A wonderful event

3 hours old

            Andrew Brett was born today!!!!!
He is totally lovely. Thank you Leslie for letting me witness a truely miraculous event.

Leslie finally got to hold him

Proud daddy

10 minutes old

1/2 hour old

Thrilled grandma

A new addition to our family

Dad and I went for a drive on labor day. While up in the hills he took these photos so I could "blog our new pick-up with a good backdrop". It's a nice pick-up. I think we'll be glad we got it. Now David feels real macho when he drives to work. I can hardly see over the steering wheel when I drive - and I'm not even short for a girl!

Monday was the christening - the pickup got dirty for the first time.

Any ideas what we should name our new truck?

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