By the time we arrived in Yuma, it was still hot, mostly in the 90s for the first week or so.  Today, Thanksgiving day, it is pleasant but windy.  Our best wishes to all for a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We have much to be thankful for today, a wonderful family, a Savior who loves us, Kim's return to health and 47 years together as of last Monday.

We had our anniversary dinner at Yum's top restaurant, Julianna's Patio Cafe.  Kay standing in the dorway.  Kim is manning the camera.

We had our waiter snap our photo.  Still in love after 47 years.

A peacock was wandering the patio greeting each guest.  We just had a hard time getting a photo of his head.

This is the back side of the peacock, but the colors in his tail did not come trrough true. 

Pear sent a photo of Trent with his Thai Grandma, Noi.  I hope she is giving him lots of hugs for us.  We sure do miss him.

We are about to enbark on our southern journey to Yuma.  But before we go, you have to see a picture of our granddaughter, Isis.  The photo was taken this summer in front of our new house. 

We are all smiles when Isis is around. 

September 30, 2016

Two posts in one month.  What is the matter with me?

I had a birthday and Kim took me to the Cottonwood Grill for dinner.  I thought I would send a picture of us since you usually just get to see Trent.

Our table on the patio.  We understand that our lovely weather is suppose to disappear soon. Dinner was delicious.

The view behind us is the view we could see from our table.  The Boise greenbelt that runs along the Boise River is in the background.  There was also a beautiful waterfall in the area. 

Summer of 2016 is winding down.  Sometimes our visiters are not the normal breed.  This peacock took a stroll through our yard.

Also we are beginning to be sad that we have to go south before too long.  We have loved being so close to our grandson and getting to know him better and being able to kiss alll his owies better.  He gets to spend on day a week playing with us.

This pretty peacock boy showed up just outside our window, strutting through the yard.  We don't know a lot about peacocks, but notice his tail.  He appears to have lost the long pretty streamers, but seems to be growing some new ones at the base of the tail.  Most interesting!

Trent is becoming quite the ham.  He said cheese before he posed for the picture.

The corn was a bit hot, so after licking the butter a bit, he decided to decorate the corn.  I am not sure if he was creating a turkey or just trying to recreate his bad hair day.

Sometimes grandsons are just too cute to not share.

Trent loves noisy toys.

I guess that you just have to rock with the music.

So August 6, 2016 was the first time Trent asked Papa to take him for a ride on the 4 wheeler.  They rode all over the property.

Then on Aug 7th, Trent asked for another ride while waiting for Mom and Dad to come home.  The ride was so gentle that he was soon fast asleep.

July 23, 2016

Life gets busy in Idaho in the summer. Besides our recent move, there has been raspberries to pick, weeds to pull, golf to play, lawns to mow and now blackberries to pick.  The first picture is Kim golfing with his new golfing buddy, Rainbo Meinert, who is also fighting ALS. 

Rainbo and Kim on the golf course.

And huge blackberries!

Look at the huge blackberry.  It was so huge and delicious that Kim and I had to share it.

Blackberry picker in picking clothes.

June 3, 2016

Our new house for us and our RV is done, but the landscaping still needs some work.  The greatest thing about it is that our grandson can just walk over and see us.  He fell and needed a bandaid on his forehead.  He had to run right over and proudly show it off. 

22349 instead of 22345

Sometimes the days of our lives are sad.  My mother, Genevieve Givens LaBass, died on the morning of March 14, 2016.  Just three weeks before that our daughter, Nanette, died.  So here is a very special picture of them together. 

Heaven just got prettier and sweeter.

In late February, we were returning to Yuma from Idaho and drove by the new Provo Tabernacle Temple.  Just had to take a picture.  When we were in college some 45 years ago in Provo, I would walk to work to the Penneys store which was right next door.  I walked past this beautiful building every day that I worked.  It had a big grassy area on the right side of the building, and on snowy days, I could not help myself from making a fox and geese game in the snow.  I could just never find anyone to play fox and geese with me. 

We also held our stake conferences in this building. 

Feb

Sometimes  you find something amazing and may only have a once in a lifetime chance to experience it.  In January, we went to the San Diego temple with our friends, Steve and Marsha Blackhurt.  Then we needed to find a place to eat. 

The GPS took us to this Chinese restaurant that is different than all others.  I think it was called Mongolian Hot Pot and Grill.  They bring you a pot of the most amazing tasting broth and you cook your food in it.  Two photos:  One before we dig and and start cooking food.  Two is the mess we made, a real mess.  We thought we were toddlers. 

Each table actually has a hot plate in the center to boil the broth.

What a mess we made, but it was so good!!!

Yuma sunrise

Yuma sunset

Happy New Year.!*!*  If I was a great photogapher, you could probably see the brilliance of the sky. Sorry that these are muted versions.  The top one was January 3, 2016.  It is great to get up early enough to see such glory in the morning.  The sunset picture we took about the last week in December 2015.