Berkeley's Baptism

We just got back from Austin.  Berkeley was baptized Sat.  We had a wonderful visit with Sam and his family.  Here's some pictures.

Young Women

Well, I was released from the Young Women organization on August 7th.

I have mixed emotions about this.  I'm going to miss the sweet young women and the young women leaders that I've been working with.  I am not going to miss Mutual on Wednesday nights (when I have been getting up at 4 am to work in the temple on Thursday and Friday mornings).

Here's a picture of the YW when they came by the house to give me a "Thank You" cake Wed. night.  They are such a great group of sweet girls.  Love them all!!

 

Trip to San Diego April 8, 2011

Cheryl went with me to San Diego for my friend's (Martha Dooley Hazar) daughter's wedding.  About 60 miles out of San Diego it started to snow and it snowed for 20 miles.  What??  That's crazy, I know, but it's true.

                                                           Snowplow

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Thirteen years ago today Dad passed away.  I miss him and always will...until we meet again on the other side.  He was always so good to me and I felt like he would do anything for me.  I know realistically, he MAY not have really been able to do that, but I don't think there's much he wouldn't have been willing to do.  I miss that twinkle in his eye and his cute sense of humor.  He was a strong and sturdy man and I liked that, too.  I'm sure he and Mom are enjoying each other right now.  I miss them both.

Dad and Mom snuggling on Mother's Day 1979.  He always got her flowers!!

Coveralls!! (Dad always did like those).  I think he looks very "John Wayne-ish" in this picture in Hawaii at Hickam Field.  (He was there between 1939 and early 1942).

Birthday Lunch @ Tia Rosa's

Tim, Cheryl and I met for lunch at Tia Rosa's today to celebrate our birthdays.  Cheryl's was on Jan. 30 and Tim's was on Feb. 3 and mine is coming up on March 3.  Linda could have come, too.  Her birthday is Feb. 18 but she's sort of far away.  And if Patty wasn't at work she could have come, too. Her birthday was Jan. 2.  Wow, we had a lot of birthdays close together growing up.  Five of the 7 kids in our family growing up had their birthdays in a 2 month span.

EMILY

Chad and Meagen and Emily were in town for the weekend.  They came over for dinner and we got to enjoy Emily being busy and cute.

When they first got here, Emi didn't smile.  But within about 2 minutes that all changed!!  She was very entertaining to say the least.  I need more energy to keep up with her, though.  So does Meagen!

TV Appearance

 Right before we left for our quick trip to Idaho, I was outside the Temple in the car waiting for Jim to finish his shift when a local TV van drove up.

Out got a certain newsman and a camera man.  I heard them talking and then walking and then the newsman spotted me in the car.  He walked over and asked me what I thought about a certain "Mormon hate group" (aka Concerned Christians) sending out 1000 DVD's to people who live near where they are building the new Gilbert Temple.  I laughed and said, "Well, I think it's sort of silly" and then went on to say quite a bit more and had a nice little chat with the camera man and newsman.  (The only thing they put on the news was that first statement--made me look "sort of silly".)

I also asked if I could take their picture since I let them take mine and they said I could.   Found out the non-LDS camera man (who looks like a BYU grad) is married to a Mormon.  And that "the newsman" who grew up in SLC but isn't active in the church has a well known grandfather (or maybe it was great-grandfather): Marvin J. Ashton.

Funny weekend, last weekend.  Maybe even W-E-I-R-D.

Emily

I just saw these pictures of Emily and thought they were so cute that I'd post them.  They were taken at Christmas as she opened her presents and hugged the baby cabbage patch doll we got her and ate.  I miss that little cutie.

Idaho in January??

This will shock a couple of you.  Jim and I drove up to Rexburg, Idaho this past weekend.

Yes, I know!!  Why didn't I tell anyone we were going?  Why didn't I call Linda while I was there?  What the heck?

Here's why--it was a short, unplanned trip.  We went up to help Alex with something but didn't decide to go until the last minute.  We left Friday right after the temple and drove to Richfield, UT.  Then we went up to Rexburg on Sat. (after stopping in Provo to pick up a few things Alex had left there) and got to Rexburg at about noon.  We visited with Alex for a couple of hours and then headed back to spend the night in SLC.  Then we drove home on Sunday with a stop in Vegas for Jim to run into the Knife Show (which he had plans to go to the day before but missed) and buy some knife stuff while I ate lunch.  Crazy, I know!!

I didn't call Linda, because I was only there for such a short time and my new phone is hard to hear on, so I'll just call her from home.  Maybe right now!!  We didn't stop to see our lots.  We didn't call Chad Stanger.  We just saw Alex and d-r-o-v-e and talked and believe it or not, we stayed on our diets (except for diet coke!)  I just love it when Jim and I do crazy things.

One funny side-note, I called Cheryl (to return her call to Jim) when we were driving past Happy Valley Rd. but didn't mention that we were on our way to Idaho or that we were driving by Happy Valley Road.  Didn't want her to tell us we were crazy--ya know?

We actually had a pretty good time with each other especially considering how far we drove in such a short time and the weather wasn't the best (especially up in Idaho) and we were tired.  Here's some pictures.