Grant's 4th Birthday

Grant turned a big 4 on Sunday June 1st. Can you believe it has already been 4 YEARS? He has been such a blessing in all of our lives. He keeps us young and makes us old all at the same time!!









Is that bike RED????????????

A few weeks ago Steve took Grant to the "real" bike shop to get a part for his bike. Grant saw a green expensive bike and talked about it from them on. So of course for his birthday he wanted a "green" bike. In our family when a kids out grows a bike so fast you don't spend $300 on it so we headed to Wal-Mart to get a new birthday bike. We did look for green but green was not a choice so Red it was..... $50 later we were home. After the candles and song Tyler brought out the new bike. You should have seen the shocked look on Grant's face as he hesitated for a second and said..."WHAT...that bike is not GREEN!" Of course the color seemed less important as soon as he sat on the bike! Blake said that this like the spoiled 16 year old girl who is upset because her new birthday BMW was blue instead of red....I fear he is bit right but how do you not spoil a little guy in the mist of all of these big kids?? :) It could be worse I guess as we could have really gotten him the green bike!
P.S.: Grant took about 30 pictures of his new bike. This is one of them.




LATER THAT DAY:
Grant's job around the house is to put the silverware away from the dishwasher. The job that he use to love to do has turned into a "real" job now and he always hangs his head when asked to help put the dishes away. So when the order was given to come help he said..." How do you expect me to even reach this....I not even 5 yet". Didn't he just turn 4? :)

Ward Memorial Party 5/26/2008

We had a great Ward Party at the Bear Creek Clubhouse. What a fun way to spend the day with great friends and family. We even had to make a couple of runs for more food as people just kept coming! We had well over 150 people in attendance.

Pictured here are some of our darling ward member friends..Xela, Lauren and their darling kids.


Dad in his goofy hat and Grant taking in some rays!












Elders Quorum Cooks:

These are our "Mighty Cooks "! Jeff and Nate did a great job grilling for the whole Ward. It was HOT... HOT... HOT and so are they as you can see from this picture! Can we say Buff??








LOST AND FOUND:
After the great Ward Party we came home and all went our separate ways..The boys ( Tyler and Blake went to mow yards, Steve and I and Grant all crashed on the sofas while watching a movie and Kaylee and Camille took the dog Tex for a walk) After the boys got home from mowing and had showered and eaten Tyler became concerned that the girls were not home yet. Steve and I were still groggy and not quite awake when Tyler decided to send out a search and rescue party to look for them. He and Blake hit the streets on their bikes and Steve and I and Grant went out in the squad car. After they were gone for what seemed to be about 2 hours and our searching was approaching 45 minutes we all started to be become concerned! Trying NOT to alarm people we started to call ward members that were in the area to see if maybe they had seen the girls. Of course they (Christine) were ready to start their search as well. Fearing the we were loosing daylight (it was almost 7 PM) I was seconds for calling the police for help when the girls called to see where everyone was.....They had been home safe and sound and COOL the whole time upstairs watching a movie!! It was a fun little practice rescue mission for the whole family.

Feast

Thanksgiving 2007

We had a great day full of food and fun!! The kids all got up early and went to the Turkey Trot 5K race in Fort Worth, Texas. It was a chilly morning but all that went had a good time.

We had dinner at about 3 PM. We were blessed to have many friends and family come celebrate with us that day. We had our little family here with the exception of Carly who went to Idaho and Tyler and Kaylee who were in AZ. visiting Kaylee's family. Mark, Mary and David Williams were here along with Shelly and Brandon Padoska and their boys. Stephen and Jenny Williams came from Houston with their kids and met their friend the Eilis's here. They were a sharp young couple and we enjoyed having them here. Our friends the Yeck's and the Hansen's from our ward came to enjoy the day as well. It even SNOWED during dinner... it was a beautiful show!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day 2007

Turkey Trot 5 K race.

Mark, Mary, David, Steve, Camille and Grant all went to Ft. Worth EARLY Thanksgiving morning to run in the 5K race. it was cold and windy but it has become quite a tradition. This is the 4th year straight that we have participated in the Turkey Trot.