Mule Creek

In August we went to Mule Creek for a Trainor (my mom's side of the family) Family Reunion. It was in Mule Creek, New Mexico. It was so beautiful. We went on a little hike and enjoyed the beautiful surroundings. We had such a nice time with the family. We wish we could have stayed longer.

The Imginagions

Did I mention the he "Imaginations" came to girls camp this year? They sang and danced for us! Wow, they where fantastic! I know you wish you could have been there!
OK, yes it is me on the right. I felt like since I put Darryl on our blog I should put me also. Trying to be fair. The good thing is I'm in Incognito .

Fun times at girls camp

Can I just say I love Camp! Every year we get the men to do some funny skit that they hate! Well this year we had them do "river dance". I found some great pants and shirts (thanks to Stacy Householders mom costume store) for the men to wear. They were so tight that it was hysterical. Darryl was Michael Flagerty (I think that is his name). The girls screamed so loud! Oh my gosh it was the funniest thing ever.

They had the real "River Dance" on the screen and then the men came out like they were apart of the dance. Darryl kept thinking he was done and would look behind him and they were still going in the video so he would start again. I have a video but couldn't get it pulled up. I will work on that, because if you need a laugh here is the place. As Darryl grabbed his chest to hold them I almost died, I kept shaking my head saying 'no, no please no!'.

This is my ward young women and some leaders. They were great. I had so much fun with them and getting to know them. They were so much fun. I look forward to next year!

Out with the old...in with the New

Here is y sewing machine I have had for sooo many years! I think I got it when I was 16 or 17 and it was a hand me down then. Well I have babied this poor machine and every year it seems like I have to get it fixed! I couldn't take it any longer this year. I had just finished my 3rd quilt and I was starting on girls camp quilts and I didn't have time to deal with this fossil! I made a decisionand went and found me a new sewing machine!
Here is my new machine! I love it! I'm sure my husband and family are tired of it because It is out in the family room, and I'm helping sew LOTs of quilts with the Young Women. We have 13 days left before camp! Not many are done! Mine is! I do love my new machine! It is the small things in life.

4th of July

We moved into our home on Bel Air 7 years ago, it is really hard to believe! One of the best things about our home is that we can take our chairs out on the lawn and watch the fireworks in the front yard from the Mesa Country Club. It has been so much fun. We have people stop by and bring thier chairs or blankets and watch them with us. Everyone is welome. Our family seemed to be spread out and about this year. This last 4th I spent up in Pima, Arizona with Kami and Steven so I could pick up Leslie from EFY at 7:00 am on the 5th. Darryl and Madison were home with all the fun people that come by. They had a special treat this year to have the missionaies over and a young girl to have a missionary discussion. Darryl said it was great! Craig was way far away in Brazil! No Independance Day for them on the 4th! I enjoyed being with Kami and Steven and watching the fireworks in Thatcher. I did miss my tradition of being on the front lawn. Next year maybe we will all be together.

Cinnamon Rolls

Look at that yummy cinnamon roll! Well I just want to tell you what a sweetie my husband is.
I first need to tell you that the 5 1/2 years that Darryl was Bishop he didn't like the YW to have fundraisers for girls camp. He just gave them the money out of the budget and girls came up with the rest. For 5 1/2 years I have given him a hard time because I thought it was a great idea for them to earn money through a fundraiser. Any who...We now have a new bishop and he is completely OK with fundraiser...bless his little heart! So for my first fundraiser as the new YW pres. we decided to sell homemade cinnamon rolls for father's day. First of all, Darryl makes a wonderful cinnamon roll and anyone who has tasted them loves them. Well, we did a great job selling. Just guess how many rolls we sold? I was going to be so happy if we sold 50 dozen
(now 50 dozen is a lot).
Are you guessing?

We sold 132 dozen cinnamon rolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you Hear me?
132 DOZEN CINNAMON ROLLS!
I must say, Darryl didn't complain at all except once to say...remember I hate fundraisers.

He had things so organized. Two days before he bought ingredients, prepared the Cinnamon/brown sugar mixture and the 70 POUNDS of cream cheese frosting. We started Saturday morning about 6:30 am and the girls and leaders showed up at 8:00 am. He had 5 work stations making bread in the kitchen, a rolling out station, a frosting station, a boxing station. We baked at two homes and the kitchen at the ward. (Thanks to Jay & Shye Petersen for coming and going all day to bake, return to the Church, pick up more, back home, bake more, back to the church.....) Darryl was so organized.

We put the music on and started our day. The girls and leaders did such a great job! Thanks to all who helped (Darryl's cousin, Bill also). We finished about 6:30 pm. It was such success! Our feet and backs are killing us (I'm sure the extra weight we carry and our age don't help matters) I want everyone to know how wonderful Darryl is. I would have complained, cussed etc. But he just put on a great smile and went to work. By the time the last batch went in oven the girls had down the right size to cut the cinnamon roll, how much frosting was really suppose to be on each roll (OK, some of the leaders went a little over board and we could not tell if it was a box of frosting or cinnamon rolls) they looked great and tasted great. We had so much fun. Someone asked at church today if we were going to do this again? My response was...Don't ask today, it is a lot like giving birth it is to soon to think about. Thanks to all who supported us!
Happy Cinnamon Father's Day

A new do.........

Madison decided she wanted her hair done in

corn rows. It took Leslie 3 1/2 hours to do this.

First of all to get Madison to be still for that long

is amazing and for Leslie to do that for that long

an it look great!

I called her Bo Derek and she of coarse didn't

know who that was.

I'm sure we will have a burnt scalp after swim!

We will see how long this lasts.

My sweetie

This is my sweetie! He was released from being a
bishop, after 5 3/4 year (but who is counting)
on Mother's Day and now he has a go tee (spell).
Isn't he cute!

Our new pets

It is amazing how such cute things can put my world in an uproar! I have noticed that my leaves of my grapes have been eaten by something, so I did some investigating! Well, to my surpise I found these wonderful worms! I picked off at least 100 of these wonderful things, put them in a tupperware bowl to show the whole family what I found. I wanted to know what they were so I went to my wonderful computer and the www, and I typed in "yellow and purple worm- grape leaves" (thinking there is no way that I will find anything out that easy. Well, this picture popped up and so did info on how to take care of them! Well, I said, "you must die suckers"! So my wonderful husband went off to the big Home Depot to buy something to take care of these lovely pets we did not ask to live with us. I am hoping my grapes don't die because they are exposed to the sun! Look out you little nasty worms!

We are property owners!

Well, we are proud owners of property in Pima, Arizona! Right now it has a wonderful trailor with lots of mouse poop! We don't plan on moving up to Pima but thought we might need it?! It is down the street and around the corner from Kami and Steven's house. Now to decide what to do with it.