~Wonderful Utah~

These most beautiful scenic shots came from Ranes today.

The last one was identified as Utah Lake, the rest *eye candy* to us!

If you recognize the scenes, please add to comments =)

The BIG Day!

How is this for a pool full of happy?

Happy Birthday Ranes!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Ranes will be joining the *39 forever* club tomorrow~
He is now the same age as his Mother and Grandmother
Cool, huh!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANES AND AMERICA

My Baby Boy Ranes and his second Baby Boy Tyson

My Baby Boy Ranes and his first Baby Boy Braydon

My Baby Boy and his Baby Girl Kayleigh

My Handsome Son and his Beautiful Wife, Heather

JUST LOOK AT THE JOY ADDED TO MY LIFE BY RANES

Heather, Braydon, Tyson, Kayleigh, Rowe relatives,

lots of Utah friends and friends of friends~

The 4th of July in 1970 was the most exciting I have experienced. I was not so patiently waiting for my first child to show his or her face. On the evening of the second (today, 39 years ago) I had a bit of trouble, went in to see our Doctor (Gonzalez) on the 3rd as he was going out of town on vacation for the 4th! He examined me, sent me to the hospital for an x-ray (the only way you could tell the position of the baby at that time) then had me admitted around 5 that afternoon. My husband, Danny, wanted me to WAIT until the 4th of July.

From that point on is a sweet blur~ at 23 minutes after midnight (July 4th now) Ranes was born. Delivery was a much different process back then and Ranes was immediately taken by the Nurse for cleaning, warming etc. I did hear him cry but was upset that I could not see him, nor did I believe for a split second that he was a boy (I wanted a boy really bad) I was under the influence of the gas mask and evidently verbalized my disbelief that Ranes was indeed ok and indeed a MALE! The nurse grabbed him up and brought him to me, pulled the covers away and calmed me down... What a BEAUTIFUL little baby boy~

To add to the occasion, there was a severe south Georgia summer thunderstorm in progress!

My father drove from Thomasville to Cairo to be with me and got there in time to see his first Grandson! The next day, he came again, upset that he could not get flowers on a holiday, but did find a Rose Bush! I loved it!

SO... July 4th is special to me for more than the obvious reason.

It was the first day of my now very large family of children, grandchildren, and a miriad to family and friends that came with the total package.

How Blessed I am!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SON

I LOVE YOU

Four Generations in 1974

Spring of 1974

50th anniversary of Bright and Rena Dekle (center)

Extreme left, Charles and Thelma Blow

(daughter of the Dekles)

Roughly center, Danny and Brenda Carter

(now Meacham, daughter of the Blows)

bending over to

4 year old Ranes Carter

(who has 3 little Carter's of his own,

so that is five generations, just not shown)

HAPPY FATHER"S DAY

~To RANES, father of Braydon, Tyson and Kayleigh,

to MARTY, father of Addison and Carter

and to JOHN, *Papa John* of all~

HAPPY DAY TO THE BEST OF THE BEST~

(and huge thanks to Zelma for taking this great picture

of so many happy faces at one time,

pure Peace, Joy, and Love!)

Spring in Utah

Girl's Rock

Braves and Boys

Draper Temple

Carter Turns THREE

Birthday Boy

Post Temple Tour