Visiting Mom and Dad in TN

We had to wait for Debi's flight to come in almost 7 hours after ours so they took us to Opreyland and this is at the hotel. We walked around the mall and ate at Cracker Barrel and rocked in rockers and talked until time to go back to the airport.

We got in some good foot rubbin'.

We picked tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, and beans from the garden. We "busted a bunch" of beans as Alicia would say, it was great and they tasted like heaven.

We taught everyone how to play 13 or 5 Crowns and Annie won, I won't say who lost, cause he already knows.

Sometimes there was nothing to do but rest! Here's a couple of tired ol' boys.

Dave and Annie's family came Friday night before we left on Saturday so we got a picture of everyone together. We missed Dale, Brian and Katie's family by a day I think.

Good-bye picture with mom and dad.

This is a lego construction in Las Vegas airport. They had the statue of liberty out of legos in the Portland airport. They were pretty neat!

County Fair

We saw all the farm animals first and the kids liked the goats a lot.

Ben loved pumping the water and the other two loved playing in the water.

All three got a turn at milking a pretend cow and did a good job at it.

We had to try the ol' head thru the hole picture!)

They had fun digging, burying, throwing, and walking in all the corn. It was a fun evening for all and even better when Jake showed up.

Blackberries and Body stacking

Whitney and I went out Tuesday afternoon in 102* weather and picked blackberries. Her friend Ethan came over today and helped her can jam and make a pie. MMM !

Recreating a memory with Jamie's kids.

They will do better in a few years.

Visiting Leila

Last Tuesday Jamie set-up a time for us to go see Leila at a park in Vancouver. It was 9:30 in the morning and already about 90*. Everyone was sweaty and red in the face pretty quickly.

Leila loves to play; she is a tomboy and very active.

We all gave hugs at the end of the hour and said good-bye. It was a very nice visit and everyone was happy with the time we spent together.

Mom's Funeral and 4th of July Picnic

Mom looked very nice and she still had the finger nail polish we put on her two weeks before.

The family before we had a prayer and said good-bye to mom. The service went well and I'm glad we had an open mic time for people to say things; I loved the comments and they brought back memories!

Pallbearers taking her to the gravesite. Jared, David, Brian, Loren, Richard, Ryan, and James.

We went to a park up in Provo Canyon on the fourth and had a picnic together. All the siblings and their spouses were there. I think that is the first time that has ever happened.

June UT Trip

Tonya got to move into her new house. Deb and I helped her decorate and move things around, it was fun to get things organized. It's a beautiful house and I hope she loves it!

We got a lot of things done for mom and she was so happy to see us. What a sweetie!

Logan had his homecoming while I was there and I got to see a lot of the Call uncles and Woodruff family. They had a great BBQ after Sacrament and the weather was perfect. Congrats Logan!

Another Utah Trip

Truman and Barkley are getting along better now than they used to. I stayed with Jamie For church on Sunday and then went down to Provo to see my mom again.

On my way home to Oregon I saw this truck's mud flaps and thought it was funny. I got up at 3am UT time and left before 4am, I was so tired I don't know how I even got the humor of it!)

I thought about taking a picture of mom at the nursing home but it was too late, so no pics of her this trip.