Well, I just posted all my pictures, and they are not here. So go figure. I do not know what I did wrong. Maybe I'll figure it out someday, and maybe I will just give up.

PROBLEM FIXED....FINALLY

Well, Finally, I got a new background for my blog. I also have some fun new pictures to post. That will be later. Guess who was able to help me figure this out????? My sweet granddaughter JESSICA. That girl is pretty smart, and I love having her come stay with me. We have fun, and we sure know how to shop.

Another clowining around, Some of them did
not make it off the rocks in the last one.

Now they are just clowning around, but it was a lot of fun.

Finally, A Family Picture

I was finally able to get my family together for a picture
Unfortunately, the sun was not in our favor, but after trying
to get together many times, we just had to go for it. we
had a lot of fun, and now Mike wants to do it again.
The Grandkids are not too happy about that, but until
we do it again, this will have to do.
Hope everyone had very Merry Christmas.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL! ! !

I never did figure out how to get the pictures of my trip on here, so, I guess you won't get to see them. I am excited now because Becky, Mark, Shilo, Nathan, Natalie and Dallas are coming here for Thanksgiving. They are also bringing Grandma Great along, that will be fun for all of us here in Arizona. Can't wait to see them. We will be missing Skipper, Nia, Markey, Jon, and little Bennett. Wish they could come also.

I'M EXCITED

I'm off in the morning for my long awaited trip. I know I will have a blast, and when I get back, I will show off all my pictures. Hopefully I will remember to take some.

MORE DINNER PICTURES

ANOTHER PICTURE WITH HAYDEN

It is so fun to have Sunny living close
Little Hayden fits right in with the grandkids
They love him. He has a lot of fun when
they come. This is in the park next door
to my house. I still haven't figured out how
to put more than one picture on a post, so I
have to break it up into two posts. Sorry,
Sunny will teach me how someday.

DINNER WITH THE KIDS

Becky came to visit Sunny, and we had dinner together on Friday Night. I have been wanting a picture of the grandkids, so I was able to finally get them all together for this picture. I think it turned out pretty cute. We had a great visit and are so happy Becky could come to visit.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA

Hope all of you have a wonderful 4th of July. I am looking forward to it. I am going to
a BBQ with some of my single friends. It should be fun.

UNCLE LYLE

Sweet Uncle Lyle died, and Last Sunday Mike and I drove up to Orem, UT for his Funeral. It was a long trip, but nice, I enjoyed having some one on one time with my Oldest Son. We talked about a lot of things, business, kids, etc. We really enjoyed meeting relatives we haven't seen in a lot of years. We learned some fun things about Uncle Lyle. (Uncle Lyle was Ivan's Older brother.) He loved to garden, and he always had a beautiful yard. He taught his children to work by having them move the rock from one side of the yard to the other, and they all had to learn how to mow the lawn. He always took good care of his tools, and to make sure they didn't get lost he painted their handles orange and put his initials in them, (LDJ) that way every one always knew who they borrowed the tools from. We ejoyed a nice evening with my mom, and family. We had a nice dinner at my moms and visiting. Thanks for coming to visit us.
On the way home we decided to take the cut off at Camp Verde, and came down through Stawberry, Pine, and Payson, instead of staying on the Black Canyon Freeway. It was a beautiful drive, and we stopped in Strawberry and looked at a Cabin for sale. It helped break up the trip. I think I might like to go that way all the time now that the road from Payson is so nice. Looking forward to the Family Renunion in Burrville. See ya all then..... By for now.

KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION

I had such a fun morning this morning. I got to go with Mike and Tara and attend the graduation of Sara from Kindergarten. It was so cute, they all looked so dressed up, and sang several cute songs, then they all marched up and received their diploma's. Then we went to I-Hop for late Breakfast. She chose to go there because she likes the smiley face pancakes. They must n ot have anticipated the crowd, so we had to wait awhile before we got a seat, and then they always are so slow getting your food to you. Every kid in the class ended up there with their families to celebrate. (Well, it seemed like every kid) But it was fun, and I am so glad I got to go. Congratulations Sara!

Look what we found

Sunny was here helping me change my picture and we found a bunch of old pictures. This was taken at Dallas and Sunny's mission farewell luncheon. We found some good ones, so check back later. I'm kicking Sunny out because I'm tired. Good night!

ANOTHER PICTURE FROM THE PRESERVE

FUN PLACE TO WALK

I am trying to learn how to post pictures to this, and I got it backwards, this one was supposed to post first, and then the other one. But I mixed it up. I need to figure out how to put them all on the same post. Sunny, HELP!!!
I've been walking the dogs at the Riparian Preserve, It is down the road about 2 miles from my house. It is beautiful there with lots of ponds. There are a lot of birds, ducks, even rabbits once in awhile. It is a fun place to walk, It is getting too hot to go now, but I will be looking forward to winter when I can go again.

BIRTHDAY SHOPPING

Since my grandchildren have gotten older, I never know what to get them for their Birthday's or Christmas, so to make it easier on me, I started a little family tradition of taking them on a shopping trip and lunch. They always get to take their cousin with them, and in the case of Cameron and Bryce, their birthday's are both in the same month, so, this is the latest trip for their Birthday, and I think you can see we did have a lot of fun. They had these outfits pickred out, and then they found the sunglasses, they were the icing on the cake. I always look forward to these trips, and I hope they do also.