Our beautiful back fence

We have transformed our back fence into a 3 season beauty.  This photo is looking out our sliding back door on Sept 29, 2012.  We call our yard our oasis in the Utah desert.

Falls colors September 22, 2012

Rick and I decided to be spontaneous today.  We loaded our bikes on the car and headed to the canyon.  Wow! What a beautiful day; 80 degree weather, sunshine and falls colors made it so! 

 We stopped at Sherwood Hills Resort and watched as mountain bike racers took off.  We walked and biked around the area, and took some spectacular photographs on Rick's new cannon camera.I just love the fall, warm days, cool crisp mornings and evenings and lots of sunshine.  

We also stopped at a new discount place (Cache Valley Liquidators) and bought an umbrella stand and umbrella for our deck.  

And, of course, we stopped at DI 

(Pat's favorite place to shop) both in Brigham City and Logan!  Great Day!

Grandchild # 9 turns 4 years old

Our cute Paul Shumway is 4 years old!  He is so cute!

Thanks to Sally for the great photographs.

Max and Mason become BLACK BELTS!

It was so fun watching the past years as Max and Mason worked towards their black belts.  

They had to write an essay. I've attached them at the bottom of the photos if you are interested in reading what the said.

They were so energetic at the test it was hard to get pictures that weren't blurry. 

I wish Nick could have stayed in Logan long enough to get his too!  

Hope you enjoy looking at a proud Mom/Grandma photos of the event.

Primary Bulletin Board: September Theme and Scripture

I made this 8 x 10 inch page and Rick enlarged it to 3 x 4 feet poster for the bulletin board in our Ward. I love the way it turned out.

 (the photo is from the new church videos...

and the movie that Jasmine did the make-up on.)

A quick trip to Idaho Falls

Sunday, September 2, 2012 Luke Andrew Shumway received the Priesthood from his father, Andrew.  I went to Idaho Falls on the Salt Lake Express Shuttle on the previous Thursday and stayed with my Dad for two days then spent the Sunday with Sally and her family.  Here are some cute photos Sally sent me of the kids in the shirts I gave then to start school.

Luke

Lily

Mabel

Nell

Paul

Lily & Samuel

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August wave runner family vacation

We were so happy to have Nick, Jasmine, Phoenix and Isis visit us for 5 days in August. (They stayed in a cabin at Hyrum State Park and beach.)  

Sally and Luke were the only ones in the family healthy enough to join us.  

We went to the Brigham City Temple Open House.  While there we saw both Sheldon and Bonnie Barfuss who were ushers for the day.  It was fun to see them. 

Max, Brigitte, Mason and Natalie joined us for the day at Hyrum  State Park beach and fun on the wave runners.  The water was really low so we slogged through the clay/mud all day.  I even got stuck twice and Max had to pull me out.  Rick spent most of the day taking kids on the tube behind the wave runner or just going out by himself.  

We also had a picnic in the Park and another in the Canyon.  It was so fun to be together again.  Hope you enjoy the few photos I took.