Reed and Eliana come to visit!!

 Its been over 4 years since our son Reed has been home and it was the first time for Eliana! Ryne, Blake, Colter and Adlee also came at the same time, but they all went camping, except Adlee who got to stay and play with Eliana.

Adlee's other cousin, Brea Peters came to play one day. 3 little blondies, so cute!

Eliana loved playing outside, even though the wind blew the whole time they were here! She played in the playground area and the tree house! Eliana loved Gpa too!

Funny Adlee!

Eliana went down the slide over and over and over! Whee!

Eliana went down the zip line with Reed and crossed the swinging bridge all by herself!

After Reed and Eliana left on Thursday, it was just me and Adlee! She always has to have a snack before bedtime. Her favorite is a nutella sandwich!

It was so wonderful having our son home and to get to spend time with Eliana, who we don't get to see very much. It was also great to have Adlee all to myself while the boys were camping. It was a fun week!

Catching up on April going-ons!!! Lake Fun!

First of all my battery on my little Mac laptop went bad, so I've been without my computer for awhile, so I'm behind on my posts.

We've had a lot going on, so I'll try to catch up. The first week in April LaVerl and I decided we needed to spend a week at our place at Roosevelt to get everything done that needed done! We were hauling our RZR on a trailer, plus it was loaded with lots of other stuff. We left on Monday, April 5th, about 9:30am, but stopped in Show Low to get materials at Home Depot on the way.  By 1pm. we were finally headed out of town. About 30 miles out of Show Low, LaVerl says, "Whoa!, something just happened to my steering and brakes!" We luckily found a good pull out about a mile down the road. He figured out that the main serpentine belt had come off because a pulley had  frozen up! WE WERE STUCK! and there was no phone service! LaVerl started walking UP the road to try to get cell service on higher ground. He said he walked for a long time before someone finally stopped! A really nice older couple that said they knew Melvin and Wyatt both. Small world! He called Randell who came with a pickup loaded onto his huge backhoe trailer. We used his pickup to haul our trailer and put our truck onto his big trailer and headed back to Show Low. An hour later, they had the broken part back on and after we all ate some dinner, we were back on our way. We got to Roosevelt about 10:30pm!

All I can say it that everyone needs a friend like Randel. He can do it all and is always willing to help! He saved us!!!

When we got to Roosevelt, Kirk had been there a couple of hours. He bought a boat and wanted to have LaVerl take it out on the water with him before he took his family, who all came on Friday~

We always have to have S'mores!

The weather wasn't real hot yet and the water was still really cold, but we had fun. The boys got in the water and Kirk skied! Elijah insisted it wasn't that cold!!

Leo loved all the snacks!

Gabe loved helping Gpa drive the boat!

Rivers tried wake boarding and was up a couple of times for a few seconds!  He was pretty brave getting out in that cold water!

Little Gabriel was great for his first time on a boat!

The 3 boys got the bunk house to themselves! Kirk went into ShowLow on Saturday and bought a new bigger TV and a DVD player! NICE!  They plan on using the Lake house more now that they have a boat!

Our good friends, (and livesavers) brought their nice 5th wheel and came on Wednesday to visit us at Roosevelt. They stayed a couple of days. Then on Saturday, I had to go into Mesa to Mom and Dad's so that I could take them to get their second Covid-19 vaccine way out in Phoenix at the State Farm- Cardinal stadium at 8:15am.

It took us 45 minutes to drive out there and it was quite a process. We got in one of the 10 lanes, then went through three different checkpoints before we were done. Luckily Mom and Dad didn't have any adverse reaction to the shot! I headed back to Roosevelt about noon. I had to load up some big, nice plants I bought to replace the vines that died last year.

SPRING BREAK!!

 Spring Break means getting to see our kids and grandkids. First, Tami, Ryne and their 3 kids came. They have a house here that they've been renting out since they left to go back to school, then medical school. They had such a hassle getting their renters out and their place was pretty trashed and they left both back and front porches full of their stuff that we had to haul off!! We spent the first couple of days doing lots of cleaning, tearing out carpet and pad and filling holes.

On Saturday, it was Colter's baptism. It was so nice they could have it here because this is where most of Ryne's family is and it meant we didn't have to drive up to St. George!

What a sweet, wonderful family- "The Peters"

Colter has a lot of cousins that came to the baptism.

Kari and her boys came Friday, they followed us home from Mesa. Tami and I drove to Mesa Friday morning to attend an "angel-versary" that Bret was having for his kids to remember their Mom, Becki who died last year on March 13th.

Colter, Blake and Adlee.

Aunt Lisa and Colter. Lisa and her kids came Saturday and got here a couple of hours before the baptism. She had bad, snowy, foggy conditions on the roads trying to get home, but she made it.

Ryne baptized Colter at the Eagar Stake Center. His dad, Shawn is the Bishop of the Ramsey Park Ward.

Colter looked so cute in his new suit. 

Tami's family all left on Sunday and Kari's boys were really sad!

We had one day of nice weather and then we had COLD and snow the next day!

 

The kids were all getting ready to go play in the snow and this is what Landon put on! Just a hat and gloves!  It was pretty funny!

Kari made St. Patricks Day really fun for the kids. She had 'Lucky Charms' on the table when they woke up and on the back of the box was a card with the first clue on it that led to another clue, then another that finally led to a treasure--a box of lucky charms marshmellow treats.  The kids loved it.

Kari's baby Gabe is finally walking and is so very adorable!!

Kari's boys all dressed in their green St. Patrick's Day shirts.

Landon said, "Take my picture too."

Lisa's kiddos- Lilly, Lucy and Landon.

Later we made crafts and homemade shamrock, green pancakes!

Lucy tuckered out after a long day!

 

Kari left on Wednesday and Lisa left Thursday morning. It was wild and crazy with a houseful of noise/mess makers, but so fun having them all home!