Colorado Adventure continued

The scenery was beautiful.  We saw cascading water falls, rivers running full -- people said some were at 15 year highs - we hiked around lakes, saw snow covered peaks, snow along the roads, and wildlife in some areas.

We had picnics out of our car as we traveled around. 

After leaving Rocky Mountain National Park, we were off to Georgetown where we road the scenic railroad.

It was kind of a chilly day, but we saw some beautiful country.  We went over and under bridges.  We stopped in the middle and had a mine tour that was interesting. 

It would have been a hard life working in those mines!

Colorado Adventure

We've just returned from an adventure in beautiful Colorado.  It all started when we left South Jordan on June 4th to drive to Denver.  On Saturday, June 5th was a special family occasion.  Drake Michael Jones, Debbie's oldest child was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Drake and his Dad!

 Debbie's family minus baby Brigham

Drake with all the grandparents!

On Monday, the 7th of June, actually our anniversary, Paul and I flew from Denver to Phoenix.  We got to see my mother, all of my sisters, and on Tuesday had a great reunion with most of the LeSueur 1st cousins.  

It was great to see cousins I hadn't seen for many, many years.  It was so nice to see Aunt Nena too.  Aunt Nena and my mother are the only two that are still alive from that generation.  

Aunt Nena and Mother

Trying to gather for a picture.  I don't thing we got everyone that attended.

Sisters minus Karen

 Karen and Aunt Nena

Wednesday morning, before people left for home, we met again and had breakfast at the Black Bear Diner. 

Jeanne Kay (on the right) lives in Seattle and was the one that started everything to get cousins together.  She also hosted the dinner at the Country Club on Tuesday night.  It was fun to get reacquainted with her and the other cousins.  

On Wednesday, we flew back to Denver and then headed to Rocky Mountain National Park.  We stayed in the park at Cascade Cottages in a rustic cabin near the Cascade Creek. 

Cascade Creek in back of our cabin

We saw lots of beautiful sights as we drove throughout the park. 

(to be continued) 

Del Rio Reunion

Back in 1968, while Paul was in the Air Force, we got an assignment to go to Laughlin AFB near Del Rio, Texas.  We had no idea what to expect and we weren't real excited about going there.  But, it ended up being one of our favorite assignments in the Air Force.  We belonged to a small branch in the church.  Since we were so far away from family and others were too, our friends became like family.  We have had several reunions with dear friends that we made during that time in the past and, we recently had another reunion.  There were 10 couples that got together - one from Washington state, one from St. George, Utah, one from Bloomington Idaho, one from Cache Valley, and the rest of us from the Salt Lake/Provo area.  It was wonderful to see friends, visit and share in great memories.  Paul had recently made a photo book through Shutterfly on the years we were in Del Rio.  Everyone had fun looking through it and seeing "old" pictures.
We had dinner together at Gardner Village at Archibald's restaurant. 

After dinner we came back to our club house and had dessert and that is where we really visited.

  We didn't good pictures of everyone, but we sure had a good time!  Thanks all for coming!!

Wax Museum from Montana

It was fun to have some family here for Mother's day.  Melinda and Holly were here to go to church with us and it was so fun to visit and play with them.

While visiting us Avery shared her part from her school program where they call it their "Wax Museum."  They have special characters that they become.  It takes lots of research, practice etc.  Here is a video of Avery who is portraying the "first teacher in Montana."  During the actual program she had a costume and props.  We were just glad we got to see her monologue.

Concerts and Musicals

We love to see family performing and sharing their talents.   Sarah has been singing in a choir for the past few months.  On Friday, April 30, they put on a concert at Libby Gardner Concert Hall up at the U of U.

Sarah is on the second row next to the men.  The concert was great and we enjoyed it a lot!


On May 7th, our oldest granddaughter had the lead in her school musical.

Emily has a beautiful voice and did an awesome job.  Melinda flew in from California, Holly came with three of our granddaughters from Missoula, and Glen and Emily came down from Cache Valley to attend the musical.  It was so fun to have them all here.

 Evan, Maddie, Harmony, and Avery.

Layne, Elijah, and William

Eric, the Tanners, Tina, Melinda and Holly behind.

Melinda, Emily, and Holly

Sarah joined the girls.

Emily as Polly Baker

The main male leads did an awesome job -- amazing for 15 yrs olds.

There was lots of tap dancing in the program and kissing!  This is a quote from Eric's letter "Emily had a number of scenes involving kissing and it was funny when we took Weston back the following day to see the Saturday Matinee performance, the first thing he said to us after the play was over was that 'Emily's longest kiss was for 14 seconds' - just like a brother to time it and make a big deal out of it." 

All of the little cousins loved seeing Emily and they loved getting autographs of the cast and loved it when Emily gave them a rose from the flowers she received.