A Bird Came back to the Nest

Been a busy week. It was so great to see our grandbabies they are so cute, we just love them, I can't wait to go see them again this weekend. Last weekend Lant and Amy came down and Haven and friends also. The plan was to go out on the wave runners but there was too much rain all weekend. We did go camping and ride the 4 wheelers. Lant also asked Amy to marry him and she said yes. So there will be two weddings this summer. Shad in July -Lant in August. Brooke and Amy are wonderful girls we are excited to have them in our family.
So Chris likes to get up early in the morning and open all the doors in the house. He says it brings down the heat load in the house. Lately I have told him it also brings in flies and moths and all sorts of insects that I don't particularly want to house. Well I woke up the other morning and a bird also decided to join the household. He continued to fly around and not use his manners and do his duty were it should not be done, but proceeded to "do it" on the floors and front closet. Gross! I could not get him out of the house, so I left the front door open and went for my run, when I got back it was gone. I do have a picture of him on the top of the stairs, seemed to be his favorite place. We have a busy couple of weeks ahead we will tell you how they went next time.

A Humbling TIme

Our most exciting news for the year is the safe arrival Trey James and Carter Christopher - Amanda had gone in for her regular check up Friday and they were concerned that Baby B (Trey) was not getting the nutrition he needed and was not growing. So they decided to induce Amanda and get those babies delivered. When we got the call we dropped everything and drove to Provo. We got there in time with about 3 hours to spare - around 6:30 pm Friday night May 22 our first grand babies were born. I was so thankful and releaved I could not stop tearing up. To have those little miracles here on earth after all the prayers and struggles is truly a blessing and a humbling feeling. We are not in control - and we are so thankful to our Heavenly Father who is - who saw fit to allow this blessing for Cody & Amanda and us. The boys are struggling just a bit to keep their blood sugar levels right and are in ICU now for a few days. So keep your prayers coming in their behalf. Amanda is doing well and recovering quickly.
Trey is at the bottom and weighed 5 lbs and 8 ounces, Carter at the top was born six minutes before Trey and weighed 5 lbs and 15 ounces. Both boys were 18" long.

Cody also had good news Thursday this week receiving notice that he was promoted at work and also recieved a good salary increase. That will be a blessing with two new additions to the family.

We have enjoyed the past few weeks of spring and getting things done in the yard. New flowers, more garden, spraying the fruit trees, fertilizing the yard and killing weeds. We plan to have Shad & Brooke's open house here in July and would like things to be in good shape. We also took time to do our maiden voyage in the new camp trailer. We went up last Friday to reunion ridge (near Palmers flat - Blue Mtn) and enjoyed a night. We invited Mom and Dad Webb up for dinner with us. It was our Ward's father and sons that night and with no sons around it was nice to spend time with them. I did leave Stacey alone for a few hours Saturday morning and the priesthood brethren did a service project down at the Dude Ranch cleaning it up so it is ready for use this summer. The most eventful part of the trip was cleaning up the milk. Yup I did not get the fridge latched all the way and when we got to the mountain to set up we found a gallon of spilled milk on the floor. It took a bit to clean everything up - some went down the floor vents so I pulled the registers and cleaned the vents too.

In other news Shad graduated end of April and and also passed the Utah Real Estate exam. He is working for NAI Commercial Real Estate Utah Valley and enjoying his job. He and Brooke are preparing for their wedding in July. This was one of their engagement pictures. They are doing great - we are proud of Shad and what he has accomplished. We love Brooke.

Lant and Haven are still up going to school. They both plan to graduate April 2010. They are down this weekend with friends for Memorial Day. We followed them down after spending time with Cody, Amanda and the twins Saturday Morning.

Their seems to be a lot happening in our lives. Our children are active and happy and let us be involved. It is rewarding to watch them grow and succeed. We truly feel blessed, we see Heavenly Fathers hand in our lives. Feel free to call us Grandpa & Grandma.

Womens Conference

Picture is of Chris's mom, sister's and me. Mom made us all bags
with our name on it, for the conference. I'm sure they took hours
to do. She also made Liz one but she wouldn't get in the picture!!


This week we spent mostly apart. Chris went to St. George on Tuesday for meetings and I left for Provo on Wednesday. I talked my sister Liz into going to Womens Conference at BYU. It started Thursday moring and went until Friday at 5:00pm. We stayed at Cody's and Amanda's ( or the Webb motel). We had a good time there, and learned some things also. Some of the classes we went to were on being happy in an empty nest, learning to laugh in life, and strength in the Lord, and many more. We laughed a lot and of course talked about our kids. All but one of Chris's sisters were up there also, so we sat with them when we could. We had pizza one night with all the family that was up there except Shad and Brooke weren't there because Brooke had her tonsils out on Wednesday and Shad was up seeing her. Hope you are feeling better Brooke. Cindy bought all the pizza- thanks Cindy. Good to see everyone. I also went to a Dr Appointment with Cody and Amanda and got to see the boys as they did a ultrasound. That was fun. I told Cody that baby A looked like him. Babies will be here soon, so excited! When we got back we headed to the baseball field, Nate (my nephew) was playing in a play off game. I'm glad we could watch some of it. We sometimes miss going to games every week--or do we? Nate also got his mission call to the Phillipines, congrats Nate. Good to see all the kids as usual.