The girls and I took a Sunday drive 2 weeks ago to see if the leaves were changing. We took the Alpine Loop over to Cascade Springs. The aspens weren't gold yet but the reds and oranges were starting to pop. It was a beautiful afternoon in the mountains. We are hoping to go again soon but with the recent snow fall, we may be too late. I was telling my in-laws, Joe and Chauncey, when they were here this springs, how the mountain side looks like a bowl of trix cereal in the fall. I wish they were here to see it!

First Day of School - August 20th

Once again the kids are off to school. The girls get to go to the brand new high school down the road. Kelsey is a junior and Bethanie is a freshman. JT is off to first grade (all day...yea!). Don't they look so cute and hansome for their first day back to school?

Happy 65th!

My mom had a surprise party for my dad and aunt Nancy. Their birthdays are a week apart and they both turned 65 this year. Happy Birthday Old Farts!!!!

JT's First T-Ball Game

Okay, so this video is of JT playing his 1st t-ball game. As you can see, he hits and runs to 1st base, then he runs to 2nd base but he decides to jump to the other team for a second and pick up the ball and throw it home before heading to 3rd base. By the end of the season, he was a much better ball player.

Kai & Kolson's Birthday

We celebrated Kolson's 2nd birthday and Malikai's 3rd birthday when we were up the canyon on the 24th of July. Raynee came over from Colorado with Kolson and Charlie was here from Twenty-Nine Palms, CA to see Kai. Stacey, Hailee and all the kids came up to celebrate with us.

Summer Update

Okay....so I have fallen short in the updating of our blog, please forgive me! This has been a wild, fast summer. My parents arrived with their motorhome around the 24th of June and we headed up the canyon for the Henline family reunion. The next weekend was the 4th of July so once again we went up the canyon to celebrate with family and friends. Wish I had pictures but for some reason I didn't take the camera. The girls left and went to their father's house in Arizona for the rest of the summer so JT, Sheldon and I just hung out for the month of July with mom and dad popping in occasionaly. They parked their motorhome at my aunt's house and lived in it all summer. On July 15th, by brother Dain and his wife Emily and their 2 kids moved into their new home just 5 miles over from us. Dain had to return to North Carolina for 7 months to finish his medic training and then he can be stationed here in February. I am so excited to have more family around us. We went up the canyon one more time to the Rose (Creer) family reunion over the 24th of July. Devin and Preston came over from Colorado to join us for the long weekend. It was so good to see them. It is way too long between their visits now that we moved to Utah.

We so wanted to attend Sheldon's family reunion in Ohio this summer, but we just couldn't make it out. We miss you all and love you lots. We are determined to get to Florida this Christmas so we can spend time with our other family!

JT's Kindergarten Graduation - May 27th

Once again, the slide show for this post is below. JT's graduation program was very cute. They marched in with their graduation caps and sang songs. He got to say a part that he memorized. "V is for volunteers, parents and everyone." We are so excited that JT made it through kindergarten and he was only suspended once. Hopefully we can make it all the way through 1st grade with no trips to the principals office. He was very happy to get his diploma and get out of school for the summer. Now, he gets to be home with mom all day.......yippee!

JT's Field Day - May 26th

OK, I've tried for hours to get the slide show below to come up as part of this posting, but I guess it has to be it's own. I thought that I had seen my last field day when Bethanie went to middle school but.....no such luck. My parents came out from Colorado for Memorial Day weekend and all the activities the last week of school. JT did a fun run and I had some good pics of him coming through the finish line but they disappeared off my camera. Anyway, he was in lead then gave out half way around. He did come in 2nd though. I think he is becoming too much of a video couch potato so we signed him up for t-ball.

Mother's Day BBQ - May 9th

We decided to have a bbq for my birthday and mother's day. I invited many of the Henline clan over to celebrate with us. Only a few were able to come but we had a good time. Sheldon made his bbq ribs and his famous beans. After we stuffed ourselves completely, we went down to the pool in our community. It is a hot springs pool so the water is very warm but the air outside was kind of cold. The kids had a great time and didn't want to get out. We hope to do it again soon when more family and friends are around to join us.

Happy Birthdy to Me!

I am Fat, Frumpy, and Fourty-Four!!! Yeah Me....at least I have my health and family and God smiled on me one more day!

Welcome To Our Blog

Well, I decided to join the blogging nation and try this out. We have so many loved ones far and near, that I thought this would be a great way to keep them tuned into what we are doing in our lives. We are all settled into the new area and looking forward to summer and all that our community has to offer. We are really liking Saratoga Springs, although I do miss my family that we left behind in Colorado. My parents moved to Colorado Springs 5 years ago to be closer to us and now we abandoned them there. That's okay though because they both retired and are hitting the road in their motor home so I am sure we will see them as much as we would have in Colorado. We also left Devin and Preston in Keystone, they are both living and working at the ski resort. Sheldon's job transferred us here in December. For me it was a move home but for him, it was a state farther from the east coast where his family calls home. We hope to get out there this summer..it's been way too long since our last visit. We enjoyed a visit from Sheldon's parents in April and were sad to see them go.

Okay, I will try my best to keep this updated weekly so tune in often.....love to you all!