Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Wedding Bells..................

Jim and I went to the wedding reception of his cousin Suzette's daughter
Amourette. Here are Suzette, Amourette, and Juliette ( her youngest daughter.)
The reception was held at Le Caille, a awesome french hideaway at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. There were peacocks wandering all around, and a few Canadian Geese. The atmosphere was charming, made you wonder if that is how it really is in France. But the Groom was
surely not french, as he was wearing a kilt! Suzette said his Mom is from
Glasgow, Scotland. ( he is in the background of this picture. Sorry they are not better, but I took them with my phone)
This is some of the yummy treats we had. Coconut Shrimp. salmon on cucumbers, Beef Kabobs, Eclairs, Chocolate Strawberries, ( like Danelle makes). Tarts, cheese, crackers, all kinds of fruit, ( the biggest raspberries I have seen) cream brule, YUM!
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Let's not forget.........


Silver Beaver Award.......

Saturday the 12, Jim was presented with the Silver Beaver Ward for scouting. Here we are with our "Govenator" Gary Herbert. It was at the beautiful Provo Tabernacle.
Some of our family up in the balcony watching the doings.
Gentry, Stetson, Sadie,Brennon, Courtney, and Joe. With Tricia and Dan (Joe's Dad) in back
Jim, with his kids after the ceremony. Tricia and family ran to catch Kylee's game right after Jim received his award, but later joinned us at home to visit.
Here are the 3 musketeer's. Brennon, who will be getting his Eagle soon, Jim and Chris.
This is Jim with John Stewart. John was one of Jim's scouts when we lived in Spanish Fork. It was so neat that they both got the award together. John was one of the ones who sent in a letter about Jim to the committee and had lots of nice things to say about him. Some of the things they read about Jim today, were things John had written.
The Brinkerhoff's with Jim at our house. We were all so proud of him. He deserves it very much, as he has loved scouting for 45 years and done a lot to help many boys.
Jim and Vance (wylene's uncle) had a arm wrestling contest, but they are still friends.

Lana, (wylene's Mom) had something shocking to tell. ( I guess, at least Tricia looks like it might me shocking)
McCrae was entertaining us . He got this idea from Aunt Tricia.

Todd and Danelle were having their own party out back. I told them to get a room, but they just laughed.
We missed Erick and family, but the last post tells you why he wasn't here. He called and sent his love to his Dad. And we understood. We are just glad now that it was worth not having him here.

Erick got his Elk............

Erick and Zane (his buddy) down on the Beaver Mountains. He has been waiting for many years to get a chance to shoot a monster, and he finally got him last night. We are proud of you Son, YOU ROCK!!!!!!!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Our 46th Anniversary.................

Jim and I celebrated our 46th Wedding Anniversary last weekend. I told him the only thing I wanted was to load up our trailer and go camping.

As we headed up Spanish Fork Canyon, it was pouring rain, and we saw this beautiful rainbow. It was actually a double, but I didn't get both.
We figured this was a good sign, as it rained all day the day we got married. 9/6/63

When we got to Scofield on Saturday night, it was not bad. The weather was very nice the whole time. Cool enough we didn't need the cooler on, but cool enough we did need the heater at night. NICE.

Sunday morning we got up and attended church at the branch they have there in town. There were 231 people in this little building, most were visitors there for the weekend. We filled the chapel and also the cultural hall. Got to see some friends we hadn't seen in years. In fact we spent 2 hours visiting with Ann (Helsten) Carter and her husband Woody at their home after church. It was a nice visit.

After we went back to the trailer and changed our clothes we took a stroll through the cemetery. You can see the cozy little town in the background.
Jim and I have lots of memories of this place , as we both spent a lot of time here fishing in our youth. My family also spent time here visiting the Helstens, as Fran was my mother's best friend growing up and they held on to that friendship all through time.

As we toured the cemetery, it was interesting, but sad to see all these tall
plaques that were erected for the miners that were killed in the mine explosion in the 1800's. That was a hard time for this little community.
We took a drive up to Clear Creek, another small mining community farther up the canyon, and on the way back spotted this Momma deer and her two little fawns. They just stood and watched us. The fawn just in front of the other fawn was moving so it is blurry....sorry.....

We spent some time with Jim doing crossword puzzles, (no doubt) and me doing word finds. It was nice just to not have to be running somewhere, or even answering phones, as ours had no service there.

Monday morning, not too early, we got up and headed for the lake. There is so much area that is now privately owned and has NO TRESPASSING signs up, that we were not sure where to go. But Ann had told us that we could go on the beach that was on Helsten property, so we did. I told Jim that I really didn't care if I fished, I just wanted to sit and listen to the water lap on the shore and enjoy the beauty around me. SURE!!!!!
I caught one as soon as the first cast hit the water. and then caught 3 more . They were not very big so we released them with as little damage to them as could be.
This one is a tiger trout. The biggest one I caught.
And here is my Honey with his one and only catch. Sorry Dear, at least you didn't get skunked!!!! You shouldn't have bought me that" whoopin stik " pole if ya didn't want to get whooped. It was so fun. Now I am energized to get back in the grind. I am so thankful for my dear sweet husband, he is one of a kind. I am so thankful that he is mine. Thanks for the ride Dear, bumps included!!!