1 and 9 come to visit

Here are some pictures of Joydell's and Ana's visit. It was a lot of fun.

Joydell at Explora. Juliana and Max.

JJ, Carson, Micheal, and Emma Playing at Explora.
Hanging out at home.


Max wanting to be bigger

Harold and Max


The kids at Cliffs


Emma and Logan at Cliffs. If you look close you can see that Miranda is holding on to her glasses, and Emma is crying. Good times.

Summer for the Stanleys

The Powell's come to Albuquerque for almost a day.

Zach Planking

I think we may be getting too big for this.


We celebrate 'The 4th of July' Wyoming style.
With lots and lots of bang.


We even let the little ones hold Roman candles. It was like the wild wild west. Glad we didn't burn anything down.



Dan And Zach play leap frog.

We head to Roosevelt for some more bang.

Yes, This is what it's like in Roosevelt.


Emma packing heat


We meet in the middle(well sort of)

The Zeller's and the Stanley's Meet in Zion!
Seeing them was not as easy as it was when they lived right down the hall but we take what we can get.


Then the Kids are off to Trek

Before. So sweet! After.This picture is not doing justice.They were so dirty dirty and smelly too.
Then we threw then in the van and drove home. For real. We left SLC at 6 pm and got home at 4 am. It actually was not that bad of a drive.

Spring Update

The kids in front of the house all ready for church.

Miranda turns 17
Man how time flies. Scary how fast they grow-up

Caleb turns 15
Caleb spent this spring like the two before on Crutches. This time he dislocated his knee cap. Which sadly, once it happens,it often reoccurs. He is off the crutches now and in to physical therapy.


THE EASTER BUNNY! I know this is just scary. The kids say they are still having nightmares.

Kari and I flew to Texas and actually tried out for the Amazing Race. She is crazy, and I can't say no, so it works. I do have to say it was an interesting adventure.

The line. We were in it for 21 hours. We Camped out under the stars with all the other crazies. It all came down to 1 minute in front of a camera. Pretty hard to show how awesome you are in one minute. No call back yet. :(

This is Kari's parents house. He is an engineer who builds theses houses. Great for tornado's I guess. Cheap to heat and cool too. I finally got to go inside.

Me & Joydell. It was great to see her. Micheal took this picture.
She seems so strong every time I see her I am amazed. Her Hair is growing back again and she is still working. She said Micheal asked her to pray that she wouldn't die. Maybe it is working.
As for me, I will be grateful for everyday she gets.

While I was gone the elementary school had a carnival. We never go to these but I signed up to volunteer at the putt putt station(thanks Harold for covering for me :) )I guess the kids entered a 'Guess how many x are in the box' to win an x box raffle.
This is Caleb finding out he won!

As we were walking out of the door Caleb said"Mom you know the truth, Logan won this. He just didn't have a phone # so i filled out the paper but it was his lucky number. Show when we got home we showed Logan what he had won
Showing Logan



So Happy together. Now they just wish their cousins were here to enjoy it with them. The fist thing Caleb said is "I have to tell Dan".

Sew Many Mermories

Here is my finished Korean Quilt. I am happy with it and so glad that it is done. I hate having unfinished projects.
Korea is already feeling like a distant memory so I will cherish this always. Many thanks to all of you who stuck through with the whole process even though at times it was a little painful.


Here is the picture that Jen took. It is on the back of the quilt.

I was in a quilt group in Korea and one month we decided to make a Korea quilt. We all picked something that reminded us of Korea, and then we made that same block for everyone. At the end of it all we had enough blocks to make a quilt. I think it was fun and now every time I look at it I think of Korea and the person who made that block.
I made two of them here. The City and the Dress. It was kind of fun to get to design something new.

The Land Of Enchantment

One of the first things I noticed about Albuquerque was the Hot Air Balloons. They are up almost every morning. I took this picture of one over the church. It made me laugh.

The Sabbath breaker.

Here is our new house we are renting.


The back yard. It is just a sand pit. I was kind of worried about it when we moved in, but Emma and Logan spend so much time out there digging I have decided I like it a lot. Fenced in entertainment is totally worth the bit of sand that gets dragged in.


Harold on the stairs with his lap top. I do Have to say having a lap top does make a transient life style so much easier.


Here the kids are waiting for our stuff to arrive. You got to love an empty house.


Boxes, one of the great joys of moving.
I do have to say I am amazed how entertaining a couple of boxes are when there is nothing else to play with.


Here is the Living Room


Here is the Kitchen. I love how it has a pantry and an Island.



The kids take up Ice Skating.
The nice thing about moving is you will try anything to help the kids adjust. This move our guilt included Ice skating lessons. We crazy we know, but would have said yes to much more. We have only a little guilt moving them mid year.

Getting ready to hit the ice.


First Lesson

I love these kids. They keep me laughing. I am so proud of how much they have grown on this move. They almost seem like totally different kids to me. Another positive thing that occurs with moving is the bonding that occurs among siblings when you take all their other friends away. It is priceless.

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