Trip to Arizona

Brandon and Tiffani flew us to Arizona on Apr 17. They picked us up at the airport and we went to Louyre's house to see all of the Phoenix gang. It was so good to see everyone. We stayed at Brandon and Tiff's house all week and worked on the Preparedness Fair that was to be on Apr 25. We coupon shopped all week. Tiffani has been getting huge amounts of food with her coupons and has been doing it really cheap. It's a cool thing, it just takes lots of time. We took pictures of her storeroom and it was amazing. The pictures I tooik at the beginning of the week only had part of the food. After shopping all week, but room was literally bulging at the seams, and we had to rearrange and restack lots of stuff. There is literally 90 days plus lots more of some things in the room. It was so amazing. On Friday night we had a brithday party for Wayne and my family came over for a cook out. We had a really good time. They all look so good. Kim's grandbabies are adoreable. The preparedness fair was awesome. The food turned out really good and there was over 75 people who attended. There were also some non members there that the missionaries handed out flyers to. Most of the food was gone when it was over and we talked so much we were all hoarse. Tiffani came home to a sign on her house, because it was her birthday that day. Her and Brandon are pretty anazing with all the kids. It is a really hard job to keep care of all of those kids. It just about wore me out. We had a fun week, and we will miss them. It was nice to get back home to our bed and our little kids here. I missed them. Thanks Brandon and Tiff for a fun (and exhausting week). I guess I should fill in a couple of other bits of news also. Dennie was in a buggy accident (yes buggy) that really broke him up and road rashed him bad. He spent one night in the hospital. He is home and okay, but Nellie said he is pretty sore and grouchy. Our Aunt Betty (Margie's sister and Gary's wife) died last week on Apr 21. She was 73 years old. Because of our flight home on Monday I wasn't able to attend the funeral. I felt bad a bout that. Nellie and Vance both talked. Margie told them that Betty never got over Gary dying, and I would believe that. She was buried by Gary in Taylor. Maybe now she will be at peace in her life.

Addie and Miles meeting for the first time

Brittney and her girls, Ashlyn and Paige

Brittney with Bethany's baby, Addyson and Melanee and Shelbee and Ash lyn

Louyre, Louise and Rob

Brandon and Darin

A group picture. Mom and Dad would have loved these kids

Brandon & Tiff's storeroom thanks to coupon shopping

Brandon & Tiff's storeroom again

Brandon and Tiff's storeroom - canned meat in the back corner

Addie and Miles and Zach in the back

Brandon cooking in the wind

Kim and Addie and Bailey

Nellie, Kim and Michelle

Vance, Chelan, me, and Brandon

Vance and me and Addie

At the Preparedness Fair - Tiffani only paid about $40.00 for this entire table of food.

The firstaid table and pandemic stuff

If was Tiff's 30th birthday. This sign got left on her house. Ha Ha

This is the 72 hour kit table

Nellie, Kim and Debbie and canning table with the Elders

Nellie, Debbie and Kim again

The Car emergency kit

Turkeys and Puppies

Wayne insisted on expanding the chicken family by adding a few turkeys. He and Michelle went out yesterday and bought 5 turkeys. They are pretty cute. I suspect they will be naughtier than the chickens. Maggie also had some puppies the other day. If was funny because she had them inside the old tree. She has 4 boys and 2 girls. We did get them moved into the barn yesterday. At first Maggie was a little distraught, but then she chilled out.

Here are 3 white turkeys. The guy at the feed store said their's got to be 60 pounds last year.

Here are 2 little brown turkeys. They are smaller now, but who know about later.

Maggie and the puppies buried deep inside the tree. This picture is taken from about 3 feet out. She is way inside the tree. Penny went in and pulled the puppies out with a shovel thing.

The is the tree she was in

Just to the right of the middle is a dark spot with a limb coming out of it. The dark spot is the opening that Maggie climbed into. She actually had the puppies on the back side of the tree. It is a pretty cool hidey hole if you ask me. I searched for her for hours the other day before I found her.

Marley and Addie's pictures from March

Here are the pictures that were taken of the two babies, Marley and Adelaide (Addie) when we were all in Utah on March 4. I tried to upload them to my walgreens account but couldn't get the upload to work. So for right now, here they are. They are adoreable. Some are duplicates in black and white, but oh well.

Potty Training Nevin and Liam Biam

We've all had it, and decided we have to get the 2 boys potty trained. Nevin was happy about it yesterday, but today he refuses to get out of my bed and put underwear on.

The 2 monkeys

Liam Biam

Nevin in his Spidermans

Aiden singing the Darth Vader song - funny

Aiden has learned how to sing the Darth Vader song,

and it is quite entertaining. He keeps looking at the wii game that he wants to be playing

You will need to pause the music at the end of this blog to hear well

Easter in the Torrential Rain

It poured on us all day. We actually had record rainfall. So easter egg hunting outside was out of the question. We decided to do it in the barn. It was dry in there, but still kind of damp and cold. Easter egg hunting didn't last long needless to say. It was warmer in the house.

Wayne, Sonya Bernal and Cheyanna Balmer. We invited some friends

over to spend Easter with us.

Matt, Penny, Addie and Nevin. Kids don't even like the real eggs anymore, they only like the candy. I loved boiled eggs, we used to hunt the eggs over and over.

Shawn and Savannah Balmer, Tommy (Emilie's friend), Emilie and Wayne

Addie and Wayne and her Easter goodies

Easter babies for little girls are so cute

Hiding eggs in the barn on the stairs (unfinished naturally)

Hiding eggs in the motorcycle

Hiding eggs everywhere

Hiding eggs around and under stuff

Hiding eggs by the chickens

Hiding eggs by Wayne's reloading stuff

Addie licking her plate - sort of

Addie after eating deviled eggs and potato salad