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.

Good Memories, Love, Family & Friends

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

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

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..