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July 22, 2012

Jordan was ordained a priest in the Aaronic Priesthood by his Uncle Ed.  All these awesome men stood in the circle. Back row: Kevin Wooley, Raymond Crane, Todd Shoemaker, Ed Webecke, Brian Burnett and Scott Ahlstrom.  Front row: Paul Webecke, Kaleb Hall, Tony Smith, Jordan and Ken Crane.

 After the ordination, Ed and Michelle opened their home for a luncheon.  Michelle had many desserts for us to eat.  Just look at all those cupcakes.  Beverly, hidden by her hair, and I helped Michelle put the cupcakes on serving dishes.

After leaving Ed's we went to my parents.   Most of my family was there.  JeriDee had baked a cake, so we all sang "Happy Birthday" to Jordan.  It was a fun day!!

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July 21, 2012

Happy 19th birthday to my beautiful Morgan!  Morgan amazed me.  She is confident, loves music and to dance, laughter is her best medicine, she is a good worker, bright, caring, loves to serve others, her testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ is the back bone of her life.  I love you Morgna.

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July 20, 2012

 Mom and I were moving furniture and cleaning in Uncle Phil's room. (Grandpa has used this as his office since Uncle Phil's passing 8 years ago.)  Addi was drawn to Grandpa's exercise bike.  She tried to ride it the correct way.  It was just to difficult.

 Addi enjoyed talking to her Daddy on the phone while we were on vacation.  She really missed Craig and he missed her.

 Latter in the day, Addi figured out how to ride Grandpa's bike.

 She just got on the bike backwards.  She even tried to "turn on" the bike!  She is so curious and eventually figures things out.

 Boy was she happy to be able to ride the bike.  She happily tired herself out riding the bike.

After dinner I took Addi outside to swing.  I am so glad that my cousins put up this swing in the tree.  When my family and I lived with Grandma and Grandpa Marsh for a year (when I was 7 & 8) Grandpa hung a swing for us in this same tree.  The swing that Grandpa hung was there for many years.  My cousin Jerimah hung the swing in the picture when the origanal one had seen better days.  Addi was so happy to be on the swing, just look at her smile!

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July 19, 2012

When Mom, Addi and I got to Grandpa Marsh's house there were 2 saw horses with plywood set up as a table in his living room.  There were pictures all over this makeshift table. 

Grandpa recorded his personal history on tape.  Sent the tape to my cousin, Erica.  Erica typed the history up and sent it back to Grandpa.  Grandpa was matching up the pictures on the table to his history. 

I was so excited to see all these pictures.  (I love pictures!!)  Most of the pictures I had not see before.  There were pictures from Grandpa's childhood, up through his engagement to Grandma.  Such a fun experience to hear Grandpa's stories,  I am looking forward to getting a copy of Grandpa's history so I can read the stories!!

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 July 18, 2012 

Dew on the grass was cool when we went outside for our walk with Grandpa.  So I had to snap of picture of the undistrubed dew drops. 

 Grandpa Marsh goes for a walk everyday.  So while we (Mom, Addi and Me) visited we walked with him.  Addi wanted to use a cane like Grandma.  It was so funny to watch her.  I was happy that the cane was adjustable so we shortened it to be Addi's size.

 Just another artsy picture!

 Beautiful people all in my family!!  Heavenly Father has really blessed me with awesome family.

Grandpa's neighborhood is very well manicured.   So I was suprised to see "flowers" growing in the crack of someones driveway.  They made for a fun picture!

I am so glad that I took walks with Grandpa while I was visiting.  Reminded me when Grandpa and Grandma would come visit us while I was in middle school.  Grandpa would walk me to school then.  In middle school I was so embarassed to have Grandpa walk by me...now I am grateful that he did walk with me, letting me know that he loved me in his on way.  I love my Grandpa and Grandma Marsh!

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July 17, 2012

 Grandpa Marsh sitting in Mom's Mini Cooper.  He was suprised that he could get into the car so easily.  He liked the car as much as Mom does!!

 After Grandpa got into Mom's car, he had her get in his wheelchair to go for a walk.  (Mom had gone body surfing, unintentionally, and was really banged up.)  So I pushed Mom in the wheelchair with Addi following.  Grandpa led the way pushing his walker.  It was an exciting walk to the end of the street and back.  Glad grandpa lives in the middle of the street.  It made for a shorter walk for our parade!!

Mom playing Grandma's piano is always comforting.  This is the first time I have been to Grandpa's since Grandma dies 1 1/2 years ago.  I really missed Grandma playing the piano. 

After Grandpa came home from World War II he recieved a $500 bonus from the military.  So Grandma took the money and bought a clothes washer, this piano and one more major item (can't remember what that was right now).  I thought this was in interesting piece of family history as well as our country's economic history.

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July 16, 2012

Jordan turned 16!  He is so handsome. He likes music.  He enjoys learning new songs to play on the clarinet, bass clarinet and trombone.  He regularly writes in his journal.  He is tender and kind to all.  He puts the Lord first.  I have a lot to learn from Jordan.

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July 15, 2012

I love these individual pictures of the kids with their Great-Gram Webecke.   Jordan was so tender with Gram.  Stuart and Raeleigh were happy to see her, but didn't know what to say. 

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July 14, 2012

Very pretty.  Yellowstone National Park Grand Canyon.  This is such a beautiful place to visit.  I think that even if you spend a month in the park you will not have seen it all. (I got Addi's head in the bottom of the photo.)  Picture taken first week of July.

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July 13, 2012

What kind of animal is this?  I saw this animal while driving through Grand Teton National Park the first week of July.  I have no idea what it is, but I think it is beautiful.

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July 12, 2012

I am glad the kids got to spend time with their Webecke grandparents while we were in Utah. 

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July 11, 2012

 Raeleigh and my nephew, Demetrius, playing Phase 10.  Addison and my nephew, Ryker, came to watch the game.

This picture just makes me laugh.  Demetrius holding his cards in his toes.  I love the smile on his face.  Demetruis is awesome!

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July 10, 2012

We went to visit Tony!  Raeleigh had a leg injury and was hobbling.  So Tony picked her up and carried her into his apartment.

 Stuart thought the skateboards in the apartment were cool.  They belonged to Tony's room mates.

Jordan, Tony's friend was also there, glad we could meet him.  I brought my nephew Ryker to visit also.  Ryker was not so sure about having a cousin that could live all by himself  (without Mom and Dad).   I was so f111unny to see how suprised Ryker was to see Tony.  We all had a great visit, so glad we got to see Tony

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July 9, 2012

A couple of years ago, I asked my Mom to make blankets for my kids.  I didn't want just any blanket.  I wanted them to be blankets made out of their Daddy Searls' clothes.  Raeleigh got her blanket.   Her smile telles us how happy she is!!

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July 8, 2012

I took the kids over to visit my Crane grandparents.  It was a nice visit.  We also got see my Uncles Kelly and Bruce and part of their families.  Glad I took the kids over to see them.

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July 7, 2012

 Happy Birthday Corey!  It was awesome to celebrate his 7th birthday with the (almost) the whole Crane family.

 Roasted marshmellows for breakfast.  The kids thought it was yummy.

 I was so excited to see the Elk on our way out of Yellowstone National Park.

We drove through Grand Teton National Park on our way back to Utah.  This park is also beautiful.

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July 6, 2012

 Mud Volcano.

 Dragon Mouth Spring.

 

 Most of the family met up at Old Faithful.

Blue Star Spring.  This was so beautiful.

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July 5, 2012

We stopped at the one patch of snow we saw in Yellowstone National Park.  Raeleigh was excited because she does not remember playing in snow.  She was suprised at how cold it was!

Keeping our melons cold in the Lava Creek for our picnic!

 New Highland Terrace.

Yes, this bison did cross the road right in front of our truck.  He is huge.

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July Fourth Devotional

 We were camping in Yellowstone National Park for our Crane family reunion.  My parents presented a devotional about why living in the USA is important to them, we sang songs, listened to Jordan and John Burnett play Baritone and watched Samantha's rifle routine.  Mom and Dad also shared stories about freedom with us.

We ended the evening with red, white and blue glow necklaces.  The kids had a great time flinging the necklaces around.  I used a slow shutter spead to capture the various lights of the necklaces.