funny little girls

I was randomly looking through my sent folder and saw this short email to
Gram Ro back in March. Thought it was worth posting.

Before bed, Kysa.."If I lick my lips they'll get chappy and then we'll put
more lipstick on!" (I don't even own any chapstick, so the chapstick thing
definitely comes from Grandma Ro.)

And then she said, "Mom, tell Grandma Ro to come to our house on Sunday!"

Recent funny comments from Shay:

"Poot is Bodie's brother."

I told Shay to go get her pillow. She responded, "Aye, aye, captain!"

And one of my favorites-last weekend after the Gillette reunion at
Pomerelle, Kysa got to ride back to Idaho Falls with Grandma Ro who was on
her way to take care of Bodie in Wyoming. As usual, Kysa was having a hard
time coping with Grandma leaving, and didn't want her to go. She kept
saying, "Grandma, don't go." Shay finally had had enough, put both of her
little hands on Grandma's thighs and shoved her, yelling, "Grandma, GO!!!!"
It was priceless. So, Grandma left. Kysa cried. And Shay was relieved.

Driving to Wyoming for the Jasperson reunion, Kysa asked a question about
something, I can't even remember what it was, and my answer included the
word "sturdy". She started laughing loudly, "Sturdy?" More chuckles.
"That's a funny word!-Sturdy!", she said. Then Shay and Kysa repeated the
word sturdy for a few minutes, chuckling. Apparently a funny new addition
to their growing vocabularies.

Cousin Layton's first two fish

Another Gillette Cousin Blog Entry as I thought this was cute.

Tori, Layton, and I went fishing down to the river below the house for the
first time yesterday. Layton was very excited to go fishing and had been
bugging me about it all morning.
 
On the way there we saw the moose crossing the river. Then we waded across a
spring and made it to an S turn in the river. After a few casts Layton
caught his first fish on a worm threaded worm. He needed alot of help
reeling it in and I don't think he realized he had a fish until we got it
close. I'm not sure it is a very good omen, but it was an 10 inch chub.
 
We snapped a few pictures and I made another cast with Layton's schredded
worm so I could help Tori get her line back in the water. Before I could
walk away from Layton his rod started bouncing again. Again, I don't think
he realized at first what was going on, but the fish started running towards
the opposite bank and taking alot of line, despite me having the drag set at
a fairly strong level. By the way it was running up and down the river I
thought he had snagged a 5 pound carp or something. After a lengthy fight we
were delighted to finally bring it in and see a 17 1/2 inch beautiful brown.

 
Anyway, just thought I send a few picks and tell the story.
 
Austin

Last Basketball Camp of the Summer

Raleigh finished his 4th hoops camp in June on Wednesday--Joe O'Brien's camp
at IFHS. He wasn't digging it the first day but had a lot of fun by the
end. He got a basketball and three ribbons for placing in contests. It was
nice of the camp organizer to send this picture to all the participants.

Wayne's billboard!

My good friend Alice Schenk is an original. Who does this?

Here is what Alice had to say:

I told my husband that I wanted to blow up a photo of him...I did a great
job huh!!! My 10' 5" x 22' 8" enlarged photo for my husbands birthday.
Yes... Wayne was surprised! You see his birthday is not until November!
Sarah invited him & grandpa to lunch but I met them instead. I was nervous
to say the least. Hey he did buy me lunch! He came to town in his
irrigating boots with the cowboy boots in the back of the farm pickup at a
last minute 'meet me for lunch request' from his daughter Sarah. I could
simply not risk him finding out via a phone call. Traffic along this stretch
of road is under construction and crawls at times! He did say I could have
called with a dead battery and he would have came right over...Ever since we
met and dated he has called me 'Lady'. He added the 'His' to it after we
wed! Just wanted to share this with you! It was such fun!

~Alice