June family visits

 Samuel Paul Kingston turned one June 2nd.  We celebrated here in Malad, ID, far from his birth place in Missouri.

Aubrey is busy practicing for Stake Conference and the Youth Trek.

A day in the yard getting dirty. James discovered that spit and a dirt clod make mud.

 We went to Rexburg and Sugar City so Chelsea to see BYU-I campus and visit family, but I did not take any pictures.

A day in SLC at Temple Square and City Creek shopping center.

Sam and Marco in the bath tub.

NEXT  - SATURDAY AND THE KING REUNION

A COUNTRY THEME AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE KIDS

SOME YUMMY FOOD...

SWIMMING  -( no pictures were taken)        and       VOLLEYBALL

BACK IN IDAHO ON SUNDAY

 AND THE SILLY PICS

MONDAY  WAS DOWNATA HOT SPRINGS ( the day was quite windy)

AN OUTING WITH AUNT AUBREY

NATHAN FISHING WITH GRANDPA

SLC with the Klienman's  - CITY CREEK SHOPPING AND TEMPLE SQUARE

 Nathan was so busy playing I could not get his attention.  Marco wanted the camera for a toy, so Bracken was the only one who got a picture at the play place.

turning 16

 Menu for the day:  crepes / buttermilk syrup
                                   Pizza Stop with friends
                                                                          (5  teenage  girls  ate  2  large  pizza's)                                                                   
                                                                       Tostadas
                                  

We have a hard time celebrating Aubrey's birthday because it is always the last few days of school.  Schedules are all mixed up and very busy.

Carrot cake : (wheat free, different texture, but great taste - the crepes are wheat free also and you can't even tell a difference) Dads life is much better when we cut down, as much as we can, on the wheat.
This year was Aubrey's turn for "wacky candles".

 Caught Aubrey after Mutual and before her friends came over for "woof'ems".

 Tostadas are so yummy!

 Sam is Aubrey's friend that has been around a lot more this year.  She is great fun.

 Quite a few teenagers came and went.  Between the trampoline,  the fire pit, and just NOT being home, they all seemed to have a good time.  We originally planned on around 8,  because of woof'em sticks and chairs, but they all managed.
Aubrey said one guy, Ilan, made a perfectly cooked and browned woof'em.  He held it for a while, not wanting to destroy it by eating it up.

It's officialy Spring

 I got out Prescott Pig today.
  I don't like to see him out in the cold, snowy weather all Winter.

 I don't know if I am just imagining it, but it seems like  there are a lot of lady bugs around this year.  When I took this picture it had turned very windy and they were crawling to protection.  But, when it was nice there were 6 to 10 lady bugs together  all along the branches, when I was trimming the trees.

 The tulips are kind of mini this year.  I am quite sure, in years past, they were taller, but this year most of them are not even 12 inches high.  I thought the boys would like this view with the skate park.

Time for freezer jam.  YUM !

look familiar?

Yep.
Another family member, on the couch, with a leg in a CPM machine -( that's new), exhausted, with balloons of comfort and love, while healing from ACL knee surgery.

Aubrey's surgery was in the morning on Thursday April 11th.  The drain tube needed  taken out the following morning ,so we stayed in Pocatello, a hotel, rather than drive home and back.

Aubrey did very well with not getting nauseated, so Dad got her a special treat, after a meal of chicken strips and french fries from Applebee's. 

Awake and enjoying regulating the machine.  She can stop it when it begins to hurt.

This is what we found when she could shower and change the bandage.

Easter and sewing

Our Computer got very sick, but is now better.  We're back.

 I don't like either of these pictures very much, but here we are.  I was personally extremely tired and the only thing I did with my hair was get up very early for a Stake Primary meeting, drip dry and put it up half way.  Who schedules a Stake meeting on Easter morning?  

 Thought we would try a full sun shot.  The yard was not green at all this Easter.

 I have had a hard time saying good-bye to my old Kenmore sewing machine.  It has been a problem to sew on for years, but  has served me well and all the quirks just seemed part of the whole ordeal. 
I have not switched out everything, but I got out the new machine given to me for my birthday (THANK YOU AGAIN) and sewed away one day.  Love to sew, but don't like to be interupted. (They don't go well together)  I covered the pillows on the couch in the quest to add (proper) color to the room. (trying to get rid of the red)  I used  fabric samples so I had to piece things together.