Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Wanna win?
Check out these SUPER cute plates! My friend, Gina, sells them at her shop Feather Your Nest. You could win them! Click on the plate to go to her website, comment and you are entered.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Decorating the Pauper's Graves
It's a Memorial Day tradition in the Phillips family- we decorate graves. Of course we put flowers on our family members' graves who have passed away, but there are two other graves that we continue to put flowers on each year.
My great grandfather, Theophilus Phillips, began putting flowers on the graves of "the paupers" in the Roosevelt, Utah city cemetery years and years ago. Great Grandpa Phillips handed this tradition down to his son and my grandfather, Ted Phillips, who always made it a point to put flowers on those graves as well. My mother, Marsha Phillips Oleen and her brother, Fred Phillips (who passed away in 2002) kept this tradition up and have passed the importance of it on to the next generation, so my cousins & my brother and I take our children each year and place flowers on those graves as well.
It was important to Great Grandpa Phillips that they have a memento on their graves each Memorial Day as they had no family to mourn them and didn't have much money for burial or proper headstones. The concrete slabs that mark their graves are crude and each year we etch out FC Dunham's name with a pocket knife and trim the grass that covers the small stone that marks his or her final resting place.
Hopefully, someday we'll meet Charles and Emma Sexton and learn who they were, how they lived and how they died. For now, we'll make sure someone remembers them and pays tribute to them each year so that they know someone on this earth cared about them, if only in death.
My great grandfather, Theophilus Phillips, began putting flowers on the graves of "the paupers" in the Roosevelt, Utah city cemetery years and years ago. Great Grandpa Phillips handed this tradition down to his son and my grandfather, Ted Phillips, who always made it a point to put flowers on those graves as well. My mother, Marsha Phillips Oleen and her brother, Fred Phillips (who passed away in 2002) kept this tradition up and have passed the importance of it on to the next generation, so my cousins & my brother and I take our children each year and place flowers on those graves as well.
It was important to Great Grandpa Phillips that they have a memento on their graves each Memorial Day as they had no family to mourn them and didn't have much money for burial or proper headstones. The concrete slabs that mark their graves are crude and each year we etch out FC Dunham's name with a pocket knife and trim the grass that covers the small stone that marks his or her final resting place.
Hopefully, someday we'll meet Charles and Emma Sexton and learn who they were, how they lived and how they died. For now, we'll make sure someone remembers them and pays tribute to them each year so that they know someone on this earth cared about them, if only in death.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Here Piggy, piggy!
Teddy came over today. Gosh we love her! How could we NOT though. She's just SO cute.
She loves to visit the piggies too.
She loves to visit the piggies too.
Friday, April 17, 2009
You get the limo out front....
Happy Birthday Ally!!!
Ally is 8 today. Hooray Ally! She's such a cool kid. We had another rockin' birtyday party this year.
Kai wanted to be in the room with the girls, but he was bugging them so I told him if he wanted to remain in the room with them, he'd have to have a makeover. What a compromise! lol He promptly removed all makeup and the wig as soon as the pic was taken. lol
Just messing around....
Then we got all dolled up for a night out on the town and the Hannah Montana movie
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Those girls had a BALL! They sang along with Taylor Swift all the way to the theater, they waved at cars and enjoyed parading on the Main Street sidewalk. They got tons of smiles, honks, waves, laughs and people telling them they looked great. It was such a fun time.
Ally is 8 today. Hooray Ally! She's such a cool kid. We had another rockin' birtyday party this year.
Kai wanted to be in the room with the girls, but he was bugging them so I told him if he wanted to remain in the room with them, he'd have to have a makeover. What a compromise! lol He promptly removed all makeup and the wig as soon as the pic was taken. lol
Just messing around....
Then we got all dolled up for a night out on the town and the Hannah Montana movie
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Those girls had a BALL! They sang along with Taylor Swift all the way to the theater, they waved at cars and enjoyed parading on the Main Street sidewalk. They got tons of smiles, honks, waves, laughs and people telling them they looked great. It was such a fun time.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Hippity Hoppity Easter's on its Way.....
Happy Easter!
Easter morning 2009 dawned bright, beautiful, wet and chilly. The bunny had found its way to our yard and did its thing. Kai and Kenyon had a great time finding eggs and didn't want to stop after we'd found all 8 dozen eggs. Coloring them was great fun with Grizz and Cindy, but finding them was MUCH more fun.
Karter and Ally had to work a bit harder to find their 2 dozen eggs....
"I don't see any eggs, mom!"
"OH! Now I'm catching on...."
We spent about an hour out looking for eggs and finally gave up with 2 still missing. And then the fog rolled in.
But, it quickly burned off, the sun came out and the rest of the day was BEAUTIFUL. It was quite warm, actually. So, we went over to mom's and found more eggs.
The Rook kids, Sierra and Teddy
Lots of interesting places to find eggs at Narsh's house.
On random pieces of equipment and junk....
Under horse trailers....
In bird's nests....
In haystacks...
Check out the hat and earrings. The Easter Bunny's got style!
Grizz and Teddy...I love them.
So much!
Just a little hair nibble.... lol
Taking an Easter drive....
Ally the chauffeur.
She's a maniac...maniac...maniac..I sure know..... LOL Lovin' the legwarmers!
Looking outside for the kids.
Happy Easter!
Easter morning 2009 dawned bright, beautiful, wet and chilly. The bunny had found its way to our yard and did its thing. Kai and Kenyon had a great time finding eggs and didn't want to stop after we'd found all 8 dozen eggs. Coloring them was great fun with Grizz and Cindy, but finding them was MUCH more fun.
Karter and Ally had to work a bit harder to find their 2 dozen eggs....
"I don't see any eggs, mom!"
"OH! Now I'm catching on...."
We spent about an hour out looking for eggs and finally gave up with 2 still missing. And then the fog rolled in.
But, it quickly burned off, the sun came out and the rest of the day was BEAUTIFUL. It was quite warm, actually. So, we went over to mom's and found more eggs.
The Rook kids, Sierra and Teddy
Lots of interesting places to find eggs at Narsh's house.
On random pieces of equipment and junk....
Under horse trailers....
In bird's nests....
In haystacks...
Check out the hat and earrings. The Easter Bunny's got style!
Grizz and Teddy...I love them.
So much!
Just a little hair nibble.... lol
Taking an Easter drive....
Ally the chauffeur.
She's a maniac...maniac...maniac..I sure know..... LOL Lovin' the legwarmers!
Looking outside for the kids.
Happy Easter!
Spelling Bee
The 1st and 2nd graders at Neola Elementary had their annual spelling bee the other day. Ally, our 2nd grader, did well. She got really easy words like "also" and "good'. They ran out of time, but that was probably good because Ally and a couple of kids in her class could've gone on for a long time with words like that.
Ally in spelling bee line, waiting patiently. That's Chase on her right and Rhett on her left. Ooooo....she got to sit by RHETT!! lol ;-) (she's had quite a crush on Rhett this year)
Fixing her hair...gotta look GOOD when you spell.
GOOD, G-O-O-D, GOOd....
That's my girl! Always a lil' wink for me.
Kenyon was a good boy. He sucked his fingers and waited it out. That's what he does...sucks his fingers. He's not a thumb sucker. No way...gotta have those 2 fingers with the permanent tooth marks in them.
UGH! WHO FARTED!??? (I thought this was hilarious! Those kids were plugging noses, fanning the air, sticking faces in shirts....FUNNY!)
Ally in spelling bee line, waiting patiently. That's Chase on her right and Rhett on her left. Ooooo....she got to sit by RHETT!! lol ;-) (she's had quite a crush on Rhett this year)
Fixing her hair...gotta look GOOD when you spell.
GOOD, G-O-O-D, GOOd....
That's my girl! Always a lil' wink for me.
Kenyon was a good boy. He sucked his fingers and waited it out. That's what he does...sucks his fingers. He's not a thumb sucker. No way...gotta have those 2 fingers with the permanent tooth marks in them.
UGH! WHO FARTED!??? (I thought this was hilarious! Those kids were plugging noses, fanning the air, sticking faces in shirts....FUNNY!)
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