The first night of our vacation, we stayed in a cabin near Dolores, CO (Priest Gulch).  Erin & Tony, Ben & Shanae, Tracy & the girls all stayed in the cabin with us.  We put up the air mattress  and had enough room for everyone.  It was right on the Dolores River and the kiddos had fun playing in the water.  There was a nice porch area over the creek that ran into the river with swings.  We all enjoyed the beginning of our family reunion in Colorado!

We just returned from our family reunion vacation in Colorado.  Gary and Linda met us there with some of their family.  We had 5 our children and families with us.  It was wonderful to be together and enjoy the cool, mountain air and enjoy sharing time with each other.  This picture was taken the day that Gary & Linda left.  They had a long 3 day ride ahead of them.  We sure appreciate that they made the trip from Alabama to spent time together.    More pictures to come!

Catch Up Time!

Oh my, I didn't realize it has been so long since I have updated our blog!  So much busyness going on in our lives these days.  I will try to make a brief outline of what things have been going on for us and then I will try to keep up a little better.

Since Carl has been called to be the Bishop of the Singles Ward (Rio Vista Ward) our lives are so busy with activities with them.  We have FHE as a ward every Monday.  The activities have been so fun for the kids.  Things like fingerpainting your favorite scripture story, water kick ball on the slip & slide, latin and country dancing, etiquette dinner, Battleship volleyball, hiking and a Ward Campout.  We are impressed with the enthusiasm and energy of these young people and really enjoy watching them together.  They are great kids and we are loving our calling.

I don't see Carl much during the evening on the rest of the week.  He usually is gone every night except Friday and sometimes Saturday.  We have had a couple of weddings in the ward and have 3 more coming up before the year is out.  That's the purpose of the Singles Ward!

This year in school was a great one for me.  Things went along very well and the year ended on a great note!  We have a new Director coming in for the next school year and I know her already.  I look forward to an awesome year.  This may be my last year teaching as retirement is becoming a strong option for me since some changes will be made in the retirement policies of the District after this year.  That will be an interesting concept to adjust to but Carl and I look forward to the change in our life.

This summer has been full of activities for us.  First, we celebrated our 38th Wedding Anniversary with a trip to Laguna Beach!  A surprise for me!  Carl is still full of surprises!  We had a lovely time exploring the California Coast. We attended the San Diego Temple on our last day there.  What a beautiful Temple!  (One of our couples in our ward are getting married there in a couple weeks and we are going back there.)  We look forward to it!


I was 1st Year Girls Camp Certification Leader again this year and Carl was over the archery and canoeing activities.  This year camp was just 3 days on the end of the 4th of July week.  We were very busy getting all of our certification in but we did just fine.  We really enjoy being with the girls at camp and hope that we will be able to continue to go.