Bittersweet...

What???
You mean this school year is over? It seems like just yesterday they had their first day!

It seems like just yesterday that the bus pulled up to get Zach.
Or I walked Megan to her Kindergarten door.
Does this mean no more watching for the bus?
Or watching for Tanner to walk home?
No more anxiously awaiting the dance festival...
Or Megan's Kindergarten play...

Or Zach's Kindergarten graduation...
Boy, it is sure hard to see them grow. But we're supposed to find joy in our journey right? So I'm looking ahead to summer and the next year, hoping it will be memorable and wonderful also. According to Zach, Summer has officially arrived and to mark the occasion...a new shark slip and slide! ;)
Happy Summer!

Giant John

Megan is the Princess.

Read Me a Memory

Lyrics:
Read me a mem’ry, tell me a tale.

Speak of wondrous adventures.

Together we’ll sail off to forests enchanted and lands far away.

Fairies and kings, and magical rings,

My heart has wings,

When I sit at your knee and you read to me.

Years turn like pages, soon I’ll be grown.

Maybe someday I’ll read to a child of my own.

Though I may not remember the stories we shared,

I always knew, through time spent with you

That you loved me too;

For I sat at your knee and you read to me.

Childhood like summer days; Dews on the grass,

Soon will be yesterdays. Don’t let it pass,

‘Til you read me a mem’ry, tell me a tale,

Speak of wondrous adventures.

Together we’ll sail off to forests enchanted and lands far away.

Fairies and kings, and magical rings.

My heart has wings!

When I sit at your knee and you read to me.


Yes. A definite tearjearker!

Fruits of my Labor

 

Best Two Years...the slideshow is working now!

My Grandma Reece

It's been 10 years since my sweet Grandma Reece passed away. Both of my grandmothers passed away within a year of each other and I never knew my Grandpas. I really cherish all the memories I had with both of my grandmothers. They were both very strong women. For those of you with all your grandparents or at least some of them, how lucky you are...a.k.a. Brandon! He is one of those lucky people who has all four grandparents alive and well. A couple of years ago, I wrote some of these cherished memories of my Grandma Reece and since some of my cousins read this, I thought I would share:

*We were the same ward with Grandma in Orem when we moved to Utah in the early 80’s.
*She baked bread and liked to find new “healthy” recipes.
*She always took care of me at her house when I was sick and my mom had to work.
*I stayed with her when my Mom and Dave went to Hawaii for a week.
*She loved to watch People’s Court everyday with Judge Wapner! He was the best.
*We congregated at her trailer on Sundays with the Johnson girls. I have fond memories of this and I think at about 7 pm, the "grown-ups" would come in the bedroom with us girls to watch “America’s Funniest Home Videos”. We used to joke that the adults thought everything was funny-even the "toast popping"! Grandma loved us all there visiting together.
*After Dave died, I had to go upstairs to talk to Grandma. We lived beneath her in the four-plex at the time. She was so distraught. She loved Dave so much. It was a very hard time for her and all of us.
*When I lived beneath her in the four-plex, I took her goodies periodically. She was a “child of the depression” and always saved the paper plates to give back to me! But she really appreciated the goodies.
*She was a true republican. She loved Rush Limbaugh and listened to the radio a lot.
*In the few hours after she passed away, some of us were gathered at my Aunt's house clear until midnight to say our goodbyes. My cousin's daughter Tawni was about 3 at the time, and she called Grandma Reece "Reecie". When they wheeled Grandma out the door to the mortuary van, she called out, "Bye Reecie."

I'm so grateful for her presence in my life! What a great legacy she has left. Love you Grandma!

Happy Mother's Day!

Love ya Mom! You are the best ever!

Goal!

Tanner just finished a great soccer season. He has absolutely come alive with soccer! He has excelled in it and also enjoyed it. I say this because he probably had an average of 4 goals per game but also worked on passing the ball to his teammates when he had to. Although it was a large team, he had great coaches and nice teammates.
They all received medals.

Go Tanner! Congrats on a great season!

A Night Out...

Last week, Tanner said that his art teacher, Miss "K" was in a play. He said that she told the kids that she had tickets if anyone wanted to go. I read about it in the paper the next day. It was "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and I thought the kids(Tanner and Meg) would enjoy it and I'd never seen it. Well, we didn't get free tickets, but she did have BOGO coupons which I thought was well worth using so off we went!

Miss K played "Ruth" and did a fabulous job. When we met up with her afterward she was so thrilled that the kids had come to see her. She just went on and on. She is a real sweetheart. Don't you just love teachers like this?

We really enjoyed the play. It was very well done and we laughed a lot. We took my Mom also as an early birthday present.

It was worth being out late on a school night! ;)

The Last Hurrah

Brandon and I were lucky enough to be able to attend the last great Jazz game of the season! It was louder than loud, but amazing to sit where we did(look at those seats!) and watch such an amazing game. What an experience!

This was also the last season for Hot Rod. I found myself becoming a bit emotional about his recent retirement. He has been with the Jazz since they began. I grew up listening to him. My stepdad (this was another post) being a Jazz fan, I can remember Hot Rod's voice on the TV in the basement which was his den or "cave" where he watched sports and relaxed with his "pop" and snacks. I have such fond memories of that distinctive voice and I will miss it!

You gotta love him baby!

At the beach

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