I haven't blogged in a long time because we have been so busy. It has been one event after another. I have been trying to collect pictures of Dustin and so thought that I would write a few memories of a few pics that I have of him. Dustin was a very Happy child and I would take him down to J.C. Penny's to get milestone pictures taken of him. It wasn't like it is now, where you took tons of pictures of your kids with your own camera. There weren't tons of cute clothes that you could buy for little boys, mostly little jeans or cordoroys with a T-shirt. I thought this outfit was just so cute and I also bought some little leather black and white oxfords at Ashton's that he wore alot with his suits for church. 
Dustin was always dressed in a suit for church. I guess that was from my upbringing. Mom always had a dressed to the hilt for church or special occasions. I found this cute suit coat for Dustin for Easter and was so excited when I found the exact material that I could make his vest to match. I was also excited to find a yellow shirt to go with it and then made the bow tie to finish off the outfit. He also had little black patend leather shoes that I loved. He was a show stopper on Easter for sure.
I had to include this picture because this suit was made by his great-grandmother Bird. Infact it was his first suit. She sewed it on her treadle sewing machine! I don't think my grandmother ever had an electric one. I was so fortunate to be able to get that same machine when my mother passed away.
This picture was taken at Split Mountain at the boat ramp. I had bought this hat that was red, yellow, and blue striped. He loved wearing it and his "I Hope They Call Me On A Mission" shirt. Our good friends the Rosanhans wanted to take Dustin and Allisha on a hike at Split so away they went. Our neighbors loved the kids and took them alot to give us a break. They only had 2 daughters of their own who were alot older so they were good babysitters as well. They took some great pics of the kids and gave them to us. Such a little man...don't you think?I had to put this picture of my dad and Dustin. He was always playing little 
games with the kids. On this occasion they were playing piano on the counter top. The music they played was always a cute tune that Dad made up.
Here are my three handsome guys. I guess I should tell about Dustin and the fact that when I was pregnant with Garrett that he was going to run away if I didn't have a boy. He was Serious!! I told him that it wouldn't matter anyway because they would be 12 years apart and it wouldn't matter to him but he insisted. When Garrett was born it was like Christmas to him. He finally had a brother after 5 girls!! He was always very attentive to both boys and played with them alot. We always had to have the "boys" picture taken together. Here are a few more. 
hair!! Just one of those phases in life, I guess. He still looked handsome and loved Scouting. He has quite a collection of badges and eventually got his Eagle.
I had to put this one for Garrett! When my brother got home from his mission in Mexico he brought these hats with him. We had to try them on the kids, so Dustin had his picture taken. Look familiar, Garrett? 
Many happy Memories were made with Dustin through his lifetime and these are just a few. We are so blessed to have him in our family. We love you and will miss you!!
This picture is of Garretts Zone. 
Garrettt was made Senior Companion and got transfered to Mexicali Mexico... the second hottest place in the world. He will have fun opening up a new area and also have a bit of shock becasue he had it pretty good in rosiarita becasue it was more modern there. I know that Mexicali is smaller and the apartments there are really simple, made of cinderblocks and cememt floors and lots of border patrols and check points to go through. No more Walk-Marts and Cosco's for him. I am excited to get his email this next week to see how it is going. .jpg)
Garrett emailed us this last week and he recently got a new compaion Elder Ramirez Jorge. Garrett also sent some pictures of some other missionaries and some water/mud that he has been talking about with all the rain that they have recieved. Does not look like fun. Garrett informed us that he recently moved to an other house about a block away from the other one and he was excited because they finally we have a closet in the house becasue they didnt have one before. Garrett also informed us that he will hopefully have a baptism this next week. They are trying to get some couples married so that they can be baptized. They seem to have a lot of problems with people who dont want to get married. We are glad that Garrett is doing well, and we love to hear about his struggles and successes. 
We love you Garrett, keep up the good work. 
Today we blessed our 16th grandchild. It was a special day for us. Adrienne and Justin wanted to bless Leah today so that Justin's twin brother could also bless their baby on the same day. Saved travel for his parents. We had Nichole and Justin come from Grand Junction to be with them. Others were here for Christmas so were unable to come back for the blessing. We enjoyed those who came. We had a luncheon at our home because Adrienne's apartment is too small. Even with those who came, we had a housefull. 
Can we say SNOW!!! I can not believe how much we have gotten in such a short time...Jordan and Richard were out shoveling the driveway and had just gotten it all done when along came the snowplow and buried the driveway with 3 feet of new snow. Needless to say they were both alittle discussed about it and so they started to shovel again when they almost finished and the plow came by again and buried them again. I think it took them about an hour to get the driveway shoveled. It was a REAL experience but not an exciting one. I thought it was funny so decided to take a few pictures. 
On our first day of snow, Jordan went to early morning Seminary and got to school just fine, this being the first time he has driven in snow since he got his license, but hit a slick spot going into the parking lot at school and hit the post. Not a fun experience since this is his only mode of transportation. It took out the right headlight and the fender had to be pushed out to drive it home. Needless to say he's on foot at the moment and now mom has become his taxi!! I hope it gets fixed soon but I guess replacing the fender it the expensive part, so we will see. He might be on foot till after Christmas vacation.
e went to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. It was warm 
this year compared to other years, I guess because we didn't have any snow! The lights were still beautiful. We found among all the Nativities, one from Japan! It was so cute. We took a picture of it but don't know if you can see it very well. We also tried to find a luminary from Mexico for Garrett but couldn't find one. There were millions of them lighting the pathways. I'm sure there was one there, we just didn't see it. At the top of the Joseph Smith building we saw a Nutcracker that we had to have our picture taken with. Jordan wouldn't cooperate with me...he kept sticking out his tongue!
to just do a ride in a small circle. Jordan enjoyed it anyway. The ice didn't look that thick at first. After that we helped Larry put the boat away for the winter..guess we'll have to go take a ride come summer.
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