Early Easter

We are celebrating Easter twice this year.  Adam and his parents can't be here on Easter because his dad has to work, so we had our own celebration a few days ago.

He thought it was great.  He didn't know what was going on though.

He had an egg in each hand.  When he found a new egg, he would throw down one from his hand and reach for a new one.  Dad's job was to collect all of the discarded eggs.

Then a few days later, he finally got his first tooth.  His dad was slow to get his too.  So no cavities from 

Easter candy. Yay!

Snow Canyon

Jim and I took an impromptu trip to Snow Canyon, near St. George.  We wanted to test out our new sleeping bags we got for backpacking.  We left Friday afternoon and came home Saturday night during a terrible snow storm.

Some beautiful scenery.  The weather was great, not hot and not cold.

Proof I was there.  I am so not photogenic.

It started to sprinkle just as we were ending our last hike.  It started to hail while we were at a restaurant in 

St. George.  By the time we got to Cedar City, it was snowing pretty hard.  We got stopped just outside Beaver.  Two semi trucks had jackknifed and there was a ten car pileup as a result.  Lots of other cars had slid off the road. We have heard that no one was hurt, which is a great blessing for everyone.  It took us about 6 hours to get home, when it usually takes less than 4 hours.  But in spite of everything, we had a good time. Sleeping bags were great!

Fry sauce vs. catsup

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Fry Sauce Vs. Catsup

 

Hmmm! Fry sauce is good!

 

Dad says that catsup is better.

 

I want to try catsup, but mom says it's icky!

 

Dad is right.  Catsup is the best!  I can't get enough!  Who needs fries?  I could just chug this down all day!

Weekend in Logan

We spent a great weekend with Eric, Angela and Adam.  Todd and Lisa were there too, so we were all together.  Everything was great except Logan City's attempt at extorting extra funds for their coffers from us.

We had a great visit to the cheese factory.

  

Adam was totally enthralled with the cheese making process.  So was Uncle Todd.  Or maybe they are just big cheese fans.

 We went to the zoo.

 

There was the cutest little boy penguin there.

We also went to the Pepperidge Farm Outlet store, the sock outlet store, the pajama outlet store. Do you see a pattern here?

We had a great time.  It is always so good for us all to be together.

Two Birthdays

We have had a great weekend.  Everyone came to celebrate Kristine's 20th birthday and Adam's 1st birthday, both born on January 14th.  We celebrated on the 15th so everyone could be with us.

The dinner.

The cake.

Only Kristine blew out the candles.  We didn't want baby spit on our pieces of cake.

He really like the candy frog on top.

Opening presents.

 

He doesn't usually go around without a shirt.  After the cake we just never put one back on.

 

 

And I finished his puzzle.

Current Projects

I always seem to be working on something, or somethings.  Here is a look at what is going on right now.

At Thanksgiving time we started on a small barn for the chickens.  And yes, we invite our kids home so they can slave for help us.   Here are Jim, Eric and Lisa.

Here is how it looks today.  The inside is finished, but we haven't been able to paint the rest of the outside yet.  The chickens love it.

They should love it.  This is where they used to live.  The ducks have been tearing the plastic off from it and eating it.  They are worse than goats.

We are building Adam this toy chest for his birthday, minus the heart and the frou frou pillows.

This is how far we are.  Actually we have done quite a bit.  The wood is all planed to uniform thicknesses and cut to length.  We need to glue up the boards to make panels now.

I am making a puppy puzzle for Adam.  Here is the picture from the magazine.

Here is the one I'm making.

It's all cut out.  Now I need to do a little sanding then paint and seal it.

I'm making two more arks, just taking my time.

I still have 3 more Santas to do for this past Christmas, mine, Kristine's and Janae's.

I didn't finish my nativity either.  One wiseman was really rough, the angel needs wings, and there are no animals yet, but I put it out anyway.  I'll stain everything when all is done.  I have to mix the stain and I want them all to be the same color. Jim said he could tell it wasn't done because they don't have any faces.  He is too funny.  That's why I chose the particular nativity.

Adam Holidays

We didn't get to spend Christmas with Eric, Angela and Adam this year.  Eric had to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas Night.  Angela was great and sent me these pictures so we could see some of what went on at the Busby House in Logan.

Adam putting out his first Christmas stocking on Christmas Eve.

Riding his new elephant.

Adam with dad.

Love those poppers.  We still have Eric's.

Angela with her beloved gummy frogs.

Eric with his new nerf gun.

Eric apologizing to Adam after hitting him in the diaper with a shot from his new nerf gun.  It hurt Adams feelings that his dad would shoot him.  Now he likes it because he likes to chew on the "bullets".

This is what Angela's family did to my beautiful grandson at their family party.  He is too much a boy to ever be mistaken for a girl.

This is from Halloween, obviously, but I didn't get the pictures until recently.

This is too cute.  Angela made the costumes.  I thought they were great!