HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA!!

This is Noa Paisley singing Happy Birthday to her Grandpa Gardner. She wishes she was there to give him a kiss. Hope its a great day. We will visit as we can!

I miss Mayberry...

So...this summer we've been on an Andy Griffith kick. We went through all the seasons that they had at the library and any other episodes we could get a hold of!
It's been quite fun...however, many times we have caught ourselves doing or saying things that make us wonder if we've been watching a little too much of it! We find ourselves practicing the fine art of Judo as demonstrated by Barney Fife, talking like Gomer Pile....and my personal favorite-wondering what Barney would do if confrotned by an automatic paper towel dispenser.

As a result of this "obsession", we found ourselves naming our pets after our favorite characters.
Meet Gomer the goat and Otis the sheep. One night we caught Otis in the garden and had to lock him up...haha...just like the real Otis.

Meet Ellie, Thema Lou, Wanita, Opie, Andy, and Barney. Our dog had puppies at the begining of August so we got to name them all...but most of them were girls so we couldn't use all our favorite names (Floyd the barber is one of our favs...guess we'll have to save that name for the next pet to join the fam).

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

We celebrated Mom's birthday on August 6th. We spent most of the day making her a special cake.

Gale even helped by licking the bowl :)
It was a lot of work!

But it turned out great!

Thanks Mom for all you do! We love you so much and know that we couldn't get along without you!!!

Pioneer Day

The Parade

Eric & Cheryl with the little boys ridding the cart pulled by Wylie for C&E Fence.

Wyatt in the Primary float.

Bryant in the Young Men and Women Float.

The little boys watching the parade.

Happy Anniversary

This month was Mom and Dad's Anniversary.

Twenty-nine years...I think.

Heidi and I have been wanting to make a wedding cake. Their anniversary was our perfect opportunity to make one!

We really love how it turned out. We can't wait to start our business. Let us know if you ever need/want a cake for any occasion. We love to experiment and welcome any ideas.

4th of July

For the 4th of July we went to the program then to the races.

In the evening we went to a really fun party. There was lots of good food and fun things for the kids.

Wyatt enjoying some cotton candy.


Wyatt, Jaxon, and the gale in the bounce house. Gardners dancing. Chett, Gale, and Jaxon enjoyed dancing almost as much as their grandma and grandpa. They joined right in the middle of the dance floor with their moves and hula hoops. If you look close you can see Heidi and Scottie, Eric and Cheryl, and my dad and mom in the back.
They had blow up animals for the kids. This is Wyatt's photo of his zebra. He wanted to take pictures of it in case it pops.

Fishin' for FHE

Fishin' for FHE

We went to the Enterprise Reservoir

Wyatt first caught a baby frog!

Then they caught a fish!
Dad casted the pole out and sat it by a rock.
We heard Wyatt making some racket and then figured out that he discovered the pole moving. The two of them reeled it in. That's the only one we caught.



Well us girls had a good time. Most of it was spent trying to keep the mosquitoes away. We used A LOT of bug spray.

Baby Stanford

Stanford Jay Gardner was born on June 19th.

Grandma holding him at the hospital.

Excited big brothers.

Stan, Chett, and Gale.



He is growing up fast!


The grand kids. Soon there will be a little girl too :)

Happy Birthdays of June

JUNE 5th

MaryLynn's Birthday

The family came over and we had a pizza making party.

JUNE 17

Chett's 3rd Birthday

Chett had lots of family over for his birthday. His dad made dutch oven and the kids went for rides on his horse Wylie. Everyone had a really good time despite the rain.

JUNE 19th

Stanford was born (Cheryl's &Eric's baby)

We were all so happy to finally welcome baby Stan into the world. He is so sweet and we love him so much.

JUNE 28th

Scottie

Heidi made him this cool cake.

Wyatt's Zoo

The entrance. See half of the zoo keeper with the green hat who is there to take your tickets.

He had a blast building the zoo!

The penguins, alligator, polar bear and seal.

He even provided water for them. This was his favorite part of his zoo.

Bird's eye view.

Family Vacation to Idaho

At the end of May we took a family vacation.

Levi is doing an internship at a Sheep Experimentation's place in Idaho.

We decided to take a trip and see him on his birthday. We did a lot of things on the trip.

It turned out to be a very fun vacation for everybody, especially Wyatt.

Day 1

We set out early in the morning in Dad's big truck. It went quite well, Wyatt didn't even throw up! He even was most the time okay with us playing music, you see sometimes he says it makes him feel sick. His Sunday clothes apparently have this same affect on him too. :) We got lost a time or two in Salt Lake, but we survived.

HOGLE ZOO

Wyatt had been waiting and preparing for weeks ahead to go to a zoo!

He printed out maps and had to make certain the zoo we went to had penguins. His excitement was uncontrollable when we finally made it there!

This was typical Wyatt at the zoo.

With map in hand leading the way. We struggled to keep up with him.

Quite the little tourist.

Some of the animals he really liked...

Others...not so much.

Yucky rattle snake.

Well can you blame him after our house invasion of snakes?

We soon discovered he did not want to be cooperative with pictures.
He was too busy seeing all the real life animals to bother with posing for a picture.

He says he wants to have a zoo someday but he will only keep the animals for a while and then get new ones. Because, "How would you like to be in a cage all your life?"

Heidi and the penguins.

Yes, Wyatt finally found the PENGUINS!!!

Bryant with his friend Kyler.
Our friends joined us at the zoo.

We found the animals to be a little inactive. But who can blame the I suppose.

The meerkats were the most entertaining. They wrestled each other.

IDAHO

Another 4 or so hour drive and we made it to Idaho!

Levi met us at a motel in Idaho Falls. We were all really happy to see him.

Our motel was in a great location! Right by a river, friendly geese and the temple.

To Wyatt's delight there were TONS of geese and baby geese.

He spent a lot of time playing with them. He fed them Cheetos and mac and cheese.

Look closely it's at the top in the back of the picture.

DAY 2

Happy Birthday Levi

I think this was the most adventurous day...and the most tiresome!

THE FALLS

First a walk around the river near the motel.

By the falls.

Wyatt at the "beach." He loved playing in the sand by the water.

He called it the beach. He liked it almost as much as the zoo!

They made Gilligan's Island.

IDAHO FALLS ZOO

Wyatt says he has to go to 6 zoos before he dies.

He was most concerned about seeing the penguins.

With the flamingos.

We thought these animals were a little more lively than the ones in the other zoo.

BEAR WORLD

Welcome to Bear World!
We got to drive in the bears pen and see lots of bears, elk, deer and other animals.

Watch out and keep the truck windows up!

Look! They turned into bears!

We got to pet a deer in the petting zoo area.

There were also rides.

Wahoo. Levi, Bryant, Wyatt, Heidi and MaryLynn.

Dad and mom riding the train.


REXBURG

We visited the Rexburg Temple.

We also gave Heidi a tour of BYU-Idaho.

Levi, MaryLynn, and Heidi are all excited to attend there together this fall!

CRAIGOS

We ate at Craigos. It is an amazing pizza place.

This is Oreo pizza, by the way.

Wyatt ate too much. Then he felt sick. :)

Exhausted after a day full of excitement.

We also spent some time in the hot tub at the hotel. Wyatt insisted he had to go swimming. But the pool wasn't up and running. He enjoyed the hot tub. I took a picture of him and Bryant in their swimming shorts. It really upset Wyatt because he didn't have his shirt on. After i took the picture he put his shirt on. He is overly concerned with modesty or something :)

We didn't get around to making Levi a cake, but we think he had a good birthday after all.

Wyatt told him he was going to have the best birthday ever!

Day 3

We went to church at the ward Levi goes to at Dubois.

They were friendly. We had a good time.

The Idaho Falls Temple. We walked to the temple and spent some time at the visitors center.

You can't really see us, but we are standing in front of it.

The flowers were beautiful at the temple grounds.

I know, this picture is gross. But I had to include it because it's a memorable part of the trip. Wyatt was in a PANIC!!! After eating some chips the spacer in his mouth started hurting him.

It got bent or something and was hurting his gums. He was worried about it the rest of the trip.

We had some ice cream and used this cool spoon.

We spent the day most of the day relaxing. We need to recover and get recharged for the rest of the fun we had in store.

Day 3

We visited our Great Aunt Pearl. She reminded us so much of granny from the TV show "Beverly Hillbillies." Dad told us before we saw her that she wouldn't be much bigger than Wyatt and he was right. She was just a tiny lady. She was really funny and we enjoyed meeting her, her husband, son, and daughter-law.

It was memorial day. We went to the cemetery at a little town by Idaho Falls.

We visited some graves of ancestors on the Gardner's side.

We ate at the Mexican Bus. It was a cool restaurant.

At first we weren't so sure about it.

But it turned out to have very yummy food and to be lots of fun!

We visted BYU-Idaho again.

We looked around for housing and visited friends.

The Rexburg water park. Wyatt and Bryant had lots of fun on this.

There's Wyatt.

One of my friends made this baloon penguin.

Wyatt was so sad when the air began to leek out of it.

We concluded we didn't want to drive eight hours all at once. So we stayed with our friends in Salt Lake. The kids had fun together.

Day 5

We ate breakfast with our friends and then were on our way. Wyatt enjoyed playing with the kids and trying out their skate board.

The 5 hour drive required some creativeness to keep us entertained.

We played with this ball, sang along to the radio, and took lots of pictures.

Wow it was an exciting trip. Everyone was excited to get home. Well, I (MaryLynn) wished I would have just stayed in Rexburg :)