Phone pictures/ photo dump

I was with my parents, sisters, and brother.  I gave Sammy something and someone asked Sam, "Now what do you say?" Instead of thank you... he said, "Cheese!"  What do you think?  Do I take too many pictures?

Here are some from the last month on my phone...

These ones are from when we'd been sick for three weeks... we decided to drive around Utah Lake because we were all sick of being in the house.

 These were from after we had gone to the library.  Aunt Nella and my parents came to visit and the kids loved reading with them.  They loved 'Egg Drop', 'Read to Tiger', and I loved 'A Song for Little Toad'.

I was checking in on the baby and this is what I found... looks like she was playing and got too tired to lay down... just folded in half instead.

 My cousin Taylor got married this weekend.  I absolutely love his new wife... and my sister Sharon made this gorgeous cake.

 Ada had my phone while we were there and took a million pictures of the dessert table... but also got a couple of fun ones... like these next three.

 My Great-Uncle Frank's computer died and he asked for some help from Jeremy... so we got to go out to the Church Welfare Ranch where him and his wife are serving a 2 year mission... (for those that don't know.  LDS missions are volunteer opportunities, they are unpaid as well.)  He's taking care of a 5,000 acre ranch that has a lot of the birthing cattle... so far this year they've had about 250 new calves and they'll probably end up with somewhere around 1000.  The cattle is raised and slaughtered for the Church Welfare Program.  Ada and Sammy loved seeing the baby cows.  Ada even remembered last time we went out just to visit.  I told her we were going to see Uncle Frank and she said, "The one that lives on the farm way out there! And has the horse that's in time out!"  (last time we went, Champ, one of the horses was being a pill and had to be seperated from Lady, the work horse.)  When we got there, she asked Margaret if the horse was still in time out.  Ends up, they don't have Champ anymore but they have a new one named Buddy.

 Ada loved riding up front in the cart with Uncle Frank.  She got to hold the reins while he got us in through the gate.  Frank is my Grandma's brother... the one that Ada's named after... so I asked if he would tell Ada a little bit about my Grandma.  He told her how she loved to play the piano and how his favorite song was "Flight of the Bumblebees".  He also told her how much he loved and missed her.  Being with Frank made me miss my Grandma as well.  Especially her laugh... she always laughed through her teeth so it kind of hissed.  Loved it.

The cattle thought that we were there to feed them even though they are in the middle of a hay field.  They all started following us and trying to eat the hay bales that we were sitting on.  One even succeeded in pulling one off the cart.  Luckily we had gotten Sammy off it a couple minutes before and Jer was holding  him on his lap.

Frank let the kids ride Lady once we got back in the barn yard.

I had Ada try the rope swing again but she didn't quite dare... but Sammy had a blast.  He did it over and over again.  Jer even tried it while he was holding Evelyn.  She didn't even crack a smile... dead pan face all the way.

Ada got to help Frank with the chores after that.  They fed the horses... and gathered eggs from the chickens.  (Sammy loved the chickens again this year... until he met the rooster.  He didn't get hurt, but the rooster kind of threatened him.  Scared him to death.)

While Ada was helping, Sammy got pushed on the swing.  Jer pushed him until he had to go start working on the computer... then I took over and he didn't want to leave the swing until dinner time.  He kept saying, "Higher!"  He's never been on a swing that can go this high... and he still wanted more.  I think he's going to like things like roller coasters...