Shower for Lauren & Baby Vining

Our girlie time!!

Most fun game: Sorting baby sock duals!!! Ibis was the winner with 16 pairs in 15 seconds!!!
Joyce said she thinks she cleaned Target out of baby socks!! So cute!!

Baby Shower held a bit early so Joyce (mom) & Sandy (aunt) could participate before

they leave for Michigan & Oregon. A good girlie time had by all!

Lauren & Baby Vining Shower

Baby Vining's newly decorated room.

This use to be Shaun's office, now turned into a big closet-playroom.

This is a beautiful crocheted butterfly display of a doilie Lauren's gradma Sickle made.

The new crib is in the garage waiting to be set up a bit later.

The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.

On our way home from California we decided to take the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.

It is one of the most unique adventre attractions on earth -- an engineering marvel featuring the world's largest rotating tram cars transporting you on an exciting excursion into nature.

Your spectcular 10-minute, 2 1/2-mile trip begins at the Valley Station, elevation 2,643 feet

and transports you to the Mountain Station, elevation 8,516 feet. During your ascent

you pass through 5 unique life zones, from the Mexican Sonoran Desert to an Alpine wilderness. Along the way, you'll encounter special plants and animals distinct to each zone.

Up top discover an incredible scenic wonderland in Mt. San Jacinto State Park encompassing 54-miles of hiking trails, primitive campgrounds, a ranger station and an adventure center for winter activities during snow season. Amenities include 2 restaurants, cocktail lounge, viewing areas, natural history museum, movie theater and gift shops.

Riding The Aerial Tramway Up The Mountain!

Up! Up! Up! We go & looking way down below!

The tram slowing rotates around so you can get a view from all angles of the side of the

mountain & the valley below. The ride up gives you a bit of a thrill!!! I felt alot more

sure of the equipment though, being in the U.S. I was a little to nervous to ride the tram

up the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio, in Brazil. Sorry Shaun!! I had heard some say, sometimes one gets stuck on top

for a while if the wind starts to blow. I knew we had to make it to the airport that afternoon,

so because of me we opted to eat at a Shuhasqueria Restuarant overlooking the oceon

instead. At least now I can say I did the equivalent! I conquered the Palm Springs Aerial

Tramway!!

Way on top of the mountain. Elevation, 8,516 Feet high! Overlooking the valley

way below!

It Was Cold On Top Of The Mountain

I was trying to take a pictures of ourselves & tried three times but thought
it didn't take but later discovered it took pictures afterall! So here we are!

Somone noticed & offered to take this picture! Snow??? Can you believe it? We had

to put on jackets & zip them up!!! Nice & crisp up on top!!

After you get on top there are trails you can hike down, down, down, on the other side of the

mountain. The only thing you have to remember is if you hike down, you've got to hike back

up which isn't as easy. I saw quite a few people huffing & puffing on there way back up.

It's a steep climb!!

This is where Kelly sat down & was surprizingly lazy, he didn't even want to hike

down one or two or three levels! I, at least tried three levels. The weather was

beautiful crisp & energizing. And you know how I love to be in the pines & mountains.

They give me a natural lift!! Just wish we had time to investigate & hike further!

Kelly said he felt kinda light headed. ??????

The New Redlands Temple

On our way home from Los Angeles we stopped at Chris & Dick Montgomery's home in
the Redlands. After a short visit we stopped by to see their New Redlands Temple. I love
to see temple grounds they're always so beautiful & of course because they surround a
temple & they just seem to enhance each other & of course temples hold a special place
in our hearts & one feels such a reverence there. The Redlands Temple is built of the
gray granite though which I don't like as well as the white granite. So I think this must
be what the new temple in north Phoenix will look similar to. I think I remember
hearing that the people up there didn't want a stark white temple sticking out, so the
architecs said they would build it with a gray granite so it would'nt be so bright. Trying
to please the people in the area. Me, I like the white granite of the Colonia Juarez Temple,
It looks beautiful in the day & night.


Beautiful, nevertheless!!!

Flowers Along The Way to Los Angeles

I was really impressed by all the pretty yellow wildflowers along the way on our trip to
L.A. for Aunt Ruth's Funeral. In places there were huge meadows of yellow.

Ruth & Roger Bown had 19 Grandchildren & Three Great Grandchildren

Cary & Allison Bown Nielsen family.

The Bown Family

Aunt Catherine & some of her kids & spouses. Jeff, Scott, Melanie &

Jennie & some of their spouses all drove down together in a suburban &

had a good visit on the way.

Brad & Lisa Bown Lockhart & family.

Mike & Marsha Bown & family.

AAunt Chris & Dick Montgomery, Patty, Roger Bown, Thelma Shinney & Terry & Susie Vining in the background.

We stopped at Aunt Chris & Dick Montgomery's home in the Redlands

on our way home. They live in a 109 yr. old victorian home. It was very quaint & interesting.

They have acquired alot of antique furniture pieces & posessions of Grandma & Grandpa

Montgomery's & have them displayed in their home. They even took out and old fireplace

from the huge old home on Jefferson in Ogden Utah where Grandma & Grandpa used to live

and had several boarders. And they've built it into their home surrounded by a whole wall

of book shelves. I remember Grandma Montgomery taking us to the old home to visit when Kelly & I were first married. They no longer lived there but knew the people who did.

Forest Lawn Memorial - Hollywood Hills

Ruth Montgomery Bown - April 7, 1932 - March 31, 2010 Beloved wife of Roger Lee Bown

We spent thurs. thru saturday out of town to Los Angeles for Kelly's Aunt Ruth's funeral.

Patty Vining flew to Salt Lake & traveled down with Terry & Susie. All Ruth's siblings

were able to attend. Patty, Thelma, Dick & Byron. Byron was able to talk Aunt Thelma

into coming down with them even though her husband Richard Shinney had passed only two weeks prior. We stayed at the Radazon Hotel in Granada Hills a 10 min. drive from the

Stake Center where Ruth & Roger attended for years where the funeral was held.

This was a beautiful cemetery & it was a beautiful cool spring day and all the flowers

were in bloom. Mike Bown had to fly home from Switzerland & he was already scheduled

to fly home for a vacation in may.

Byron Montgomery (brother) played "Amazing Grace" on his trumpet as requested by

the family at the cemetery. And this time there were no "tic tacks" caught in his mouth

peice as was the case discovered after he played at Grandma Montgmery's funeral.

He thought his kids had sabotaged his trumpet. As it was he had put his mouth piece

in his pocket & there had been some lose tic tacs in there & one found it's way into the

mouthpiece.

Recipe Box Project

Hurray! I finally made order out of my recipe's all crammed into a box to small!! I found
this box for filing scrapbooking items that was just right for all my recipe's. One more
project accomplished. Feels good!!

Basel Cell!?!?!?! Mohs Surgery!?!?!

Well a month or so ago when I had Bronchitus & went in to the doctor so I could get some
antibiotics, I happened to mention on my way out that I had this weird bump on my nose
after an abrasion healed on it, my skin just started growing extra cells & made a bump on my nose
like raised scar tissue. I no sooner mentioned it & the doc said, "Oh that's a basel cell, skin cancer
& that if I didn't take care of it , it would grow roots & I could lose half of my nose, if it hadn't
grown roots already. What?? Was I ever shocked!!!! I wasn't prepared for that!!!! So what's
one gonna do?? She referred me to a dermatologist & he took a sample & said they would
test it & get back with me. I prayed & hoped it would turn out to be negative but guess I
was wrong. I got a message to call them & they referred me to a surgeon in way-north
Scottsdale. Try Pinicle Peak Rd!!!! Halfway to Flagstaff I said, I don't sunbath that much
or go to the beach very often & he said where have you lived mostly, Arizona????? Yep!!!
He said, it just adds up from being in the sun from the time you're little! Sooo......here's telling
you to WEAR YOUR SUNCREEN!!! Those who are fair are more likely to get it. The
moisturizer that I"ve worn daily before I put on my make-up for the last 25 yrs. has 15%
SPF, so I thought that would make me safe. Try getting seven shots in your nose, that
ain't fun! Yikes!!! I had to wear this big white bandage on my nose for a whole week.
Makes you sorta feel like you're wearing a dunce hat!! Everyone just sorta grins at you!
I tried several antics of disguise as I ventured out. The blue pollution & virus masks, but
they fogged up my sunglasses big time!! Cut two holes in it so the steam could get out.
Kelly wanted to go out to dinner, so I put two skin toned bandages over the white bandage
to make it less noticeble. It only increased the size of my nose!! So then I began wearing
my dark sun-glasses everywhere, inside & out, at least I felt I was a little bit hidden &
they couldn't look me right in the eye!! Ha! Ha! I tried to take tan bandages off & they
were stuck to the white one so I was stuck with the biggggg nose for the rest of the week!

Sure seemed like the longest.........week. On the bright side, it was kinda nice taking baths
& using sweet smelling bath salts, so as not to get the bandage wet. And I read a thick
book & studied the tutorials for familysearchindexing, signed up & finished several
batches of indexing, 700 names in all this week!! It was fun learning something new.
And I didn't mind at all the long drive
up north to get the bandage offfffffff, It's great! Makes one appreciate. Now I can itch
my nose. Well.....it's time for lights out!