"The Wizard Of Oz"

Alize (our orange munchkin)

Ali with her mom and dad

Ali, Daddy Ralph and family

Her hairdo

Talking to "Glinda"

Ali- the orange munchkin

The cast

Last night we went to see Alize perform in the Wizard of Oz. Her theater teacher is Lyndy (a friend of Jessica's) They performed at the historic St. George Opera house. Ali was a Munchkin. It was her first time on stage. She did a great job.She was nervous at first, but when it was over she said she would like to be in more plays. (I don't know where my grandkids get the acting, singing, and dancing gene from. It isn't me.) Ali reminds me so much of Jessica at that age. She was in every play we could try out for. Anyway, they did a great job. There were only about 12 cast members and they did awesome.

Quail Lake

Brad

Izzy

MaKayla & Emily

Andy

MaKayla

Getting ready to ski

This must be when I was yelling at them to Slow down!

Yesterday we went to Quail Lake with Brad and family.It felt so good to ski again. The water temp was perfect and so very very pretty. Everyone had fun jumping in and cooling off in the lake (even the dog) and wake boarding and knee boarding. They are getting pretty good at it. We are so lucky to live within 20 minutes of 3 lakes to choose from. I can't wait to go again. It was hard taking pictures because when the boat was moving, I missed and got a lot of blurry pictures of the spray instead of the skiers.

Beautiful Ballerinas

Sisters : Gwyneth, Gabrielle, & Andrea

Gabrielle "Spanish Doll"

Gabrielle (so grown up)

Andrea "Baby Doll"

Gwyneth & Andrea (the best of pals...)

Gwyneth " Fairy Doll"

Gwyneth

For Father's Day weekend we went to The Covey Center in Provo to see Scott and Luann's girls perform in a Jazz recital on Friday, and on Saturday they were in the ballet"Coppelia" I had never seen that one before. It was very pretty and had a great story. They all 3 did a super job. Of course, the little 4 year old "baby dolls" stole the show. Luann spends a LOT of time driving them to all their lessons each week. Gabrielle has been taking dance a long time now, and it shows. She does a super job. I can't believe how fast she is growing up. She has a great future ahead of her in the arts if she chooses!!

Grandma Day

Emily and Mandi

Izzy "Jumping"

Ali and Mandi

Mandi

One day a week we are taking the grandkids to the PTA movies and then they come back here and swim and have picnic lunch. It has been fun. (They are here almost everyday anyway, but we wanted to make one day different from the rest!!!

Pine Valley

"Roughing it" in the RV

Right before sunset

Early morning

View of the reservoir(the green behind the trees) from our trailer

We stayed in the new campground in Pine Valley (Dean Gardner) They are re doing the old one. This one is right next to the reservoir. We were about 75 yards from the water. I love camping and fishing.

Sand Cove Reservoir

Sunset

Doug caught 2 at once! (He does that a lot...)

Brad's family

Brad holding dinner. It was yummy!!

MaKayla

Emily

Izzy

We went camping to a place we had never been to before. We went for Memorial Day. We stayed in Brad and Steph's pop up trailer. We caught quite a lot of fish. The best part is that it is only 20 minutes from our house. We had a good time!

Piano Recitals

"Reflection"

Ali

Ali and her teacher

Alex

Ellie

Gwyneth

Alex, Ellie, and Gwyneth

We went to the grandkids piano recitals this month. Scott's family was in Springville, and Jessica's family was in Enterprise. It is fun watching them grow up and improve each year. They are all doing a great job. It was Ali's and Gwyneth's first year. I am proud of them.

School Graduations/ Programs

Izzy and her teacher.

Izzy waiting for the program to start.

Mandi and her teacher Mrs. Bowen.

Mandi

Mandi

We went to Izzy's 1st grade end of year program, and Mandi's pre school graduation. They both did a great job singing. Mandi is so ready for Kindergarten. Ali had a program too, but my camera was on the wrong setting and the pictures were all blurry! Time is flying by too fast!!

Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays!!!!

MaKayla 15 Years Old

Doll # 15

Scott (38)

Ellie & # 12 Doll

Andrea & #4 Doll

Jessica (27)

Jessica "Queen for a Day"

Sam's Pirate cake (made by grandma Francis)

Sam - 2 Years Old

We have so many birthdays in the spring, and not a single one in June. It's fun watching the grandkids growing up. (My own kids birthdays just make me feel old)
I started a tradition when MaKayla was born of "The Growing Up Dolls" The girls get one every year on their birthday. (Now that I have 8 granddaughters I might go broke...) On Jessica's birthday I took her to the spa for a day of pampering. Massage, facial, pedicure, manicure and hair done, and also a yummy lunch. It was a fun day.