I AM READY........

Well......here we are one day away from Halloween!   Most kids have tried on their costumes until they are almost worn out by Halloween........I thought Maxine had the best idea for people like me.....quiet day.  Patty came for coffee this morning, a nap, Dr Phil and dinner.....Tonight....my favorite Dancing with the STARS........  Kay dropped Ken off at a tracks station closer to her house and I get a call Gram come get me......at our station.  She has been driving him home to my house......THAT WOMAN IS GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF ME.......Ken said he only has two more classes.....Think I'll get drunk to celebrate!!!! 

Panniers had a nice weekend in warm St. George......but both have terrible colds.....

COSTUMES GIVE PEOPLE CONFIDENCE......

Halloween Looms.....two days off!

Wearing a Halloween Costume can boost confidence in adults and especially children......Kids who wore superhero costumes felt more confident....and even physically stronger....than those who did not.  When everyone is in costume  it boosts bonds with others.......being like everyone else helps everyone fit in and not feel different......And especially for children....wearing a costume gives kids a chance to imagine being someone else......Someone they admire and look-up to.....Perhaps that is why Halloween has become such a big holiday.

Sweet neighbors just called to see if I wanted to go to the ward and have have soup and bread-sticks and Trunk or Treat for the Ward Halloween party.......Sorry just had a Marie Calendars TV dinner and thinking about getting into my PJs.......Greatest neighbors ever.......

NEVER STOP LEARNING.......

I am always looking for ways to learn something new......new words, new receipts etc......Today I ran across the word.....ASHWAGANDHA......Taking 400mg of this Ayurvedic herb daily soothes anxiety for 90% of women in 30 days!....Ashwagandha's actve ingredients tamp down stress hormone production......Bonus:  Ashwagandha is also a powerful anti-inflammatory that can ease chronic joint pain in as little as two weeks!  Who would have known?  RHODIOLA....was another word being tossed around and it's benefits of stress calming and losing weight......AND  I am already taking Probiotics for they are brain-calming neurotransmitters.........and are also anti-inflammatorys that can ease chronic joint pain in as little as two weeks!

Don't know if knowing all this stuff makes me any smarter......but kinda inter sting.....even though you can't pronounce or spell them.......

NO ALARM.......

LOVE THE WEEKENDS......DO NOT HAVE TO SET AN ALARM........

Ken went to Vernal yesterday so four days of sleeping in.......eating potato chips for dinner and if I hang around the house......no bra or lipstick!  The man that just came to spray for bugs around the house didn't even notice I was still in PJ's at noon.  I was going to hit a movie today......but looks like that will have to happen tomorrow......or not.  Not moving to fast today.

I think the following message is one that fits so many cases....like X's, bad friends or children that say you were a bad Mom...........

"I DRINK COFFEE SO I WON'T BITE YOUR HEAD OFF EVERY MORNING AND I STAY MEDICATED SO I WON'T KILL YOU.....SOOO DON'T SAY I NEVER DID NOTHING FOR YOU"......

BEEN THINKING.......

CHRISTMAS  is less than two months away and I have my Christmas shopping done so I am trying to come up with something fun and different for the program......The year I moved I saved all the treasures I had to get rid of and wrapped them for the kids to draw and pick something?????  They probably put them in the trash or DI the next day.......This year maybe I will hit the DI....Savers.....Good Will ETC. and find and wrap everyone something to grab from the grab bag.....maybe throw in a few gift cards.....I would like to call it "THE SHIT BAG"?......but that would not go well with most the family!  I guess I just love to shop.\

S is for........Stuff you

                                                                 H is for.........hope you need
                                                                 I is for.........in
                                                                 T is for.........time?????  You know a package of lite bulbs, a roll of tape, a candle, maybe soxs, a hat or gloves, a book, a can of beans, some toilet paper and then a few gift cards for a movie or McDonalds ........My family needs to think about 'GRATITUDE" at Christmas and be glad we can just be together with LOVE,,   ......Not the presents I give them!   They will have to tell me how thankful they are to get a roll of TP or a Can of Beans or Soup?                                                             IT IS........ WHAT IT IS!!!!

SOMETIMES......

HALLOWEEN.....Just around the corner?   The stores have been displaying stuff since the 4th of July........I swear.....I have an orange T-SHIRT I saved from last year that says....."THIS IS MY AWESOME GRANDMA COSTUME"........I think that will do again this year.  Last year I had one girl......so guess I will be eating all those neat candy bars again this year,,,,,unless a few more people come by.

Planning a quiet weekend....Relief Society Teachers this morning.......Darren and Ken left about 1:30 for Vernal and a Dirt Bike and Razors weekend with the boys......Panniers are heading for St. George......so I am on my own for a few days......nice thing....NO COOKING!  We are having nice Fall weather....which I love.

Pam and I ventured out for Breakfast yesterday as Rob  went fishing in Idaho.....AGAIN!.......She needs to get out and I am use to loading a knee scooter in  and out......after a month with Les.   Then a little shopping at "Home Goods".......she is half way through her six weeks of not using her foot.  Can't believe  how she has managed the front steps with her step ladder to help.....bag the crutches........

NEED A BABY SITTER FOR THE BABY SITTER......?

             As I was growing up I did a lot of baby sitting......seems one of  the rules was.....you stayed awake and kept an eye on the kids........
            Well Tiff went and played Host for the Tail Gaters at the U because Pam is laid up with foot surgery and Rob went Deer Hunting with Scott and it was their turn to do it......and Gram got Aaron........ I volunteered to help out and took lunch over........We settled in to watch a movie after lunch and the next thing I knew......these two were asleep!!!  Soooo I baby sat both these sleeping people and watched Tom Cruise in "The Mummy."....Very quiet two hours.

BE SOMEONES RAINBOW......

TODAY.......I was loved......

Sundays are Sundays usually.....BUT today was different...!  I truly felt God's love for me and the people in that church.......WHY or HOW?   I don't know......I can' t figure out how God mixes all these people up and puts them in the places they need to be.........TO begin with Greg is a darling boy......a twin......who was raised by his grandparents because his Mother was a.........?.Grandpa was bishop but the boys had little interest in the church till Greg adopted Sherrie and Darren as his family..... and because of their influence  he went on a Tongan Mission in SFO.....Greg is half Spanish.....He loves SHERRIE like a Mother and she sent care packages etc as Mother's do his two years.....Well Greg came home last March but left a Sister Missionary ......whose father is Tongan......she came home this week.....and her mother is white.   Leslie FOLAU is a darling girl and I hope it works out for she and Greg because i love her Mother and Dad......They just swept Darrren, I, Ken, Brayden and Libby into their fold with so much love and support of Gregory............They all love Greg.  The frosting on the cake for the day.......is they live next door to this darling family I helped (kinda) raise....Mike Moreno and his wife Errin and kids.   Mike was one of the darling boys that hung around with the twins......Mike, Tom and Mark and a few dozen others.......I was friends with his mother,  I was Mrs P. to these darling boys and they would do anything for us.  It was wonderful seeing Mike and his family of four boys and one girl......and the hugs from all.  There were many Tongans supporting the Folau family there......and one cute little lady passing out fresh lays to  all participating......Such a loving group of people I have not felt......I am ready to just move in with some of them......It isn't that my family doesn't love me......it was fun going to church with Darren and the boys and having them for lunch.....Sherrie had to drive back to Vernal this morning for a one o"clock church meeting and missed all the fun.....but such a loving caring group I have not felt.

THIS WAS DEFINITELY A RAINBOW DAY FOR ME.......

HE MAKES ME SMILE.....

  

This is my Alex......with his latest....Ashley

I met her the night after Brayden's wedding and she is a sweet girl.....she has graduated from college and wants to be  nurse.   I am keeping my fingers crossed this works out for him. She has 3 little brothers.....two of which are twins......so they could easily have twins!  I remember JO saying what charisma Alex had from the time he was a baby......it's just him!.....and he has been so unhappy in his love life.........but God is working it out I am sure.   He doesn't put people you want in your life......he puts the people you need.........SO TIME WILL TELL?

       

SIRI......

Will I ever get use to people I can't see talking to me?????Now this Siri person.....I have to make up in my mind how Siri looks......She is tall and skinny with red hair and funny glasses and a pointy nose....and very large jewlery.....kinda scary so you believe everything she tells you!  Where is the nearest Pizza Place?  Where is the cheapest gas?  She never answers when I ask her "Who is the fairest of them all"?  When Leslie and I went on a trip I bought this thingy called a GPS that told us how to get where we wanted to go and a lady.......we named her Mertle...... kept talking to us and I swear that invisible person drove us all the country and we never saw her to blame her for all the wrong places we ended up.

AND ......whose this wierdo that whispers in my ear now then......'Your battery is low?".....how does  he know if my battery is low or not......maybe I just need a cup of coffee......and he is always right.....which bugs me more.....I think he is short with a beard and creepy hands and wears shoe lifts!......not the kind of guy you want.......CHECKING YOUR BATTERY.

And then there is this "THE CLOUD" thing, they talk about all the time......My kids tell me everything I do goes to "the cloud".....but I said, "no way" was RUSSIA getting any of my stuff if my cloud floated over there.....so to make me happy they said they would rent a locker at Costco for me to store all my stuff I write in.....I trust Costco.....I don't trust clouds.

I am too old for Fairy Tales and invisible people that will talk to you......

MADE HER DAY.......

Now tell me......would getting a box with this in it....... excite you?????

Well, according to my daughter who just had foot surgery a couple of weeks ago and was trying to make it on "SPIT BATHS"....these last two weeks, felt like Christmas had come early at her house when Aunt Leslie sent her this.....Les just had foot surgery.....AGAIN....and had an extra one.  I know there really isn't anything like a good hot shower to start your day......Pam said today was wonderful.

Pam still has about four weeks of no walking on her foot.....is pretty good on the scooter....but no so much on crutches?

Wouldn't it be nice if a plastic bag could make our day?

THE ARTIST......

Can't believe my talented little sister.........SHE EVEN STAYED IN THE LINES.......Can't wait to see her next project!......Grandma Moses started painting about 90.....so maybe the next Grandma Leslie . I love the coloring books that are all the rage......no right or wrong to them.....just stay in the lines.....I think we should all encourage the child within us and I will never forget the thrill of A NEW BOX OF CRAYONS AND THE BIG RED CHIEF TABLET we got the first of each school year!!

NOTE TO SELF;

"None of us are getting out of here alive.......so please stop treating yourself like an after thought.  Eat delicious food.......Walk in the sunshine.....Jump in the Ocean.....Say the truth that you are carrying in your heart like hidden treasure......Be silly....Be kind.....Be weird.....There is no time for anything else.".......and paint fun pictures.

EARLY HALLOWEEN LES........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTTIE.........

My youngest grandchild turned 16 yesterday........Such a great guy.....loves football, LaCross and water and snow sports......just an all round boy.......don't know how he feels about girls.....but if he hasn't discovered them yet....he will soon!  Now that he will be driving.....I hope he drives over to see Ken and I......I have missed him these past two years.

Another weekend .......Ken is off to the cabin in Park City with his family.  Tomorrow I am going to help Pam tend AARON........while Tiff and Will host the tail

-gate party that Pam and Rob are in charge of for this game.......Rob went deer hunting and Pam is stuck on her scooter after her toe surgery.......I hope the weather clears up.

HOPE YOU HAVE LOTS MORE HAPPY BIRTHDAYS SCOTTIE.........

NEXT DOOR.........

OH HOW I WISH I KNEW WHERE MAXINE LIVED SO I COULD MOVE IN NEXT DOOR!......

I don't think you would ever have a dull moment.......I thought about a movie today.....it is five dollar day......but that didn't last long.....My favorite neighbor wants me to go to the Relief Society Dinner tonight......early Christmas.....we are to bring crayons, coloring  books etc. to contribute to charity.......so I had to make a trip to the Dollar Store.  YES, I like Relief Society and they do a lot of good things and have some nice ladies......I am trying to fit in with,.....BUT?

Also ran by WalMart......why not?  As I was checking out........ this cute boy grabs me and says to the lady he is with......"this is my grandma".....It was Greggory and he has been adopted by Sherrie's family and he was in town as his "missionary girl friend".......... was coming home tomorrow and he was with her mother.....They were in the Tongan Mission in LA.....May be going to another wedding one of these days.

Didn't go check on Pam as she and Rob were getting haircuts and he was taking her to work.....so will stop by tomorrow for another lesson on her crutches!!!!!!!

It is a beautiful Fall day.....no one wearing coats and forecast to last all week......YES!

IN A ROUTE......

OK....WHO IS NEXT.....AND WHERE?

THE WORLD IS BURNING UP, FLOODING AWAY, TORN APART BY TORNADO'S AND HURRICANES AND EARTHQUAKES.......I HAVE DECIDED IT IS TIME TO PACK A GET-A-WAY BAG AND STORE IT IN THE CAR WITH LOTS OF WATER.........AND KEEP THE CAR FULL OF GAS TO BE READY FOR OUR PART OF THE COUNTRY......THEY TELL US WE ARE DUE AN EARTH QUAKE ......NOT IF......BUT WHEN!!!!!!  I GUESS AS THE SCRIPTURES TELL US ......."WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS"!

SPENT THE AFTERNOON WITH PAM.....BEING LAID UP WITH ONE FOOT ISN'T FUN....BEEN THROUGH IT WITH LES.......WE PRACTICED WITH THE CRUTCHES......KINDA SCAREY GETTING DOWN STAIRS TO THE CAR!  BUT WILL KEEP AT IT......IT WILL BE TWO WEEKS WEDNESDAY AND SHE HAS FOUR MORE WEEKS TO GO...NO FUN!......YES MOTHER'S DO COME IN HANDY NOW AND THEN?

PONDERING........

AM I the only person who sits and ponders things?

They keep telling us to read the scriptures......and ponder over them.......well my attention span isn't what it use to be and before I know it I am wondering what went wrong in my life???   I thought I was doing what a good wife and mother should be doing......but somewhere along the way I guess I went wrong........TWO bad things happened that I never expected.......My husband walked out after 30 years of marriage.......AND now one of my three daughters hates her sisters and I......and I guess it is my fault.......ONLY I don't know why.  I guess weekends are bad alone as it does give you too much time to ponder your life and wonder what comes next?  Don and I have made peace after 31 years of divorce..... I just wish Karrie and her kids could love ALL of us again......LOVE really is the only thing that matters in a family or with friends.

BIRTHDAY TIME......

Birthdays aren't so bad when you have so many people who love you and help make them special.......Brayden is the cute black monkey with his wife Libby.....Then my darling Alex with his cute new girl friend....Ashland.......Then our adopted son Greg and Ken......Sorry Dar.....that hat with all the white hair standing up in back......does make you look 51!!!!!  Your wife looks very young.......Keep having those fun family parties.....you have a great family.

"WHEN FAMILY/FRIENDS GO THROUGH LIFE NOT SPEAKING TO ONE ANOTHER THE  TIME WILL COME WHEN YOU REGRET IT........IT IS CALLED...."THE FUNERAL!"

DARREN HAS A BIRTHDAY......

Yep.......Darren is 51 today........

Sounds like his birthday party was a big success.......We gave him a Taco Machine like they have in the 7-11 stores......all he wanted!!!!  Sherrie had a Mad Hatters Tea Party and the hats were fun.  Sorry I missed it.......he is flying Ken back tonight to start a new week.....get to say Happy Birthday to him.

Think about this:......."THE SECRET TO HAPPINESS IS LETTING EVERY SITUATION BE WHAT IT IS.....INSTEAD OF WHAT YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE?"

KEEPING UP WITH THE NEIGHBORS.......

I hate to wake up stiff and sore all over and know one of the best cures is.......EXERCISE!!

All three of my favorite neighbors go to the gym to swim or exercise several days  week......."I MADE A COUPLE OF LAPS AROUND THE GYM FRIDAY......MAYBE NEXT TIME I'LL ACTUALLY PARK MY CAR AND GO IN!"........NO I WON'T......by the time I get into my leotards class will be over........ so I will just live with these extra rolls around my waist!  I hate the extra pounds and I know my knees and feet do.....but aren't grandmas round?  Instead of constantly belating my bad parts......I am just thankful I can still get around, see, feel, smell etc........my sweet Mother would have loved to lived to 85 instead of 58 with cancer.

I TRULY REALIZE I AM AS OLD TODAY AS I HAVE EVER BEEN .......AND......AS YOUNG AS I WILL EVER BE.!

DAYS AND WEEKS......JUST PASS.......

It is not that my life stops en between Blogs........It is just that it moves so fast I am always a day or so behind.......Had Ken here all last week end so we cleaned, put the patio furniture away for the winter and went shopping and to Church......kinda dull......Monday took lunch to Pam who is laid up with a foot operation for 6 weeks......Tuesday we both had a foot-doctor appointments......Wednesday lunch again over to Pam.......and bought  a pair of crutches for her to use.....I want them back!   Thursday Pam and Rob went to Idaho and Ken went to Vernal.......and  I had lunch and Mexican Train with my group.......Friday coffee at Patty's, the bank and Walmart...... just ready to head home and got a call from Pam........in Idaho......her phone told her some packages had been delivered and were on her front porch........Mom......would you go put them in the house?????Well my key would not work so I got her lawn man who came to get his check.......under the front door mat......to carry them to the garage for me.....very heavy.....did very little house work, laundry, yard etc all week.....SOOOO today made a new list.  Went and got gas at Costco..... thought it was suppose to storm this week-end, but so far very nice,.......then to Home Depot for a cover for my air-conditioner......cleaned up dog poo and made soup out of left-overs for my week-end meals.....took food to my neighbor Hhon and returned her plate.......lasts week she had brought Ken and I Pot Stickers,.......pretzels and meat pies......What a neighbor!

Looking back.....it seems I was busy, but doesn't look like I got much done around here....OH WELL....MANANA!

GET OVER IT.......

I would like to tell this to each person that was at that Concert in Las Vegas last week .........as they try to understand what they just went through.....We have been there done that in one form or another in our lives....We push through the pain, grief and depression looking for the sun to shine again!

     When your heart is breaking for someone who is BROKEN......but your words can't reach them and your love can't save them......ask the angels to go where you cannot.......to whisper in their heart what their ears can't hear.......We will not give up on you......I am beginning to learn we all are tested and tested and tested......to find out how strong our faith is,  We must hang in there and keep trying.

"YES, our lives are a recovery that never ends."

BLAME IT ON US SENIORS.......

OK....OK!   So this isn't really appropriate for a 85 year old grandma to put out there....BUT.we old folks seem to be blamed for everything else wrong in the world.....Sooooo?
Now days the senior among us seem to be constantly criticized for every conceivable deficiency of the modern world, real or imaginary.......We take responsibility for all we have done.......BUT......
Upon reflection, it should be pointed out that we are NOT.....the ones who took the melody out of music.....The romance from love.....The responsibility from parenthood.....The refinement from language.....The achievement from ambition.....The patience from interaction....The lessons from history........The nativity from Christianity......and the Patriotism from the Country!!!  We are certainly in a different world than the one I grew up in!
            "DON'T MAKE EXCUSES FOR NASTY PEOPLE.....YOU CAN NOT PUT A FLOWER IN AN ASSHOLE AND CALL IT A VASE!"

SUNDAY.....SUNDAY

My how Sundays have changed as I have gone through my life........Sundays were family days with a good fried chicken dinner and Moms red -devel's food cake with that special frosting!!!!  No one went to church much......sometimes it was dinner with grandma and the aunts and uncles or off on a picnic with daddy and Mom while he fished.........while us kids explored and Mom looked for her favorite thing.......drift-wood.

DON 'T remember Church being too important through my two years at BYU.......even though it was a big church school......I don't remember EVER going to church???  My year in Denver with the  Kellers certainly wasn't churchy and my years of flying as a Stewardess......I never went to church.......Got married and had Pam and she and I went to church some.....I was a primary teacher and  Relief Society teacher until the twins came along......THEN....no church until they could go to their class......and that was not often.   After Don walked out I was very angry at God and the Church and went some with the twins but for 27 years .......not much.....NOW!  I have gotten back into the church...tithing etc.....because my grandson Ken is on a service mission on Temple Square and I am to set an example and lead and guide him.....SOOOO no more movies, eating out or shopping on Sunday....just Church, a nap and dinner..........Today was Fast Sunday and Testimony Sunday and I hate to sit through all those crying sessions of 'POOR ME".....and how I love the Lord!  We all do....but isn't it a personal thing that we all endure in privacy?  How can you stand up in front of two or three hundred people and cry for 20 minutes?????  Oh well, God I am trying........

WHAT IS YOUR LEGACY?

OLD.......... but what will be your Legacy?  What will I be remembered for?......We have no idea what our Legacy will be after we are gone.......but our legacy is left with every life we touch......It is every person we called friend or neighbor, mother, sister or daughter.......Do people walk away after they meet you.....having kind words or feelings about you......or hope they never see you again?  When the time comes and you are gone......what have you left your children?  What have you left your family and friends.......and neighbors?  Everything you do that leaves a hand-print or a heart-print is your legacy.......And there's a chance to make a difference daily, building a legacy as a giver of and supporter of others.

I will never forget the words of Darren's dad....BUD......When he told me once....."Betty, everybody likes you".......that meant so much to me!.......because I have tried to be that kind of person!

We all know what kind of Legacy the shooter in Las Vegas last week is leaving........

BEFORE YOU JUDGE SOMEONE.......WALK A HUNDRED MILES IN THEIR SHOES......

AFTER THAT WHO CARES?

THEY ARE A HUNDRED MILES AWAY AND YOU HAVE THEIR SHOES!!!!!

GOOD NEWS ....BAD NEWS

FIRST THE GOOD NEWS,,,,,,We pulled off the surprise of the year.....a 60th Birthday Party for Pam and Rob......I still don't know how I did it?  It's so hard to keep a secret.

NOW THE BAD NEWS.......Last night a kook shot and killed over 50 people and sent over 500 to the hospitals hurt at a Las Vegas Concert......that is all that is on the news today......the guy was a 60 something year old from Mesquite......they are still trying to figure out why ......down there.......The innocent people were at a  music festival of western singers.......the gunner in his room in the hotel across the street hotel.  The Country is in shock as they try to figure out what is going on in our world.

I feel so sorry for those families who lost loved ones......You fall, you rise.....Sometimes you must hurt in order to know......all in order to grow.  Lose in order to gain.....because most of life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.......

Sherrie ran by for a few minutes after she dropped Ken off and Patty Beltz came for coffee.  I did get my bills made out.....mailed .......and had a flu shot!

I AM SIMPLY THANKFUL THAT GOD WOKE ME UP AND BLESSED ME WITH THE PRECIOUS GIFT OF LIFE TODAY.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICCI......

       MY NICCI TURNS 32....... WITH OLLIE.
Such a fun surprise to have Nicci fly in  from Seattle this weekend for her parents 60th surprise Birthday Party.....which the three kids put on.  Nicci has been in Seattle for four months working for Amazon and Ollie has been back east with Bill's folks.....Bill picked him up this weekend and they will soon all be one family again......in Seattle.....with Bill working for Microsoft.  Love this little girl and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIC...

BE HAPPY.......

THE above is just a small example........

We always compare our worst to someone's best.......But God made us all different......He didn't make one kind of flower in one color......He made many different kinds of flowers in many colors.......That is what we are as women, we need to just appreciate what God gave is and be happy.  Whatever our color, size or beauty.  I think Happiness is a choice ......and we have to be happy with ourselves first. I hope I can appreciate my health.......even though it is not perfect.....I appreciate my home and being able to help Ken through his mission, because I am not alone....I have enough to eat and enough money to pay my bills......I have wonderful neighbors and friends and a supportive family near by......I fully understand that if you wait for someone to make you happy ........you may end up sad!!!

Don't know where September went and now October and Fall are upon us......Nicci, Darren and Scott have birthdays........It is time for my Flu Shot this week, bridge on Wednesday and so it goes......and I am happy for everyday God gives me.

THE BEST REVENGE IS ALWAYS TO JUST HAPPILY MOVE ON AND LET KARMA (AND GOD)......DO THE REST.

SIXETY????

      I AM SO PROUD OF ME.......I CAN KEEP A SECRET .  My Pam and Rob turned 60 this year....Rob in June, Pam in August.  Soooo.....their 3 kids decided to give them a surprise party for the "BIG 60"......Nicci flew in from Seattle Friday and stayed with Rob's sister where the party was set for.  Tiff had to invent an excuse to keep them in town by asking them to tend Aaron etc.....Will was on board to help where ever needed.......They had a taco bar and decorated the house cute.....Pam and Aaron came over to visit me that afternoon and told me she was going to Julie's for a family thing because Mark's mother had just died.......she never dreamed I was dying to ask her......"can you and Rob pick me up to go to your surprise party at Julies tonight?"........BUT I didn't!  They were very surprised to see a house full of people and especially their sweet Nicci.  Bill,...... Nicci's husband...... had gone to pick up their dog from his folks and will be in Seattle to start his new job the 9th.  Sherrie and Karrie were not there, but Don and the KMart Lady and I were......plus their three kids and grandchild.......and lots of good friends.   The kids pulled it off and they seemed thrilled.  This is their 4th of July Party picture.....no pictures from last night have popped up yet.

OCTOBER.......

LDS CONFERENCE WEEKEND......LOVE THIS MAN.

Can't believe Conference weekend is here already.....did it rain?  Of course.....it always storms on conference weekend in October and April.   I listened .....intently.....to the words of the men who direct the church.......and a peace came over me about Karrie......If she is happy....".let her be"....it is me who has to become strong and support her decision.   Look deep and past things.....so many trials in her young life....beginning about 16 when she found her father was having an affair......and kept it a secret for so long......being an identical twin and the one who always was not the cheer-leader, who helped her twin with her scrapbook business.....who helped her twin with her purse business......who tried five years to have a third baby when her twin had one with no problem..... throw in and affair and whose husband did not have a house boat, airplane, cabin in Park City and a big house???? who knows what feelings she had.......so I will not judge her if she feels her life is better not dealing with any of her family.....I will continue to pray every night that she will be happy and health and move on with my life.

THIS IS THE MESSAGE I TOOK AWAY FROM THIS CONFERENCE.