On my Bucket List....Visit Machu Picchu..Peru

Elder Jordan Christensen our former lawn boy is serving a mission in Peru... these sights are in his mission....

In the 15th century, the Incan Emperor Pachacútec built a city in the clouds on the mountain known as Machu Picchu ("old mountain"). This extraordinary settlement lies halfway up the Andes Plateau, deep in the Amazon jungle and above the Urubamba River. It was probably abandoned by the Incas because of a smallpox outbreak and, after the Spanish defeated the Incan Empire, the city remained 'lost' for over three centuries.

Glinda, the Good Witch

This is my Macy.. Charmingly WICKED

Kami Getting Ready to be Baptized

What I like best about this picture, besides my beautiful granddaughter Kami, is that she is wearing the white dress I bought in San Francisco for Melissa. Melissa was baptised in this dress on Easter Sunday in 1986.

Halloween Sugar Cookies

Trick or Treat

Getting Ready for Halloween

My grandchildren...

Macy Cash Kami

and the pumpkins.

Karen Burgon & her girls....

Karen Burgon (in the middle) and her daughters.... I have taken so many family group photos this summer, more than ever.... it has been fun, and a nice little money maker for my 'hobby on the side'. Karen and I were at the Relief Society Book Club tonight together, GREAT FUN... and she's my Visiting Teacher... She takes care of me...what more could a person want? We're buds for life.

Kirby Heyborne and Tate Daniels..both STARS

Elder Tate Daniels is HOME... What an outstanding fellow he is....

Our ward has the BEST youth parties.. we even get a Kirby.

LDS Relief Society Sisters in Africa

My friend, Dawn Kurowski Russell, and her husband are in Ghana on a mission. She sent me this picture of a Relief Society homemaking night at her humble home. Look at those bundt cakes!

A Stunner

Hey, they can read...

The Fowler Family has a wonderful garden.. the only one in the neighborhood. Macy has a pepper.

Gosh she's pretty....



This is the wife of the father of the children of the corn.

All about Kami

My beautiful granddaughter, Kami, will be baptized in a few months. I brought out her mother's white baptismal dress she wore in 1986. It fits.. a very stylish Polly Finders so 80s. I bought it at the outlet in San Francisco.

Our Trip to the Mighty Mississippi River

The Big Muddy

What is this little river creature?

Who are these river creatures?
Father of the children of the corn.

Opening presents

I bought Steve a present, too. Doesn't he look just like Edward of Twilight?

This fish was a HIT! But after a while, the little song drove us CRAZY... I noticed it was hidden by an unnamed person more than it was available...

Macy really likes these fanciful, fun, but borderline skanky dresses I buy her.

Grandpa and the girls

We visited recently in Minnesota.. and the girls were all over Grandpa.

Rebecca ... Pocahontas

My brother Dayton's daughter, Rebecca... can't see her front view, but she's really beautiful--- trust me, and so is Champlin Creek that runs through my folks' ranch. Love these wonderful canoe rides we've all taken. Lots of beaver, otter, blue herons, white egrets, occasionally an eagle, and once.. a mountain lion. but mostly, just frogs and small fish.

Rebeca Call, my niece

Wow.. my niece is dripping with good looks... and sweetness, and she's unmarried... and 23... how could that be? Dayton's youngest daughter.

My Crosby English Saddle

I bought a Crosby English saddle. I've ridden more English style than western, thanks to Mom, who sent me to a riding school when I lived in Fresno. I loved the dressage, black velvet helmet, jauphers, crop, spurs... and then posting with a ramrod straight back, then jumping over the rails.... there's nothing like it. I felt like Caroline Kennedy sittin' all tall & proud in the saddle .... I have a bridle, too, so now all I need is the horseflesh. Giddy-up...

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Macy owns kindergarten & Kami rules 2nd grade.

My Ancestors all Lined Up....

Those who've been to my house have seen this...

The top one is the father to son line of my father's line, beginning with Cyril Call, born in 1875 in Vermont.

The bottom one is of my maternal line, beginning with Eliza Tunks Parry, born in 1823, in England.

Around the House Pics

It was so beautiful after the rain, I opened the front door and took a picture.

The Deck is Done...

We had our deck replaced... it was warped and wouldn't stand up to another Utah winter... It turned out great... now I can put out my bird feeders again. They've been starving ....I think they forgot how to feed themselves.

Fire on the Mountain Boys... Run Boys, Run...

Massive fire in the Salt Lake Valley... Here is an eerily beautiful photograph of the fire advancing on the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It is still 'out of control' as of tonight

Les Miserables

Poor little Cosette...

Now you know why I love going to work each day... we have already spent a week on this wonderful book... last Friday was Chapter 6 ... the confrontation between the good bishop and the hardened convict, Jean Valjean. Ahhhhhh can't wait to get into my classroom and pick up the book again.

Start of a New School Year

Here's where I spend my mornings..... Periods 1,2,3 & 4 English Literature, Room 220. I just bought a great new lens for my camera.. a fisheye.. or wide angle lens... it actually cost more than my Canon 50D body... geez... but I sure love it. I have taken several large family shoots this week... and they all fit into the picture without me backing way up, and the focus is grand! I made the students stand outside while I took these shots.. with my wide angle. By the way.. I have such GREAT students this year and smaller classes. YEA

Tom Cruise on Home Teaching

Such a Tragedy..but Forgiveness was there

I snapped this of Gary tonight. It was in the Taylor's home. Their son Hunter had his farewell today at church.. he's leaving for two years as a missionary to Mexico ....the family had a dinner party afterward and Bishop House was one of the honored guests...now I ask ya, how many of you have a 59-year old hubby that is this cute?

The Hunger Games Trilogy Review

I read the first 30 pages and was not happy with the theme....a survivalist kid-killing-kid story..why would I want to read it? But picked it up after my friend urged me on... and WAS HOOKED.. here's a brief review: As negative Utopias go, Suzanne Collins has created a dilly. The United States is gone. North America has become Panem, a TV-dominated dictatorship run from a city called the Capitol. The rest of Panem is divided into 12 Districts (the former 13th had the bad judgment to revolt and no longer exists). The yearly highlight in this nightmare world is the Hunger Games, a bloodthirsty reality TV show in which 24 teenagers chosen by lottery — two from each District — fight each other in a desolate environment called the ''arena.'' The winner gets a life of ease; the losers get death. The only ''unspoken rule'' is that you can't eat the dead contestants. Let's see the makers of the movie version try to get a PG-13 on this baby. Our heroine is Katniss Everdeen (lame name, cool kid), a resident of District 12, which used to be Appalachia. She lives in a desperately poor mining community called the Seam, and when her little sister's name is chosen as one of the contestants in the upcoming Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to take her place. A gutsy decision, given the fact that District 12 hasn't produced a Hunger Games winner in 30 years or so, making them the Chicago Cubs of the postapocalypse world. Complicating her already desperate situation is her growing affection for the other District 12 contestant, a clueless baker's son named Peeta Mellark. Further complicating her situation is her sorta-crush on her 18-year-old hunting partner, Gale. Gale isn't clueless; Gale is smoldering. Says so right on page 14. The love triangle is fairly standard teen-read stuff; what 16-year-old girl wouldn't like to have two interesting guys to choose from? The rest of The Hunger Games, however, is a violent, jarring speed-rap of a novel --a la Stephen King

Mockingjay trailer

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games, and Catching Fire....

The best books of the year..... bone chilling theme, terrifying, awful.... but ... I couldn't put it down... the 3rd book, Mockingjay comes out next week...

Playing Doctor

taken from Melissa's blog.... and if you want to see the e-coli cake... go to: http://fowlersflowers.blogspot.com/


The girls are always creating scenarios. "Let's plan circus in our backyard", "Let's plan a parade for the neighborhood", "Let's do a fashion show". "Let's empty out all of the cabinets and make it into our play fort". All of these sentences translate to one thing "Let's make a gigantic mess and then leave it for Mommy to clean up." I have a love/hate relationship with these scenarios. I've been putting the smack down on the clean-up aspect and that has helped. I do love that they entertain and organize themselves rather than plopping down in front of the TV.


Here they are playing Doctor's Office. They created a waiting area with magazines and puzzles, a hospital bed, an X-Ray machine (turning the lights on and off in front of the mirror) and an OR. Kami did an H&P on me and gave me "antibiotics" with a real syringe. I ended up needing open heart surgery to which Macy performed. Kami diagnosed Steve with a broken leg after looking at his X-Ray.