Sorry about the mistakes

I posted little Abbie twice, but you have to agree it was a cute picture. Now for the family picture of Laura's parents, brother and sister and families, and Paul's brothers, Tripp and Patrick and families, and us.

I forgot a very important event back in August - our grandson, Trey, returns home from his mission, and then proposes to Courtney with a planned wedding the day after Thanksgiving. We will be going back for the wedding, so my next post will probably be sometime in January, regarding our trip back East.

BTW, we will be 'ON THE ROAD AGAIN' the end of the month for a few week's with Patrick in Arizona, before we start our drive across the states to visit family for the holidays.

LOVE YOU

Pictures taken at Isabelle's Baptism

Family picture of Laura's family and Paul's family. One of Abbie, voted as the "Most Reverent". One of the two Harley's. Enjoy.

Boys will be Boys - Young and Older

Patrick and Paul put up the train set, as the kids watched and finally were able to play with it. I think the bigger boys enjoyed that time together, as much as the younger ones did.

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Sorry about that. But if you view from bottom to top, the way I downloaded them - it is Isabelle dressing Saige up as Cinderella and the finished product on the stairs of Saige. Then the cousins trying to settle down for the night. Cooper and Garrett and Isabelle and Saige.

Then we cannot forget Seth, who had a bed in the same room -

October 2010 - Isabelle's Baptism

Wow, what an exciting week, getting ready for, and participating in, recuperating from all the family festivities. Laura's family was there, parents, brother and sister. Paul's two brothers, Tripp and Patrick and their families were there, along with us. I do have some pictures to share of that. Let me see if I can get them posted with comments under each.

September - October 2010

September was the "coming out" time for Helen. She was tired of feeling bad, and decided that she could feel just as bad, traveling and seeing family. So our first trip was to go up and visit Scott and his family mid September, was there for Will's birthday party and had a great time. They have a beautiful home and Scott got a job as a PA at an urgent care facility in the area. He loves his job, plus he is teaching a medical assistant class 2 nights a week for LDS Business College. They are one busy little family, beautiful family and we are proud of them.

The last of September, with that short trip behind us, we felt that Helen could go a little farther and so we traveled up to Los Angeles, to help Paul and Laura move into their home. The pictures from that visit were on the camera that I left at their house, as I got a new one.

But wanted to share one picture of Helen and Nathan at Scott's. He is such a doll.

June - July - August 2010 Updates

June 15th, Helen had a total hip replacement and what she thought would be a breeze, ended up to be the worst nightmare of her life. She was in the hospital for 4 days, and from there had to go to Kolob Rehab for 2 weeks. Usually a very social person, she did not want visitors or even phone calls, as she sounded so bad because of the pain. But people came anyway and called. The turning point was when her brother Victor came out with Sue and their son, Joey Mac and his children, Jacob and Megan. It was the shot she needed and with their 2 day stay and lots of encouragement, she had a resolve to do all she could on the road to recovery, even though it took longer than she had anticipated.

With the slow recovery, Helen had time to put life in perspective and decided to retire completely from her part-time job, as a medical transcriptionist, and devote the rest of her "good life" to visiting family, and working on her family history. So that retirement happened on August 16, 2010 with lots of congrats from the family members.

Here are a few pictures from Victor's visit. Tripp and his family came up for a visit on Sunday. It was great to see the cousins interact so well. Kids are never strangers.