Josh's family got the cutest dog.  It is a Golden Doodle.  This is a cross between a Golden Retriever, and a poodle.  He is so cute and when he visits he makes me happy!  Here he is.

So Cute!

BUSY WEEK.  Coleman turns 12 on Sunday.  We started the week by celebrating his birthday.  I got to tend Leighton on Tuesday night.  It was fun -she is so sweet and cute- but she didn't want to go to sleep.  We finally put her between us and she talked Minuin   talk until 1:30 in the morning.  On Wednesday I got to go to Wicked with Jessica and Chandler.  It was a great time.  I loved the story.  I didn't realize I would love it so much.  It was fun to have a girls night out.  Thursday we celebrated the 24th with dinner at firebird and fireworks at Rebecca's home.  Busy week, and the highlights were speeding time with my kids.  Here are some pictures/

Birthday cake 

tending Chandler

Wicked

Firebird Pizza

Tending Lighton

Taking care of aging mothers is stressful sometimes.  Every few months I have both mothers.  Afton (mother in law) is 100 and has had mini strokes.  She has dementia that came on really fast and really bad.  She has become very demanding.  My Mom also has dementia, and is almost wheel chair bound.  She had a cancer on her leg removed a few weeks ago and a bed sore-cancer ended in a 4 hour surgery and the bed sore after going on for a few months being treated at the wound center.  To top it off Steven has not taken his medicine and has been really out of it. . We are in our busy season at work and running a rafting company can be really stressful.  Also I hurt my knee and sometimes I have been up a lot at night in pain -so add not enough sleep to that. I had had it and I was discouraged.  I just didn't know if I could have enough energy to do it all.   Then yesterday Steven walked in with some flowers from the garden.  He handed them to me and said here, Dad planted these.  My father has been dead for 14 almost 15 years.  It is crazy, but it felt like I was receiving a bouquet from my father.  Saying it is ok, you are doing ok, I love you.  Here are the flowers.  I love the flowers and I loved my father!

Taking Care of Out Mothers--We have Afton with us this week.  We took her for a walk with us to Harmons.  It was fun.  She enjoyed the walk.  We need to take her out more in her wheel chair.  It has just been really hot.  Mom is recovering from her cancer surgery on her leg.  Here is a picture of her at the plastic surgeons.  Afton is going towny 101.  She is amazing, but has been having mini strokes, which have robbed her of her sharp mind.  Mom has had dementia for a long time.  They don't have any short term memory and now are loosing parts of their long term memory  It is hard to watch and so frustrating for them.  I have learned a lot about dementia and the key is to ease their anxiety.  If you can do that life is better, but it is almost impossible to ease.  Here are pictures.

Sunday is one of my favorite days of the week.  We go to church which is great, but we always have anyone that can come, to Sunday Dinner.  It a great opportunity for the cousins to play and all of us to reconnect after busy weeks.  Here are out littles eating strawberry shortcake.

Provo, Utah has the best 4th of July Celebration.  We went to the Stadium of Fire this year.  It was great and the fireworks were amazing.  They were so good it made the traffic bearable .  I forgot how much fun it could be.  We started the day with a breakfast at Young's home.  It was good food and even better friends.  Then our boys went golfing and we spent the day at my home  The kids played on the inflatable slide.  We finished the day at the Kari Underwood concert .  I love the 4th of July.  It is almost my favorite holiday.  I am so thankful that we live in the United States.  I love this country.

Summer happenings!  I love Summer -Here are pictures.  Grandkids at Sunday Dinner-Coke name campaign and trying to find our families name, neighbors flowers, and water slide to entertain our Grandkids.

We have some summer projects going on.  One is painting our fence. Jerimiah and Joseph have been helping.  Dennis has done a good job, but I took a picture of them the other day.  This is a great example of the difference in their ages.  I guess Dennis and I are just getting too old.