It's about time!

    The boys had such a fun time at their camp out to Goblin valley. And we've had the best week welcoming the Atkinson's back to the States! We're so happy they're moving back and even though they don't want to move in next door, we're just happy to have them hours away by car verses a 'day' away by plane. We're having so much fun with the girls and our dogs have never gotten so much love and attention!

McClane and Brock living it up.

 

 

They're here!!

Kayli likes to go 'all-out'!

 

These two little girls love all the attention from their first-cousins-once-removed.

 

First meal has to be Costa Vida.

Look at that face!

Smalls might have to go to Idaho with them.

    And then we celebrated Carter's 17th birthday. He was a bit disappointed with the color of his new motorcycle jacket, but it's since been rectified and he's now all set for motorcycle safety gear.

 

 

 

 These girls are the answer to Charlie's prayers, she's going to miss them when they move on to Idaho.

    So we're all in heaven at the moment and looking forward to another full week with our favorite Aussie's.

Grand kids!

    We had a fun Easter and thanks to Heidi the kids got to participate in a fun Easter Egg hunt.

 

 

 

    We love our neighbors!

Laynie and Sydney, two of our favorite young women from the neighborhood.

Sunday evenings are the best.

    And when Joey babysits, sometimes, you get your hair braided.

She was the perfect hair model.

Chips and TV were the only bribes necessary.

    So we're getting down to the wire for our Australian family to arrive and we can hardly wait! Mean-while, Greg is camping with the boys, and the rest of the young men from our ward, and Charlie and I are enjoying a quiet night at home. 

Quick pics

    I neglected taking photos this week so here's a couple from this morning and a quick story about a 'sad' neighbor.

This girl spends a lot of time talking to Alexa on her tablet.

Time to line up for their morning treat.

    Earlier this week our neighbor, we'll call him 'Tod', tried to entice our other neighbor, we'll call him 'Andy', into grabbing a treat late at night. Andy was insisting he was too full for even a powdered raspberry filled donut with chocolate milk but that he would gladly take one and save it for the morning. Well no donut was mentioned again by Tod and Andy sent a couple messages out about the donut hoping it wasn't just some mean joke from Tod. The last message from Andy read, "There never really were any donuts were there....kinda sad." Well that just broke my heart so I left immediately and filled the donut and chocolate milk order. You just can't tease a guy about donuts and not deliver, that borders on abuse!

Breakfast of champions or late night treat, win either way!

    So that's our fun week, now we get to look forward to a nice Easter weekend and only 9 more sleeps until the Atkinson's arrive! (Fingers crossed!)

Garage cleanup? Garage Disaster!

    What a great Conference weekend we had! Great messages/guidance from our Prophet, apostles and other church leaders and also a great time to declutter the garage and make room for a couple new motorbikes. Greg really went to town cleaning up the garage and found just enough room in the garage for the Groms. Then......just two days later, he had a bit of an accident!

 

 

    I requested Greg do a little touch up painting of the basement walls that have had patch work on them for more years then I care to count. He grudgingly agreed and searched through all our many cans of paint and found the right one and thought he'd better do a bit of mixing before painting. He decided to make his own mixing device using a rope and a drill. All was going well until he decided to increase the speed on the drill and all HELL broke loose in the garage! Yellow paint EVERYWHERE! There will never be a day in the future where we won't have some yellow splatter in the garage and on the car to remind us of this SPECIAL EVENT!

These photos don't really do it justice but thank goodness those bikes weren't in the garage. And thankfully the Harley had a cover over it.

The car was my first order of business while Greg started the garage clean up. Thankfully it was water based paint!

 

Greg did have to help me reach the top of the car where I couldn't reach.

Thank goodness for Andy who came and diffused the stress a bit.

  Small tangent:  We got a preview of these cute girls and their Easter photo shoot mid week.

 

    Thankfully Greg didn't let the paint disaster stop him from the painting projects and he's currently painting all the house doors and has finished painting all the patched walls.

Just had to document these guys literally watching paint dry.

    So that's how we spent our Spring break and General Conference weekend. Now on to the last 7 weeks of school and only 16 sleeps until the Aussie's arrive. (Fingers crossed.)

Babies and Honda's

    We've had some fun times this week. Cute grand-babies to snuggle and the boys, Carter and Isaac, bought some fun new transportation that will save them a lot of money on fuel.

Cute baby Harley.

Grandpa entertaining the girls.

Uncle Carter with cute Harley.

This is Isaac's new ride, a 2019 Honda Grom that gets 125 miles to the gallon. 

Nice biker gear.

    And while the boys are riding motorbikes all summer I might as well help out and keep the Camaro in use but first I needed Carter to clean it up for me. What a good boy!

He's happy to do whatever I ask right now because I'm fronting a small loan for him to buy his new ride.

Meet Carter's cool new bike! This is a 2020 Honda Grom and also gets 125 miles to the gallon.

Let the fun begin! The summer of 2022 is going to be 'lit'!

    So there you have it, another week down.

     And I must say, our Australians may not have gotten here by the end of March, but they did get the miracle they needed and we can't wait to see them in just a few short weeks. God always has something better for us and He came through with flying colors once again!