Paul & Bonnie's 2008 'Edventures'

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Paul & Bonnie's 2008 'Edventures'

Decided it might be fun to make a montage of each year's 'edventures'. Here's last year's. I was amazed at how many beautiful places we visited. We live in a wonderful area, don't we?!

Tree with a lightening scar

We saw this cool tree with a huge lightening scar while we were rambling around.

Lots of beautiful water to enjoy

The Old Kiln

Date Nite Fun

Yea! The evenings are finally light long enough that we can take our dates outside again. We decided to take a picnic up to Oak Grove tonight. The leaves are starting to come out and their were even a few Aspens with little tiny ones. The streams are running very nicely with the snow melt. There is just a little snow on that side of Pine Valley still. Probably some of it from that little storm last week. We ate our picnic and then wandered around some to see the sights. We saw a couple of places on the way up that we wanted to see and stopped on the way back out. We found our next 'grand edventure' site we decided. Don't take your kids to see it! We want to. It will be a couple of weeks before we have a Saturday to go, but we will talk to you about it. It's tame enough that we could take all the walkers we think. We may have to work a trade on a car to fit everyone in though. We are thinking a morning activity and then lunch. All in all we had a great date. Ahhh, nature is so refreshing!

In Search of Tassi Springs...

Saturday Paul and I spent most of the day in search of Tassi Springs out on the Arizona Strip. To get there you go to Mesquite, Nevada, and then out by Whitney Pockets and past The Devils' Throat, then into Arizona. You can see Lake Mead and we got almost down to Grand Gulch Bay on one of our many detours. Unfortunately, we never made it to Tassi Springs. We found dried up Whitney Springs and saw some beautiful desert flowers and a jack rabbit. We enjoyed the time together and the scenery, but the finding of Tassi Springs will have to take place on another day with a better map than we had this time! Maybe Lance can get us some better directions from Google Earth. We found a nice picture of an old building that's out there, but were unable to find a satisfactory map we thought we could use to navigate by. Another day, another 'edventure'.

Back to school in 2009!

With the help of some wonderful people, I got to go back to school this year. Actually, I started just before the Christmas break. I was so lucky that Lynne, Ms. Godfrey, had no afternoon aide and I was able to get back to the job. I had done it for a few years and then took a year and half off. What an amazing blessing to be able to get back with the same teacher at the same school on the same schedule. Like I said, it was with the help of some wonderful people. It is such a great job. I always thought of myself in the role of secretary, but this is so much more satisfying. It's so great to watch the progress these little ones make throughout the year and to have the chance to take a small part in making it happen. Some come in not knowing their ABC's and go out reading...wow! It's great to watch their confidence in their abilities grow and hopefully help them get off to a positive start in their school career! Working with Lynne is also great! She's a master teacher as well as a caring friend. It's great to be back to school!

Yeah, Christie's 21! Happy Birthday! We had the family get together a few days after the official day. All the local fam was able to make it over and the weather was so nice we opened presents and had cheesecake outside. We even had some long time no see relatives drop by for the festivities. Mark and Charlene Brooks are in town with their 3 kids, Tyler, Josh and Emily, for Spring Break all the way from Washington. It was nice to see them after so many years. Hope Christie felt celebrated amid all the visiting and rough housing!

A visit to Pine Valley

Sunday after the last session of General Conference Paul and Bonnie drove up to Pine Valley to take a relaxing walk amid the fresh air and pine trees. It's still pretty cool up there with some snow patches in the valley. We saw a couple of really cool intertwined trees as we walked. We sure want to go camping now!