Summer update

It's been too long since we updated! We've been very busy with a wedding, a baby and lots of traveling for all. Stephanie and Curt got married on June 21st in Salt Lake. It was perfect in every way. You can see a quick preview of wedding pictures at Bethanyjackman.com on her blog- we're still waiting to see all the pictures- we'll send on the link when they are all up on the website.I think they will be amazing, it was a beautiful day and occasion. Stephanie and Curt are now settled in at Wymount in Provo waiting for school to start. Stephanie got into the nursing program at BYU and will start in August. Rich had to make a quick trip for the wedding so after just a few short days in Utah he was off to Italy to work for a month. Erik had a quick week in Delta riding four wheelers and various other motorcycles etc and enjoying the farm life and then came back home for a few hours before leaving for Copenhagen, Denmark for EYI youth conference for a week. He came back home for another 24 hours and re-packed and was off the Switzerland for a week at scout camp.Luckily he did all the travel, packing, re-packing without any adult supervision and did a great job. Anne and I stayed longer and had plenty of time for a sister's week in St George,and another week in Delta celebrating the 4th with Katie, Elizabeth and their babies. What a trip! Anne and I came home after 3 weeks and then 2 days later Elizabeth and Scott had their baby- Daniel, on July 11. Check out their blog for cute baby pictures. I'm already planning another trip to see the baby in Sept. Those grandbabies are soo cute and fun!
Rich, Anne and I just got back from Italy. Anne and I flew down last week and stayed with our friend, Donna who has her her own pool. Anne of course wanted to swim non-stop. We had alot of great food, and sun and made a day trip to Venice. Rich came home with us so now we are getting back to normal life- whatever that is!
Hopefully we'll get some pictures to add soon. Keep watching!

new patio

Our new patio- here are before and after pictures of our patio behind our barn room that we just finished. There were remenants of stone foundations and old cobblestones, so we took those up and filled in to the stone foundations and now have a nice patio area out the door instead of a muddy mess. Here's before-



Here's after- Plus some really cute pictures of Erik and Stephie and Erik before prom in his new suit.

Nathan's visit

Nathan in his baking hat,

We have Nathan with us for the week while Liza and Scott and Scott's parents are touring Italy. Having a 2 yr old in the house keeps us all busy keeping up with him. He was helping Stephie bake- and quietly emptied several cups of flour onto the counter while she wasn't looking. SHe put him down ot clean that up and he found a box of garbage bags and emptied that out all over the kitchen.

May update

Stephie, Anne and I went to Prague on Memorial day weekend. we drove the mini and spent 2 days there. It was amazing to just program the GPS and have it take us right into the city and to our hotel. I never would have tried that without a GPS- in a country where you can't read the language - or most of the street signs! This fountain is one we just had to get a picture of - if it offends you don't enlarge it for a bigger view! You see this ALL over Europe so we really laughed to see this fountain with guys with rotating pelvis' (We made sure not to corrupt Anne!)
Here are the girls in the main square and feeding the swans under the Charles Bridge.

Jewish cemetary in Prague

Looks like we have forgotton our blog for awhile, I keep waiting to have time to post pictures, but seems I only have time when I'm at work and can't add the pictures, so here's a post without pictures,we'll have to add those later. We now have Stephie home for a few weeks, she is missing Curt and raking up our phone bill, but we are so glad to have her here for a while we'lll pay the phone bill and feed her too. We had her pictures taken at the castle today, I told the friend of ours we just needed a few very castle-y pictures and she was so excited about the beautiful day the beautiful castle background and the beautiful girl that she took 300 more pictures! I think they will be very cool- now we'll have several albums full of Stephie in her wedding dress and the wedding is still to come!
Erik had his prom last week they went on a Rhine river boat cruise for prom, he says there was no music to dance to so he didn't dance much-which didn't make his date happy- but had a good time with his friends and his car got a through cleaning for the big night too.
Elizabeth and Scott are coming next week and leaving us Nathan for a week while they tour Italy with Scott's parents. Then they will all be here for another week before we all go to Utah for the wedding. We can't wait to see them -and have some quality time with Nathan. Anne thinks she should be able to miss school all week to play with him.