Lucky 13!

My little lucky 13th grandchild...

How blessed am I?

Mom and baby doing just fine.

Michelle was a rock star!

Introducing...

Joslin Emmeline!

Flying to Oklahoma...

here I come sweet baby girl!

Huckleberries & Secrets

Brandon and Amanda arrived for their summer visit to Idaho...

with their five little ducklings and the new family dog, Gwen!

 Aaron and Jamie called and said they were going to go
 HUCKLEBERRY-ing!

(Not sure of the proper name for that...)...

and would we like to go along?

That would be a YES we said!

Our first stop was not very "fruitful"  (tee hee)

We drove further up the canyon and scored!

Ice cream buckets, cottage cheese and yogart containers

we being carried by seven little ones,

and the big people!

I was on "spider duty" most of the time, yelling,

"Aughhhh...don't walk through here...giant spider and web."

Then of course they all came running.

There is a unspoken rule here in Huckleberry Land...

You don't tell people where "your" spot is for Huckleberring...

don't bother asking...

they won't tell.

There are general area's that everybody can get to,

but a true blue, dyed in wool Huckleberrer will not tell you.

Grandpa's go to their graves... just don't ask!

We took our berries home and Aaron went and bought all the ingredients

we would need to make home made huckleberry ice cream.

(Below are our hero's!)

No kidding...

the best ice cream I've had in a long, long, time!

These cousins had just as much fun together as the first "batch of cousins."

I was so grateful to my handsome son and grandsons

for rolling up their sleeves 

and coming out in the back to help me "weed."

It was so fun to here them talk and realized

this was a reconnaissance mission..

"capture and destroy!"

Brandon made it fun for them and I was impressed with his

ingenuity and teaching methods.

We worked three solid hours

and came out

 victorious!

We visited the Idaho History Museum one day.

King Tut!

Time flew by and their visit came to and end.

I took a picture of Jason holding the very "Teddy Bear" that I gave to Brandon

over 34 years ago.

Can't be possible....that's crazy talk!

Yes....

time does fly!

Family...Summer...Fun Times...Food....Laughter....Love!
Grateful for the visit!

Whew!

Summer 

 has become a whirlwind of little visitors...

Angela, John & girls arrived two days early and

SURPRISED ME

at my friends house.

I just sat and stared at them all.

Couldn't quite wrap my head around why 

three little girls came running towards me yelling,

"Nana.....Nana!"

Getting together with their other cousins

was the highlight of their days...

playing on the swing set, in the play room,

coloring, cutting, gluing, stapling!

On my birthday we drove to Star Valley to take the girls to Star 6 Ranch 

and to go out to lunch at

Rocky Mountain Seafood!

This is a picture of the little ones in my sister's chicken coop

gathering her eggs for the day!

We also went down to the 

Pea & Raspberry Patch...

to our tummies delight.

Playing in the back yard

 running through the sprinklers and 

playing on the slip and slid, picking raspberries,

 was so fun for them!

Big Jud's 

 (in Archer, Idaho)

is a tradition it seems...

I love, love, love their fries, 

but we weren't too happy that it took our food 

1 hour to come to our table!!!

(This just includes the happy pictures... not the ones where we

started feeding the kids fry sauce...!)

We all went to church with Jamie and Aaron.  

We grabbed this quick pic before with new little Lila in it!

So grateful for these precious, sweet, noisy, wonderful grandchildren to touch and bless my life.

So many times Papa's name was brought up.

They miss him... it's just not the same!