Lots to report

Jon and I helped the YM and YW clean up the Logan Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day. Our group happened to clean the section with Jame Henry Martineau's grave.


Jon has taken on the project of replacing the edging in our yard. In this picture he is almost done with the north end of the back yard. He has to remove the existing edging (bricks) and then saw out a strip of the grass, flatten the soil, add gravel, add bricks, add some of the grass back, and make sure it is perfectly level. Wow, I am impressed!



Jon and I went to watch the WAC Track and Field Championship a few Saturdays ago. The last time a conference championship was held at USU, I ran in it. That was 1996. I even made it to the finals of the 800 meters. This meet was very nostalgic for that reason and also fun to watch.

Jon, Diana (Jon's sister), my mom, my sister Mandy, and I went to Yellowstone on Saturday. We visited Norris Geyser Basin and Artist Point in the morning. On our way to Tower Junction we stopped to watch a bear. It was the first bear most of us had seen in Yellowstone. My mom used to see them more when she was a kid because people fed them then.
We had a nice picnic lunch at Tower Falls. In the afternoon we hiked though the Mammoth Geyser area. Pretty good for someone who is 6 months pregnant! On Monday Jon and I drove home through Palisades and Afton. We stopped in Bennington to see my dad's grave. Here is a picture of Aunt Mernie's new headstone for the genealogists in the family.

Mothers Day Happenings

Jon took me up Logan Canyon for a Mothers' Day Eve hot dog roast on Saturday. After dinner, we drove to a trail head in the Right Hand Fork area. I had never been there before. The trail was pretty flat and followed a large creek. It was very scenic. It was the first time that I've really felt like exercising since I've been pregnant. We found a big beaver dam but no beaver. There were lovely rock outcroppings with great fossil potential. We had to turn around when we got to a place were the trail was washed out. On the way back we watched several deer cross the trail in front of us. Jon says that one of the trail branches goes to Old Ephraim's Grave. (Old Ephraim was a grizzly bear of legendary stature. )

Jon surprised me by ordering a rocking chair as a Mothers Day gift. He joked that meant I was middle-aged. The rocking chair is supposed to come this week. I can't wait to try it out.

Sunday morning Jon made me breakfast. It included homemade whole-wheat waffles and a chocolate banana smoothie. Mmmmmm. Jon sang primary hymns with the rest of the men in the ward as well as the primary during Sacrament meeting. It was great.

This was my first semi-officially sanctioned Mother's day and I really enjoyed it.

Visit from Celeste

On their way home from Primary Childrens' Hospital, Bethany and Celeste stopped at our house. We got to eat dinner with them. Celeste decided that the baby hairband that I made at enrichment meeting was rather tasty.

Jon should get the best uncle award. He does very well with girls. It's good practice.

We worked in our yard Saturday evening.

Jon put together the crib the other night. It turns into a bed when the child using it gets older. I decorated it and took the picture before we found out we were having a girl.

Bom Dia

We had a Brazilian Night for dinner on Friday. It included feijoada, rice, and homemade Brazilian limeade com leite. (The Bahian version uses milk.) Yummy!
Our other adventure was getting supplies for Jon's grand yard project. He's going to fix the dilapidated red brick border surrounding the grass in the front and back yards. We got mason line to make the border straight and pea gravel for a foundation for the border. As part of the global economic recovery program we are re-using the red bricks, but in a lawnmower and environmentally friendly way.
Jon is extremely surprised about winning the family exercise contest for the month of April. He brags that he didn't even include all the time he spent in the garden. :)