July 2025

First tomato from our small garden.

Plants that are now blooming in the yard.

Lanae put together a Bell family reunion.

It was great to get together.

July 26th

Jim and Christine, Allan and Julie, Debra and Gary, 

Carol and Glen, Alise and Martin, Steve and Kari, Lanae and Evan

We celebrated Lydia's 12th Birthday on July 30th.

Cameo, Taunia, Dennis, Logan, Julie

Daphne, Lydia, Mckay

Jeremy

Griffith Boys July 11 - 24, 2025

The Griffith boys were here for a week 

while their parents were at girls camp in California.

Dave drove them out Friday and flew home on Saturday.

Terri flew out after camp the following Sunday and stayed for 4 days before driving home.

Nickle City

Laser Tag

Nathan, grandma, Colin, Brady, grandpa

I took Colin by himself the first time

 we went to Wasatch Aquatic Center.

Colin wanted to do a hike so we went to

Swaner Preserve & Eco Center

They loan you binoculars to use on the hike.

We hiked the Wetland Discovery trail

Games with cousins.

Logan, Aunt Cameo, Daphne, Nathan and Brady

Killer Bunnies

The card game

Spoons

The game of Clue

Brady, grandpa, Colin and Terri

BYU Museum of Paleontology

Colin

Colin, Brady, Nathan

Monte L. Bean Museum of Life Science

Colin, grandpa, Terri, Brady, Nathan

Learning Pickleball

Brady, Logan and Terri

Wasatch Aquatic Center with Logan and Mckay

Logan, Brady, Nathan

Colin, Nathan, Mckay, Logan

Logan, Mckay

Colin

Brady, Nathan, Logan, grandpa, Colin, Mckay

 

Colorado Visit July 2 - 7, 2025

We spent 4th of July weekend in Colorado with the Bells

Expo Titanic in Denver

Hailey

Their new dog Rose

Corey put on quite the display of fireworks for us.

Leah our granddaughter convinced our son, Corey to call us and ask us to stop

in Wyoming and buy some illegal fireworks.

We bought some fancy roman candles.

This is what the roman candles did when they were shot off.

Leah and grandma

This is only 1 of three pictures I got of Leah.

She doesn't like to be in pictures.

Hailey and Grandma

Hailey

Leah

Pikes Peak Cog Railway

Colorado Springs

Leah, Yoli, Corey, Grandpa and Hailey

At the top

Grandma, Hailey, Corey and Yoli

The continental divide is the 

farthest mountain range away in the next 2 pictures.

Heading back down the mountain.

The Pink Flamingo gets moved

 around by the railroad workers.

National Museum of World War II Aviation

Rocky Mountain National Park

You can use the sign above to 

identify the mountains in the picture below.

We climbed 272 stairs.

Elevation

12,005 feet

above sea level

Yoli, Corey, Leah, Hailey and I 

went to a ceramic store and painted some items.