Kemmerer and Progress

We haven't been to visit Abbigail, Madaline and Charlotte since last October so this week we decided to make a trip to Kemmerer, Wyoming. We headed out Friday afternoon for Kemmerer and got there about 7 oclock. That evening we walked down town and had dinner at Bootleggers. It was a nice evening.

On Saturday we went to Diamondville for a "yard sale" at the park there where there were lots and lots of playground equipment where the kids played and I took pictures.

After that we went to lunch and then Madaline and Charlotte took naps while Justin, Deborah, Abbigail and I went to a pond and fished. I didn't do much fishing, rather I took a lot of pictures. They caught som fish and we came home.

About 5 oclock pm we headed home.

On Sunday evening we went to Lorna's graduations. It was nice.

Monday was nice warm weather so after work Deborah made progress with her garden and I made some progress with Deborah's help with the deck.

Grandkids and Boise

This past Friday I had meetings in Boise so we took off on Thursday for Boise. Grandpa Reed got to go with us to visit Darla and Travis.

I wasn't feeling well at first so Deborah drove. Toward the end I was feeling a little better so I took some pictures on our way over.

The first night we stayed with Kambri, Kiera and Brian. Friday morning on my way to my meetings I took Kambri and Deborah to spend the day with Pam, Isabelle and Payton.

All they did was play all day. The went to the park and had lunch. They then went home and watched a movie.

Later that evening I went to the new Star Trek movie with Nathan, Kiera and Brian. Deborah took Kambri and went to Dillon's Soccor game. We stayed the second night at Jason and Pams.

Saturdy morning I went to JB's to have breakfast with Darla, Travis and family. Kambri was there and was the center of attraction.

We left at about noon to head back to help Lorna and John get ready for the dance. (At least Deborah did.)

It was a fun weekend.

Grafting and a Couple of Holes

It is Sunday after Stake Conference which was really good. I decided to update our blog again. No, I am not going bore you with this daily but I want to get in the habit of keeping it up.

For months Deborah has been studying about grafting limbs into other trees. She has been doing this since last fall. We have this crabapple tree in our back yard. It is a beautiful tree in the fall as you can see by the picture but the apples taste terrible. She has always loved the strawberry crabapples that have grown on her mother's tree when she was growing up. Deborah decided that she would graft some twigs from that crabapple to our crabapple tree. Kind of like the story in Jacob of the Book of Mormon.

Saturday, Deborah decided that that was the day to do this. We started out by going to Deborah's parents where Deborah started cutting off new starts from the branches of the strawberry crab.

We then took the branches home and Deborah went to work on our crabapple tree. She started the major surgery by cutting off the limbs of the tree where we were grafting the new twigs to.

She then cut a slit in the end of the stub and inserted two of the twigs into the slit and then covered it with a tree paste that is supposed to help in the healing.

You can see the progress in the pictures and the final is the after shot of our now new strawberry crabapple tree. Compare it with the initial picture and there is a big change.

I wasn't near as industrious as Deborah. I did get the ledger board for our deck attached to the house and the two holes dug for the foundations of the posts to our deck. Friday I unloaded the wood for the deck out of the pickup and stacked in back to where the deck will be. Remember the deck is only 6'x6' so it is not very large. We are going to have some pavers by the deck to be a patio in our herb garden.

Home without grandchildren

We are now going on two weekends without grandchildren. I think Deborah is going through withdrawals. We will get a big fix next weekend when we go to Boise and get to visit both the Stites and the Hawkes with lots of grand children to visit.

Deborah has been busy working in the yard. She really loves keeping things nice.

I have a new project. (I do better with projects than just "yard work".) I am building a new deck with Deborah's help. She is the master carpenter of the family. I have included a before picture and hope to show our progress as it goes along. I am hoping that it is not an all summer project and that it gets completed in a couple of weeks. It is only a little deck of 6'X6'. I am also planning on putting in an herb garden to go along with Deborah's hydrophonic strawberries. Deborah put in another 4 towers this spring. This is the before picture.

I also spent a little time photographing Deborah's flowers in the front of the house. She does a really good job with those flowers.

Kirsten, Brandon and Jonas

Right after Kambri left we got to have Jonas over. He came the Monday after Easter and stayed through the following Monday. He had to bring his parents, Kirsten and Brandon, something about being too young to fly alone on the plane. They came before we went to Arizona and left after we came back.

Jonas is in his tie.

Grandma and Jonas. It was fun and now we are without grandchildren again. We still have children with Lorna, John and Jared living with us, but they are not as fun as grandchildren.

R & R in Arizona

On April 15th I got to accompany Deborah to Mesa, Arizona, where she had training. This time I got to relax and play all day while Deborah went to class. I tried out some place to eat that were shown on the Food Networks Diners, Dives and Drive-Ins. I tried a Mexican place near where our motel was and then the next day I tried a really good German place across Phoenix in Glendale.

One night we visited the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix which was really interesting.

There was artwork.

There were butterflies.

There were Cacti of course.

And Flowers.

We did a session in the Mesa Temple on Friday.

Saturday we headed north and visited Sedona

and Montizuma's Castle.
It was relaxing and enjoyable at least for me. I think Deborah enjoyed it too.

Scott Family Easter Party

Kambri, Kiera and Brian went home in the morning of Easter. We were still not done having fun. After church we went to Annis to the Scott Family Easter Party.

There we had dinner and the famous Easter Egg Hunt that Grandma Scott puts together every Easter. We looked for the eggs that eventually led us to the ultimate prize of pop and chips.

We had to look low.

And we had to look high. Everyone had fun.

We finished up with bean bag baseball and everyone visited and enjoyed each others company.

It is about time

We haven't posted in about a year and a half. I guess it is about time to post again. I am going to attempt this in multiple post.

First we has the enjoyment to have Kiera and Brian visit us on easter weekend. Of course they brought Kambri who is the highlight of the visit.

We took Kambri on the Rexburt Easter egg hunt.

We also played with puppets with Kambri. She is a lot of fun.