September Surprise at Welk's!!!!!

Grandma Weideman had planned to have a Birthday Surprise for Aunt Stephanie down in San Diego. So she scheduled a flight for me and a shuttle over to Welk Resorts. I waited there in the Lobby for a few hours. Stephanie, Doreen, Winn, and Grandma ended up in Palm Springs. They accidently took the wrong turn. So I recieved a covert call telling me that they would be running a bit late.

When they finally arrived, I saw Grandma out the window and stood to the side so Aunt Stephanie wouldn't see me. Somehow she walked, or ran through the Lobby to the Ladies room having an awful asthma attack. I didn't even see her! I was so worried that she would see me!

Grandma and I went to the Ladies Room and I walked in, Grandma holding the door, Doreen right behind her, and I asked Aunt Stephanie "Are you alright?" "Do you need help?". Well she turned around looked me in the eye and said "NO, I am here with my mother, thanks anyways". She didn't recognize me until I said "Steph"and held her shoulders and looked her back in the eye. It was so funny. She was so confused. She looked at me, looked at Grandma, then at me........ WOW! Was she surprised. It went off so well! Grandma hit a HOME RUN!

We swam in the pool, took a water aerobic class. Doreen wore a bright yellow hat! And Grandma had the cutest sandles on! While in the pool, We met a man and started talking. He heard I was from Utah. Come to find out, not only did he graduate from the same High School as Grandma, they sang the "Good Old Davis High" song right there in the pool! He new the Jespersons our neighbors, Valorie Foster's cousin. They lived in San Diego with them for years. This is a small world. His daughter lives in Pleasant Grove and her husband runs "Peg Leg Paintball"! There names were Bill and Marilyn. Arlyn and Jackie were shocked when I told them.

We went to a 50's men's occapella group. That was so fun! We also saw a play called "Alter Boys", It wasn't as good as the other group. But it was fun just being together!

We had a Birthday Bash for Grandma on her Birthday and Doreen did the cutest games. I used Amber's Camera to take pictures. Hope Steph posts them here for me.

It was so relaxing after having so many hard blows the months before. It was so nice to be with so many wonderful women!!!!!!

The icing on the cake was going to the San Diego Temple. I hadn't been there since Jen and Steve were married. I took special interest in the areas that they had been and remembered how blessed I felt helping Jennifer to dress for her sealing and then put on her wedding dress. The memories flooded my heart. I felt sad that Jen and I haven't been back to the temple together. Anyways, we did a session and I begged Steph to do initiatories with me. OH what a blessing that was. I can't express in words how I felt. I cried the whole time. The sisters said they felt the Spirit so strong when we were in there and said when we left, "Come back soon!". We walked out and down the stairwell where Grandma, Doreen and Winn were patiently waiting. We had told the temple workers we had a half hour, evidently 2 hours went by....... There were some pretty hungry folks waiting for us.

It was hard to leave. I felt so much peace and relaxation and sooooo loved! But I needed to be home, and get back to real life. As they drove off my heart sunk.

When I got home, Kevin and Dad were there to greet me. It felt wonderful to see them!

Happy Halloween 2008

This Halloween season was a blast for Kevin. He wore his "Hippe" costume to school on Thursday, then had a dance at Special Needs Mutual! And again he got to wear his costume. He said "Boo!" to everyone. He was so intriqued with all the kids. Kevin was the Candyman! He sat by the door and gave out the candy. He showed everyone the "Peace" sign.

Chiquita had to wear the witch costume and hated it! I think Roxy should wear it next year.

Dad and I watched the updates on the elections, oh what fun! Dad did steal three candybars! I won't tell how many I stole!!!

Have a Happy Halloween!
Love,
MOM and DAD

Kevin the hippie and Mom Halloween 2008

Fall Family Pictures

For my Mom's birthday we decided to get her family pictures because the last time we took pictures as a family I had puffy bangs and we all wore denim head to toe (not really but you get the point)! We were going to have a professional do it but with my brother having to fly out from CA it wasn't quite working out. Good thing my Dad likes photography and invests in lots of good camera equipment. We went up to AF canyon and it was kinda hard to find good spots because the sun but we found one and I think they turned out pretty for a bunch of armatures! It's always fun when the whole family gets together. Sean was out all weekend and Nick and Rachel came up from SLC. We played games every night at our house which is fun because we never have people over. We played Catch Phrase ( if you haven't pulled it out in a while you should...it's fun!), Colosseum, and Balderdash. I always forget how much I love playing board games and how competitive I get (which isn't a good thing!) On Sunday night we had Teppanyaki at our house. Steve was flipping eggs and flipped on right at Sean, then the next one he made in Sean's drink! It was a fun weekend! Can't wait till we all can get together again!

You're Going Camping?!?

Steve is now the 11 yr old scoutmaster and this past weekend was his first scout campout. They had been talking about it and planning it for weeks and the boys were so excited. The week before the campout we started watching the weather to make sure it would be ok and they kept saying it was going to SNOW!! We didn't quite believe them because it was so nice outside so we went up and found a nice campsite.

The night before the campout Steve called all the boys to tell them the trip was a GO! Just like the weather people said a storm came in that night. Luckily they didn't get rained on but it was super cold! Steve said that it wasn't that bad because everyone was prepared to be cold so they packed warm. Saturday morning the snow just kept coming down. Steve still wanted to stay and make breakfast, but the other leaders decided to pack up and go home. That night we got the first real snow in the valleys. We got about 2 inches. It was so pretty to look outside and see all the snow. I'm not sure I'm ready for winter to come yet, but it was fun for at least one day.

(Our house on Thrusday)

(Sunday Morning - It melted a bit because I was too big of a wuss to go outside)

(Mindee just wanted to stay inside and snuggle in the warm blankets!)

Utah's beauty

This is a pic of Mt. Timpanogos

taken on 10-8-08

Lake Powell

We have been talking about taking a family Lake Powell trip for years now and finally succeeded! My parents and my cousins have never been there before and I absoutley love it so we decided to take a long weekend and go have fun. My parents went up early to pick the spot and we met up with them later. We just camped in the primitive camping at Bullfrog. When we got there it was so dark that getting to our campsite was quite a challenge, plus some of the roads were not too good for towing. The next day we took the boat out and went down this one canal. Steve thought it would be cool to get some wakesurfing pictures at the end of a canyon so we all decided to go. On my last run we ended up hitting a stick in the water and bent our prop!! We tried to find a boat shop to buy a new one, but the closest one was in SLC! (You would think they would have extra props everywhere at Lake Powell!) So we had no boat for the rest of the trip. It turned out ok though. We just hung out all day and floated in the lake. We played a little beach volleyball and lots of board games. Luckly our friends let us borrow their toy hawler so we had a place to get out of the sun! (It was really a trip saver!!) All in all it was fun! We should have brought an extra prop...lesson learned! I'm sure we'll go again next year.

Strange crew

We found these transients wandering around at Lake Powell