Happy birthday to our big little man, Tyler!
Tyler has grown so much this year. Last year he was just starting into his special pre-school and this year he is just blossoming. He has learned to speak words and is really getting to be a chatter-box. He says "Everybody clap!" when he wants attention. He loves Mickey Mouse and Aunt Nicky. He loves to have Grandpa Labrum pick him up and turn him up-side-down. He laughs so hard he falls over. He loves Lexi, Kayden, and Koy to come and play with him. He is a great kid and we love him so much.

Belated

It has been hard for me to do much blogging lately. With school starting this past month and all the time spent there, I have been busy. Tonight I am exhausted and feel a sickness coming on. Garth went to the local football game and I chose to stay home and hopefully get feeling a little bit better. I had hopes of watching the game on the local ETV10 but the sound isn't coming across very well and I'm too lazy to find something else to watch, so I thought I would put something else here.

August was a month of reunions and birthdays. The Labrum reunion was really fun. It was at North Ogden at a place called Cold Mountain Springs, or something like that. There were fun fishing holes for the kids to catch fish. Tyler found that it wasn't very hard to catch a fish there. We had a good time visiting with family.
(I tried to upload some pictures here but it just isn't working. Maybe another day and another post.)

The Olsen reunion was held in Orangeville. It has been a long-time tradition to get together for my Grandmother Olsen's birthday, which is August 28th. It was good to visit with the family for a happier occasion. Since the reunion last year, three of the family have passed away. One family member had passed away just before the last reunion, and then the three during the fall and winter. What a difficult year this one has been for all of our families. It was really good to visit and reacquaint. Thefirst picture is of the three Olsen siblings; Royce, Barbara, and Nell. The second picture is the only picture I have of the Olsen reunion so far. Thanks to Kent and Julie for cooking the great turkey and everyone else for all the rest of the great food.

This is Grandma Olsen.

And I can't forget that the first birthday of the month was my sister, Ruanne. Here is a picture of her when she was only a few months old.
I need to write a letter to my nephew to celebrate his birthday, but that will maybe be tomorrow or Sunday. I wrote about Nancy's birthday, and we celebrated Grandma's birthday. The other birthday was my mom's. When I am feeling low, like tonight, I get too teary and then make myself worse, so I will just post some pictures I have of her 19th birthday which was celebrated in Biloxi, Mississippi where they lived while Dad was in the Air Force. They moved there right after they were married. They were married in June, so they had not been married long when this picture was taken. Happy birthday, Mom.