Graduation Time

Stewart & Danyiel graduated from ISU.

They have a lovely new home too!!

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Big rewards for much time & effort!! Steven

@ his "Pinning" ceremony before graduation

May 15th. You will have to see him in his robe

& hood on their blog as I somehow didn't

get that picture to show up here.

Raegan had her ballet performance....

Oklahoma City... Time out from our trek

to see The Murrah Building Memorial.

Very interesting.

We found fun spots for lunch time along

the way. This one was much better than

the blacktop area in Santa Rosa where it

seemed all the 18 wheeler trucks decided

to come & turn around while we were there.

Awesome Hoover Dam road project!!!

Hey, we are almost to Las Vegas!!!!

We're Here!!! I see Palm Trees!!! Raegan

was rewarded for being happy in the car

during the trip with a much ancicipated

swim.

Great Lilac year !!

Even though some days are rather cool Spring is promising to come. The blossoms on the fruit trees are fading & the tulips are rather spent, but the Lilac bush is just grand!!

We have most of the garden planted & a net over our peas until they get bigger. We are tired of sharing 100% with the birds.

Large Easter party

Saturday our ward held an Easter party. It was to be at a park in Winsor Creek subdivision...... It was rainy... what shall we do!!! I guess have it here.... We took the cars out the garage & set up 9 tables for eating the lunch... a couple of canopes on the driveway... they had a raw egg toss on the back lawn....

The eggs were all over in the front & west side...

There was only about 160+ people here.....

It is always so fun to have the warm days of February jump start spring a little. We have been able to spend a few hours out in the yard; dressing up the flower beds, pruning some of the plants, and discovering that the tulip & daffodills are bravely poking their heads up 3 or 4 inches now!!! The church purchased about 350 more acres of orchard next to our church orchard in Sunny Slope.... Our ward gets to help with the change over... like cutting down all the peach & cherry trees as they are going to plant pear trees instead. They are giving small sized trees to those who want to dig them.... So you know us.... we have a big yard, sure let's get some!! Merrill is fixing them to be so fine!!! Spring is such an exciting time of the year.

On the 6th of March we went to Rexburg to go to temple when Scott went through for his first time.... Linsey & Austin hosted a lunch afterwards in their cute little apartment.

I don't know why we didn't get a better picture of Scott but this is all we have. He still has lots to do to get ready for his mission.

New year -- New activities!

So Bishop Bastian is tending to his flock, while I jetted off to Julie's (in Virginia, where it is really cold.) to help welcome Kade in to the family. The kids and I play all kinds of fun things like board games, Star Wars sword fights, and their newest toy the Wii. I'm quit the bowler.
Cute bunch of Homer kids......

Final memories of 2008

Jordan came home from his mission.

We held our annual Sunday before Christmas family get-together on the 21st.

Brenda, Roger, & Scott were

here from far away Michigan

We played our candy bar

right-left game again

We had a really white Christmas
It has been a super wonderful year

Good-bye for now and Happy 2009

to all!!!!