24th of July and the "ORR" Reunion

It is so hard to believe that the 24th of July has been here and gone already. It was a very nice day. We went to the parade and enjoyed it very much. All the floats were nice and quite a variety of them. The theme was 100 years of History so there was a lot of different ones. It only lasted 1 hour and that was just right. After the parade we went over to Porter Park and had an "Orr" reunion. It has been years since we have had one of those. There was about 284 people there. I didn't know some of them but it was fun to see some of the others. This was the posterity from my Grandma and Grandpa Orr-Joseph and Caroline. And as far as the number of posterity they have it was amaxing. There are 1841 of us just from those 2. Wow!!!
Our family, my Dads we have over 350. Hard to believe.
After the reunion we took the grandkids to ride the carousel. They rode it twice and loved it. Then, John and I went home and had a nap under the fans where it was cooler. Later that night we took Tiff's kids and went to the rodeo and fireworks. It was a fun day! Now all the work begins with the garden produce and raspberries. It's that time of year. Hope everyone puts a lot away for winter. We can be just like the squirrels storing their nuts away. Ha Ha!

WEDDING BELLS

On Friday, July 17th, our last son, David was married. It was a very beautiful, hot, humid day. We all went to the temple by 12:30 and he was married to Heather Hathaway at 1:00. Pres. Christensen, the temple President married them. It was a very good day. There was about 65 people there to witness it. Afterwards we took pictures, then went to the luncheon. The reception was that night and it was decorated really pretty. We had a wonderful day. It was so neat to have all of our kids and their spouses in the temple together. That was a great payday! We are very happy for them and know that they will have a great life together.

I love my MAN!

Yesterday, July 13th was John and I's 35th wedding anniversary. We were both working and we hope to celebrate with somewhere fun in the next week or two. I just want everyone to know what an awesome guy I am married to. He is the most compassionate, giving, hard working, loving man ever. He has always been so good to me and to his kids. He would do anything for any of us. He works so hard and such long hours and never complains. Needless to say I am the one that complains. Sorry for that! I know Heavenly Father had a hand in giving me such a super man. John, I want you to know that I love you with all my heart and thank you for everything. Thanks for 35 great years. Here's to 35 more!!!

Weekend full of fun and wild weather.

On Friday and Saturday I had the Johnson kids and the Poulsen kids. We had 2 pretty fun filled days. We played outside a lot, swam in the kiddie pool, jumped on the tramp, ate snacks on the tramp, ate lots of popsicles, ran thru the sprinklers, mowed the lawn, watched movies, rode bikes, and just had a great time. They all got along really well. Tif and Brett went to Youth Conference overnight and Trever and Jaimie went on a date Saturday. Then, on Sunday we had some very wild weather. John had been outside in the yard when the wind started blowing really hard and there was some thunder and lightning. He had no more walked in the house when I heard this loud crashing sound and looked out the kitchen window just as some of our tree in the front yard came crashing down on the house. It hit way hard and bounced a few times and hit the ground. I yelled at John and he went outside to see. Sure enough a great big branch snapped. It also took his new shed that he hadn't got screwed into the cement and moved it a foot or two. It was pretty wild. It smashed the vent on the chimney and dented a couple of spots in the roof, but all in all we were pretty lucky. John could have been killed by it. He was just barely out there. Trever, David and Destry came afterwards while John was at the church doing bills and such and cleaned it all up. Thanks so much guys. We really appreciate it. I will post some pictures so come back and look. I forgot my camera and I am posting at work. Everyone have a good week.

Birthday and Temple

Well, Thursday the 9th was my b-day and I am definately getting older. I had to work for some of the day. Tif and Linds took me out to lunch and then that afternoon when I went home Jaimie's family had decorated the house and picked me 3 bunches of wildflowers. Tif's family came up and we had b-day cake and then that night we went to the temple with David's fiance Heather to take out her endowments. It was a neat experience and a good way to spend my b-day. It helped with my goal, huh Angie. Afterwards we all went out to Bajio and ate. It was a great day. Thanks everyone for the presents also.

Thanks-and 4th of July

Lindsay, Thanks for the post about my b-day. I really appreciate it and it is fun to have b-days!
Well, my 4th was great. I took Tif's kids to the ward breakfast and then we went over to see them come in from their race. We got there just as they finished. Good job you two! We then went to the parade. I don't know about the Rexburg parade. They need to do something different. Kind of BORING! We left before it was over and went to Craigos and ate. Then, I went home and had an hour nap. When I got up, John was trying to put up a shed in the back yard that he has been working on for a few weeks. I decide to go and see if I could be of any help. What was I thinking? He said sure and 6 hours later in the hot sun, rain and mosquitos before we quit, we had put the whole building up. All the walls, ceiling beams and door front. We only have the roof to finish and hook the doors on. He was pretty excited and so was I because now we can work on other things besides that building. Good job Hun!
We quit about 9:30. We hadn't eaten so we drove to Rexburg, picked up some McDonalds, and went on the Rexburg hill and ate and watched all the neighborhood fireworks. They were pretty good and there was a lot of them. We had a fun day!

Happy Birthday Mom!

This is Lindsay, Jana's blog manager! Just wanted everyone to know this wonderful lady is having a birthday. I am a few days ahead, but I wanted to wish my mom a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. She is an amazing woman and does so much for everyone. I hope that you have a great day and do something extra fun. Love ya mom!

A Beautiful, Fun Day

On Sunday, John and I decided we were going to go to West Yellowstone Park for the day. We hadn't done anything all spring and I really wanted to go and see the animals. We didn't get gone until about 11:00. By the time we got into the park, we didn't see a lot of animals. I think they were hiding out of the sun. But, what we did see was awesome. Right off the bat we seen a bald eagle in her nest and it was really cool. We went up around Norris and the Canyon of the Yellowstone. It was gorgeous and the day was perfect. When we got to Yellowstone Lake there was a ton of people along the road looking at something. We drove by and went and got a drink and looked at the hotel and lake. When we came back out they were still there, so we stopped and asked. My heck, it was a grizzly bear. I was so excited, I made John stop. We got out and joined the crowd. He was just sleeping when we got there, but before we left he woke up, did a sit up, rolled over, got up, scratched his armpit and stood up and took a dump. We were laughing our heads off but it was pretty neat. After that, we decide to go home by way of Jackson. It has been years since I have been that way and we actually came from Jackson into the park the last time. So, it was neat going the other way. We seen the Tetons in a whole other way. We drove up around Jenny Lake and I had never been that way. We stopped at Colter Bay and that looks like a fun place. It was a wonderful day and John and I just relaxed and took our time and stopped wherever we wanted. We didn't get home until 10:00 that night but it was a super day.