Birthdays! Cake! Sugar ! wheeeeeee!

Kristyn and Wendy, Happy birthday ladies! Love you both. I called / am calling you individually, but also wanted to leave a posting, here. You're da bomb! (yeah, got nothing snappy or witty to say, just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you).

Happy Birthday Kristyn!

Here is a picture of some of us gals wishing you a great day! Don't they look happy for you. Smiling because of how lucky they feel to know you and thinking, "she could have been in this picture but she was so busy being a super Mom that she didn't have time to sit down!" And we're all wishing we could have partied with you on your birthday. It must have been off the hook because some of us are still trying to get a hold of you to say "Hey, your awesome! Have a Happy Birthday!"

Happy Birthday Jason!

Here is the only picture of Jason we took during the whole trip! Not Jason?!? OK. But he could have a similar profile... and he is really tall... and I know he is Joy's rock to lean on when she needs him... and I believe he could weather any storm and still stand firm!
We actually took this picture on the way to the wedding in a place called "The Valley of the Gods" (See another close fit!)
Jason we hope you had a great birthday and actually got to celebrate it with Joy (as in the same town and all). Maybe Joy even made one of her signature cakes and you went crazy and had a soda too! We're all glad your a part of our family.

Happy Birthday!

Wedding Pics

Hi family!

We are here. I am locked out of my email which has made things very difficult (our callings and such) . We have had a house guest staying with us the last couple of weeks. It has been a very sad situation and so a lot of things have been put on hold while work through some things. I have thought about Jenny and Chris being foster parents and how I really do not feel that "call". The thought occurred to me that not just foster children need a safe home to go to sometimes.

So maybe... this week... we will return to a normal schedule.

Oh and did I mention that Jason has gone out of town 5 times in the last 2 months and that he will be leaving again soon. :(

What's on your bottom

Joy was here last week. Miss them so much. They were such good kids for Grandpa and Grandma. Course I gave them as much sugar as they wanted(did I say that).
Anyway, we were off to a park or something. The kids were in back all straped in. Grandpa couldn't go, so I sat in front. Joy was putting Rachel into her car seat.
There was a toy rocket on the front passager seat. I slid it to the floor and sat down.
Westley said," Grandma, you have something on your bum". "What! I said. Is it a spider?" No he shook his head." You have something on your bum". "What is it, did i get it off."? I brushed my backside thinking it was crawling on me." Was is food or are my pants stained? "" No, he said, you have something on your bum".
"What is it Westley?"
"My rocket' he said.
"Oh, I have your rocket on my bum". He shook his head yes.
'Well," begining to laugh," its on the floor"." Grandma didn't sit on it. Its ok,"
I guess he thought if I sat on his rocket it was going to stick there.
Lucky for me I haven't had any rockets stick to my bum lately. But you never know.
Grandma

Happy Father's Day!

Grandpa, Vic, Sam, Chris, Jason, Pete, Paul, Thad and to all of the great Dads I know; Happy Father's Day! I could write about your hard work, sacrifice, playing with children when you don't really want to and when you do, senses of humor, protective nature, priesthood holding worthiness, good traits and examples. But if the women in your life are doing their jobs, you already know this so my words are just a reminder of your awesomeness.

Strut around and enjoy your day! You deserve it.

We love you

Dear family, thank you so much for posting birthday wishes and photos of our sweet Lucy.  And for remembering her yesterday and on so many other days.  It means more than we can say.  We still struggle to know how best to celebrate, honor and remember our sweet girl, especially when sometimes we don't feel like celebrating.  I [Vic] cried a lot yesterday but in the end had a nice day.  Molly did a marvelous job of making it a special day.  We had hot dogs [Lucy's favorite] and a cake.  Peter made us light the candles and sing Happy Birthday 4 or 5 times.  He likes to blow them out.  We took care of a few things around the house, played, watched the mama and baby moose that have been living in our back yard, visited Nancy [who is recovering well from her surgery], and didn't get done a lot of other things on our "to do lists" but we enjoyed the day together as a family.  Summer seems to have finally arrived in Park City.  Our  back yard is beautiful with the stream running full and then some, the trees waving in the mountain breezes and bird singing loudly that it is wonderful to be alive [including at 5am when I am not quite ready to wake up].  I guess that is it for now.  We love you.  Thank you for loving us.  And thank you for loving Lucy.

Happy Birthday Lucy

What Special Shape cake would you want for your birthday today?

Happy BirthdayLucy!

Happy Birthday Lucy! We love you!

Happy birthday Lucy doll

(photos taken January 12, 2007)

I love how Lucy is smiling in all three, and Thacks is crying in all three. :) She was working the camera and charming everyone there.

And she had enough hair for pigtails already?! Amazing.

Happy 5th birthday little one. Miss you princess.

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/19/136142322/book-of-mormon-creators-on-their-broadway-smash

I told Mom I would send her the link the Fresh Air (liberal left) radio show and interview with the creators of the Broadway hit "Book of Mormon". It is edited differently than what I heard on the radio. They left out some of the song clips and some other things. Make no mistake, the broadway show is crude, crass rude and they are making fun of Mormons. BUT.... well, listen the radio clip (when you click on the link above it will you take you to the NPR page and you click on "Listen" to hear the show).

There is no such thing as negative press... right???