Now by no means am I saying that this is the best part of the trip, but this is my love. I come here to renew myself. I come here to get closer to my Heavenly Father. This is where I put everthing into perspective. The water, waves and all the beauty touch my heart. When I look at the wonderful things around me I can never figure out why some people don't believe in God. I see him in these things, I feel him. I can even say when I am standing on the shore line he speaks to me. In that still small voice he lets me know that I am his daughter. I am so thankful that I can have these moments of quiet. I am so blessed that I have the life I have, the family I have. Everyday I thank him, I know that if it wasn't for his help I would not have been where I am. I love my family and all the joys that they bring to me. Here in front of the sunset I see how lucky I am, I go home with renewed spirit to do the things that I need to be doing.

On the way to Calif. and back we were able to visit with Tina and her family, since they are mostly camera shy we decided to get a peak at Emily's room. I am glad that I am not going to have to dig through that, I am afraid that something might bite me. In all honestly we really enjoy seeing them. In fact we really had a nice visit. Family is great most of the time.

EE and grandpa hit it off. The other kids were in school and that left the two of them. I think another reason that they hit it off is because they are so much a like. They seem to think the same. It was nice they bonded so well it gave them both something to do while we were there. It was fun watching EE and the things he came up with. Some of them got him into trouble, but since I am not the mother I thought they were cute. I know his mother was having a hard time when he threw things over the bannister. One time I almost got hit in the head, I guess that was not as funny as some of the other things.

S was kind enough to let us sleep in her room, which ment she had to sleep with the boys. I am not sure I would want to sleep with the boys, so I am so grateful that she helped us out. She holds her own in that group. I think that her pretty face and the fact that she is a little doll helps her a lot. Hay, when your out numbered use what you can. We really enjoyed visiting with her.

E and K kept us going. I think they are smarter than
us so we had a hard time keeping up with them. Most
of the time I think we were way behind.

Rigby makes our 22nd grandchild. Is there any thing greater
than to be with a baby who has just come from Heavenly Father.
I am afraid I just loved to hold him, so I made a pig of myself.

Our trip to Calif. was a good resting time for us. Al and I needed a time out and what better way than to see our family. We always enjoy seeing them but this time it was special, we had a new one to welcome into the family. We went to help Joddy out and I hope we did. We love watching the kids doing their thing. Each time we go they are bigger, which means new experiences for us. All in all we had a great time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCUS
He is really enjoying his birthday cup cake. I
am just glad that I am not the one cleaning him
up. Even messy we love him...........

While we had Aimee Jo's kids with us we went to Bridle Fail Falls.
It is a beautiful place, the kids were able to wade in the water
and climb rocks. Ashley and Paige finally made it to this rock and
sat down.

Allie finally made it through school, notice she is holding a carmal apple
in her hand. She is going to pig out on it as soon as she gets home.

Boy it has really been a long time since I put anything on this blog. I will try to hit the high spots.
In June ( I think) we went to St George to Allie's graduation. I still cannot believe she is so old. Time really passes by and we don't pay attention. While we were there we had the opportunity to go through the Temple with Crosby. That was a great experience for us all. It was a great family time, which we always love.
On July 7th Marcus, our great grandson had open heart surgery. They had to remove part of a tumor that is in his heart. He has had it since he was born. We were all hoping that it would not get bigger, but our hopes were dashed when 2 years later they found it had grown up one of the arteries in the heart. He went through the the surgery just fine, but it made his heart beat irregular so they ended up putting a pacemaker in. After two weeks he is home and doing fine. We are very thankful to our Father In Heaven for letting Marcus stay with us longer. He still has his tumor so we have not idea what will happen next. We take a day at a time,
Aimee Jo was off the first week of the hospital stay and then had to go back to work. We spoke up and told them we would take Paige, our granddaughter and Destiny, our great granddaughter. Paige is 8 years old and was no problem at all, but even with Haylee here Destiny wore us out. She is a year old. An ear infection and just plain old one year old energy kept all 3 of us on our toes. We had them a week. For two days after they left we rested. Haylee and I made several trips to Primary Children's hospital while all this was going on. Every thing is back to normal and hopefully they will stay that way.
Our lives seems to stay busy. I wonder when it is going to slow down, but it never does. In two weeks we will be going to St. George once again for Cos's farewell. It is sad to see all of them grow up.
Tonya, Scott and their family are in Germany. They are there for 3 years. I know that they were far away before, but this seems like a lot further. I know we did it to our parents, but we are now on the other end and it is not so fun. Tonya will be back in a few months to welcome a grand baby. Yes Bre is having a baby. That will make 3 great grandchildren for us. It just keeps getting better and better.

I am still kickin!

Since I have not written for a long time, I am not going to worry about pictures, but just move on. We have been so busy. This past week we have enjoyed the grandkids. On Weds. we went to Paige's school to have her birthday lunch with her. AJ could not go so we had the fun of taking her place. The whole time we were there, (eating our pizza) she was trying to talk us into checking her out. She gave me several reasons. Of course I gave her several back. It was funny! I won!
We then took Amanda, Randy and the kids to Wick to get food. Destiny is almost crawling, her knees are there, but not movement. Marcus is not moving much. I think his body is catching up with his head. He is in Physical Theaphy. That is a good thing!
On Thur. we went and picked up Ayden. He wanted to come down on his birthday. So we went and got him, kept him for a few days. Of course he wanted to go to Thanksgiving Point. He loves going there, the gift shop is the best part. We took him to a 3D movie. I don't think he liked it, he kept taking his glasses off. He also kept trying to grab the things that were coming off the screen. One time I had to grab his shirt because he about went over the chair in front of him. It is always fun with him.
On Sunday we took him home and had dinner with Tori, Russ and the girls. When we arrived home we just flopped down enjoying the sound of nothing. We were really tired. Kids are for the young, I see that every time I have one of our grandkids.
Since I last wrote we had a visit with Tina. She came all alone. It was so nice to have her with no kids. We had a nice visit. We took her to Midway to see the Ice Castles that someone made. They are beautiful. No one can even understand how great they are until you see them. I was happy to see that Tina was really impressed since we talked it up so much. It was a great visit. I wish all of my children could visit every once in a while without their kids. We get to really spend time with them.
Family is a great thing to have. Everyday I am so thankful for the blessings of family. It is what it is about and it's great....

Meetings, Meetings

Well my week has been filled with meetings. It seems everytime I turn around there is another meeting added on. Alden was put in as the High Priest group leader, now we can go to meetings together. I know they will not stay as bad as they are now, but I still feel meeting out. The new TS program has finally been unveiled and I love it. We are working more with the Priesthood to find the needs of the ward and then as a RS we can meetings to meet those needs. It will take some getting used to, alot of organization and prayer. I can see where the Lord has had a hand in this. Every time I hear about a new thing added to our busy life I think of Pres. Monson, hay if he can do it we can do it.
We have been looking at the weather out west and for once we are getting less. I have to laugh at the Vegas and St. George people, they are really getting hit hard, us not so bad. They always laugh at us so it evens out the playing field a little bit.
All in all we are good, moving slower, but still moving. The Lord has blessed us and we are very thankful for that. Life is good! As I read J's blog I know how blessed to be out of the poop stage, any way right now, someday we may be back into the poop thing.

We love our family and love to spent any time we can with them. Both our kids and our Grandchilden are our life. As we get older we see how important family is and the little things that we do with them. It seems like when we were young we were to busy with things and doing than being and enjoying them. I don't know if that is the way with all of us, but to me it is sad. I guess you don't know how much family means to you until they move a way. We have a great famly. That makes us super blessed......... We stayed home for Chirstmas, but for New Years we went to St. George. I was looking for warm, but is was not as warm as I hoped. It was warmer than were we came from so it was good anyway. After pushing a lot we convinced James and Emily that we needed to have family time up in the hills. They wern't to happy, but as you can see no one seemed to sad when we got there......

The first place the guys wanted to go was the sand dunes. I have always thought that men were told in the Spirit world that dirt was great and to put it on your body any time you can. Kevin and James proved that as they rolled down the hills of sand. James really liked it, but I think Kevin found out he is not as young as he used to be.

We all loved the view. It is so nice to be up in those red hills. Kevin was our leader. He kept telling us there was a concrete path that we would meet up with, never saw it and later after we got home we were told that you are not supposed to go off the paths or you could be fined $500.00. Some one was looking out for us, not Kevin!

After Kevin led us up and down hills, we found the rocks we were looking for. I had to have some so know Allie would not refuse me we loaded her back pack with rock. Her burden was heavy.