Tena and Jena

Saturday, May 31, 2008

May 31, 2008

This is my sister's headstone... she's very special to us all.

May 30, 2008

This is my grandparents headstone... we have a great family legacy to follow. My grandparents were honorable, kind, generous people who strived to help others be the best they could be. I remember the love they gave us. I hope that they feel our love today.
These are pictures my mom took in Idaho while I was re-covering in Texas.

May 29, 2008

Every year my family goes to the cemetery to decorate the graves thoses we love. E is walking by my Dad's headstone. This is a tradation that hopefully will be passed down for many, many generations.

May 28, 2008

My nephew... he's 20... WOW !

May 27, 2008

My brother's.. and tongues... not unusual.

May 26, 2008

Here are two little bald babies... Just kidding... This is my brother and new niece. He loves babies. For some reason they like him too :0)

May 25, 2008

Here is 3 generations... They are the graduation party.

May 24, 2008

Here are J's kids... S and E are party-ing with the big people. They are the only kids their age in our family... sometimes it makes it boring for them... sometimes they get to do big kid stuff ...

May 23, 2008

Here is my Aunt, holding my new neice... that means she is K's great-great aunt... WOW... Also that my older brother in the background and my sister the new grandma in front. Actually he is a Grandpa too.... WOW they are all old... I mean this all lovingly :0)

May 22, 2008


Today was graduation for my "little brother"... He looks so much like my Dad. I'm proud of him.

May 21, 2008

I'm stealing one of J's pictures... this REALLY old... now neither one of them would fit in that hole. Especially both of them. E's face is classic "E".

May 20, 2008

This is a picture of my 17 year old nephew... he is throwing a hammer back and forth with his friend while swinging. Sounds smart doesn't it. He is one of the smartest people I know. But he is also a teenager. Ha, Ha...
This is the day I was supposed to go back to Idaho. I couldn't. I was still in the hospital and so dizzy I didn't know which way was up. I couldn't even make a complete sentence. I felt like a blubbering idiot. I am so thankful for great friends. My mom did go back to Idaho. I couldn't imagine her staying in Texas watching me be sick and missing some of the most important things that were going to happen in our family because of me. She saw the new baby... her blessing... my brother's graduation. He DID it... I am really proud of him. My dad would be very proud of him...

May 19, 2008

This is the new Spori Building on BYU-Idaho Campus. I used to have my art classes in the old Spori Building. This one is bigger and better... beautiful really. I lived right across the street from here. This was one of my favorite places to go when I lived in Rexberg. But that was 12 years ago. WOW... I'm old.

May 18, 2008

This is a cool picture (literally) of the snow coming off my sister's house in McCall, Idaho. It melted and then re-froze... now it's all melted... everything is soggy there. The snow has still so high then. Now it's not. This is an older picture from my trip to Idaho... I've been home a long time now.

May 17, 2008

I just realized that I haven't posted this picture yet... this is new grandparents. The baby had just been born and my sister and her husband saw her... she's about 20 minutes old right here. You can't even see the baby but you do see the love she has brought with her... she's straight from Heaven... If only she could talk and tell us all she knows about Heavenly Father and the people loving us from the other side. She is so precious and blessed. That little girl has so many people who love and care about her. Her grandparents are definantly happy to have her here.

May 16, 2008

This is an old picture from Women's Conference 2007. We forgot to take any pictures. So I held the phone and we all stuck our heads together. It's a fun memory of my sister and niece... this is born baby K came along. This year only My oldest sister and I got to go to Conference... we had some good sister time though.


May 15, 2008

This is my sister's cat. Mohanna... she's a hoot. Here she's trying to catch a ride with my nephew. She's willingly to go ... she doesn't know where. She's really tired of the snow. My sister calls the snow, "fluffy rain".... to bad Mohanna isn't looking at me. It was hard to get her to stay still.

May 14, 2008


WOW... it's been a long time since I updated my blog... I've had an eventful couple of weeks though...
This is my niece... we we're at Culver's... they have GREAT frozen custard. (it tastes like ice cream) E thought this was funny.

Friday, May 16, 2008

May 13, 2008



This is the chocolate fountain from McCall Donnelly High School Prom... My nephew is the Junior Class President and in charge of doing all of the decoration and food and well everything. Since I wasn't doing anything important that night. I took care of the food... I ran the Chocolate fountain. It's a really dark picture. I took it on my phone. We also drew some picture with charcole. They turned out very cool. I'm going to Idaho next week and take pictures of them then... if I can. They were all based on the movie Casablanca. It was fun.

Monday, May 12, 2008

May 12, 2008

O.K... one more picture of the newest addition to our family. This is such a cute picture. I know she's going to change so much in a short time. I'll need to ask for updates from her mommy. In this picture she looks alittle more like her daddy. Still beautiful !

May 11, 2008



Here is a mad baby. She hates getting her diapers changed. That makes her very red. She lets everyone know that she's unhappy.

May 10, 2008



I actually come back from Idaho on the 9th... but I have so many pictures to show everyone of all the excitement there. This is my wonderful neice... she is actually feeding the baby... she has a "hooter hider"... it's a funny little thing that lets her feed her and not embrass her or anyone else. It's cute too.

May 9, 2008

Here is the proud daddy... It's really cool to see her calm instantly when she hears his voice. She recognizes her daddy even in the first hours of her life. He's a great father.

May 8, 2008

I spent a while in McCall, Idaho... Lots of snow. This is my sister back door... sliding glass door. The snow is at eye level. Usually they stick pop in the snow to keep it cold. When I left McCall the snow was starting to melt... lots of water... there were lakes (not normal lakes) with little stumps poking out of them about two inches, they're the tops of the fences ... lots of water everywhere. It's soggy.

May 7, 2008

This is my 13 year old nephew... I don't have a lot of pictures of him... He's a great 7th grader. Right there he's playing video games and I made him look up... handsome devil isn't he.

May 6, 2008

She loves her mommy... her mommy loves her... she listens to her and loves to hear her sing.

May 5, 2008


K has cute personality... She is only 3 1/2 weeks old here...but she makes her presents know. She looks like her mommy.

May 4, 2008


These are some friends that went to Women's Conference. We had a great times.

May 3, 2008

Provo, Utah... Snow on the mountains.. It snowed and rained the first day. Then was sunny the second day... dratically different. Fun times!

May 2, 2008

Women Conference... tons and tons women... Pres. Monson spoke and it as so cool !!! Can't see him though... wonderful times.

May 1, 2008

Here is my two niece's ... E and K... E loves holding her. K is only 2 days old. Beautiful!