Happy Birthday to my Dad!

There is no ice cream, no cake, no presents to be had

just a silent birthday wish for my Dad

Happy Birthday to my Father

There are no candles, no flowers

not on this day nor this hour,

just a teary-eyed birthday wish for my Father

Happy Birthday to my Dad

There are no noise makers, or streamers

just a room with one dreamer, lonely and sad

with a tear in my eye and a song in my heart

a simple birthday wish for my dad!

I miss you and love you with all of my heart and not a day goes by that I don't think about you. I know you are well and whole so I cannot wish you back here to suffer that again. Happy Birthday and I will see you on the otherside

Happy Happy Birthday!

To no one really in particular. This was just the outcome of a challenge I made myself to complete 10 Birthday cards in 5 days. About a week before our family reunion I had nothing for the raffle and really no money to go out and buy anything. So I decided to make a set of birthday cards and I only had about 5 days to it. Kay, so perhaps you are saying to yourself 10 cards no biggie. Except I work outside of the home and leave at 4:30 am and arrive home at 3:45 in the afternoon. So anything I did had to be done between the few free hours of getting home and going to bed so I can get up by 3:30 am. I wanted to make nice cards too not just some easy thrown together things and then I decided I might as well make two of each so it ended up being 20. There were times when I wasn't certain I could do it but at 11:30 pm on Friday I tied the ribbon on the box and called it good. Here are the fruits of my labor:

I really wanted to make a nice box for display and had all the material or so I though untill I got home and discovered the box wasn't big enough. I had to make a quick trip to Wal-Mart about 15 minutes away to find some way to display them. All I could find was shrinkable plastic for baskets so it had to do

May and June revisited

I can hardly believe that is nearly the middle of July already. Seems like only yesterday there was snow on the ground. Well we did see snow on our hike so I guess there is still snow on the ground. May and June kept us busy. There was Gage's and Cheyenne's graduations and two trips to the ER. Once for my mom when she got stung by a bee and then again for Jared when he had Bronchitis. I missed the Warenski family reunion because of the trip to the hospital but I am so glad Jared is better now. Memorial Day found us at the Spanish Fork Cemetery for their Veterans program and to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of my dad's passing.

Followed by an afternoon at my mom's house hanging out with family.

As well as a trip the cemetery in Santaquin.
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Before we knew it, June was upon us and that brought with it Pony Express days in Eagle Mountain: With activities such as Family Fun Night

And a Health and Wellness fair

And then closed with a Parade. They threw so much candy we ended up with sacks full. Jared and I still have some of ours left

We attended the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open house

Followed by dinner at Red Robin for a delicious Whiskey River BBQ Chicken Burger!

It rained almost the entire month of June and I thought it was never going to stop. On the plus side provided us ample opportunities to find that elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Jared and I took a drive to Fish lake to try and meet up with the my mom and Brian's family as they were camping down there. We were not successful at finding them but we had a great time anyway.

Finally the weather cleared up and my mom and I were able to enjoy a fantastic day at Lagoon, courtesy of my work. As always we had a great time and I am glad she and I went.

Finishing off the month of June we had our annual Larsen Family reunion which I have already posted pictures of. Let's hope July can keep us just as hopping!