Rupert fireworks

Today was kind of a strange day.

It seemed like everyone went their own separate ways.

I missed being together as a family.

Anson and Aubrey drove to Rupert in Anson's El Camino

to go hang out at the Rupert square and to go see the fire works.
I'm still in denial that my baby boy and my baby girl
can go off and do their own thing.
I'm glad it doesn't happen very often, because I don't like it.
I know that when Anson invites Aubrey to go with him,
she's in good hands.
I just can't get used to the idea.
Giselle was working her second job.

Bree and her little family went to go have dinner

at some friends.

Dad and I were sitting home just feeling lonely and bored.

Dad asked if I wanted to go see the fireworks,

so we drove to Rupert and parked at the Mr. Gas service station.

It was fun, but not the same as when we go as a family.

 My sweetheart looking at the fireworks from the car.

Hopefully we can go to the river and enjoy the Burley fireworks as a family.

"The strength of any community lies in the strength of its families. The strength of any nation lies in the strength of its families. Strong family life comes of strong and clear religious understanding of who we are, and why we are here, and of what we may eternally become. Strong family life comes of the perception that each of us is a child of God, born with a divine birthright, and with a great and significant potential. Strong family life comes of parents who love and respect one another, and who love and respect and nurture their children in the ways of the Lord. These are under-girding principles of our teachings as a church. To the degree that we observe these teachings we build strong families whose generations will strengthen the nation."
--Gordon B. Hinckley,

Deacon the dare devil.

I know I post a lot about Deacon, but his mother does not keep up with her blog, and I do see him every single day of my life.

Deacon has suddenly become quite the dare devil.

If I go to his house, as soon as I get there,

he wants me to see his new accomplishments.

Most of them have to do with climbing!

He is so proud of himself, and his new accomplishments.

I don't know if he wants to show off, or if he just wants to worry me because he knows it scares me.

When he is at our house, after dinner,

we usually go outside to relax.

He is jumping off the stairs on the back porch now.

He will do it over and over again.

Sometimes he falls, and I know it hurts him, but he doesn't even cry. He just gets up, wipes his knees, and starts again.

 Tonight I was on the computer, and when I turned back,

he was hanging off the chair.

 Anson took Deacon in the bathroom, and when Brianna

went in there to see what was all the commotion,

he had put Deacon in the dryer.

Brianna was very worried, but Deacon loved every minute of it.

Thanks Anson for giving him this idea!

 But then, there is this gentle side of him. He is so sweet.

 He loves for Aubrey to give him rub downs...

 ... and he still loves ears.

So even if Deacon suddenly has become a little dare devil, 

he still is a little angel.

He is just turning into a little boy way too fast.

Oh, and besides him throwing a ball with the strength of a teenager, he can catch a ball now.

Deacon's snack shack.

Deacon eating yogurt.

I love how when he comes to grandma's house, he sits in the same little spot when he wants a snack.

 About two weeks ago, Aubrey got some feathers in her hair.

I love them!

I think they look so cute!

First snow cones of the season.

My sweet girl, Brianna has been having lots of headaches lately.

Her follow up for her Pseudotumor cerebri is coming up soon.

I have a feeling it has something to do with the

high pressure within the skull caused by the buildup of the Cerebrospinal fluid again.

She took herself of the medication a little bit too early because of the bad side effects.

I don't like to see my sweet girl suffering.

Aubrey and I took Deacon to Jack in the Box for breakfast,

and then to Walmart for some shopping.

 We wanted Brianna to take a little nap, to see if it would help with her headache.

Deacon was telling us that he stepped on a sticker.

After dinner today, we took Deacon to get some snow cones.

Deacon, Brianna, Aubrey, and Mom's snow cones.

 

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"
  Gordon B. Hinckley

I love to take lots and lots of pictures!

Yesterday, that our family went to The Chadwick Restaurant, I had a bacon/avocado wrap. Chadwick's inspired me, and that's what I made for dinner today.

 After dinner, we went outside to relax, and my camera joined me.

 Aubrey, my beautiful baby girl.

 Deacon and one of his favorite aunts.

 Deacon and one of his favorite uncles.

 I am so glad it's finally warm enough to let Deacon run through the sprinkler.

"So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time." Thomas S. Monson

The Chadwick Restaurant re-opens.

The Chadwick Restaurant

closed about 2 years ago because of bad management.

They re-opened it again today.

One of the owners son, Jed Thomas, will be managing it this time.

Giselle will be a part time waitress.

She will work on some evenings, and on Saturdays.

She is so excited!

She has never been a waitress before, so she is really nervous too.

I know she'll do be great.

  Giselle asked all of us to go have dinner there tonight

so that she could taste everyone's food, and know what to recommend when she's working.

I love the old buildings in our little town.

The Chadwick is a wonderful historical building.

Matt and Bridget's wedding reception.

We went to
Matt and Bridget's 
wedding reception today.
They had a light dinner at Sweetheart Manor.
Matt and Bridget were both Dad's drama students.
  

These are some of Dick's ex students who have all graduated from high school throughout the years.

Well, Anson hasn't graduated yet.

They are doing their Polar Bear salute.

Deacon is patiently waiting for his plate.

Deacon's ear fetish

I blogged about this not too long ago.

(Deacon and his fetish with ears.)

...so it continues.

He will take any ear.

 Especially when he's tired.

Father's Day 2011

Happy Father's Day my love.

This is the t-shirt that Deacon gave Dick for Father's Day.

I love it because he IS a very cool grandpa.

Thanks for being the kind of man you are, a man your family can always look up to with admiration and love.