School's Out for the Summer!

My last contract day was a Wednesday.  The principal let us go early if we were finished with all of or check-out procedures.  I left school, and was on the way to Farmington a half-hour later.  I needed a grandboys fix.  (Have I ever mentioned that I love being a grandma, and I love, love, love my grandboys?)

Peter is a super-chill little guy!  He loves to smile and laugh.  

David and I went on a walk to buy a tomato plant.  There are three or four blocks of a rose garden path along the way.

I think we stopped to sniff each and every bloom!

Chelsea hid her first geocache.  It is a fun one!  David was making sure that his grandma could find it!

It's a mystery cache.  We solved the coordinate mystery in the Children's Museum, and then found the cache in the park close by.

Chelsea did our toes, and I took pictures of them at the Children's Museum after we found the cache!

I took some of these pictures from Chelsea's blog.  This is David and me reading in bed!

After the museum, we met Brian at Wendy's for lunch.  (It was 50 cent Frosty time again!)

After I got to Farmington, I found out that Brian had to do some court stuff in Gallup the following Monday.  Since they were coming this way anyway, I asked if I could bring David home with me for a few days.  His parents said it was okay, so I thew him in the car and brought him home for a few days!

Eating dinner on the back porch!

Reading his cake book to Grandad.

Getting ready for bed.  Chelsea packed his Teddy Bear, Po, that he sleeps with.  He said "Po is for mine house.  Mickey is for Grandma's house."

He slept with Mickey every night.  He went to bed easy for us, and slept well!  Whew!

Cocoa Puffs for breakfast at Grandma's house!

Just about the first thing David did was grab the crayons and paper, made a picture, and put it on the refrigerator!

Playing in the sand is always fun!

The grandad finished enclosing the bottom of the deck!

Grandad took David on a wheelbarrow ride through the alley and around the block!

Watching Winnie the Pooh with Grandad!

Grandad is still the man!

We went up to McGaffey for the groundbreaking of the Milk Ranch Trailhead.  We went on a hike before the event began.  David hiked most of the way all by himself. 

We went hiking with Tera Gambill.

The dad was the main speaker and the emcee of the event.  It was hot, dry event, and David was as good as gold!

After 20 years, we finally got a new vacuum cleaner!

David is his daddy's son.  He loved playing games!

More sandbox time.

On Sunday, the rest of David's family came to Gallup.  Petey Pie is big enough for the high chair, now!

Playing Oh, Rats!

Watching Winnie the Pooh.

Off to church!

What a great way to start Summer Break!

End of the 2017-18 School Year and Memorial Day Weekend!

This has been one of the best school years I've had in a long time.  I had a really easy bunch of kids to teach!  That doesn't mean they were all brain surgeons, by any means, but I didn't have any huge behavior problems.  Next year I will not have that luxury.

Our hiking group from Red Rock hiked to the top of Pyramid Peak for our last adventure of the year!

We're going to start it up again first thing when school starts again next year!

We had Field Day on the last day of school.  That was a good day for it!

I was pooped by the time Field Day was over!

We have three great-nephews graduating this year!  They are all Rhonda's grandsons!

Right after I got out of school, we headed over to Albuquerque for our Temple Weekend!  We found three geocaches on a walk from our hotel.

This one we had looked for before, but it was too dark to find it.  By the time we got to this one this time, it was almost too dark to find it as well, but as we were about to leave, I spotted it under a rock!

My mom asked me to cross-stitch this for her for a Relief Society program clear back when I was pregnant with Brian.  She had it matted and framed.  I've never really liked the matting for our house.  After we got the green room painted, it really looked bad, so we had it rematted.  I think it looks good, now.

On Memorial Day morning, we went to the Memorial Day 5K race that benefits the Manuelito Chidren's home.  We usually go when we're home on Memorial Day.

Of course, we walked.  We had a pleasant hike on hiking trails over behind the Sports Complex.

When they were announcing the winners in the different categories, we burst out laughing when the dad came in third for the Old Geezer division.  We didn't run a single step!

The three Old Grog winners.

The dad and his major award!

We had the McMullins over for dinner one last time tonight.  I miss Heather, and they haven't even left quite yet.  We've been partners in crime for over 18 years now.  But I think it will be a good thing for their family.  I really do.

A Blog When There's Not Much to Blog About!

Susan informed me that she keeps checking to see if I've posted anything new on the blog, and that it is time for me to do a new post.  The trouble is, there just hasn't been all that much to blog about lately.  So here is a glimpse at our ever-so-ordinary lives as of late.  (I need to get a grandson fix.  This summer, we plan on going to see all of our grandboys even if they come here, too!)

Geocaching on one of our Temple weekends!

More geocaching on that same weekend!

After our Temple shift was over, we went to eat at Der Weinerschnitzel!  I think that's the only time either one of us has ever eaten there!

The dad changed the carpet out of the Washoos game and put in a piece of carpet from the Green Room for old time's sake!

Trying it out.  The dad totally crushed me.

We want to get the Bones game playable.  The dad is carving another bone.  He has since finished and painted it.  It looks great! Now we need to try it out!

A bunch of us from school go hiking after school on Wednesdays.  Here we are at the top of the Hogback Trail!

The dad dug up all of the irises in the front yard and planted them on the burm behind the fence in the backyard.  Apparently he missed a few.  They are gorgeous this year!

I'm not sure whyt his one went in sideways.  It is straight up in
"My Pictures."  Brian and Chelsea have a friend that was giving away a queen-sized bed.  Susan needed a bed.  We snatched up the offer!  The dad drove over to Farmington to get it.  It is on the floor in the Green Room waiting for us to take it to Susan.  This is a quilt I started last summer on our trip to Taos.  I finished quilting it a couple of months ago.  I was just seeing if it would fit the bed.  It's a little small, but it will do.

This is a quilt I made for  Heather.  Man, I'm going to miss her! 

Heather made this for me.  That fits us to a T.  Did I say I was going to really miss her?

We got our tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers planted.  More planting to follow.

 We have three great-nephews graduating from high school this year.  How cool is that!?!  (And they are all Rhonda's grandsons!)

This is a picture Heather sent me that she had on her phone.  It was from a Christmas Talent Show at church  couple of years ago.  I don't thing I actually had a picture from this.  I just stuck it in here because I just got the picture!

So that's all the news for now!