Shantelle's Wedding and Spring Yard Work

On our way home from Arizona we got a call from our daughter, Leslie, telling us her daughter, Shantelle, was going to be married in forty-eight hours. She had joined the National Guard and decided to get married to her fiancé, Dallas, before she left for boot camp in just a few days. We had just a day to get settled back in and went to Idaho Falls to help Leslie get things ready for the wedding. Her fiancé’s, mother had a lot of wedding stuff left from other weddings in the family. Leslie found a dress from a friend for Shantelle and she picked what she wanted for a cake and flowers for her bridal bouquet. I just kept Jaxon and Dillan out of Leslie’s hair. Just as we arrived at the wedding the wind was blowing hard. Leslie was trying to get in the house with the cake when someone bumped her and the cake fell on its top. At that time I would have just sat down and cried but Leslie scooped it up, smoothed out the wrinkles and it all went great. The cake looked pretty darn good for what it had gone through. Shantelle and Dallas were married with a reception luncheon immediately afterward.

Matt, Brandyn, Dallas, Dillan, Shantelle, Leslie, Travis, Jaxon



Next on our agenda was to get the yard cleaned up from winter. We had to work hard to get the pond cleaned out and branches cleaned up and burned. I tilled the garden by hand to get ready for planting. I was able to plant some of the cold weather veggies. Just as we thought we were getting to the end of the spring tasks Idaho Power came to cut down two of the trees in front that were getting too close to the power lines. We asked for a load of the chips to put around the kids play area but it took a few days. When it finally came there was bad weather coming so we stayed up late into the evening running the load through our chipper to reduce the coarseness of the tree service chipper. The next day we got them spread just before it rained for several days.