Summer is Here!!!!

Well I am not a very good blogger. But I will try again. Things are going fast a furious as always. Nellie is home and saving the day. She is working hard at the studio and reducing a lot of the stress. Lark and Emma are home some of the time. Lark has camp after camp scheduled and Emma has already spent 4 days in Las Vegas with Breanna. Reed & Jalee are spending the summer in Cedar and Jalee is being such a good wife and taking care of his broken collar bone ( I am glad she has that responsibility now). BettyJo is working hard at the bank and getting her hours of work in. Paige is amazing at the studio. She helps and saves me quite often. The kids are all doing great. The grandkids just keep growing and growing. Casey is Mr. Mom this summer. He is finished with school and waiting for nursing school to take applications in the fall for winter. Darryll and I are doing great. We are sneaking away to a Judicial Meetings in Fallon next week. I hope one day to be a great blogger but I just need to keep working at it.

Paige thinks it is time to update the blog. I think so too.
What a wonderful New Year. All is well.
We have had 2 beautiful additions to our family, Jalee and Reed were married October 10, 2009.
Jessie quickly followed November 14, 2009. We have opened our new studio in downtown Mesquite and really life is great. Paige and Machelle are putting in their hours to help it work. We hope it takes off real soon. BettyJo, Reed & Jalee, and Nellie are all in Cedar right now. BettyJo is working and the others are in school full time. Lark is helping with the girls basketball team on the side and just passed her permit driving test so she is now behind the wheel of a car. She actually is a pretty good little driver. Emma is dancing all over the place, she has her first performance tommorrow. Darryll is working hard, he bought himself a new for him truck. We have been going on a lot more rides lately. It is a king ranch so we may have to buy him a pair of boots. I am just working but having the studio is really a wonderful thing. I tend to go home at night and just enjoy being home. Maybe I may now have time to post on my blog now and again.

Our Family

The summer is quickly coming to an end. A lot has happened this summer. Reed came home on June 12 and was engaged to Jalee quickly there after. We are so excited an pleased with his choice. We love her lots. She fits right into the family. Nellie is now back in Cedar and I miss her dearly. She helped me so much this summer with my business. BettyJo is busy in Cedar still working at the credit union. She is doing lots of loans and finding joy in her work. Paige is now into her 5th month of this pregnancy. She is having a little girl. That will be so fun. I love Neil and Ember so much that I can hardly stand it. Casey has changed his major to nursing so he will be back in St. George this fall commuting and working hard to get his schooling done. Darryll is working hard to find work. There is not a lot out there but hopefully enough. Emma is using the computer and has her own blog. She is such a joy she has worked all summer for Paige watching the kids. Well I am again the loan photographer. I am starting to pick up work. I really am excited. We all are doing well.

CONFERENCE WEEKEND

We conquered the rocks in Whitney Pockets. It was a lot of fun to spend conference weekend at Whitney Pockets. I was determined to go, but the weather tried to stop us. The kids love to spend time there listening to the prophet. We went out on Friday night and the storm was a raging. We set up camp in the freezing rain. The snow was close. Saturday we listened in the morning and spent the afternoon in the ER. Lara (my niece) was taking her four wheeler out of the back of the truck and smashed her fingers really bad. But by evening we were back out with the kids. Ember learned about camping and she was pretty upset about the fact that Neil was able to stay and she couldn't. She is looking forward to going camping again. She asked Grandpa Darryll this evening on the phone if she could "go camping". I love the beautiful outdoors and and grateful to be able to listen to a prophet.