At the Denver Zoo.......

While Jay was at his Oil and Gas Convention, the rest of us went to the Denver Zoo.  It was a hot day and hundreds of school children were there.  We stayed a couple of hours and then left to find a good BBQ place to eat at.  Smiles were hard to come by for some of us.  :)
 

 

 

 

 

 

Josie loved her Uncle Joel on this trip!
 

 

Off to Parker!

A few weeks after Kinsley was born, we took off to see Josie, Ashley and Jared in Colorado.  Jay had some stops along the way relating to Redi so we stopped at this rest stop for a few minutes.  It was quite nice.  I had never been there before.  Besides the bathrooms.....they have a little museum that is opened in the summer.
 

It was SO fun to see this lil' Miss again!  Oh how I miss her not living close by!  Her personality is big and it is so much fun being around her after she warms up to you.  I always hate when we leave because I know she will forget us and we have to start all over again in getting Josie to come to us but oh she is a cutie pie!

This day Janessa, Josie, Kinsley and Grammie went for a walk around the neighborhood.  Don't you love her sunglasses!?!
 

 

 

 

What a big smile!
 

Such a happy girl!
 

Kinsley didn't really care where we are as long as we didn't disturb her beauty rest!
 

Kinsley between 0 to 1 month....

Sometimes its exhausting to be a baby.......
 

But not always.....
 

Sometimes it's just as exhausting being an adult......
 

Poor mommy!
 

Daddy had it pretty easy....sittin' and talkin'
 

Not too sure about this new toy at Grammie's.
 

Joel's Intership at USAA

Joel accepted at job at USAA in San Antonio, Texas for most of the summer.  He and his dad drove the long distance together.
 

Joel took the suburban so he would have a vehicle while he was there.  Yes.  It still runs.
 

Off they go!  Joel had a good experience down in Texas with the company.  They offered him another internship for the upcoming summer in 2013 but he hopes to find another company to work for to see the differences.
 

Tyson's Graduation from Pre-school!

I will always cherish living close to grandchildren.  There is nothing better in the whole world than seeing them succeed and grow up.  So when I say that I wish all my children lived close by, it is definitely for selfish reasons and I miss our lil' Josie not living near us.  I am so grateful that I am invited and can attend these special events of my grandchildren!

Tyson graduated from pre-school in May.  He was one excited lil' boy!  His graduation ceremony reminded me of the one his daddy had when he was the same age.  We had moved to Kemmerer and I was pregnant with Janessa.  Jason needed some friends since Jared was in school all day so I put him in pre-school at KCDC.  Jason's graduation was with caps and gowns too.  So cute to watch!
 

Tyson found where we were sitting.
 

Showing us how excited he was to see his family!  hahaha!
 

With his teacher.
 

His graduation gift from Grammie.
 

Everyone was excited for the event except Corbin.  We could not get a picture with him!
 

Being silly with Uncle Joel.
 

Sleepover Part 2

Tyson loved the Carousel!  In fact, we were in Malowi's eating pizza and he spotted it way across the street!  It cost $1.00 to ride.  One of the few times I actually had money so it was easy to say "yes" to Tyson.
 

Before he got inside he told me that he likes horses and they are his favorite animal.
 

The toy store was fun.  I don't know how much this contraption was but Tyson sure had fun on it!  It seemed easy enough to manuver for him too.
 

He wanted to jump and hop around the plantings along the stores.  Of course Tyson also asked me to take his picture in between the trees.
 

If you look really close (click the picture to make it bigger) you will see Joel's Thursday night date.  She is 6'2" and very pretty.  They were in the same ward this past semester and she came over to say goodbye to Joel.
 

Have to remember Tyson's prayer......last night before bed, we read our scriptures and had prayer.  We asked Tyson if he wanted to say it and he said no.  This morning though we asked if he wanted to say it before we left in the car and he did say it.  So cute!  He was thankful for being able to come have a sleepover at grammie's and grampie's house.  He blessed us.  He asked us to drive safe.  He said how much fun he had.

I love this little boy so so much!

Sleepover

Emily, Tyson and Annaly have been in DC visiting Emily's sister and her family so we haven't seen everyone for awhile.  We went over to visit last night so we could see the kids (and Jason and Emily).  It was fun to see Annaly now crawling!  Corbin fell asleep after a few runs around the room so we invited Tyson to come have a sleepover at our house.  We told him that he would have to go on a long trip to pick up Uncle Joel the next day from BYU and he was excited.

We got home and blew up his little air mattress and put his sleeping bag on it.  He promptly pulled it into our room and put it right against the end of our bed.  He has done this before.  When he was younger, he use to sleep in the front room.  He slept very good.  We got up around 7 a.m., had a breakfast of doughnuts and chocolate milk and then headed to Provo.  I told Tyson that I was glad he came along for the ride since Grampie fell right asleep when he got in the truck.  At least I had Tyson to talk to on the way down to Provo.  We looked at all the colors of trucks and wondered if we could find a purple truck.  Sure enough!  We saw one awhile later.  Tyson was so good!

After loading up Joel and all his belongings we headed to our favorite pizza place in Provo.  Malawi's.  It is fresh items and the dessert pizzas are excellent!
While we were eating, Tyson spied the carousel across the way.  We headed over there after we ate.  

Next stop was the toy store in the same area.  Tyson loved riding this toy!

He must have had a good time because the car ride home was very quiet.  He fell asleep after we passed Bridal Veil falls in the canyon and didn't wake up until he woke him at his house!  Thanks for playing Tyson with grammie and grampie!  We had a fun time with you!