London

Lincoln made it safely to London for his semester abroad program.  He will be there for a week and then he and the others will leave for Greece. 

Abby and Will's Discovery

If you were wondering whatever happened to all the storm troopers, wonder no more.  Abby and Will found them at their local library!

Cosmo!

Meg is working on a display in the museum she works in and found this picture of Cosmo the BYU Cougar.  I loved how creepy their mascot was in the early days of his life .  I remembered that I had a picture of Ruth with Cosmo back in February of 2023.  So what do you think is he better now or then?

He's Going to be a Corn Husker!

Jeremy has decided to attend the University of Nebraska in Lincoln!  He will be majoring in Music Education with a possible Japanese minor.

Happy Birthday Aunt Amy!

 47 Years Old

Southern Utah

Yesterday Uncle Bill and Aunt Cathy drove down to St. George to attend the temple with some of his ward members.  Afterwards they visited the Jacob Hamlin home and the jail at Silver Reef.

Easter Sunday

Here are some of the Easter Sunday activities at Clovis.  Uncle Andy made a coconut cake for their dessert and Caleb was toasting the meringue and coconut before it was served.  They also got a nice picture with their Papa Dahlberg with Ava and Caleb.  Notice that the youngest one is the tallest of the three!

Happy Anniversary!

 3 Years

Owen

Both Owen and Evangeline have been busy and enjoying their time in Florida.  As you can imagine this has been a busy week full of Holy Week traditions.  She sent me a video of one of Owen's sermons and it was really impressive.  I copied a little of it for all of you to hear.  Also a couple of pictures of him during his presentation.  I have the most amazing grandchildren!!!

Evangeline

Evangeline sent me an article written about a new addition to the Naples Zoo.

"The Naples Zoo has developed an opportunity for visitors to get to know its Galapagos Tortoise up close.  “Our tortoise encounter involves going behind the scenes, and with our Galapagos tortoise. Her name is Poppy. And she loves people and loves interacting with them,” said Evangeline Kilmer-Duncan of the zoo’s education department.  She leads visitors right up to Poppy’s habitat."

Easter in AZ

I did Palm Sunday Dinner last week for everyone and this Sunday the Whitney's did the Easter Dinner.  Unfortunately, A cold with a nasty cough kept me home but I know (because I know Aunt Amy does amazing things for holidays) that it was great.  The kids made Resurrections rolls which I am sad that I missed!  But it's okay because from the looks of the pictures it will become a family tradition at their house.

Good Friday in CA

We had our Last Supper meal on Friday. I tried to do historical foods but figured lamb would only be appreciated by Caleb so left that aside. But we had lentil stew, bread, cheese, dates, figs, cucumbers and pistachios. We also had a seder plate with traditional items on it. We ate on the ground as would have been done at the time instead of on a table like the paintings show.  Love, Andy

Happy Birthday Peter!

 16 Years Old

Happy Birthday Rachel!

 28 Years Old

Happy Birthday Duncan!

 16 Years Old

Memory Trip

Katie came for a visit and I loved having her here.  We kept her busy and today I took her on my memory lane tour visiting where grandpa grew up, where I grew up, where we both went to school.  I educated her about what it was like being a trailer trash kid and we finished off up on South Mountain so she could see what her Great Grandad did when he came to Phoenix with the CCC (Civil Conservation Corp).  

Last Cello Recital

 Here's a video of Jane's last cello recital.

Perry's Many Legacies

I read the following on Deseret News this morning and remembered that Perry was one of the participants when he was attending BYU.  The article said:                                 "Within the confines of Brigham Young University lies an unheralded yet decorated dynasty.  It's not one of the school's successful sports teams or even the BYU Cougarettes, who have won 26 hip hop and jazz dance national championships.  That dynasty is BYU's landscaping team that in March won its 10th National Collegiate Landscape Competition championship, an event hosted annually by the National Association of Landscape Professionals.                                    Perry was one of those members of the dynasty when his team also won the National Collegiate Landscape Competition.  Thought I'd share these pictures again.  Way to go Perry and way to go BYU!

Palm Sunday

Today we celebrated Palm Sunday and I loved how much fun it was.  It was especially nice because Katie is here visiting from Utah, and I invited my friend Robin to join us.  It was a full house but was perfect!  

Eden, Graham, and Duncan sat on the floor to enjoy
their meal.

This was the adult table.  

Each person had a bag of M&Ms with
the Easter Story

 This was a tray of grapes, celery, 
carrots, olives, dates, dried apricots, deviled eggs
bellpeppers,cucumbers and mandarin oranges, and hummus.
I made a second tray for the three on the short table

Dessert was Mini Cheesecakes

We had chicken kabobs and several choices
for Dipping sauce.  

Outside the apartment I had put palm leaves to welcome everyone in and Graham and Eden made some palm leaves with their hands on paperplates.  Overall it was a great activity to begin the week before Easter.

April Camping Trip

We all went camping this month to Manresa State Beach. The campsite was on a bluff over the ocean with a little canyon or a long stairway down to the beach. We saw a bat, had blueberry crisp cooked on the campfire which turned out well and we could hear wild turkeys that first night. The next day I went birdwatching and saw a seal in the ocean while everyone else slept in. After we were up we packed the car then went down to the beach and hiked along the bluff over the ocean. Ava found some shells. We drove to a historic adobe site nearby before we realized they weren't open. Undeterred we went to an oceanfront seafood restaurant and had lunch. We finished off the afternoon at a wildlife area on a huge estuary called Elkhorn Slough and Caleb and I got in some extra hiking and wildlife viewing. 

March Camping Trip

Caleb and I went to Carizzo Plains in March. We saw a historic site of an oil blowout that started the oil boom in this area. We stayed the night in a campground in the Carizzo Plains and did some exploring the next day. We went to the visitor center and went on a boardwalk trail near the "dry" lake in the center of the valley. After spending the morning there we went to an oil museum in a little town called Taft. They had a giant wooden oil derrick and other exhibits about the oil rush that happened there.

Diamond Backs

Katie came for a visit and when I asked if there was anything she wanted to do while here she said that she'd like to go see a Diamondback Game so we went.  What a great game although we had to wait until the last inning!  In the last inning the score was 4-0 with Milwaukee winning but something happened that many missed because they gave up on the game.  In a matter of minutes DBs scorred 5 points and the game was over.  What a win!