Weekend in Honor of Jack

It was one of those in and out operative missions that you see on the spy movies. Flew in late Friday and out on Monday. Only I got to enjoy the company of children, grandchildren, parents and my sister.

Saturday was spent up at my Mom and Dad's with all who could cominig up for pizza and BYU football game. It was great to visit, get caught up with them all while rooting for the Cougars. That night was cards at Doug and Julie's. She was in Penn seeing Colby and family so it was Doug, I and the kids. We had a great time and if I recall correctly Doug had one of the extra special night where he won both games! Always a highlight of my trips to Utah.

Sunday was the blessing which was awesome and needless to say Nick did us all proud. Jen and Nic had us all over to their place for Chili Sunday after church for Chili and cornbread. NUMMY!

Monday morning my folks and I spent some time with Shaunda, had some lunch with her and then off to Airport. Here are some pictures of the trip. Enjoy!


It was an extra treat to get to see these two sweeties! Erica and Thuy joined us on Saturday for the BYU football Game and Pizza.
The Dobson Family with one very proud Grandpa after Jack Gordon Dobsons blessing.

Emily and Jared with the "next" grandchild on the way!
The Jolleys and the Dobsons after the blessing

I love it whcn a child laughs . . . BIG or SMALL!

There is nothing and I mean nothing like a sleeping baby, especially when they are in your arms.

Autumn really got into building with tinker toys with me while her mom and I talked. Needless to say it was a pretty special time for all three of us.

Brooklyn was very interested in the little person that G-Grandpa Dobson had in his hand.

Halloween with Spiderman and Transformer!

Hayden (aka:Spiderman) and Corbin (aka: Transformer) invited us to their Halloween party at church. It was pretty awesome. We got to watch them parade around the room while everyone tried to get pictures then it was out to the parking lot for the "trunk or Treat" out tof the back ends of vehicles. I got to walk Tranformer around because his Dad and Hayden were just a little to slow for him. After the second lap his bag was pretty full. Mom and Celeste managed the Curfiss Trunk by giving out lots of candy.

We even got to pose with our favorite Spiderman and Transformer! We had a great time.

Grandkids - Grandkids! We love our Grandkids!

Had a great visit with the Grandkids this past Saturday (all except Mr. Hayden :( ). It was a lot of fun as you will see below! Enjoy.

Grandpa and his Grand boys. . .

Ashley and her little girl. . .

Corbin and Wyatt having a good time, cousin to cousin!

The Great Race!

Kailyn was a HOOT! What a pretty little girl!

Travis may of not wanted a girl, but this picture proves he is singing another song now!!

Let's play catch!!

Ashely tried to get the boys to play ball with her. She has a lot of patience!

Some Things Never Die. . .

It didn't take long after Ike for the our friendly fungi to pop back up. Just look at these babies!

After the Storm. . .

Two Days after Ike, Lance broke his left leg. After several ordeals in the hospital he is home and getting better. This picture is is first time out of the hospital and shows his new "Dinning room" bedroom!

A Cruise To NOWHERE!

Well as you might have heard our cruise to Mexico got cut short by Gustav. So instead of leaving Monday, we left on Wednesday and instead of going to Mexico, we went No Where! Really, we just cruised around the middle of the Gulf of Mexico for a couple of days and then headed back to Galveston. We didn't even have go through U.S. Customs, cause you guessed it, we never even got off the ship! All in all we had a great time and it was perfect for Celeste to test her sea legs and get a feel for the Cruise ship environment.

We were about 2 hours late getting off, but hey there wasn't any hurry because we were going "no where"!

Each evening after dinner we would come back to our room and find new towel aninmal. When Celeste saw this I she could not stop laughing. It really caught her off guard.

First there was this walrus (not me! the white thing with sun glasses!)

And then an Elephant

And a puppy!

"The Mall" was a pretty sight at night. It was easy to forget you were on a ship!

Midnight buffet with the ice carvings

I was able to get these shots before the crowd came in.

We had some great people at our table as this final dinner shot shows. We even made some special friends, Greg and Patrica Roberts from Kingwood!(left side nearest window)

What a great time!

Grandpa D's Yard!

Look what I found in our yard!!!

A Friday w/Grandkids!

Got a visit from Tosh, Hayden, Corbin, Ashley, Wyatt and Kailyn Grace Ashley Clover. We had great time with blocks. . . .

Playing with the race track, ...

and taking turns giving. . .

... Baby Kailyn a ride!

ONE . . . .

. . . . TWO . . .

. . . THREE little Grand children!!!

Tosh and Hayden enjoying a tender moment with a basketball. . .

"Look Grandpa, it's a big Brown truck!"

Two cousins sharing a "big Brown truck" moment before they leave.

Daniel Michael Speed's Blessing Day

Daniel sleeping before going to church and recieving his beautiful blessing by his Dad, Michael Speed.

Although blurred, you can still see the beauty of all these girls! Getting ready to go to church for Daniels blessing. Needless to say it was a wonderful day.