Jemma and Troy came to Lunch last week, after we went to lunch at Artic Circle, Jemma stayed with me while Dad-Dad went to work for a couple of hours. She is very busy.
Here she is emptying my storag in my foot stool, I had forgotten all that was in it, but now it is cleand out. I said are you "cleaning up" and she said "No, Away" Meening, I guess that she doesn't clean up - she puts away. I sure enjoyed her, we must do it again!!
My 2 "Fathers" and their families came to celebrate with us. I love being close to family, have I mentioned that? I sure not enough! Dinner was wonderful, check out Nicole's blog for the wonderful desert we all enjoyed after grilled steak (my garage still smells great) and all the trimmings.
And to end the day - after the storm, I caught this terrific sun set - it was almost worth all the rain. Now I understand we are going to be in the 80's the end of this week. So I will get my new Lilac Bush in and perhaps we can have a swim party!! Many of my ancestors are buried in the Richfield Cemetery! Yesterday, Gene and I met my mom at the cemetery to "decorate" the graves.
Richfield Cemetery is a combination of "Pioneer" and modern head stones, I love to drive into the cemetery and see all the flags flying - there appears to be a flag on every "veteran" grave, and it is beautiful. Richfield comes out in mass to put flowers on the graves of their ancestors - we were no exception yesterday!
I found this treasure at the library! It takes place on 2 continents - England and Australia. Jumps back and forth between 3 different time periods. Early 20th century to 1975 to 2005. I enjoyed the mental exercise keeping the characters and generations straight in my head. She is, in my opinion, a good writer, I liked her descriptions.
Kate Morton is from England - check out her website www.katemorton.com and listed to her explain how she comes to write some of her books. I have a couple more on order from the library, but am thinking I may want to own this one.
We came home from a social and these little crittes were in the drive way - we went around them to park and so did many of others going home. Listen to Mama Duck talking to her little ones, and just like some of our little ones, they are not listening. Enjoy!
We took a walk around our community it's about a mile all the way around. I took my fun camera, it's not as good as Nicole's but I think you can see how pretty spring is in my community!! This is just west of our home at the end of the community.
These are on the north side, most of the daffodils and jonquils are gone - beat up by the wind and rain but these pretty little ones have survived.
These orange tulips are close to our home - across the street - tulips are blooming every where and in such wonderful colors. I wonder what color I will plant in the fall - anyone have any suggestions? I'm kind of favoring the purple - lavender hues.
The favored ground cover seems to be purple phlox and you can find it all around, there is some pink and some lavender and Patty has some really deep purple.
This is the very LAST snow blog I'm doing! I don't care if it snows in August! Enjoy!!
Yesterday the temperature was in the 70 - a beautiful day. When I walked down to get the mail a soft warm rain began. Jim and Troy came and had pizza with us and the "boys" (Jim, Troy and Gene) went to Priesthood so Stephanie and the 3 little ones hung out here until Priesthood was over. When they left it was raining - still not cold, just raining. 
Soooooo, I put the "Spring" bedspread on the bed, it really brightened up our bedroom. Made my HH "Happy Hubby" Happy!
Then I hung my new Spring wall hanging in the entrance hall and it brightens up my world as folks come to visit. (Almost finished with summer!)
Last Thursday RosaLee, David, Gene and I took a "road" trip! The plan was to drive to Lynndyl and Eureka, Utah - where RosaLee and I spent much of our childhood.
We headed that way, but stopped in Goshen to ask directions to where the Church is building a movie set to depict old Jerusalem. As we drove along it was more and more evident that we were in "cow country". Above is a still of the cows feeding, the video at the end gives you and idea how many cows that were along side of the road. 
This is the church in Lynndyl, I was baptized there. The font was under the stage. I don't know if it's still there, we couldn't get it. It is now used as a community center and is known as "The Princess".
This is where our home was (the vacant lot) right along the rail road tracks. Nothing there now, however, we did walk the same road that we walked 50 years ago to school, and remembered the larg garden Dad planted each year next to the house.
After Lynndyl, we moved to Eureka, there are only 2 churches there now, I don't remember which one we went to.
I think the white on in the for ground!
There is an old cabin there now (wasn't there when we lived there) moved from "Cherry Creek". Belonged to Porter Rockwell, very interesting.
Main Street Eureka, 2011!
Amazing to me that much work was done setting on the floor. Here Tasha is making sure of her directions.
Finished product and just an hour or so into Sunday - Grandma needs a nap.
I forgot to add my "pathetic" snowman to the birthday post. I just had to get out into the snow - it is not cold just piling up snow. So, I shoveled the walk, couldn't wait for the maintenance crew to do it and then built a snow man - I must be out of practice (50 years in California will do that to you) because he's pretty pathetic. Gene wouldn't let me have a had so SHE has a flower in her hair (head)! Her face is grapes (I couldn't waste my peanut M&M's) I had to build her on the patio, because I didn't want to muss up the lawn - it is so pristine and white - I love snow.
Cousins! Jemma likes to play with the cousins, and Emily, C.J. and Nathan join right in. Grandma's toys are still kind of new so it's OK so far - we'll see how long they last, then they will bring toys from home.
