Grand Grandparents

Here's a little tribute to grandparents. I want my kids to remember what great grandparents they had. So here are a few pictures for them to reminisce.

This is my dad in Hawaii. He had a sister who lived there for a short while. He and Nana took a trip over to visit Mary Etta and Jack.

I hope they remember Grandma Melvina. She is David's dad's mom. Leslie and Andrea and I used to spend a lot of time with her. We only lived a block away when David was in Law School and we used to walk to her home and visit. She always had vanilla wafers for the girls.

And here is my Nana. I often wonder if my kids really remember her. But, here is Leslie with her at Christmas time. She was a wonderful lady. I learned a lot from her how to treat others and how to act like a lady.

My mom loved her grandkids. She couldn't get enough of them. And I know my kids have great stories to tell about Grandma Maureen.

Couldn't help throw in another picture with Nana.

Here's Grandpa Paul. He loved the outdoors. I don't have too many pictures of him, because he was always the photographer.

Another one of dad. My little ? 6 foot 4 brother Brad is standing next to him, a bit hard to see.

Grandma Maureen is holding Andrea. It's Leslie's 2 year birthday party. There's Grandma Janny in the blue and Grandma Melvina in red looking on.

These pictures are from my dad's camera so the Jeffs' aren't in too many pictures. What special people my kids have had in their lives, who love and support them. Don't forget!

I know, I know, I know! Two in one day is just plain crazy for me, but I couldn't pass this one up. It's another time comparison.

Here is a picture of Snow White's fountain, 2008. We should have put someone in front of this picture DAVID!

And here is Snow White's fountain in 1962, or theres about. There's Geoff, Brad, Frank of me!

Whoops, I just noticed one of the pictures should be flipped. Oh well, you get the "picture".

A little of the old and A little of the new

I'm still having a blast scanning our old slides. It is so much fun to see how things used to be. it brings back wonderful memories. Yes, yes, Tyler; they make me cry.

Here is a picture of me with my brothers, probably around 1958. It evevn sounds ancient to me. My older brother Frank is holding my youngest brother, Brad. Geoff, my younger brother and I are "sitting pretty" in the lawn chairs.

This is Kevin - 2, Andrea - 5, and Leslie - 6, probably around 1983. They are being awfully good.

Here's Kaja in the high chair her mommy used when she was young.

Here's a blast from the past! Andrea in the same high chair (and eating too) that Kaja is in the picture above. Their size is a bit different.

THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH

Here we are the happy couple, at our happy place. I'm not sure David agrees but it was fun and we had a good time. I know he will agree with that. The weather was great, not too hot, not too cold and the lines were probably as perfect as anyone could ask. We never waited more than 30 minutes, and we used the fast passes just to let us do more rides. We did so much, and yet I come home feeling like we missed a lot. Oh well, there's always next time!!!!

Ya have to have your picture taken with Mickey! This is a trick. We took it on our way out. We would arrive at the park first thing in the mornings, 9 for Disneyland and 10 for California Adventure, then we would leave around 3 or 4 to go home and relax, or lay by the pool and then go to dinner outside the park. We would then return to shop at the Disney Mall. There were several live bands and atmosphere galore. We also made it back to ride a couple more rides, watch the evening Fantasmic and fireworks and ride the Madderhorn at night.

Here are our daredevils. They would ride anything, anywhere.

Here are the "not so daredevils". This was just right for me and Christine. The ever so frightening JELLYFISH.

I think this was my all time favorite ride, California Screamin'. What a thrill!

TYLER!!! What's that I see??? Shame on you.

This is the Haunted Mansion. Do they look scared to you? !! They're trying. Tyler was very sure to remind us how his dad tricked him into getting on this ride when he was only 4 years old.

This is a bit hard for you to see, but our Jungle Ride boat broke down on the second turn into the ride and we had to be towed out. The best thing was they gave us all a fast pass for anytime we wanted!!

This was the first ride of the first day. Take note of the happy face.

I think Tyler is making the 'pirate face'; "Argh, Argh", Christine's got a hook there and David is just happy to be here.

That's the Disneyland tour in a nutshell. Until next trip, may all your wishes come true.

More old time pictures.

OK. This scanning thing has got me so up and down, I don't know how much David, or Kevin, are going to take of me. I was in tears this morning ready for drastic measures. Good ol' Kev just listens to me (not too much this morning because I wasn't doing much talking, to anyone) but he just came in and does his 'computer magic' and got it going for me. (Oh, I went and exchanged the other new printer for another printer that we couldn't get working either). Kevin has such patience and knowledge about these things. I don't know what I would have done without him. So it's only fair I start out with some pictures of him.

Remember what I said, everyone's got to have bath time pictures. In this it's doubly good because he's got the mirror there to admire himself. Maybe this is where the looking at his reflection anywhere he can find one came.

Here he's sleeping. This kid could sleep anywhere, and was sleeping through the nights consistently after 2 months old. He had to wear a corrective shoe at night.

Here is Leslie at Lake Powell. This would have been her first Lake Powell trip. I got the pictures in the wrong order. Here she has finished throwing the rock, and in this next photo you can see the rock in the air.

What is it with kids and throwing rocks into water. I think it's an international pass time.

I just had to throw this picture in. The girls love Rob and his short, shorts, with his boxers showing.

And at the end of the day you have to take a bath. This must have been early, or late in the season. I'm in jeans and we are bathing on the shore. Crazy.

I'm pooped. I have scanned over 70 pictures today. I'm going to take a break and go read some more of HOST.

Time; It goes by so quickly.

I bought myself a new printer so I could scan our old slides ( I wonder how many of you know what I'm talking about.) And I'm having some fun with it. I thought I would share with you some of my favorite pictures so far.

This is Andrea, probably about 6 - 9 months old. Cutie, huh?

This is Leslie in the infamous 'lion head drinking fountain' at Hogle Zoo. This was proably our first trip as a family to the zoo. Leslie's probably about 10 months old.

This is our darling little family at our very first house in Provo on 900 East. Andrea is just brand new, so Leslie's about 5 years - oh that's right they were closer than that. So maybe more like 16 months old.

This is me in our first apartment. I'm standing in the kitchen. Yep! It was gigantic. I could check on dinner, wash dishes and put the milk away without moving my feet.

Here's a picture of me, Leslie, my mom and Nana wrapped up in a blanket. What I would do with just a minute with those ladies. (I'm not sure why mom has a black eye, but she's HAPPY!)

And every family needs a bathtub picture. Sorry girls if you are embarrassed.

Well, this is great. And I'm sure you are all going to get sick of me showing off and talking about the good ol times.

Fun in the .. .. ... Not the sun!

We went away this holiday weekend. We were planning on going fishing at Strawberry, but the weather was not on our side. So, we made plans to go south and maybe find some warm air and sunshine . . . but we didn't. At least not much.

We hooked the 4 wheelers on and headed south on Friday. We got there in good time, once we passed all the traffic after Payson.

Here is a little travel log for you: The Christiansens were in Hurricane and had brought their 4 wheelers also, and Nancy's sister and brother in law rented some machines in Hurricane. We met there Saturday morning and took off on our 'beasts' right from town. It was an interesting ride. The first 7 miles were on the asphalt road and then another 7 miles of dirt road with no turns. We were headed somewhere, but it was taking awhile. It wasn't the most picturesque? But it's always fun to get out and ride and see the "world". We had a great time with good friends.




This was some weird thing we came upon, I called it the tire cemetary, but we think it may have been some way of catching water.

Here's Tyler finding where we are? We did have a map, but it wasn't too much help.

Here Christine is observing the 'tire cemetary' with amazement! She had a eye opening experience with getting to know our friends and riding the 4 wheeler. She was a bit nervous thinking that we didn't know where we were at all times.

Ok, here they are! The guys. David - not too happy about having his picture taken, and Tyler - still trying to find where we are. (To tell the truth, we were really very happy Tyler brought along his GPS).

Here is the lovely river bed we found for our lunch spot. It was pretty chilly all day long. We even got a little rain a time or two.

Look at the sky behind us, that's how it was all day. Yes, we did go to St. George. It's not the St. George I know. (That might be because this is in Hurricane.)

Helmet Heads! We had a great time. We went 58 miles this ride. WOW!

Didn't get pictures of the rest of the trip. (Send me some C) We went to Sacrament Meeting on Sunday morning. One of the members told David, we lowered their average age about 6 years. ONLY 6! I guess we were only 4 people to their 150. We went to Nancy's sister's place for a bar b q after church. The Butlers were in town too, so we all got together. It was so fun. The sun finally came out. It was still chilly though., and windy. We ate and played a silly game on the patio and visited. You'd think we never saw each other all the talking we can do.

Monday, David and Tyler waited around to hear from Tom about golfing, but never did hear so we got a late start to another ride. We went the other way to Bloomington this time. Still not real attractive, but great to get out. The air was still pretty cool when we were moving. Only excitement was a dead end trail we took that went up and up and up.

There you have it. Our weekend.