North Dakota Trip April 2009

We get back from our cruise and two weeks later decide to go to a funeral in North Dakota. Becky's uncle Arvid Olson passed away he was 92 years old. He had lived a long and productive life. He was a farmer all his life. In North Dakota you count on what the Lord gives you in the way of rain and good weather so your crops will grow and you will be able to harvest in the fall. Arvid did pretty well with what he had.

Elveida is Arvid's wife and Becky's aunt, she is in the middle, Jordis is on the right and Marcella is on the left. They are the three sisters that were able to attend the funeral. they have a very close family and it was good to be there for them. One more picture of the three of them. You can tell they like to talk.

After the funeral and lunch we headed back to Williston. However we had to go by the old homestead in McGregor ND and see the old house and the oil wells that they are drilling on there land. This is the old homestead, Becky thought it was alot bigger when she was there as a child.

They have two oil wells that are about 200 yards behind the house. One is producing and they are still drilling the other.

This is the south well, they are about done drilling. They should start pumping oil in the next few weeks. The other is just to the north of this one. They are telling Jordis that this well is pumping 23 barrels an hour. They don't have a pump installed yet because the pressure is all they need to get the oil out of the ground, they store the oil in the four tanks on the right. they then bring in a truck and haul the oil to a refinery.

We made it back to Williston and the next day we left to come back to Rexburg. It was a great trip. Not quite a cruise to Mexico but a good trip just the same.

Cruise to Mexico

There has been so much going on that I just don't have time to update this blog. So I thought I better put something here about our little cruise to Ensenada Mexico. Tawna and Tassa thought it would be good for us to use our passports so they arranged a cruise for us. Of course they had to come along which makes it all the more fun. Here we are relaxing on the ship.

Here Tawna and Tassa are doing some serious shopping.

Becky looking to find some great deals in Mexico. It was a great day in the 70's which was just what we needed since it was still in the low 30's at home. We spent three days on the ship and the food was great. We had a wonderful time just relaxing and enjoying ourselves.

Eleventh Grandchild arrives Oct 14th

This is Ryker Douglas Thornton Six pounds 19 1/2 inches long

One week old Ryker with Grandma, he is doing well already growing some.

Tenth Grandchild is here.

The proud Mom and Dad with the little one. They are going to name him Dallas Cade. He was born May 27 at 6:11 in the evening. Weighing in at 8# 7 oz. 21" long.
Grandma Mullen
Grandpa and Grandma Thornton and Dad

9th Grandbaby

This is the newest little guy in the family Tyler Gergory Clegg. He was born on May 3 2008, at 8:46 P.M. He was born about 4 weeks early and weighed in at 4 lbs and 4 ounces. They are keeping a close watch on him. He seems to be doing very well.
Grandma is helping for the first week staying with Tara's other three little ones.

Visit down south, get away from snow NOT.

I guess winter is still here, we went to Utah to get away from the snow for a couple of days. Will that wasn't to be because Utah had a big snow storm a couple of days before we left Rexburg. The roads were fine going down, but the snow was piled up in the yards. Tara's yard had some good sized drifts that reminded me of home. Tom's yard had some snow as well, the only good thing about Utah it was starting to get warm enough to melt off the snow.

When we got home on Monday we still had the same amount of snow on the ground. We hope we brought some of the warmer air with us and maybe we can get some of our snow to melt.

We had a great time visiting with all of the grandkids and seeing our kids. I even took some pictures of Isabella and Alex. Here are a couple for you to see how much Isabella has grown.

What a winter we are having

We just got an additional 7 inches of snow last night with more expected today. Just so you can see what we are dealing with I went out and took some pictures. Looks like I will be getting on the roof and doing a little shoveling. the pictures of the back yard show the snow blower almost buried, it makes it hard to blow the snow over all we have.