Grandma's Girl Party 2011

With Grandma's broken leg, last years Girl Party was cancelled. So Grandma made up for it this year. We had a condo in Park City. Lots of fun to be had. The first thing upon arrival was to get to the swimming pool. The first of many trips during the week.

Then a hearty meal before the Outlet Mall visit.

What would a Girl Party be without shopping. "How do you think it looks?"

I wonder if this will fit? Hum!!!

These are outrageous!! Would you really wear these?

"Grandma I really like these. What do you think?"

Pretty cool, huh.

After a hard day of shopping, then it is time for some serious crafts. It is so fun to work together.

Then it was a fun day at the Park City Activity Center. Oakley really had fun on the rides.

How many times can you ride the Alpine Slide in one day? Maybe we set a record.

Bungee Jumping is a lot of fun.

Everybody had sometime on the Carousel. More fun.

Then there was some serious climbing on the wall. Notice that you don't see Grandma on the wall. I wonder why.

Bye Grandma. We will see you when we come down the slide.

The coaster is fun also.

Then back to more crafts. Beads and more beads.

The Grand Closing to the Girl Party was a trip to "Build a Bear". See how great the Bears are.

We all had a fantasic time. Grandma you are the GREATEST!!!

One Happy Grandma

Well Craig and Mandy had a new baby boy join their family on May 25th. He weighed 6 lbs. 12 oz. and 19.5 inches. We went to Logan today to see him. Grandma was in heaven. He looks pretty tiny to me.

Jace and Carter were hard at work in the garden making trenches before the garden get planted. What a great day to play outside.

Then it was time to play some baseball. Carter and Jace are both playing ball and of course they are on different teams. We watched Carter at baseball practice with his team for a while.

It was a great day for a drive to make Grandma happy.

May 1st in Star Valley

When you have 160 percent of normal snow winter lasts a lot longer. These pictures were taken yesterday.

Still plenty of snow.

Well we have moved the snowmobiles and snow blower to storage. Now the summber toys (boat, golf carts and lawn tractor) are back at the ranch.

This big green spot is the golf course 10th green. All the greens are open and in great shape. Too bad there is still a foot of snow on the fairways.

It is nice to see that on the South side of the house the snow melts first and the flowers look pretty good.

A Nice April Weekend in Wyoming

Well it has been 9 years since the Olymics in Salt Lake, but look what we seen in the train yard in Green River Wyoming. Saturday was a beautiful day in Green River. We were able to do some spring yard work and even mow the old winter grass off.

Then we take a Sunday afternoon drive to Star Valley and there is still 2 feet of snow. 6 inches of new snow since last weekend. Needless to say, we will not be mowing the lawn here for a while.

We did get a few more daffodils this week. I am sure spring is coming. Can you beleive that we want to retire here?

Conference Weekend in Star Valley

Well as you can see we will not be playing golf for a few more weeks. Still lots of snow, but it can be lots of fun. Shane and Todd brought their girls up for the weekend. It felt like a warm up for Grandma's Girl Party this summer.

This picture is looking out over the 10th green. It still has 2 feet of snow, but they have sprinkled some black powder to help the snow melt faster.

Lots of fun riding on the snowmobiles and riding on the tubes. With the snow settled down and melting a little, the snow does not fly all over you as it does when it is powder.

Yes this is a snowmobile upside down between the tree and the bridge. Can you believe no one was hurt and the snowmobile was fine.

We like to see how many girls we can fit in a snow cave while we are having fun.

Then if you don't find a cave, you can build some. We had a contest to see if it could be built faster in the front yard or backyard.

Of course you can't have a Girl Party without crafts and sewing. It was tons of fun.

As you can see the Dad's were very motivated to help. That's why we have Grandma.

The encouraging evidence that spring might come sometime is noticing that the snow melts away from the Southside of the house first. You can see that Joyce's daffodils have sprouted and a couple of yellow blumes starting to show. Hooray!! Summer might get here by August.