Duncan's Birthday

Well Duncan's Birthday is on August 7th and he wanted a new bedding set for his new bed. He wanted a Toy Story one, so we went hunting and I found it on sale so I had to buy it. Here is a picture of him and his new bed

So much to do and so little time

We moved about 1 year ago and are getting ready to move again. We have the best opportunity to move back into our old neighborhood with good friends. We can't wait. About 1 1/2 months ago Danielle and one of her room mates moved in with us until they could save money to move back out together. They have now found a cute little condo for three of them and what a deal they got. 3 story, 3 bedroom 2 full baths, swimming pool, and very cute. All for $650.00 a month and no deposit. They are moving in this weekend and we are starting to move on Monday. Busy times.

Cortney and Chris had also decided to make the move back to St. George. Chris brought Cortney and the boys up here on Fathers day with the intention on him going home until Cortney got a job that would pay for their bills. About a month before they came there was a job opening at Diamond Ranch Academy out in Hurricane that Chris put in a resume for. They called him right away however he was unable to make it here for an interview. So when they got here Chris went out to Diamond on Monday afternoon hoping that there would be another position available. He went out there they pulled his old resume and he got a call for an interview on Tuesday. His plans were to leave Tuesday morning with his mother that went up to Salt Lake for a wedding. Cortney went out Tuesday morning looking as I was on the computer looking. I found a posting for a job at Honey Baked Ham. She ran home we printed out her resume and off to Honey Baked Ham. They interviewed her right then. Chris had his interview at 3pm, by 5pm they both had job offers. Wednesday morning Chris was at work at 7:30am and Cortney started at 9:00am. We are very blessed. So as I said so much to do and so little time. We currently have Cortney, Chris, the boys, Danielle and Sheena living with Danny, Becca and I. I will post pictures of the new houses.

Speaking to my Sister on Mothers Day

I received a wonderful phone call today. My oldest sister called and we had a great talk. I love her very much and it seems that as we became older that we have not been as close. Life gets in the way sometimes. So I cherish the time that we do talk. We have so much in common and so little in common but we do love each other. And we know that when we talk.

New Hairdo for the Puppy

This is what she looked like brand spanking new!!




BEFORE

 

AFTER

Becca's Show Lamb*~

Thursday (showmanship) she got 5th in her class

Friday (Market-where they judge the lamb) she got 3rd in her class

Saturday (she sells the lamb and we will say bye to Zeba) She will be slaughtered in June so Becca will have to wait to get her money until then!

She did such a great job! We are so proud! : )

Our little soccer player

It has been many years since our girls have played Soccer. It is good to see the tradition continue. This is Kaiden doing his best in his first year of playing. Keep up the good work. He looks really cute anyway.

Memories

I just took a trip down memory lane with an old friend. It is really nice to talk to friends from the past. Life takes so many turns, but, it always seems as though everyone in your life has a reason for being in it.

One Boy, One Girl, They knew right away

We are so excited to get one of each. This will be 4 boys 2 girls.

What's been going on

Lets see. Well I have had surgery on both my feet. It has been almost 3 weeks now things are getting better but I do have some pressure points that still hurt pretty bad. Cortney and Duncan came to help with the house and driving during this time and stayed to 3 weeks it was hard to say goodbye. We had so much fun while he was here. I know that I spoil him alot while he is here visiting and he has to be trained all over again when he gets home.
We will find out what Autumn is having, a boy or girl on Monday. Waiting to post what Cortney is having until then. Christmas this year will be so much fun with two new little ones. Can't wait for that Family pic. We are growing quite quickly now. What a wonderful time it is to be grandparents. Love it love it love it.

Little Duncan at the wedding

This is his Happy Face See how quickly that changes






At Spencer and Lauren's wedding I just had to pic's of Duncan

Spencer & Lauren Baker

We were given the opportunity to share the most important day of two peoples lives. Spencer & Lauren are now husband and wife. What a wonderful day it was, busy but wonderful. They are so perfect for each other. The sealing was in the Fresno LDS Temple which was amazing and fun. The sealer, Brother Stoker, did an amazing job. What wonderful advise he gave the two of them. He told them to always focus on each other not on themselves. If we all did just that little thing how wonderful all of our marriages would be. We started out the day with the sealing at 12 noon, took some pictures and off to the luncheon. The luncheon was at 3:00pm and was at a Victorian House in down town Clovis. The home was an old two story home that was decorated so beautiful with burgandy drapes. The Food was so good and how fun it was to catch up with old friends. After the luncheon was the reception, that started at 7:00 pm. I had taken some pic's at the temple so Marci asked me to develop some and bring to the reception. Some of them turned out so cute. Well, Spencer and Lauren are so cute anyway. The reception was beautifully decorated and they had a chocolate fountain with lots of dipping stuff. It seemed as if everyone was by the fountain most of the night. When it was time for the kids to leave we went out and saw that their car had been decorated and it was done very nicely. Thank you Matt and Mike. It was filled with balloons, and I mean filled. There was writing on the windows "Just Married" they really did a nice job.

Fireside one year later

So yesterday I got a message on facebook from Dallas Griffiths. One of Danielle's friends from Pleasant Grove. He came to St. George last year at this time to put on a fireside with his friend Josh Featherstone. They had did some amazing things for the children in Tonga and were going to share that with our youth. The day just did not happen the way it was planned. Dallas, Josh, Danielle and Haley went to Snow Canyon where the boys were long boarding. Dallas fell, or something, we are not sure, and was injured quite badly. So anyway a year later the boys are coming back to put the fireside on now, only this time they will have a little twist of message. They will be speaking to the kids about faith, and how it can get us through. This years theme for the mutual age kids is ""Be thou an example of the believers" (1 Timothy 4:12). I have seen Dallas before and after the accident do just this and think that he will be an amazing example of believing. I can't wait.

Preference and Becca

Last night Becca went to a school dance that is called Preference. This dance the girls ask the boys. Becca asked a boy named Ryan, just a friend, and her friend Jamie asked a boy named Matt, also just a friend. They had a day date where they picked things from a bag that they had to complete, such as, ask someone to be your best friend, play duck duck goose in a crowded area, and ask someone to marry you. They said that it was really fun. Then they went to Jamie's sisters house had lunch and played Wii. The girls then took the boys home and came to our house to get ready for the dance. They picked up the boys went and had pictures taken and came back to our house for dinner. We made Grandma Tudman's speghetti sause, bread and salad. We set up the back yard, had a little fire with the christmas lights on the patio cover. It looked great. A little cold but I think they had fun. All and all the date went well and Becca looked beautiful.

Nana & Papa #5 and 6

So now that the girls have both posted that they are having babies 6 days apart I can talk about it. It was quite the day. Cortney has been trying for about 5 months. Autumn called us and said well guess what? you are going to be a grandma again. I was shocked due to Autumn just going to the Dr. to make sure that that did not happen until they were back from their cruise in May. So anyway Autumn said I am alittle scared to call Cortney, (due to her trying for so long) I told her to call her and make her get a test, it was only 5 days from when she would find out if she was anyway. So Cortney went and got a test, called me and sent a picture of the test with a really light pink line. I told her to go get a digital. Cortney sent Chris to get one and sure enough it said "Pregnant) so here we are Autumn due on July 28th and Cortney due on Aug 2nd. Cortney will have a C section and that will be scheduled the week that Autumn is due. Who knows maybe they will share birthdays. That would be crazy. I am not sure at this time how I will be there for both. Pray for me and the girls that things will work out that I can be there for both. HOW DO YOU CHOOSE? 30 AND 31 WEEKS TO GO.

Snow Day in St. George, Utah

The day started out with dry streets, clouds in the sky and pretty cold. I thought this day would be pretty normal just like all the other days. I went to work and was told a few hours later was told that it was snowing again outside, it had snowed two days before. I didn't think to much about it, the other day it was not bad at all. I got off work at 7pm and went out side to find my car covered with snow. Danielle was suppose to be at Walmart helping her Ward with bagging gifts for the Coins for Kids program here in St. George and due to the weather as I was driving home I thought that maybe I should check to see if she was at Walmart or if she left her car at the church. As I drove into the parking lot of the church my car started to slide and I was afraid to have Danielle drive home in the weather, so off the Walmart I went. (her car was not at the church). So I go into Walmart and was greeted with a Coins for kids tshirt, a clip board and a list of clothing items for a one year old boy. Now I could not resist going a buying clothing for a little boy that was in need. It took about 45 minutes to find just the right sizes and items that I thought would be cute for a little boy, (we were given a $50.00 budget which to spend, that was just a small part of money that was donated from the community) When I was done they asked if I want to shop for another family, I of course could not say no, even as I was thinking that the weather is probably getting worse outside. I took another family sheet and started off to pick out clothing for this family. I decided to go find Danielle for just a moment to tell her how bad it had gotten outside and found her bagging her little heart out. There were baskets and baskets filled with toys and clothing that needed to be rang up and bagged with the family number written on the bags. There were about 6 or 8 registers doing all the same thing. They were in need of help with the bagging so I took the family paper that I had gotten and gave it to someone else and jumped in to help bag. Well Danielle and I were at one register bagging as one of Danielle's friends from her ward was unloading the baskets and dividing the items so that we knew when the next family items started. The bags were marked the items were put into the bags and men and boys loaded the bags onto carts and into trucks to go to the Dixie Center where volunteers will be wrapping the gifts today. We finally got home about 10pm and the roads were slush. When we got home we took some pictures of what the house looked like wit snow all around. I love the picture of the front of the house where you can see my front door to the side. It looks as if Santa and Mrs. Claus would answer the door. This morning I woke up and found the snow to be stacked about 6 inches on the brick walls in our back yard. What a wonderful thing to wake up to. It is a beautiful sight.