Bringing the Ba-bees home

We would like to welcome the newest addition to the Garlick Press...Dean's Bees! They arrived on Wednesday May 13th 2009 in the cool of a Spring evening. Their arrival was pretty quiet and no one even got stung. Dean is the typical proud papa...everyone who drops by has to go out and see his bees. He has 2 queens...one named Caroline and the other Steve. One hive is a little larger than the other and therefore has been a bit more active. It is so interesting to watch the busy hives with each bee having his own responsibility in order to make the hive run correctly. What an organized society. We love our new bee-utiful family members.

Dean settling in his new ba-bees!

Izzy pretty much hated Dean in his bee suit, but
finally warmed up. Then, she had to follow him around
to see what he was up to.

Here they are! If you look in the middle of the pic,
you can see a small box which contains the queen. The
idea is to leave her in there until her workers can get
her out by eating the plug. By then the hive is ready to
accept her as queen.

Dean is an official apiarist now! We can't wait to
watch this whole process.

Lacrosse Season

Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the nation, and such crazy fun to watch. What could be more fun for young boys than playing with sticks and being enouraged to hit each other with them. It's called a poke check. Chet is playing attack this year, and scored his first goal yesterday. We absolutely love spending Saturdays with lacrosse...fun sport, super kids, and great families to sit and cheer with. Go Logan LAX!!!!!

The boys actually wear chest and elbow pads,

along with some serious gloves and helmet,

as the ball is very heavy.

Here is Chet scooping up the ball and cradling it.

Jog 4 Jiggy

I love these people! This is the 2nd annual "Jog for Jiggy" held in conjunction with the SLC 5k and Marathon last weekend. These fabulous friends of Dione honor and remember our Jocie by running their little legs off in a 5k and a few even run a half marathon. I am so impressed by every one of them! Each year they design a new t-shirt for the event. With a little luck, my new ACL and I hope to be there next year. We love you guys and think you are awesome!

Go Big or Go Home

The fabulous Jog for Jiggy runners

Cheesing it up for the camera?

Sisters Sarah and Caroline were there. Sarah

is so great at organizing and putting it all together.

Caroline actually completed the half-marathon.

You rock girls!

USU Robins Awards 2009

When you are a parent there are times when you are truly in awe of your children. For instance, 2 years ago Cassandra graduated from USU with a degree in Biology. I could never get a science degree of that I'm quite certain. At the same time, Bob received 2 masters degrees. And just recently, it was Dione's turn. She was a finalist for Woman of the Year at USU's Robins Awards. In the words of Ron Burgundy (The Anchorman movie) it's "kind of a big deal." The Robins awards at USU are like the Academy Awards are to the film industry. The best of the best attend the event dressed in their finest. Dione wore a lovely new silk dress from White House Black Market. Cassandra wore Juicy Couture (Jocie would be so proud). Both girls brought their fabulous Coach clutchs courtesy of a very good friend in NYC. Bob even sported a tie. Dean looked handsome in his rarely worn suit and I put on my best black leg brace to show off the new ACL. OK, so I had no choice on that one. In the end, someone else was chosen as the winner, but our family felt we had the winning finalist at our table. The event was spectacular and such an honor for us to be all there together. Thanks Dione, we love you!

Woman of the Year finalist with sissy Cassandra.

Bob had to shush the two sisters many times

throughout the night, they still love to giggle.

Here is the family all dressed up.

Roommates Dione and Sarah...smiles all around!

A look at the desert and beverage. Mine kept

disappearing, I think everyone around me was

quite thirsty.

Spiderpig

We were lucky enough to get to puppy-sit Stella the goldendoodle while the Hlavaty's were spending Spring Break in Florida. Izzy absolutely had a blast playing with Stella all day long. You thought our house was animal planet the way they chewed on each other and wrestled and growled and barked. Stella followed me everywhere around the house. What a sweet puppy little Stella is. Also, Dean nicknamed her spiderpig and I think it will stick... at least at our house.

My lap full of doodles!

Dean and the doodles right before Stella wriggled
out of his arms.

A little bit of the animal planet here.