David & Gwen Schwieder Family

Kyle and Tiffany have this fun end-of-summer tradition. Right before school starts each year Kyle makes lots of sugar cookie dough and colors it red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, green, white and black. Then the kids get to model cookies of all shapes and sizes. They are limited only by their imaginations and the size. This year they did the modeling at my house and Elden joined in.

Look at all the different shapes and colors - and these are only about a third of what we made. I thought my hamburger cookie and my butterfly turned out quite nice.

After the cookies are baked and sampled, they are put into the freezer and used for school lunches for the first month or two of school.

Reunion Day 3

I never finished posting photos from our little Schwieder reunion and since I have some real cute ones, I decided to post them now. This is Day 3, at Cleveland Lake.

My one and only - isn't he great?

Why aren't my rolls as cute as Clarks?

Gotta test the water out before we actually get in

Seven Brides . . .

Rob is brother number 2 - Benjamin. According to Tammie, "He's the cute one". And Tammie is Dorcus - the part she has always wanted to play. They had a great time doing Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in Kanab last week. And they did a super good job!!!

We enjoyed our very short visit there but are very glad we made the trip down to see the show.

Benjamin and Dorcus - they were the purple couple

Abbie - kids love David's hat

Lincoln playing with grandpa - he's growing up!

Playing on the slide

playing in the water fountain - great for hot days

Lincoln thought putting grandma's hat on grandpa was the more harlarious thing in the world - He does look rather silly!

We went to the Manti temple for the first time - Beautiful!! but full of stairs.

Beware the Bugaboos

Brett, Leslie, and Josh were in the Iona Days Melodrama last week and did a riproaring job. Leslie played the part of Henrietta Grinch who was supposed to be my age. With makeup they added wrinkles and gray hair, but they couldn't hide the baby belly. It was cute.
Brett and Josh were two of the bad guys, the Bugaboo brothers - Tom and Harry. They played their parts well. Brett was loud and obnoxious and Josh was a bit slow - you would say he wasn't playing with a full deck. They were very funny. Wish you could all have seen it. Here are some photos.

The cast after the play except we're missing the English Gentleman.
The thrid Bugaboo brother, Dick, is at the back in the red shirt

Mrs. Grinch, the hotel proprietess

The hero, Sam Simon-pure, (short for Samantha) was also the
sweet young thing, kind of a new take in melodrama stories.

Josh's costume was the best

Hey, where're the rubies?

They did a good job with Brett's costume too.

I don't get it!

Good job guys - you did an awesome job!

A big day for Bethany!

Bethany graduated from BYU Idaho on July 20th! David and I went to her convocation and had a great time. I still haven't figured out why most of my kids didn't want to walk ???? Of course, since she graduated from the visual and performing arts department, the convocation was filled with visual and performing arts. It was great. I suppose math and science departments would not have been near so entertaining. Anyway, it's good to have kids by marriage who believe a bit more in tradition. :-)
Congratulations Bethany. We are proud of you!

Isn't she beautiful

The adults repelled too

I mostly got photos of the kids repelling, but I did get a few of the adults. Josh strongly encouraged Shanalee to go up and when Todd agreed to go with her she finally did. She said it reminded her of old times - She always got Todd to do everything with her when she was young. I even did a little climbing, but on the easy slope with the young ones.

Todd and Shanalee heading up

It's a long way down!

Getting started is the hardest part

Can I hold my breath all the way down?

Maybe this is fun

I Did IT!

Todd coming down

I wish I had gotten pictures of Bethany coming down. It was her first time, but I wasn't there when she made the drop.

I did get this video of Josh coming down.

Day 2 - Climbing and repelling

On day 2 of our reunion we also went rock climbing and repelling. What else are you supposed to do at the City of Rocks? It was very hot and it was hard waiting for turns but the kids (and adults) were great. Brett had the equipment and all the adults worked to help the kids be safe and have fun - though it can be scary at times. Coming down cliffs backwards can make your heart beat faster - just ask Shanalee and Bethany and little Abigail. Bethany said she practiced yoga relaxation on the way down. Abigail chose to cry. And I think David got a touch of heat exhaustion from belaying in the sun all day. But if you ask the kids now, everyone had a "super great" time.

Zachary was one of the first ones up.