Almost June Wedding

On May 30th our niece, Taryn Salmon, married Russell (the Love Muscle) and became Taryn Cowley. They have been backyard friends forever and have liked each other off and on forever. When Taryn was on, Russell was off and visa versa. They finally got connected again after they both went on missions and he was at West Point. They found that they really did love each other and couldn't live without each other. We had a wonderful two days with the family festivities.

At the Groom's dinner in the Cowley's backyard, Russell and Taryn are trying to see how well they knew each other by answering questions about each other.

Megan and Karen

Reddin and Carrie (enjoying a comment from the Brimley table)

The Brimley's (So glad to have the Utah Brimley's here)

The Salmon Table (Great to have Scotty and family from Michigan)

Syrell and Tate soon to be married in August! Lucky Aunt Jeanine gets to do another wedding this summer!

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cowley

Tiffany and Savannah

Sleep Over at Grandma's

Okay, I'm a little behind with my blogging and I was in the process of catching up when I lost my pictures of the sleep over at Grandma's. Sorry, you will just get to hear about it. The Tuesday night after Memorial Day I had a sleep over with the four oldest grandchildren, Sawyer, Ruth, Neil, and Payton. Yes, we are kind of top heavy in the girl persuasion. Everyone arrived by about 7:30 and the children played while the adults visited for a bit. I had talked with Sawyer earlier in the day about having an Evan's Theater. Where we would rent a movie and get candy. So by the time the adults left it was about 9:00 and all five of us went to Walgreen's and got a Red Box movie. It was a hard decision but we ended up with Bolt since there were people behind us looking not so patient. We also spent some time in the candy selection making that hard decision. Sawyer got Sugar Babies, Ruth got Mike and Ike's, Neil got Good and Fruity, Payton got Dots, and Grandma got Red Vines. We all got in our jammies and got the pad for the floor and settled down for good munching and the movie. When the movie was over Grandma told a couple of stories and they were all asleep, soon to wake up WAY too early the next morning, 6:00 AM to be exact. I thought they would sleep in for sure since they went to sleep at 11:30. No, not my grandchildren. However, Sawyer did a nice job of organizing some activities until Grandma was able to get out of bed. Fun times--need to do it again before school starts!

Memorial Day

Food and Fun on Memorial Day

Such form

Brendon checking it out

Fun with noodles and tubes

Collin not sure it is fun

It is a definate NOT fun

What is going on here?

Liam hanging out in the tube

Abby doing her thing with the noodle

Everyone enjoying the sun

More fun inside

Uncle Reddin passing out the suckers

Look Dad I can almost walk

Aunt Megan has my binkie and I want it!

Everyone wanted to hold Collin

Collin sometimes didn't want to be held

What a Grand Time We Had!

Travis and Stephanie came out to visit over the Memorial Day weekend. They brought the little guy so that he could be blessed with many family and friends there to lend their support.

We were glad to see Stephanie and Travis

But this is who everyone really wanted to see.

Trav and Steph enjoying the shorts and sandals. Oops those are not sandals on Trav's feet! We all enjoyed getting together and enjoying each others company.

Here is Kayda enjoying a dart!

What a hansome little guy!

What good parents I have! They just adore me.

Proud Dad and Son

The Reddin Evans minus Payton on the day of the blessing

The Evan's Family has grown.

The Evans and the Lindbloms on Collin's Blessing Day

The Moms and Dads

Just hanging out

Matty just hanging out.

BEES! YIKES!

Last Saturday Wayne went into the master bathroom because he thought he heard water dripping in the shower. It was not water but bees had gotten inside the wall and was buzzing around and hitting the other side of the shower. That was kind of unnerving until I went downstairs and discovered that there were bees in the house. They were very nice and were only intent on getting out by buzzing around the windows. Then they would die. Wayne had Marcus come over in the evening to put a bug bomb up into the rafters where we knew they were getting in. He went out on the patio to do the deed and discovered that we did not have a few bees but this: Yikes!

We had to call for some help to rid us of our bee problem! It worked...no more bees!

The Entrepeneur Strikes Again

After Carrie dropped her girls off last Tuesday while she took Matthew to therapy Sawyer came in and said she wanted to sell something. I said that we were not going to do that today. I thought she had dropped the idea. The next thing I know she has come to ask me if she could pick some fruit. I said yes without really thinking. I went upstairs for something and came down to check on Abby when I heard the door to the garage get shut. I go into the garage and the garage door to the outside is open. Oh, oh! Abby loves to go in the street. I run out and this is what I see. Sawyer had set this all up by herself and had gotten water bottles because it was kind of warm. She wanted me to make a sign for selling her fruit. I told her that we couldn't sell that fruit because it was too old and that I would buy it from her. I did not want to stand out there and watch Abby because I knew Abby would not come in.

Check out the dress Abby is wearing--it is the same dress Sawyer would put on evertime she came to Grandma's. Funny, funny Neus girls!

Don't I have cute grandchildren?

What A Month!

Now that Wayne is home and doing well and I have a few minutes between being nurse, nutritionist, caregiver, and doing manly things around the house to post some pictures and document our month.

Banner Heart Hospital was Wayne's home for 11 days. They were awesome and took really good care of Wayne through all his heart attacks, surgery, and breathing issues. When they started talking about releasing him both Wayne and I started getting nervous because he still needed a lot of help to walk, get out of bed, shower, and pretty much do anything. After being evaluated our case worker suggested that we go to a rehab place/care home/halfway house (whatever you want to call it). It sounded like a good idea to us. I got the honor to decide where. They gave me a list of care centers and some suggestions. I asked Carrie to go with me to help make the decision. We checked out one place that had private rooms and had just done some renovations. When we first walked in it did not smell so that was a plus in its favor and the room they showed me looked really nice. So I felt good about it and didn't go look anywhere else.

The next 10 days Mission Palms Health and Rehab Center was Wayne's home. The nurses and other staff were very nice and took good care of Wayne. He met some very nice people there.

Wayne taking his breathing treatment while listening to his ipod.

Let's have a party! The M & M's and Neuses all came to visit at the same time. This is why we wanted a private room.

Neil making sure Matty is doing okay.

Ruthie checking out something on the floor.

Ruthie checking out Grandpa's equipment to make sure it works!

Check out that bandage!

I'm free. We got permission to take Wayne on a field trip on Fast Sunday. It was the Break the Fast at the Sub shop. Wayne had an enjoyable time but was ready to leave after a few hours of fun. He had to find a quiet corner with out kids trying to run into him.

Abby having some watermelon.

Matty having his rice and milk.

Kayda just relaxing by Grandpa

Liam just having a little thumb.