Saturday, May 16, 2015

Snow in the White Mountains and in other areas of the state.

This picture was taken by a friend of ours, Cope Reynolds.

James failed to take any pictures of the snow.

 

Joshua and Evan missed their soccer game today.  (It may have been too wet to play anyway)  They are going to a birthday party for their friend Bryce.  Evan asked me to wrap his gift since his mom had to work this morning.

Evan says it's exciting to get a wrapped present.

 

While James with at the Black River with the boys, I was at Addy and Kayla's tumbling recital. 

Addy, striking a pose.

Back flip, or a bridge

Oh yes, Ruby was there too.

There must have been 200 girls, and a few younger boys who participated in this recital.  The girls were all ages and abilities.  This is Addy and Kayla's first year and they did a great job!

 

Ruby is so proud that she lost a tooth.

Rowan sat next to me.  He did hand shadows on the ground to

entertain himself.  As you can see, Trina's mom got to sit by the babies. (Tristan was there with Rhia and of course Lola).

Rowan and I stole Lola for a picture at the end of the program.

 

 

Here are some pictures that James sent me from the Black River.  When I asked where Adam was he said he got cold and wet and walked back to the truck to read his book.  He did catch 5 fish.

Alex caught 86 fish.

 

 

Seth caught 80, and James caught 70. 

Seth says it's the most fun that he's ever had!

That makes the trip all worthwhile.

James Hayden helping with a service project at his ward's fathers and sons outing.  That's him in the red sweatshirt.  Jared says he wears it everywhere.

 

In other exciting news today two of the young men we know got their mission calls.  First, Weston Hall from Vernon received his call to serve in the Argentina Buenos Aires South mission and he reports September 23rd.  Weston's brother, Kendall is serving in Argentina and will be home in November.  Their dad, our former bishop, Ron Hall also served in Argentina.  Congratulations!

 

Here in Chandler Alex Braddock opened his mission call this evening.  He is going to the Chile Orsono mission and reports July 1st.  Congratulations Alex!

 



 

 







Tuesday, July 3, 2012

James, Alex, and Joe left around 3:15am for the lower Black River.  Alex says he wants to catch more fish than he did last year but we all know he really wants to catch more fish than grandpa.  Joe is excited for a new adventure.  Joe's only problem was he had two ingrown toenails which made it hard to hike and have a good time.  He did catch 8 fish though.  Not bad for a first timer.  Alex caught 79 and Grandpa 101.  Of course they threw all of them back except for 5.

Trina took her kids to play at Show Low Park today.  Darrel met them there during his lunch hour.

I took Dallin and Michael into town with me.  We had lunch at Pizza Factory and then did some shopping at Walmart.  Grandpa was sad they didn't want to go with him to the Black River.  Mostly they want to play video games or watch TV.  Dallin did want to play basketball so I bought him a ball at the store. 

 

It was cool and overcast today but still we didn't get much rain.