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.

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.

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!

What's up!

Things have been busy as usual. I just wanted to do a quick update as I told Holly this past weekend that I would post these pictures if Jessi hadn't had an opportunity to do so. It was fun to visit with Holly and Derek and to see their newest addition, Reese. Watch out, she is on the verge of learning to laugh. Especially when she had a funny face like mine to look at.

These are the pictures of Jessi's cuties when we went to Kiddie Kandids a week ago.

I spent last week working on my layout for CTMH Sweet Art's Retreat. We are going this weekend. I am always intimidated when it comes time for retreat because a lot of people go way overboard on their layouts. I don't usually scrapbook that way, so I did one the way that I scrapbook. Here is my layout:

I will post later on how it is. I am excited for all of the ideas.