YIKES!!!!

I forgot to record a horrific experience we had the other night.I got up to use the restroom around midnight and went back to bed.at 1am I woke up and thought it was raining outside. I mean really raining.I spoke that outloud and Jim jumps up to check the toilet in our bathroomYou guessed it! we had a flood in our bathroom. It hadn't gotten to the bedroomyet and the wood floor, but we had to work fast to keep it that way!Well, there we were in our undies, mopping, placing towels all over the place andringing them out in the bathtub! it took us well over an hour to finish up.And the culprit??? Those bleach tablets you put in your tank to keep it "sparkling clean!"It had somehow gotten right over the wrong place and plugged it off some way.NOT FUN!!!We have been having a few problems with our septic system again though. We thought we had it conquered, but alas not true!

HO HO HO, MERRY CHRISTMAS

We got our first big snowfall over the last 3 days. I had to have my boss come pick me up as I cousldn't get out of our yard! Too many drifts. Dad is going to plow us out today.
Anyway, "It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!" Love it. However, i have to admit that I do not like driving in the snow. I love to look at it from inside my house, by the fire, reading an interesting book! It can snow all it wants if it's not on the highway!

Had a great weekend. Went up Friday to Gunnison to watch Cooper while Devin and Sarah went to a Family Christmas Party on Saturday. They blessed Cooper on Sunday morning. at their house with a few people. Devin did a great job. We were all crying. Then that same day, Devin's brother Dallin reported his mission so we tended Cooper and then there was a family dinner they went to. We left Sunday around 4pm and missed the snow storms entirely. Great time with the little baby boy. Played some games. had a great time. Happy that Sarah and Robert are close. Wish the rest of you were too.

so I hope you are all experiencing the wonder of this season. How the world turns to the real meaning of our lives. How the Savior gave his life for us and how his birth is so important to us. That's why I love this time of year. I feel happy, generous, concerned for others in a way that doesn't happen all year long. It is a spirit that permeates the earth and I feel it everywhere.
Hope you are all feeling that wonderful spirit also and just thinking of the blessings we all have.
Love you
Mom

GRAMPA WITH SOME OF THE GRANDKIDS!

WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY WORLD

November 25, 2008

Well everyone we are doing well. Dad is feeling REALLY good. He had to talk in Sacrament this last Sunday and had been preparing for over 2 weeks. He really did a great job. As I was sitting there listening to him, I was just so proud of him. He has a commanding presence when he speaks. (As you all can testify to!) but he speaks plainly and you can hear him. I was just feeling so blessed that I have been married to this good man for over 38 years. He had so many people come up to him and tell him how well he did and that he should have been the Stake President. Thank goodness he wasn't called to that! I could hardly get through the Bishop calling. Anyway, you all would have been so happy for him. I could see why he was the Bishop in the first place. He is a leader and it shows. Sorry to brag, but couldn't help it. he really did so well. and of course, he doesn't think he did. He is humble and that's what makes him so special.

anyway, we are enjoying this season. i have Christmas music on first thing in the morning and we both love that. Even though he used to get on me for starting early, he just accepts it now and enjoys it along with me. I am ready to put up the tree. This weekend will be the time!
I love Thanksgiving. We have alot to be thankful for don't we. We have so much. Hope you all have a wonderful day. Just know I am thinking of each and every one of you and counting you all as my most important blessing.
Love you all
Mom

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Hi ya all,
Well it has been a week or so since I wrote in here. we are doing great! The weather is unreal. The high Sunday was almost 70 degrees! and today it is supposed to be in the 60's.
Unusual for us this time of year and we are throughly enjoying it. We are still watering our lawn which we never thought we would have to do. but thanks goodness we have water to keep it green. it is so nice to have green around us. We love it!

I am busy busy planning, buying and wraping christmas presents. I love it. I have so much fun just figuring out what to get that is meaninful. I am also listening to Christmas music every day now. I love Christmas music, it is so calming. Whenever I get a little stressed I just turn on some Christmas music and I am fine. Beautiful time of year. and I got to thinking the other day with all the demonstrations etc at the Temples and so forth, that December is the one month Satan doesn't really have much say. The whole world (well most of it) turns and thinks of Christ. I bet he hates that and I just love the thought that he doesn't have anything to say about it.

We will be spending Thanksgiving with Devin and Sarah this year along with Robert and Melanie. Her girls are going to be with their other gramma. Or grammie as Teniah calls her.

As for Christmas, it will be a challenge, but oh so fun. Jason and Jan'l will be coming early around the 22nd of December and staying until the 29th. Devin and Sarah will arrive on the 26th and stay until New Years or there after. TiNille and Jason will be here on the 29th or 30th to spend New Years with us and Toni and Tyler will get here sometime before Christmas and stay for a couple of weeks. Along with Robert and Melanie and girls, we will have quite the time, we have to work it so none of the kids are in our house because Cooper cannot be by any of them yet. That will be a challenge, but there is a mobile home that Richard put in down the road from us that Jason and Jan'l and TiNille and Jason will be staying in. It's funny because when Jan'l told her kids that they can't be by Cooper, Logan said "why? What's wrong with us?" so cute.
so there you have my plans and I am busy planning I'll tell ya. I have lists coming out my head!
But that is what makes my life fun. anyway, better get to work. Hope you all have a great day. Sorry no pictures, but Dad has cancelled his internet for the Winter. (it costs us 80 dollars a month because we have Satellite) so I can't send his pictures to my computer from home.

Love
Mom

HAPPY FALL!!!

It is such a nice day. it is now presently 51 degrees out there and I am just enjoying the day.
I just had 5 days off and it was alot of fun. got some Christmas packages wrapped and that was fun. It is fun to be home with Daddy. We sure enjoy being together and wish we could be together 24/7. Even if we don't do something together all the time, it is just fun to be home and be in proximity of each other. Just wanted to thank everyone for your blogs. It keeps us connected. Just so everyone knows, Sarah's computer is kaput and she won't be posting for a while. They have to send it off to be worked on. too bad. She loves her computer. But good news about Cooper. He is now 7 lbs 7 oz!!! Doing very well, except he had to start his shots yesterday. Had a fussy night, but is doing better this morning. so thankful for all the new grandbabies.
They are are darling and so healthy. Beautiful children!
I have been pretty sick for the last 2 weeks, but am better now. You sure take your health for granted until you don't have it. I'm so happy to be feeling better.

Looking forward to the Holiday Season and wish we could see everyone, but gratful for those we will see and missing those we wont. Love you all so much.

Mom

GRATITUDE

The after election day is difficult this year, but I find myself just grateful for my life, my family, my country (messed up as it is), life and the opportunity to live my life. So I guess you could say I am happy today. I am still the same person, I still have the best family on earth, I am a member of the true church and it is a beautiful day! The Democrats do not have the majority in the Senate, which is wonderful, Florida voted to ban gay marriage and California prop 8 is still undecided. so things are not as bad as they could be. I also had an awesome dream last night. I dreamed that Barack Obama was defeated by Mitt Romney and Mitt saved the constitution. Remember that prediction?
Well, Jim found the direct quote so it will happen. I always concentrated on the phrase-
The Government of the United States would be hanging by a thread. However, I now concentrate on the phrase that it will be saved by the Elders of the Church. I choose, in other words, to concentrate that it will be saved. on the positive. And that is the way I am going to live. I am going to be thankful for what I have (which is so much) I think that is the way God would have us live. so let's look up! remember the phrase-

Worry lookS around
Sorrow looks behind
Faith looks up!

so I choose to LOOK UP!!!

I'm sitting her listening to Christmas music and just trying to be calm this day and thought I would try and add another picture. Here goes! Well, as you can see I'm getting a little carried away, but I will load more pictures from Dad's computer. After looking at all these picture. don't we have the most beautiful family????

These are just some pictures I found on dad's computer.

ELECTION DAY

Well, today is a very important day. I know you have all voted and I hope it turns out the best for our country, which of course, in my opinion is McCain/Pallen. I know you all feel that he was'nt the best choice, but given the 2 choices, he was the only choice. I voted last Friday (sick as I was!) and just remembered my mother and her story of the first time she voted and how she dressed up for it and was just so proud to be able to vote. She wore a black and white poka dot dress, a hat and gloves and high heels. My mother was so patriotic, and I love her for teahcing me to love this country, and it is very hard to watch what is happening. Jim is reading the best book. It is the 5000 year leap by Cleon Skousen and it lists the 28 points the founding fathers wanted to keep in our system no matter what. (Robert bought it for us, thanks Robert!)It is all based on the golden rule and the New Testament and God and his principles. Their biggest fear is that would be turn into a godless nation and not educate our children as to how this great country was founded. By Christian thoughts. Of course it was. That is what they studied. And what they feared the most, has come to pass. Our children are not being taught about the consitution and how it came about and that is based on Christian values and thoughts, so that is going to be up to all of you. To teach your kids the truth. That this country was founded by God and must remain so or it won't be free. I love you all and hope that this night will turn out the way I pray it needs too. Especially Prop 8 in California. I'm praying for you all out there and the outcome. May God continue to Bless America.

ok I'm trying this again. I will try to find some pictures to post. That is what I am trying to do now. Yahoo, i did it!!! Now I will have to figure out how to get more pictures on my computer. Dad has so many pictures on his, maybe I can transfer some of those pictures.

NEW BLOG

Hi Everyone,
This is my new blog. THANKS TO CHRISTIE.
i am now trying to figure out how to use it.
We are fine and enjoying our grass!
Love Mom
ps-LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR.

It's UP! WooHoo!

Grandma! ;0)

Phfew. I just finished your blog for you
and here it is!

Go ahead and have a blast bloggin' away...
Don't forget to email me if you have any questions
and give yourself some time to get adjusted to
blogging...it's a whole new world out here online
and you've just started!

GOOD LUCK!!
--C