Monday, June 23, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Spending time with Grandparents
My parents came to visit. We took them to see the Billings Temple. They will be here until Wednesday and then we are off to Yellowstone for a mini vacation with cousins. It is always fun to have them come and visit.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Is This Heaven, No...It's Montana!
We took the new camper trailer out this weekend for it's first run to Greenough Lake, just south of Red Lodge 10 min. It was beautiful.
The kids were so excited they totally lost their heads.
They thought they were in Heaven!
They love playing on the huge rock by our camp ground .
We hiked to the lake, played on the rock, ate, hiked, and ate some more. It is amazing that four kids can devour a large bag of jumbo marshmallows before lunch time... they have hallow as well as steel stomachs. It was a great escape from the real world.
The kids were so excited they totally lost their heads.
They thought they were in Heaven!
They love playing on the huge rock by our camp ground .
We hiked to the lake, played on the rock, ate, hiked, and ate some more. It is amazing that four kids can devour a large bag of jumbo marshmallows before lunch time... they have hallow as well as steel stomachs. It was a great escape from the real world.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Tagged
A) Four places I go over and over: The kids school, The church (for activity days, YM / YW, meetings) in front of my computer (does that count as a place?), my kitchen.
B) Four people who e-mail me regularly: top zoo travel, LDS living, pottery barn, Rhonda Granquist .
C) Four of my favorite places to eat: The Roof - above the Joseph Smith Bldg., The Mandarin - Bountiful, Utah, breakfast at Edgars -Bed & Breakfast in upstate New York, Cafe Reo also in Utah - all the places I love to eat are hundreds of miles away...that is why I love to travel.
D) Four places I would rather be right now: Upstate New York, Hawaii, camping in Yellowstone, Island Park
E) Four people I talk to on a daily basis: Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce (not much of a phone person)
F) Four TV shows I watch over and over: not much into TV so I'm changing to movies - Pride & Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables with my girls, Return to Me, OK one TV show The Andy Griffith show with my kids.
G) Four people I'm tagging - anyone that has not already done this
B) Four people who e-mail me regularly: top zoo travel, LDS living, pottery barn, Rhonda Granquist .
C) Four of my favorite places to eat: The Roof - above the Joseph Smith Bldg., The Mandarin - Bountiful, Utah, breakfast at Edgars -Bed & Breakfast in upstate New York, Cafe Reo also in Utah - all the places I love to eat are hundreds of miles away...that is why I love to travel.
D) Four places I would rather be right now: Upstate New York, Hawaii, camping in Yellowstone, Island Park
E) Four people I talk to on a daily basis: Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce (not much of a phone person)
F) Four TV shows I watch over and over: not much into TV so I'm changing to movies - Pride & Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables with my girls, Return to Me, OK one TV show The Andy Griffith show with my kids.
G) Four people I'm tagging - anyone that has not already done this
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Best Place to Raise a Family
This morning on the Today Show, Today 101: The 100 best places to raise a family. Since we can't live in Honolulu at least were in Billings. 
1 Honolulu, Hawaii — Schools spend almost $9,000 per pupil, unemployment ranks less than half the national average, and you can play on the island of O'ahu's 125 beaches.
2.Virginia Beach, Virginia
3 Billings, Montana
4 Columbus, Georgia
5 San Diego, California
6 Des Moines, Iowa
7 Minneapolis, Minnesota
8 Madison, Wisconsin — Madison has a high number of pediatricians per capita.
9 Colorado Springs, Colorado
10 Santa Rosa, California
In Montana where there are endless places to explore
where over crowding is three people trying to reel in the catch
where your neighbor is just 5 minutes away
where time stands still
where rush hour is a little smoother
where your wardrobe dilemma is, "Which color to wear?" 
Have we sold you yet? Montana....We think it's the best place to raise our family.
1 Honolulu, Hawaii — Schools spend almost $9,000 per pupil, unemployment ranks less than half the national average, and you can play on the island of O'ahu's 125 beaches.
2.Virginia Beach, Virginia
3 Billings, Montana
4 Columbus, Georgia
5 San Diego, California
6 Des Moines, Iowa
7 Minneapolis, Minnesota
8 Madison, Wisconsin — Madison has a high number of pediatricians per capita.
9 Colorado Springs, Colorado
10 Santa Rosa, California
In Montana where there are endless places to explore
where over crowding is three people trying to reel in the catch
where your neighbor is just 5 minutes awaywhere time stands still where rush hour is a little smoother where your wardrobe dilemma is, "Which color to wear?" Have we sold you yet? Montana....We think it's the best place to raise our family.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
House Guest
He's a pizza maker, a snake charmer, a door fixer and a rock mover. Bruce's cousin Stanley Diamond. He has been living with us for the past week. He accepted a job here in Edger Montana, with Kinder-Morgan. It has been great having him here. His family will be joining him at the end of the week. We hate to see him go...We have accomplished so much while he has been here. Saturday he help Bruce move a ton of gravel next to our drive way (amazing what two men can accomplish in a morning. Then he fixed our back door that has never hung straight. You can actually close it and it will stay shut - the wind cannot blow it open now. 
Sunday after church he made us home-made pizza (a family tradition that he does with his family every Friday night - which he is missing terribly right now).
Right after dinner we were blessed to find this lovely snake in our flower bed. They took it
to the backyard and put it in the field so I sure i
t will never return. It's so fun to have family visit and we are so excited to have them so close - only 30 minutes away just Southwest of us in Joliet.
The kids and Stanley saying farewell to our beloved flower garden pet.
Sunday after church he made us home-made pizza (a family tradition that he does with his family every Friday night - which he is missing terribly right now).
Right after dinner we were blessed to find this lovely snake in our flower bed. They took it
to the backyard and put it in the field so I sure i
t will never return. It's so fun to have family visit and we are so excited to have them so close - only 30 minutes away just Southwest of us in Joliet.The kids and Stanley saying farewell to our beloved flower garden pet.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Photo Friday
School dazes. Since it is the winding up days of the school year I thought this photo would be fun. A picture of the kindergarten class from Madison Elementary. My Uncle LaMar (my mother's brother) is on the back row 2nd child from the left. Don't they all look so happy. The fun thing about this photo is this is the same school I attended kindergarten. This picture would have been taken in the 30's, making it forty+ years later when I attended Madison Elementary. Madison Elementary was located on State Street just East of the old FHP/Parcelsus Hospital. It is no longer there it was replaced by a KFC, everything in this world is disposable.
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