Marcella's blog May 16, 2011

Well, as usual it has taken me a long time to get some new information in here. Sorry about that. Here it is the middle of May already and we have been keeping busy. We went to Arizona for Nancy and Pat's Golden Wedding Anniversary party. We drove down with Kent and Jill in their niice, fancy car which does everything for you except drive the car, almost. We stayed the first night in Holbrook, AZ. The next day we drove to Mary and Lemoyne's house and visited and had lunch with them before going to the open house for Nancy and Pat at their home in Payson, Az. It was good to see so many of their family and the barbecue was delicious. We had a very good time visiiting with everyone. We stayed that night at Bison Ranch where we have condo shares. On Sunday morning we went to church before heading towards Utah. We did a lot of sightseeing on the way and stayed the night in Kanab. In the morning we went to see Pipe Springs and Walnut Canyon. Then we came on home but we really had a nice time. On May 7 we had a big family party in celebration of Mother's Day coming up on May 8 and my birthday which also was coming up on May 8, which was a Sunday of course. We had a really good time and it was a very enjoyable birthday and Mother's Day celebration for me and I hope our daughters, daughters-in-law, and grand daughter, who all are mothers, had as good a time as I did. As far as I know no one has signed up to host the annual Walker 24th of July breakfast so I guess there won't be one. Has anyone else heard anything about it? Last week we went to the Happy Hobo's Good Sam Club outing in Springville. We had lots of fun and, as usual, the food was delicious. Everyone is a good cook so it was great. The next thing coming up is our trip to Wisconsin for Amanda's graduation from high school and then we are going to leave immediately afterward to get her out here where she has a summer job starting right away. We plan to stop along the way to Wisconsin to do some genealogy with my cousins in Missouri. Here in Pleasant Grove we are waiting to see if there is going to be lots of water coming down Grove Creek Canyon with the snow beginning to melt as there is lots of snow up there. The city has put in a huge pipe line from the Grove Creek Debris Basin to the Murdock Canal to handle the water if it comes over the top of the spillway. They don't think it will be a big problem in the Battle Creek basin this time. In the meantime we are having to take detours to get too and from our house due to the pipe line on 500 North. We drove up American Fork Canyon yesterday and the river is really cocoa colored and frothing really bad. In some places it has gone out of the banks of the river but so far it has not done any serious damage. I guess I have rambled on long enough. I just got a call from Mary Burgin about doing some stories for the Strawberry Days brochure. I was hoping to get out of that. I had better get busy. We like to hear what is going on so keep your blogs going! Marcella (Sam)