The New Days of 47 Queen!!!

In my February Daughters of Utah Pioneers newsletter I saw the announcement for the Days of 47 Royalty Pageant coming up. I suggested to Carlee, my friend at the institute, that she should enter. After all, she was Miss Payson and just won 2nd runner up to Miss UVU. She took me up on it and tonight she was crowned the QUEEN!!!

This cute little girl was so excited to get her picture taken with the Queen!And so were we!! Selma, Makenzie, Janice and I made a girls' night out of it -- dinner at Gourmandise and then to the pageant. We were SO excited when they announced that Carlee was the new 2009 QUEEN!!! We cheered very, very loudly. Then we had to go back to Gourmandise for dessert. Congratulations, Carlee!! You'll make a wonderful queen!!

Yesterday -- 12" of snow!

Today -- my violets are blooming!

I looked out the window and what did I see?

Institute Council members stopping by to visit Selma and me!

Working with people like this are what makes our jobs so fun!

Rob, Tricia, Ryan, Eric, Makenzie

Zach, Tricia, and Eric

Marcus, Laurie, Troy, Yazmin, and Tricia

Justin, Brady, Lauren, and Troy

Brooke, Eric, Alyssa, and Makenzie

Ryan and Brooks

Alyssa and Eric
Justin and Alise! They're getting married May 1!

The Council this year has SO been amazing.

It's been SO fun to get to know them!

The future is in good hands with kids like these!

I'll miss them!

Sweet Dreams

It was so fun to have Thomas and Mya stay at

Grammie's house for four days!

Chris & Melissa picked them up this evening

and I sure am missing them tonight.

Of course they are amazing kids and I sure do love them!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Grandpa, happy birthday to you!

Because I was busy hostessing at Grant's great birthday party,

I didn't get very many pictures --

but here are a few of some really, really cute grandkids!


A good time was had by all!

By the way, in case you were wondering,

Grant is the grumpy kid on the left

in the picture below.