Cutest BYU-I Graduate this Spring!

 Heidi helping Sydney pin her hat on!  Happy Grandpa in the background!  Beautiful day in Rexburg.

 Happy, Beautiful Graduate - Sydney Nicole Fromm!  Congrats to all of us - mostly Sydney~!

 Happy Parents - only three more to go!

 Happy Grandparents - only 30 more to go!!!

Happy Graduation to Sydney - She has a great adventure awaiting her in life  ... I guess we all do!

July 19th - Rexburg Temple

 Tuesday, July 19th, Sydney went to the Rexburg Temple ... it was a wonderful day.  Stefan and Heidi, Dan and Lindsey and us!  Two friends also came from Las Vegas .. great session.

 Closer and with everyone with happy smiles - and grateful hearts.

 With the Las Vegas friends - both high school teachers - one funny thing...the friend on the end had a big sneeze when the nice lady taking the picture said: "cheese" - made us all laugh.

Sweet Shelby took care of the darling Fairbanks girls - thanks so much Shelby!  Awesome cousin!!

Activity Day Girls Quilt - July 18th

 On Monday, July 18th - our old ward used our house for part of their Activity Day Camp - Primary President and 2nd C. came - I had the quilt already set up.

 The girls did a pretty good job with some already knowing how and others learning - with help.

 They were going to take the finished quilt with another one I made earlier - to our local hospital.

 Avery Stones - looking at the camera ... she is Dad's third cousin!  Her grandpa is his 1st cousin, and her Dad is his 2nd cousin...she is also a friend of Annabelle.

 All finished - turned out very nice.

Two quilts that we took to the hospital.

Anniversary Party - Take Two!

 The awesome you all contributed to - we love it!  thanks to all, especially Polly, Heather and Lindsey who put it all together!  

 Kroeber's brought fishing tackle to share - I think all the cousins who wanted to fish got a chance - Joel and Christian spent the most time, I think.

 Savanna was the only one to catch a fish!  Go Sav!!

 The Kroeber Family with Grandma and Grandpa - on Keenyn's 6th Birthday - great day!

 The Mortensen's with us - lots of happy smiles!

 Jennie representing the Hardy's, Pike's, Fromm's Stan and Julie and Thia, and Sam!

 Kurt and Emily and dear GRANDchildren!  The cousins had a great time playing together.

 Fairbanks with us - such a beautiful place - cool and refreshing and wonderful to have so much family with us.

Jennie and Millie - happy smiles all around - it was a great party - Chris Williams came up for a quick dinner and left to continue working on their yard - before we got a picture!!

Anniversary Party - Vivian Park, July 16, 2016

Saturday, July 16, 2016 we took Joel and Anna back to Hyrum, on our way to the family party in Vivian Park - celebrating our 50 years of Marriage - here are some of the cute decorations Katie and others made for the party - I made the shirts.. quite the contrast to us 50 years earlier!!

 July 15, 1966 - Crestview Reception Center - Salt Lake City, Utah - happy day!

 Not too bad for being 73 and 70 years old!

 It was Keenyn's 6th birthday - and Aunt Polly brought him a small cake - that Sadie's interested it!

 Jennie surprised us and flew out for the party - soooo much fun to have her, and Kurt's family drove over from CO - anytime we get to spend with them is awesome!

 Table full of yummy food - thanks to Polly for the KFC - in honor of Granny!  Everyone contributed and there was plenty to take home for those who lived close.  See the play area in the background?  Sweet Faye took my hand and asked:  Grandma, can you take me to that park?  I sure could and did!!

 Kate brought sweet pea flowers from her yard - they were on the tables at our reception!  in glass baskets - I gave them to the bridesmaids after the reception.

 Another picture of the pretty flowers - Kate got the vases at the dollar store - love it!!

 The awesome quilt that you all contributed to!!  Polly, Heather and Lindsey did such a great job putting it all together - we'll love it forever - and ALL OF YOU!

The fishing pond - Kroeber's brought some fishing tackle to share and most of the grandkids had a turn....drowning bait!

Thia waving goodbye, Joel's championship, Smithfield restaurant, visit to Pocatello

Stan is helping Thia wave goodbye to us as we back out of the driveway - tried to crop it but couldn't figure out how to do it!

 We drove to Smithfield and watched Joel's team win the Championship of their level of Little League - Joel's in the middle of the back row.  It was funny, after the game the Director brought a box of trophy's out on the field and told the boys to grab one!

 Happy Family - fun to be able to see a couple of games - Joel and the whole team really improved!

 We stopped at a restaurant in Smithfield - the side of the building said: Eat Here!  so we did!  It was fun and full of antiques, junk as Dad said.  Annabelle liked the tiara on the bull's head.

Joel being silly with Spider Man.

 Joel got a free ice cream sundae for winning!  Nice celebration!

 They claimed this was part of the original wall of the Fort - not so sure but neat, anyway.

Joel and Anna came home with us for a visit to Pocatello and to see their friends.  This is Grace and Anna in the hammock that Stan and Julie gave us for Mother's and Father's Day.

 The girls had a good time until Joel came and sat on the edge and they all tipped over onto the deck!

Grandpa drove Joel back to Hyrum to play in an All Star game - he was going to miss two games the next week when he was at Boy Scout Camp --- Joel came back pretty tired!

Before Anna had to go back to Hyrum, we made mermaid tales for she and Grace - they turned out pretty cute and functional!  Grace had to leave before we got Anna's all sewn together!  

On Friday, July 15th, we began our celebration of 50 years of marriage - we went to the Gate City Gray's baseball game!  A kind lady in the row in front of our took our picture!  The Grays were ahead by 6 or so when we left - Dad always likes to get out of the parking lot early - they won without our cheers.

More Darling Thia

The day we were there - Uncle Sam sent Thia this caribou skin of the animal he shot last fall.  She liked it!  at least she slept on it.

It was soft and cosy.

and big!

Leg stretching exercises.

Mother love.

Pink hanging basket - symbols of darling Thia.

Family picture - wonderful parents and darling baby...we loved our short visit.