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Justin & Ami's wedding, Part 1

The DAY AFTER school started, we were summoned to attend a wedding for Justin and Ami. Seriously, these brides and grooms never ask the schedule of a sister to see if the timing is good for us..... ;)

We started our journey and stopped at Cove Fort in central Utah. It was pretty fun. We probably stayed a little longer than we should have, but it was good.

Next stop, Enterprise to a delicious dinner provided by Brandon & the kids (Amber was at a meeting or something).

Kelsey was glad to meet Chuck (which was good because he died in November :( ).

Bright and early, we visited Uncle Steven's grave.

And I just LOVE this pic of our family getting ready for family prayers. It's usually a little more....um.....lopsided? But this was actually really sweet!

And we are WIMPS. The Mesa heat basically smothered us and killed all of us...the only thing that saved us was the shaded pool at the hotel. Yay! We spent about 2 hours in the pool with....

Cousin Tenesa & Christian! Yay! They came from another suburb of Phoenix all the way down to see us and be with us. It was so much fun.

We found a striking food van painted like a pig. Riley wants to drive something like that to high school.

Last day of Summer, first day of school

Cousin Twinners in La Fiesta dresses. Allison and Lindsay once wore these!

I took the kids in the Grandmummsie mobile up to eight-mile for a "picnic." It was pretty durn dusty at the end of it.

Where we live!

Dad had an auction for the Willett farm. Basically, it was a bust :/ Come to find out later, Hyrum had been praying that it wouldn't sell. I, personally believe that had something to do with it.

When Hy and Ri got home from school I got their back-to-school pics. Hy is in 3rd grade with Ms. Alexandra Ready.

Riley is in 1st grade with Mr. Marty Beyler.

Jibbers and Machi-machi are holy terrors in the Busy Izzy Pre-K with Allison Schumann. The end.

Dog days of Summer

It took almost a year, but I finished painting and redoing the girls' room.

"Kelsey, show us your muscles!"

Ev was the round robin judge for sheep this year at the Cassia County Fair. He did so good and was so good looking out there ;)

Pizza on a cold evening with Poppa & Grandmummsie before school started at Lake Cleveland.

Last Sleepover at Grandma Spencer's

While the boys were in the Wind Rivers, the girls and I went to Grandma Spencer's house and spent the night....and I'm so glad we did. She ended up selling her home in Blackfoot 3 months later. The next morning, I got up and "wogged" to the cemetery to visit my grandpas and Aunt Rita and a few great-grandparents!

I remember that carpet from when I was a little girl and the toys the girls are playing with the same ones that I played with.

The gold dome of the Blackfoot swimming pool. Grandma went swimming with me & the girls and we went sliding and everything! We loved it.

Muscle girls!!

Wind Rivers

Poppa Bernie has always wanted to take his boys to the Wind Rivers. Evan & Hy were the only two that could make it, but they had a ball! They got tons of pics, but I just chose a few of my favorites:

Bernie trying to take a picture of the boys with a smartphone. I think this is the first selfie he's ever taken! Probably the only...

The parking lot at the beginning of the week. By Friday, this place was packed.

How cowboys like to go to the swimming hole.

Hy fishing with Poppa Bernie.

Someday I'll miss this...

....those pigtails that bounce when she runs and the blankies.

Hy showing me his new trick (Tank going through his legs).

Cray-cray sleeping positions...in MY room!

Toothless grins and lots of hugs & loves.

I might even miss the 4,307 piles of constant laundry that needs folded. Deep breath. Love the little ones.

Corgis, TOPS, & the curly hairs

So I'm part of TOPS (taking off pounds sensibly) and love our TOPS group. I feel like more than a weight-loss group it is a healthy life style group just helping us eat better and move more. This summer, we went on hikes and I loved it! Current members are: Rosanne Rex, Loralee Hansberger, Kimberly Gilbert, the Mummsie, Me & Margie (on the bottom pic). We have a good time together. Currently, Kim & I exercise at 5:30 am with T-25. Its a good workout!

In this pic, we went up behind the "R" mountain.

Here we are at the Grush Dairy office where we do weigh-ins and have our weekly mtgs.

And this was our Lake Cleveland hike. I hope we do it again next summer.

Kimberly's daughters are known as the "curly hairs". We watched them at Storybook Park one day.
Top, L to R: Hy, Audrey, Jibbers, Hannah, Leah, Lindsay. Middle: Sadee, Jennie, Riley. Hy is the same age as Audrey, Riley the twins, Lindsay as Leah. Jeb would have been the same age as Jennie and then we got a Jibbers. Its pretty fun and they are sweet girls.

In my quest for health, I would run up along the BLM. One day, I did the full 1.5 miles and turned around and there was old meat laying there. Of course, the corgis started chewing on it. I reached down to pull Herbie away and Muzzy tried to bite him for me and bit me instead! And she must of broken a blood vessel because check out that lump! I ended up getting antibiotics, but it didn't even break skin, so..... I don't know. Dang Muzzy! We knew that when we got her she was 'dog-aggressive" but I wasn't impressed when she got me!