Idaho Day 2008

Ok. Here's another slide show. I hope you're not sick of watching my slide shows, but they ARE fun to make and I can get lots of pictures in them. Anneke, Tom and the girls came up for part of Idaho Day today. The girls were sooooooooooo excited to be in the parade and they decorated Grandpa Lindhardt's little cart that I pulled with his 4-wheeler. I had bought 5 helium balloons, but unfortunately, there was a little mishap and 4 of them flew to heaven. But they were pretty as they floated away. The girls threw candy and had a great time. So did I. I saw some Franklin people that I haven't seen in a long time and it was wonderful. So was not being in the hamburger stand. I don't miss it a bit. 15 years of it was a good run, but I'm glad it's over. Thanks to my kids who helped me run it for so long. Anyway, it was a fun day and I enjoyed hanging out in the park. Tonight I'm going to the concert and the fireworks. The Lindhardts had to go home, but I don't mind going over there by myself tonight. But it would have been more fun to have someone to go with me. My thermometer says it's 95 degrees outside right now!

"Biggest Loser" Ends!

Congratulations to Aaron Glen Bayles for being the biggest loser in our family. He lost a total of 12 1/2 pounds!!!!! Aaron, you actually have some willpower and the rest of us admire that. Tom came in second place with a 11 or 12 pound loss. (Guess he's not real sure exactly how much.) But that's great too, especially after a week of being on a trip. So way to go you two. I personally think I'll lose some weight now that I'm not thinking about it so much.

Hurray for Aaron!!!

Back From Camping.

I'm not sure if you really call it camping when you are in such a nice motor home, but let's just stick with "camping". I went to Idaho Falls on Tuesday morning to Marie's house and we got in their new 24 ft. motor home and drove to Riverside Campground up in Island Park. Mark and Kathy were there with their trailer and Darla had a tent set up (they have sold their trailer). Don came up in the evenings. Grandma and Grandpa came up on Wednesday around noon until it was getting dark, then they went back down to Ashton and stayed in a motel. They went back up to Riverside this morning, but Marie and I left early afternoon. It wasn't a long time, but it was a fun time. Whenever I get with my sisters, we laugh a lot and get real silly. WE think we're funny even if no one else does. They are great women and I love them. It's always fun to have Mom and Dad around too. They are quite delightful. They are quite amazing, actually. And then the men keep us grounded. So thanks, Mark and Don. There were soooooo many mosquitoes, but we kept sprayed real good. We loved it when the wind came up, because then they went away. We were discussing where they went when the wind blew and I mentioned that they probably hang onto a tree, so then we really built on that, saying how they wrapped their stinger around a piece of bark to hand on and then we could picture their legs blowing straight out. Ok. You had to be there, but it was really funny. Here's a picture of our re-creation of what mosquitoes look like hanging on for dear life when the wind is blowing. Anyway, it was fun to get away and have a good time. We went for walks, read, laughed, played games, visited, laughed, watched a movie (Cinderalla Man), which was good, ate good food and took pictures, laughed, swatted mosquitoes and laughed.

Riverside Campground, Island Park

Fun day at Aaron and Cyndie's house. June 21, 2008

We had a cookout in Layton at the Bayles' house. Aaron and Cyndie are super hosts with a beautiful home and yard. We ate lots of yummy food and had fun playing with Andrea and Brad's Wii. The girls jumped on the trampoline with the sprinkler too. We missed Amy, Sam, Ammon, Paige, and Makenna though. Maybe next time. There's a slide show below of our fun day.

SUPER SPRAYER!!!

I got up at 5 a.m. to go up to copy, got up there and the machine wouldn't work. So I came home and called the guy to come service it. Hopefully he does it soon today so that I can go back up and get a lot done. So anyway, I came home and decided to use up the rest of the weed killer spray I have and try to do some more damage to some of the weeds that are thriving in my yard. I filled the sprayer 4 times and drenched the little buggers. The 4th time I really went after some tall spikey things and some thistles. My arms were starting to get shaky and weak, like when you hold a baby too long. So I was glad I was out of Weed-B-Gone and could quit. I went back over by the faucet to clean up and there sat the last 4 oz. of the weed killer in the pouring cup! I hadn't even added it to the last sprayer full of water! Dang it. So basically the last spraying was just watering the weeds real good. So I had to do it one more time and try to remember just where I had been. It's no wonder my yard looks like it does.

Third Grade Teacher Retreat - Bear Lake, May 27th-29th

WHEW!!

I am so proud of myself. If only someone were here to take my picture. :) I have completed 144 pages to go in photo albums this week! Of course, they aren't fancy like some people have the talent to do, but the pictures are organized and in an album and that makes me happy. Now I just need to get some new binders to replace those that are broken or falling apart, and make sure that all the pages are in order where they should be. Not bad for one week, huh? If only all that working on photo pages would keep me from eating - but no, I can still manage to snack just fine. I can do 2 things at once. So in a few more days, you are all invited to come browse through our albums.

Aren't we so cute?

Here is our family (the part of it that was in Mesquite at picture taking time) at Klea's house at Thanksgiving. It was so great getting to see our Bayles family.

Does it kind of make you wonder what Amy is mad about? Or maybe just a little bit disgusted? What do you think? She was in Mesquite, NV for Thanksgiving with the extended Bayles family. Maybe she was just missing Sam. Actually, I'm just having fun putting pictures on here and wish I had more pictures on the CD I'm using. I got delete happy and erased everything after I printed pictures for putting in albums. I'm working on getting all caught up with scrapbooking and I'm almost finished with the year 2005. Yay!

I'm so lucky!

Look who's coming to my house this weekend!
Kylee Dawn and Kaydence Joyce Bayles!!!