Buffalo

Going way east from Hawaii, Natalie and Thayne are in Buffalo, New York. Thayne is in his second year of dental school. They had a little boy, Tyson, at the beginning of April. Now, four months later, he's not so little anymore. Natalie says he's like the Michelin tire guy, lots and lots of rolls (he's 15 pounds). Natalie is getting to stay at home with Ty. All are doing well, and while this is what they need to be doing at this time, we do miss them a lot. And since Cheryl doesn't work for the airlines anymore, it costs Gramma and Grampa quite a bit to go see them. We haven't seen him since he was a month old, so my pictures are a bit dated, but I'm putting some in anyway.

Two weeks old.At Leatherby's, a BIG family favorite!

One month old.

Laie

We are currently in Laie, Hawaii, visiting Adam, Kasey, and Adyson, our beautiful little granddaughter. Adam is attending BYU-Hawaii and Kasey is working there. Ady is a blonde, blue-eyed "local" girl; her legs are really tan. They moved here the first of January and this is the first time we have seen them since then. Ady has doubled her age in that time!

We got in the night before the annual Laie Days parade. This really brought back memories because our kids rode and sang in this parade when we lived here. We also got to sit with the Langis (our old neighbors) to watch the parade.

Parades here are a bit different than many of you have seen before.

The kids's favorite part is, of course, when candy is thrown out to them. Ady would pick up the candy a piece at a time, but then she realized that she really didn't have to do anything to get it -- other kids would bring her some when they got theirs or the people throwing it would just walk over and give it to her! She's definitely cute and catered to! Grampa fed her Smarties one at a time (her daddy claimed her Butterfinger).