This is a composite I made showing 8 generations of women in the church. They are:
(left to right above the portrait) Mary Ann Syer, Elizabeth White, Mary Ann Stewart, Mary Delecta Ballantyne, Mary Ellen Burton, (in the portrait) Shauna Delecta Workman, Mary Arvilla Buchanan, Tova Sariah Biesinger. Mary Ann Syer and Elizabeth White were in the Hunt Wagon Company that came across the plains just behind the Martin Handcart company in the tragic crossing of late 1856. They were coming from England.

I just wanted to let you know how lucky I feel to be part of this family. As we keep growing through marriage and grandchildren, I feel we are truly blessed by each member of the family. Thanks for being you. Thanks for your visits and contacts. You are all wonderful! Love you all! Shauna

We (Shauna and I, with Mark and Adam) braved the snowy roads going north and visited Mary's family at their home in Kaysville. The rest of the family stayed and visited while I went to find a couple of distant cousins. I first visited with Shirley Baxter who lived in the east part of Layton. She is my 4th cousin. Her great-great-grandmother, Jane Parrish Lindsay is a sister to my great-great-grandmother Priscilla Parrish Roundy. She has a lot of information concerning the Parrish and Dack families and ancestors. There is a book, published in the 1940's about the family.

Over New Years, we spent a few days down in St. George and the surrounding area. We visited Snow Canyon, and Zions National park. This picture was taken along the hike in Red Cliffs national park. We've done this trip many years over new years, but this was the coldest we've ever seen it. Most of the stream was frozen over, so I didn't go swimming in the upper pool this year because it was iced over!

For the last four years we have been making a maze each Halloween. It started as a fun thing for the kids and their cousins, but we kept making it biggest each year. We build it down at the back of our yard which started out as an even slope. We’ve been digging it out each year so each year we made the maze bigger with the progress of our digging, it started out at 4 by 7. Earlier this year we completed the last of the hole and put in the retaining wall, so the maze was 4 by 11 this year.

This is one of my scrapbook pages for the 4th of July.