School pictures are in and YAY they both smiled. 😀
Ethan’s 1st grade picture:
Tyra’s kindergarten picture:
Category: Our Family
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.
Redlands California Temple
Since the Redlands California Temple is on the way back to the freeway from Apple Country, we stopped by so the kids could see it. The last time that Kyle and I had been there was before Kyle’s dad died, but I kind of don’t think it was finished then…..
So we took the kids to see it. Unfortunately the gates were locked so we couldn’t get out and walk around the temple grounds. 🙁 But I still got a picture. 😀
