This is the end of summer, and I am updating my blog and having trouble doing it too!
At the end of May I flew to Dallas to see my new grandson, Paxson Owen. He was born to Garett and Larissa. I enjoyed getting to love him and know his big brother Braiden better. I also enjoyed immensely, the warm weather. We swam almost every day! We shopped a little, ate Larissa's good cooking and saw where Garett goes to school, their new apartment, their ward and where they do all their normal living. They took me to the J.F.K. museum downtown, which I very much wanted to see. We saw where he was actually shot on the road and where Oswald hid behind boxes...It was a piece of history that I remember feeling as a little girl.
Our summer was busy with yard work and farm work, but we had some fun with grand kids visiting (and their parents sometimes) and family reunions and weddings in temples that took us to other cities-so we stayed in hotels.
The garden was so-so, we put some sand on it last fall and maybe some of it was treated or something...anyway we put some good ole manure on it this fall, so we will see what next summer brings. But it is all in anyway, and I did do some canning and some freezing. The crops are all in and Brett is finishing up with plowing. This is it until next time.

End of Summer

I was able to fly to Dallas this spring to see Paxson, our new grandson. He was born April 17th, Trevor's birthday. I loved the warm weather, swimming every day and also getting to know Braiden, who was 1 year 10 months at the time. Garett and Larissa showed me a good time. I dont' like it that they live so far away. I then came home to Utah to cold weather and rain. But we did go swimming indoors with Heston and Tiffani's kids at Heston's work place.
Trevor and family and Wrangler and Jesica have been able to come out to the farm for visits and Tiffani's kids came here while she was at girl's camp.
We enjoyed a hike to Iron Bog lake and games and good food for the Stewart reunion but missed the Williams reunion as it was held at the same time.
We have kept busy with Primary and Bishopric work and farming and yard work, and here it is fall again!!

We had a fun Christmas flying to Dallas, Texas to be with Garett, Larissa and Braiden. We hadn't seen them since New Year's 2009. So they showed us where they live and met some friends and where they have been going to school, church, shopping, looking for homes doing business etc. We had so much pleasure in getting to know Braiden.
The took us to see the Dallas Temple, the new Cowboy's stadium, the old stadium, the Maverick's stadium, the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, -we didn't see the inside of all these-that will be for another time, but we did get to see" The Bodies Exhibition" that was in Downtown Dallas. We enjoyed that. The human body is amazing.
We went to the movie Avatar at the theater, ate out some and also watched lots of movies and ate lots of good food at home.
Christmas morning was fun watching Braiden! And snow in Dallas was an unusual occurrence.
Then we came home-it was sooo hard to leave that little family--. But we came home to all the rest of them at our house for New Year's. We had 17 here for three days. They all helped with food, watched football, opened gifts, went sledding behind the 4 wheelers and visited. We talked with Garett over the phone, I think he missed being here too.
We had June and Leon over for New Year's dinner, so we had a houseful. My mom has spent the winter in Oregon with her sister. We put her on the plane for there the same morning that we flew out to Dallas.
Now we have made it threw the rest of the winter. I spent the rest of January with sickness. First the flu and then developed pnuemonia. Brett stays pretty healthy and is now lambing and calving and loading out hay and grain. So we have lots of little lambs and a few calves if our grandkids or nieces and nephews and kids want to come see them. But we still have snow!! So you need your boots.