Happy Birthday Dad!

Today my Dad would be 82. Words cannot express how grateful I am for all that he taught me and provided for me throughout my life. Below are pictures taken at his funeral in November. We love you and miss you Dad, Grandpa, and Great Grandpa!

A little late . . . .

We hosted the High Council Christmas dinner this year and Laura asked me to post pictures. It's a little late, but here they are. (Just the table settings, not the people.) Thanks for your help with the mantle Laura!

Zoom, Zoom

The pinewood derby is tonight. As mentioned in the last post, I am now the second counselor in Primary. One of my responsibilities is to support Cub Scouts. We combine with two other wards and the refreshments are rotated among the Primary counselors. I just happened to get the pinewood derby pack meeting. Enter Martha Stewart. I remembered the car shaped cookie cutter I have from the grandkids playdough stuff, so I spent most of Monday baking and decorating cookies. Chris even got into the action. For FHE we frosted cookies and he added the racing stripes. Brownies separate the lanes and mint patties hold up the checkered flags. I emailed the cub master to let her know I would bring the table cloth for the refreshment table. She was a little surprised as they normally just put refreshements behind the kitchen roll-up window and keep it down until after the meeting. I guess food makes it hard for little boys to concentrate. After I explained that I got carried away with the theme, she consented to having a refreshment table in the cultural hall. What can I say, I'm NEW! Oh,did I mention that the blue cars turn your mouth blue, and. . . two of the Dads are dentists. They are going to love me!

Change is Inevitable

After serving in the Young Women presidency for the past four years, I have been given a new calling. I will really miss these sweet young women. Some of them have graduated and moved on to college or a mission. Others I have watched come in as new Beehives and they are now Laurels, driving cars and getting ready to move on.

These pictures were taken during our temple trip in December. I don't love being in pictures, but I couldn't get them to be in a picture unless I joined them. Below is sweet Alyssa who was one of my Beehives and is now a gorgious Laurel.

My new calling is second counselor in the Primary. Even though I'm sad to leave the young women, I'm really excited about serving in Primary. I have never been in Ward Primary, so this will be new and fun.

A Promise Is A Promise

I promised I would blog more, so here I go:

Chris and I with our newest grandchild, Grant. We welcomed three new grandchildren to our family this past year.
I love the name Grandma. There is nothing old about it. With each new addition, the title just gets better.










Ethan striking the "fire power" pose. The grandkids love to play in the court. This was their latest discovery - a dead tree stump.

















Jorgan and Alison, "the real thing". We had fun going to China town with Alison and Jorgan on New Years Day. They found some great buys on Grant Avenue. We had our traditional holiday dinner at Far East Cafe in our own private booth and then we finished the day at Ghiradelli Square with hot fudge sundaes.

One Year Later

Yes, it has been a long time since I posted. Here is a picture of me with my two adroable grandaughters, Ella and Lauren, on Thanksgiving day, 2009. Baby Eden is in the background. As you can see, my last post was with these same two cuties at Christmas 2008. A lot has happened in the past year. I'll keep you posted. No, really, I promise, I'll post.