Randy & Vickie were married 40 years ago today.

Here they are by Randy's beloved '57 Ford when they were dating.

He's so handsome and she's so pretty that I just had to post this.

Four beautiful children were born as a result of their love.

Left to right: Steve, Dee, Tricia, and Nickie

Happy Father's Day to Dad, Randy & "Sons"

Randy said that the best thing anyone could call him was DAD

and he LOVED having fun with his kids!

Here he is with Dee and Steve

Randy's sons learned to be fun dads by his example.

Here Randy and Steve are playing with Karli on her birthday.

Here Steve is helping Sage eat her first birthday cake.

Below Dee is looking adoringly at his precious

new baby Avery . . .

. . . and here Dee is having fun with Nash.

Camille's husband, Jerel, has always been a devoted dad

who shows his boys how to work . . .

. . . and play.

I will never forget how he kept dancing with toddler-age Trevor

when Trevor discovered Randy's Hokey Pokey Elmo.

Nickie's husband, Cris, also adores his children.

Here he is holding Aubrey on her blessing day.

Last but not least, thanks to my heroes, my twin Daddies.

For those of you who don't know, my dad is Gerald, the one on the right.

They were both artistic, musical, intelligent, congenial, hard-working lovers of the outdoors and family. They both had an incredible sense of humor and loved playing tricks on people. They especially LOVED being identical twins and took full advantage of that by impersonating one another--just to see if they could get away with it . . . and they always could. They even ended up being co-presidents of BYU. No one could ever tell which one was which, so they just elected them both. (Besides, they knew if they elected one, the other one would just impersonate him.)

They were the fount of all knowledge who taught me to love learning and to NEVER hurt another person's feelings. (I have failed at that sometimes, but I don't think I have ever deliberately set out to hurt someone's feelings, but then I end up inadvertently doing it and I apologize to anyone if I have done so to you.) They were the best dads any girl could ever wish for. I thank God for you both.

I have been most fortunate to have such wonderful dads in my life: the dad who fathered me, Uncle Jim who was like another dad to me, my wonderful husband Randy, and to all of my wonderful sons (pictured in the blog--whom I was not fortunate enough to give birth to), but I am so proud of you and love you all very much.

Memorial Day Flowers & My Yard

This is what Randy and Vickie's grave looked like on Memorial Day. I brought the sunflower, carnation, lily bouquet, and I know that Steve, Jen, Tricia, and Bentley brought something, and I am guessing some of the mum plants were also brought by Alan Bray and Russ and Sherry because they brought mum plants last year. However, I don't know who brought what, so please write a comment and let me know what you brought.

The following pictures are of what the flowers look like in my yard.

The pictures above and below are by the front door.

Here are some Iris that I planted by the back fence.

Here is the new Aphrodite Rose of Sharon tree I planted in the front yard, so the front flower bed could get more light--plus add some more color to the front yard. I also planted 2 Forsythia bushes--one in the front yard and one in the back, so I could have more color and brighten up the yard in the spring.

Below is what the blossoms of the Rose of Sharon tree will look like in July and August. It is supposed to bloom this year. I sure hope it does. I can hardly wait until is gets bigger and has hundreds of blossoms.

Heavenly Blossoms

Here are some shots I took of the beautiful flowers

 at the Jordan River Temple.

Chase, puzzles, Mentos, & Coke

My oldest grandson, Chase, came up for BYU's Especially for Youth and spent all Sunday afternoon and night with me. It was so fun to have him here.  We put together a puzzle which took the length of two movies to accomplish because there were so many totally white pieces.  Chase did 75 per cent of it. He's been good at puzzles since he was 3.  Isn't he so grown up and handsome?

Then we went outside to experiment 

with putting Mentos in Diet Coke.

Watch the video below:

I wonder how they made it look so good on Myth Busters?