Caroline - Shelley Beatty

Henry AND Caroline celebrate their birthdays with PARTIES!

September 28, 2015 by shelley

Henry celebrated his birthday on the 18th and one day later Caroline has a birthday and both had PARTIES!

Henry’s Party

Henry’s party had a construction theme. Each invitee got to build a birdhouse and got to go home with the birdhouse, hammer and apron.

Henry’s Birthday party

Caroline’s Party

Caroline’s party was a circus carnival theme complete with Cracker Jacks and Animal Cracker favors.

Caroline’s Birthday party

Salt Lake City

February 3, 2015 by shelley

Salt Lake City

I headed to Salt Lake City to help take care of grandkids; Becca, Henry and Caroline and welcome their new sister Emily.

Just a few of the things we did (a busy 10 days)

Crazy hair days for Becca

Crazy hair day for Becca at school

Eating lunch with Becca at school:

Lunch at Becca’s school

Becca doing lunch clean up at her school:

Becca doing cleanup duty

Caroline at park:

Caroline at Park

Crazy hat day for Becca at her school:

Crazy hat day for Becca

Becca:

Becca

Caroline at Little Gym

Henry at Park

Henry at park

Caroline at Park

Caroline at park

Henry and Caroline at Park

Meeting with good friends

Visiting with friends; Linda and Cordell Esplin and their daughter Lindsay

Visiting with good friend Linda

Henry and Caroline

Henry’s hibernation book

page from Henry’s book on hibernating animals

Becca, Caroline and Henry

Henry

Henry at basketball game

Becca

Meeting Ethan’s girlfriend Heather…we ate at Hires (famous for their fry sauce)

Ethan and Heather

Anelli and Dylan

Craig

And we did a science fair project. (Just a word to the wise…whenever you go somewhere upon returning either wash your hands or use hand sanitizer. It doesn’t matter so much which one you do…but do one or the other!)

Science Fair Project

And we got everything ready for a Valentines Party.

Longs visit in October

November 13, 2014 by shelley

A fun October visit from the Longs!

Visiting grandpa at work, Overland Park Regional Hospital

And who said you can’t drive a car in the house?

Dinner at Cheesecake Factory

Chalk art

Tennis time with grandpa

Playtime in the garage

Ready for the 4th of July

July 13, 2014 by shelley

Ready for the 4th of July

Becca, Caroline and Henry all ready for the 4th of July!

Becca, Caroline and Henry

Salt Lake City and fun times!

April 28, 2014 by shelley

We arrived in Salt Lake City and knew we would have to wait a few minutes at the airport before our ride arrived. The Salt Lake airport is not a bad place to spend a few extra moments…it is a place you can witness a moment (and secretly share) the joy and happiness of perfect strangers.

We watched families welcome home and joyfully celebrate their returning missionary. These missionaries were returning home after serving a two year mission somewhere in the world for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). They had not seen their families for that entire time. Only Christmas and Mother’s day are they allowed to call home. Weekly emails were their only form of communication. Cheers would erupt as a young man in a suit would appear at the top of the escalator and slowly descend to the waiting group below. The cheering would continue, signs would wave and people would jump up and down. But when the young man reached the bottom, and it never failed, the first person he would embrace was obviously his mother. It was always a long, sweet and very emotional embrace. And then his dad would receive a big hug. And then siblings would “glom” onto him and create a mass hug. Other relatives and friends followed. So very heart warming. We knew no one, spoke to no one, but we witnessed, shared and thoroughly enjoyed, the sheer joy and happiness of perfect strangers watching their sons come home from their missions at the Salt Lake City airport.

Joyful reunions at the Salt Lake City Airport

And then it was on to other activities and a full few days we enjoyed with Jen, Adam and kids in Salt Lake City.

It was a busy time in Salt Lake City.

One of the reasons we came to Salt Lake City was to see the kindergarden production of Mother Goose nursery rhymes. More specifically the Queen in Sing a Song of Sixpence. We had to see her in the parlor eating bread and honey!