Baby Aidan

We are in Iowa, visiting our new grandson, Aidan. We had a pretty quick trip. We arrived 24 hours 45 minutes after we left our house.

The top picture was last night when he was sleeping (which Falene indicates is most of the time, she has to wake him to feed him). We thought it was cute how he is holding his head with his hand.

This morning he was a little more awake and was looking around at the world. He is really a cute little guy! He is in one of the baby blankets that Great Grandma Hough made for him. He really likes to snuggle into the blankets.

Another picture that I thought was interesting - Missy bossing Greg around!

Some more scanned pictures from my slides. These all involve Sharon but I am not sure what the occasions were. Maybe Sharon can update us on what was happening. See if you can find the long haired hippie in one of these pictures!

More pictures from my slides. The bottom picture, of course, is Sharon and Jayme. The middle picture is Grandma with Kari. I don't recognize who is in the top picture? Does anyone know? She looks a little like Karen Brown but she wasn't around when I went to BYU, was she?

It has been awhile since I updated my blog. I have been scanning in pictures while listening to General Conference on Sunday. We are excited to be able to babysit our grandkids this week. In preparation for that, I will have to put away my scanner and pictures, so I thought that I would take advantage of the time to scan more pictures in. I can't believe how many slides that I have accumulated over the years. The problem with some of them is that I don't remember what the picture is, especially those with landscapes.

Anyway, I came across these slides of Greg when he was 1.5 to 2 years old (I am guessing on that). He loved clowns so we dressed him as a clown for Halloween. In fact, his first word was Clown as we passed the Dees restaurant in Bountiful where there was a clown on the building.

The top picture is Greg standing in front of our front door in West Bountiful. The middle picture is Greg in front of our fireplace, and the bottom picture is with his Grandparents Beckstrand when we took him over there trick or treating.

I am hoping that I come across pictures of Chris and Adam some day, but their pictures may not be on slides.

We went to Flamenco dancing in Seville, Spain. Now, I don't want everyone to think that all I did was to enjoy the Spanish culture, because we worked very hard. Our mission president believed that we should get to know the culture of Spain, and therefore, let us have one cultural night a month. The bullfights we attended on our P-Day.

Here are a couple of pictures of one of the bull fights that I attended in Sevilla, Spain. It was pretty gory, but also very exciting, especially when the Matador got gored.

This is one of the floats during Holy Week in Seville, Spain that depicts the last week of Christ's life. These are statues that are dressed in very expensive clothes. Everything that looks like gold, is 100% solid gold and the silver is 100% silver. The virgin Mary had gowns that were worth millions of dollars as well as tears made out of huge diamonds. These floats were worth a lot of money and floats like these paraded through Seville for a week until Christ was crucified.

This is a picture of our first home in West Bountiful before we enclosed the carport into a garage. Also a picture of the little Toyota pickup that I had. All the boys were born while we lived here. As I look at it closer, it must have been shortly after we moved in as the yard was not done and houses were being built behind us. Our 1974 Chevrolet Monte Carlo was also parked under the carport.

Well, I am back to scanning my slides. I thought that this was pretty interesting. It was the summer of 1974 when Janice and I lived with Grandpa and Grandma. I believe that this was in Glacier Park on the Going to the Sun Highway.