Darling grandson! Beautiful daughter!

Jack showing off his teeth and cute shirt!
The rest of the alphabet is listed under AB CD.

Here are two pictures just taken yesterday. Ang, Tommy and Jack live in Phoenix... AND WE MISS THEM!!!
Tommy was in law school in San Francisco before they moved to AZ
so they haven't lived close since they married;
we've missed them a long time!!

Tender Story

Tim and I went for an evening walk tonight and saw Paul and Jenny, friends from our last ward. Tim had seen an "It's a Boy" sign on their front window tonight and told me--I didn't remember Jenny being pregnant...but we don't see them often so....to make a long story short, their fourth child, a little boy named Matthew, was just adopted from China. It is HIGHLY unusual to be able to adopt a boy, but they have him and according the the Chinese and American governments...he's officially theirs! We're so excited for them! Hearing them tell their story of being back in the hotel room and trying to put Matthew to sleep and he refused to be held and would crawl away and fall asleep in a corner reminded me of when Amy and Angela e-mailed from Romania (they volunteered in orphanages) and told how the children didn't like to be touched. Paul and Jenny worked with him because they know babies need to be held and he finally will let them hold him and will fall asleep in their arms. Hug those you love...we all need hugs!

Happy Crappy Day!

Happy Birthday Angela!

We love you tons and are blessed to have
you as a daughter and sister.
Love, Mom, Dad
and Amy

PS To those who aren't family, you need to know that Happy Crappy Day
is an inside joke...it is NOT being mean.

The in-laws

Jack and Tommy

Aaron and Tasha at the Cleveland Indians/NY Yankees Game in NY

I just want to say that I have a terriffic son-in-law and daughter-in-law. They have blessed the lives of our family and especially their spouse (which, of course, is my child) very much. They are dearly loved and we are grateful they (and Jack)
are a part of our eternal family.

Thank you Tommy and Tasha! I love you both very much.

Happy Birthday Lis!

Lis, I know your birthday is on Saturday

but I wanted to give people time
to see this darling picture of you when you were 18 months old!
Cute, cute, cute!

For a current pic of Lis look at my Abi's graduation post.
See you Sunday to celebrate at my house...Love, Aunt Peggy

Blizzard...Grand Canyon and driving to Phoenix

We drove to Phoenix to help Ang and Tommy move into their new apt. Thursday night between Panguitch and Kanab we encountered a TERRIBLE snow storm...keep in mind it was May 22nd!!! Visibility was terrible---ZERO!!!--we had to drive 10-20 mph for miles! Then the next day as we drove around the rim of the Grand Canyon (one of Tim's dreams...we'd never been there.) we got dumped on again...MORE bad weather; this time it was rain, sleet, hail and snow...and it stuck to the road which made driving treacherous (Tim had taken his snow tires off) ...UGH!!! We could only see the canyon at one of the many look out points and it was SO cold...remember it was May 23rd!!! We arrived safe, but not mentally sound!!! We make the 11 hr. drive home tomorrow...NOT looking forward to that! The forecast is for nice weather--but keep in mind it was only supposed to be rain when we drove down here! It's wonderful to be here and spend time with Ang, Tommy and Jack.

Abi's high school graduation and dinner

This picture was taken at the Chop House restaurant where we ate the night before Abi's high school graduation. Of course the top picture is of Abi, then Tim and me. The bottom: left to right back row...me and Lis, Abi and Mary and Annie. Lis and her husband, Bobby, drove up with Tim and me. Mary didn't know we were coming and you should have seen her dance and scream when she saw us standing in her living room at 11 pm at night. It was so good to be there! this fall Abi will be at Weber State...another school that has purple and gold for its school colors. We're looking forward to having her over, along with Lis and Bobby, for some Sunday dinners.