Aunt Tory's 90th Birthday Party

Here are some family at the party.

Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful

The things I go through. Using Grandma's curlers to try to tame the wild hair. The top one actually did pretty good. The sides, not so much.

Afternoon with Authors

"Afternoon with Authors" is a program at school where students get to share what they've written. Here's L showing his book to dad and I.

And here is "Spike," L's soon-to-be butterfly. Students got a caterpillar, fed it and eventually got to release their monarch butterfly.

At the Zoo

L had gotten to go to the zoo on a class field trip and N felt left out. We have our family pass, so I took him on a "field trip."

He was standing by the glass for awhile and this monkey came up and stood at the glass for a long time and just looked at him. He sure seemed to enjoy himself.

Home again, Home again

First Smile! It is so fun to see Olivia with her first smiles. She is doing them so much more now and making little coos. Here she is waking up, so the crazy hair. It couldn't be timed better. 2 days before we left for our Vegas/St. George trip we got a wedding announcement from our friend Heidi. She is the one that set Neal and I up. So we got to be at her temple wedding in Las Vegas before we left.

It is so good to be home. We had a fun time traveling, but it's nice to be home again.

Friday, April 24

Today was a lazy day. We ended up leaving after noon to take the boys on a double decker bus. L had seen it all week and wanted to go. It was only $3.00. Cheapest entertainment yet.


On the way back to the car we walked past the M & M store and we got a semi-picture with the red M&M. Darn that sun in the eyes though.

Thursday, April 23

Today we headed back to Ethel M to see them making the chocolate and actually just missed them by about 5 minutes. So we just took a picture out front.


Next, we headed to Hoover Dam. We were impressed by the new Bypass they were building. They started in 2003 and expected to finish in 2010 but a part, some towers, were blown down by strong winds a while back and it took them 18 mos. to figure out how to continue. So it is a little behind schedule. The picture shows the arch to form the bottom of the bridge.


We took a tour of the Power Plant and saw the turbine.


The boys humored me with a picture of them on the Nevada-Arizona state line. N is in Nevada and L is in Arizona.


We couldn't believe how low the water level was in Lake Mead. Notice the white rock that you can now see.


And finally, we took a family picture on the observation level. The boys were not too excited, but we took it anyway. They were tired and hot and ready to go.