Rebecca – Page 145 – Andelin Adventures

The Great Garage Cleanout

Sandy and her boyfriend Robert came up to visit, and since they were trying to find the cats in my garage so they could take them in for their shots, they helped me clean out the garage too. HURRAY! Kyle is just about NEVER home (working 2 jobs still) so I just leave giant messes, such as the garage, alone and try to take care of the kids, laundry and dishes. And IF I get around to taking care of anything else it’s just a bonus. So since we needed to find the cats, and that meant moving things out of the way to get to the cats, we made 3 piles.

One pile of stuff that Kyle and/or I need to sort.
One pile of stuff we don’t need any more to give away.
And one very large pile of GARBAGE.

The pile to sort is the biggest by far, but I KNOW that a great deal of that is garbage or give away stuff too, it just needs to be sorted. 😉 But check out the garbage pile:

WOW! We’ve been storing a lot of trash!

Then since they drove up in Robert’s pick up truck he and Sandy filled it up with a load of stuff to take to the dump. Well really it was just the broken box spings from Kyle’s old bed, Kyle’s old and nasty recliner, and Nana’s videos!

Yes that is a lot of videos. And they’ve all been sitting in the garage since Nana moved in here back in 2005. Then she moved out about 15 months later and the videos stayed in the garage because she couldn’t take them to the nursing home with her. Then she died about a year later, and those tapes have been in the garage….until now!

School Pictures

School pictures are in and YAY they both smiled. 😀

Ethan’s 1st grade picture:

Tyra’s kindergarten picture:

Las Vegas Temple

On our way home from California we decided to stop in Vegas to stretch our legs at the temple. The kids have never been there, and it’s been years since Kyle or I had been there, so we thought that would be a nice Sunday stop.

Tyra especially liked the flowers:

And Dinah thought we were going to go in:

All the kids liked the water:

Gold Mine

I’ll bet you don’t know anybody that actually has a gold mine…But I do. 😀

Grandma Shirley has been decluttering, and giving some of her stuff away. She offered me her cedar ‘hope chest’ AND all the contents therein. YAY! Of course for now I don’t have a way to get the hope chest to Utah, and she wanted to hang onto it for a bit longer (which is fine with me of course). But since Kyle and I were in California I got to bring home a whole box, overflowing with old pictures. A stack of photo albums, AND 4 more bags of pictures! Yes I do believe I have a real gold mine. 😉 My heart just rejoices to have these pictures in my possession. I have been working on scanning pictures for years, and I just hit the jackpot and have LOTS of work ahead of me.

I love looking through the pictures, and seeing the people and thinking ‘hey they are related to me’ and wondering what they were like.

Here is a picture of me in the dutch girl costume (looks like I’ve got some licorice hanging out of my mouth too), Jenny in a Friend bear costume, and Patsy in the 8 ball costume. 🙂

My parents at some dinner party (I have no idea when, maybe when they were first married, or engaged?)

I love this picture of my uncle Frank. He died in 1993 about a year before Timothy died. But I love his face in this picture (he’s the one on the left). He was such a fun guy:

Aw! A family picture of my grandparents, aunt Glenda and my dad as a little boy:

I just love this picture of my grandpa Denzel admiring my grandma Shirley, they eloped when they were almost 25 and almost 19.

Here’s a picture of Great Grandma Zoe holding Grandpa Denzel as a baby

And a picture of Grandma Zoe when she was younger:

And this is a picture of Grandma Shirley’s birth mother Willa Tevis Ballard, as a child, with her brother, Wilbur Harve Ballard

Oh I am so excited. These pictures here aren’t even a tip in the ice burg. They’re more like a shaving of the ice burg. 😉 Yes I have a real gold mine.

Pumpkin Patch

Dad decided to take the kids to the pumpkin patch tonight to get them out of everyone else’s hair until dinner time. And Jenny went with for kid control (at least she got lots of pictures. 😉 )

The got to go on bouncy slides:

And Dinah is just too fast for the camera:

They got to ride ponies:

They got to sit on pumpkins:

They got to pet goats:

And they got to spend some time having fun with their cousins, and they each got to pick a small pumpkin. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures of them with their pumpkins and they have since scribbled on them. 🙁 But be sure to check out the photo gallery for lots more pictures at the pumpkin patch.