Announcing Grandchild #10

Weston Douglas Tanner was born on March 31, 2008. Weighing in at 7'14" and 21 inches.
His great Dad taking such wonderful care with his new son. He is spending a few days in the NICU but is due to come home soon, and he is doing great.
Papa Douglas Pitt getting to hold him for the first time and of course Mama requested to take out the pacifier. Isn't he cute, even when he is mad?
Doug and I got a call at 2:19 a.m. on Monday morning and started to head out, of course it was during a snow storm, seriously. But we manged to get there and then the wait started. He finally popped out into the world at 3:18 pm and boy were we glad to see him. In all the confusion I didn't get any pictures, but I am thrilled with these. We feel so blessed that he is doing well and grateful that he will be home soon.

Jaleen and I took Shelby shopping for a few new things, which I didn't get a picture of. But I did get a picture of Starlee's new shirt and her big smile.

Sweet's Candy Factory

We also took a tour of the Sweet's Candy Factory. They don't let you take pictures inside, but here is one of all of us with our very fashionable hats on for the tour. Of course they gave out free samples and we got to shop at the factory direct store. They make salt water taffy, chocolate cinnamon bears and a few other things. It was really fun and I don't think I will ever see that much candy in one place again.

Salt Lake City Cemetary

With the passing of our dear prophet Gordon B. Hinckley, I thought it would be good to take the grandkids and visit his gravesite. It was well worth the effort and good to see that so many others have had the same idea.
Ethan peeking over next to Joseph F. Smiths gravesite. There are 11 prophets buried in this cemetary and we did our best to locate all of them. They make it easier by having a map that you can pick up at the office on the southwest corner.
James E. Talmage was a cousin of Doug's grandma and his Dad remembered him dropping by the house when he was younger. We were unable to locate William Pitt, I suspect that his grave marker is gone. The area where it should be had well worn markers. I need to look into it.
Shelby and Jonas at Heber J Grants.
Janelle and Jenna at Spencer W. Kimball's, which of course is the prophet of their youth.

I saved the map and would like to go over it and make a plan and direction now that I am a little more familiar with the cemetary. It was a great trip and I highly recommend it. Great place for the kids, not to confined if you know what I mean.

Taking a WALK

There is quite a steep climb to get out from the pond, but everyone did great!
Ethan patiently waiting for his turn to walk the dog.

Ryden even made friends with Pink and the only problem we had was when he had to give up the leash for someone else to have a turn.
We made it, they were all real troopers.
Jonas being a great Uncle by coming and helping, not to say leading the way so we didn't get lost.
Janelle taking pictures of her wonderful children, and I of course took a picture of mine.
All the gang, Ready to head back home to Mama's! Back row, Jonas, Garin, Janelle, Ryden, and Trevon. Front, Starlee, Ethan, Shelby, and Jaren. This is at the side where the water comes into the pond.

Janelle and the kids stayed a couple of days extra and so one day we took a walk down the trail behind our house to the Farmington Pond. I probably should say more like a hike, it turned out to be a little farther than Jonas had led me to believe. But the weather was great and the kids really enjoyed the pond.

My darling girl, Starlee. She usually shines for the camera, but she was obviously not to happy about something. I really liked this picture though and so I still wanted to include it.

Egg hunt

Brady, got lots of help from his mom and dad.
Garin Isom, our oldest grandson.
Ryden Isom, enjoying the hunt.
Shelby and Trevon.

The kids enjoying hunting for Easter eggs. I am excited that we will be putting in a lawn as soon as the weather permits.

Easter morning

All the under twenties!
Shelby with her cousin, Brady.

Starlee finding her basket, which of course was yellow.

After everyone was fed and dressed for church, they got to look for their baskets. Have a quick treat and then we were off for church. It has been a long time since we have taken up more than one pew. It has also been awhile since the Easter bunny has done that many baskets. Whew! He was really tired from all that hopping around as Starlee would say.

A BIG Easter dinner!

This is the first time I have had the table full length since we have moved to Utah. We had six of our eight kids, Casey's cousin Malcolm, and Garth's brother Chad Isom, along with my parents. It was great! I was excited that their were tulips available for the table, what can I say it is one of my favorite things about spring in Utah. Of course I forgot the chocolate bunnies I had for it and the cute Robin's eggs. Oh well! It was a full table and we had lots of food. Jaleen made homemade rolls of course and she didn't even have to hide any for extras later on. A big thanks for the effort everyone made to come.

New Card Club

I joined a new card club this last month and I am pretty excited. It was fun to go and visit and get some new ideas. Right now there is nine of us, so you come home with nine different cards. These are my two favorites from last month. It only meets once a month so it is really not to time consuming.