We have EGGS!

I just had to take a picture of our first egg. It happened about 2 weeks ago. It really is a blue/green egg. We have had about 12 others since. We are getting brown eggs too. Is it silly to be so excited over eggs?

Surprise Announcements!

We were all quite surprised when Carter & Dian came to us and told us that Dian had decided to get baptized. She had been taking the discussions all on her own. We were so excited for her. What surprised us even more was that Carter was able to baptize her. We are so proud of both of them. Hopefully this will be the beginning of some real growth for them. Well...as if that announcement wasn't big enough...one week after her baptism they came over and announced that Dian is expecting again maybe sometime in December! WOW!

Graduation!

Summer is officially graduated! She graduated with honors and will be heading off to college in the fall on a full scholarship. The graduation was held at the Well's Fargo Arena at ASU. We are so proud of her! Me & Summer

Bob & Summer

Summer & Hannah

McKenzi, Summer, & Cali...My girls

It was fun to have my sister Heidi here. She drove in from California just a couple hours before the graduation.

It was nice to have both Grandma Schneider and Grandma & Grandpa Peterson there too.

After the graduation we decided to go out to eat. Summer's 1st choice was Olive Garden but we were told there was 1 1/2 hours wait. We hit a couple more and were told the same thing. We finally settled on Fudrucker's and got right in. That was where Bob and I had our first date, so that was fine by us. Everyone had a great time.

Summer has been living the life of a very social Senior. Over the past month she has attended 4 Proms...yes 4! She wore a different dress each time. The first one she wore last year's dress and she borrowed the others. She also had me make the boutineers. My roses came quite handy for all those. So she really got off for very little money. Prom can be done on a shoe string! She was so pretty!

Prom #1: Basha High School with Parker

Prom #2: Desert Ridge with Anthony

Prom #3: Mesquite with Tanner

Frog, Monet, Summer, & Tanner
She had more fun getting ready with her friend Monet. They went and had pedicures done and did their hair together. So cute!

Prom #4: Red Mountain with Colton

Easter Sunday we had everyone over for dinner. It was really nice outside. I have to just say that I have the cutest grandkids in the world!

Miracle & Evelyne

McKenzi & Miracle
Dian & Evelyne

Ok, I have been a bit neglectful about blogging this past month. What can I say, it has been quite a busy month.
Here are more of my gardening hobbies. I love flowers. It must be a bit in the blood. i remember when I was a child, going over to my great grandpa's house. His backyard was filled with flowers. He loved flowers. Everyone knew he loved flowers. This was manifested at his funeral. I had never seen anything like it. There were flowere arrangements everywhere in the chapel. I don't think it would be an exageration to say there were well over 100 arrangements. I still remember how good it smelled. Anyway, these are a few of my roses that I have in our yard that looked so pretty last month!

This is my all time favorite...my Sterling Silver rose. I love all lavender roses, but this is my favorite. The fragrance is incredible.

This is my Peace roseI don't know what this one is called. I just like it and it always has a lot of blooms.This is another favorite of mine...my Queen Elizabeth rose.