Be Happy!

as soon as kyra and brad arrived sunday night,

they headed upstairs to see julia and let her get reaquainted

with winslow.

kevin took this picture of winslow

vocalizing.

i just love it!

Family Night!

I admit it--I'm a thief. I stole this picture from Kyra's blog on tumblr.

I decided last week, we needed to have a family dinner last night to celebrate my first harvest of zucchini. (I'm already regretting that I planted two packages of seeds!) We had homemade macaroni and cheese, green salad with lettuce from my garden, zucchini and of course the requisite brownies! After we ate outside on the patio, (it was just too hot inside after having the oven on for half an hour) we got out The Game and commenced play, Oldsters (Kevin and I) against The Youngsters (Brad, Kyra, Cody, Julia and Sean). We whomped on them the first game--a Trivial Pursuit record-25 minutes!! We played the speed round where you get a pie piece for every correct answer. Then the youngsters proceeded to take us down. We played best out of 3 wins and they won the next two games. It didn't help that Kevin was busy trying to set up his tumblr account. What a fun night!

Winslow!

he's dressed in his bath towel--so happy to be clean!
first time rolling from back to front!
in case you don't know, i have a new grandson, winslow, and here are some recent pictures of him that i stole from his mother's tumblr posts.

35 years!

Yesterday was my 35th wedding anniversary and this afternoon, Brad saw the cards Kevin and I exchanged on the kitchen table and asked how many years, after wishing me happy anniversary. When I told him 35, he asked if Mandi was 34. When I told him she is, he was pretty amazed. We both agreed that she looks way good!

Family time

I just had to share this because it reminds me of the day when 4 out of 5 people in the room were on their cell phones. I will post that picture sometime.

flashback friday

one time (a long time ago now) when my dad was visiting

clem and teri in logan, utah

he bought a toupee from my sister-in-law's dad, who

was a barber.

dad wore the toupee to church in his home ward

and in his priesthood class, the teacher asked him to introduce

himself. he replied, "i'm ray g--"s cousin clarence"

(my dad is ray g---)

we still enjoy a good laugh about that in our family. dad holding baby lori, clem, my brother-in-law

flashback friday

yes, flashback friday is here again!

you're going to love this story! when kevin came back from his mission, we thought it would be fun to visit family members he hadn't met yet, so we decided to take a weekend trip to reno, nevada, where my sister, teri, was living with her family, clem, tom, corinne, and lori. of course, we had to go play in the snow (it was march)! clem takes his camera everywhere with him and took this shot as kevin, teri and i flew down the hill. if i remember right, teri bumped her chin on my head when we landed. ouch!
take note of kevin's awesome shoes! (kevin, me, teri)
picture courtesy of corinne