Halloween

Halloween is pretty uneventful at our little house in Bountiful. The doorbell rang 4 times. The first group did have more than one family, but seriously 4 times. Our regular bloody brains and eyeballs party was superseded by a trip to Disneyland. We have heard that Harley had a great time there.

Mom and I were to go to turkeyland on Friday and Saturday for the Halloween parade and Kass' first piano recital. Friday morning we got a phone call saying that it looked like Nat had picked up the flu/bug from his sisters because he was running a fever etc. So we took a quick trip down for the parade and a shopping trip at the turkey store for other people and then home again. We did get to see the kids, just no hugs and kisses.

Kass with icky green stuff on her face.

Emma as a skinny Hannah Montana

Addi

Nat

Time?

I am not sure where the time goes, but it certainly seems to have left me in the dust. When I sit and think about it, I don't know that I have accomplished anything since I last posted here, but then I went through my camera. Okay, so I have accomplished a few things.

We had a baby shower for cousin Nat earlier in the summer. And I found out that she had her baby last night. Congrats Natty, good job. Makai is CUTE. I have to share this picture of Nat at her shower, she was trying to look excited you know, ohhhhing and ahhhhing.

Then I finished a few sewing projects, here are the "girls'" twirly skirts. They were kind of fun to make, but I am glad that they are finished.

We took Jessi's kids to the Pumpkin patch. Emma didn't want to do the corn maze with us and Nat was asleep, so Jessi, Kass, and Addi and I went through the "small" corn maze, then the kids did the hay maze and then Emma joined us to pick pumpkins. It was cold and overcast, but we had fun.

I have been doing my stuff with CTMH and it usually gets pretty busy this time of year, I have card nights next week and the week after, then I am not doing any until January.

Our first performance with Utah Voices is less than 4 weeks away. It has been very demanding to commit the time and effort to a choir, but it has been absolutely fabulous. Our first performance will be a sing-in at the Meuller Park Stake Center on Sunday, November 29 at 7:00 pm. Then our big performance will be on Saturday, December 5, at 7:30 pm at Libby Gardner Hall on the U of U Campus. Then we will have a performance on Monday, December 7 at the Bountiful Community Church at 7:30 pm. We were even featured in the Davis County Clipper a couple of weeks ago. If you are interested in details of our choir you can check out the website, www.utahvoices.org. And come join us after the holidays for our next season.

A WOW Experience!

Last Wednesday night I took a jump, stepped out of my comfort zone and attended a choir rehearsal for a new choir that has started in South Davis County. I decided after much thought to go for it!

About a month back I received a Facebook invitation from Dr. Michael Huff. Now for those of you who know me, I don't do Facebook. I have no desire to join Facebook, just don't get it. So I cautiously opened the link and found out that Michael (as most of us know him) was going to be directing a new choir in the area. It was a non-audition LARGE choir, called Utah Voices. So, I debated back and forth over it. I don't sing like that on a regular basis anymore and know that I don't have the voice for it, but, after much deliberation I decided to GO FOR IT!!!!

Our first rehearsal was last Wednesday. We met in the Bountiful High School choir room and at first there was a modest showing. But people just kept coming and coming and... We exceeded the choir room. It was phenomenal! It is always fun when you can sing with a conductor who knows what they are doing and knows how to get you to do what they want as well. I came home and told Frank that it was even fun warming up.

Our first performance has been scheduled on December 5 at Libby Gardner Hall we will be doing Handel's Messiah with the Salt Lake Symphony. Apparently they are working on another performance and a sing-in as well.

I am glad that I took the jump, and I know that it will exceed all of my expectations!

Happy Birthday Emma!

Emma is 6 today. It doesn't seem possible! We went to her party last Saturday. It was fun to see everyone. She starts the first grade tomorrow.

I have decided that I need to do simpler, single layer cakes. Here is what it looked like when I finished it at home.

Yes, it is very crooked. More like the leaning tower of birthday cake. The problem is that it was four full squares of cake with a fifth square cut into quarters on top of that. I placed a dowel down the center of it to stabilize it. But here is what it looked like four hours or so later when we brought it out.

It had kind of started to collapse on itself. When I removed the top cone it had sunk about 3 - 4 inches. It was awful. Emma just smiled and said, it's okay. She blew out the candles and we ate about 1/16th of it. There was so much cake there. It was kind of gross.

I hope that Emma has a great birthday and a great upcoming school year. Love ya Em!

Busy Summer

I didn't realize how long it had been since I last posted. Almost a month. It has been a busy summer. We were lucky? enough to spend the 24th of July weekend in Moab. WOW! It was hot! But we had fun playing tourist.

This is all of us but Frank (someone had to take the picture) at Dead Horse Point State Park. That view is pretty cool .

Here is our view of Balanced Rock.

See how strong I am?! Ha!

After our weekend of playing tourist we have just been trying to keep up with everything that goes on in our lives.

I took a class at Heartland Paper (will post picture later). Got ready for card and scrapbook groups and have a few sewing projects in the works.

Can you guess what it might be? I will try to remember to take pictures of the finished project(s).

Family Reunion

Boy, I think that it has taken me a week to get over our recent family reunion. Okay, so it wasn't the reunion that I had to get over, it was the family part of it. Let's just say that last weekend, we had a HOUSE FULL! But it was a lot of fun.

Last Saturday, July 11 - we had a Angus/Timothy family reunion at the Draper Park. We had hamburgers and all the fix-ins and just got to visit. I think Mom said that they figured there were about 160 people who came. I saw cousins that I didn't know I had, and their parents and grandparents. It was fun. The wind blew all day and there were rain drops every so often. But we had a good time.

Because of the reunion Jan and Curt and their family were coming to town. Carisa and her family came to stay at our house. So, I decided that Jess' kids needed to come and visit with their cousins. I picked the kids (all four of them) up about 1 on Friday and returned them to their Mom on Monday about 3. It was certainly a full house. The fun part was getting nine kids and three adults ready and out the door on time for church. We added to all but one primary class.

We had a great time and played pretty well with each other. While Jess's kids went home on Monday, Carisa and her kids stayed until Wednesday.

Here are some pics from our weekend.

Jamie, Nat, and Jess


Brent, Bruce, Diane, Jan, and Mom

Twins run in the family, can you tell them apart?

Here are all 9 of the kids together.

Brinley and Kassidy

Emma and Mallory

Mallory and Addi

Thanks for coming and spending time with us.

Happy Birthday Addi!

Today Addison is 3! WOW! I can't believe it. We went to Jess and Paul's yesterday for a BBQ and cake.

It was fun to see everyone and have good food and watch her open her presents. I can't believe that she is 3 already. Frank says that she is 3 going on 12. And yes, sometimes she acts that also. When I asked her what cake she wanted, she said a Care Bear cake. Well, for anyone who knows me, I have created monsters in that sense that I always try to do a cake like they want. As they get older, they might just have to get what they get. But we lucked out, here is what Addi got:

Here are a few pics of Addi opening her presents, she was not into sharing in that process this year.

Then when it came time for cake, candles, and singing she didn't wait for us to sing before she blew out her candles. It was really funny!

Nate even had fun at the party with her balloon.

Happy Father's Day

So, I had a huge post for Mother's Day and now no post for Father's Day. Does that tell you something, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I looked and do not have any current pics of my fathers side of the family. So, here are the pics I took of the grandkids on Saturday. I am thankful for the husband that is a good father to his kids.

And we took Hannah birthday shopping the weekend before Father's Day. He is getting too big, too fast. (But aren't all of the grandkids?)

Hope that your Father's Day was a great one.

The Zoo!

We were able to go to the zoo in May. Mom, Jamie, Ryan, Breanna, Zach, and I with Jessi's kids spent a late afternoon at the zoo. It was a nice afternoon.

Here is Nate enjoying the outdoors.

Addi and Emma in the zoo stroller, cause they are the best for riding in.

Here is Jamie sharing her drink.

Ryan and Kass.

And of course, we had to do the picture on the elephant trunk. We tried to be very careful of Zach, as he had recently broken his collarbone. Hopefully he was okay.

We didn't get Nate as he was sleeping.

Here are a few random shots from the day.

Paul and Jessi joined us just before we left. Nate loves his daddy.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Sorry that I am a bit late on the wishes. After putting part of Mom's gift together, I really stayed away from the computer for a day or so. Now, I have gone through those pictures (1,166 of them) and I have a few to share with you. These are some of the Mom's and mom's to be that I am grateful for being a part of my life. (WATCH OUT, there are a lot of pics.)

Old family photo.

Not quite as old, but scary hair!

Can you imagine the size of this group now!!! (This is a picture of my maternal great grandparents and ALL of their offspring, etc. It was taken approximately 1974.)


Mom with Emma

Mom with Addi

Jamie and Mom

At the parade

Most of us, (at the time).

Jan and Curt

Jessi and her girls

Aunt Fay and us

Carisa and Baylen


Holly

Nat and all the kids of course!

I hope that you all had a great Mother's Day!