Wilma's World

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Cabin on the Ranch

Church for the ranch

Ranch house

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Nev and Sister Abrath at El Rancho de los Golindrinas, Oct. 2009

Balloon Fiesta October 2009

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Picnic at Quarai. Sis. Abrath,, Marie, Nev & Lois.

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At the ruins of Abo.

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The rattlesnakes can have all the privacy they want!!

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Sitting in the window of one of the ruins at Gran Quiviraq with a view of the valley in the background.

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This little guy graciously posed for me at the end of the trail. To make any sense of this, read from the bottom post up. I know, I'm severely challenged in this activity.

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I made it back to the sitting bench! Me, Lois Eckerman & Sister Abrath.

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Here's the traveling crew waiting in the shade for me to get back from the trek.

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Here I am checking out the living quarters. This cave is actually big enough for 3 people to fit into. I got some poor tourist to snap my picture.

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This is one of the cave dwellings you could climb into.

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Sister Abrath & me by the door. I'm in the orange shirt. Hard to miss!

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Today we visited Bandelier National Monument.

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Nev & Lois Eckerman

At the zoo

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Queen Wilma on the throne. The deformity on my left hip is a bottle of water in my pocket!

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Statue in the plaza between different museums

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Lois & me in front of the Museum of International Folk Art.

Going to the museum in Santa Fe

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We are standing in front of some great statues at the entrance to the musuem. Nev Eckerman, Sister Abrath, Me, and Lois Eckerman.

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Some of the younger dancers at the powwow.

Powwow

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This is the backs of some of the beautiful costumes worn by the Indians at the Powwow. They were lined up for judging of their dances.

Roadrunner

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Roadrunners are very fast! This is the best shot I've had of one in our parking lot at the mission office.

My first ceramics creations

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We go to the Eckerman sisters' home every Wed. evening to do ceramics. I did these three angels as my first project. I'm working on a nativity set now.

Gathering of Nations PowWow 2009

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We attended this powwow with the Eckerman sisters and another friend, Marie. There was a whole lot of Indians!!

Balloons over Albuquerque

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We see hot air balloons in the sky almost every morning.

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We were just leaving the refuge when we spotted this doe. Then we saw the stag and 2 more does. It was getting too dark for pictures but a great end to a great day.

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The first cranes in.

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View of El Camino Real (The Royal Road) from the observation deck of the museum. This museum was in a way out of the way place, nothing else around.

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The first Roadrunner of the season. He was a little too fast for me.

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Cranes.

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At the bird refuge.

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Here I am at the VLA (Very Large Array). What a name! Couldn't they think of something better? This is one of the dishes that capture radio waves from space. This one is in a building so people can see them up close. It weighs 230 tons.

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Part of the zone conference talent show. Picture isn't very good.

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At the Christmas zone conference. Elder Travis Peterson with arms around another elder. He reminds me of Mackenzie. Elder Peart on the right.

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This was at the entrance of the River of Lights display.

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Here are some more sculptures. Very interesting.

Some pictures

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This isn't the picture I planned on posting, but it shows some interesting metal sculptures we saw.

SNITCHEL DAY

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Once a week the AP's take orders for the Weinersnitchel. They think it's the best of all dining so we humor them. Of course we have to have the foot long dogs. Mine is chili-cheese with onions. From left to right, Me, Sister Abrath, Elder Burr, Elder Milburn, and Sister Deeben. Elder Deeben's diet forbids hotdogs so he ate his lunch in his office and answered the phone. The rest of us are in the President's office. He is seldom here, but the AP's called and tried to get him and his wife to order up and join us, No Luck!

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More Madrid

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Here I am at a soda fountain in Madrid (Wild Hogs) where we had lunch. What a place!!

Below are pictures of the sign coming into Madrid and one of the lovely homes we visited. I can't seem to get them in order so you decide which is which.

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Sister Abrath

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This is my companion, Sister Abrath from Othello, WA.

Posing

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Here I am posing with the statues at a country

club. Actually the statues look pretty good to the side of me. We were out doing a homes tour and our guides, the Ackerman sisters wanted me to see these statues. All the homes we toured were Pueblo Style with lots of tile. Very nice. We are going again this Saturday. It's the last weekend for the parade of homes.

The Mission Picture

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This is my MTC companion and me doing the point to the mission thing. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to post on this new laptop. This is a trial run.

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Some of the production.

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I caught this much of Kelsey's dance. It was a pretty amazing production and cameras just can't get the real granduer of everything that was going on all at once.

2600 Dancers

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Kelsey & Skyler in costume

The Youth Celebration August 23, 2008

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1050 members of the choir. Where's Waldo, er, I mean Skyler?

Twin Falls Temple Dedication

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Skyler, John, Kelsey, and Kelli just leaving for our session of the Twin Falls Temple dedication August 24, 2008. We attended at the Oakley Stake Center. The Twin Falls Temple will be the 128th working temple as of this date.

July 24th visitors

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Skyler, Ethan, Kelsey, Millie, and Kade playing on the trampoline. Fun was had by all! After Bonnie dropped Ty and Josh off at the airport Thursday, she and Becky & children came to Oakley for a couple of days. Lorilee and Millie also came down Thursday. Since this is the 24th of July celebration weekend, Bonnie helped me man a water stop for the Goose Creek Runoff this morning before she and Becky left for home. Lorilee & Millie & I went to the program at the church featuring LaVell Edwards. We also had to bake potatoes for the bbq
at the park so we stayed for lunch. We are just hanging out now until time for the parade.

Burch Family Reunion 2008 - May Family Ranch

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Mel preparing his dutch oven bbq pork. Yumm!

Floating the Salmon River.

Kade, Hailey, Millie & Kelsey hanging out in the landing pond.

Brian's one run down the water slide. He ended up at the clinic in Challis for stitches in his hand.

Brian & Millie heading to the fishing pond.

Ty & Josh whittling to overcome texting addiction. No Cell service at the ranch.

Ethan & Millie peeking out the window of the little log cabin

Brian & Millie

John relaxing at the ranch

July 6, 2008, Sarah Leilani Toribau was blessed by her father, Isoa Toribau, in the Oakley 2nd Ward.

Welcome Home Elder Malloy!!

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Eric, Darrell, and Linda Malloy - June 22, 2008

Proud brothers, Kade & Ethan

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Here is Sarah Leilani Toribau, born June 17, 2008. I got to spend a few days with the Toribau family helping out. We are so happy to have a beautiful baby girl added to the family. Sarah is named after Grandma McHenry and is my 12th grandchild. Congratulations Becky & Isoa!

Brian, Millie, & Lorilee - June 15, 2008 Happy Birthday Lorilee

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Bonnie's Girls (And Mel)

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I spent a few days in Washington, Ut last week. I had a good time, scrapbooking, shopping, eating, visiting, etc. Thanks guys!

It has been a rainy Memorial Day weekend. We (John, Kelli, Skyler, Kelsey & I) took our coats and went to Glenns Ferry Sunday after church. When we got there it was 79 degrees and perfectly calm - beautiful! What a shock! Today we hurried up to the cemetery in Oakley between rains to decorate the graves. John & I went. We met Jim & LaRue up there. Nathan & Karlee were here for lunch. They have been camping up Trapper creek. It was good to see them.

Temple Day

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I had a nice day yesterday. I rode the stake temple bus to the Boise temple. It left Pella at 6:45 a.m., picked up people at the Burley West Stake center and we were off. We arrived in Boise about 9:40 a.m. and had plenty of time to attend the 10:30 a.m. and the 12:30 p.m. sessions. We had lunch in the temple cafeteria and I got home about 6:30 p.m. It was nice to just relax, visit, read and sleep during the travel time and of course the temple experience was wonderful.

Mother's Day Weekend Visitors

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Well, I can't seem to get my pictures up. Last Monday I made a quick trip to Lehi to get a haircut and help Becky move the boys into one room. Also to with Kade an early 6th birthday. I came home Thursday and Bonnie and Austin came to Oakley Friday. Austin and Skyler had a good time on the 4-wheelers and motorcycles while Bonnie and I and Kelsey loaded a pickup load of stuff from the Edgar house and hauled it to the roll off station. I had lots of mother's day wishes and gifts - thanks you guys, I love you.

More Visitors

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Kade is on spring break so Becky, Kade, and Ethan came to visit for the week. I met them at Snowville on Sunday. Too bad the weather is so cold. The boys love to play outside. So far we have worked on the Fiji pictures and finally got them all in an album. That was a major accomplishment.

Fun and productive week

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This week Deb, Hailey & Coltin came to visit during their spring school break. We tied two quilts, went to Becky's where Deb painted the nursery in preparation for the new baby, and I went to my checkup. We visited Mike & Peggy at Linda's in South Jordan and came back to Oakley on Thursday. Lorilee and Millie came to Oakley that day so we have had a good visit. (Brian is in Alaska on business). We sprayed weeds at the cemetery and got a little sun on our winter-weary souls.

Lima Peru Temple

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I took this picture of the temple in Lima through the fence as the grounds were closed on Sunday when we were there in February.

Working on Mom's blog

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Hi mom! It's Lorilee, I am working over your blog to see if I can make it work. Not much time to fool around because I am getting my new carpet today! Yahoo!

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Testing, Testing, Testing.

Testing My Blog

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Wilma is taking the leap to blog world. This is Lorilee trying to make it work...wish us luck!