HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE AND GRANDMA

What's happen-n? And you are who? Looks like he has a lot of questions????

Dave was born on Grandma's birthday and they enjoyed celebrating many birthday's together.

Aunt Dale came from Maryland to help care for Joe and Dave

These two little guys had so much fun together and always so happy

Dave loved his baths...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE....I remember so well the morning you FINALLY decided to make your appearance into this wonderful world. You have been a great son, super husband and loving father!

OH NO, RUTH!!!!

This is what we saw when we came home Sunday afternoon and wondered...DID BEN SEND YOUR POD TO THE WRONG ADDRESS???? Comments from dad: Did you want this forwarded to Holland? Chelsea loves the new toys. Did you want it to go by land....or by sea? signed Paul Revere. Dear Ruth, we received our bed. Too big to take it with us on the plane. [He was on a roll and having way too much fun]
HONESTLY....It belong to our neighbors whose daughter is moving out of state...put what a coincidence!

Madison Birthday and the Grandkids

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Madison

What a great ice cream cake!

Looks like Mel is afraid it will dump over

Chelsea and Ashlyn...they sure do love to dress up!

Cousins came to celebrate with Madison

Stacey's new little baby girl...Hanne

She has a beautiful smile and was trying to talk as I would tell her about her friend Kate

Sweet Chelsea...our little snow princess

RELAXING WEEKEND

Alyssa was just a little excited for her special day!

She had phoned her grandpa and said "she had been thinking and wanted her daddy to lay his hands on her head [gift of the Holy Ghost] and her grandpa baptize her. I just love this picture as she looks up at the both of them.
We were thrilled to be able to make the trip and had a wonderful weekend with the family!

Joe, Heather, Meg, Daniel, Sharon, Marv... Alyssa, Ben-jamin, Miranda

Heather's mother made Alyssa's pretty white dress for her baptism. What a talented Bubba!

This is another one of my favorite pictures, Alyssa with her GREAT Grandma.

This was the view outside their front window. We were freezing the first night, cold the second night and comfortable the third night. Guess you just have to get use to the temperature...brrrrrrr.

Saturday afternoon Megan drove us around for some errands. This is a picture of her grandpa teaching her how to measure and put air in her tires. By the 3rd tire, Meg was a pro!

Meg was the first off to school. Second came Daniel as he waits for his bus.

About an hour later Miranda and Alyssa catch their bus.

On the way to the airport for our flight back home, Heather and Ben=jamin took us to attend the new Draper Temple Open House. What a beautiful temple. There was a REVERENCE sign that was really neat, "If you need to communicate in the temple, please whisper".

We then drove by the second temple being constructed in Jordan. Ben was so excited that the Angel Moroni was already on the temple. Open house is sometime in June.

Sunny CA...This is a picture of one of our window flower trays and yes that is one of our regular birds that seems to enjoy sitting with our flowers. There are usually three, but when Marv moved close to take the picture, only one stayed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEL...

We celebrated Sunday with barbequed chicken, brownies, and gifts. Then on Monday Grandpa and Grandma took Mel out after school for an ice cream treat. Later that afternoon we had fun watching Mel, Spence, and Chelsea jump rope.