Mormon Batallion Museum

After we went to the Midway, we went over to the newly remodeled Mormon Batallion Visitors Center. We were so pleasantly surprised and the fantastic job they have done with the renovation. It was really amazing at how much better this museum is now, we really enjoyed our visit there.





Klay and Gordon, hoping to get RICH!

Grandpa's visit!

Scott, Klay and Dad, came down for a visit last week, we had a great time! Scott came down to go to the motorcycle aution, Klay came down to buy a motorcyle and Dad came along for the adventure! They had a great time at the auction, Gordon, Klay, Dad and Scott all set out on Thursday morning for the big preview day, and you would think they were going to an after Christmas sale or something!! Some pretty excited guys..... All came home happy, especially Klay who found his mistress at the auction! She is a beauty and Scott found a couple of bikes to buy as well, so it was a successful day all around. They spent the rest of the day polishing and admiring their posessions! On Satureday we took Dad down to tour the Midway aircraft carrier so that he could relive his old Navy days, and it was a really wonderful day. The weather was picture perfect and the walk down memory lane was especially enjoyable.



Dad was explaining how he was on the "bomb squad". He was an "ordy", sounds like a slightly intimidating job, if you ask me. He served in the Korean War and was on the Valley Forge and the Essex.

Mom's Day Card!!

This free digital scrapbook made with Smilebox

I love this!!

Stacy's baby.....

While we were in Utah for the graduation we were also anxiously awaiting the arrival of a baby! A horse! When we got to Manti we went to visit the Mom to be, gave her a little pep talk about having the horse while we were in Utah so that we could see our "grandchild". This is mommy looking quite depressed and miserable, all she would do was stand in the stall and stare ahead like, "please let this end!!"

Well nothing happened and nothing happened and we were losing hope that we would be in town for the delivery.........We left Kaysville, early in the morning for our long journey home, I quickly fell asleep in the car and missed a phonecall and a text telling us to hurry up...the baby had come! We were on our way to Manti anyway to pick up Stacy to bring her back to California with us, so the timing could not have been any better! I would have felt horrible to take her back with us and have missed the birth, so I guess that little pep talk I had with the mother worked! When we got there the colt was only a few hours old and soooo very cute! Mom was pretty protective but Stacy managed to at least touch the baby and get to spend some time, taking pictures and just watching the most exciting thing nature has to offer. The horse is a Dun which is a rare coloring and it also has a white 7 on his forehead, she has named him Ace!

Blake's graduation!

This is certainly worth blogging! We are so proud of Blake and his recent graduation from BYU!! Way to go Blake you are such a hard worker and we are all so proud of you and your accomplishments!! We had a quick road trip up to the graduation and had such a wonderful time! We first stopped at Stacy's in Manti where we were treated to a little snowstorm in April! We got to visit her house and spend the night with her, Blake and Melissa even came down and we had a wonderful evening.

This is the view out of Stacy's kitchen window....wow.....

We then went up to Provo and spent the day with Blake and Melissa! Melissa's parents were also nice enough to come to town for the graduation, it was so nice of them and great to see them again. Here are some pictures of the proud day





It was sure a proud parent day, and we know that this is only the begninning of many very successful days ahead for Blake and his family!