Grandma & Grandpa!!! Yeah for more visitors!

Grandma and Grandpa Price came for a visit and brought cousin E with them. A lot of fun was packed into 3 short, but great days.

Steve flew up to Provo on Wednesday afternoon to pick up Grandpa and E while Grandma drove down to Cedar City. Ml, cousin E, and E were pretty much inseparable the whole time.

We found a great little fishing pond up the main canyon in Cedar City. It was only for kids.














Grandpa probably thought it would be a nice, relaxing day ..... but the kids kept catching fish after fish, so he was very busy the entire time, undoing hooks, and re-applying bait.

















Of course, the rest of us had a nice, relaxing time.

























And ...here is our Fashion
Diva... feeling very sorry
for the poor fish



















Even O got to catch a fish. Unfortunately, my memory card was full, so the very best expression of the day did not make the film.



















Since Grandma and Grandpa won't be here for E's birthday, E got to have a little birthday party a month early.







Look at that cake!! O was not very happy that it was E's.











Grandma even braved taking a flight with Steve.
















Cedar Breaks for dinner - where we thought we were freezing to death in 65 degree weather.



























On Saturday, Steve took his dad flying, while Grandma and I took the kids to St. George on a shopping excursion.




Here, the kids are modeling their matching outfits.















"Look at my new shoes!"






O was SO excited to get some flip flops.


She even had to cuddle with them in her bed that night.











With so much fun these past few days, I guess we will just go back to waiting around for more visitors to come.
























Two days before our visitors arrived, M got to be the first in the family to visit the emergency room in C City. The glass shade on our bedside lamp was bumped off the stand and broke over his forehead. Because it was a nice, clean cut, they were able to use 'super glue' instead of stitches.



Here he is waiting to be glued up. I tried to get him to smile, but he reminded me that there wasn't anything to be happy about just then.

Of course this injury was quickly forgotten when cousin E arrived and with a gauze pad and some plastic wrap around his head, they were able to splash around in our back yard pool.

YEAH for VISITORS!! The cousins come for a visit

Because Helaman was always taking great pictures, I now realize that I did not take very many pictures of this fun weekend at all. Hopefully, he will send us a copy of all his pictures, and I can post some better ones here.Hiking up Cedar Breaks - where we had a great dinner and of course - dutch oven cobler. MMmm















Here are the partner's in crime - there is no telling what was going on between the two of them.

















This is Red Rock Recreation area near Leads. It was a 107 degrees that day.

Sad that the cousins have left - O patiently waits for more visitors.

A Week of Early Morning Flights

US PILOT - Steve received his "wings" on Monday after passing his check flight with an FAA instructor. He is now in the time building portion of school. He has to log over 50 hours of 'cross country' flights before he can go on. This week, his time slot has been from 5am - 9am.

Since he is now a certified pilot he can take passengers up. The kids have loved going with him - even though it means going to bed early to be at the airport by 4:30 am.

K got to go first. Steve was scheduled to fly to Delta, UT, but after K had vomited three times, she made him land in Milford and turn around. So far, that has been our only incident of air-sickness, and she was able to take a friend up on Saturday without getting sick.




M has enjoyed sitting in the front next to Dad - especially with the dual controls. Once when Steve was flying over Kolob Canyon, the plane started swaying slightly from side to side for no apparent reason. Then Steve looked over at M and saw that he had grabbed the second controls and was doing exactly what he had seen Steve do.


A Future Pilot? Not only does she love getting up early for these Cross Country Flights, but she has a smile pasted on her face the whole time.

This is a great video - E is especially proud of herself.


Steve was even able to persuade me to go up with him. I can't say I wasn't nervous - but it turned out okay. We flew to Overton, Nevada.
Flying over Lake Mead was beautiful. He did a good job and his landings were smooth. However, realizing that I needed to use the rest-room before we were even out of Cidar City, made for a long two hours in a small plane.

Let the Festivities begin!!

Summer's finally here... we hope. And, Cedar City is not called 'Festival City USA' for nothing. Last week, the first of many festivals started.









This week we had the Family Festival. Every day there were concerts, games and fun in the park. At night we watched movies in the park - it got a little cold once the sun went down, but the kids had a lot of fun.
We are very excited for some of the upcoming festivals this summer.

I'm especially curious about the Sheep Festival - where they parade over 800 sheep down main street.

There's not much new to report. The kids are slowly making some friends and they have all done well in swimming. K and Ml are now ready to move on to the Pre-Team swimming class, where they will learn to perfect their strokes and swim laps.



M is loving Cub Scouts. He went on his first Day Camp on Saturday. He had to meet his pack at 7:30 am, so Steve and I were up at 6:30 am to make sure he got breakfast and was ready. But he was not in his bed. He had gotten up sometime during the night, put on his scout uniform and fallen asleep on the couch - ready to go!




They had a lot of fun chasing lizards, learning archery and playing many other games.













We have also planted a garden. It is a garden 'by the square foot'. We planted corn, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, green onion, lettuce, beans, carrots, and pumkins. We're holding our breath to see what happens. We've seen a few small sprouts. The kids had fun helping to prepare the garden and deciding who got to plant what - even though we were using manure.


















Even O has made a little friend - this is S.

















Steve is just waiting to get his 'wings'. He has passed the ground school and the FAA written test for Private Pilot License and just needs to pass the Check flight with an FAA instructor. Hopefully that will happen in the next few days.