beautiful flowers

Liz and Michael

first dance

Michael and Liz - they're both really tall!

Jake

waiting for the wedding to start

Sharlene

Josh

Aunt Crazy!!!!

the kids singing their song at family reunion

first cousins with Grandma Turner

first cousins and spouses with Grandma Turner

Ryan's Eagle Scout Project

Ryan is almost (ALMOST!) done with his Eagle project - YEAH!!! He is putting in new horseshoe pits at the Dayton Park. It's turned out to be a huge project and hopefully it will be complete soon. He has had a ton of help from his quorum leaders and members. We can't thank them all enough. His dad has also been a huge part of it.

Uncle Bob

My uncle Bob passed away on the 10th of June. He was 61 years old. But that doesn't begin to tell you about him. He was a marathon runner, loved his 63 Corvette convertible - cherry red, loved his family wife - Lena Gean - married 41 years, 6 months, and 21 days. His boys - Rusty and Joel. Rusty's wife - Wendy and Niki, Joel's fiancee - he said they were his reward for raising the boys. And he adored his grandchildren - Lindsey, Trevor and Witni - they were his everything! He was a CPA by trade and a more honest man you will never find - I NEVER EVER worried when he did my taxes. He was good-looking and funny. He loved to have people around and his home was always open to anyone. A loyal friend, and GREAT uncle - our favorite!!! We will miss him terribly and can't wait to see him again in heaven!

Our New House

here is our new house!

and the other half of it!

the upstairs bathroom - the shower has doors on it so no more shower curtain - the border might come down - i don't really think it looks good in the bathroom

the view from the front door into the diningroom - the frontroom is off to the right and Chad's room, the computer room and our room are down the hall to the left. The frontroom has carpet and hardwood floors. the hallway is hardwood floors, the three bedroom upstairs have a dark green carpet. The kitchen has 18' tile and so does the bathroom - it's done in a cream color.

looking out the sliding glass door on to the deck. The sliding glass door is going to be replaced with french doors with a white grill pattern to match the rest of the windows.

the other half of the deck. there are also stairs going off the deck on the right

this is the view from the kitchen door looking into the kitchen and diningroom - I love the wallpaper!

this is the view from the diningroom into the frontroom - never mind the mess!

this is the other half of the frontroom

storage in the upstairs hallway - i love old houses - they have such character!
this house was built in 1958

here is Ryan's room - it's completely done in the wooden walls - it's not paneling - but tongue and groove knotty pine - but without the shallac!

this is the girl's room - it was white walls before and ugly orange-brown carpet, it's being redone in a varigated truffle based carpet - kind of light brown with green and blues mixed in. The baseboards - you can see one down on the left will be put in after the carpet and a wooden border about 2 1/2 inches wide with a vine pattern carved in to will be painted a cute light green - "secret garden" - it's called, will go between the two colors - it look kind of pink in these pictures, but it's two shades of lavendar

the girls room again

all along the hallway downstairs are shelves behind these blue and white striped curtains - very nice storage!

This is one half of our livingroom downstairs - I love the wood walls!

this is the other half with a wood burning fireplace

our laundryroom

kid's bathroom downstairs - it was already painted

here is Chad's room - going to be painted dark blue on the bottom and white on the top with a sports theme border around the middle

another one of Chad's room - note the pink bunny border - definitely coming down!

our bedroom - going to be painted - "sand between your toes' brown

our computer/sewing room - it's going to be sand between your toes brown and white

Chad with his new bunny

All of the kids with Aunt Kim and their findings

Craig and Val watch the tackle football game after dinner

kids looking for Easter eggs

Here are the kids at the cabin with their Easter baskets

Waiting in line, youngest to oldest to go out and find the Easter eggs in the backyard.

Ruby with her new bunny