Oh, how the time flies by when you are pulling weeds, planting peas, mowing lawns, golfing, and enjoying your little grandson.  Babies are so fun.  Here are some photos.

Kay got to share her noodles with Trent.  When he gets full, he feeds you

It was Trent's Moms birthday. She is feeding the thirsty bird some water.

He got his first haircut on Easter.  Love that pucker.

Trent being introduced to great grandma's chickens.

Kay had the special priviledge of watching grandson Trent all day today.  He is beginning to warm up to Papa and Grandma after the winter away.  He was even giving kisses, but we could not get the camera to cooperate at the right time. 

Papa loving the attention.

Grandma getting loves.

March 15-2015
We had lovely weather returning home this year.  It would have been nice if the motor home would have done a little better going up hills at more than 25 - 35 miles per hours.  But we made it.

This photo actually shows a redder pickup than what we could see.  Heading north from Laredo, we ran into some rainy, dirty roads.  We could hardly tell the pickup was red.

So our little grandson is walking now.  It is more like a stomping march.  He was actually going for the camera.

Getting reacquainted with Papa.  It was kind of scarey at first seeing that big guy he didn't remember.  

It looks like Papa was stealing his bottle, but actually Trent was sharing it with him.

February 2015 is almost over and we will be heading back to Idaho soon.  I (Kay) found this picturre on Kim's camera that we took last summer.  Some friends had come from Canada to visit us.  Since they live on the Canadian plains, we were showing them our mountains.

Kim's dad was a masonery contractor and he built this masonery cabin in the mountains not too far from Idaho City, up Grimes Creek.  We had lots of great family outings here when all the kids were younger, actually when they were kids.  After Dad died, his Mom did not want to keep it, so it was sold.  But it brought back great memories. 

Dear family and friends,

We took a little trip in January.  Some of Kim's golfing buddies from Idaho invited him to a golf tournament in Southern Nevada sponsered by the Idaho Golf Association.  So we climbed on a plane and flew into Las Vegas.  Got a ride to Primm, Nevada which is right on the Nevada/California border.  The golf course is actually 5 miles south of Primm in California.  We then rented a car and drove to Quartzsite and spent the day with Mom and Farrell.  Went on down to Yuma for a few hours then drove to Oro Valley, just north of Tucson, to spend a couple of days with Steve and his wife Marsha.  Did another round of golf there. 

Here they are at Primm Golf Course.  Norm Jensen, Kim and Steve Blackhurst.  These guys have been so supportive of Kim with his ALS.  Kim developed a heel spur on the way and played three days of golf in pain.  We found his some crutches for the last day. But he is still smiling. California mountains in the background.  We miss mountains in Brownsville.  The highest mountain is a pile of dirt when someone is excavating.

This is a photo taken from a cross walk on the 4th floor of the resort we stayed in at Primm.  The building was built as a kind of hexigon and this is the center of the resort.  There is a pool hiding behind the big tree.  There is an outlet mall attached to the building (past the casino.  Of course, there is a casona, it is Nevada.)  What is interesting is that one side of the mall charges California tax and the other side of the mall charges Nevada tax becuase the state line runs right through the building.

Now for the rest of  Nevada.  I turned around from the last picture and took this one.  Desert, for sure.

These are Kim's Brownsville golfing buddies.  Gary Holmes in the yellow shirt and Harold in the green.  Gary joined the church when were were here last spring. The hat Kim has on was made in Peru.  Beautiful hat and given to him by Rosy, Gary's wife.

We went to the zoo here in Brownsville.  Although not a real large zoo, it is suppose to be one of the best in the country.  Here is a baby chimpanzee.  He put a thin little twig and then could not make it work, so he found a stick that was stiff enough for him to hang from. 

This is a red-backed lemur.  We had hever seen one before.

This Mama Rhino weighs about 4000 pounds. One big girl.

There were four tortoises in the cage, but only three together.  These big boys are slow, but they were moving. 

The flamingoes were way more colorful than the picures shows.  Their necks could bend every which way.  They  had a very funny way of getting water and mostly stood on just one legs.  Kim could not copy them on that.

It is the day after Christmas and Kim turns 67 tomorrow, a birthday we didn't think we would get to share.  We are enjoying the fruit in Brownsville, just not the wind. 

We found some huge delicious grapefruit, 2 for $1.   Oh yeah, we seem to only have one red shirt apiece.

We visited the Sable Palm Wildlife Sancturay.  We are here where they have bird feeders so you can see the birds.  Many birds in this area only come as far north as Brownsville.  This Sanctuary is 557 acres.  The Sabal Palm forest used to be 60,000 acres. 

This is a green jay at the feeder.  The photo does not do him justice.  They also put out oranges also to attract the birds.

A pretty butterfly at the same sanctuary.