STILL KICKIN

2010-12-20T09:56:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-12-20T09:50:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-12-20T09:44:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-12-20T09:40:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-12-20T09:36:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-12-20T09:33:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-12-20T09:28:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-07-23T17:38:00.000-07:00

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...........

2010-07-23T17:31:00.000-07:00

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.

2010-07-23T17:23:00.000-07:00

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.

2010-07-23T16:56:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-03-09T19:43:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-22T11:13:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-01-12T09:37:00.000-08:00

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.

Good Memories, Love, Family & Friends

2009-11-29T13:55:00.000-08:00

No pictures this time, I think my husband has passed around our pictures enough. I can't tell you how great it was to spend time with family and friends. It was such an uplifting weekend.
The Conference was so great, we cried and laughed. There were things there that made me think my relationship with my Father in Heaven. It reminded me that I have someone near that will always love me no matter what. I came home with a larger Testimony, that I hope will last a long time.
Now for my family, I saw each of the girls that were there step up and it reminded me of how great they are. I don't know how I ended up with this group as my children, but I am so thankful for them and the things they teach me.
It was not all serious, not with my family. They were totally fun to be around. We bought jewelry and Harlean and Tonya ended up seeing a lady in a thong, hay what else can you ask for.
It was a great weekend and for sure I want to do it again. Thanks to Joddy for all the work she went through and Tina for helping us get a room.

Last color before Winter and cold

2009-10-20T09:22:00.000-07:00

This is our last color before white sets in. Our drive over Nebo loop was beautiful. This year the colors were bright as you can see. The fall is the perfect time of year for me, not to hot, not to cold. I guess you can't have everything. It was a nice day trip and Al and I enjoyed the beauty of the mountains.

Rocks In Our Heads

2009-10-09T17:22:00.000-07:00

Our heads hurt along with our feet, backs, hands and even our sit down place. Sometimes we are so hot that we can't stand it and sometimes when the wind blows (which is most of the time) we were cold. We were bent over for hours looking for Topaz crystals, which we can only find if we see the sparkle from them. If the sun is not in the right place, no sparkle. Why in the would do we do things like this? Well I'll tell you, we have fun. We are out side looking at the beatiful world that our Heavenly Father created. We are with the one we love and nothing can get better than that. On top of that we can bring home treasures. Alot of people don't think rocks are so great, but we love them. They all look different, some not so pretty and other really pretty. Look at the rock I am sitting on, it is not so pretty, but inside this rock are little sparkles of Topaz. There is a whole mountain that sparkles when the sun is in the right place. The rocks are not so pretty, but inside are really pretty things. I guess it is like us, some times we shine and at other times we are just a not so pretty person, inside that is. What could be better than that seeing all this in just one day..

Rock Hunting Fun

2009-09-13T16:24:00.000-07:00

No pictures on this one. We took out last trip of the year ( I hope). Al and I went to Wyoming to see Glenna and of course to look for rocks. Boy did find rocks. It was a lot of fun. We even stayed on the freeway for 1 1/2 hour. A truck bruned up, so we sat there. It was a good time to visit with Glenna. We went hiking in the hills and found all kinds of things. We did see some wild horses, but not as many as I would have liked. Last time we went we saw a herd of them and they were beautiful. We brought home some rocks to put in Al's little desert garden in the front yard. It might not have been a grand trip, but we had a lot of fun. We spent time together and saw some of out family. What else could you ask for.

Isn't she cuite

2009-09-13T16:15:00.000-07:00

This is our newest family member. She is really tiny and such a good baby. She is healthy and we are thankful for that....

Don't faint

2009-08-16T14:27:00.000-07:00

Well it is a long time since I wrote in the blog. I have wanted to put pictures in, but we bought a new computer and have not got it totally set up. We love it, but due to our non fuctional brains we haven't got everthing where it belongs. On top of that we are not sure what we are doing! It is coming along, now we don't have to wait twenty min. for something to come on the screen.
We have had a busy summer. I don't know where it has gone but it has gone. Most of the summer we have spent with family, that was a plus for us. We have been to a wedding, and engagement party and an open house.
Carly's wedding went really nice. As I sat in the Temple, watching her and Jeff kneeling across the alter it really came to me how important the Temple is. It was amazing to know that we are linked as a family and will be that way for Eternity. One thing I can say about the wedding was that for sure it was hot. I don't really like hot, but we survived, enjoying our time with everyone. Tonya and her family were able to come. It was nice seeing them, even though we were so busy that it was hard to get a min. to ourselves.
The next thing that happened was a party. It was supposed to be for Bre's boyfriends, but it ended up being a engagement party. It was a total suprise to Bre. They will be getting married in April. It seems our family is growing.
Carly and Jeff held a open house in Kaysville. They both lived there so alot of people came. It was a layed back affair, which made it really nice. We were able to visit with alot of people we hadn't seen for a while. It was fun and I hope a tail end to all these big events.
We spent this weekend in Bear Lake. We went to Tori's house. We had a beautiful day at the lake, notice I said day. Every time we come it rains, so at least this time we had one day that was a fun in the sun day. We did have fun and as always enjoyed our family.

Life is running by

2009-07-08T14:14:00.000-07:00

No pictures this time, I am lucky to just write a note. Tomorrow we are off to St. George for Carly's wedding. It is hot, hot , hot and I am not sure I want to be in the oven of St. George (108) on Sunday. We just got back Sat. from visiting with Tori and Russ. It seems like that is all we have been doing. Last winter I thought this was going to be a slow summber, not so. Number one I never thought I would be the RS President. Alden was called on a service mission and does the Temple once a week. I guess it keeps us young. The one thing about this wedding is a lot of the family will be there and it is always nice to be with the ones we love. I'll post some pictures when I get back (if I survive the heat).

The End of an Era!

2009-06-23T16:20:00.000-07:00

Uncle Warren (Colonel) died on June 18, 2009. He was the last of my father's siblings. It seems like a whole time in my life has closed down. I still have the memories, but no one to talk about them that remember. We made a trip to his early birthday (95th) in Febuary, they said he wouldn't last until March when his real birthday was. As I talked to him then, he said he was going to make it to his birthday, he made it past. His family told us that in the end he was seeing and talking to his father and my dad Everett. I know there was a grand old party on the other side when they all got together. I think of all the years I enjoyed these group of people and I am thankful that I had that time.. Sometimes I think we are so into life that we miss the real thing. I hope when I go, that someone will be able to say, we spent time with her and have a lot of good memories to hold in our hearts. The people, friends, and family are what life is all about, it is so important to love each other and always be thankful we are together.

Cold Bear Lake Birthday

2009-06-23T16:00:00.000-07:00

Haylee wanted to go to Bear Lake for her bithday, no problem, except spring did not come this year, so it rained. We were game for anything, no hesitation. We headed up to Tori's house and all cramed into her small home. AJ, her family, Amanda, her son, a friend of AJ's Brandy, Haylee and Us. We were sleeping all over. On Sat. morning the was a spot where we thought it would be good to take off and head to the Lake. As you can see from the picture, it was not the best, but we had fun. Of course the kids thought it was great. The adults were a little cold, some of them cold or not braved the cold to go into the water. It was a fun time with all the family that was there. We are thankful for Tori for putting up with us. Love us or not I am sure she was glad to see us go. We are so thankful to be able to do all these fun things with our family.

This is what it is all about......

2009-05-29T15:34:00.000-07:00

This is why we made our trip to California. E was baptized on the 23 of May. This is the 4th grandchild that we have had baptized in the last year. What fun it is to see them all grow up and make the choice to follow the Savior. E was so grown up, he greeted every one as they came in. He also thanked each person for coming. At the end he stood up on his own and announced that we would be opening the doors and putting cookies out. It was really something. No one knew he was going to do it for sure. I can't believe he is 8. He was just a little baby and now he is a young man. His Grandpa and Grandma are so proud of him. I am sure he will be perfect, for a few days, and then he will get on with life.

California Trip

2009-05-29T15:20:00.000-07:00

Here we are at the beach in California. Haylee, Shireen, Dorie & Al took off on a Wed. and headed for California. I don't know about any one else, but the beach was one of the things on the top of my lists to do. Of course seeing our family was the first. The beach is special to me, a time when I can let every thing go and just lay back. It seems my problems aren't as big when I get back. Now, Shireen just had fun. It was the first time that she remembered being on the beach, she was impressed. She could not get over how big it was. I think She has my lust for picking things up. She had a bucket full of all kinds of treasures. We all had a lot of fun and really enjoyed the family time.

Update on Al's Thumb

2009-05-15T15:05:00.000-07:00

No picture of this. Haylee has one on her phone, but I didn't even look. We went to the doctors today, he took a pair of plyers and pulled the pin out of Dad's thumb. It was terrible! I watched all the other stuff they did, but for some reason that was just bad. The worst part came after when the doctor told him that he should not put a dressing on it. He also told him that he needed to be careful because he could tear the ligament. Before he did alot because it was protected and now he is really limited. He is driving us nuts. I wanted to call Tori to see if she could baby sit him. Oh well I am sure we will all live through the whole thing.

The ride on the Heber Creeper

2009-05-15T14:57:00.000-07:00

We had a great Wednsday. We were able to go on the Heber Creeper with Shireen and her school. Tori and Ayden came along with us also. Of course after a good warm day the day before, the wind was blowing and we about froze to death. In the middle of the ride Ayden had to go to the potty, well there was no bathrooms, I provided the water bottle and he aimed in the right direction. Every one was happy except Tori, she was mad because we didn't get a picture. You can't win them all. We all had fun at the Heber Park, where we went to eat lunch. Grandma and Grandpa had the most fun of all being with family!!!!

Marcus

2009-05-15T14:52:00.000-07:00

This is Macus. He is drooling all over Haylee.

He smiles all the time and loves to talk.

Our Life for two weeks

2009-05-01T17:31:00.000-07:00

Well there are no pictures this time. Dad loaded the pictures into the computer and they are gone forever. I will never know what he does with them. The last two weeks have been full of people. Tasha came in to pick up Breland, they stayed with us. It was nice visiting with them. Breland told Tasha that it would only take a little while to clean her apartment, well after an all night work - a - thon it was finally done. I had to laugh because Sheri came in a few days later and she had the same experience. We had Tori's kids last weekend. It was fun, but made both of us old people tired. I think it was boring for them, it rained the whole time they were here. We always love our grandkids coming to see us. We rest alot when they leave. We went to the doctor for Dad's thumb. The stitches are now out. It is all still wrapped up with a pin that goes down the middle, that will stay that way for a few more weeks. He goes back on the 5th of May. Spring is here for one day and then it rains and snows the next. On the spring days we have planted peas, they are coming up and I can't wait. I love peas! When I pick them they never get in the house. Our back yard needs a lot of work, with Dad only using one hand and me so busy with Relief Society it is not getting done as fast. Maybe if spring settles in for the long term then I can get out and do something. Right now we are waiting for Carly and Jeff to come here to spend the night, also Leo will be here late, he has to take a test in Salt Lake early in the morning. Like I started out people, people, and more people. Sheri and her whole family will be coming in sometime in June to put Derrick in the Mission home. I guess that Cindy and her family will be coming sometime to put Jared in the Mission home also. We may have some rest but in the fall it will start over again. It is really nice to see every one so much. Every time Harlean's grandkids come I call her and brag. I know it's mean, but hey it's fun. Well better log off. Maybe I will locate the picktures next time.

OOPS I MISSED THE WOOD

2009-04-19T11:47:00.000-07:00

This is what this week has been about. One week ago Friday Al wasn't as careful as he could have been, guess what, he sliced his thumb. No only did he slice his thumb, but he cut the legament. All I can say is I am glad he still has a thumb. We have spent a lot of time in the doctors and all day Tues. in the hospital where they put him back together. Every thing is going just fine except for one thing, he is having a hard time not doing the things he can't do. He is not used to being layed up in any way. He will get the stitches out nex week, but the pin that they put in to hold his thumb straight will stay in for awhile. We will survive and get through this.

OUR LITTLE MOMENTS

2009-03-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

Onece again no pictures! We did download them on the computer, but they are lost. I've looked and I am sure they took off. So here is our moments for the last couple of weeks.
On March 19th we picked up Ayden, Tori's little one and brought him home with us. This was the first time he has been away from home alone. We were concerned that his 4 year old mind would decide that he needed to go home early. Well by the time we went to Chucky Cheeses, McDonalds (2 times), Thanksgiving point, the Bean museum (where he petted a large spider) and did several different sports he decided to stay. We all had a good time.
On March 22nd Al and Haylee took Ayden home and I went to church, where the whole presidency of the Young Women were released. It was a sad day, a lot of tears and sad goodbys. I love working with the youth but every time I get released it takes a bit of my heart.
March 23rd We rested in the morning and in the evening Sheri, Brain and their family came in. Dereck was going through the Temple. That was on a Monday and on Wed. we all loaded in their big van and headed down to Salt Lake. I have not been to the Salt Lake Temple for a few years and I forgot how beautiful it was. It was such a nice evening. The spirit was so strong. We all went home with a stronger testimony and lighter hearts.
March 28th Al and I decided to take a day off. It was one of the nice days so we went out in the desert and roamed. It was a nice break and we enjoyed the sunshine, which has not been around very much.
March 29th Al and I were called into the Bishops office after church today and my new calling is the Relief Society pres. I am still in shock. The Young Womens leaders had decided that we were all going to sit on the back row of the Relief Society room and make faces at the presidency, just so we wouldn't get to grown up after being with the youth for so long. I guess I won't be doing that. I never thought I would be put in, I thought I was to old and some younger gal would take that job. Well even old people are not forgotten. I won't be taking over for 2 or 3 weeks. I hope the Lord knows what he is doing, because I sure don't.

FAMILY IS A GREAT THING

2009-03-03T13:43:00.000-08:00

No pictures this time. Haylee showed them in her blog. We had a fun week last week. Sue and Bit Johanson came in from Florida (wish I was there). Bit had to try out for a program at USU. We had a real nice visit with them, finding out interesting things that we did not know. Sat. night we got all the neices and nepherws, Carley, her boyfriend Jeff, Haylee and Al and I and went to the brick oven. It was really fun. Some of them got together and told the server that it was Al's birthday. They also had a guy that was there make a balloon hat. It was funny. I think Carley told them it was his birthday, she also told them that he would deny it. Al said he is picked on. After it was over Sue, Bit, Haylee, Carley, Jeff and Al and I had a decussion about the church. Haylee and Carley both bore their Testimonies to Bit, who was having just a few doubts about some things. In the end it was all about getting your own Testimony. If you don't have that you are not going to be able to progress like you should. There were some interesting things said.
A day or so later I just had to call Harlean and tell her that I was having a lot of fun with her grandkids. No matter what you have or what you do, family is so important. They are the real treasures here on earth. I love it....

FAST TRIP TO COLORADO

2009-02-21T09:14:00.000-08:00

Well, our Colorado trip in March turned out to be in February. We were going down in March to celebrate Uncle Warren Shepherd's 95th birthday. His health started to get worse so all the people in Denver decided to have it in February. Thanks to Sheri and Brain Johanson we had a place to stay. As you can see on the right, it was pretty nice. Before we left we ended up with Dereck, Camey and Camey's boyfriend. Oh and one more thing Camey's snowboard. There was a three day holiday so it was just the right time for the college kids to get a ride with us. On top of all of that, Dereck got a lot of his things done for his mission, passport, dental. We had a really nice visit with their family. Brain was even there so it was perfect.

As you can see at the top left Uncle Wareen is not as spry as he used to be. I do have to say, although he has mellowed out, you can still see that look in his eyes. When I see that look, I always wonder what trouble he is going to get into. The party turned out really nice. A lot of people turned out. It was nice visiting with all of them. We don't keep in touch much and that is sad.

We also got out to see the people in Broomfield. The family has put Aunt Lucille in a Senior Living center. She could not live a lone anymore. Grandma's house is falling down. We had a good visit with my cousins Bill and Kathy.

Well time goes on and each of us get older, but it is sad to see all the people that you love from the past go on to the next life. Thank goodness we were able to see Uncle Warren before he passes away. It is always better to see them before than after.

OLD AGE IS HARD TO TAKE

2009-02-02T15:09:00.000-08:00

Thank you all so much for the new ipod. I love it, just as soon as I learn how to use it. I am getting better. Boy I am finally a senior. What can I say, am I happy about that? I don't know how I feel. Sometimes old age has it's perks and sometimes not. My body sags and my eyes aren't so good, but some one said to me yesterday "my mind and spirit" are good. What more can you ask for. I don't really feel older inside. I like all the things I liked when I was younger, but when I look in the mirror I see someone different. Maybe mirrors aren't a good thing. I do get a discount at the movies and thats a good thing. As I look back on my life I have come a long way and am proud of what I have done. I've come long way baby! It is nice to look back and see my life so far. It has been exciting, hard, and with many different roads. I guess it's not to bad being older, look at my fine family and the joy they bring into my life. There are many seasons in a life and right now I am enjoying the season I am in.......Thank you all for being you and making my life exciting and great!!

HOW CAN HE BE 8!!!!!

2009-02-02T14:17:00.000-08:00

Isn't she beautful. Shireen was baptized on Sat Jan. 31, 2009. It was a perfect day. Families from both sides were there. Of course all of us thought she was really pretty in her white dress. We all might have been a little biased because we think all our grandkids are the best. I am so thankful that she decided to take this step in her life. I know that it is the right step. I also know that Heavenly Father will be with her for the rest of her life as long as she lives right. All I can say the older she gets the older we get and sometmes that is not good. We love our whole family and are very thankful for them. It's great to be a grandparent.....

JUST A LITTLE COLD!!!!!

2009-02-02T14:09:00.000-08:00

This is where we spent out Saturday. It is beautiful, but really cold. I think from now on I will do summers at Tori's and winters at St. George. Just look at the tree, all it is ice. Ice cubes are not for me......

BORING WEEK "THANK GOODNESS"

2009-01-17T21:12:00.000-08:00

No pictures this time. Our week has been boring and that is a good thing. Haylee and I still have a sore chest and I am turning yellow instead of black and purple. All I can say is boring is good! Our snow is melting because of a high pressure, and our air is bad. This is the time we all need to go into the mountains where the sun is shinning and the air is clear. We are waiting for the insurance to get it together and give Haylee some money. It will be nice to get another car to run around in. Sunday I have to give a lesson in Young Womens. Did you know that sun flowers follow the sun, by night the are facing the sun when it goes down. Any way the lesson is on keeping your eye on Jesus and you won't go wrong. I got the girls some sunflower seeds, do you know how hard it is to find sunflower seeds in the middle of winter. I told you it was a boring week. Next week will have a little more action, I am going to Tori's for a couple of days. getting my hair cut and we are scrapbooking.

2009 IN WITH A BANG!!!!!!!!

2009-01-13T10:03:00.000-08:00

Haylee and I were ready to go. We had our money, ourselves and the car. We were off to shop at the sale at Body and Bath Works. This is really a big event, so off we went. We arrived at Center St. and University Ave and the next thing we knew we were kissing the sign. Some kid was going to fast and run the red light and we happened to be in the right place at the wrong time. So now we had the money, ourselves and no car. We came out alright, sore necks and chests. I have a beautiful, colorful chest. We are very thankful that we came out walking, talking and no broken bones. Did we ever get to shop, we sure did the next day. Both of us walked
slow but we did it. I hope this is no indication of how the year of 2009
is going to be.

COUNT OUR BLESSINGS

2008-12-09T22:24:00.000-08:00

Well I have come to the end of our Thanksgiving journey, and so I think I will tell you all what we are thankful for. I can say for both Al & I that we are very thankfull for our family. We love each of them and are so proud of the steps they take to become better people and that they teach their children to do the same. I for one and thankful for my Heavenly Father who sent spirits to me to guide me through my life. If it hadn't been for that guidence I would not be who I am today. I am also thankful for his son for giving his life for us so that we might return to our families and all be together again. I am thankful that I came to earth so that I could grow and have the opportunity to be with Heavenly Father again. I have a deep love for Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father. I know they love me. They have given each of us so much and I can't even imagine what it would be like to be with out them. Most of all I am thankful for my sweet husband, whom I love so much. I thank him for his love for me, his patience for me, and his excepting me for what I am. He can truly see what I can become. I feel I am truly blessed this season with all these people at my side, encouring me and loving me. Merry Chrismas.....

FINALLY!!!!!!

2008-12-09T17:13:00.000-08:00

I finally got him. I don't know if he gave up or I got smart. Of course it was because I got smart. He is not smiling and doesn't look to pleased, but hay I got it. Any body who sees this might want to hang on to it. We may never have another.

OOPS!

2008-12-09T17:07:00.000-08:00

Still trying to get a picture. As you can see Crosby was just as bad as Leo. He was willing to let me take his back side. I am not sure it is the best image of him, but if that is what he wants us to see then he is in the right position. I would still like his face instead of his bum.....

Camera Shy

2008-12-09T17:05:00.000-08:00

This is the top of Leo's head. We tryed and tryed to get a picture of him. We pleaded and cryed but to no avail...

SLEEPING BEAUTY

2008-12-09T17:01:00.000-08:00

Here is James. As you can see he in in deep thought. This is his bed since we kicked him out of his bedroom. I just had to show every body how he celebrated Thanksgiving!!!!

THE GREAT COOK

2008-12-09T16:57:00.000-08:00

Emily is making a pomagrant salad. This was her assignment for Thanksgiving. She also made the hat she is wearing. She is a regular Martha Stewart.

Hiking the Hills

2008-12-09T16:48:00.000-08:00

We finally got our chance to hike the hills. We went to Snow Canyon. We love to walk around the red rocks, but I have to admit this time we went to break the law. Not a big law, but a very small one. We went to get some rocks for Aunt Glenna. Leo brought me some and Glenna wanted to have some, I wasn't about to give her any Leo gave me so we had to resort to stealing. Leo told us where to go. We got lost so I asked the ranger where to find these rocks. Did I feel guilty, a little, but we still did it. We did find the rocks and we did take some. Most of all we enjoyed the beautiful country that we were in. I don't know how people cannot believe in God when there is beauty like this. Oh by the way Glenna did get the rocks and loved them.

Crosby's Bedroom

2008-12-09T16:33:00.000-08:00

Well here is Crosby's bedroom. It is really neat. You can't get to it from the inside of the house, you have to go down a windy stair case, around and around. We couldn't get into his room because he had it locked. He was afraid that Haylee would come and get even with him, since he came to our house and dumped her matress on the floor. One thing about his room that is not so neat is that there is no toilet. Every time he needs the restroom, down the stairs he goes. Sometimes he comes down really fast.....

Our Beautiful Thanksgiving

2008-12-09T16:09:00.000-08:00

Our Thanksgiving this year was spent in St. George with our son Leo, Kevin, Tina and all the kids. We thought we were going to see beautiful weather, but our hopes were let down when the first two days we were all stuck in the house, looking out at the rain. The park we planned on going to the the frisbee we were going to play all had to be put on hold. As you can see by the picture the sun finally came out and we were off doing what we needed to do. We did some hiking, shopping, sight seeing and Shopping. What can I say we had Emily and she could shop till we all dropped.

View of our week.......

2008-11-25T09:15:00.000-08:00

No pictures this time, I guess I need to get on the stick.. Our week started with a Thanksgiving dinner for the singles. There were around 60 people there. It turned out really good, but boy were we tired. Both of us are thankful we don't have to do another dinner this week.

Life throws fast balls at each of us, Fri. one came to us. We had spent a lot of days at the Primary Childrens Hospital with Marcus and Amanda. On Friday Marcus had a MRI and we almost lost him. They had to put him to sleep and he stopped breathing. We hurried up to the hospital to find him in the ICU. It was scary. On Sat. he was back on the regular floor. He is a fighter. Why the Lord keeps him here I don't know, but it must be for a reason.

Since things had calmed down we decided to take a break and go to Tori and Russ's. Normally it is freezing cold up there but it was beautiful the whole time we were there. We had a lot of fun with the kids. Shireen and Brook were so excited to show us thier club house that they were being a pain, so off we went through the horse poop and the weeds to the far cornor of the field. There were a bunch of trees growing together and in the summer I am sure it was all enclosed in , but with all the leaves gone it was wide open. They had done a good job of fixing it up. They had a shelf for their stuff. They showed us where the doors were and the wood piece they stepped on to open the doors. The thing that was the most interesting was a log that was a funny shape, with a hole on one end. Both girls informed us that the log was where Ayden peed, not only on the log but right in the little hole. All I can say is he has good aim.

After a week with a lot of ups and downs visiting with family was the perfect ending. We love our family and are Thankful that our Heavenly Father let us have them for our short time on this earth.

Our week in 30 seconds......

2008-11-10T13:55:00.000-08:00

Well another week has gone by. On Tuesday we worked at the polls from 6 in the morning to 10:30 at night. The election was called just as we were going home. This is a funny process we have here in America. We have had some snow, but mostly rain. Our biggest excitment of the week is that Crosby came to visit us. He went to church with us and I was about to shoot him and Alden. I had to set between them. I went shopping with him at the mall all day Monday. I told him that he was like Joddy and Emily, he didn't like that. He isn't quite as bad, but almost. He did go into a scrapbook store with me. He stayed with me the whole time. He left on Tuesday to go to Kaysville to visit friends (all girls). We sure enjoyed him. We love it when any of our family comes to visit...

Clowning Around

2008-11-03T09:22:00.000-08:00

Well here we are, believe it or not..... We were working in one of booths at the ward Holloween party and decided that we had to dress up. Haylee did the makeup. Sad thing was the kids looked at us funny. I think they were a little scared. All it took was Al acting up and soon we had a whole bunch with us. One little kid looked at us and told he would come back later, "we are going to be here for 3 years. We had a lot of fun. It keeps us young in mind, our bodies are another thing.

AUSTIN'S BAPTISM

2008-10-29T16:22:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of Aimee Jo and her family at Austin's baptism. It was 9/26/08. He was sure happy.

MYSTERY GARDEN

2008-10-29T16:01:00.000-07:00

Looks pretty bad..... Believe me it looked better not to long ago. Al planted the garden so that is why I am writing about it. We had a lot of tomatoes, small egg shaped ones, small round ones, mediem ones, large ones and then there were the really big ones. We never knew what kinds we planted but we had fun eating them. Then we come to the peppers Al said that he planted green pepper, but they never got really green. We waited and waited and finally decided we better eat them. They tasted like green peppers. He also had some other type that he said was not hot, well I ate one and they were hot. Our beets did really good and looked like beets. Al also said he planted pumpkins, not so,they came out with light green and dark green stripes. We weren't sure what to do with them so finally I brought them in and cooked them, guess what they turned out to be spaghetti squash. Well as you can see we have come to the end of our garden adventure for this year. Can't wait to see what happens next year...

MARCUS AT PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL

2008-10-29T15:26:00.000-07:00

Marcus went to the hospital on 29 Oct. The doctor said he was the same. In a month he will go back for a scan. He has some motor skill problems so we have to see another doctor. He talked to me and laughed. It is nice to see that he is doing this well. He will be 4 months on the 4th of November.

Trip to North Carlonia

2008-10-27T13:33:00.000-07:00

Up, up and away we go to Tonya and Scott's House in North Carlonia. We spent two weeks with our family. There is not much to do there, but visit and enjoy all our grandkids. We did spend two Saturdays at band competition. Sitting 12 hours a day is hard on the back, but in the end it was worth it. They took several awards both times. The band members were in suits and poodle skirts. Cherise played the french horn and Lelani played the tamporine and cow bell. All in all they did great.......
Colby turned 8 years old so we did a birthday party and a baptism. He was baptized on Oct. 21, 2008.
In the area we visited, there are trees all along the roads and after two weeks it got pretty boring. All we could see were trees, trees and more trees. I am not saying that we don't like green trees, but I can tell you now that when we looked out the car window it was not very exciting. When we finally came home we were both so glad to see into the distance. We decided that home is the place to be.
Our trip was a lot of fun because we so love to see our kids and grandkids. It was nice being in their life for a couple of weeks. After getting home we both know that family is what life is about and we sure do love ours.....

Staying Connected

2008-10-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

In an attempt to stay connected to our children and friends we are starting this blog. With our crazy schedules and everyday life we often forget to share the funny exciting things happening. Hopefully, this blog with help us to do better.