REALLY STUCK!

Grandpa never does anything on a small scale so it should be no surprise that when he is stuck in the mud he is STUCK! Weston and I will both be VERY happy when this project is over! (If it is ever over)

Elevatorphobia

To bad you guys weren't to see Gavin, but there was

something else.Since we had ride in elevators as we

got in the first and went up Mike started crying.then
after we got in the second one I finaly figured out why
he was crying he was crying because he was sacred.
It was so funny i wish i had got pictures but i didn't.
( sorry) ( by the why this is Hyrum)

Happy Birthday LaDawn

Happy birthday to another one of my most favorite people in the entire world. We love you sooooo much! How fun to be home for your birthday!

Gavin James Compton has arrived

This baby has a beautiful complexion. We got tons of pictures so we'll post a couple of them

Day at the Zoo

Today I went to the zoo with a bunch of my aunts and cousins. Taylor, Hunter, and Connor were there too. Afterwards we went to the park to eat lunch and play in the sprinklers. Wes had a blast! He also went swimming at Grandma's pool yesterday with Sydnie. Also...this is random but I just finished my first cake decorating class and this is my cake. It was fun!

fishing

Conner caught the biggest fish, Jayse caught two, and Jeff didnt caught anything.... oh wait Jeff caught a baby fish:)

Letter from Elder Goldhardt

Here is a letter from Tom my mom got, I thought it was pretty funny so I thought I would share it!

Hey mom, we got to play basketball for a couple hours and we're done now and i've got a little time left so i thought i would tell you a story i forgot to tell you. So a couple days ago we were tracting and we go up to a door with some cut out pictures of a guy without his shirt on so the first thing i thought was we were going to talk to some gay guys. So we knock on the door and a lady opens it and right away says come on in, then she walks away. So me and E. Rogers just look at each other like what the heck. Then she comes back and says it again, come on in come on hurry, so i hurry and say is there a male here? and then she walks away. So we take a step into the house and can hear women laughing so we are like oh no what is going on and then all of the sudden the lady comes back all dissapointed with her head down and said "oh sorry i guess you guys aren't the strippers, if you could shut the door on the way out that would be great." I couldn't stop laughing hahah it was a pretty awkward moment. There is your story for the week

Love ya Elder Goldhardt

Another Birthday

Happy Birthday Keith!

FINALLY!!

I just thought I would let you all know that we closed on our house yesterday!!! :)

Pictures at gradmas

these are my favorite pictures that i took out at grandmas house.
christine these are for you and every
one else.

Happy Father's Day!

I just thought I would say Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! Thanks for all you do! Also, I have a request, I know you all are having fun out there with my family so I would like to see some pictures...Ann I know you have been taking them!

Hyrum can do a backflip

quite a while ago Keith taught me to do a back flip. they are so much fun it's
like the only flip i do now.

P.S. Hyrum posted this

Best Video EVER!

Ok so I don't know how to get video's off of U-Tube, but a friend of mine posted this on her blog. This is the link.

http://shelle.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/828/#comments

Oh my goodness it's hilarious.

just thought I would post something so that I dont get into trouble, but just to let you know I dont post to much on our family blog either infact everyone is complaining on it that no one is posting. so this picture is of my kiddos one day when I got board.

Xander Did It!!!

It's about time! Today Xander took his first steps. He's been able to do it, he's just a scardy cat. Today he walked three steps. He could have walked more, but he got to his destination so he didn't need too. The moment he was done he got so much praises from mom...He smiled SO big....and he had no idea that he had just walked. Hu? Go figure.

grants farm

Here are pictures of the day after the cardinals game. First we watched Wes so Todd and Terriann could go to the temple then they watched the 3 boys while Nate and amy and josh and I went to the temple then we went to Grants farm which was super hot but way fun!

First Cardinals Game!

Matthew went to his first St. Louis Cardinals game last weekend! he loves red and baseball but was a little worn out so he took a nap for a couple of innings. I wanted to get a picture of him and Fred bird, well me and josh went for a walk with matt and guess who we saw!? I didnt even have to ask Fred bird just came right up and picked matt up so we could take a pic i was super excited! anyway he looked super cute and we all had tons of fun!

33 years and still going strong!

I just wanted to say Happy Anniversary to my Mom and Dad!! We love you!

Check it out!

If you haven't already, you need to go to Keith and Janet's blog and check out the pictures of Nickle and Ashley's beach front! Also the fun stuff Nickle got at a garage sale would make you guys ready to pack your bags and go see them just to go to a garage sale.

I wish we had a picture of grandpa and the boys playing in the mud! Grandpa got the dozer stuck all the way up to it's belly in sticky, slick, mud and they worked all day long trying to get it out! On the other hand, I think this has been one experience some of us would just as soon forget!

Grandpa Can fix ANYTHING

So I have two banjo's , This banjo that I took apart is the first one I had. It never had a really great sound to it and it was missing a few pieces. So in exchange for teaching Hyrum banjo Mom and Dad are helping me fix it up. I got the pieces i need in the mail on Friday and I took it apart to clean it.
I took it apart all by my self...and it was really fun. :) This is the pot, or the rim, or the body of the banjo. This is what it looked like before I cleaned it.
This is after it was all put together and tuned (the pictures are a little out of order)

This is the top after it was all put together. But what you can't see is HOW it was fixed. Notice the chrome rim all the war around the drum head? Well that is how it is suppose to look. But when I started taking it apart I noticed that it didn't look quiet right. That's cause the hoop was 1/2 inch too big. The purpose of this hoop is to hold the drum head on and the hooks all around the side give it even tension, and better sound. Well no wonder I didn't have good sound. I couldn't get even tension cause the hoop hung off one side.
So I took it to Grandpa's yesterday cause Grandpa can fix anything. And now he can add banjo repair man to his list. Thanks Grandpa! He cut it and welded it to the right size. And it actually looks better then it did before I started. The original weld was crooked and lumpy. Grandpas weld is PERFECT. See, I bet you can't even tell where it is. :)
Then after he fixed my hoop I went to piece it all together with my brand new hooks. Well they were shaped a little wrong. The post was straight and it needed a slight bend. So Grandpa to the rescue! He took them to his jewelers bench and bent all 20 to fit PERFECTLY. Not only that but they all look uniform. You can't tell that there were home bent and not factory bent :) (this is also the after picture of me cleaning my pot, it looks like a totally different banjo!)

So today I put the strings back on and got it all fixed up and looking good. But when you put strings on an instrument they stretch a little bit. So it takes a while to get it perfectly in tune. You have to retune it several times. Well as I was tuning it my 5th string peg broke. Well not the whole thing, just the part you put your fingers on. It screws on and holds the tension so teh string stays in tune. But now I still can't play it totally cause the 5th string broke.
I complained to a banjo group on line about music shops not knowing anything about banjo repair and a guy said he has tons of extra buttons that will fit my tuning peg and he is sending me 3 tomorrow free of charge. HOARY! All and all buying the initial banjo and all the parts $85 has gone into it, and it's turning out to be a decent banjo!

The Boys playing DDR