Nine Month Anniversary of Larry's Passing

Your loved one’s life will continue to live on in your heart and in your memories. Death doesn’t finalize their life so long as you continue to keep them in your heart and mind. It’s important that we keep those memories and honor the lives of those we lost.

The snow finally melted and it dried out enough for Larry's headstone to be put in. I love how it turned out and I love the beautiful views that surround it!

Bekah is in her 2nd semester of college. College and living on her own have been very difficult for her, but she was determined to go and Alyssa and I have put together a calendar to rotate going to Rexburg every week to help her with all of the little things. I really enjoy visiting her there and enjoying the beautiful view from her balcony at her apartment. One of the weeks we were there I took the kids to the trampoline park there called "Gravity Factory". It was so much fun and we will definitely be going again!!!

Enoch graduated summa cum laude (I had no idea until I read it on the program--Congrats Enoch!) from Snow College with an Associates degree in business. Joining us in our celebration were Enoch's girlfriend, Taylee, and her parents. Taylee was on the dance team for Snow. Bronco Mendenhall also graduated from Snow College and was there as the main speaker at the commencement. This was very fitting for Enoch given how much he loves sports, especially BYU football!

After graduation we headed over to visit with my brother, Matt, who lives in Kanosh. We had so much fun playing games, playing with his new puppy and just visiting!

On our way home from Provo we stopped in to see Elder Ward in Provo and spent a few hours at the park together. Love these twinners so much.❤

Rachel loves to dance so much and we are just so, so grateful that God has blessed  her with the ability to do so despite her diagnosis of A-T. She has been dancing on Noelle's dance team since we moved to Clifton in 2007.

Nate's Spring Recital 2023. I love watching him perform. He is so much fun to watch!!!

On May 24th was Larry and I's 26th wedding anniversary. One of the three things that Larry ask us to do every year as a family in his memory was to attend the temple together as a family. We tried to get into the Mt. Timpanogos temple in American Fork where we were married, but sadly they were closed for cleaning. Instead we were able to go through the beautiful city center temple. This temple also holds a special place in our hearts as it was where we used to attend stake conference when the boys were little and this building was a tabernacle.

We Celebrated Mother's Day this month. It just wasn't the same without Larry and his midnight run to the store to buy a present and/or him pulling an all nighter to finish a project that he knew was important to me. Rachel made me a beautiful card on a paper plate and Nate wrapped himself up in a box for me to open. I was able to spend an enjoyable Sunday dinner with all of my children.

ACE progress. The store is still moving forward, slowly but surely. One of our biggest hold ups at this point is the sprinkler inspection. Our new projected opening date is the end of August. The building should be completed by the end of July and then it takes a month for them to stock the store. I am so grateful to Enoch who has been working as the superintendent of this project. I know this job has been overwhelming to him at times because this is not something that he has ever done before, but he is doing an amazing job and I know that he is learning a lot.

Other Fun Pictures from the Month

Dallin & Spencer, who share a house together in Malad, have decided to raise chickens. They are in the process of building their own chicken coop out of the old pallets from the store. 

We are finally able to enjoy playing yard games!!! My competitive boys spent well past dark playing a couple round of croquet together making up special rules as they went along.

Random pictures of Nate and Rachel's dogs. We finally got an underground electric fence put in for them in the back yard so that they quit messing everything up in my front yard, destroying packages when the UPS man comes, and killing chickens. Nate and Rachel are enrolled in dog 4-H this summer so they can better learn to train and work with their dogs.

Outings with friends. It was so fun to finally catch up with this busy lady, Lain, and her adorable son, Drew. Lain is the wife of our now superientendant and has been such a good friend since we moved to the Clifton area. She was one of Enoch's biggest supporters through his wrestling, football, and track years. She is a Westside "Pirate" through and through and continues to be a huge support for all of the youth in our area.

The three of us have been trying to get together for lunch for quite some time. Marla (on the left), who also has a son with disabilities, that is Ben's age, has been one of my dearest friends since we met in Malad almost 15 years ago. Lori (in the middle) is Larry's cousin and moved from Utah to Malad a few years ago into Marla's ward and they have gotten to be good friends. She was very close to Larry and and also has dealt with a lot of health struggles. These are two amazing ladies whom I am so grateful to know and love.

I came to know this lady better through my calling of delivering birthday gifts to sisters in the ward. Even though Chris could be my mother we have a lot in common and I had so much fun visiting with her when I dropped off her birthday gift. 

This is Larry's prius that we put 30,000 miles a year on since purchasing it three years ago. I have sold this car to my son, Dallin, and his wife, Alyssa with 175,000 miles on it and purchased one with only 30,000 miles on it.

Before selling the prius I had to get some things fixed on it. While the car was in the shop Nate, Rachel, and I found a cute miniature golf coarse to go to in Logan.