Thanksgiving Race

Here are some of our Thanksgiving runners. It has been a tradition for us for several years. We took home several ribbons and won some Turkeys. Most notable was our win for having the most family members competing. It is a good start before the feast. Thanks Michelle for the pictures

ute game

Now I got it.

This is Cole excitedly celebrating our big win. Yahoo!!
He is a 4th generation Ute Fan.

Addendum

I didn't know the picture would be so teen you can't tell who anyone is, but I discovered if you put the hand on it and click it gets bigger. Always open to "how to's"

I was tagged again

On this tag, I was supposed to open MY PICTURES on my computer and go to my 3rd folder and then open the 3rd picture in that folder. This goes back to January 2007 But here are some of my darlings in Hawaii. Aren't they just awesome? We had so fun together. Too bad the tour doesn't play there this year, so we probably will never be there altogether again. First, my kids grew so fast, and now my grandchildren are growing so fast. I misunderstood the directions at first and was going to put my 3rd picture from my blog, but Carrie talked me thru it and this is what I got. Now it is my turn to tag Shauna for change. Am I confusing anyone?

I was Tagged

6 Things about me:
1. I have the best hubby in the world.
2. I hate to drive. The last time I finally got up the courage to drive, it was just to the church. Halfway out of the driveway I heard a crunch. I just ripped the bumper off of my son's van. If I can't get out of the driveway, I won't drive a way at all.
3. I have brain fog which is difficult most times but it is especially difficult when I am trying to remember things about myself.
4. I miss my Hawaii and Texas families something awful.
5. I love to go to bed and I love a nice warm soak in the tub.
6. I have Sjogrens, but it doesn't have me!!

I can't tag 6 people cuz I just have 6 people who have blogs and Shauna chose them.But I will tag Karen and mention that if she doesn't have a blog, she can just tell us her 6 things on the comments. And Ilook forward to reading the other tags of Shauna, cuz they would be my tags too.

My October Pumpkins

These are three of my Thirty Three. We have Spencer whose birthday is October 27th. He lives in Hawaii and loves to play cards and go to preschool. He is fearless on the beach and super on the soccer field. Then we have our princess Rachel born October 9th. She is a very kind and obedient and beautiful girl. Our family has always appreciated her heaven like qualities and felt she is very special and sometimes worry that she is to good for this earth.She is very good at gymnastics. Next we have our Jenessa born October 25th. She is a brilliant student who is putting herself thru college with hard work both in school and with jobs to earn money and scholarships. This semester she is studying in Hawaii which I might add she is financing all herself. She is always happy and appreciative of anything that is done for her and has excelled in all areas of her life. These three October blessings light up our lives and we feel very blessed to have them as part of our family. I haven't forgotten our Sweet oldest son born on October 2nd. I just couldn't figure out how to put his picture on here. He is a wonderful son, father and husband. I can call him anytime night or day and he comes. I honestly can't ever remember him being disobedient or talking back to me. When I read on the blogs of those struggling with cancer and other trials, I feel so blessed to be able to post these October Pumpkins

#33

Here is hubby and # 33 who was born at 3:33 pm, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. His name is ADam Bruce and he weighed 9 lb 9 oz. We figure #33 @ 3:33 is worth 5 threes at the next tourney. Number 33 is just as unique and special as # 1.

Blue ribbon in Hawaii

Aloha everyone!
From our Hawaii family:
Allison was really excited to tell us that she has been working on sewing a quilt last month with her friend and a lady from our church, Auntie Evelyn who is a master quilter. Anyway, she sewed it all herself and entered it into the Kaua'i County Fair this weekend. She was in the Junior Division ages 17&under and she won the blue ribbon 1st place prize! Here is a picture of her quilt that she wanted to pass along to you guys.
Now I am passing it along to my blogging friends. I am so proud of her. I love to see talents of past generations passed on to our little ones. (and isn't my grand daughter amazing??)

goofy gone somewhere granny

"S" finally got her pool in so we had a pool party to celebrate and to also bid "C, and C, and M " bon voyage. We had a family swimming olympics with all of the kids and adults participating. I took tons of pictures, but alas my picture thingy was still in my computer from my last post--duh--so I have no pictures. My brain will definetely not take the gold, but my swimming family gave it thier all. I am so pleased to see what good swimmers my grandchildren are becoming. Next time when my camera says "no memory" I will not start deleting pictures that I love to make room for a camera without a card thingy.

Jr. Golf

Here is a picture of my sweet smart "Lindsay Lou". She is playing wonderful Jr. Golf and last week took 3rd and this week she took 2nd. in the latest Jr. Golf Tourney. It is so fun to go and watch her and our boys.

surprise visitor

Andrea and Jr and thier family spent the weekend and took this picture from our yard while they were there. It is all right if the deer eat our gladiolas ,but they better stay away from our yummy veggies.

I've been tagged

I've been tagged and didn't know what it meant for a while-but Shauna helped me.
3 Joys
1. Life
2. The Gospel
3. Hubby and our 8 and their 8 and all of our soon to be 33 grandchildren

3 Fears
1. Losing a child
2. Not being able to handle the pain and fatigue of "Showgirls" syndrom
3. Not living up to my potential and becoming all that I should be

3 Goals
1. go on a mission
2. Get my office organized
3. refresh my Francais

3 Obsessions:
1. I am addicted to working out even tho it can be tuff with "showgirls"
2. Knitting
3. Reading

3 Surprises:
1. I turn 29 every birthday
2. I really love a clean house, and I hate clutter-- I mean really love it but I don't know how to do it.
3. I don't know how to play golf.

I tag Carrie as all of the others I know who blog have already been tagged. And Karen who reads these but doesn't blog, and anyone who wants to.

Surprise trip to Hawaii!!!

 

 

 

 

A couple of weeks ago we received our weekly call from our Hawaii family telling us of W's call to the bishopric. We were able to fly over to ordain him a High Priest and then spend a few days with our loved ones.

Baston

We spent the week in Boston for the Bank of America Tooney and Celtics championship week. We were there the night they won! Here's hubby with the owner of the Celtics and The Championship trophy, YES, THE Championship trophy!

Youth Conference

Bruce and I have been serving as co-chairmen of our Youth Conference. The youth decided they wanted to do an extreme makeover. We found a very needy house and after much preparation, we went to work. We worked on the house for 4 days and then spent a day at the lake and a night at the Eden Cabin and had a beautiful testimony meeting. Some comments that we learned about the people whose house was rebuilt: They had been struggling so much financially that they decided not to pay tithing a couple of years ago. This year the decided to get back on track and told their Bishop they wanted to pay 12% to catch up. It was so neat to be the hands that helped open the windows of heaven. A comment overheard from a granddaughter of the family was "Grandma, does this mean we can have sleepovers now?" And as we were getting into the air conditioning we had an electrician take a look and said,"This panel is fried!" He couldn't believe the house hand not burned down. If it had of they wouldn't have been able to get out as they are somewhat handicapped. The real bummer is that my SJogrens chose this time to flare up and I had bronchitis and Bruce would not let me go after the first day. I was devasted. But then how can I be when such a wonderful thing happened here.

Des Moines

Last week we were in Des Moines for another tournament. On Thursday, they took the wives to Child Serve which is a place where they take care of disabled children. They had us go to 4 stations, rotating every 15 minutes or so. The first station had us wearing two pairs of stockings on our hands. Then we had to dress ourselves in a shirt, trying to button the shirt with our hands in those gloves was tuff! Then we had to tie our shoes with the lady telling us to hurry because the bus was coming. It was so frustrating. Our next task was to try to stack 5 pennies on top of each other. If we were able to finish all of the tasks we were rewarded with a starburst---if we could unwrap it with our clumsy fingers. Our next station had us putting a large marshmellow on top of our tongue and then going to a job interview. We had to answer the questions with the marshmallow in our mouths. This was to show us how hard it is to communicate with a speech impediment. It was so frustrating as our minds were quick but we couldn't express how we felt and we couldn't make them understand us. The third station had us blindfolded--and I mean blindfolded!! We then had to negotiate the halls of the building with our white stick and it was total darkness. They would tell us to hurry or to watch out for the cat. This was the hardest task for me. I was totally disoriented to the point when they told me to turn left I couldn't remember which way was left. Before, I always thought the worst part of being blind would be not to be able to see the beautiful world or your children, now I feel the confusion and disorientation are the worst. The last station we went to put us in wheelchairs. We had to open the door and go to the drinking fountain and then to the bathroom in the wheel chair. Then we had to go down a hill and back up a hill. Both were difficult and my arm muscles were burning. (probably that would help my squishy arms that Mia reminded me of.) This activity really gave me an empathy for those suffering these disabilities and a feeling of wanting to be accepted for who I am and not for how I use my hands etc. I should mention that thru all of this they had me miked for TV. Probably a good thing they miked me and not some of the others who express themselves a little stronger when frustrated. We ended by giving a special bicycle to a young boy who had been in an accident that killed his mother and left him brain injured. We saw how far he has come and saw his joy at receiving the bicycle that have him a new mobility. He loved the horn the best. Hats off to all of the people who dedicate their lives to helping people who suffer and to those who also spend so much time raising money for these charities. Playing golf seemed much less important after this day. But I should mention that the charity money raised by the golf tournament is very helpful for charities in the towns we play. Last year this tournament raised $575,000 for local charities of which Child Serve is one of the beneficiaries. These activities might make a good Family Home Evening.

Memorial Day

We celebrated Memorial Day on Sunday since we were leaving for our next tournament on Monday morning. Since I have been so tuff on Mia, I thought I'd share a sweet memory. As grandpa was fixing the lilacs from our garden for the graves, Mia asked if she could have some for her princess ball. He gave her some and she put them in a plastic sandwich bag. We didn't see her prepare them, but she put water in the baggy and then put them in her purse. When we visited my sister Margo's grave, we noticed that President Hinckley's grave was just across the street. When Mia realized it was her prophet's grave she wanted to give him her ball flowers only she was too shy. Her sweet cousin, Olivia, took her by the hand and helped her give her gift to the prophet. After we went to the other cemeteries , Mia said, " My mom should have been here so she could see how special it felt. My mom needs to feel this special feeling." Here I was worried that the cemetery's might scare the little ones and just the opposite happened. She felt the sacredness of the experience. On another note: After sharing in our cousin Melissa's experience with her surgery and the agony she went thru having receivedthe "dreaded gene", it was touching to see in real life the consequences others who also carried the gene. Margo was 50 when she died and my mother was only 45.

Granny strikes back!!

Yesterday, Mia put her hand under my upper arm. (you know the part that flaps in the wind?) She let go, then grabbed it again, and looked up at me funny and said, "Granny your arm is all soft and squishy." And here I lift 12 pounders 3 times a week. I will have to go to 15. But--I got her back. She wanted Kraft Macaroni and cheese, not the home made kind. So I made her Kraft Macaroni and cheese and added a baked sweet potato in the cheese sauce and she never even knew it!

Out of the mouths of Babes

We have Mia and Nathan this weekend while Joseph took the older boys to Wyoming with him for a tournament and Michelle and Ava went to Nauvoo for her brother's sealing. Today while I was changing, Mia said, "Granny you need to take a shower". I asked her if I was dirty and she said, "Yes, see all those lines on your legs." Those are my spider veins and I earned everyone of them. Thank you very much.

Sjogrens Walkabout

This is a picture of Susanna, Peter and Lily while they were walking in the Sjogrens Walkabout. I was in Florida when they held the race, so they represented me. Lily told me after that they won the race and that they did it for me. I was really touched. An added bonus happened to me on Saturday. I was attending a Sjogrens Patient education seminar. They had a slide show going while we waited for our featured speaker and lo and behold up came this picture. I am in the auditorium and I squeal, "Those are my kids!!" it was just another highlight of how good my children are to me and how good our Heavenly Father is to us. To me it also said that He is aware of me and my battle with this condition that I prefer to call Showgirls Syndrom.

Carrie needs to go incognito

Today when Carrie, Mary and I went to the grocery store, the checkout lady told Carrie to take Mary over to the balloon place and get a balloon. I stayed to finish up loading the groceries when the lady said, "Is she okay? I didn't want to say anything to her about her eye, but you must know there are people who can help her, people who want to help" I told her she got the shiner in a church basketball game but I don't think she believed me because she said again that she knew people who could help her. We'll have to wear sunglasses from now on I guess.

Day 1 Day 2

Day 1

Day 2

Church ball hasn't changed in all these years. The ref didn't even call a foul on the play. One of her teammates broke her finger and another face planted and skidded across the floor. These are grown women mind you. They did make a shot with 2 seconds to go to win by one to finish the season undefeated and to take the stake championship!

Texas Roundup 10K

Daddy, Carrie and I in front of the Texas capitol before we began the Texas roundup race. Carrie is sporting her shiner from her basketball game last night. We got matching shirts and shoes also but I forgot to wear them. We are having so much fun in Texas with Carrie and Cory and darling Mary, but we miss the rest of you.

Picture of Us

I wanted to post a picture of what we look like, do you like it?

Joining the crowd

Welcome to my Mom's blog! She has been reluctant to start one, but with persistance on my side, ok I created it for her and told her she had one, she has now joined the crowd. I now pass the baton to her...Enjoy!