To Grandmother's house we go!

Last week I spent a few days at my Dad's house. He was caring for my grandmother who lives with my uncle in Pennsylvania. She could not be left alone so I stayed for a few days to help. I didn't get any other pictures of grandma because she is in such bad shape I really wanted to remember her like she used to be. I snapped this photo though. It was sweet. Abigail was taking a nap and then grandma came in to sleep in Dad's bed. She was going to sleep on the floor but I convinced her to lay on the bed. She moves every so often from the bed to the chair, to Dad's bed or the floor if you aren't watching. She can't get up from the floor by herself so that wasn't a good idea.

One adventure we had was when I was taking a short nap I asked Cheyenne to watch grandma and let me know when she got up and to watch the girls. I woke up a few minutes later to see Abigail with her diaper beside her and a surprise on the floor next to her and all over her. At first thought I thought it was the dog but then I realized otherwise. It's a good thing they have tile in the living room! I grabbed Abigail up and straight to the tub we went. She was less than impressed with the shower on a hose that I was trying to wash her off with. She did not like that at all!

Later that night, Dad took us out to eat at a fried chicken place that was so good. When we got back we had to wait for Dad and Grandma to get there because Dad had the house key. So the girls decided to chase the dog, Boo, around and try to catch him. He is way too fast to catch. It was funny to watch them try though. Abigail decided to ride on Papa's lawn mower.

When Dad got there, Naomi begged Papa to take her for a ride. She didn't have to beg long :) When Dad started it up, Abigail got scared and didn't want to ride. So Dad took Naomi around the yard and then came back for Abigail. She wouldn't let him take her, so I drove around with her for a few minutes. Naomi wanted to go again and by this time it was dark. Dad started to take Naomi and Abigail wouldn't go with him until she realized, after he went around a car, that he was her only chance to ride again. She started crying for Papa. Dad finally got hold of both of them. He drove around until he ran out of gas and Ted, who had come up earlier to see Grandma also, had to get some gas from the shed to get them back up to the house. They all had fun! Dad convinced Abigail to give him 2 kisses! She does not give kisses to anyone! Not even her own MAMMA! She did give me one after that with some begging.
Crazy dog, Boo.The next morning the best thing happened! Abigail woke up happy and leaned over and kissed me!! It was so sweet!!! She has NEVER done that without asking for one and sometimes doesn't give you one even when you ask! She is not the most loving child. She takes after Ken's side of the family.

Happy Birthday Emily!

Saturday we went to my nieces birthday party.
Naomi posed first thing for a picture!Mom and Abigail
Emily is on this thing that spins around. It is fun! I got on one.
Jamie had to take Abigail down the slide.
Naomi having a blast!
Are those monkeys?

It was so windy that the candles wouldn't light, so poor Emily had to pretend she was blowing out her candles.

Emily got this chair for her birthday and the opened her other present sitting in it.

Abigail loved it and stole it when Emily got up.

She also played with her toys while she was opening more.

Dinosaur, Utah!

I know these are late but I wanted you to be able to see the beautiful place that we went last week. Monday we went drove to Dinosaur, Utah. It is a place way out in the desert where they found a massive grave of dinosaurs bones. The observatory, where the largest part of the bones are, was closed because the building is falling apart. Inside the building there are whole dinosaur's skeletons that were just sticking out of the ground. They built the building around them to protect them but now the building is unsafe. They said it won't be open again until 2011. I'm sure we will go back one day. But it was all so beautiful. Abigail was still sick and woke up with spots all over Monday morning. The doctor FINALLY called back so we could get some antibiotic called in. She looked so pitiful. You can't see from this picture very good but she was covered.

This was the first part we stopped at that was on the closest side of the reserve. There was nothing there to see so we had to drive another 20 miles to the observatory.

The pictures don't capture the color very well. There are many colorful layers all in the landscape. I can't see how someone could see all this and not believe in the flood!
This was cool! It looks like a dinosaur back in the mountain.

Real thigh bone found here.
Replica of bones found.
There is a trail, about 3/4 mile, that you can still walk down. A small bus took us up to the trail from here.

Going down the trail to see some bones still in the ground.
This is the biggest dinosaur bone that we saw.
There is another bone under the arrow on the left side of the picture.
Back down the trail. I wasn't about to let Abigail down here!
A huge rock we saw on the way back down the trail.

Strike a Pose!
My girls love to pose!
Abigail was not feeling good and did not want anyone but Mommy. Again the layers of color prove to me that the Bible is true and the flood did this. There are fossils of shellfish all over in these rocks.

If you look beside my head on the rock there is a carving of a horse or something. It was interesting. Some inconsiderate people also carved their names in the rock under that. I hate when people carve their names in things especially at a national monument!!!

Ancient drawing in the rock by the Native Americans.


It was all so beautiful but I wouldn't want to live there!

GONE FISHIN'

Saturday we went brook fishing with the Carter family. Naomi was so excited to get going they went off together and I just LOVE the previous picture! It is very different fishing than many are used to. You have to sneak up on the bank and just drop in your hook. Naomi had an absolute Blast!! She kept catching them. Ken would no sooner get her fish off the hook and put a worm on it, she would catch another before he got his in the water. I kept hearing the squeals of joy that she caught another one. I tried to fish but Abigail would start screaming. Ken said Naomi caught about 20 fish. Every time I went over to them to get a picture they wouldn't catch anything. Cheyenne didn't want to fish so she stayed up with Aunt Theresa and some others most of the time. That is why I didn't get any pictures of her.

This is some of the family fishing. I cropped this picture to the one above so you could see the ones fishing but I also wanted those who have never been brook fishing to see the whole area.
Aunt Lynnie
Uncle Lawrence
Naomi said she was having so much fun!

Abigail still wasn't feeling good and finally went to sleep before we ate. I would have loved to sleep out there. It was beautiful. Cool in the shade, all wrapped up in a blanket with fresh mountain air blowing over you. It was
Some of the brook trout that we caught.
Theresa and Chelsey manning the fries.
Pops and Uncle Lawrence cooking brook trout that we caught.
Fried Brookie

Aunt Lynnie, Thayne, and Cherith

Thayne Loves his Aunt Lynnie and was going to cry telling her goodbye. Those two are so much alike it is funny.
Grant Carter, my new nephew (Ben and Lisa's new little one)
Naomi and Abigail playing outside. It took a long time just to get her out of my arms.
Naomi loves her sissy.