Brandon turns 5!

Brandon's birthday cake.

Driving his new car.

He had to open the hood and drop the back gate before he drove off. lol.

Happy boy!

Driving his car.

STARTING A SERIES OF NEW CONTESTS

On my blog, I'm starting a series of contests. Or maybe it's just a continuing contest to clean out some of the piles of books overflowing my book cases. Go here for the contest details. Tell your friends. I really need to clean house, but I can't bear to throw books away, especially good ones.

What we've been up to!

The boys went to a parade downtown Salt Lake City to celebrate the University of Utah's football team's great season - 13-0. Thanks Utes!

We went to Hardware Ranch in early January located in Hyrum, Utah. We went to the ranch with some friends, and it was good to see them. The ranch was not as great as I was hoping. It was good - not great. (The drive up to the ranch was fabulous. Wow! It was a gorgeous drive.) The horse-driven sleds go through the herd of elk and they could be seen from the parking lot. There were many people waiting in line to ride on the sleds, and it was very,very cold. The 10 minute ride was right in the middle of the herd, and the animals are massive and majestic. The sled stopped about four or five times so we could take pictures or just gaze at the animals. The guide spoke a little bit about the elk. I was a little too far in the back to hear when the sled was moving. Brrrr.....we picked a really cold day to go.



The visitors center at the Hardware Ranch.










The Christmas lights at Temple Square. Ooooh! Aaaaah!

We "Walked With The Dinosaurs"

Yesterday the Anderson's and the Rich's "walked with the dinosaurs". This isn't my video, I found it on youtube.com. I forgot my camera but I knew that I would be able to find a clip on the internet. If you haven't seen this show it is really cool!

And one more picture

These are Ed and Rachel's boys, MarJean and Darrell's grandsons, on a trip into the everglades. They live in Florida. As a family we've certainly gotten spread all over the map.

Winter Pictures

I loved the pictures Rob and Sharon posted a few days ago. Click on each one to enlarge it to get the whole effect of those great pictures. Over the past few weeks, I've collected a few pictures to share too. I didn't take any of them. I tried to borrow some from Trent and Sarah's blog (They live in Arizona), but it didn't work, so you'll have to visit their cute blog here. The snowy pictures were sent to me by Ralph's son, Jay (lives north of Seattle), and a couple are MarJean's cute great granddaughters who live here in Utah. There's even one of Ruby Ellen and me when she was visiting here from Alaska. The last picture is of my high school friend, Nedra and her husband Roy, taken while they were on their mission. They returned in July.