Reid Cousins Family Reunion

A Great family picnic in South Jordan Utah on Saturday afternoon. Just a get together for whoever could make it. Here's Aunt Mary




OK I was doing good to even remember the wive's names till I got home, so this is Matt and Jolene, 3 little boys, then a girl. They were here visiting from Spokane Washington.

This is (An)Drew and Janelle. They have 3 little girls, but we were having a hard time rounding everyone up. So here they are with the youngest. They live here in the area.

Back row here is (left to right) Chad Auggie and Sharon. Front row, Chase, Nick and Sabrina...They live in South Jordan, it was in their subdivision where we had the get together.

Here's Wes, Auggie and Chase

Jenny and her 2 girls here from Eugene Oregon...(Hubby had to work)

Peter, here from Roy Utah
Doug, Lisa and their little son...they live in Riverton Utah
Jeff and Jeri, here from Mesa Arizona
Mary's 4 oldest boys (left to right) Drew, Matt, Doug, Chad...as always it was really fun having them all together

Becky's son Josh

What would a Reid reunion be without Bill and Jeff playing guitars and singing???
Aunt Mary and Aunt Jeri
This is Becky, her son Josh and her 2 little daughters...They live in Logan Utah...Becky's husband had to work.
Lisa and her kids. They are down to visit from Pocatello. Her husband is in school there and was busy with school stuff.

The little ones all had a great time in the park and in the small pool nearby. And the rest of us visited and ate off and on all afternoon. It was great to be together and see this much of the family again!

Photo Tag

Ok, I got these out of order somehow, but it was fun and Bill helped me (The techno retard)

Rules are to take pictures of the items listed below to help us get to know you better.

A current project you are working on...

Another quilt top...this is one I bought at a yard sale and didn't like the layout, so I took it apart and am trying to make a queen sized quilt out of a twin. It is still a project because I have made several artisic mistakes and don't want to take it out again.


The oldest thing you own...

This old brass bucket Bill got from Grandma Reid and is reported to have come across the plains with Elizabeth Jones (one of his ancestors). It has long ago lost it's handle, but we used it by the woodstove in Kuna for ashes. Currently it is serving as the wastebasket in the office.

Your worst pair of shoes...

These look pretty bad, but are comfortable and seem to me to have plenty of wear left in them...so they keep getting worn.

Something from your childhood...

This is my blessing dress. My mother made it for me 53 years ago. Mariah was also blessed in this dress and all my girls have worn it. I can't be sure, but at least one of my grandaughter's have worn it also...now it is put away.

Your 3 favorite movies...

I love "Return To Me"...It was billed as a romantic comedy, but the first time I cried all the way through. I have watched it again and again and love it every time. Now I can laugh.

Camelot...This is a different version, it stars Richard Harris, but is a stage production and is SO much better than the 1962 movie version. This was made for HBO in 1982 I think, anyway it was hard to get my hands on it, but I love it.

The Three Musketeers, just good comedy and chivalry and feel good for me.

Your key chain...

Nothing special, I don't carry many keys. My car key, the truck key, front door and back door. The important part is the little card that gets my groceries cheaper at Smith's and Albertson's!

Your favorite edible treat in the house right now...

OK let me tell you I have MANY favorite treats, but this is the only one in the house right now, and I had to get it from the freezer. Can't wait to bake it and have a warm slice ala mode!

Something in your home you are proud of...

I love this chimming mantel clock. It is probably the most expensive souvenier I have ever gotten. Bill got this for me in a little clock shop in Leavenworth Washington. A charming place you must visit if you ever get out Washington way.

Your favorite wall hanging...

Melinda and Aaron gave this to us last Christmas and I have yet to add the last grandchild, but it is a crossword puzzle with all our family in it.

Something in your yard that makes you smile...

I had to say it's my roses. These little beauties were the $2.49 grocery store variety that I bought when we first moved to Tooele. They were in little 4" pots. Look at them now! This is their 3rd summer here...they do make me smile:)

Thank you Lindsey for the opportunity to join in this tag! I tag Sarah H, Stephanie B, Calista and Nicia

No pics, just an update

Uhmm...I should write more often, then I wouldn't have to think so hard.

Recent highlights...

Dinner with Kathy and Dave at the Chilies in Orem (celebrate my B'day early cause Kathy and Dave going to Wash DC). and going to "The King And I" at the Scera (pronounced Sara) Shell Outdoor theater. It was great! I love the setting, it is in Orem Utah in a park. You climb up the outide with your lawn chairs or blanket and come over the rise to a nice ampheteater. It is all in grass and very family friendly. Parents spread out their blankets and put babies down for sleep, people had their picnic dinners and such. There were kids playing on the hillside, but because of the big open spaces it was really not distracting. Anyway, we really enjoyed that. Sorry we didn't get pictures of the theater, it's hard to imagine if you can't see it.

This week Bill had a Court of Honor with/for the scouts and I had a returned Sister Missionary from Brazil come finish up the communications badge with my Webelos. Had a little excitement Thursday with Bill and the ER but glad to report all is well, Put eating better and excersise at the top of our list. Thursday evening ...dinner at Wingers to celebrate my B'day (again?) Friday, our 34th anniversary, grabbed a bite at Sonic on our way to the Tooele nursery to spruce up our yard. It cost us less than a night at the Anniversary Inn and was a lot more work! We came home and planted 2 lilac bushes and a tree in our back yard. Saturday the work continued and Bill got my garden arch put back together (it was demolished in a wind storm). Then I planted a Clematis on either side of the arch...in years to come it may be beautiful... today they look a little scrony (sp?) I also got my tomatoes and green peppers that have been in pots, actually planted in my garden box...Yeah! When it got too hot to work outside, we cleaned up and went to a new restaurant in Stockton (the next town on the way to no where) for lunch and then took a drive to Ophir...a little mining town up in the Oquirrh mountains. It was quaint and still very small, and they want it to stay that way. We came home and napped through the rest of the heat and then finished some work outside.

What a WEEK!

I have been so busy this week. Sunday, choir before church, home teaching with Bill after church, then try to get my stuff ready for the work week. Every day after work was yard work. Tuesday Bill and I had separate service projects after work. I did a window treatment complete with greenery and frosted window panes for privacy for a sister in our ward. Bill and another brother put a swamp cooler in a single sister's house. (for those of you who don't know Bill very well, he is particularly mindful of the heat and will help anybody with whatever cooling option he can) We both got home about 9 PM and I fixed a quick bite of dinner. I had to do Taco meat for a potluck on Wednesday...luckily hamburger had been on sale a while back and I had browned all mine and sauted with onions and peppers and put in zippies in the freezer. All I had to do was thaw some out, fill the crock pot and add taco flavoring:) I am also known at work for my cakes, and the sister retiring had asked me for a lemon cake...so I put a rush job on that one! Followed that by shower and SLEEP! Wednesday Bill had scouts, I had pushed my scouts to Friday with a tour of the Tooele Transcript Bulletin (which I would later regret) I did yard work till Bill got home from scouts so we had cold cereal for dinner (there's a great one!). I recieved a call to make dinner for a sister in our ward for Thursday night, so before I went to bed I did a jello, made some cookies and cut up all the veggies for a crock pot soup to be assembled in the morning and washed the crock pot for a repeat use... SLEEP... Thursday decided to drive to Salt Lake (as opposed to taking the vanpool) this would allow me to run some errands after work and go see Aunt Alice at the hospital. Threw together the crock pot soup complete with precooked hamburger (again) grabbed a package of refrigerator biscuits out of the fridge to go with the soup...loaded the van including the jello and cookies, bosch to drop off for servicing, and address of where to pick up the graco pack and play I found on Craigslist, made several trips to the garage with the umbrella through the pouring rain...Note, VERY grateful for garage... Picked up sister Talavera for work, made two more trips with umbrella in the rain to drop off the dinner to Sister Thornton (Woke her at 5:30 AM for this) so she could deliver it in the evening and hurried on to work. So relieved to be at work where I could finally sit for 8 hours of sewing:) Right after morning break I recieved the phone call from Mom about Aunt Alice's passing. I was very saddened and at the same time very relieved for her and for her family as I was aware of the tremendous effort it has been the past few months trying to get to the bottom of her health problems. As my cousin Ruth stated in one of her updates it was a very complex case. I arranged to meet mom and Jim on their way back to Idaho to visit for a bit. That we did right after I got off work. Then I dropped off the bosch, went to a garden store and bought some dahlias, drooled over a gazebo that was on sale for $500 dollars (decided not to get that) went on to pick up the Graco. By this time the lady had gotten out a bunch of baby clothes she was also getting rid of. It took forever for me to pare down what I wanted and load the car again...at least now it wasn't raining. Stopped at Cafe Rio and picked up dinner. I remembered on the way home that I had to drive the Vanpool on Friday because the driver had gone to a wedding. So I picked Bill up and went to get the van a couple of miles away. By the time we got home we were eating after 9 again. I didn't get to bed till about 11 PM and then woke up at 3:30 AM, unable to sleep. Hence the cleaning of the kitchen Friday morning. As I picked people up and drove the Vanpool to Erda (I am not able to drive into Salt Lake because I haven't taken the safety course yet, so I drive to Erda to pick up the rest of the people we take, and there is a qualified driver there. Yeah...that means I get to SLEEP the rest of the way to Salt Lake). After sewing a few hours I remember I cannot go home and sleep after work. I have scouts! I am very happy that it is a tour and I do not personally have to deal with the little guys...After they are all delivered safely back home, I get home to find Bill asleep. He had been teaching knots and lashings all day at the 11 year old day camp...Ha, what have we got ourselves into!? I woke him so we could return the church van for the vanpool and when we got home we had leftovers for dinner and fell asleep to Dateline...after all it was Friday night...that was as close to a date as it was going to get. We did have cookies and ice cream as we sat there like zombies. This morning we slept in till 7:15! The I fixed Bill's breakfast and got him off to round 2 of daycamp while I sat down to blog. What is amazing is that after a week like this I can remember my own name, let alone what actually happened during the week:)