it has been too long

I just wanted to post something...too much happened last year and time just went right on past me....it is already November 2010. One year ago in November before Thanksgiving Dave had his 2nd stroke and it was not fun. Then Alli got out of the Air Force the day before Thanksgiving and had John Scott David on Dec. 9th, 2009. The one picture is of John out front by the pecan trees. I will get back on before end of year and post lots of pictures. Till then, have a good one! Nutzo

Also I wanted to add another Happy Birthday to Atticus, he is 6 today!!!!!!

May 2009

Cousin fun, g-ma bought matching shirts!
The bath was so fun, it even had lights inside and a flat screen TV
Dave at Lake Mead, then we went to Hoover Damn...
Jayden with Taylor Viafanua...she is beautiful inside and out...
Cat & Blake and her niece....the baby is not in picture....
Buddy & Allison being honored. The baby is due Dec. 18th!
Cousin fun in April's pool, it was so nice to swim...
Kids showing Harper G-Pa's smile, she can do it like a pro now...
Harper with Keith, aw, look at that cute hair do!
Alaina got her bangs....funny story......





Dave and Austin getting ready for the camp out, funny thing is they did all that work to take their bikes and got rained on....




In May we had Kylie's 7th B-day, then Harper's 1st B-day and then Matthew's 6th B-day. We also enjoyed a short trip down to Vegas and had a nice barbecue at Allison and Buddy's house on Nellis Air Force base and we stayed at the Red Rock in a nice suite thanks to Frank. We went over to Lake Mead and Hoover Damn. It was fun. We also had visitors, Adam Verbon, Cat & Blake Palmer and family. Then I got to do the baptizm talk for Brayli and Laike, Davey & Amber Crouse's 2 kids and Taylor Viafanua sang( she was on American Idol). So of course Jayden wanted her picture with her.
Then I had the not so fun experience of having a kidney stone, very painful stuff.....the bill for the hospital was very painful too since we have no insurance..... right after passing everything out of my body I got to go back to Vegas and play with the G-kids while Frank and April went to Hawaii. I also took Jayden with me and she got to spend 2 days with cousins and we met her dad by Silverton so she could go visit with him. Anyway we had full days. The kids had school but had Monday off for Memorial Day. We did soccer practice, a baseball game, a totally fun night at Metro Pizza to honor Alli. Then we had a barbecue and swimming at the house. It was so much fun, and so tiring. Oh the all day shopping to find Aubrey a dress for graduation was fun too. We even went to the outlet stores. Aubrey looks beautiful in her dress... I am sure April will post that one. Then back home Austin and Dave did the Father/son camp out and got rained on. They had fun telling all about it.
May 28th we had our local vet come out to our home and he helped Molly to go to sleep so she is now running and playing with Anthony and Makenna.....

Harper's First Birthday Party at Nellis AFB

Alaina modeling the tu tu Autumn made for Harper....cute
Atticus loves both of Alli & Buddy's dogs, here he is with Chloe.
Alaina kept Chloe and Izzy entertained while the chicken was on the grille.
Aunt April could not get enough of holding Harper....
Keith got to hold his daughter for a few minutes......and then.....
Aubreana had to get a hold on Harper.........then Alaina washed her hands
so she could get a hold of Harper for a few minutes........
What an awesome cake Autumn got for all of us........yummy too!
Buddy & Alli our military's BEST did a way cool job of cooking a yummy meal for us
all with the jets flying over for their practice flights, it was just awesome. Good thing
their house is sound proof.....
The best part was watching Harper's face as we sang to her and she had her very own
cake to eat and she did a great job. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARPER, welove you!

Easter with the Family

So we had a great time at Easter... we had all 5 girls come and we did all the egg hunt and lots of food and games and late, late nights and kids sleeping everywhere...downstairs.... and we even blessed Harper too. She was so cute in the same dress her mommy, Autumn wore... hope you all enjoy the pictures because I had fun taking them....

Come to The Old Folks Home! Fun for All!

We are excited for you all to flock to our house....
Come dance with our dancing eggs and get some pictures taken too!!!!
See G-mas art work for the rock garden path we are building.....
G-mas lion and baby cubs have a new home under the shade of Timmy Tree, that is one ton of rock g-pa and g-ma shoveled there.....
Oh, and we got a new weed whacking system that is working out very nicely. We don't have to worry about the fire season with the sheep taking care of the 2 acres easily within one week!
So please come to the old folks home for Easter week-end fun, egg hunts and food too......see you real soon.....

A look back at March....

Amber decided to go on a mountain bike ride with Austin and Dave......
This is at Aubreana's surprise relative party...Alli, April, Harper and Autumn.....fun
Aubreana was really surprised and we made her wear the St. Patrick's day headband...after all her B-day is March 17th....We went to her school to pick her up and she did not know we drove over from Utah... what a fun surprise!!!!
Austin and Aubreana make a sandwich out of little Harper, I don't think she liked it much!
April made a real yummy cake...make a good wish! Does that wish involve the 1st dance at church on Saturday night...she is 14 now!!!
This was Austin on his first mountain bike ride up in no man's land.....he loved it!
These are our visitor's from New Zealand... Tash, Arama and their son, Tyrone...so much fun, and I loved listening to them all talk, especially Tyrone calling me "Auntie"!
Allison and Buddy came to help Keith and Autumn with their move to Las Vegas! Harper could not figure out where she was....
This is the front of Autumn and Keith's new place in N. Vegas...it was a long, hard day and it was so sad when we had to go home and leave Atticus and Harper, and keith and Autumn too!!!!

So in March we had a move,visitors from New Zealand, a Birthday surprise party,I did a quick road trip to California alone, a couple of great mountain bike rides, Amy,Bob and their 2 daughters visited also, and Allison turned 21 at the end of the month....way to much fun..

Jayden's Birthday-Valentine's

We had Jayden's Birthday dinner at our house and she wanted enchiladas, Spanish rice, beans, salad and of course chocolate cake....
Dave and I have shared many, many Valentine's Days together... like 42.... wow! It is still nice...
I made all the G-kids heart pillows. I even took pictures. Dave and I are having some G-kids here for Valentines so I made him a special dinner on Friday the 13th...I made Lobster tails, asparagus, big baked potatoes, cut up fresh fruit and finally white chocolate dipped strawberries for desert. Look at pictures....April are you proud of me...