Deryk's "Look" and Tiffani's Style

Ok, some of you might think I am bored up here so I need something to do. Well, that is the case, especially at night. I was looking at my photo album and I saw this picture of Deryk and he has that" look" that VerLynn had in a previous post. Sally said that look is genetic and described the look as "watch out cause the red laser beam is going to shoot out of my eye and liquify you."

I couldn't resist putting this one in too. I can't believe that style ever happened. The "my shirt is 5 times too big for me and is longer than my shorts" style. The hair kind of goes with it.

Mel & Preston are all packed up and ready to move back to Arizona

I am either going to be loved or hated for meddling in Preston's and Melanie's stuff. I spent the day packing up their stuff. This is their bedroom and the boxes that are ready to go. They get to live in the house they built in Eloy finally. We have a couple getting ready to move into the ministorage and manage it. He was on his mission with Preston in Hawaii. They are excited to get to move in and I think Melanie is just as excited as they are that they are moving in. That means my stays up here will be shorter too. Happy days for all.

Typical "Dees" trip

Sorry for all of the new posts today. But for those who are members of the Dees family, this photo kind of sums up most of our trips. VerLynn and Preston left Idaho yesterday to go back to Arizona. VerLynn was pulling a trailer and Preston was taking his truck back to Arizona. Yesterday the wheel came off of the trailer and they had to stop in Beaver Dam and spend the night while they got new lug nuts for the wheel. I guess they got it back on the road but it still had issues so they were worried about getting it home without another mishap. Well, the trailer made it home, but Preston had his turn, his front tire blew out and they slid off the road sideways! Everyone was ok though. I am not sure of the exact details, but they must have put on the spare. When they got to Flagstaff they noticed the other tire was about to go so they tried to find another one. It is now 11:20 p.m. and VerLynn made it home, but Preston is still in Flagstaff waiting for Deryk to bring him a tire, guess they couldn't find a spare in Flagstaff.

Little Guy

I got to spend a few hours with Preston and Melanie and little guy before they headed to the warm country while I stayed up in the cold. Here are some of the pictures I took. This one Little guy has a toy hanging out of his mouth while he plays with other toys. I put these pictures in where I can't write under each picture, so look though them. One of them has Little guy with a cell phone up to his ear. The one where he has his hand up to Preston's ear is him putting the cell phone up to his ear. Notice how photgenic (don't know how to spell it) Melanie is. She always looks beautiful and happy in every picture. Hard to catch her in a bad pose! Hope you guys have a great time in Arizona!

Another "oldie" I forgot to add

This picture was taken on Christmas day, a long time ago. Preston wasn't born yet, so it must have been about 1984. VerLynn is giving me the look that Tiffani calls a "crusty", Deryk is by his side Spencer is the head showing. Notice the real high tech computer we got that year, I think it even played some games!

More of Aaron

The Pages in North Carolina sent some more pictures of Aaron and his companion. She has a son on a mission in California, so she knows how wonderful it is to get pictures of her missionary, so she is very good about sending pictures every time Aaron eats at their house. She sent me a short video clip of him also, it is on my face book. I don't know how to get it here, she tagged it to me, so if you want to see it go to my face book page

I warned you Here are more pictures I found

This is Deryk and Tiffani. I went outside and this is what I saw. I think they painted the mud onto each other.

Spencer on our house boat. Preston is looking on in the striped shirt. Wow, Preston wearing a striped shirt, probably the last one he ever put on!

VerLynn skiing on Lake Powell. Different trip than the boat fire.

This is one of several pictures that survived our house fire in 1987, ironic. This is our boat that caught fire on Lake Powell. If you don't know the story, yes we were on it when it caught fire and we had to jump and swim. Yes it was scarey.

Wow, who are these people? Hard to believe I ever looked like that. VerLynn even has hair, on his head and his lip!

Don't get mad Tiffani

I have been scanning pictures into my computer and I came across this one of Tiffani and I just couldn't help posting it. I'm sure she will be thrilled. But since she took off to Colorado with all of her good pictures, I am forced to share these! I would just like for her to tell us all exactly what she was thinking here! I'm sure she remembers

You will probably have to enlarge this photo to appreciate it. The first thing to appreciate is that Rabbit (the car) We used to vibrate down the road in that thing. And the second thing to appreciate in this photo is Deryk's clothes. I'm sure I will come across some other jewels as I scan in pictures so be watching out! (Sorry for the quality of the pictures, they got wet or something so the top of them are water stained. )

Ashly is 4 going on 18 Happy birthday to you

Ashly Dees the birthday girl. Her birthday is actually tomorrow, but the party was today. Ashly told me that she was going to be 4 all day tomorrow!

David was all smiles too

Even Deryk was all smiles. He looks like he has something up his sleeve!

Nathanael crutched his way into the party.

David loved the bear, which is the gift I bought for Ashly. He walked around hugging it.

Ashly and her birthday balloons. They wound up on the ceiling about 18' in the air. Ashly came in the room and asked Angie to get them down for her! Maybe she thinks Angie is very very tall!

Nathanael was playing with Addison. (Spencer & Angie's girl)

Hits close to home!

Sorry for the one s word. I couldn't edit it out. If it bothers you, then try to skip that word! (ha ha)

My "tagged photo"

Sally tagged me, whatever that means. She said I am supposed to post the 6th photo in my 6th album or something like that. So here is my photo, it is Nathanael on one of our vacations with Preston behind him

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME AND VERLYNN

March 5, 1975 was the day VerLynn and I were married. Sad to say, but the above photo is about the only picture we have of our wedding. All of them burned in our fire. I found this photo in somone's photo album and I scanned it in. It is pretty lame but at least we have this. It's been a great 34 years, full of adventures and as you can see, full of a lot of food! Wish we could go back to the size we were then! (or even close to it) (I made my dress too) Wish Tiffani would have fixed my hair!

Got to babysit again

I got to watch Seth today while Angie went shopping. He is always fun and full of it. Look at him climbing on the fence in the back yard. He also found a bandana and asked me to make him a Pirates hat. That is what is on his head. I got to watch Addison for a few minutes too

Babysitting grandkids today

I got to baby sit today. So we all went outside and the kids had a blast. Had a hard time keeping them out of the septic tank hole. (sounds grosser than it is) We had it pumped and haven't fixed the cut sprinkler pipes yet so it is still exposed. Ashly was always ready to pose, she cracks me up. Notice the one picture with her arms up, Kelsie has the same pose right behind her! Seth was here for awhile, got a hair cut and then Spencer took off with him, so he missed out on the septic fun!

This one's for you Tiff!

This has got to qualify as the most embarrassing picture taken of anyone in this family. Who else could smile while they have underwear on their head? He's looking out of a leg hole! Look at his hair sticking out another hole We won't tell anyone that this is Nathanael so he won't get embarrassed.

Would have been better if it were Broken!

I took Nathanael to the Dr. today to get an ultrasound on his ankle. The results are that he would have been far better off if the bone had broken. It would have healed within 6 weeks and been even stronger. But we like to do things the hard way in our family and he has completely torn the ligimate in his ankle . He can't walk on it for several more weeks and he said that it will take a year before it is normal. Poor guy. You don't realize how hard it is to get around with crutches until you have to do it. You can't carry anything and people let the doors slam on you. Even at church! Not fun.

Elder Dees Again!

Don't know who has the small foot , but it is obvious who the big one belongs to!

I just got more pictures of Aaron sent to me. Some are from his camera that Sister Page downloaded for him and some she took. They had what they call a " snow day" today. They couldn't even go to the library to e mail because it was closed. So the snow must have shut the city down. It was P day as well, so it looks like they took advantage of the day and went bowling. I told Nathanael if I put these pictures on the blog, then it would look like all he does is have fun. He said something wiser than his years, "but they don't take pictures of them teaching and working hard, they only take pictures when they are having fun" so of course we would mostly get pictures of them having fun. So I am going to post these new pictures.

Elder Dees

Sister Page is so good about taking pictures of Aaron and sending them to me. Instead of trying to e mail copies to everyone I am going to post the new ones. These were taken at a ward party last night. Aaron and his companion were the referees. A man that is North Carolina called me the other day to say what a good job Aaron is doing. He goes on splits with him quite often. He is also Dr. Lamb's wife's brother. Small world. Thanks for all the news and updates from North Carolina, it is much appreciated!