Bucaramanga y Tunja Columbia

                              

I am struggling with international blogging tonight. The first three photos downloaded great but now it is too slow. I will try to add more of them tomorrow. We are doing great here and having a great time with a lot of really nice people. One of our Doctors brought a lot of candy. The people in South America do not like licorice very much. Here Jeff shows them how to eat it.

We brought more hats.  Here is a beautiful little girl trying hers on.

On the way to Tunja we stopped at a place that is famous. Colombia gained it's independence during a battle here. We climbed a hill to the monument. The altitude is high and we could feel it. This is part of our team. I will put a good group shot tomorrow. They are all just great. Today we traveled, tomorrow we teach.

Grandma's slumber party

This week we had a little slumber party get together in Driggs with a bunch of my girl friends. We have been buddies for about 20 years now. When we did our first hikes we had children younger than the grandchildren we now have. Hiking, biking, lunching, laughing, sharing good times and bad. Lately I have been too busy to go with them much. But when I do it is so so fun. I need to make more time for them. We did a little hiking in the newly fallen snow. The little plant below had on the cutest little stocking cap made of snow.

Of course we ate really really well. Suzan made the dessert. All diets were abandoned for the night.

Activities were laugh, hike,eat, laugh, play cards, laugh, sit by the fire, laugh, share cell phone knowledge, laugh, buy watch bands, laugh, eat some more and laugh ourselves to sleep. AAHHH.

I even caught the critter hanging on the wall smiling down on us.

Cherish your friends. I love all of mine.

Salt Lake Day Trip

We make the dash to Salt Lake every two weeks for meetings. Up early, drive down, got to meetings, run errands, see some of the kids, eat dinner and drive back home. We have it down to a science. This week we hit a favorite by going to Hires. Never a bad choice. Fast and yummy. Rootbeer in a thick glass frosted mug.
So good!

We got to meet Thomas Fletcher the newest of the ever expanding family. That makes three boys in 5 months. Wild times are ahead. He is another keeper. That makes 15. Any thing else brewing out there kids?

Finally a stop at the Rennakers. They have been busy carving pumpkins with the downstairs neighbors. They stayed home this day sick. HHMMM, they do not look too ill to me. On that note, we are run over busy at the office with H1N1 (SWINE FLU). Please stay home of you are sick with flu symptoms. They made the right choice to stay home.

Babies, babies and more babies!

We have had a run on babies amongst the kids. The most recent is Thomas Fletcher. He was born last week to Rob and Lauren and Floyd.

We had a crowd here this weekend for the blessing of Jacob who belongs to Andy and Lynne.  Below are just a few of the grand daughters waiting for breakfast. Aren't we lucky to have these cuties?

Grandma and Grandpa Z with Jacob and Charlie. They were born a month apart this summer. They held hands for the picture with no prompting from us.

Last weekend we went to Salt Lake for the blessing of Charlie. It was another big party. Here is the grandparents photo.

I have been on a baked potato soup kick. Just seems right during potato harvest. Yummy stuff. Here the potatoes are just before jumping into the pot. Next weekend...not one dang thing. Staying in town and doing my best to have a boring weekend.

Here comes another funpacked Saturday

We have been on the run for months now. No rest for us.
Here are some pictures from past Saturdays. The first one is Christian and I at his school. He came to the house one day and said, "Grandma we need to bring an old person to school, would you come with me?"
 I was flattered to receive such an invite.
It was actually bring someone older and wiser day. I went and had a great time. This is our self taken photo. We look kind of goofy don't we?

When Isaac and Christian went to Boise with us they got to spend two extra days with us when we got back as their family had gone to Utah.  I told them I needed a picture the last morning and they protested heavily. This is the best shot I got. I thought to myself, "I finally got Isaac to cooperate", then I saw his eyes in the picture.

I did find one agreeable character in Boise. Marley was thrilled to get his picture taken.

Grace who usually says no way to picture taking was happy to perform for the camera. She looks like she is standing on the fence, but that is just how high she jumped on the tramp.

So we are off again this weekend. Jeff, Andy and I are headed to Salt Lake City at noon.

I think we may break a record for never being home soon.

Life is Good.

Grandpa bought all the kids a Life is Good shirt in Boise.

I'm off for another weekend adventure.