Our Birthday girl

My posts are mixed up but today is Hailey's 4th birthday. I decided I would start with her birthday and post some of my special memories with her and then continue with all of our other grandchildren on their special day.

Adam had a very special bond with you. In January he will be excited to renew that special relationship.

Hailey kicking back and enjoying a relaxing moment.

Hailey and her buddy Tavis. They love spending time together.

Hailey our Birthday Girl

On each of our grandchildren's birthday I wanted to make a slideshow of fun times spent with them. I have not mastered that trick yet. Instead here are pictures of a sweet little Hailey.
Happy Birthday from Grandpa and Grandma Adamson

Hailey being held by her sweet sister Ashley

You came into this world receiving a great deal of love and attention.

This was a very special day. Your baby blessing was in Corcoran Branch and your Great-Grandma Couch is holding you afterwards.

Grandpa taking care of you at the beach.

Favorite Pictures of our Birthday Girl

She does love her Mother and stays pretty close by.

Hailey in a tree at Silver Falls, Oregon

Hailey with most of her girl cousins.

Hailey with her cousins closest to her age.

Article mentioned in my last post

The article I mentioned in my last post was from Elder Dallin H. Oaks printed in the Ensign, October 1994. The name of it is "Our Strengths Can Become our Downfalls". Another article is found in the January 2001 Ensign, "Weightier Matters". These are found at lds.org

It is Time to Stop Being the Silent Majority

Doug and I took the first step to being a working force for good concerning the "Proposition 8 Marriage Initiative". We started our first walk knocking on doors and making voters aware of it's importance.
Last Sunday we had a wonderful talk on this subject. Knowing we were going out today and not having any materials until we met to get our routes, I felt uneasy and unprepared. So yesterday I went to the internet and found great talks from the Apostles on this subject.
There was in writing what I feel in my heart but could not put into words.
Today I was ready and it felt good to be working for our Heavenly Father's cause. My favorite article was by Elder Dallin H. Oaks on "Tolerance".

Congratulations Mark on your acceptance to University of La Verne College of Law

Many good changes are in the works for Mark and Lilly. This summer Mark was accepted to the University of La Verne College of Law with a very good scholarship. He has been accepted before but this is year he is ready to go for what he is passionate about.
They have moved to Diamond Bar and Mark will start orientation this week. We wish him the very best. We know he has what it takes to make a wonderful lawyer.
Lilly has been to orientation for her new job working as a Speech/Language Pathologist in a school district near their new home. She will start there in September. Until then she will be finishing up her Private Practice in the Bay Area. She has been busy with the move and flying back and forth. We hope that she enjoys working in the schools as much as we do.
They are really excited about the area they will be living in and making new friends and renewing friendships from when they lived in the L.A. area.
We are very excited for their new opportunities.

Adam's Journey in Portugal

What an amazing journey Adam is having in Portugal. This picture is of a sister from Angola that Adam and his companion were able to teach. His area was split not to long before she was baptized and she was assigned to the Sister Missionaries but Adam was able to be at her baptism.
A mission teaches you so many things about your strengths and weaknesses. He has learned a great deal and became a much stronger person because of it. He is feeling confident with his Portuguese but not comfortable because he realizes there is so much more to learn.
He has been pretty adventurous in trying new foods and improving his cooking skills.
On P-Days he takes every opportunity to see the sights of Portugal and to enjoy the Cultural Experience.
He has gained a greater appreciation for the gospel and the atonement. It is such a wonderful blessing to enjoy the new spiritual insights he has.

The Best Smoothie!!!

For Young Women's I wanted to give the girls some healthy alternatives to always drinking sodas (pop in Utah). I searched the web for low fat smoothies and I fell in love with the

"Banana Mango Smoothie".

2 frozen, ripe bananas (the frozen bananas make it cold so refrigerate after if you don't have any frozen bananas or add some ice)
1 mango, peeled and sliced
10 ounces orange juice
1 cup low fat or fat free vanilla or mandarin orange yogurt (I used vanilla)

Cut bananas into chunks. In a blender, combine all ingredients and blend until smooth. If the smoothie is too thick, thin with a little more orange juice or ice. Pour into 4 glasses.

per serving: 150 calories, Fat 0.8g, carbohydrate 32g, fiber 1.9g
3 Weight Watcher Points

I froze the extra and it is so good to eat frozen. Great for a 106 degree day.
Enjoy!

Double the fun!!

Parker and Carter are so much fun to watch.. They start school very soon and are really excited!

God Bless the USA

I love this song and and the great performers, Tanner & Johnathan.

Sara is really doing well with her fiddling

It is always fun to watch our neice Sara perform. She started out on a little tiny violin, each time we hear her the violin is bigger and so is her talent.

Zach is AMAZING!!!

This is a short clip of our nephew performing at an Assisted Living Center.
He is extremely talented.

Castle on a Cloud from Les Mes

The quality of this video is not the best but this song is so beautiful and it brought back special memories of Tricia playing this song on the piano many years ago. It was great to be able to hear Camille sing it. She has such a wonderful voice.
Camille performed along with Doug's brother Rob's 2 children and 4 of her brothers. They presented a program for our Aunt Dawna and many others at the Assisted Living Center. The elderly loved it.

Summer Snipits

Now that I can blog video, I have all kinds of fun things to share.

Elizabeth and Rachel are the performers in this video.

I Promise

Sorry, I promise this was the first family picture from the Reunion that I blogged. The problem is that I didn't realize, until yesterday, that if you try to blog more than three pictures at a time it knocks off the first one. I am learning a great deal.
I love this picture of the Mitchell Couch Family. You really aren't forgotten!

Mitchell & Doug at Silver Falls

Family Fun on the 4th of July!!! Yippee Jared taught me how to do a video

A Family History trip to the Ogden Cemetery

Beck Family in front of the Johnathan Browning Memorial Marker

Ashby family in front of the Browning Memorial marker and to the side you can see the actual headstone of where Johnathan Browning was buried.

This is a memorial stone for Martin Harris. I believe that he is actually buried in Clarkston, Utah. It is placed very close to the Browning Memorial.

Darley Family Reunion at Beus's Pond

Two of my sisters; Sherry, Cathy and one of my brothers; Larry

We missed having Denny (he had to work) and Annette's family with us.

We had a great time being together even though it was hot.

Larry's Family

We enjoyed cooling off in the water.

My sister Annette

We searched all over Ogden to find her. It was great to spend a few minutes together.

Heritage Park is AWESOME!!!

Mary Fielding Smith is a woman that I really look upto. She had faith, courage, and would do whatever was necessary to care for her family. Reading about her makes me realize my trials are so minor and I have nothing to complain about.

We had fun on this train ride.

Doug is getting ready to pull his share.

We had a great time at Heritage Park

Doug and I spent a day at Heritage Park. We learned so many new things about Pioneer Life. We had planned to go with Heather's family to Lagoon but the weather man said it was really going to ran very heavily, so we decided to go to Heritage Park instead. We had a great time.

When the rain never came we felt bad that we had missed the time we could have spent
with the Jamison's. We are glad that they had a lot of fun at Lagoon.

A Gristmill, I imagine it looks a lot like the one Abraham Hunsaker had near Nauvoo.

I had to take of picture of how they use to turn on and off electricity. We had buttons like this in the church building that I grew up in before they remodled it.

BBQ at the Beck's

Doug had a captive audience when he taught the Beck children how to play pick-up sticks a game we enjoyed growing up and so did the Pioneer children.

Myles, Bradley and Joshua enjoying their delicious food.

Our chef Byron, he made delicious chicken.

Learning a great deal at Heritage Park

Beck Children in front of an Oxen.

Tanner & Carter are pounding designs into leather. Tricia is helping.

Also Parker, Camille and Johnathan had a great time designing their leather.

Making a necklace & rope

Tricia is helping Parker with his necklace he made. Bradley thinks it would be a fun thing to play with.

Tanner is learning how to make rope.

Camillle was holding the other end. It was a very interesting process to watch and the rope turned out really strong. I wish I could figure out how to do video and you could watch what they are doing.