Cousin's Party 2008

About 75 cousins gathered at Marilyn Dearinger's for the cousin's party. I (Bev) took all the RSVPs, and made the food assignments. We had honey baked ham (by the way, two 9-pound half hams will serve 75), and a large buffet of salads, breads, cheeses and fruit. Followed, of course, by a smaller dessert buffet. Marilyn's house easily handled us all. Her home was a fall-feast-for the eyes, as she had tables set up in three different locations, with two buffet lines. All tables had fall decorations and candles. Oh yes, the most important thing of all, Bev is flying solo on this posting! We took Aunt Verl and Joyce (Verl was an hour off on her party preparation, but we were pretty close to an on-time arrival.) Joyce and I helped with clean up during the evening, and we had so much fun talking, we stayed almost to the very end. We didn't arrive home until about 11:30. I wish I'd taken more pictures, but things got busy in the kitchen.

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Carol Morley, Aunt Verl and Gayle PalmerKarl and Michelle Stone, Linda Bateman, Dick Pratt, and Aunt ClaraBarbara Pratt and Sylvia Pratt
Floyd Morley, Garth Nilsson, John Pratt
Nellie Nilsson, Frank Johansen
Dick Pratt, Beth Anderson

Marilyn DeringerDallin, Karl and Michelle Stone
Wayne Anderson, Aunt Clara

Fall decor

I can never remember where I put things from one year to the next, hopefully this will help.

End of Summer

It's always a shame to have to pull out the flowers in the fall. However, if we plant the pansies now, they will give us a colorful show come spring.

Pop is getting the ground ready for the pansies. We'll show the result when there's color.

Nebo Loop and Scofield Lake Trip

On October 1 we took a lovely trip to see the fall colors. We drove over the Nebo Loop and over to Mt. Pleasant for lunch. We then drove up to Scofield Lake and home down Spanish Fork Canyon. The weather was perfect and the colors spectacular. We hope the pictures capture a little of what we experienced.

We took a little break just over the top and hiked out to see Devils Kitchen.

They were rounding up cattle on the high ground and the highway became the gathering point. We spent about 15 minutes in the middle of the herd but it was a nice break.

Scofield Lake.

St. George Trip

We met the Osburn family in St. George on September 23, 2008. Michelle and Karl Stone were very generous to let us stay at their home. It is a beautiful home on a golf course. Tanner and Matt really enjoyed watching the golf course waterfall behind their home.

In the evening we all went to see Les Miserables at Tuachan. We had great seats on the third row and it was well done in a beautiful setting. We arrived a day earlier and were able to see Big River as well. It was really impressive watching the river flow over the stage.

Steve, Matt and Spencer.

Bev, Tanner and Jody.

In addition to the St. George trip, we were able to make contact with Dr. Clark in Cedar City and we are optomistic that he has been able to help both of us with our foot pains.

The Coral Princess Cruise

After a day at sea, we made our first stop in Ketchikan. The ship is as big as it looks!

We went on the back deck one evening as we left shore. We couldn't get hold of wool blankets, but plenty of winter clothing and beach towels did the trick. From back to front: Bob, Jean, Bev, Art's chaise, Kirk, Jeannine

The happy travelers:

Art & Bev, George & Clara, Bob & Jean, Kirk & Jeannine Larsen, Nellie & Garth

Jean models the lastest and most fashionable deck attire for the cold.

Bev & Art at Glacier Bay

Dining....one of our favorite pass times. Our last night on the ship. Jean told Joey, our server, that it was going to be Jeannine's birthday in two days, so he sent out a cake. We had just finished a delicious gourmet meal, plus desserts. The cake looked delicious, but we were too full to eat it.

Alaska Trip june 2008

After arriving in Vancouver, we took taxis to Granville's public market. The produce was amazing.

Art bought his favorite tropical fruit, lychee nut. Here he's giving everyone a taste.

We went to Vancouver Island, to the city of Victoria to see one of the favorite parts of our journey. Art says that Butchart Gardens is "candy for the eye." I think you're probably grateful we're not posting all 170 pictures he took in the garden that day.

Over 100 years ago this area was a quarry. When they ran out of limestone, the Butchart family didn't want to lay their workers off, so Mrs. Butchart taught them how to be gardners. This area is the sunken garden, the original quarry area.

Every turn was more beautiful than the spot before.

Oh, Arthur, what a romantic in the Italian Garden!