A wonderful week with the Lau's

The wonderful Lau family with the fabulous new pillows we made! Sorry husbands! My daughters take after me when it comes to pillows! They really make us happy!

I told the kids I'd let them buy something for a dollar at Joanns. I never knew a choice could be so hard! It took about a half an hour, about the same time it took us to pick out fabric! It was fun--whatever we did together was fun!

We had fun at the zoo! I can see why they get a season pass- it was fabulous!

Cool monkeys! (In the background!)

Sidecut park was so pretty. I wish I could walk there everyday -
with all of you!

The last day, we went to a beach! We were thrilled that it was so warm that day and had fun playing in the sand and water. Matthew got clear in because he wanted to try out a new life jacket!

Jill driving home from the beach.

Thanks for the wonderful time! I loved being there with you.

Happenings at the farm

Its always special to visit graves on Memorial Day. Grandma was sweet to provide all the flowers for us. She loved grandpa so much! Jenny and Nate were there just after this picture. We're glad to have Grandma here this summer.

I was amazed to see Brandon and Christopher killing birds with a BB gun and sling shot! They are getting pretty good!

Nolan saves the day!

"And he called his name Noah (Nolan) saying, this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed." Genesis 5:29

We were so thrilled, happy and amazed at all the work Nolan did for us at the river house. We were just about out of steam! He was so careful to get all the rocks in just the right place and worked so hard! We love the retaining walls so much and are thankful for all the other work he did too-- shaping the land, designing the sprinkler system, moving the cement edging etc. etc. It was fun to have Ashley and the kids to visit with every day too. I forgot to take a family picture! We had lots of fun sewing together and I loved playing with the kid. Thanks for everything!

Visit from the Lee's

It was wonderful to have Jenny, Nate and the kids here! They got here Friday in time to visit with Nolan and Ashley before they left. Sat. Dad and I went to a temple sealing so they went bowling and to a show with Darin and Tayna and the kids. When we were done at the temple we met everyone at the river house and had a fun evening. We cooked out and kayaked. The weather was even good which was great!! Sunday morning we floated ducks down the waterfall and played a game. They look great all dressed up for church.




Savannah and Heidi are great buddies. When Savannah has her bangs down they look so much alike!

we're almost ready for you, kids!

We can't wait for all of you to come to the river house this summer! We thought we could play "Pick up Sticks!" JK! Sometimes we don't know if we're making any progress! We do have this all cleaned up now, thank goodness. Dave Sunburg climbed up the tree with his big chain saw and cut the top half off first! Dad, Darin, Pete and Brian worked to clear it off. Then the next day, dad and I raked and picked up a million little sticks in 32 degree weather! We sure do look forward to when it is done!

the cruise was great!

Hi everyone, can you believe I am blogging? The slide show was all I could do in one day, so now we'll see if I can add the words. We went on the Caribbean Princess. It was 950 feet long. If you walk around the Promanade deck 2.7 times you've walked one mile! With over 3000 guests and 1100 crew the elevators were very busy so we took the stairs a lot and now I can walk up and down stairs withour holding on to something! We left from San Juan, Puerto Rico and went to St. Thomas where we got an open air taxi to Coki Beach and snorkled. It was great. Tortolla was next. We caught another open air taxi and took an exciting tour of the Island. The roads are very narrow and winding and steep! Thats where I found us a lot! It was a little steep though! We went to a beach there too. Antiqua was next and we booked a tour from the ship. We toured part of the Island, took a speed boat out to some mangroves where kayaks were waiting for us. We did that for while then boated over to Bird Island where we snorkled, then climbed Bird Island to the top where so had wonderful views! St. Lucia was next and we did the same tour Ron and Diane just did a few weeks ago. They found it on the internet, Cosol Tours. It was almost 8 hours long and was great. We toured the Island, stopping to eat a few times, shopped at little road side stands, learn about how bananas grow, viewed a volcano that smelled just like Yellowstone, swam in a waterfall then boated to a great beach and view of the pitons where we had some of our best snorkling ever! Barbados was next the we took a taxi to a beach where we swam out aways and snorkled where the turtles were- cool! The last day was at sea. At night we went to the wonderful shows, then walked around the ship to see what else was happening. We danced a lot, sometimes at the ballroom dancing place and the disco the same night. We slept very good! We went to church in San Juan. It was very nice. It was all in Spanish but we were happy to be there. We had a wonderful trip and felt so blessed to have felt so good and had peace and safety and most of, we all grew to love each other even more! Hope we can go with all of you in the near future!