Two Great Grand Daughters

How fun to have photos of the latest great grand daughter #2 Lilith Jade is her name born premature at the Provo Utah hospital where she resided for several months in the NICU, but is now home. Her parents Nathan (my grandson) and Rae met in high school. Amazing how fast children grow as you compare the two great grand daughters below. Gabby is 5 months old (daughter of Emilee and Daniel), and Lilith is about the size of a newborn. So happy she is out of the hospital now and doing well, still on oxygen.

Cousins l-r Lilith and Gabriella (Gabby)

Just love the smile on Nathan's face, what a special blessing he holds

Smiling young parents: Nathan and Rae with their bundle of joy

Happy Father's Day to those in our family that are fathers

1st row: 1-4: Dad Stanley V., 5-6: GP JH V., 7: 2ggp-Francis Vernon, 8: Uncle Clarence 2nd row: 1-2:  Stanley V & 4 gen., 2-3: gp JH, 4: ggp-George Stevens, 5: JH+ ggp-Joseph V. 3rd row: 1-2ggpa: Richard Lowe & grandchildren, 3-: on right gpa-Wm Johnson+ his bros 4th row:  1: 2nd ggpa Wm. Stevens family, 2: 2ggpa Oscar Wilkins, 3: gpa-Joseph Vernon, 4: my dad Stanley, 5: 2nd ggpa-Edmund Hortin

REMEMBERING

1. My own Father Stanley Vernon who left my life in an airplane accident when I was almost 5 years old. See https://lettersfromlin.blogspot.com/2008/05/im-published-again.html 

2. My Vernon grandfather JH-Joseph Harold (Harry) who tried to fill in for my own father after his death. 

3. Also want to mention my three sons who became fathers also-Frank V, Daniel and Jeffrey. Family is what it's all about-going both directions-ROOTS and BRANCHES. I'm now a great grandma...and all the boys except Eddie are taller than me! On to the future....

Grandkids a few years back, now Emilee on front left is a mommy

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY # 28!

Amazing how fast the years pass. We have been married 28 years and have lived half of our married life in St. George! We met at an LDS single dance in Provo. Allen was visiting his daughter Alicia who was going to BYU at the time and decided as a newly divorced single to try out the singles scene. I was a regular attender of the dances after my divorce and so I noticed him at once. Standing next to him, I asked if he wanted to dance and he said he didn't know how to dance. Well, I've taught dance in college and danced professionally. So I tried I didn't succeed in teaching him, but we started long distance dating as he lived near Silver City, NM. After spending Thanksgiving together with my family, we were engaged in about 2 months and married 7 months later in the Salt Lake City Temple on June 12, 1993.

Our engagement photo in 1992 in Orem, Utah

For time and all eternity...

June is here and moving into SUMMER

I've added a new hobby to my life recently decided I wanted to see if I remembered any of my piano skills from my younger days like 9-10 years old. My mom wanted me to take lessons but I never liked it but now I'm thinking it might be fun to play around with it so I ordered a CASIO keyboard and set it up in my bedroom and am trying to learn to play hymns. It's a fun diversion that fills some of my heat filled summer days.

Also BIRD WATCHING is a fun cool activity from indoors! Here's a dove checking out our porch then a hummingbird who found our wind chime recently and has built a little nest and I do mean little nest to lay her eggs in right outside our living room window. I take walks to the mailbox before the heat comes like it's 70 degrees by 7 am...been 105 degrees this week and no rain for months. We do live in the desert because we enjoy NO SNOW in the winter.

Soon it time to lay tiny little eggs then sit on them till they hatch.