June 2025

June 1 - Cole seems to find himself in a corner or under something all the time.

June 2 - The flowers are starting to be beautiful!

Devri Williams is showing off one of her ducks. The girls are trying to pet a kitty.

June 5 - This cat helped me pull some weeds, then it wanted to stay in the garage, I finally got it to leave.

June 7 - Aubrey and Scottlynn and Tillie on a four wheeler waiting to load in the trailer.  Randy and Cole doing the same thing.

June 8 - It's measuring day!

Maden is still the tallest at 5'5 3/4", Annie is 5'4 1/2", Ryder is 4'10", 

Molly is 4'5 1/2", Clark is 4'3", Hallie is 3'11", Declan is 3'10", Penny is 2'11", Scottlynn is 2' 6 1/2" and Cole is 2'4".

After the measuring, there was a lot of fun for the kids to see what their dads looked like at their age.

June 12 - I got to spend some more time with this Cole boy!

JUne 14 - I love these beautiful coral roses.

June 15 - I looked out the window and what did I see? Ryder walking Happy!

Look at all this food we had! Lots of yummy stuff!

The flowers are at their best right now.

June 16 - Beautiful sunrise!

Blake got to go with me to take Clark to eat and go shopping! He chose to go to Pizza Pie Cafe to eat.  Then, we went shopping at Game Stop.  He chose this cute squishy and one game for the switch.  Clark smiled the entire time, he's such a fun, happy boy. He turns 10 on the 18th!

June 17 - Paul's 5th birthday water party in their back yard.  The kids had fun on the slip and slide, and on on the tramp.  Penny and Danielle had a great time with the water table. There was a great line up of adult watchers. Nikelle found a frog in the grass.  Blake stopped in to Brian's and found Declan and Scottlynn riding on the crazy car.

June 18 - We took a road trip to Boise with Shauna and Troy.  They even got to ride while Blake drove hands free, I think they're brave!

We stopped at Shoshone Falls. They are roaring pretty good. Such a magnificent sight.

We went to Top Golf.  Blake and I had never been before, so we had kind of a slow start. By the last game we did better.  I was playing under Scott T.'s account and I won the last round! It was pure luck!

June 19 - We took Shauna and Troy to the Sturgeon fishing pond. Blake loves fishing there and is in the zone.  Troy caught some, he even caught the biggest one.

We think they might have just caught the same one over and over.  It was a fun hot day.

June 21 - Celebrating Clark! Brian reserved a theater for all of us to watch "How to Train Your Dragon." We all got popcorn and a drink.  It was great fun.

June 23 - We went to help Brian pound poles around some trees to help them grow straight.  The hammer was really heavy, but Brian got the job done.

June 25 - Another beautiful sunrise!

Cole will drive the side by side!

June 26 - Penny got to come hang out with me for a bit.  She's still a funny, cute girl.

June 27 - Gorgeous!

June 28 - Mom got to go to the temple again! Lynne arranged for transportation for her.  We did sealings and it was so nice.  Dallin, Kayleen, Samuel, Lynne, Rob, Blake, Mom and I were all able to be there.  It was a great day.

A bunch of us including Brian, Aubrey and Scottlynn, Jared's family, Courtney, Ryder and Mikala, Lynne, Rob and Samuel, Michelle's family and Blake and I went down near Jensen's Grove for the fireworks.  We were there about two hours early and thought we had a great spot.

Then, the sprinklers came on just as the fireworks were starting! We moved over to a gravel area instead.

The fireworks were really good!

June 29 - Aubrey blew some bubbles for Penny and Scottlynn.  Then, they played some Connect 4.  

 

May 2025

 

May 1 - I got the flowers all put in the planters.  Hopefully they are secured well enough that they won't blow away.  I had a little help from this pretty kitty that wanted to play connect 4.

Penny loves to be outside.  She really loved it when Molly came to blow bubbles for her.

Then, another kitty came to visit.  Penny thought it needed to share her bear.

May 2 - I got to hang out with Cutie Cole for a bit.  Love him!

The flowers near the Pocatello Temple are so pretty!

May 3 - Archery shoot in Blackfoot.

I got to hang out with this cute Scottlynn.  Funny girl with socks on her hands, she loved the trike and then took a nap on my lap.

May 4 - The May Day Tree is very beautiful.  Scottlynn likes this toy more than Cole does.  Ryder loves reading the "year books" or Blog Books.

May 5 - Close ups and every angle of the May Day Tree.

May 7 - Celebrating Randy's birthday at Tommy Vaughn's.

May 8 - Beautiful start to the day.

I love these beautiful flowers from Cindy and Ken!

May 9 - Mother's Day luncheon at Parkwood Meadows with my parents and Kayleen and her kids.

The flowers are beautiful at the Idaho Falls Temple!

May 10 - Another gorgeous sunrise!

Most of the flowers have opened up now! So pretty!

We got to hang out with Scottlynn and Declan for awhile.  They had fun at McDonalds.

May 11 - Everyone gets to celebrate Randy.  He's old now!

Cole and Scottlynn getting acquainted. Grandpa is tickling Scottlynn.

Eating outside for the first time!

May 13 - Penny loves my flowers, she thinks they are beautiful!

She had a great time making a train with my chairs.  She couldn't quite get the concept of the last one being the caboose.  Finally, she called it a "peak a boose".

I saw a duck in the parking lot of the Idaho Falls Temple.  

May 14 - The clouds are on fire!

May 18 - What a cute Cole!

May 20 - Penny and I went to watch Annie in her 6th grade track meet.  She struggled a little in the mile, but made up for it in the 4x100! Her team steam rolled everyone else!

May 21 - Beautiful Pocatello Temple.

I got to take Ryder shopping and to eat.  He chose some games from Game Stop and was thrilled with the great deal we got! Then, we went to eat at Longhorn.  They brought him a huge ice cream sundae with fancy writing on the plate.  We had a fun day! I can't believe he's turning 10 on the 23rd.

May 22 - Penny played with blankets and babies, then tried to put Grandpa's surgery hat on and told me to take a picture.

We got to go see Molly and Hallie in their dance recital.  Such good girls.

May 24 - Blake planted some more flowers on the back property line.

Everyone gets to celebrate Ryder!

An impromptu foot race.  Randy skunked everyone!

Jared gets a turn to hold Cole.

Having some fun paying soccer!

May 25 - Fun at Brian and Aubrey's house.  

Cole gets to meet Brody!

All the grandkids! It's hard to take a picture with the sun in your eyes!

Such cute kids.

May 27 - Penny playing with her blankie and babies.  I couldn't figure out why her dolls were all upside down, she finally told me that they were sleeping.

Molly's Idaho history play.  It was pretty cute, and the kids all knew their parts so well.

Hallie's kindergarten graduation.  It was short and sweet and cute! Her sign says that her favorite body part is her tongue! Because she likes to eat and talk!

May 28 - Spending more time with Cole!

May 29 - Annie's 6th grade graduation.   It was short and sweet, too! We finally talked Clark into taking his sunglasses off for some pictures.

May 30 - Cole got to come to Parkwood and see Grandpa Paul, Grandma Beth and meet Great Aunt Shauna! He rolled himself under the TV table and got stuck.

May 31 - We went to a retirement party for Kent and Karen Gray.  Brian, Randy and Jared worked at their ice business for years.  It was quite fitting that Penny and Scottlynn played in the ice at the party.  Look at these two big girls!

Fun on the swings!