Well, well, well!! I have a few updates since 2019. Let's start with the Pandemic!! Yuck!! That ruined 2020. But here we are in 2021 and a lot has happened since last year. Chad and Meagen decided to move back to the valley. So they bought a house in the old stomping grounds in Mesa. We miss them!! We sold our house at 1234 W. McLaws June 1, 2020 and started building a new house at 1314 W. McLaws. We moved in last October 16, 2020. We are getting the landscaping done right now. Slow process but it's getting there!! We bought a duplex in Snowflake and Alex and Tom are living there, so we are finally, once again, empty nesters.

Sam and Gideon came from Austin last week to visit. That was so nice. It had been a year and a half since we saw them. And Chad and Meagen and Emily and Riley came this week to visit. That was nice because we only go to the valley every month or so and sometimes we hardly get to see them when we go. So, nice visits!! 

Chad, Meagen, and Emily 

                                                                 Jim, Gideon, Me, and Sam

                                                                    The new house.

                                                                Emily, Jim, Me, and Riley

                                                                        Gideon & Pancho

                                                            New house and shop to the right

                                                                        The duplex

Snow in Snowflake

I can't believe I haven't posted anything on here since 2012! It's 2019 starting today!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!! So much has happened since I last wrote. One thing didn't change! I'm still driving my Juke!! Yes, I love that little car.

We moved to Snowflake, AZ. in May 2016. Since we got snow last night, I decided to take a picture of the house this morning! (It hasn't snowed much since we've been here but last night it snowed a lot.) Fun!!




You'd think with a name like "Snowflake," we'd always get lots of snow. But, it's named Snowflake for Erastus Snow (an early apostle in the Church of Jesus Christs of Latter-day Saints) and William Jordan Flake (an early pioneer in Arizona). 😊⛄❄❅❆

WHERE DID 2012 GO?

This is something new for me in 2012. I started (and love) driving my Nissan JUKE.

We also got a new house in Lakeside--our cabin. So excited about that summertime retreat. We've never had a cabin before so this is a new adventure.  We'll see how we like it. But so far, we love it.

And Alex is living at home with us and wanted a pet.  So we also got a new cat. We haven't had a cat for many years and although it belongs to Alex, we are enjoying his cute antics. He's a real character.

Well, a lot more has happened in 2012 that I am not remembering right now. But these are three new things that we added to our lives this year. Hope to be a little better about writing in 2013 but we'll see what happens. I seriously don't know how 2012 could have come and gone so quickly. It just speeds by the older we get.

HAWAI'I TRIP JANUARY 2012

Last July, Jim and I planned a trip to Oahu on January 4, 2012 and return home on January 10.  We had a wonderful Christmas and then the Friday before we were to leave for Hawaii, we both starting coming down with colds--bad colds!!  I was sick, Sat., Sun., Mon. and on Tues. morning, we decided it would probably be best to NOT go on our trip the next day.  But as the day went on...I started to feel better.  Jim felt better, too and said:  "I just watched "Hawaii 5-0" and I really want to go to Hawaii, so if you feel good enough, let's go tomorrow."  I did and we went!  Not a much better place to go to finish getting well than Hawaii.   We both felt good the whole time we were gone and we both had a great time.  So glad we didn't cancel!!!  We stayed at the Hawaiian Hilton Village in the Hilton Grand Waikikian Suites.  They were condo's and we were on the 29th floor.  It was so nice and comfortable.  Loved it!!

January 5, was Jim's birthday.  We went up to go to the Temple and to the Polynesian Cultural Center.  The temple was closed for its 2 wk. maintenance, so we did some other things on the North Shore and stopped on the way back at the Dole Pineapple Plantation.  Yummy Pineapple ice cream there!!!!  We also ate at a little shop and they gave us free cake even though they didn't know it was Jim's birthday.

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