Some Summer Time Fun

Memorial Day -- Joe's family has a wonderful tradition to visit the cemetery where his grandparents are buried on Memorial Weekend then we have a pot luck dinner at his sister's house. Always a fun time to reminisce about ancestors and tell our children stories about their great grandparents.

Our friends from Holland came and visited us with Joe's parents.




I did a summer centerpiece tutorial for my sisters blog

Aspen Grove Family Reunion

We spent the first week of July at Aspen Grove Family Camp up Provo Canyon. It was an extended family reunion for my side of the family and we had over 100 people there. It was really fun to see cousins, cousin's kids, aunts and uncles, etc. It was nice to get away from the heat and enjoy that fresh mountain air.

We also opened a time capsule that we sealed in 2000. This is a tradition my grandparents started in the 80's. Joe and I had written letters to ourselves that we opened. In 1990 I wrote that I hoped we would have a son and name him Joey. I don't ever remember thinking that or writing that!!! Would have been nice to remember that when our Joey was born and he wasn't a GIRL like the doctors that had performed the 2 ultra sounds told us :) Funny how many things have changed and some stayed the same the past 10 years. We wrote letters and included pictures in the time capsule that will be opened in 2020.

Every night we had a family devotional where my aunts and uncles took turns telling stories about my Grandma. So glad she is still here with us to hug and cuddle my boys.

This is a picture of our awesome golf team for the biennial Gardner Open Tournament. My cousin Ken and my cousin Jay's son, Jeremy, were members of our team. Now there are a lot of different levels of golfers in this tournament and I am proud to say that I was a contributing member of our team this year and had some long drives. Not bad since the last time I golfed was at the tournament 2 years ago. The secret to my success .... my sandals, a tooth ache, and rented clubs.

Here is Joey getting ready to climb the rock wall.

Swim Team -- Joey did really well this year and we are so proud of him!

Joey's biggest fan! So fun to hear Tommy cheer, "Go go go go go go!"

Tommy loves to help mow the law! In fact both our boys love to mow the lawn. Hope this lasts for years and years.

Wow! The summer goes by so fast.