May thru Sept. 2013

Wow time flies when you are having fun.

We have just not had time to keep up with this blog.

First big event was our first grandson receiving his mission call.

Jared

He will be going to the Philippines Manila Mission.

Then we had graduations and Memorial Day.

First Amanda - ISU

then Janeal to Jr. High

then Jared from High School

then Kiegan from High School

Memorial Day - Idaho Falls

Parker

Attended the 4th of July parade

A shower for Jenna - our first grandchild to get married.

Jared at the temple

Jenna at the temple

Worked all summer on our back yard. It was in really bad shape after our Africa Mission.

Had beautiful peaches this year.

Jenna’s wedding

Trip to St. George with Joan and Larry. We went to the Tuacahn Amphitheatre and saw Thoroughly Modern Millie and Disney’s Mary Poppins.

Time to sell the Goldwing. I guess our cycle traveling time is over.

Still working in the temple.

We are enjoying our time at home with family, but we feel we need to serve another mission.

We will submit paperwork next month. Watch for the results.

March & April 2013

Not much has happened in the past 2 months. I guess we live a pretty boring life. Maybe we need to leave on another mission.

We attended lots of grandkid’s recitals.

Outings with the grandkids.

And we celebrated Rich’s 70th birthday. Sorry, no photos. It was pretty boring.

We started yard work. We will have a lot of work to do to get our yard back into shape after 2 summers of neglect.

Sandra performed in her Bell Choir at the First Presbyterian Church.

Attended several funerals. We are getting to an age where all our friends are dying off.

The Ward Young Men & Young Women held a dinner for the old folks in the ward, and guess what? We were invited. I guess we might as well accept the fact that we fit into the old generation.

The highlight for these 2 months was our trip to General Conference. Sandra has wanted to attend a conference for years. And this time we were able to get tickets. We actually got 6 tickets so we invited Lee & Nancy and Hal & Debbie to go with us. Hal & Debbie were unable to go so we gave 2 tickets away.

We had a great weekend with Lee & Nancy and really enjoyed attending the conference session with them.

We were asked to present a fireside for the Ammon Stake Relief Society Saturday activity. It’s always fun to talk about our mission so we enjoyed that. There were about 200 in attendance.

Then to close out the month of April we went to Boise to see Sandra’s Aunt & Uncle. Sorry, again no photos. Rich is just getting out of the habit.

We visited Mitch’s parents and the Jorgensens that we had served with in Africa.

February 2013

We seem to be settling into our routine. But we are still not getting used to the cold.

We keep trying to find things to do, so early in the month we volunteered to serve at the local soup kitchen.

We celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary.

Attended several of Taylor’s swim meets. His team did very well. They took first in the final competition between schools.

Attended the temple on a day other than our scheduled shift.

Sandra attended New Beginnings with Tawnya. 

We gave a special fireside to one of the Wards in our Stake for Relief Society Home Making meeting.

We helped clean the church on one Saturday.

We celebrated Valentine’s Day with our traditional night out with Brenda & Lavar Summers and Susan Welker.

Sorry we didn’t get any photos of many of our activities. I guess we are just getting out of the habit.

The highlight of the month was our cruise with Sandra’s brothers and sister. We went to the Mexican Riviera on the Sapphire Princess. We really had a great time.

We stayed the night before leaving with Lee & Nancy. Then flew out of Salt Lake City Sat. morning.

We had a GREAT time-
playing cards

eating a lot

took an excursion on a zipline

whale watching

but best of all was visiting with our family.

Wrapped up the month with the Blue & Gold Banquet with a theme of the Knights of the Roundtable.

Wow, how will we top all that next month?