Wednesday, August 19, 2020


Happy Fathers day dinner! We had the Dayley family over to celebrated fathers day. 
Katie & Grant Boyd, Rick & Jennifer Shumway, Linda and Grant Dayley, 
Lee & Juliet Dayley, Jill & Grant Coon

 Sam , Lila, and Carson Shumway, Gage & Tate Dayley, Hannah & Annie Coon

We all gave Grandpa a new game; Jumbo size sequence game! They love it and bring it all over to play with us all.

Happy 29th Anniversary to us!

We spent the night at the Butte's hotel for a staycation over night get away. It is so HOT in Arizona is the summer months and with the covid-19 out break everything was closed!! So we went to dinner at Firebird's and it was delicious. We shared a prime rib dinner. Which was the perfect amount. For our dessert our waitress brought us this cute chocolate dessert! Restaurant have a social distancing policy that have to obey if they want there doors to stay open. So we sat at the bar which ended up be very entertaining. Watching the bartender make drinks...  Grant -52, Jill -48
On Saturday morning we went to the airport Hilton to check out my first job after we were married. I worked in the business center for 1 year. Then move to the concierge lounge on the 4th floor. That was a better job for me. Way more social, and the hours were perfect 5-11am. 

The lounge was closed but we went to the 4th floor to check it out anyway.  Around 11am our kids came out to the hotel to swim in their fun pool. Along with tons of other people trying to stay cool. We swam for about 2 hours, Grant Coon and Katie are of the same mold. Grossed out to share water with gross people and their tattooed bodies.

 

Our trip to Utah in June

We drove to Utah and stopped to check out the big rocks by...


Our Cousin Miriam Jensen came home from her mission in Las Vegas this exact day!
Our cousin, Liz Jensen is here with her sisters. Liz, Rachael, Rebecca, and Miriam. Tomorrow Elizabeth Jensen will be married. 
At the garden wedding in Provo Utah. Dan Coon and Catherine Coon.Waiting for the wedding to start.

Smelling the neighbors roses outside Catherine Coon home. They were so fragrant and lovely. 
We took a picnic up the American Fork Canyon, to the Tibble Fork reservoir. I was breath takingly beautiful. We set up the grills and had grilled street tacos. The wind picked up and about blew us away. Everyone had to secure the food, chairs and each other. 

Jolynn and Gloria Coon
Grant Coon, David Jensen, Kelli Jensen, Aaron Jensen, Tyler Coon.
The newlyweds, James and Meg Coon






On Sunday we drove to the resting places of our family. First was great grandma Alice Holmes Coon and Great Grandpa Elvin Coon. We took a picture with their 2 children: Daniel Elvin Coon (our grandpa) and Catherine Coon (our aunt). 



 James took us to his work. Very impressive what he has accomplished in 1 short year of moving to Utah. He is working at a financial planning firm. He loves it and is doing really well. Going to school at Utah Valley University full time and working full time. He has also passed his financial licenses, to sell. Meg is at BYU going to nursing school. They are both finishing up their junior years. Next year at this time they will have both graduated from college! Power house couple!


Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Memorial Day at Mariposa Gardens, Mesa Arizona

This tradition is our 6th year. We love coming as a family and honoring our service men and woman who have given their lives for our freedom to live in this beautiful country!

Grant & Katie Boyd, Grandma and Grandpa Dayley, Annie, Hannah, Grant and Jill Coon, Sam, Lila, Rick and Jennifer Shumway.



Mom, Jenny and Jill

After the service Grandpa Dayley treats us all the lunch at Freddies! We get a steak burger and french fries! It is a really fun tradition!


 

Annie has graduated from ALA high school!!


Annie's senior year was completely different, she spent the last 4 months of her senior year at home. Not doing school, but doing seminary everyday, no prom, no senior ditch day. But with all this Annie was still happy and positive! Luckily she did not have any senior year finals.
Annie received the "BRIGHTEST SMILE" award for the senior class!
$1000 scholarship money


Annie received her VL club graduation scholarship. (Virtuous lips club) She received her $1000 and kissing basket. Inside the basket she got gum and mints, mascara, perfume, lip gloss, and chick fil a gift card. All in fun! She also received some kissing advice on how to kiss for the first time. She laughed and we all had fun. She spend $600 on a laptop for college. Annie is an A+ girl! She has a hug heart and a contagious laugh. She is friends to all children and babies. It does not matter where we are, the children find her and love her.  
Annie is going to Chandler Gilbert Community College for the fall/spring semesters, 2020-2021. The summer of 2021 she is going somewhere in this world to teach English to children with the International Language Program. ILP for 4 months. We will miss her badly! But we are so proud of her. She has been a delight to have in our family
Grandma and Grandpa Dayley
Katie & Grant Boyd, Annie Coon
Grant Coon, Hannah Coon, Jill Coon, Annie Coon, Katie Boyd, Grant Boyd.
The girls, Me, Hannah, Annie and Katie... Sisters!
Grandpa Daniel Coon with Annie

 

Annette Lynn Coon
17 years old
Graduation picture
American Leadership Academy

The year 2020 was a strange year. It started off just like every new year. In March the girls were out of school for one week so we left for our spring break vacation. While we were out of town the whole world went crazy. Covid 19 or Corona Virus hit and everything shut down. All the grocery stores ran out of supplies, forget getting any toilet paper, soap, eggs, milk. The isles were empty, the lines to get in the stores were longer. Once in the grocery store you waited an hour just to scan your items and pay. I have never seen anything like it. After spring break the children never returned to school. The schools and churches were cancelled. We were now to have home church, we were given the privilege to administer the sacrament in our homes with our families. Our Prophet President Nelson spoke to us and told us this to will pass. I thought to myself, "Oh course this will pass." I thought it will be a few weeks and things will be back to normal. It is now 6 months later, August 2020 and we still walk around with face masks if we want to go to store, our children are not in school yet and we finally are back to church with strict precautions; we must social distance- 6 ft apart. We can not sing, only listen to the hymns, we must wear masks to protect us from germs. This is getting OLD! I am over this... The government leaders believe that 300,000 people are going to die from this disease. But studies have shown over the past 6 months the .001% of people are really dying. You must get sick (just like the flu) but 99.9% of people recover.  The media is causing so much fear in the public. I believe when the presidential election is over on November 4, 2020 everything will go away. I pray Donald Trump will win and become our President again for the next 4 years!