting.

 

March 2021

 

This goofy, handsome, nice guy called Brian turned 37 on March 1st! He celebrated by working hard!? We love you!

March 5 - My niece, Michelle came to help me and brought her 3 cute boys.  Michael and James found the scrub hats I had made for Blake, so they tried them on.  Michael loved his green hat and wore it the whole time.  We tried James' hat on baby Paul, he liked it until it fell over his eyes, then he wasn't quite as sure about it.

Mar 6 - We met Brian and his kids at Texas Roadhouse, Clark went to sleep on the bench, and Annie entertained herself by taking pictures with my phone.

March 7 - I ordered a new sewing machine desk/cabinet and it came in 7 boxes! No one wants to put it together, but we had to get it all off the front porch, so of course you load it up on a four wheeler to take it to the shed! Any volunteers to put it together?

March 20 - Happy 1st day of Spring?!?

March 23 - In keeping with the new tradition, I got to take this cute Molly out to lunch and to go shopping before her 6th birthday.  She was so excited and knew exactly what she wanted! I never would have thought to take her shopping to Cabela's.  She wanted to go shopping before we ate lunch. She really wanted to eat lunch at Chick-fil-A, but settled for Wendy's so we could eat inside the restaurant. 

March 27 - Grandkid time! Molly, Annie and Hallie are having a great time painting some egg pictures. 

Clark and Ryder love playing the Switch, Annie, Molly and Hallie are having some fun coloring egg pictures.

Then, the real fun begins! Coloring real eggs! I'm sure glad Courtney came to be the Hallie helper! I bought shirts for the kids to wear on top of their own shirts, so no one went home with stained clothes.

They all had fun coloring their eggs!

Little Miss Hallie loved the stickers that came with the egg dyeing kits, and Grandpa helped her put stickers all over her arms, face and shirt.  The other kids thought she was way funny when she showed them.

The reason Maden wasn't in on all the Easter egg fun was because he got to the go the 3D Archery Shoot with Brian, Randy and Jared.  He said it was really fun!

Now it's Treasure Hunt time! The first round they had to find things with their names on.  And they were actually kind of hidden.

The next 2 rounds were more of a free for all! Brian, Randy and Jared turned in circles and let all the candy and plastic eggs fly all around the yard.  The kids love it though.  

We celebrated Molly with a candle in a cookie, because we wouldn't all see her on her real birthday.  Ryder, Molly and Hallie ended the day watching the Lion King VHS style.

March 31 - Molly is 6! How is that possible! Oh how she has changed, but stayed the same.  She's such a sweet, happy, kind girl! We love you Molly!

Here's the birthday girl before school and before her Safari Party, which she said was way fun!