Jared Halley Live Concert

Dave #1 and Dave #2 and more fans.........( or is it Dave #2 & Dave #1?????)
Jared Halley fan club. Little girl (who kept dancing on stage) Summer, Brigham, Kira, Tara & Jared in back (a different Jared).

Yep, Jared Halley is talented. I just want to go on record that I've known him since he was just a little kid. Stephanie also picked him up for Seminary so I'm sure she'll claim part of the credit for his success in life, deserved of course. His concert in the park was well attended and fantastic. He needs to try out for American Idol. I know that WE'D all vote for him. And I have unlimited texting, so I'm a force to be reconed (rekoned ???....I'm an excellent speller but I find myself vexed) with when it comes to voting on reality shows.

Memorial Day Picnic

A little too much smoke for Mallory I guess.
Stop fighting you two.....
Are these guys new in the ward? These are the girls....Kate, Mallory, Caitlin & Pete. So pretty !!!!!

Why didn't I take more photos? The food was great and everyone had a nice time.

Mallory's Shower

Nice flowers from Uncle Craig

Whoops, I didn't mean to put on this picture, Mallory's face was a little red. Where do people buy this stuff? Not that I really want to know.

Great fun to celebrate the upcoming nuptials of Mallory and Lincoln!

Lake Michigan and Asparagus picking!

Our beautiful beach and lighthouses on the pier. It's wonderful to swim in freshwater.

This is where I would spend my entire summer if I didn't have a store and had to be home to sell fruitcake...and be with my husband. ha ha Forget the ocean, most people have no idea how fabulous Lake Michigan is. That's ok, we like it quiet.

This is a little piece of driftwood I found on the beach. I wanted to take it home so my sweet husband got the shovel and dug it up!!! I'm sure it wouldn't fit in the car so I settled for a photo. This is our beach on Lake Michigan. Greater love hath no husband than to try and fulfill his wife's dreams.

This is probably my most favorite view in all the world. It's the walkway down to Lake Michigan from my parents cottage. Lake Michigan is clean and blue and peaceful.

Isn't asparagus funny? It has to be hand snapped since the spears just poke right up from the ground...one by one! They were also great to eat raw.
This is part of my parents farm, I adore the blue skies and lovely fields...the air is clean and the ground is soft and sandy. The trees are all gentle and blow in the breezes of Lake Michigan. I always take my own pictures of myself. I'm a little crazy. I just want to prove I was there!

That is my cute little mother. We were out picking asparagus in the rye field. My dad overplanted the asparagus field on their farm with rye this year, but the asparagus is still coming up between the rows, so fun!!!

Orange much?

Well, I am shopping for my large family of 2 at Kroger and I'm happily wearing my orange Spring coat, orange blouse and my new Spring orange purse...the girl at the checkout says to me, "Wow, it takes a lot of confidence to pull off all that color!" Hmmmmmm.....I'm thinking, this is either a backhanded compliment or a total slam. The girl isn't very old and since I'm not generally suspicious of people's motives I decide it's a compliment and I thank her and go home. What did she really mean? I'm going to think the best, and I'm still going to wear my lovely orange!! Hey, my car is red. And, I'm toting the reusable bags OK, except for meat, eeeeewh. I really like my new purse.

Our lovely Institute

These are the kids across the street from our Institute building. It was such a beautiful day. I said HI to them and isn't it a nice day and they said it was great for drinking beer. Whatever.

The girls cannot keep their hands off of Bryce's mohawk!! I asked him if it was Crimson for Utah or Scarlet for OSU and he said both. Whatever, it's working! I think Chris is jealous of all the attention that Bryce is getting.

It's great to go to Relief Society and hang out with the girls.
The Bishop is always ready to talk to everyone!
There are so many beautiful girls in our ward, like Summer and Annie.
And Caitlin and Candace.

What a beautiful day! I love going to church and seeing all my friends and learning and feeling the spirit. What a way to start the week right!!! I know, more pictures of Kate! My camera just loves that girl......she's so cute. Stephen always finds the cute girls.

Too many bells & whistles

I needed a new cell phone a while back. My phone was so old that the battery fried the sim card and lost all my numbers. Yikes, it's no fun trying to recreate that list! If I haven't called you lately then it may be that I don't have your number. So.... I go into the cell phone store (in this case AT & T) and tell them I just need a basic phone....and 30 minutes later I walk out with the latest cool phone with all the bells and whistles. I told them when I went in that I didn't want anything too complicated...and I need a manual. Fat chance. I got the trickiest phone (with video and e-mail....the works) and NO manual. Luckily Craig hasn't complained about the extra $40. a month for the service....he always lets me do what I want....what a great guy! Before the 30 days were up I was so frustrated with my new phone and I could NOT figure it out.....so I trekked back to the store fully DETERMINED to make them "take it back" (politely, I'm always polite) and give me the basic phone, thank you. Before I left I promised myself I was not going to let them talk me into keeping it...NO WAY. ...I came home that day......with the same phone. My 2 year old granddaughter Jada says it best (as she learned from a boy in her nursery class) "What the HECK???" Anybody got some swamp land they want to sell me? I'm in a buying mood!

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Parking Problems

Bob Wiley (from What About Bob?) said Basically there are 2 kinds of people, those that like Neil Diamond, and those who don't. My wife loved him!" I also happen to wooorrrrshiiiii....really LOVE him. All my middle school memories have a Neil Diamond track playing along. ahhhhh.

Why would somone park like this? This guy is clearly sticking out into MY favorite spot at Kroger, forcing me to park 2 spaces away from the cart corral and letting my car possibly get dented by someone on both sides now. I think this truck is basically taking up 4 spots by his (I'll call him a guy because it's a big truck) (sexism ? maybe, but those who know me know that I always support the guys) and most women don't like to drive a truck this big. What were they thinking? Couldn't they see as they got out of this monster that they were being selfish? Especially on a rainy day. Luckily Neil Diamond has his OWN station on Sirius radio (channel 3) so I can listen to him ALL DAY-not that I'm in the car all day-but it makes my driving experience wonderful!

Hard At Work!

Yep, I'm busy at work. What really keeps me going is smelling my lilacs from my bushes at home and drinking Smart Water! I try to keep my work space as lovely as possible...snacks are always good and plentiful in my handy desk cupboard...not that I need to venture far for the best chocolates, nuts and oh so tempting brownies. And Smart Water..yum......it says on the bottle "Is it just us, or do clouds get a bad rap? While we admit they're not as great to have around on a beach day, as say, the sun, clouds are unsung heroes because they contain nature's purest source of water, meanwhile , spring water comes from the ground and contains random stuff and whatever else the animals that swim in it leave behind. That's why we copied our white puffy friends by creating Smart Water. It's vapor distilled so it is in it's purest original state. It's a difference you can taste...unless, of course, you have no taste buds (then you're on your own). but, we don't stop there. We one-up the clouds by adding electrolytes just in case you do decide to hit the beach. Unfortunately, we can't fix the whole men in thongs things." Well, in the immortal words of Brad Welling (aka Bryce Peterson) "You've convinced me!" I do think it makes me smarter when trying to decide how to ship a little old lady's fruitcake..via UPS or Yellow Freight.