Ainsley Aspen

The cat is out of the hat. Ainsley Aspen Conway was born Monday morning at 7:48am. Everything went well with the scheduled C-section. Mother and baby are doing great. She has some long black hair and weighed in at 6lb. 9oz. and was 19" long.

The Emerald Cup

Rashadds trophy, fourth place, but man there were lots of guys in his division and he was the biggest guy there!

Whe he walked out on stage, we were amazed at his hugeness! He never shows us his muscles.

Rashadd's Competition

Happy Birthday Jeri!

Happy birthday to Jeri this Monday April 20th! I have lots more pictures of you, Jeri, than I do of Dad. So these are just a few. Remembering some of the things I've enjoyed when I've been with you, are the great days of growing up together as sisters. I always admired your pretty long blond hair. I loved when your family moved back to Utah. We'd get together with Linda's family and share holidays and special times when our kids were all young. Then when you moved close to us near Brigham City was when we all got so close. That was fun to have the boys grow up together.

Remembering the Utah family reunion/Mom and Dad's 50th Anniversary party was was a lot of work that you and Bruce did. We appreciated all you did to make it such a success and we had so much fun.

It was nice to have you come stay with us here in Pennslyvania for Diane's graduation. We had fun going into New York with you and showing you the sights. You guys soon learned your way around; and Diane had fun on her shopping spree!

We've all enjoyed watching you perform in the Tabernacle Choir. It's been a wonderful experience for you, and I'm happy you could be a part of the that.

I want to thank you again for planning Mom's 50th Birthday party along with the scrapbook pages we all made for Dad and Mom. I'm so glad I got to come and be together for the party.

There are many other things I could say that are part of why we all admire and love you Jeri. But these are just a few reasons.

I hope you have a nice birthday tomorrow. Send us pictures of your celebration!

I love you, Susan

My Family Is The Greatest

There is no family as wonderful and great as our family (June & Archie). Thank you all for the great birthday wishes and selected pictures. Ya'all are wonderful and I love you too, very very much. My sweet wife is taking me out to breakfast and she baked a nice cake for later. She is always doing things like that and waiting on me for things. I'm a lucky guy. Love, Dad

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday to our Dad, we love you so much! I wish we could all be there to help you blow out the candles and celebrate together.

It's kind of funny that several of us decided to go through some of our favorite pictures we have of you to put in the GFB. Kathy and Jeri beat me to it though. You've been such a loving and supportive Father. I always knew that you would be there to help me if I needed you. I'm thankful that you are my Dad. Love, Susan

Happy Birthday Daddy

Here is our sweet Daddy in 2004. I love this one on the beach when we were in California at the Garrard Reunion. I love you Daddy, Happy 85th Birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY

These are some of my favorite pictures of our dad. Please share some of yours. What a wonderful dad and grandpa we have! Hope you have the best day on your coming birthday, Daddy. I love you with all my heart! Jeri

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter tomorrow. I hope you all have a nice day. I wrote in my blog about what the Savior means to me; I'm so grateful for His atonement for us.

I've been teaching a lot of painting classes lately. I put some of my things on my blog as well, like this little sugar egg on the left. It's a card and envelope that I painted on. It's fun for me and I meet lots of nice people in my classes. I'm enjoying being my own boss and making my own hours while doing something I love.

I wanted to wish a happy birthday for April to Malea, Alicia, Angela, Kimberly, Dad, and Jeri. What a beautiful time of year to be born! We are so blessed to have you all in our family. I hope you can (or your parent can) tell us on the GFB what your birthday was like or is going to be like. We love to see pictures too! We love you all so much and hope your special day is a good one for you.

Even though we love the nice spring weather here, it makes the allergies act up. I've had a bad time with congestion lately. Early last week I had a bad migraine for two days, Doug took my blood pressure which was sky high. So he called 911 for an ambulance to come take me to the hospital. Long story short, Doug took me to the emergency room. They ran some tests and did a cat scan. Then put me on an IV to give me several medicines to make the migraine pain away. I've never had such strong pain killers. And I've never been drunk. But I guess I know how it feels now! I was told to change my medications and see my doctor the next day. Which I did. We've got an appointment to see an allergist next week. So here I am now at home, much improved and we'll see if the new meds work! It was pretty scary so I'm glad that is over. I kept thinking about Linda and how much worse things were for her. Our lives are so fragile, we don't think about it until something bad happens to us.

The doctor has me on cortisone for four days and so I can't be around any one that is sick. So we won't be with the family for Easter because Stacey has a cold. I'm disappointed but I've got to get this under control.

I would love for someone to let us know how Linda is doing now. It was good to get a blog from her a week or two ago. Is your voice coming back yet? Get well soon honey, I'm still praying for you.

Love to all, Susan

Happy Birthday Alisha!

I love this picture of Alisha. I think she was 8 at the time. It is one of those everyday being in your pajamas in the kitchen picture. She is my life I love her so much. I can't believe she is 11 now! We are having her birthday party today and she has invited 18 girls. I think that all of them are comming too. What was I thinking? Oh well it is only for a few hours and you only turn 11 once right?