AND NOW

I decided to just take some new pictures - so this is how it looks today - June 18, 2007. There's always lots to do an old home. We do enjoy living here. I've decided that the yard is WAY too big now. I finally planted 10 tomato plants. We haven't been home long enough to get our garden in so that's all we're doing. At least we'll get salsa made maybe!

HOME SWEET HOME

We were showing Grant and Muriel some old pictures of the house. Thought it would be fun to show some of them. I couldn't get the most recent one to post. - I'll try later. It took forever to get these on! It was built in 1869. Mark's family were all raised here. We've lived in it since 1992.

This was taken in 1899

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day! I hope they all have a wonderful day. I talked to my dad yesterday - what a great dad he is! He was a farmer/mail carrier and provided us with a wonderful childhood to look back on and cherish. He taught us to work hard right along with him - hoeing cotton, moving cows, burning ditches, hauling hay, picking rocks, etc., etc. We're so glad he's still with us - he gave us a scare a year ago! He's such a tender hearted man and I love him alot.
Also, to my father in law - Grant. He's 93 years old and still going strong - just slower! He's always been to kind and loving to me and my family. He has a great sense of humor and is full of sayings that we've come to love.
And to my husband Mark. With a house full of girls he's had to be very patient and just smile! He's been a great dad to his 4 daughters and a wonderful husband putting up with me. He's having a great time being a grandpa to Lucas and looks forward to the ones coming soon!
I'm very blessed to have these men in my life. Happy Fathers Day! Love you all very much.

BOSTON

These are some of the sights we were able to see in New England. It was so gorgeous back there. Green, green, green. You feel like you're in the forest everywhere you drive. There are so many trees. We really had a great time. Thanks AC and Shara for all you did. I can't wait to go back in three months! (when the baby comes). Love you guys. (Some of the pictures got out of order - don't know how that happened!)


Oops - out of order! Oh well. We took a tour of Fenway Park. Way fun to see it. Too bad there wasn't a game in town! Paul Revere's House
Waiting on the street for AC after eating at Giacomos
"Old Ironsides" - USS Constitution

Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park
Roof Deck Seats - $400.00 ticket (if you get drawn from the lottery)
Waiting for the game to start- j/k (they were out of town!)
Monster Seats - bring your mitts for these seats!
They do?

Eating Lunch in Boston

We went Whale Watching on the Yankee Freedom! It was a great day for whales - one of the best seasons they've had! We saw a lot of them that day. We'd see 4 come up out of the water at a time. I could never get a good picture. Check out Aaron's - I'm sure he has a lot of them! It was a bit chilly on the Atlantic!
Paul Revere's headstone. (Mother Goose is also buried in this cemetery.)
oops! (again)

Miniature Golfing at Kimball Farms.
Rockport, MA - cute little town .

Nothing but water

Goats are Parlee Farms
This is the most amazing miniature golf place ever! It was so fun! They have yummy ice cream shops that open in the summer - so we were always eating ice cream after our excursions. ( We even made some with Shara's new ice cream freezer - it was delicious!)

Parlee Farms - we went and picked strawberries! It's a fruit farm that you pick your own. Strawberries are on right now. Of course we had to have a strawberry shortcake with ice cream after! Yummy!

Touring the sites of Lowell. On the trolley going to Boots Cotton Mill.

All Aboard!

SHARA'S GRADUATION FROM UMASS

The day after Jessica graduated we flew to Boston for Shara's graduation. She graduated from UMASS Lowell as an RN! It was so fun to be there to see her graduate. Saturday was her pinning and Sunday was the graduation. I might add (as a very proud mother should) she was one (of the top two) that graduated summa cum laude in her class! Doesn't get much better than that! I didn't get any pictures of the graduation day - look at her blog and I'm sure there will be lots! AC took tons of pictures.

Shara getting her pin! She's an official "RN"!

Before the pinning ceremony (looking very cute!)

GRADUATION

Graduation Day! Jessica graduated from Bear River High on May 31st. These are just a few pictures of the day! Some with family - some with friends, Erica Park and Jeff Merrell. (She'll put more on her blog someday).

Honeyville 3rd Ward Seminary Graduates.

Nappy in her "Birthday Bowl Chair" from her sisters and brothers in law (and Lucas)! She loves it. She has to fight Lucas for it when he comes to visit.

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY

That's how our life has been the past while and continues to be that way! We had a great Memorial Day Weekend. Katie, Jed and Lucas were able to come up and spend the weekend. It's always so fun to have the kids come home. We had a BBQ at our house yesterday with family members. Always fun to get together. Jessica spoke in Church Sunday as it was "Senior Day". They always get to speak right before graduation. There were 8 of them and they all did a great job - especially Jess! All of their talks were about their Seminary experiences. All 8 of them graduated last Thursday night from Seminary. They are a good bunch of kids.

Tomorrow is her "official" last day of High School. Hard to believe it's finally here. Katie took pictures of her in her cap and gown - very cute as you can see! She'll graduate Thursday night and then it's off to Boston for Shara's graduation on Saturday. She graduates from UMASS with her RN - finally! She's worked hard. We are so excited to go see her and AC. They just got back from Japan yesterday so hopefully they'll be rested up. (I'll post pictures of Shara when we get there!)

Congratulations Nappy and Shara - we're so very proud of you!