Our oldest Grandson Graduates from High School! JUNE 12, 2023

 Kaemon Schell Crosby graduates June 12, 2023 from Franklin High School in El Paso, TX. One of 750! 

It was a Monday night, which seemed strange, so we left on Sunday, after we cleaned our little Airbnb.

When we got to El Paso on Sunday, Kaemon got ordained to the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Both sets of grandparents were there!

 And Rick and Brittney Bandley.

Kaemon is almost as tall as his Gpa!!

And Mark FINALLY got the Model A! It's been being restored for over two years, but it is BEAUTIFUL!! 

We came home early Tuesday morning, got all repacked and headed to St. George, UT for our 'adult kids and spouses' reunion!

'Granny Duty' with Lisa's kids!

June 6th is Lisa and Barry's wedding anniversary, along with Kari and my Dad's birthdays! I wanted to give Lisa a little break from her 3 kids and so I brought them home with me for a week. We had a great time! We rode the RZR to town, got lots of ice cream cones, played lots of Crazy 8's, went to the library and the park, & had lots of fun!

Lucy loves finding little special things, shells, flowers, bird eggs!

We were invited to a bonfire party out at Chris and Jarrae Wilson's house. They provided hot dogs for everyone (at least 50 people came!) and we all brought side dishes. The kids had S'mores and played 4-square,  & corn hole and had a ball.

And oh, what a sunset we enjoyed !

The kids helped plant the garden. I also had to get a new trampoline, the old one had all the straps tearing! The mat was fine, so that was maddening. So the kids had fun on the new trampoline.

Landon loved just being able to go outside and explore!

Lilly helped me repaint my patio benches.

They LOVED  'story time' at the library.

They got seven books and two videos. They love to read stories before bedtime.

One day we went to the Splash pad and park. We were there over about 2 hours.

I think they had more fun with a lady bug they found.

Their last night, we finally had time for a campfire and S'mores at our house. Gpa and I sure enjoyed having these cute little kids come spend some time with us in Eagar!

The week before Ryne and boys were here and LaVerl got out a can of quarters for Blake to go through. He really into coin collecting. They loved organizing them all by year they were minted, it took them hours!

ST. GEORGE, UT- spending a week with some grandkids!

 Tami had a work conference/trade show in Chicago, IL that her work-Arbinger Institute sent her for. She wanted Ryne to come after she was done to spend a few days sight seeing, so I came to watch their 3 kids. I drove up to St. George with Ryne and boys who had come to Eagar/Black River to camp and fish. LaVerl was glad I didn't have to drove the 7.5 hours by myself.

We stopped at Marble Canyon for a little break.

On Wednesday it was Adlee Belle's graduation from Kindergarten. She was the cutest one there!! In Gma's opinion!!

When the boys were at school, Adlee and I played mini-golf at the club house at Sports Village where they are living right now. She got a hole-in-one!

Because school was almost done, the boys got out after half-day school, so we went to the Dinosaur Museum.

 In 2000, a local optometrist Dr. Sheldon Johnson was leveling a hill on his property in St. George when he found a thick level of sandstone as he removed layers of sedimentary rock. As he removed large blocks of rocks, Dr. Johnson discovered a fully preserved, three-dimensional dinosaur track that was visible in both the brittle clay below and also on the bottom of the sandstone block. The track was just one of the thousands made by dinosaurs and other animals almost 200 million years ago on the shores of an ancient lake near St. George and within the broader Colorado Plateau and surrounding areas that are world-renowned for the high concentration of Triassic-Jurassic fossil resources.

Experts converged on the site to verify and reveal an extensive “trackway” found on the farm. Realizing that these dinosaur tracks would be best served if they were maintained for scientific and educational purposes, Dr. Johnson and his wife LaVerna donated the found tracks and arranged for the land to be cared for by the City of St. George. This is now a Dinosaur Museum.

It was very interesting, but lots of reading for little kids!

There was a big sand box where they had to dig to uncover the dinosaur tracks.

Tami and Ryne got home at 6am in the morning Friday after a late night flying home and a 2 hour delay at the airport. We will head back to Arizona tomorrow morning. It was great spending time with my grandkids while Tami & Ryne were in Chicago!