First of all....May 24, 2010 has to be a day in the history books for snow so late in May.

What the heck!

We just came back from Chicago to see our new grandbaby and here she is...

Sorry, we didn't get to see her either. She is staying in the womb for some extra beauty sleep. I know that when the time is right and she arrives, she is going to be beautiful! Maybe she is staying to grow extra freckles.

I flew into Chicago on Tuesday, then Tiff and I spent Wednesday shopping. What are girls suppose to do. We picked up some last minute items for the baby. Baby J is now ready for the pool - hat, skin top, swimming suit, high top keds. We couldn't find flip flops little enough.

Then Thurs we packed and took apart furniture to get ready for the relocation to Tulsa. Thursday was my birthday so Tiffany, Rob, Diana, Jason and myself went to Joy Lee for dinner. Delicious Korean food in Chicago. A great birthday treat, hang out with Tiff and Joy Lee's for dinner. We picked Kevin up at the airport Thursday night. Now we are ready for Friday. Friday was the day to be induced and we would have a baby to cuddle, kiss and adore.

Or so we thought!

Baby J had other ideas. They induced Tiffany about 10:00 a.m. and by 4:00 p.m she had not dilated any more and the contractions were small. She could talk through them. So the pitosin was stopped. Meanwhile, during the day, Kevin and I did not want to irritate the Mother and Father by counting the seconds, so we took a road trip to Wisconsin to the Harley Davidson musuem. This was cool!

Tiffany and Rob stayed the night in the hospital to try again in the morning. Saturday, yes, this is it. At 5:00 a.m. they started the pitosin again, but by 1:00 p.m. there wasn't any change. So they turned it off and she was sent home. We spent a lovely day Sunday visiting with Tiffany and Rob then flew home. As of Monday morning, Tiff has been to see the Doctor and we have gone to plan B. Baby will be Born when the planets are in alignment. When this snow storm arrives in Chicago. When she is dang good and ready. Patience is a hard virtue!

It is a Bee utiful spring!

We thought our hives were going to survive this year. The weather started to warm up and we had plenty of bee activity in the hives and then, poof, they all died. Bee keeping can be frustrating! Just when we think the girls are strong, or have enough food for the winter, or the spring time activity is on schedule and all is well. They die! The queen dies! The drones die. The hive looks good, but the bees didn't make it. We were too late to order new colonies so it looked like we were not going to have any hives this year.

But I made some phone calls and found a different bee "guy" who was bringing in new colonies the next day and he had some extra. But, now the story gets fun. One of the phone calls I made was to a gentleman who will come and get swarms from your yard. I asked him if he came across some swarms if we could get one or two from him.


Thursday we got a call from a gentleman in Holladay, behind the old Cottonwood Mall, he had a swarm on his house. He had knocked it off the pillar on his deck and they were on the roof. When we got there. The bees had found an opening into his house. They were going under the flashing and in between the floor of the deck and the ceiling of his garage. We swept as many as we could into a box and Kevin thinks he might have found a queen. We brought them home and they are doing good. We will give them another few days to see if the queen is laying eggs.



We decided to get some lunch before heading home and another call came in about a swarm in a tree in front of a house off 900 South and 740 East. Well lets go see if we can get this swarm. When we got there. The swarm had just moved from another tree to this one. Kevin was able to get the entire swarm into a box and yes, this one had a queen. Then Saturday, our Holladay friend called and he had another swarm in his pine tree about 4 feet off the ground in front of his house. So we tried again and we think that the queen is in this ball of bees also.

They are sooooo neat. A ball of bees is really pretty and the hum of all these bees is really cool. When you come close to them, "scout" bees will fly around you and if they think you are dangerous, they bump you, a warning to not get too close.

Sooooooo, if you are spraying your yard for weeds or bugs, please, please, please, spray in the evening, pesticide recommendations suggest late evening spraying, when the bees are coming back to the hive. Then you won't kill our girls or anyone else's girls and your fruit trees and gardens will get pollinated.

And have an unbee lievable day!

Wedding pictures have arrived!

I know that this is way overdue, but you can't rush perfection! Or so I have been told, but anyway here are a few of the 500 plus or minus pictures.

A lovely morning at Oquirrh temple

Our family!!!

Reception center decorated with umbrellas and rainboots.

Morgan preparing to kill the cake. They cut the cake gently, and ate the cake nicely, there wasn't any chocolate splatters or strawberrie droplets on either the dress or the suit.

We started early in the morning and ended late in the evening. Food at the wedding breakfast, and reception was very good. Our guests came, gave their well wishes, stayed, enjoyed some company. It was a full house.

Thank you everyone for helping to make the day everything we could ask for. The little things that went wrong cannot even be remembered. There wasn't very many. The couple are in their apartment and settling into their new adventures.

Cheers!