The hardest part

I have seen some real growth in Will this summer, he makes us all laugh with his voice imitations which sound like the real deal. He was a great sport when we went camping and all seven of us crammed into a five man tent. He is taking some classes at UVU and is real excited to be back to his routine.
Jana my amazing daughter, who has been ready for this moment for probably 2 years now. It was so fun getting her set up in her dorm. She has wasted no time in making new friends, a group of them hiked to the "Y" their first night there!
BYU is such a beautiful campus. She is going to love it there! And it's great that she can spend time with Will.

TEXAS

Doesn't he look so happy! As always we had a great time in Texas. It was so green and pretty, and there was grasshoppers galore.
So Gwen and Jay caught grasshoppers all day so that we could use them for bait at fishin' time.

They filled up a brown paper sack just full of them. As those critters jumped around it sounded like popcorn popping.
Here's Jay getting a one. John stocked the tank full of cat fish. So there were plenty of them biting. They were still to small to eat so it was catch and release.

Grandma's Luncheon and Program

We had a delicious lunch, with lots of family. Her favorite color is blue so we rounded up all the blue dishes we could find.
Van our faithful big brother was the MC of the program. We had lots of laughs as we watched the preformances.
Here's the clan, all the children but one, he was in our thoughts and always in our prayers.

Lots but not all of the grandkids were there. It was a wonderful day!

Cowboy breakfast

While we were having our tea party the men were having a cowboy breakfast. Hosted by Uncle Mark.
Van brought down a couple of horses for all to enjoy. He always looks like a postcard.
This little cutie loved the pony.

Grandma's Tea Party

We had a "Tea" Party for Grandma and all the girls. She taught us the proper etiquette of how to hold our pinkie finger and how we are not supposed to tip our heads back when we drink.

Summer 2010

What a wonderful, eventful summer. Sadly, the pictures I took early in the summer got deleted. Thank you Cody for your pictures of Grandma's 80th birthday party. And of course I posted them backwards! This photo was supposed to be last after our yoga season.
We started the morning with Mindy our amazing yoga instructor. She made it look so easy.
I promise it's not!

Graduation!!

Jana is officially a High School Graduate! It was a lovely evening with lots of long speeches. The key note speaker was the ambassador of Namibia. But the best speaker hands down was by the Valedictorian! She did a great job, and I'm not just saying that because lots of people told us that she was the best speaker.

One of the speakers used a lot of body language and moved the podium just a bit and knocked the flowers over.

I had been watching this banana tree in my garden for months with this huge bunch of bananas. It got so heavy that the gardener finally had to prop it up. I kept meaning to take a picture of it. I'm glad that I don't have to be the one to decide when to take them down because I thought they were ready weeks ago.

I came home after being out and the gardener had cut them down. Boy, were they delicious! We had banana smoothies, banana bread, bananas all by them self. I froze some because they were ripening so fast.