My Boys

When Jason and Annie came to visit we were able to get all three boys together for a few minutes. At least long enough to get this picture. They are all so handsome and such good
men. How blessed we are to have these four in our family.

Lexie's wedding

Well I finally have got some pictures put on here of the wedding. Hope you enjoy them and I

am so sorry that it took me so long to share them with you.

Our new bookcase

John has been very busy in his workshop/garage again. he made us a new bookcase which is filled already and I told him we need another one. John buys books at garage sales--infact yesterday he got five new ones. The bottom picture is of the new nightstand(s) he made to go with our bed he made a year or so ago. I love his love of woodworking. I benefit greatly from it.

New year's challenge.

I wanted a christmas quilt this last Christmas and couldn't find one I could afford and that I liked so my challenge to myself this year is to make a Christmas quilt. My neighbor had given me a bunch of material when she moved and there was some christmas print fabric in it so I dug it out. dug my quilt block templates out and chose a pattern. I have cut out all the pieces, only had to buy the white material. So far I have got nine blocks pieced together. Need 11 more and then square them up and piece all of them together. then QUILT!!! here's a sample.

Our Trip to Seattle

Finally, I got these published on my blog. We went to Seattle to visit Kevin, Tanya, Jordan, Erin and Nathan the first week in October. We had so much fun with the little kids. We even helped Erin celebrate her birthday. Now with Kevin getting a job in Arizona and them moving down here in two weeks, we will get to help celebrate more birthdays.
While we were in Seattle we watched soccor games, went to the pumpkin patch, went to the fish hatchery and saw the spawning Salmon, ate Krispy Cream Donuts and just had a wonderful time.

Here are some pictures of our Trip to Idaho. hope you enjoy. Cayman and Hanna

Jason and Jo-Jo on the 4-wheeler

The girls at warm river.

The guys at Warm River

The five boys ready to go to Church.

Dad and Camille

Beth and Hanna (the proud grandma)

Grandma Helen

Our Stormy Sky

Our sky was really interesting tonight. Of course, the pictures do not do it justice. Just wanted to share these with you.

Our Vacation

Our trip to Utah was great. We did lots of fun things and believe it or not it was even relaxing. We started off by
spending the weekend with Mike and Joyce in Chino Valley. We visited, we went garage saling and attended church. Monday we headed out to Kanab. Tuesday we went to St. George to see Judy and DeLynn Edstrom who are serving a mission at the church history sites in St. George area. While we were there we also saw my Aunt and Uncle Connie and Jon Braisted.(My mom's youngest sister). I haven't seen her in over twenty years. Wednesday we visited the Pipe Spring National Monument --it was settled by the Mormons and it was a tithing farm in the early years of the church. We also checked out a couple of places for a reunion in 2010.
Thursday we visited the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and ran into my Aunt and Uncle. Friday we started for home and visited Lee's ferry on the way. It was blowing so hard that it was just like a ground blizzard in Idaho only not so cold. (but it was cool). Saturday we had a real treat. We got to see Chistopher. He was in Prescott to visit the family.

















Nicholas and Christopher.

Painting the House

Well Ifigured out how to put this page on my blog. Hope it works so that you can all see it. If you can't let me know and I will do it the old way.

Route 66 Fun Run

On Friday May 1st Grandpa and I went up to Chino Valley and spent the night at Uncle Mikes and Aunt Joyce's. We attended their ballroom dance class with them, but with my bad legs and Dad's bad knee all we did was watch.

Next morning (Saturday) we were up and left for Seligman, Arizona by seven a.m.. We spent a couple of hours walking around looking at old cars. Grandpa was in seventh heaven. He loves old cars. At ten they started the procession of cars on the fun run. We watched cars go by for a solid 45 minutes and then they stragfgled by for another 15. Uncle Art and Strad drove Uncle Art's 1965 or 66 Dodge and went on the run to Kingman. Uncle Mike, Aunt Joyce and Paige drove up In Uncle Mike's 1967 Ford F100 Ranger Pickup, but didn't go on the run.

We went back to Uncle Mike's and Aunt Joyce's and had a wonderful lunch, and then we made the long trip down the hill.

Kiandra Marissa Thomas

Kim had her baby on Thursday, March 26th, (which also happens to be Camille's birthday). She was born at 6:39 p.m. She weighed 7# 5 oz. and was 19 3/4 inches long. She has lots of dark hair. Kim is doing well and will be home tomorrow.

Washington Calhoun's come to visit

Kevin, Tanya, Jordan, Erin and Nathan came to visit us February 14th-to Feb. 23rd. We had a wonderful time and were so happy to see them. We were busy the whole time and had so much fun. We went to the zoo, we picked lemons and made lemonade, we had a birthday party at our house for Keanu with at least 30 people there. We played in the park and Tanya and I (Grandma) went garage saleing. Jordan and Erin just couldn't resist that pool either although it was quite cold. It was wonderful and we were so glad they came.

Christmas 2008

Well I'm really late in getting this done, but we had a wonderful Christmas. Camille, Shane,

Sam, Zac and Joe came to spend the holiday with us. They arrived at about 5:30 Monday morning after driving all night.

We got together several times with everyone here in Phoenix, Summer fixed a meal for us on Tuesday evening and we all had the mexican dinner at grandma and grandpa's on Christmas Eve. Followed by Bingo!!!! Everyone had fun and won lots of prizes. After which we had a small program with Sam, Noel, Zac, Joe and Alyssa singing for us. They sang Jingle Bells, and Rudoph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Christmas morning the boys were anxious to get to the presents, Santa had been very good to them and the tree was loaded. But they were very patient. When Mom and Dad were ready so were they.

Around noon Kim and her family and Summer and her family came and more presents were opened and then we had the big turkey feast. We all had such a wonderful Christmas.

We really enjoyed haveing Camille, Shane and the boys here with us, of course, it wasn't long enough, it never is.

Christmas Helper

This year when we put up our Christmas decorations we had a little help. Alyssa had to be part of everything from putting up the lights and decorations outside to helping decorate the tree inside. She is not camera shy either!!! Had to have her picture taken with every thing.