Josh's Birthday turned 7

Jesse and Hunter went to a Scate board in a Skate park Birthday party. They had such a great time. I forgot to take pictures but it is worth mentioning that they were going up and down most of the hills and when the party was over we stayed an extra hour and they showed me all the things they did while the party was going on. Mom and I left and went shopping while they were at the party.

Wiser Family picture

It's hard to get a great family picture, but here is the group and a little personality showing through. Fun times had by all. My children refer to this reunion as the "8 days with Benji (the dog)". They based their time around Benji.




Here is Tim, Lucinda, Theron and Mark Wiser. It has been 8 years
since this many of us got together.









Here is Katherine Wiser, Leslie Wiser, Kate Wiser, Katie Evans and Lucinda Wiser. It was fun to get pictures like these.

What's going on around here

My niece Melissa asked me for an update so here goes. Our house is till on the market but n0t much is happening with it. So I will settle in and get the kids ready for school. Phil is loving his job, it is going much slower than we thought it would but hopefully soon things will pick up so they can grow the company. Jesse is ready to start school. He has lost 2 teeth this week and one more will be out by the reunion time. I am doing a lot of quilting right now. I will bring my projects with me to the reunion so you can see them. I am now going from quite a novice beginner to a more advanced beginner sewer. I am doing a more complicated quilt right now and am quite excited about how it is coming together.
Looking foward to seeing you all. I love your blogs and I will do better at keeping up on my blog.

Rain Dance

It was so fun to watch. We were eating dinner outside, the wind came up, the clouds began to form. The lightening and thunder started in the distance and quickly got close, we moved everyhing under the porch and it began to rain very hard. They boys thought this was great and they went out in the rain and began to dance. I took a quick clipse of it because it was so funny. Hunter called it the happy dance as he was galloping from one side of the deck to the other. Before long they were both just dancing and laughing and having a great time.

The Wiser reunion in Elk WA

Walking every morning at 9:30 AM is a daily routine that I have participated in and I have even made it around the lake and even a tour around Mark and Kate's Property.







Every day the group gets bigger. I imagine this morning we will be one great big group. Everyone who is coming is here now. It will be fun to see them. They got here late, stayed up late and are sleeping in late.

Swimming at Grandma Evans

Finally summer has come, all those days in the bath tub with life jackets payed off because now they can use their new skills in real life. They had a great day and Jesse is learning to swim without his life jacket this year because he can touch the bottom. Hunter can stand on the round edge along the front of the pool, but if he slips off of his tippy toes then he goes under. Next year Hunter you can do it without your life jacket. We remembered our sunscreen this time, 2 weeks ago we didn't put any on and we were all burned to a crisp.

Day three at Thanksgiving Point

Thanksgiving Point

Jesse, Hunter, Grandma Wiser and Max posed in front of a big
cow as we were coming into the animal farm. The kids had a
lot of fun in the barn before we even went out to see the
animals.






The kids played in and around the jail and the 3 other building
for over an hour. I have a lot of cute pictures of that time, but
this one just sooo cute. Callie definately had front and center stage
with these boys.





We went on a wagon ride. The kids had a lot of fun and enjoyed
the ride. Here are some of us







and here are the rest of us. We had a great time and a great day.
I am glad that we all made the effort to be together for one day.

Second half of day two. Tom's house

Grandpa Gledhill is holding baby Gracie. Just as I got my camera
out and took this picture, Gracie decided to start crying. I tried
but it is a good picture of Grandpa.







Hunter, Grandma Wiser and Baby Gracie. Hunter wanted to learn
how to hold a baby with Baby Gracie, but I told him that when we
get back to Boise he can hold the Edvalson baby or the Bird baby.
He kinda understood but still wanted to hold Gracie.




We went out and played tennis on their sports court until it got too
dark to play. We only lost one ball out of six. It was a fun game.



We met Grandpa Gledhill over at Tom's house. He hadn't seen my kids for a year. He had a dentist appointment later in the week and he came a few day's early and I made the trip to SLC with Grandma Wiser so that he could be around us for 2 days. It was a great trip. We got to see Baby Gracie, spend time with the cousins and Grandpa Gledhill got to spend 2 days around all 6 of his grandchildren. Here are just a few pictures of that first day together. We just stayed at Tom's house and let the cousins be together and we got to hold and be around Gracie. She is doing well and slowly gaining weight. She is now on room air and that gives Michele some freedom around the house.

Day two

Solveig Coles and Steve Thomas were married today in the Salt Lake Temple by President Hinkley's son in law. It was a very special day for them and my mom got to participate in the event. While they were doing that the boys and I were driving around the avenues. Hunter believes that I was born in the mountains in Utah and he wanted to see my mountain so I drove him to the hospital I was born in the Mountain and he was disappointed because He thought it would be more mountain rather than a hospital. Later we went to the church office building to go to the bathroom we walked around and I told them that this is where President Monson and the leaders of the church work every day, again not too impressed. But when we went out and they found the fountains then they were having a good day and spent a lot of time splashing water from it. After downtown salt lake we went to Tom's house. See next post.

June 23-26 2008 trip to SLC

Day one June 23 Liberty Park
Hunter after a long day in the park found ths swing in the small children's section and enjoyed a nice swing for a while. They had a great day at the park after a long drive in from Boise





Jesse is coming down the slide and having a fun day in the park.
When Hunter went to the car to get his swimsuit so he could go in the water features, Jesse was a huge help finding Hunter with us.



Here is Grandma Wiser enjoying a nice day in the park. We had a nice relaxing first day.

Taking Grandma Evans to the airport

We took Grandma Evans to the airport so that she could fly to Phoenix, Arizona to pick up a motorized scooter and a Dodge Van that is wheelchair assessable for Grandpa. So while we were in downtown boise we went to Julia Davis park, Discovery Center (kinda, we didn't pay to stay all day, we just looked in as far as they would let us) then on over to Kathryn Albertson's park and walked around the waterfall for a while. It was a great day. Then we had to get back home for the kids to have an afternoon play date with Josh and Jankin. We have kept in touch with these boys even though they moved to Nampa, just a mile away from Grandma Wiser. So the boys had a fun day.

1st day of summer break

Grandma wiser got the boys set up and let them paint the shed, she figured 10 minutes maybe 30 minutes top they would paint. Instead they painted for 3 hours and painted 3 of the 4 sides of the shed. The next day we got out the scaffoling and they contintued to paint up to as high as they could reach. It was amazing. When we get back from all of our trips we will let them take turns on the ladder to get the very top.

They love to paint and they loved having so much to paint. Once
started using a roller the painting went much faster and they really enjoyed themselves.

Jesse's Graduation from Kindergarten

Here is Jesse in the back row getting ready to start the program.
He was quite nervous and wasn't sure if he was going to say his
Nursery rhyme or not, but he calmed himself and did it great.


Phil, Hunter, Katie and Grandma Wiser were there to watch him.




It was so cute, his class met in an auditorium for 1/2 hour and let each child recite a nursery rhyme, then presented them each with a certificate of completion from Kindergarten. Jesse was quite nervous but he stood up there, held his teachers hand and recited eensy wincy spider. Then he got his certificate and came down and sat with us. It was very cute.