Camp CRC - Summer Fun with Nana

Ty Ty is a sweet boy with a lot of energy and a tender heart!

He has a million dollar smile!

For the 4th of July we went to The Point,

a hotel with a fun water slide, lazy river, water fall and lots of

Shaved Ice!!!

The kids had so much fun! The highlight was Camp Coyote, where

they went to make crafts, they went out and found Indian arrowheads

and then made a cool necklace out of it. And made many other things.

It gave me the idea that I could do Camp CRC at the house with the grand kids!

I had more fun planning and organizing, I really got into it!!

I am always so grateful for ideas!

Cole, Keaton and Matti are such great kids, they make us laugh

and always have excitement going on!

Drey and Crew are so darling and have these

brown eyes that always make me melt!

They are so sweet to give us hugs and kisses, coming

and going...we love that!

Jaxson is such a responsible 6 year old!

I hired him to water my plants and spray the bird poop off

the side walk while I was at the cabin...he did a perfect job!

Cade is a quiet, easy little boy to have around, as long as

you have chocolate milk and gold fish crackers!

Zach has always been the best kid, easy and obedient!

Jake is amazing at using tools and putting things together!

Luke loves to help in the kitchen and is so fun to spend time with!

I am so blessed to have all of these terrific kids close and I want to make the

most of their young years...I know how fast it is gone!!!!

Camp CRC - Summer Fun with Nana

We never realized that the girls initials spell GAME,

until we made these cute aprons!

CAMP CRC

JULY 2009

We have had fun the past two weeks with Camp CRC.

I had 11 of the boys over,

Cole - Keaton - Zach - Jaxson - Jake - Drey - Ty Ty - Matti - Crew

Cade & Luke

The first time we

made patriotic pops, pretzels, homemade ice cream sandwiches,

chicken salad sandwiches and painted apons.

Round 2 we made pigs in a blanket, ice cream in a zip lock bag,

pencil erasers and design your own T- shirts.

It was wild and crazy with 11 of them but they love to being together and

I love being with all of them!

Luckily I had Jaimi and Neisha take turns helping me,

I really could not have managed without them!

Since there are only 4 girls, it is much easier!

We made fruit pizza, cookie oysters, friendship pins and painted flowers at our first session.

Second time we made aprons, darling paper hats, glittery butterflys,

chocolate covered strawberries, finger sandwiches and topped it off with

a lovely tea party! The highlight was Karissa showing them the Hanna Montana

Hoedown Throwdown!

The third time, I taught them how to sew on buttons, how to tie a quilt,

they made erasers

and then they each made a cute little lady bug cake.

(darn I wish I would have taken a picture of that!)

Thank heavens Karissa was there to help me...she saved the day for me!

I did not manage to have a third session with the boys...hoping they would not notice,

but leave it to Jaxson, he called that to my attention straight away!

I will have to have another time with them soon!

But, the summer break is over, school starts Monday, July 27!

It has been a great summer!

Annie - Maci - Ember - Gracie

They are so much fun and we have a ball doing all sorts of things

together!!! Lucky me to have such adorable grand daughters!

This is the finished fruit pizza!

I wanted this picture to come last but...oh well!

Macie and Ember arranging the fruit just right!

They enjoy tasting as much as making it!

Larry Sherwood Reunion 2009

The Larry Sherwood Reunion was such fun!

All of our kids commented on the fact that there is no one in the family that isn't top notch and oh so fun!

Here is Grandpa with his daughters:

Tina - Kathleen - Tonna

They are the best!  

And what great story tellers they all are...we could listen to them all day long and never get tired of hearing them talk!

Grandpa with 6 of the 7 originals...

we are missing Uncle Dennis

D'Wayne - Tonna - Tina - Charlie - Kathleen - Richard

Here are the originals with their spouses.

Front row:  Tina - Tonna - Kathleen - Grandpa - Marla

Back row:  Paul - Bob - Charlie - Gary - Richard - D'Wayne

Hopefully next year everyone will be in the picture!

Marley's 1st Birthday

Marley celebrated her 1st Birthday with all kinds of pink and red decorations!  She is the sweetest baby and oooh so good!

Rarely cries and as Karissa's brother say's, "she is frozen in time!"

She is so tiny and petite like her mother.

The cousins surround her all the time, she barely has room to breathe!  What a little doll!

While Marley is the center of attention at one end of the yard,

Cam & Ty are doing crazy stuff at the other end!

Fun times!  Family is all that matters!

Miss Justina goes to the Salt Lake Temple!

I am going to back track for a few months to do some catching up!

This took place in April, D'Wayne, Justina and I took a road trip to Salt Lake City.

It was her second time to attend a Temple session, the first was a few day earlier in the Mesa, Arizona Temple.  We were so excited that Elder Hyslop, & President and Sister Farrer could join us for this wonderful occasion.  Elder Hyslop was the Elder that baptized Justina and has been home from his mission for a few months.

Miss Justina in front of the Salt Lake Temple. 

 It was a beautiful spring day with tulips in bloom everywhere...tulips, are they not the most beautiful flower ever!!!

We had a glorious day touring Temple Square, 

watching the Joseph Smith movie at the Legacy Theater,

going through the Bee Hive House, 

and eating lunch at the Lion House.

A day to remember!

St. Lucia National Dress

Here we are all dressed up in the St. Lucia Creole national attire!

Those bright colors look so much better against beautiful black skin but we did the best we could with what we had to work with.

It is so hard to get all the children looking at the camera at the same time!!!!