Work Day 2009

Each year we have a work day at Grandma Beazer's place. Anyone who can come does. They work and play like only a family can. Raking, shoveling, trimming, cutting, and of course riding the train.

They gather to prepare a plan of action. Who is doing what and and when. Everyone has a say, young and old alike.

First you load them on the trailer and haul them up the road to work on the canal. It has to be cleaned out, branches, weeds and silt.The apple trees need to be trimmed.
The lawn mowed and raked. (Mark does a quick cloud check)
The raked grass then is spread on the garden

(red neck spreader)

Taking a break

A very important job, keeping the grass from blowing away.

Our Cheer Team "Work Harder"

He was anxious to ride the train, but not until the work was done. He sweetly encouraged all in his soft voice to "WORK HARDER"

Farmer Richard

Grass is meant to be played in like a pile of leaves.

When the call for the work day goes out the question of "Do we get to use the chain saw?" is asked. If the answer is yes then you can guarantee the Utah boys will be there. They like to show off who's the best.
Others are content to take on the tractor.

Look at me, I can drive it.

Uncle Syd is great to let even the little ones tackle it.

Even the "Batman brothers" can drive it. Ladders are no fear if you are batman

The last task of the day was to tackle the Raspberry patch. Of course the putty car was put to good use. Transporting the little ones who so patiently waited for the work to finish so they could ride the train.

Sometimes it took team work.

Yard work is hard work.

Boys will be boys and climb on everything.

It's finally time to ride the train. All pint sized engineers must wear the right hat and scarf.

Lining them up for the big ride is a challenge

Engineer in training.

Not everyone is as thrilled to wear a hat and scarf.

The first run of the season and of course it didn't want to start. All the men gathered round, gave their advice, poked and prodded, added fresh gas, checked the spark plugs, only to discover they had forgotten to pull out the on switch.

The blue eyed duo.

ALL ABOARD

What picture show would be complete with out the rabbit ears. It's part of being a boy.

Thanks to everyone who helped. The yard looks great and, all in all it really was a lot of fun.

Airman First Class Patrick Beazer

We are proud to announce the graduation of Patrick from Air Force Basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX. He is now at tech training in Biloxi, Mississippi until June.
Syd, Ruth Ann and Kristan were able to go to San Antonio and watch. Due to rain, lightening, and cold some of the events were cancelled, some were changed and others were just plain cold and miserable. We also had the chance to attend a semi-pro hockey game, eat alligator, take the scenic route to most things (really we just got lost), seen the Alamo and riverwalk and FREEZE. The only sun we enjoyed was what escorted us back to the airport. Other than being cold most of the time we were glad we went. This pictures makes him look so young. He's had several officers question his age. They won't believe he's 25 until he takes out his drivers license.

Patrick with his wingman.

This guy (aka Napoleon, because he can do an incredible impression) had the bunk just below Patrick and also shared the locker bay.

His flight, the 215 Bulldogs

Patrick is on the second row back of the guys standing, 3rd from the left. It's hard to tell because they all look alike.

His final Sunday there he had the opportunity to speak in church. Yes, that is him talking, the missionaries took the picture and emailed it to us. It was fun to see all the men and women in their ABUs, praying, playing the piano, passing the sacrament.

We were lucky to be able to be there to hear him.

We are very proud of him and his accomplishments.