April 2017

Morning walks, group dinner, cousins' breakfast, family dinner, and Tuesdays with Evelyn Alta  create the rhythm of life, broken in April by Easter, Katy's birthday, a visit from some of the Marlpit Hill Boyntons, Jerry's wedding, a new car, and Ollie's birthday one day early.

 An extraordinary morning lighting of Timpanogos

 Easter coconut cake one week before Easter at family dinner

 Group dinner at Boyntons

 Katy Kathryn's birthday

 Group friends at Jerry and Lynn Astle's wedding

 Jerry's yard made a wonderful venue

 Freestones, Astles, and Miller

 Katy and Evy having an Easter swing

 Everyone gathered for a few minutes at the Colvers before the 

Arizonans headed south

 Kyle, Conner, and Bree made a quick overnight visit

 A visit to Lynn and Jerry's to do an Instagram turorial

 Evelyn Alta enjoying tuna and crackers

 Morning walk on a beautiful spring day

 The same morning

 The new CRV

 Rock Canyon Creek on another morning walk

 Taylors and Calders: Hansen cousins

 A beautiful early morning in Utah Valley

 Rock Canyon on that same morning

 Yet another beautiful spring morning walk

Oliver David is 14

All in all, it was a fine month. Let's see what May has in store. That's all for now.

OXO

D.

Arizona in the Spring

We returned from San Diego for a few more days in the desert. Arizona was perfect in the 70s though the locals were freezing. We celebrated Beck (again) and Maren's birthdays, and on my birthday we moved over to Mesa to spend the week with Grandmother. We had lots of visits with the extended Boynton family, saw everybody's house projects, made a quick trip to Tucson, and Maren and the boys came to Mesa for a picnic. The best thing that happened, however, was Grandmother receiving a new lease on life by responding to the Epley Maneuver: she had an instantaneous cure!

 I did a quick cake-decoration job for Beck's party

Old Town Glendale for Maren's birthday dinner

 La Piazza al Forno: good stuff!

 Celebration dinner

 Finn taking a spin (literally) on Beck's new gizmo

 Dickie's peanut butter chocolate-filled cake for Maren

 We loved Beauty and the Beast

 Boynton family gathering

 Kim with Jamie, Jocelyn's baby boy

 Grandmother on her last day of vertigo

 Checking out the Marlpit Hill Boyntons' projects

 The Palo Verde trees were in full bloom at Costco

 Picking up a few supplies

 Uncle Mark's new house east of the Mesa airport

 Lovely, spacious, and barrier-free

 A trio of Boyntons

The Tucson desert

Shopping for Talavera

 

Kris found a piece she liked very much

 We swung by the new Tucson Temple nearing completion

 Filled the car and our bellies at the Tucson Costco

  We introduced these Mesa folks to their local Cornish Pasty Company

 Had this painting unframed, scanned, and reframed

 Freestone Park for a picnic supper with Maren and the boys

 A beautiful spot for a picnic...

 ...And prom photos, apparently

 The ladies at the lake

 Mother and son

 The Youngs with Grandmother and Grammy

Utah looked pretty special for our return

That was a great trip, but nothing is currently planned, so things will be a bit less exciting. This is all for now.

OXO

D.