Mya is 1!

This is one happy girl celebrating her 1 year old birthday at Los Hermanos!

Just check out that fried ice cream for the birthday girl! No wonder she wanted to come here for her birthday dinner. (ha ha!)

Topped off at home with her birthday cake.

Check the other pictures from her party here

Madame Alexander dolls at McDonalds!

It's time again to hit all the McDonalds we drive by to get the new collection of Madame Alexander dolls! There are 12 new Madame Alexander collectible dolls during the October Happy Meal event now until October 9 according to the website. They are from the Wizard of Oz like last year but they are a little different and there are new characters. They are:

#1 is Dorothy with Toto

#2 Glinda the Good Witch

#3 Winged Monkey

#4 Cowardly Lion

#5 Wicked Witch of the West

#6 Winkie Guard

#7 Tin Man

#8 Scarecrow

#9 Flower Munchkin

#10 Lullaby Munchkin

#11 Lollipop Munchkin

#12 The Wizard of Oz

Happy Hunting!! Let me know where you find them!

Happy Birthday, Melissa!

As long as there are wonderful people like you, who brighten and enrich the lives of others, there will be people like us, who feel very glad that we know you. Happy Birthday! We love you!

Happy Birthday, Jeremy!

Happy birthday, Jeremy! Sure wish we could be there to help you celebrate. Have a good one!

I'm so glad you're my son! Sure do love ya!!

Take me out to the Owlz game . . .

Friday the 5th was the last game of the season for the Owlz and it was a beautiful night so we decided to go. Grant went up to the ticket window to buy tickets but were told that the only tickets left were for the berm. We've never seen the seats sold out before! While he was at the window, a lady offered me some free tickets but they were for the berm so I said, "Thanks anyway," not knowing those were the only tickets available. So when Grant told me that, we tried to find that lady again but ran into another guy who offered us 2 tickets in the section behind home plate. Cool! Great seats for free!


Last night was the 2nd game of the playoffs against Great Falls and it was a beautiful night so we decided to go again. On the way to the ticket window, a nice lady asked us if we had bought our tickets yet. We told her we hadn't and she gave us two tickets for the section behind plate! Two games in a row somebody handed us free tickets right behind home plate! What are the chances? We really enjoyed the game, especially since they won in 13 innings. Go Owlz! Whooo Whooo!

Happy Birthday, Emily!

My goodness, how time flies!

I never liked the song "Sunrise, Sunset."

It made me sad to think my kids would grow up and leave.

But, by golly, they did anyway!

I'm sure glad that you're my daughter!

Labor Day Weekend Traditions!

It's Swiss Days again!

Friday night we stayed at Hi's beautiful home on the hill in Heber so we could get an early start on shopping Saturday morning.
So much fun! And then . . .

BYU FOOTBALL Grant and I grabbed our stadium seats and went to the game Saturday afternoon. It was 99 degrees and the sun was brutally beating down. I don't think I've ever been SO hot. I missed the 2nd quarter because I had to go find shade. By half-time there was a blessed cloud cover.Woohoo! BYU 41 -- Northern Iowa 17

PAYSON ONION DAYS

Monday morning we were all set to watch the traditional Onion Days parade, hoping and hoping that the predicted rain would hold off until after the parade . . .



. . . but that was not to be. The temperature dropped, the rain started, the wind blew, . . .

. . . and everybody got drenched. Most of us gave up and went for cover at Aunt Barbara's. We felt so bad for those who were in the parade and had to keep going! It was fun getting together anyway. This is the first rainy Labor Day I remember in my whole life and that's a lot of years to remember!