Recap of June

Grandma Ben had the Porter Family Reunion at the Property.  Tagg and Thatcher came down to eat. 

Here is Grandma Ben and most of her 1st cousins.  She's the oldest living, and Lee Carter on the far left is a year younger than Roger D., and he's the youngest. 

Things are going good in AZ.  We are looking forward to having them come to visit in July. 

Cam and her dad at a Diamondbacks game. 

Josiah, Cam, and Cashman

 

Landon and Kacey and kids went to Yellowstone with the Brooks Family.

Carol took her girls to see The Little Mermaid

Tagg got bit by a bug, and SWOLE up BAD !! 

Wrestling Camp

Landon and the boys

He came up to get his Ranger, and it had a dead battery, so they all worked together to get in on the trailer. 

At Karen Becker's the Yard Masters met a CAMEL !! 

Football has started (practices) - and the Maroon and White Scrimmage too. 

The garden in growing

Kerry Porter retired, and we went to the party there. 

Quite the rain and hailstorm. 

Grandma got a new car !!!  A pretty new Silver Camry

The East Canyon Dam spilled.

The Tabernacle was  brought to Morgan Stake Center.  We all went to tour it. 
It was a replica of the tabernacle the Children of Israel had in the wilderness after they escaped from Egypt. 

Baby Goats started coming. 
This is Chi Chi - one of the triplets that Azula had that survived. 

Odds and Ends

Payson got a 3D printer for Christmas.  He and Landon have been learning and having so much fun with it.  They made this replica of the Salt Lake Temple for Grandpa Marlin. 

I was able to go up on a new ski lift located in Morgan County.  It was a beautiful day.  Amazing views. 

We had a very low key New Years - Cam and Josiah celebrated too.

Over New Years, there was a lot of sickness at the West Haven Rich Ranch.  Pretty much everyone was either throwing up or "the other".  I'm glad they are all feeling better now. 

Bex and Pays are still going to Chaos fitness, and doing so well.  Bright keeps busy with her dancing and tumbling.  Between Piano lessons, sewing lessons, pre-school, elementary school, baseball, etc.  They are very very busy !!

Sure has been a GREAT winter - Look at all of our snow !! LOVE IT.  Keep it coming, especially in the mountains. 

I put on my coat at work and tried to save some limbs on our tree. 

Happy Birthday gifts to me from Manda.  Oil sprayer, and mini electric whisk.  LOVE IT !! 

They always make ONE BIG ONE every year.  Glad Dad is such a good sport and helper. 

Remembering our angel in heaven.

 

Someone is sick with Mono :(

Our girl is sick with Mono.  She's been pretty miserable, and will continue to be so until it passes...........which is hopefully in a couple of weeks.  Until then.  No work, No leaving the house, resting, and lots of water.  Mono is a virus, so nothing to take to make it better.  Her tonsils grew so big though, the Dr. prescribed some prednisone to help with that.  We are so sorry she is suffering.  

Her throat is pretty bad - DANG !! 

 

A Little bit of THIS.....and a Little bit of THAT.............

A couple of weeks ago we got busy helping to install an outlet (between my parent's two easy chairs).  We had to get down in the crawler to run the line.  

While we were down there, we also ran another heat duct line to the far corner of their bathroom.  This helped add to the warmth near the shower.  Happy early Merry Christmas !! 

In the middle of it all, we fixed tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.  There were eight of us there.........   Guess how many sandwiches we went through?   18 !!!  Those boys (and men) are BIG eaters !!  Mom said, should we start with 4-cans of soup............HAHA !  I said 2 1/2 time that Mom :)  

We also got the angel put up near Ambure's grave (and Tonya's and Lance's).  I sure like the way it turned out.  Not bad for  $5 deal on Morgan Mom's.  We took out the lights, and added about 50 zip ties to put it back together.  LOVE IT !

My good friends Lynelle and Sherilee worked on a tree for the Festival of Trees.  One of these day's I'm going to have TWO trees, and do one of them ONLY in Savior related ornaments.  (I have so many already) - I love this. 

Someone sweet in AZ is coming to visit us - one week from today :) 

Had to post this !  Bren was stylin' on Thanksgiving Day :)  

Bex got the throwup BUG a week or so ago........  All day snuggling (and puking) in Mom's arms.  Poor thing.

Yup - still going strong :)

The Morgan County Christmas Party - Sandy's Fine Foods catered it, and it was YUMMY ~   Who's that in the red on the left with the stylin' red earrings from Ivory and Birch !!??  

One day, later in the afternoon, Zac and CJ and boys got stuck in Ogden shopping.  It was Grandma Gwen to the rescue (Grandpa Roger was sick with the stomach bug),.  I still have it !   Fed those noisy goats like a CHAMP !!

I was lucky enough to get to help with the West Porterville Ward food drive.  This was organized in a matter of days, and you cannot believe the response !!  You know many of us have willingly set a few (many) can of food on our porch for a food drive.  I myself, have never been on the other end of things.............WOW  that is alot of works, unbagging, distributing to families identified only by Family #1, #2, and so forth......., and don't forget delivering.  It was so fulfilling to help, and I was the lucky recipient to deliver one of the deliveries myself.  So so appreciative and tears were shed !   It was wonderful. 

Catch Up (sometimes it seems that is all I do)

The baby chicks are GROWING

Building a wall............. it begins.
Roger D. isn't here......CJ has to step in (haha)
It was an EXPERIENCE, that's for sure. 

Got the PEAS planted on April 13th (I think)
They are slowly peaking their heads through the soil.

Finally getting at crafts from Christmas

An EXPERIMENT........can we get an EGG to FLOAT??

Yes we can !!!

More wall building...............

Always something going on.
It's fun to work together as a family. 

Another project - Bird house !!

Roger's mower...........throwing up !!
I said, "Can't you at least do that on the GRASS?"

Who's that young buck in FRONT??
Kings Peak (High Uintahs) Scout trip - 2004
Love to see old pics I didn't have.  This one was given to me by Amanda Thackeray.  She found it as she was cleaning out things.  So glad she took the time, and didn't just toss it. 

This is the desk that Zac built for Thatcher's gymnastics office.  Didn't it turn out great ??

We helped him build some walls down there over the Easter weekend.  The boys has such a great time playing on all of the trampolines, and such in a huge empty gym while we worked.  They worked too - it was a TEAM EFFORT. 

Someone needs a HAIRCUT :)

And the wall goes on.......................

Mom hurt her wrist pretty badly in a fall.
It's not broke, but it sure hurts, and the doctor put her in a splint thing.
She will have to have physical therapy probably. 

Back to the chickens...........
And the chicken farmer...........

FUN times, trying to get them back in the top part of the coop (where it's warm/there is food and water), when they can't figure it out by themselves.   Thank goodness it doesn't take them long to learn.  Thank goodness Roger is a good chicken farmer :)

Cool Round Valley morning - time to clean ditch !
The Rich bunch is ready to go.

Good job DONE !!  Only took about 2 hours with all of the help.
The boys came away with a 5 GALLON BUCKET full of balls that they found.
Michael (far right) my cousin, always gives the boys such a bad time.  He is SUCH a tease.  He sure reminds me of his dad Uncle Larry, who used to give ME a bad time.  When I told the boys that his dad (Uncle Larry) had died when Michael was younger than Thatcher, it really made them think (and feel a little sad).  We take so many things for granted.
Love my cousins !  Richard, Michael and "quiet" Troy were there this morning.

Then it was DOWN to see Payson play some BALL !!

First base this time.  They move him around pretty good, and that's a good thing.  He really likes it, and oh how we miss the days when Landon played.  FUN TIMES :)

Then back for some more garden planting.  This time it's tomatoes.
Trying something different this years with the walls of water.
We are pretty much doing the garden this year, with Dad's health declining.  Glad to step in.

Started the burn pile on fire (before the fire season closes)

This was an earlier picture - so much clean up this year.  Roger and Zac worked hardest (and mostly alone).

Easter pic for BRIGHT

And BEX

And PAYSON !!

Cute Easter pic from the RICHS

Thatcher wasn't feeling well, and TALON is a good buddy.
Zac and CJ's boys have had a lot of sickness this Spring.  Alot of school missed.
Sure hope things improve. 

Payson ran in some kind of Sports Run at his Elementary School.  We were able to go down last year and support him, but couldn't make it this year.   There he goes !!

Look at those RED CHEEKS !!

35 laps !!  - I can't remember, at least 2+miles I think. 

Good Job Pays !!

Landon had 4 teeth removed on April 26th.
Poor guy........

Cam's post on Instagram about her MOM - Love it !!

Tagg and CJ went to the Zoo together ALONE
They had a great time. 

More baseball for PAYS............

Not good - HIT BY PITCH !!

And that about wraps April up..........I'll try to do better in May, but I'm not promising anything.  It's crazy at my work, and I'm scrambling to get my Assessment Roll complete this year.   Crazy life we lead.  Read the Book of Mormon !!  I calms the crazy, I promise :)