Complete Blank!

I am sorry to say that my mind is Blank!
I know that I have gone forever with out blogging!

The boys are both in 2 sports now and that is keeping me hopping!

The 14 year old had his board of review back on the 11th, but he has yet to have his
Court of Honor. He is wanting to have it with his friend and we haven't heard if the paper work was turned in yet or what..?? So some time soon he will be officially made a Eagle Scout!!!

Max has had another really short hair cut! It is really short this time!!

My Sweetie has worked out of town with his Brother in Law, both in Tumbstone, Az and
then in some little town in Nebraska..?
He is home for a while! I have no idea if and or when the next time will be..???
It has been real Money! We haven't seen that for a while!! So thanks for that!!!!Ü

We have put in 2 different Gardens. a little one behind our home.
The other one,(twice as big) behind a rental that our Family owns.
Just the weeding will keep us busy this summer!!
We hope to have a bumper crop!! ???(If the Lord is Willing?)

Sorry this is so crazy!
I will do better next time!

Pictures will be coming!!!

Spring is Finally here! Ü

The first picture is the Durby!
The little Guy's car won the best in show!
He will be able to go to the Expo and
show his car and compete for the overall best in show..


The Older boys planted stuff in the Garden and it looks Great!
They also planted a bigger garden behind the rental we have been fixing up.
So we hope to bottle a lot of things!!
Good job guys!!!

Spring Break?????

It is suppose to be"SPRING BREAK"!

Where is Spring???
It really snowed here!
I was too slow to get the snow in my yard before it melted, the day of the BIG FLUFFY SNOW FLAKES!
We had driven all over looking at the snow! By the time we arrived home, it was almost gone..
Then Rain!
They just said that there is a Winter Storm Warning for our area!!!
Again, Where is "SPRING??""..

The Boy's have been in the house for almost the whole week!!!!
I am going to go BONKERS if the weather doesn't calm down soon!! Ü

We drove up to the Mountain and
WOW what a beautiful sight!!!
A Winter Wonderland!!!

I hope that it pays off this Summer!!!

This is the 3rd Blog in just a few days.. I was back logged!!
I believe that I am now caught up!!

Ward Game Night!!

We have the Funnest Ward
Party People!!

We had a ward Game Night and It was Fun!

We almost didn't go!

We had signed up to take Bananas and Whipping Cream so we at least had to show up to bring them..

The boys wanted the treats..
Banana Splits or Root beer floats! YUMMY!!

They had fun activities for all the family..
and for all ages!!

We were SOOO GLAD that we had gone!!

A bowl of M&M's in front of everyone helped!! (it was for BINGO)

as you can see, the Little Guy and the 14 year old and My Sweetie were called up to do some fun things.
Everyone put their names in a bucket and then names were drawn out to see who played...
again it was FUN!!

Great Job Bro & SIS. "T"

Old Times..

My sister in law visited Tombstone AZ the other day..
Here is a picture of the Oldest building still standing.

My Sweetie and I happened to travel to Silver Reef UT.

It is kind of the same building.

They were built around the same time..

I just question the multi door thing..??

Maybe there were 3 or 4 stores inside?

The silver Reef one was a bank.

Just thought it was interesting..

Pathways

I have been thinking about life choices! Not really my own but just choices and how they effect everyone.
If the choice is good, or Bad, it can and will effect you, your family, Neighborhood, Ward, Community, The Country..
Either for the Good or the Bad....

Our Oldest Son is thinking of Joining the Military!
At least the Army R.O.T.C.

There are pro's and Con's to each side of the "Do I or Don't I" talks..
He would have joined Friday but there was a small problem..
The Day they wanted him to begin, was the first day of Finals! So he has time to really think about it!
I am not against or for..Him joining. That has to be his decision.. I won't be the one having to do all the training and such! But all of us will be effected!!

I guess the thing that keeps going through my mind is, The Other end of the Stick..
Everything you do has another end of the stick attached to it..

For example.. In joining the Church or being active, you may not at first realize all that comes with it..
Like a church job that you will have no prior skill at,Ü, Or Visiting Teaching or Home teaching,
Ward Dinners, Enrichment gatherings, Primary things if you have kids, or are in the Primary.
There will be meals to take to people who are ill or have had a child. Service projects, picking fruit,and the cannery...Food storage, and provident Living...
All are good things, just not what you may have thought you were getting in to with believing that the Church is True!!( Which I do believe by the way!!)

Another example is when you Marry..
Do you realize before, that you just might end up never going to your own Family stuff because you will always be at your husbands family stuff and he just can't miss any ?
Or never going to theirs, but only to yours because there is a riff in their family? or a Weird Uncle?
Or that he Or She is Just like his or her Mother or Father..???

Again, The Other end of the Stick!!!!
It is there with every choice!!

I guess I wish , that I knew what the other end of the stick is for His possible choice!!
Will he have to live far away for ever?( He might anyway with his schooling choices .)
Will he be deployed even though they told him that he would not be..???
Will 6 to 8 years be too much for him to stand? (that is" if" he doesn't like it)
How will that effect his little family not to mention our whole family?? YIKES!!

Maybe the delay is just a way to say "DO SOMETHING ELSE!"
But what do I know??
Maybe there is some better choice just waiting??

I just wish that I knew!!

Blue and Gold

It is that time again!

They had a very nice Dinner!

The Boy's made cakes with their Father's
and Then had a cake Walk!

They all ended up with someone elses
Cake!!!

They are doing the Cake Walk there in the
Circle..

The Funny thing about that was,

The Little Guy and another boy was the
very last 2 in the Circle!!!

The cake he came home with was
Chocolate cake with White frosting and Gummy Worms spelling out

100 years of Scounting! Funny!

The Little Guy and the 14 year old loved the cake!

Max has a new "DO".

I think the lady at the Bank, thinks we have 2 dogs!
She asked if he was the only dog today>>??

The hair cut on Max was quite drastic!
He had gotten to be such a dust mop that he was bringing in
too much leaves and dirt!
We had asked the groomer to cut his feet area a little closer..
Look close.. he gave him a poodle cut on his feet! YIKES!!
They almost look like hands! It is a little creepy!
It has started to grow out already thank heavens!
We had missed his ears being short, so we asked for them to be trimed.
And his face area was always getting dirty due to the beard like thing he had going on.
We had him trim his tail shorter so he would be cleaner..
but That left his "OHIO" license plate showing!
It is a good thing that his hair grows so fast..
One thing is for sure. The feet thing will never happen again!


It is also scary how he could be changed so easily and not look like our dog!!

I wonder what the cost is to have that tracking thing implanted???

We have really enjoyed having Max part of our Family!

We call him the Furry Brother! Ü
(The older Kids just Love that, being they are not Dog lover's!)