Groneman Family

I forgot to remember the ants!  This was a "Kim & Marilyn" holiday.  We got up this morning and went to Orem city cemetary to put flowers on my parent's graves.  Lots of people there!  We then went over to visit Grandma/Grandpa Haslem.  Grandma wanted to know when we were going to her house.  I told her we were there and she didn't believe me until I showed her her china closet.  We then went to the mountain for the first time this year.  Haleluja....no mice in our trailer over the winter.  Now we have to concentrate on sealing up Grandma's trailer because it has had lots of mice in it. Marilyn cleaned up the trailer while I turned on the water and generally un-winterized the place.  It's ready for partying now.  Last fall when Chad and I went up to winterize the place, a big pine tree had fallen over the deck but was proped up in the big pine tree in front of our trailer.  I thought it would come down with snow over the w...

This morning I explained Memorial day to Kiera and what the purpose of it. About 20 minutes later she said very seriously: "mommy- we better remember the ants". I guess she started to feel guilty about all of those ants she's been stomping on outside. Memorial day was spent at the park. And then we got ice cream cones and played hide and seek.

Someone must have declared this weekend Family Reunion weekend. Everyone is gone for Fam Reunions. So, the good news about that is that we can plan on doing a Kim Groneman Family reunion on the 4th. Christa already told me that she has been looking forward to being back in Utah for the 4th (where we really do it right-as far as community events go), so we will not be going to the Mtn. We will plan on going to the parade, and doing a BBQ and croquet championship of the world, and of course, we would need to have fireworks too. Well, maybe we wouldn't do fireworks if everyone goes home to put their kids to bed by 7 pm. We are open to suggestions on what you would like. We could also set up the slip-n-slide in the back yard for the kids. But everyone needs to plan on coming for dinner here on Sunday 2 weeks from today. Steak and Crab will be served! Cambrie's family will be here, and Christa has indicated that she will be coming to church with us until Brigham gets done wi...

Carson Smith Scholarship for K-12 special needs students. And here is some really good information about the scholarship. (Better info than the other official link) Christa, if you haven't applied for this already, you should!

So, I know that the Dastrups probably won't even check the blog for at least a week, so they won't be blogging any of their happenings. Yesterday, they needed to go to get Utah Drivers licenses so that they could get onto Bear River Insurance for their house and cars, which will save them a lot of money. And Christa went to Maceys and spent $200.00 on groceries and came home and put it away and it still looks like the fridge and cupboards are only half stocked. They spent quite a bit on stuff for the yard too, but the yard needs a LOT of help. The previous owners hadn't even turned on the sprinkling system...so Kim tried to do that yesterday. Got the front system operational, but the valve box in the back was full of catastrophe. Turns out that the drain and been put in on the high side of all the pipes, so it didn't drain at all and so it was full of broken lines. So Kim and Brigham made several trips for supplies, spent many hours working on it, thought that th...

FYI we got an email from Buff's mission saying that missionaries shouldn't post to public blogs so I made Buff's blog a private blog. Y'all should have received an invitation via email to get access to it. Lemme know if you didn't or have problems accessing her blog.  Oh...and speaking of blogs.  The Albuquerque weather gadget has officially been removed from this blog (wiping dust off of hands).  Take that NM!

Wow...what a crazy three days. Brett, Chad, Marilyn, and I squeezed into our Yaris and made the 10 hour trip down to Albuturkey. When we arrived we got right to work after a stand up meal (no table). Poor Benjamin wanted someone to play with but we just didn't have the time. We patched and painted and cleaned and scrubbed and packed boxes. I must say Brigham is the king of truck packing. I know that truck could have rolled over and not a thing in the back would have moved an inch. We had that truck packed to within a fraction of an inch of the back door, clear to the ceiling. Everyone worked from early morning until approximately 10pm on Wednesday. We all slept at a neighbor's house that Brigham rented for a month while they were out of town, then we got up the next morning and hit the road at 7 A.M. Brigham and Chad in the truck, Brett and I in the car. Christa, Marilyn, & kids stayed behind to do the walk through inspection and they followed. Here's a picture I snap...