Concrete floor completed

These pictures are a little out of order. I am still learning how to do this blogging business. After the plumbing was finished, they put on four inches of sand, then a layer of this blue moisture barrier, and then another four inches of sand. Then they compressed it and smoothed it out.

This should be the last picture of this blog. I gave up trying to put them in order. Here the concrete floor is all complete and they are bringing on the steel supports to begin the construction of the steel building.
After the sand work was finished, they put a grid of rebar over the entire floor.

This picture was taken after the sand work was completed and before they did the grid rebar. They did have to repair a few of the plumbing pipes that they hit during the sand instillation process.

Phew! Three blogs in one night and I am still not caught up. I will do a couple of more this weekend, hopefully.

Marching Band - Football Game

Melissa and Celeste came to the RHS Homecoming game with us. (Ryan was hunting with his dad) Our football team is terrible this year but the marching band was performing and Quinton is the Drum Major leading the band so we went to watch him. Lots of people go to the games just to watch the band.

That is Quinton on the platform directing the band.

Quinton and Rex Amend, the other Drum Major, leading the band onto the field.

Happy Halloween from Smart-Start Academy

Halloween is a fun day for children but I am glad that it is over. After seven parties in two days, we are all exhausted. Actually, they went very smoothly though. One of our parents makes some jello worms every year that look so realistic. Most of the kids won't eat them but they are sure fun. The parents plan all of the treats and most of the activities for most of the parties so we just have to deal with keeping the kids calm.

Celeste came as a giraffe for her first Smart-Start Halloween. She had her 6 month old immunizations yesterday and she was a little fussy today, but still a sweetie. I think is was a little too over stimulating for her.

Here is one of seven of our classes. We get some pretty cute costumes.

Snowy Weekend

Riverton got nearly a foot of snow on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It was 13 degrees this morning. I'm sure the weather will stall construction for a day or two. However, the temp is supposed to be back up to 60 degrees by Thursday.
They finished the underground plumbing but it is difficult to see our "forest" of white pipes due to the white snow. They also backfilled and compacted the dirt around the pipes. I think the next step will be to pour the concrete floor as soon as the ground dries out enough to work it. It will probably be a muddy mess for a couple of days.

Quinton's Tennis Season

These are some shots of Quinton playing tennis that Melissa took . He finished up his tennis season last week at State where he had 3 wins and 2 losses. He tied for fifth in the state at 2nd Singles. He had a winning season and seemed to improve a lot. It was fun to watch him (especially when he was playing well).

Plumbing Update on building

The Plumbers were in last week digging trenches and putting in the underground plumbing systems. The contractor commented "there is an awfully lot of plumbing in that building. I believe this area will be the kitchen and one of the bathrooms. I think it will take them the rest of next week to finish it as there are still a lot of trenches without any pipe in them.
Oops. I guess I should have rotated these two pictures before I uploaded them. I am still learning all of this tech stuff. Here is one of the trenches. After they dig them, then they put a remote control compactor in them. It has been interesting to watch all of the steps.

Patsy wanted me to post some pictures of the playground. I was hoping the "traffic signs" would show up. Maybe I'll put more of the playground next week. All of the sidewalks are the trike tracks for the multi-child ride-on toys. There are enough now that all 20 children per class can be on a trike. We usually only take out one class at a time.

This is the ball court with one of the basketball standards showing. The ball wall is for the children to throw and retrieve balls at to work on eye-hand coordination. We use the tables for finger painting or special (messy) outdoor snacks.

Mom's BYU Bowen Hall Reunion

The reunion exceeded all dreams and expectations. It was SO much fun. All six girls from Bowen Apr. 13 were there. This is a picture they took of us and they arranged us in the same order as the portrait 37 years ago. 44 out of 63 women came to the reunion, including our dorm parents. (Our Branch President and counselor also came).
This was the "charger". I had never had a charger plate in my life so I learned what it was. We all wanted to take the plate with us. The reunion was held in the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni House and everything was so beautiful. Dad drove me there and came for the last hour or so. It was nice to be able to relax and not have to drive.

These are the ladies who live in apt 12 and 13. I lived with some of them the next year. The girl in the green and beige, center front, lived with us the next year, Anell Pasket Gibelyou, and the girl next to her is Melanie Gard's sister, Tamela Rencher.

Here are my actual freshman roommantes. Bonnie Payne Bond who was from Wausau Wisconsin and now lives in Woods Cross, UT., Patsy Polson Baird whom I grew up with and have remained friends with now from Idaho Falls, Kathy Bigelo Bulkeley from Bakersfield, California, myself (still the shortest), Lynn Abegg Herron from Sugar City, ID, now living in SLC, and Gwen Dearden from Fillmore UT. It was so much fun to share our lives and renew our friendships.