It has been sososososo long since I have posted anything on here. I think life just gets busier all the time. We had a good summer. Josh started 8th grade this year. He is doing ok. The first trimester is already over. This tri he has a class where he is building his own electric guitar. He is so excited about it.

I started a new job the 14th of Oct. I am working part time as a data entry person and helping with payroll and what ever else they need done, for Redi Services. Margo works for them and one day they were discussing hiring a part time person for this reason and asked her if she could recommend anyone. She gave them my name and they called me. It took me a week or so to decide if I wanted to interview for it or not. They interviewed me on the 13th and then called me that afternoon and asked if I could start the next morning. They said it would be about 15 hours per week, which is 2 days. I figured that would be good to get me out of the house and earn a little extra money. At this point I have worked 3 - 4 days every week. I really enjoy this job. I love doing data entry, payroll, filing, etc. this is a great job for me.

The end of September John and I got a new truck. The truck we had was needing a new engine which would cost us between $4500(if John did all the work) - $8500 if we had it done. That is way more than the truck was worth, so we decided we would rather make a payment on a new truck that was more reliable. So that is what we did. Josh really loves this new truck to. He thinks it is HIS. :)

Other than that we are pretty much the same old boring people.

Oh John will probably be getting an artificial cornea transplant in January sometime. They said it could give him anywhere from 30% - 90 % of his vision but he will still have no peripheral vision, just straight forward. He is excited for any vision at all in that eye.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Family, Fun, Lagoon 2009

Saturday June 6, 2009

John, Josh, Brian, Kristie, Tom, Ashley & I all went to Lagoon for the day.
It is the first time we have done anything together as a whole family since the girls have been married.

We had so much fun.

Most of us rode a new ride called the "Wicked". It starts out toward the first by going straight up and over the top, then straight down. It was so much fun!!!






We rode a bunch of rides.
Rocket Blastoff and Rocket Re-entry







Josh rode this water slide


John, Josh, Tom & Ashley


Ashley, Brian & Kristie


Drag Races
Tom, Josh & Ashley. Tom won twice and Josh
won once.



Brian, Kristie & John
Brian won 3 times



We have not had a family picture since before Brian and Kristie were married so when I saw the photograpy shop in Pioneer Village I thought it would be a perfect time for that.




What a wonderful day!!!!

Wayne & Jessica Wedding

On Saturday the 21st We spent the day at the Salt Lake Temple with Wayne and Jessica as they were married. The ceremony was at 9 AM and was very beautiful.

When they were getting everyone up on the steps just before they took the first group picture, one of the pigeons that like to stay up on the temple decided to give Kim (the mother of the groom) a special gift on top of her head. :) We all go a huge laugh, she laughed to. The photographer said in all the many times he had done this that was a first!

Here are a few pictures.

Wayne & Jessica

John, Jonathon, Brian, Josh

Kisa, Dillon, Kim, Judy, Sarah, Maddie, Emma


Verla, Ramon, Jim, Diane

Lori, Kim (the proud Mom)

Brian & Kristie

Tom & Ashley

Cade & Ashley

Sarah, Spencer, Chris

Scott & Lori

Josh and Ellis

Kristie, Brian, Scott

Lori, Jake, Matt & Scott

Tom & Ashley (a few tense moments)

Cade wanted to join the picture taking fun.

Josh, Brian, Kristie, Tom, Ashley

Taylor's

Fun

We had FHE monday night and made Brigham Youngs Buttermilk Donuts. We had a great time. Josh said this is the funnest FHE we have had in a long time. When we got done we took some to Grandpa & Grandma W., Grandpa & Grammie T., and some friends.

Ashleys Birthday

Ashley turned 20 YEARS OLD on Friday. Where has all the time gone. Seems like just yesterday we brought home a beautiful baby girl to join our family and now she is grown and married.

We had the whole family here on Saturday to celebrate her birthday. Brian and Kristie came around noon but couldn't stay to long because was on Graveyard shift and had to be back to Green River by 5pm, but it was so good to have them here for awhile. We sang to Ashley and had banana cream pie while they were here. Then that evening we had a bigger birthday party for her with both Walker and Taylor side here (not all could come).

Her cake was not great and the one who decorated it (we won't name names!) mis-spelled birthday so she was wished a Happy Birtday. :) They all laughed and wouldn't let me change it. What really makes it funny is that their car is named Burt.

It took her 5 tries to blow out all the candles.

Ashley is such a special person. She brings happiness and joy to everyone she meets. We love you Ashley.

Life

I've decided that I need to post more, even if I don't have much to say.

Yesterday - got Josh off to school. John is off (M,T,W). Stayed in my jammies until noon :) :) (normal occurance when I''m home) Visited a sister in our ward who had a baby 4 MONTHS AGO. We haven't been able to catch up with her. We were beginning to think that her baby would be to big for the blanket before we got to visit her! Our ward has had 15 babies since April. Still 3 more expecting. I guess that is called population explosion :)
John and Josh went to the Archery range. I baby sat Ellis, Emma & Cade while there Mom went to drama practise, she is the assistant coach. (It isn't as easy as it used to be to tend small kids 4,3 and almost 1year olds).

I spent most of the day doing family history which I haven't done in quite sometime. I don't know what exacatly prodded me but I guess I'm kind of hooked again.

Grandpa Walker is letting Josh rebuild an old Model A Ford that he has. It has been sitting down at the ranch for, lets see?? ALOT OF YEARS! He didn't have school on Monday so Grandpa came down and the 3 of them got the motor out and tested it to see if it was still fixable.
Josh came in and said to me "We're Plum tickled that it turns free" :) What a kid. He is so excited to work on the engine and restore the car. Grandpa gave him a book about 1 1/2 years ago about restoring Model A's I think he about has it memorized. He got a parts catalog about a month ago and I'm sure he knows it almost by heart. Not really by heart:)

I haven't even got pictures yet but I will.

I guess I had better go get yesterdays dishes done before the family history program on my computer reaches out and grabs me again.

Kids grow up too fast!!

Kids grow up too fast!!

Josh turned 14 years old! Can you believe it. Where does the time go.

He opened present that morning.

We had a birthday party for him that night. It was lots of fun. Then on Sunday he was ordained a Teacher.

We are so proud of him and the way he honors his Priesthood. He has such a special spirit about him and we love him so much.

Hi everyone. I am so bad about posting on here but I do read your posts regularly.

We have been staying pretty busy but nothing huge and monumental going on. Everyone is doing fine. (as far as I can tell)

Friday the 23rd I was asked to sub in the middle school. The 7th and 8th graders were going skiing at Beaver Mountain. The teacher that I was to sub for was supposed to go with them but couldn't go so asked me to go instead because Josh was going and she thought I'd like to go spend the day with him. I said yes but if you know me very well you know that noisy busses make me crazy!! So I wasn't sure I'd do reallly well, but I went and had a wonderful day. I had lodge duty, helping anyone who came in and needed something.

I sat in the lodge in a nice comfy chair in front of a fireplace, with a beautiful view of the mountain with the skiers flying by all day, crocheting to keep me busy. I didn't get to visit a whole lot with Josh because he rode on the boy bus and I on the girl bus, and he skied all day and had a wonderful time.

The lodge was beautiful and when Josh came in for lunch we were visiting while eating and he said "Wouldn't you love to have a lodge like this?" I quickly relpied Yes! We both had a great day and I thought that was a wonderful way to spend a day getting paid to sub.

We have been helping Ashley & Tom pack because they are moving this week to Rawlins Wyoming! Tom finished his first associates degree in December and has 1 more class to do and will have his second associates degree, both having to do with Electronics and Instramentation. He applied for 5 or 6 jobs around the area in this field and finally got this job with Williams Gas Plant. They found out he got the job and we got the names of the Bishops from the internet and Ashley called to see if they knew of any places to rent. The Bishop was amazed because just two days before a lady had called him and asked if he knew of anyone needing a place to rent.

They will be living in a 3 bedroom 2 bath townhouse with a one car garage and very small yard. They are very excited about it.

Front of Townhouse

Back of townhouse. Part of the fence blew down. They have good size deck coming off the dining room. The kitchen, livingroom, 2 bedrooms are upstairs. Garage, bedroom, laundryroom, familyroom downstairs.

Kitchen

Part of livingroom, going into kitchen.

Master Bath.

I can't remember what their address will be but I will let you know.

Well I had better go I've got to get Josh off to school.

Love Ya All