Ryan's Wedding, Graduations and Family Fun

Take a deep breath as this is a long one. While reading this post imagine our three days it records. On May 23rd we left for Salt Lake City with Leslie and her four boys for our oldest grandson, Ryan Ockey’s wedding on the 24th to Tisah Quarnberg. We stayed at the Plaza Hotel so we could be at the Salt Lake Temple by eight thirty the next morning for the ceremony. That afternoon we spent touring around temple square and the newly finished City Creek Center across from Temple Square.

 

 

Travis, Brandyn, Dillan, me, Leslie holding Jaxon



The Beehive House

City Creek Center is a beautiful outdoor mall

Dillan didn't make it through the pulsing fountian without getting squirted

The actual creek flows through the mall

The boys had a great evening playing in the pool. Even little Jaxon enjoyed the hot tub.

Dillan, Travis, Jaxon and Brandyn

The wedding was beautiful. It was great to see how happy Ryan and Tisah were. They were so cute.

 

Me, Lindsy, LaRinda holding Avery/Emilia?, Trevor, Ben, Travis, Leslie, Dillan, Jaxon, Brandyn

We then went back to Sringville for a luncheon for them...

 

 

and then we were off to our granddaughter, Kaylie O’Donnal’s high school graduation also in Springville. Kaylie was the senior class president and gave one of the speeches. She did a great job but for a small school it sure seemed like a long program.

 

Brendyn, Corinne, Kaylie, LaRinda, Alyssa and Trevor

We then rushed to Ryan and Tisah’s reception back in Provo.

 

 

 

We stayed that night with Leon and Chrissy in Payson. The next morning was their son, Brendon’s graduation from grade school.

Brendon is on the left of the front row

Leon, Brendon and Chrissy

We then spent all afternoon in a Payson city park with all our children and their families, except the O’Donnals who were celebrating Corinne’s birthday.

 

 

 

There Leon, with his equipment and expert assistance, helped all who wanted to rappel high into a huge tree.

Later all who wanted to swing took turns swinging from the same high rope.

 

 

Most of this time the little ones played on nearby playground equipment.

 

 

We all had a very memorable day thanks to Leon’s time and efforts.

Lynn's Birthday

On May 21st I fixed a dinner around the back yard fire pit to celebrate Lynn’s birthday the day before. Gene, Dave and Laurene and Gene’s brother Darwin and his wife Pam were all there to celebrate the day with Lynn. When it got too cool for the fire we came in to play pegs and jokers. This is a fun board game played using a deck of cards that we learned in Arizona. We had a real fun night.

 

Trip To and From Nampa

On the way to Nampa to help Duane and Julie we stopped in Rupert to see our friends, Ernie and Gwynne Ramey. Leo worked with Ernie for many years at AMI. It was good to see them again. 

Our next stop on our way to Nampa was for a visit with my brother, Glenn, in Twin Falls. 

In Boise we stayed one night with my sister, Jane.

While there we went to see her son, Lee and Christy’s new home they just built this past winter. It was a very nice home. Christy fixed us some “Gone With the Wind.” I hadn’t had this in a long time but my mother used to make it often. In Boise I also got to visit a couple of my old friends. One was Jacque Behler with whom I worked for years at Fitness, Inc. in Pocatello. We had had a lot of fun working together. I also got to see Elaine with whom I had gone to junior high and high school in Jerome. What fond memories I have of these friends. I wish I could have spent more time with them. On our way home we stopped again in Twin Falls to visit our friends, Dave and Nancy Wanner, who live between Jackson, Wyoming and Preston, Idaho.

They were babysitting their daughter’s young son while she was vacationing with her sisters. Her husband was home but he works graveyards. While there we walked the short distance from the apartment to the edge of the Snake River Gorge for views into the canyon.

The Perrine Bridge in the background is a popular base jumping location at nearly 500 feet above the water.

Taylor Turns Three and Helping Family

We were home for Taylor’s third birthday party on May 5th at Lance and Aubri’s. Taylor was a lot more into it this year. For some reason we can't find the pictures we took so we'll substitute some pictures we took a week later while we were tending her.



That same morning our dance instructor/geocaching friends, Allen and Lois Sedgwick from Arizona stopped on there way home to St. Anthony, Idaho for a short visit. I had told them I would have a geocache hidden and I still don’t have that done but I will soon. Matt and Leslie and kids also came to visit us that weekend.

Leo’s sisters, Sharon and Bonnie, had called asking for help with his brother, Duane, and Julie’s new home in Nampa. It is an older home and they had moved in but needed help getting their place cleaned up and to help with a number of essential repairs. We were there from May 8^th through the 12^th. Dad, Duane and Bonnie’s husband, Kirk and son, Tyson worked long days on the patio cover, back yard weed patch, rain gutters, tree trimming, sprinkler plumbing and electrical and plumbing projects inside while Bonnie, Sharon and I helped Julie with hanging curtains, cleaning, unpacking and etc.

Duane and Julie, Dad and I, Dad's sister Sharon

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.