After the official ordinance at the Church we met at Josh and Cassidy Stanley's home (Charles' sister) for scones and breakfast and catch-up family time. (Charles' other sister Lauralyn Lamb and his brother Tony and his brother Paul have all migrated to the Pioche/Panaca area).
I am swiping from Becky's blog the following photos:
My amazing daughter fashioned Aria's blessing dress out of a "onesie" and some nice lace. I thought it turned out so cute.
Two weeks later Aria decided she was ready to get out of the Las Vegas heat, so Victor and I took Becky and all the kids up to the cabin for the week. We were rewarded with lots of cloud bursts up there but enough sunshine to take an ATV ride or two to the stream. It was nice to just "hang out."
This little girl loves verbalizing already with us and has amazing eye contact. She did pretty well at the cabin though altitude may have been the cause of one day of not-such-good napping.
Ethan is more "boy" all the time! Don't let that pink pony fool you. He runs pretty fast in his superman cape and is pretty good at wrestling his big sister.
Sometimes Audrey just wanted some quiet time. Pretty good little comfort space she built for herself.
"Yes. I am a mother of three now...and I WILL survive!" (Even if her back doesn't.)
(No, that is not a jewel in the middle of Audrey's forehead. It is the wobbler on the bottom of the hummingbird chime that hangs from the lamp above the table).
"Gramma, Can we hang the bird feeder we made for you for Mother's Day??"
"My do it!"
Headed home a day earlier than we planned so we could help Peter and Jill a little bit. Even with almost a month of wonderful rain showers, we were sad to see that the dry Winter and very dry Spring had taken its toll on Navajo Lake. I have NEVER seen land visible like you can see at the bottom of the photo. And just a year ago the water was so high you could barely tell where the dike was let alone see any ground to the left in the photo.
But, on a happier note the construction crews have made great progress creating a new road through the massive land slide which closed Highway 14 for nearly year, diverting traffic up to Mammoth Creek around through Brianhead. You can now travel it with a few delays, but they are reinforcing some other problem areas as part of the project. It is an amazing site to see just how much earth slid down.
This photo shows the upper part of the slide after all the debris was removed. The smattering of flat part is the area where the new road is going thru. There is that much earth or more to the left side of the road and down into the gully below.
The cabin is still our joy and our respite. A good financial move would be to sell it and stop maintaining two homes. But I am not sure my soul is ready for that yet!
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