May is a big month for special occasions in our family: Mother's Day, and the birthdays of Colett(4th), Amy (9th), Alex (25th), Greg (5th), Debi (10th), Jem(21st), Kymbre' (18th), Matt J.(30th) and two of my favorite men, hubby Wayne (20th)and son-in-law Wes (21st). Whew, what was in the food of their mothers in August? Then... my nephew Ammon is getting married on the 22nd and Colett's and Matt's anniversary is on the 6th.

It's constant "party time" and "spend the money" time around here. We celebrated Mother's Day and Colett's and Amy's birthday on the same day, and now Wayne and Wes will have their chance together. Same party, separate cakes. What lovely men these two are. Caring, hard working, and just plain wonderful. Happy birthday to them both, You are truly loved!!!!

I better head to the store.

Fun House

We traveled though Richfield, Utah on our recent vacation and drove by this house. I just had to go back for a picture. The front of the house is covered with lava rock. The floral decoration on
top of the rock is also lava rock as are the statuettes standing in the front of the house. You will need to enlarge this to appreciate. I don't think I would ever do this to my house but I love those creative people who do. You can tell they are artistic and have a good sense of humor.

Romantic Skirts

Amy was asked to model for the store "Lucille Elaine" on the "Good Things Utah" television program. The theme was romantic skirts. I'm not sure I would exactly call any of the outfits that were modeled romantic. I guess that would depend on the preferences of the gentlemen looking at them. But anyway, there were some cute things and Amy did her part well. I was in the green room baby sitting Emerson and when his Mommy came on the screen he got excited and waved to the TV and kept saying "Hi Mommy, hi Mommy" and waving his arms in the air. He was pretty excited to have his own Mommy on TV. If you haven't been to the store, it's in Fashion Place Mall right next to Nordstrom's. They have different things than you find anywhere else and although some of the lines are pricey, some are quite reasonable. If you go in, tell them Amy (and Amy's Mom) sent you. No, neither you nor I will get a discount, but Amy will get some good brownie points. Amy is in the blue pencil skirt and button up shirt at the end of the video. Cute model huh?


Click on: Romantic Skirts - ABC 4.com - Salt Lake City, Utah News

On The Road Again Day 1

Entrance to one of the subdivisions

Really cool rock formation

Wayne and I combined a business trip with a pleasure trip and headed south to Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. There is a lot of our country that I have not seen and I want to see it all. I LOVE to travel, and to travel the back roads, byways, and roads less taken.

We stopped the first night in Cortez, Colorado. We have friends that live there but didn't bring the address book so was not sure where they lived exactly. It was too late in the evening to call, so thought we might catch them in the morning. I had their address from the phone book and entered it into the GPS but it said "No address found". We drove around for about 45 minutes and I am sure we must have been close but could not find them. SO...Kathy and Lenny, next time. Does the picture look familiar? Were we close?

Amy's B-day Tomorrow May 9th

It's not always fun to have a birthday on Mother's day and it happens quite often for Amy. She has to share the celebration with me when that happens, giving presents as well as receiving them. For me it is fun though, as it was a most wonderful Mother's Day 34 years ago as I held my 6 lb. 13 ounce baby girl.

My baby with her baby Emerson 2 years ago

The year was 1976, our country's 200th celebration, May 9th (Mother's Day), and the day I was in the hospital having a little baby girl named Heather. We were living in Idaho but I went to Wyoming to have her because we didn't have insurance and it was MUCH cheaper there. Besides, I had a fantastic doctor.

My Mom took me to Powell, where I got my cervical block and it was pretty much pain free. I fell asleep on the delivery table while my Mom sat there being nervous for me. Wayne had to stay in Idaho to work but we called and told him we had our little Heather. He went to work the next day and told everyone about her. When I got ready to leave the hospital, I changed her name to Amy. She just didn't look like a Heather at all. Then I had to call Wayne and tell him he had an Amy instead, and that names fit her perfectly.

Amy at Christmas with her hubby Wes

My pretty, pretty girl

Happy Birthday Amy. What a blessing you are to our family.