The fourth time's the charm?

Our Toyota's bumper has had a hard life...It's first mishap had something to do with Jake & me backing out of the driveway at the same time. (one of those family secrets). It was painful when it happened but I grew to like our little dent. It was a nice identifying feature. Do you know how many identical white Corollas there are in Vegas? At one time there was four just in our tiny, little neighborhood.

The second mishap was at a family reunion and had something to do with a big rock ripping it off. Nothing that a little baling wire couldn't fix.

Then at the start of this year some guy looking at his cell phone gave us a little bump from behind at a stop light...scraped off a little paint but as bad as what was already there...so we ignored it.

Then some guy in a parking lot, didn't notice that Karl was stopping and did a job on the other side of bumper (it really messed up his little red Audi) ...So now we got it fixed!

Now the bumper is as good as new...it is new!

Lessons learned...Beware of Insurance Companies tricks to try to not pay up
and I kind of miss my little identifying dent (maybe I will have to get a Jack-in-the-box head for the antenna.

Happy Anniversary

Jeff & Amy Tobler
May 30, 2003
Salt Lake Temple

It was a wonderful Day!

Poor Jake!

Poor Jake currently has several disheartening problems...

He's sick,
he's sleeping in a room that screaming for some interior decorating
and
he's too big for his bed.
Can life get any worse than this?

But you know what...he hasn't seemed noticed any of his problems.
What an optimist!
(Okay, he has notice that he feels like crap...but he's still going to work).

Practice, Practice, Practice

Wednesday evening is usually Aspen Ridge's practice night.

So tonight we had it at our house.
Feed everyone dinner and then they serenaded the neighbors with practice on the patio.
No complaints so far.

Memorial Day

Our Memorial Day Monday off started with Karl running in our stake's 5K run.


Then we worked on a few home projects...a little painting

Jake and Steph moved furniture...the guest room moved into Jake's old room and old guest room will hopeful morph into a den/study. So I guess that means that Jake officially doesn't have a room at the house. But I still enjoy it when he stay over even if he is sleeping in the den.

Our day ending with a BBQ with the missionaries and one of our families Karl home teaches.


It was a good day.

We are harvesting!

TOMATOES!

Okay, it's not exactly a bumper crop...but it is the best we've ever done here in Vegas.

A lazy Saturday afternoon.

Karl's taken up a new instrument and the patio is his favorite place to practice.


What a way to spend the day...or at least a few minutes of it. Where's the Lemonade?

Clark's Graduation

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Day 5

I've still got the crud...What a way to start the weekend.
My dear neighbor brought me over chicken soup with a guarantee...
If it doesn't work I'm not taking it back...it's delicious!

Well, I'm going to go take another nap...before bedtime.

Finally...my Florida photos

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Swine Flu?

I don't know what I've got but I don't like it!
I came home from Arizona with a scatchy throat that has progressed to a full-blown sore throat, chest congestion, a major head-ache and that achy all over.

The up-side:
Cancel all plans and appointments and sleep!

The down-side:
Can't think of one right now.


It was suppose to be gone in 24 hours but it's not...So I guess I'll go take another nap.

Guess who's having a Birthday!

I don't know...

Gee, give me another clue.


Let see...Is it someone I know?



It's Kyle!!!
Happy Birthday
Here's wishing you many more happy & healthy years.

And may the ride be a good one!

Clark has Graduated!

After what Clark recalls as a long, hard road...

He has graduated!

He's pretty happy about it!

A milestone accomplished.


Rachel's so proud...

...and we are too!

But I'm sure this won't be Clark's last graduation...just a good start.

Our Florida Graduations

It was a great time in Florida. Congratulations to both Jeff and Amy!

After a lot hard work...

Success!

Jeff- Master of Biomedical Science / Amy-Doctor of Human Behaviors

So for now... it's good-bye lab and office for Jeff.

Next step...

More Work!

Gardening in Vegas

We love our new garden boxes. We have been eating spinach and we have beet greens, grape tomatoes and snow peas ready to eat this week. Our tomatoes, squash and peppers are doing really good also.


But we are starting into the 100° weather... so we will see how well it does in the heat!