June Projects

Dustin is working on leveling an area for a sidewalk. Jim was bring in some dirt when the tractor got a flat tire. Dustin is working for neighbor today. William has been helping Grandpa take care of a fallen tree. One day they removed the stump and hauled the trunk away and the next they used the chipper to get rid of the branches. Today William is picking up all the branches and wood and putting them in the burn pile. Yesterday the boys and I picked strawberries and I made four batches of Frezzer jam. I spent yesterday morning in the garden weeding. The weather has been nice. The temperature in the high 70's.

Rainbow after the Storm

This is what the sky looked like when we returned from mutual. 
 
 

Visiting friends

Jim and I went to our old ward in Orem on Sunday morning. We were able to see a lot of friends and visit with them. After church we spent some time with our "Walking Party" friends. We had a great visit and can't wait until October when we go on a Hawaiian cruise with them. We were invited for dinner at Craig's family's home in South Jordan. We enjoyed visiting with Laura and Craig and his family. We returned to my parents home for our last night. In the morning we left at 6:00AM and met Robert, Tiffany and Lyle at Lyle's work at 7:00. We left my parents car there with Lyle and Robert took us to the airport. Our flight was not scheduled to leave until 9:00 so when we got through security easily we found we could take an earlier flight at 7:40. So we arrived in Denver three hours before our next flight. Trissa got a new job in customer service and started her training today, so she was not at the airport to talk to. We had a good flight home. We arrive in Spokane at 2:00. We stopped by costco on the way home to get some food and gas. We also stopped and got an expansion for our Carcassonne game. We arrived home just before Dustin returned home from football practice. It rained off and on all the way home. After dinner we had FHE and played a game of Carcassonne.

Trip to the Zoo

Saturday we woke up to rain. We had planned to go up the canyon to a cabin and spend more time with Jim Fugel but the bad weather changed our plans. The rain stopped and it started to clear up. Laura and Craig went on their scheduled 20 mile ride up the canyon at 10:30 AM. Trissa,Jim and I went to Seagul book, Arbys for lunch and then on to SLC to Laura's apartment. We arrived at 1:30 and walked to Hogle Zoo. We all had a great time walking around the zoo. By the end Laura was is pain and very tired because she had ridden her bike 20 miles and taken 15 minutes off her time and then spent several hours at the zoo. We all enjoyed the bird show which we watched at the beginning of our visit to the zoo. The famous attraction was a white alligator. After returning to Laura's apartment we left Trissa there and Jim and I headed to Sandy to visit with Jim Fugel again. He is staying with his friend in Sandy and because of the weather he decided to have us come there for dinner. He wanted more time to talk. They both enjoyed yesterday but needed more one on one time together. We had a wonderful meal and then enjoyed telling stories, each remembering different ones. I heard some new stories and also some of the same stories only from a different perspective. They did not want to say good bye but it was getting late. Trissa spent the night with Laura and they will take her to the airport tomorrow morning.

Quick trip to Utah

Jim's companion from his mission called and said he would be in Salt Lake City this weekend. He and Jim had planned to get together sometime during his vacation to the States. This was the weekend he had time to visit with us. Nothing would keep Jim from seeing his favorite companion, even a terrible head cold. So Jim and I flew to Denver Friday morning and then on to SLC. Trissa came with us to SLC. We arrived at 4:00pm. My sister came and picked us up at the airport in my parents car. She drove to her husband's work and we left her there. We talked to Laura on her cell phone and met her in a parking lot. Trissa got in their car and spent the evening with Laura and Craig. Jim and I headed for Willard,Utah. The traffic was bad of course and we didn't get there until after 6 o'clock. Cliff(one of Jim's mission companions) had prepared a dutch oven dinner for us along with their mission president and his wife and two other companions. They were all at his home when we arrived. We enjoyed a wonderful dinner and visited until late into the night. Cliff had planned this reunion for Jim Fugel(Jim's favorite companion who is visiting from Australia) and was gracious enough to invite us when he found out we were coming to Utah. It was late but Trissa still wanted us to come pick her up so we did and then continued to drive south to my parents' home.( They are out of town on vacation so we have to place to ourselves)We didn't get there until after 1 AM. We are exhausted but glad we came.

Miserable Cold

I started feeling sick on Friday. Saturday was a little worse but I still went to a service project and help paint a fence. Sunday got worse but I had to teach the lesson to all the young women. Monday I started out with my usual walk at 6:30 and it was really cold and windy. By afternoon I knew I had better slow down and take it easy. Tuesday I slept til 10:00 and didn't get much done. Wednesday I had to get mutual planned and ready. My leader incharge for this week is too busy and will not be there. I started feeling a little better and off to mutual I went. Thanks to Shelly everything worked out great. She brought all the materials to make a memory book for each of the three girls graduating. Thursday I knew I was on the mend, still coughing and my nose still stuffy but the fever was gone and I had more energy. Jim started feeling sick on Saturday after working all morning on the house. He had to call in sick Wednesday and Thursday he was so miserable. Thursday night he started to feel better.

Working on the house

Saturday was a beautiful day. The boys and Jim worked on getting the outside of the house done.

Memorial Day

James Micheal 

James and Dustin 

Beach Party-Memorial Day

 

Dustin and William

 

Makayla and I - All smiles

 

Audra and James

 

Laura and Craig

More Swimming pictures

 
 
Everyone had a great time at Trail. Makayla and I stayed home and had a great day also.

Swimming in Trail BC

 
 
 
 

Germany Slide Show

My Power Walk Experience

Gabi and I decided to go on a power walk one evening. We got our weights and running shoes and left through the back gate. We headed for the trees on her regular route which takes about an hour. We were enjoying our walk and just heading out of the trees when it began to sprinkle. As we reached the wide open fields it began to pour. Gabi decided to take a short cut and we headed across the field. We were completely soaked as we hurried across the path. As we got closer to their house Gabi said that the guys would be laughing and Jim would have his camera ready to take a picture. Sure enough as we got to the house Jim was there camera ready.

Island of Sylt

Over looking the beach













Mirjam took this picture by the North Sea.





Mirjam at the North Sea















Judith and Mirjam

Island of Sylt

This is the house we stayed in while visiting Sylt. The door with the dog next to it is the side we occupied.

This is one of the light houses on the island.

















Mirjam at a restaurant.
Judith at dinner.

Back from Germany

Jim and I returned home on Wednesday night May 14th. We had a wonderful trip and arrived in Denver Tuesday evening. We rented a car and drove to Trissa's apartment. Her boyfriend John made us dinner and we were able to visit for a while. We were both exhausted and could only stay up until 8:30. The dinner was great and we enjoyed visiting with John and Trissa. Even though we were exhausted and went to bed at 8:30 I woke up at 11:30 and managed to drift in and out of sleep until 3:00 am.We flew home on the 11:45 flight and Audra picked us up and 2:00. We went to their house and played with the grand kids until James got home at 4:30. Audra made us dinner and then we had to get home. We were again exhausted. I fell asleep on the way home but Jim was able to get us home safe. The jet lag has been hard. Thursday we were up at 4:00 am, but were able to take a nap in the afternoon. Each day got a little better and know we are waking up around 6:00. The weather since we have been home has been blue skies and hot. Germany was perfect weather, 70-80's here it has been over a 100 degrees. Our lilac are starting to bloom and the apple trees are in blossom. Jim went back to work today. Life is back to our normal routine.