Graduation's

Autumn and Savannah graduated from their pre-school today. Autumn's was at 10am and Savannah's was at 12pm and was held at the same place. Look, Autumn and Savannah got the same hat for their silly song! Above, Autumn is on the back row wearing green & brown. Savannah (below) is on the front row in a yellow dress.

Autumn got to wear a cooking hat for "On Top of Spaghetti" song and Savannah got to hold the camels hump card for "Sally the Camel had 5 Humps" song.

Autumn was a sheep in the song "Silly Sally" and Savannah was a puppy dog (below picture & 5 from the left)!

And after all the songs it was graduation time from pre-school!
Megan was very concerned that "bunny" was not able to see Autumn. It was a very cute program and Autumn, Megan and Angie stayed to watch Savannah's program and then we all went to lunch! Congratulations Autumn and Savannah, we love you!!

Something New

Well, these are not something new but, they did get new packaging as Abby and I found out. We cleaned out the freezer and found many strange and scary things from a couple of years ago in the bottom of our chest freezer (which is not staying). Such as Maddox Steaks changed their wrappings! And no, the something new is not the mower man on the golf course...
It's hidden in our trees!
Mommy and baby birds (at least 2). Sorry that we can only see the mommy, that is if you enlarge this picture. Stay tuned for more adventures with our new friends.

Memorial Day 2010

I had to start this Memorial Day post with my favorite headstone which can be found in the Tremonton Cemetery. I think that is what I want on my headstone "I told you I was sick"! It is a classic!
We started off the day with "This is the PLACE Heritage Park". Yes, that is a snake the kids are touching. Notice Angie is the only adult willing to touch a snake.

Josh is $5.00 richer for kissing a pig, thanks to Grandpa. Notice the care takers face, he wouldn't do it. They were dirty!! Way to go Josh!!!
The kids got to make arrow head necklaces at the Indian village (Grandpa had to make one too).
Grandpa took the kids to the bank to get some real "money of the day" and
then they went and spent their dollar at the candy store.

After the park, we went to John and Josh's favorite buffet, Chuck-A-Rama. As you can see by the drinking glasses on the table we did some pretty hefty tasting of the soda section and made a couple of trip's to the bathroom!
Then we needed to walk off the buffet so we walked around the block to Gilgal Park.
It is a very different kind of park by Thomas Child. It is located at 749 East 500 South, SLC.
Yes, Joseph Smith is a Sphinx.
Everything has a scriptural reference
Below is a self-portrait of Child and conveys his great love for the masonry trade and for his religion. He is holding a Bible and the building behind him is the LDS Tenth Ward where he was the Bishop for 19 years.

The Arch is a monument to the Priesthood.
Everything is related to certain scriptures. The above picture is the last Chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes. The picture below is Daniel II: Nebuchadnezzar's Dream.
The picture below is about the Biblical story of the captain who appeared to Joshua and gave him a plan to assure the Israelite's victory over Jericho. They have a brochure that helps you piece it together.
I want to go back and read all the scriptures that are there and soak it in.
We ended the day with an exciting game of what else? Ping Pong.

Idaho or Bust

On Saturday of Memorial Day weekend we traveled up to Idaho to deliver some mattress's to Angela. We rented a trailer because it was to rain and did rain all the way up and back.
We got to play with Jack and Brooke and it was so fun! I was taking pictures so Jack needed to capture some moments on his camera too.



It was sad to leave...
Oh, on our way up to Idaho we picked up Grandpa Wheatley in Tremonton and stopped in Pocatello do decorate graves. It was cold, windy and raining a little.
News flash: in Idaho they don't dig around the head stones, so if you don't dig them out once a year the grass grows over them!

Now the Tremonton Cemetery is a different story. They take very good care of it.

Happy 30th Birthday Liz

Happy Birthday to my oldest daughter Elizabeth, we love you so much! And look at the cute grandchildren that she has given me and wonderful son-in-law, too!
Happy Birthday Liz started out with Joshua having his 1st Grade program and he is the handsome one on the back row in the white shirt! Of course I have video but I have not learned the fine art of putting them onto the blog (the video will just not work, help!).

His class did a group reading and then a story of the Three Little Pigs with props. It was so cute.

Josh has a poster of his "loves" (above) and his Spring ideas (below)

After his wonderful program we went to Birthday lunch at Texas Roadhouse and of course the picture is not so good of the Birthday girl, we love you Liz!
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Dollar "$" Sign

Brigham City has a dollar $ sign on it's mountain. It's not as perfect of a $ dollar sign as it used to be when I was growing up. In the above picture look at the little green tree top and look straight up from there on a little sandy piece of the mountain with no trees around it and there it is $.
I would sit and look out my front window and stare at the mountain. It more or less looks like an "S" now, but it's still there! Next time your in Brigham City, stop and look at the mountain!