My birthday gift LAST year was the announcement that Eric and Amanda were expecting a baby. This year is was wonderful to have Riley here and get to play with him. He is 6 months old and soooooooooo cute.

Carol's birthday

We got together at Travis' house to celebrate Carol's birthday last week. Ninna fixed dinner for us all then we had cake and ice cream. It was fun to be together with some of the kids and grandkids. This is the reward for getting older - to get to have such good times with kids and grandkids. They're awesome!

Collecting Firewood

It was Don's day off today so we went to the hills to get a load of firewood. Don has to do most of the work to get the wood. I just go along to keep him company. We enjoy our drives in the hills. The trees are starting to turn colors. While out we found one geocache (and got a 'First to Find' on it.) We also placed two of our own geocaches for other to find. We've had a good day.

Tending Grandkids

We tended 4 of our grandkids this week while Wendy and Matt went to Provo UT for Education Week. Here's a few pictures of the fun that we had.

Spencer and his sandbox volcano

Kaylee jumping on the trampoline

Nicole and Don, making cucumber boats to float down the stream... (a great use for over-sized cucumbers and zucchini)

...at Legacy Park - floating the cucumber boats.

Carol, Don, baby Riley, Amanda, and great-grandpa Reed

4 generation of Jensen boys. Don, Eric, Riley and Reed.
Grandpa Reed Jensen came to visit for a day and got to meet his great-grandson Riley.
Will and Heidi came to visit for the weekend, too! What a joy it is to have them visit. We enjoy spoiling them when they come and they enjoy the spoiling! :)

3-Island Crossing re-enaactment

Wendy and her kids came down to visit us for the weekend, and we went to Glenns Ferry to see the last re-enactment of the 3-Island Crossing. They re-enact the Oregon Trail pioneers crossing the Snake River. This is the 25th year of the re-enactment, but they are discontinuing it.

Here we are at a vantage point above the river, where we can actually see the 3 islands that the pioneers used to help them cross the river. It was unseasonably cold this weekend, with Friday having a high of 60 degrees. Brrr.

Displays were set up in the 3-Island State Park.

One guy sets up a t-pee and we got to go inside it.

Heidi and Will made us a yummy pizza for dinner. We were visiting them in Preston for the weekend the first of the month.

July in Jackson WY

We spent last weekend in Jackson Wyoming for a little family reunion with Don's dad and siblings. We took 4 of our granddaughters with us and they had a great time.

We went to the Bar-J Wrangler's show and had a good time. We had sweet front row and center seats and the girls loved it especially.

At the National Elk Refuge Visitor's Center

We had breakfast in the park on Saturday morning. We hauled our camp stove and cooking pans to cook up some pancakes, sausage, eggs, and bacon.