Barbara Jean Hamm

Three short weeks after we moved here I got the news of my grandmas death
on April 2,2009. I headed for the airport just two hours after receiving the news to head to
St. George. Eli was so sweet to make arrangements so that he and the girls could drive so that
they were able to be there for the funeral as well. It was great to be near all of our extended family that we have not seen for years, but terrible that we wait for things such as these terrible events to bring us all together.
I will miss my grandma dearly. I spent alot of time at her home while I was at college and often since I have been married and her home in Layton was my nearest "home" to go to when
I needed a retreat. She taught me her love of cooking and I already miss being able to call when I need a recipe.
I like this picture because we tried to reflect her love of cooking with placing her rolling pin in the arrangement. Everyone knows her for her pies and those rolling pins had a lot of use.
The following pictures are some of the family at the funeral.

This Picture is of Great Grandpa Hamm and all of the Yeaman Grandkids
(Jake, Jocie, Kamdyn& Grandpa, Maddie, Caellie, Colton, Logan, & Chase)

This is My siblings and my parents

Our family with Grandpa Hamm and my mom "Grams"

Saturday we went out to the ranch to help Eli do some landscape work at the bunkhouse. ( this is the little house down by the barn and in the back ground you can see the new swimming pool. I will have to take more pictures of our house and the ranch and post them another day so you all can see where we live.)  Of course while we were there the girls wanted to go for a horse ride. Eli had let the horses out of the corrals to range on the ranch but we got really lucky when we went to go find them they were right up by the house, and were lucky enough to catch them.  The two little boys are our new friends Jackson and Jamison.  They are here living at the ranch for a month to see if their family wants to move here and work on the ranch as well.

I just realized that this is not going to post in order so sorry, but anyway a here are a few pics

from other things we have done.  The armadillo is at a restaurant called Perinni's, It is located out in the middle of nowhere on this guys ranch, in barn that he converted into the restaurant.  It is one of the top rated steak houses in Texas but don't expect fine dining, this place gives new meaning to "Rustic".  But the food is great I will take everyone who comes to visit us there.

We are really enjoying Abilene, the people here call it a small town but to us it is a city.

So to us there is lots of stuff to do.  Maddie loves the zoo we have already been twice.  At this zoo you can buy a pack of crackers and feed most of the animals, which is pretty cool.  The giraffs are the best though, they will take it right out of your hand with their "LONG" black tongues.  

Our backyard Fire!

Well the good news is I finally loaded some pictures on the computer so that I could 

add new posts to my blog, the bad news is to most of you this is all old news now.

Anyways, this is what my backyard looked like after the neighbor boys found the lighter

that Eli had left by our BBQ grill.  Yep, the fire department and all!  Needless to say we no 

longer allow those boys to come to our house to play anymore.

  Caellie 6 years old
Kamdyn 8 months old
Maddie 3 1/2 years old

Ok so I don't know how to lay all the stuff out cute like the

rest of you do but I guess I will learn.

These were my trial run and I will do another post of pictures of Texas 

and update everyone on what we have been doing, sometime real soon.

OUR "HALES ANGELS"

Ok, I am trying out this blog thing.  For all of you that keep asking if 

I have one I finally am getting around to doing it.  I hope it helps me keep everyone

updated on what we are doing in our new phase of our lives in Abilene Texas.