Brown Family picnic/June birthdays

We had our Brown Family Picnic at Nielson's Grove on May 28th.  Along with the picnic, we celebrated all the June birthdays (and Jojo's because we missed hers at the end of May).  We have many birthdays in June!  The kids are blowing out the candles in behalf of all the June birthday people.  We couldn't get Jojo to even breath on the candles, let alone blow them out!!  (She'll get the hang of it!!)

Cute Cora Rose Green

Jamie Green and Kelly Long.  Kelly was here from Germany for a couple of weeks.  Now he and Mollie have gone back to Germany until the middle of August.

Annette holding Cora, Ashley, Renae, Karl, Alec, Wendy, and Wayne Larsen

Grandpa made Jojo a new color guard flag so she can be just like Aunt Lex when we go see her compete in Ogden next week.

Jojo and Shayla went and dipped their piggies in the water fountain. 

Zoey and Ellary Green and Lily Neilsen being cute little water babies!

Well . . . . . maybe Jojo dipped a little more than her piggies!  She had a blast in the water.

Kailey Green, Annette and Joel, Karl and Renae

Les, Gordon, Lynn, Sylvia, and Kelly Long

This is the cute little outfit that Great Aunt Nettie gave to Jojo for her birthday, complete with princess shoes!

Tim, Brandi, and Elsie

While I was in Logan, we met Tim, Brandi, and Elsie Neilsen (not to be confused with the baby shower Nielson's!) at Texas Roadhouse for dinner.  I love that place, and it was fun to visit with them.  After we ate we all went over to Chelsea and Tyson's for games and ice cream.  Can you believe how darling these two baby dolls are?!?!?!?

Tim chillaxin with Elsie and Afton looking on.  We played in Chelsea's back yard.  All of us played "Guillotine" which I love.  Then Brandi and Chelsea had this wild match of "Spit".  It was quite a tournament, and ended very funny.  Good time!

For some random reason Afton just went an plopped down on Tim's neck.  Tim was very patient!

Funny, cute girls!  Thanks Tim and Brandi for coming to play with us.

Logan/Anna Knudsen baby Shower

My cute baby doll, Afton! 

Chelsea hosted a baby shower for Anna Knudsen.  I went up to Logan to "help" Chelsea and have fun at the shower for my (other) daughter Anna.  Jenny, Shelly, Laura, and Alaina came up from Orem also to attend.  We had such a good time visiting, laughing, and crafting.  We love the Nielson girls!!

Anna received some very cute baby things.

Our activity for the shower was to make wax paper stencil onsies for baby Knudsen.  This is a sample of 3 of them.  I think we made like 16 onsies.  They were all so cute and very fun to make. 

Shelly Nielson and Chelsea making their cute onsies.  Chelsea did a good job a putting on a fun shower for Anna (her sister from another mother!)  Now lets get this baby here, Anna!!!!

Kelly & Mollie sealing

Kelly & Mollie were sealed in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple on June 25th.  It was a great day for the Longs.

Daddy Lynn, Mollie, Kelly, and Sylvia

The whole group.

The temple flowers were so beautiful!

Congratulations to Kelly and Mollie.  We love you guys!

Orem High School demolition

Our new Orem High School was built in the south parking lot of the old Orem High.  We moved into our new school on May 27, 2010 (the day before graduation . . . .  yes, it was a wild week!!)  The construction guys immediately started demolishing the old building.  This is the view from my new office.  To the right you can see part of the new building, and next to it you can see the old B and C gyms.  (The A gym was torn down 2 years ago to make room for the above section of the new school.)  The big hole at the left and bottom of the picture is where the shops used to be with the bomb shelter underneath it. (Notice the beautiful view of Timp that I have from my office window!!)  Yee Haw!!

This is the pile of metal that came from the auditorium. At the bottom of the picture is our new cement leading up to the front doors of the new school (which faces north).

 

This picture was taken from the 3rd floor of the new school.  You can see the "stair steps" of the auditorium where the chairs were in the balcony of the auditorium (where 1 parent got to sit for my graduation Bachalauriet . . . . . geez how do you spell that?!?!?!?)

This is looking down East hall that goes between the main school area and the counseling center and gyms.  This area didn't exist when I was in high school.  They added it later. 

It has been kind of sad to see it all come down, but then I just look around our gorgeous new building and get happy real fast.  Watching the demolition has really showed me how unsafe that old building was.  Any kind of an earthquake and we would have been flattened.  Goodbye old Orem High School and helloooooo to our new digs!

Great trip with 2 daughters and 2 granddaughters

On June 9 -12, 2010 Gordon and I got to take Shayla, Jocelyn, Chelsea, and Afton to St. George for a little get away from life trip with us. We left home at about 1 and got to St. George at about 6.  We made two stops to let the baby dolls run around and get their wiggles out in Fillmore and Cedar City.  Here is Jocelyn and Afton waiting for us adults to get all loaded up and leave.  

 As soon as we got there the babies wanted to go swing and play on the playground. They so loved the playground with all that sand to play in also.

Jocelyn

Afton

"I hanging . . . . by mythelf"

Grandpa even joined in the swinging fun.

Ahhhhh sand!

Two cute baby dolls getting all that sand washed off.

We finally got to go swimming the next day.  It was pretty warm the first full day so it was fun at the pool.  The next days were quite cold so swimming was miserably cold (we only tried it once more). 

The babies loved to run from the big pool to the kiddie pool non-stop.  We also went shopping at the outlet mall.  We ate an early dinner at Texas Roadhouse, and generally had a great time. 

We found to coolest wading pool for the kiddos down town St. George on Main Street.  It was so very cool, Afton and Jojo loved every minute of it there.

We had such a great time on our trip.  These were are seating arrangements in the van.  Afton got pretty excited to watch "Baby Signing Time" on the DVD player in the van. 

We left St. George at 11:00.  We stopped in Beaver and Fillmore for general running around for the babies, then on to home. 

Thanks girls for going with us.