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Baby Cannon

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Note to parents: Don't spend a fortune on toys

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Grandma and Grandpa

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The purple room Jill/Chelsea's room, the blue is Jared's and of course the family room, looks huge without the book cases.

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Our new fireplace.

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2009-07-19T15:22:00.001-06:00

Niagara falls, the one smaller one is Bridal Veil on the American side and the other is the Horseshoe falls on the Canadian side. These are taken from the top of a sky needle. We did ride the boat into the mist of the falls later that day.

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Hill Cumorah pagaent set and looking up the hill. The next photo is with a member of the cast.

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Looking out at the top of Hill Cumorah.

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Grandin Printing place. This is where the first Book of Mormon was printed. They have this picture on the wall of all the Book of Mormon's printed in different languages. Steven is pointing to one that he did.

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In the Sacred Grove. What a glorious place!

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This tree was planted when Alvin Smith died. The other photo is of beehives during the 1820's.

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This is the log home of Joseph Smith. 11 people lived in this house. The other photo is of the framed house's sink. The first indoor sink for that family.

2009-07-19T14:58:00.001-06:00

This was how we celebrated Eric's birthday. We went to Kirtland, Ohio. This is the Newel K Whitney store that is original.

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Happy Birthday to Natasha, she had a pirate party.

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Logan and Grandpa!

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This is the back splash in the kitchen. The grouting is taking forever since there is so many more lines to file, but it looks fab!!!!

2009-07-19T14:43:00.003-06:00

These are after refinishing and the addition of the stairs off the side. Steven built the stairs and they are wonderful! I let the anticipation of building the stairs bother me for months and months thinking that it would be difficult to build. (I had done some research on line and they made it seem way beyond our capability). We asked a few people then went to Home Depot asked more questions and it turned out to be much easier than my imagination lead me to believe. I wish I could learn that lesson. Anticipation has always been my biggest stumbling block.

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Before the deck refinishing.

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Nothing better than a nap and a grand baby to snuggle with.

Getting a new driveway!

2009-06-04T05:56:00.002-06:00

Wow what a difference. We love our new driveway and it is exciting to look at. We had a couple of people tell us they were shocked that our old one was still standing. In a couple of places we had 14" of nothing between ground and cement. Now we just have to keep cars and trucks off of it for a few more weeks.

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Aunt Natasha and Logan. He didn't feel good and his momma wasn't here so she was trying to make him happy.

2009-03-17T07:25:00.000-06:00

Happy St. Patrick's Day to one and All. Lets see your photos.

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Logan and his mom came to visit us today. It was a really nice surprise to come home from church and find them here. Logan now weighs 11 lbs.
Steven and I are going to visit Jill and Frank (really the kids) in 2 weeks and I asked Chelsea if I could take Logan to visit his cousins and she said NO! How rude is that?

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This is video of Logan. He is getting big soooo fast.

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Grandpa loved the the little round bum!

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Meet Logan Ray. He was born Friday Nov 21st at 10:59 am. He was 6lbs 13 ozs.
It only took him 25 hours to get here.

2008-11-18T20:44:00.003-07:00

Tender Mercies for us.

Steven and I had a wonderful trip taking a car to Jill. Just a few hours after our arrival she gave birth to our newest grandson. Christian Grant.

2008-11-02T13:18:00.002-07:00

This was at the entrance of the gated community we were in. One evening when Steven, Chelsea and I were returning from town the gates were locked and no one in the gate shack. Steven got out to figure out how to manually open the gate and so I was looking at the scenery and really liked this spot. We didn't have the camera so on our why home we stopped to take these. The wind was blowing and the sun was really bright so we look funny. But Jared and Jenn and Chelsea are so cute!!!

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This photo was the whole group. What a fabulous bunch of people. This gross spider decided to join us in the pool one evening.

Reunion time

2008-10-25T13:21:00.007-06:00

Thanks to each one of you that contributed to a fabulous week in St George October 16-22nd.

People have asked me what we did and my response was: eat, swim, eat, play games, eat, swim, go to Smith's grocery, eat and swim!!!

For those of you that didn't come we missed you and hope you will try to come next year because yes we plan to do this again.

Some really ambitious people, Jared, Jenn, Glenn and Ashley hiked Angel's Landing in Zion National Park. (I tried that once)! See photos.

We also hiked a lava flow in Snow Canyon. see photos. Much more my type of hike. Papa even climbed with us (see I said more my type). We were looking for bugs, for Natasha's bug collection since she and Jake went to the movies instead, so Marianne thought we were talking about bugs when Jared picked up a lava bubble and said he was going to crack it open and see if it was hallow. Marianne thought that was pretty cruel and couldn't see why a bug would be hallow inside, but the rest of us got a kick out of that whole incident.

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Can you believe that this little hole cost $1000 to fix? I was rear ended a couple of weeks ago and that is all the damage there was and it of course was $1000.

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You will all me amazed that I am finally updating this site.

I had so many things I was going to post but now it is such old news that I will just do newer old stuff. Steven finally cut down the dead trees in our yard. Then we had a surprise birthday party for Jake (Natasha's husband). We had a wild and crazy slip and slide down our hill in the backyard.

2008-06-08T18:12:00.001-06:00

NO MORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR ME!!!

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I hope you enjoy this video. I have better ones but they need to be rotated so I am working on that but in the mean time here for your viewing pleasure is Crazy Lorelei.

2008-05-14T16:09:00.003-06:00

Well surprise, I am finally updating this blog.
We have had a wonderful visit with Jill and her adorable children.

2008-02-26T14:40:00.004-07:00

Wow, I have a tiny bit of grass showing!!!! I also have hope for the backyard, I can see some of the brick wall. There is a sign under the snow by the pot that says "Free snow take all you want". I really wish I could set that on top of the snow!!

When I came home from work today I noticed this ice sculpture in the front so I took pictures to share. (Those are the top photos)

I have to post a message for Chelsea. Last night Steven and I went to dinner at a Chinese resturant and brought the fortune cookies home for Chelsea. She didn't eat either one until today. Her fortune said" remember 3 months from this date. Good things are in store for you". She then asked me what today is and I told her February 26th. Well three months from today is her BIRTHDAY!!!! So she is expecting gifts from everyone that every reads this.

I am sure you can guess. MORE SNOW!

2008-02-06T17:46:00.000-07:00

Jill says I should change the name of this blog to SNOW. We have even more snow with two more storms since I posted last. We have another one expected tomorrow. I will let the pictures do the talking. The first photo was a few days before the others. The third photo is me standing on the front walk. I need to take one of the mailbox area 'cause it is wild.

Surprise.... We have more snow!!

2008-02-02T08:30:00.001-07:00

I can not believe just how much snow we have received this year. Even my friends that love snow are tired of it. So what does that say for those of us who didn't ever love it? Yes, we cry every time it snows. This week it has be every other day and sometimes we skip the every other part and get some every day.

If you want to see cute people look at my links.

Snow!!!

2008-01-22T14:10:00.001-07:00

As if 18 inches two weeks ago wasn't enough we got about 10 more inches yesterday.

New Year

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We have so much snow in our yard that it is crazy.

I am sure that any of you that has been to this site more than once is sick of the same stuff never changing. Well today is the day!!!

I guess I haven't noticed stuff happening that was new worthy but that really isn't the case.

The best news is that my kitchen, dining room and sitting room floor are finally finished and they look fabulous. (If Jared took a real picture I will include it). What a difference after so many years of living on ugly flooring.

I have a guy coming in a little while to look at my kitchen ceiling because he is going to finish that for us. (My children gave that to us as a Christmas gift. Such awesome kids.) I will try to include photos when that gets done too.

Steven is getting ready to leave for Indonesia, Thialand and Malaysia this coming Thursday. (You all know how much I enjoy that.) But to help me get through that we have scheduled a cruise to Mexico that leaves March 8th. Maybe it will be warmer that here.

A New Granddaughter

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Jill had her baby on Oct 25th at 9:46 pm. She was 7 lbs, 12 ozs and 21 inches long!! I said she is 1/3 her total height for life. Since Jill is only 5' 2" and Frank is 5' 9" I don't think Lorelei will be very much bigger than 5 feet and a few inches. Silly Grandma comment. Her name is Lorelei Nicole. She is a beauty and she loves her grandma.
Joseph and Derek love her too and are very good with her. They sure are fun to play with.