Great Grandma Turnbull's Birthday

Giselle, Grandpa, Curtis and Mom in front of the house that Grandpa Turnbull grew up in.
Giselle, Meme, Great Grandma Ion, me, Maggie, Parker and David





David and Maggie loved playing with this dog. She was so cute. She would catch the golf ball, bring it right back to you and drop the ball right by you. She was cute!

David asked for a quarter for a gumball the morning of Grandma Ion's birthday party. We gave him a quarter and then came back and told us it was a present for Great-Great Grandma. He kept it the whole day and then was VERY excited to give it to her for her present! It was sooo cute!:)


Well after being married to David for 7 years and living in Utah for almost 4 years, I finally made it up to Wyoming to meet David's Great-Grandma.  She turned 94 this year.  She lives in Lusk, Wyoming, which is about 8 hours away.  Sherrie, Giselle, David, Maggie, Parker and I loaded up the car and headed up to surprise Grandma Ion for her birthday.  I was so excited to see all the places with so much history for the Turnbull family.  We stayed in the house that Grandpa Turnbull grew up in, while we were there.  It was fun to stay there, except for one small thing...there was no air conditioning and it was HOT!  When we got up to Lusk, it was in the 90s and in the house it was about 95.  We were having some second (and 3rd and 4th) thoughts about staying there, but we decided to stick it out for that first night and see how it went.  We searched the house and found all the fans in it.  We also decided to have a big sleepover in the living room, so that we could take full advantage of the fans.  So we brought all the mattresses into the living room and gave it a try.  The kids were very worried at first, but luckily Meme had her Ipad with Angry Birds on it which helped a ton!:)  After we got all the fans going we went to find some dinner, which wasn't very hard to do.  The town only had 3 restaurants, which were Subway, a pizza place and one more sit down restaurant that we ate every meal at.  It was very yummy home-cooked feel food and huge amounts of it.  We sat at the same table every time, so we really felt like regulars there!:)  Then that night we went to the families old ranch.  I feel so bad for not getting any pictures, but we were only there for a few minutes and it was getting dark.  We also couldn't find the key to get inside, but it was still really neat to see everything.  The drive down the huge driveway was quite the adventure.  It was a dirt road of course, but the bad part was that the middle of it was overgrown with very hard and brittle grass that was scraping the car the whole way.  But we made it and no harm was done!  We also got to go to the cemetery where so many family members were buried.  I got to see where the Linds were buried, which is where David got his middle name from.  We then got to surprise Grandma Ion at her party.  She didn't know who we were until she saw Grandpa Turnbull (we had never met her before!), David gave her the gumball and she was very excited about it. Then we had some cake and visited with her for a little bit.  After that we took the kids to a park that was just next to the home where Grandma lives. On a side note the place where Grandma Ion is staying used to be the town hospital and it was where Sherrie and her brother Curtis was born.  They still had the viewing window up, where the new dads could look at there new baby!  It was really neat to see where Sherrie was born.  Then we took Grandma out to dinner at her favorite restaurant and got to visit some more with her.  It was a very fast trip, but it was great!
Just some funny things that made Sherrie, Giselle and I laugh quite a bit but probably won't be nearly as funny to anyone else :)...Grandpa and Curtis stayed downstairs in the house and on Sunday night, Grandpa said that he might like a fan to take with him to bed that night.  The 3 of us just looked at each other and Sherrie's face was hilarious.  We told him he could have the small little dinky one!:)  We only had 5 and couldn't spare more than that!  Another thing there was no shower upstairs.  It had one of those hand held shower things, so that made taking a "shower" interesting.  When we went to eat for Grandma's birthday dinner, everyone ordered a salad to go with their dinners and everyone got one except Giselle and couldn't get the waiters attention to get hers until we were all done with all of ours.  Then Giselle had ordered fried chicken fingers and corn.  They brought her fried chicken wings and peas.  Then Maggie was staring at Giselle's peas until Giselle handed them over to her.  So Giselle didn't really eat much that day.  Sherrie loved showing Parker the toy "bee" which is actually a butterfly and would fly it in front of his face. (We think we figured out where big David might have gotten his fear of bees from!)Then we went to dedicate the graves the morning we were leaving. It was pretty cold that morning and Maggie was wearing a dress.  After we got done and back in the car, we commented on how we hope the kids don't get sick from being in the cold for so long.  Something about pneumonia...and then Sherrie said, "Oh, she'd get over it!" Giselle and I just started cracking up! Oh good times!:)
Thanks Sherrie and Giselle for a great weekend full of laughs and for all the help with the kids! It is great to have 2 extra pairs of hands! Thanks Sherrie for everything you did for us and to you and Grandpa for sharing all the memories!:)