Our Olympics Party

Elana had this cool idea of everyone dressing up as a different country and bringing food to enjoy an international meal. It was so fun! We had pizza, food from India, lasagna, watermelon, and Heather Anderson's family brought food from Brazil. Weren't the Opening Ceremonies unbelieveable!!! Good luck USA!

Elana's Graduation Pictures

Yippee! Elana got to walk for graduation and we were there!! We're so proud of you, Elana!

Finished Yard

After Dad went through every square inch of dirt to get rid of the weeds and roots, he had it ready and leveled for the synthetic grass to be installed and a load of rocks to be brought in.

Silverton, Colorado Reunion

All twenty four of us met at the Inn of the Rockies in Silverton for the 4th of July celebration.

Matt's attachment, Hyrum.

The three new grandsons born within six weeks of each other. Marshelle is holding Cai (Jewelene's baby) Kevan has Evan (Marshelle's baby) and Mark has his son Matthew.

Kris and Marsh taking a break in the shade.

Sherri getting things to go.

Mark with their new arrival, Matthew. Marshelle,
Daniel and Jana. Marshelle and Matt came from Nebraska and Mark and Jana from Utah. The Inn of the Rockies host, Pam, made the most delicious breakfasts!

4th of July Parade~fun in the sun! The umbrella was used not only for protection from the sun, but also from the firefighter's spraying down the crowd!

After the parade, we all met up at Memorial Park for a picnic and the famous, yummy Rhubarb Pie and ice cream!


Joanna planned a whole bunch of fun games for the younger cousins. We had a ball. Thanks to everyone for coming!

Mission Call

On Thursday, June 12, we flew in from Nebraska after helping Matt and Marshelle with their move. As Kevan drove up to the house, we all could see a large envelope in the mailbox and knew it was our mission call. Kris was at work near Kevan's home and so we all met there at 6 p.m. and got Marshelle on the cell phone in Nebraska, Jana in Utah, Jewelene in Virginia, and Elana in Idaho. It was wonderful that they could all be connected with us during this exciting time. I said to Marsh, "I'll open the envelope and you can read the letter." As soon as I pulled it out I saw Japan Nagoya Mission and hollered, "We're going back to my old mission field." Then he read the letter and found that we're going to serving in the mission office.

This is our grandson Spencer Gurr, Kevan's son, joining into the fun.
The booklet had a picture of our mission president, Pres. Bruce Traveller and his wife and lots of great information and things that we needed to do.