Mary's wedding!

The happy couple...Mary Janise Reid Larson Cryer and Walter Cryer. Walter is a retired BYU swim coach and still swims a mile a day! They were beautiful and so happy together. We are happy for both of them that they do not have to be lonely any more. Aunt Linda taking a picture of Uncle Dave and Aunt Demiris.........

Uncle Frank and Aunt Dody...........

The Larson Brothers singing a beautiful barber shop rendition of "Love At Home"

From left to right Reggie, Wes, Drew, Doug, and Matt....

The Larson family...I'm in trouble here with names of all the wives...

Front row L-R Crew (Wes's son), Jennifer (Reggie's wife), Janise, Ginnell (Drew's wife), Sharron, (oops..Doug's wife) and Sharon (Chad's wife)

Back row L-R Wes, Reggie, (oops...Matt's wife), Matt, Drew, Doug and Chad

Our Wes and Cousin Wes

Can you believe we didn't get a picture of Bill and Jeff ?!?!

Doug and Marilyn couldn't make the trip due to Doug's health. The rest of them had a great time together.

Way overdue!

Aaron and Dad at the church before G'pa's 80th B'day dinner on Saturday
Allen shared the glory because his B'day is the day after G'pa's.

Dad, Allen and the family having a B'day dinner at ElGallo Giro...our favorite mexican place!

Complete with Mariachi band and singers...they were wonderful!

Chimney Sweeps?

The hole in the room and the ceiling (sorry, it's sideways) where the chimney once stood....these guys did a "clean sweep" of all the brick, coal and wood dust, mortar and debris that has been here for over a hundred years!
I didn't think to take this picture till we were almost done clearing all the junk from the room.

My 3 volunteers...Left to right Haine (pronounced Hi-na both long vowels) Steven and Wes. In this shot they are trying to show that parts of their legs were clean...I don't think it worked.

Steven and Wes actually had bandanas tied around their mouth and nose to try to keep out some of the coal dust. But they were removed for the picture. This was Haine's mask after he had tried to beat off some of the coal dust.

When they were done they all ran for the back yard where they stipped down to shorts and did a cold wash with soap and water. They are so much better even though they REALLY need a hot shower!

Ahhh, the payoff? We'll these guys were great sports, all they wanted was Pizza and ice cream! I actually think they had fun doing the demolition. They were great. I didn't get pictures of the many bucket loads of brick and mortar they took from the attic and lowered to the hall, one bucket at a time, then empying each bucket in the dumpster out front. They worked for about 4 hours on this ugly project!!

103 year's old...deserves new roof!

Today three layers of roofing were removed from our house. We live in a house that is 103 years old.We knew the garage had been roofed this way, I guess we never considered the house was also done this way. After the rafters were in, the outside was covered with what they could find of old amunition crates from the Tooele Army Depot. With no additional support the roof was then filled in with shake shingles. Luckily for us the house had 2 more layers of asphalt shingles, so we didn't leak.

Here is one of the roofer's hammering in loose nails. Notice how wide the spaces are...gee whiz!

Our house is completely surrounded by piles of shake shingles. What a mess!

So here we are, cleared of old shingles and ready to start the new roof. With any luck we won't have rain till we finish:)

Latest Project

We purchased a big (8 ft long and sticking a third of the way into the family room) couch. It had ugly pillows and we had blinds on the windows as well as a quilt over the big window.













I made new curtains for the family room and decided to spruce up the pillows as well

The results were great! It really lightened up the family room. Wes hung the curtain rods for me and Bill helped me hang curtains. I have enough fabric to cover the footstool as well. It is not in the picture, it's a very ugly mustard yellow vinyl. It is perfect to store a couple of blankets to cozy up on the couch.

Family Quilt for G'ma and G'pa

Some of you may remember the family reunion in 2006 at Ken and Jenette's home. Those of you who were there made a block for your family. Those of you who weren't there had one made for you either by a family member or a designated artist. Since G'ma sent out thank you cards, I thought I had better post pictures of the quilt so you know what she's thatnking you for:)

This was a wonderful idea and I felt honored (except for when I felt frustrated cause it wasn't going how I wanted it to) to piece it together. Kathy and Caitlin helped quilt this at a friend's home in Kuna. (On a long arm quilting machine) Then Annette and Kathy and I sat up and hand bound it. Anyway, for those of you who haven't had a chance to see it, here it is the day that we presented it to G'ma and G'pa...just before Easter.

Long time, No blog

Well, here I am again...quilting. Here's Annie, inspecting my work...she loves to be a part of everything! I haven't blogged in 2 months, but in that time, I took home a twin quilt from Calista's that I got finished and sent back. Did Lizzie's quilt and got it sent...took home a twin quilt from G'ma Danes and got that quilted and returned. Did 2 baby quilts that went back to Idaho. I have also been helping a sister in our ward do quilts for her 4 kids. I didn't get a picture of the last one, it was an eagle and was bordered with rich browns, greens and burgandys.

This was one I did with fabric Annette gave me...Curious George, bordered with yellow and bound with the last of the scraps of yellow and brown. Check out the first picture and see that the back is also monkeys, a nice soft flannel.

This is a bunk size and is for a cute little 3 year old boy who is a monkey:) I absolutly LOVE the quilt shop in town that rents out their longarm quilting machine. I have done so many now that they told me I could come in anytime and set up my own quilt. This is the 1rst one that I did all the set up by myself. The sister I am helping did the actual running of the quilting machine on this one. I have the longarm quilter reserved at least every other week. I am scheduled again for next week, am hoping to get a queen sized one done.

Believe it or not I do still work full time and do my scouts on Wednesday. I keep saying I am doing this to use up my fabric, but I stilll end up buying some for each quilt....eventually I will run out of fabric....maybe:)