July 1-8 visit from the Albertsons

Our nephew, Herb Albertson, his wife, Jenny, and their six children: Abigail, Ben, Celeste, Daniel, Zeke, and Zach came to spend some time with us last week.  We had a great time together!

 The Mendez cousins came over on July 3rd and 4th too, so we had lots of fun cousin time!

 The grown-ups table, July 3rd:  Dan and Esther Mendez, Abigail, Stepheni Mendez, Herb, Josiah (Stepheni's little boy), Jenny, Maria Mendez, Janet

 The kids' table: Sarah Mendez, Daniel, Zeke, Ben, Celeste, Emily, Kwani and Hadassah Mendez

 Mendez/Albertson group

 We girls had a tea party one morning, using Beth's tea set and some of my China.  

Jenny and Janet

 Beth, Abigail, Emily and Celeste

 The Mendez cousins came over on July 4th for a water balloon war.  Most of the pictures are movies, but this is taken before everybody got wet!

 This was the evening before when the kids played in the park.

 Celeste and Zachary on our trampoline.  All the kids enjoyed the tramp.

 We played many, many games that week!

 Herb and Jenny celebrated their 20th anniversary by going away to the mountains for a couple of days.  The kids did great staying with us without their parents.  

 I cannot tell you how many games we played, but we had a great time together.  The kids were all well behaved, cooperative, and helpful and were a joy to have in our home.

 Celeste and Emily. 

 Emily had fun braiding Celeste and Abigail's hair different ways.

 Beth and Abigail

 The cousins played a crazy "amoeba" game.  They look calm in this picture, but it was a pretty wild game.

Janet's June projects

A while back, Beth was doing her usual greeting at the ACE check-out, "Did you find everything you needed today?" and the answer was, "No, I can never find what I am looking for.  I want containers to put my end wrench sets in where they will be organized at all times."  Beth answered, "My mother has made those for my daddy and my brothers out of denim.  Would you like her to make you some?"

 So, I finally got around to doing it.  The gentleman came over with his end wrench sets and laid them out on his truck tailgate, so I could draw around them in the arrangement he desired.  He wanted two different organizers.  This is the smaller one of the two he requested.

 This is the larger one that went from very, very small, to very large.

 This is the day he picked them up, and put them all in the appropriately marked slots.

 After this, he closed them, rolled them up, tied them, and they are in the bottom of his tool box to this day!

 My more beautiful June project was making the second grandson quilt.  It is a twin size. I will be taking it to the quilter very soon, and will pick up the first grandson quilt.

Here is the first grandson quilt.  There are three fabric differences between them.  #1 the animals are random, and #2, the animals are paired up.  I made # 1 quilt in April.

Trimming the trimmed tree some more

One evening in June when we came home from our walk, Rowen noticed there were broken limbs in our poor half tree, so sadly ruined in last October's snowstorm.  We had had some wind, so probably some limbs that were damaged previously gave way.  He felt they were in danger of falling down, so he got creative in reaching high enough to cut them.  

I'm thankful that he was able to take care of it without mishap; he was 'way up there!

More visitors in June

June 22, Marlene Reynolds dropped by for lunch and a visit, with her children.  We had never met Shane before, so it was very special for her to come by and share him with us.

 Titus

 Kassie

On June 23, Mike and Carmen Durkee came for supper and the evening.  We got to see lots of their pictures from their trips to Washington, D.C. and Yellowstone.

 On June 25, C. Dean and Marsha Grant stayed the night with us.  We had a nice time visiting with them.  They also visited us a year ago on their way to the mountains for vacation, but we hadn't posted about them.

We love having company, so we were glad for those who have stopped by to see us!

Albertsons' involvement in Johnstown Barbecue Day June 2

Rowen walked the parade route carrying the Johnstown Historical Society banner with Pat Kiovsky.

 Several years ago, Jeffrey worked on this clown car to get it running for Pat James.  We were glad to see her driving it in the parade this year!

 Janet was at the Parish House all morning in case people wanted tours.

 Rowen participated in a ribbon cutting of our town plaza dedication.  The Historical Society was involved in the ribbon cutting with the Town Board because of the historical pictures on the wall behind them.

 Rowen, Janet, and Emily worked at the Historical Society booth in the park.

June visitors

On June 16, the Worden family came to visit us from Kremmling, Colorado.  They spent Saturday and Sunday with us, even going with us to our ministry to children in the evening.  This is a picture of Beth and Beth Ann Worden.  They have been penpals for several years.  We had met the Wordens in person two years ago when we stopped in Kremmling on our way to Delta.

 Hannah Worden and Emily

 A six person Foosball game!

                                     

 Paul and Faith Worden, parents of Beth Ann, Daniel, Hannah, Cherish and David

 The whole Worden family

 We enjoyed the kids playing hymns together on instruments.  

Beth, piano, Beth Ann, guitar, Jason, cello

 Emily and Daniel, violins, and Hannah, recorder

 We also went to the Walker Hymn Sing together.

 On our walk around Johnstown Lake, we saw this blue heron.

 The Worden kids at Johnstown Lake

We were blessed to get to spend this time with our friends.