ouch!!!! pictures of megan with her broken leg

ouch -0uch
megan broke her leg on Thanksgiving day.....we felt bad...for her.

pictures from "moving day"

Hogan trying out the new bathtub......in his new home--caption reading "shesh, grandma can't a guy have a little privacy in his own home"!
hard at work--this is a picture on the Murray -side of the move--but as usual dad worked his magic on the Tooele side of the move and loaded that U-Haul with precision...he can stack a uhaul tighter and better than anyone I've ever known...its like a "amazing" and he works circles around us all
the little kids worked their hearts out on sides of the move coming and going--they loaded and carried boxes, cleaned and organized like any adult could have done--they were troopers.



okay we didn't move but we helped bryan and brianne and family to move to Murray and it was a lot of fun --they did so much to have it all ready and it all went smoothly...glad to have them closer

pictures from when I was tending the kirks

snow bed instead of snow angel
snow fun
shooting baskets with grandpa with the hoop on the side of the house (not the one in the driveway --although they shot at the one later on) and made plenty of shots--(abbie over 100 counting at our house and the rec center) and Adrianna got over 63 from our yard , rec center and the park behind their house--over the course of 4 days
--its a new thing they are good at they didn't even realized that they liked till we started shooting balls
kyle all bundled and getting fresh air

pictures from Thanksgiving day

gather 'round the table --we ate off grandma Helen's china and the little kids used their plates from their creations last year...It was Joe Jacob's and Hogan's first Thanksgiving with us. in short A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL




dress up and miss "spanish fork, miss tooele, and miss murray pageants --uncle bryan asked them funny questions like: what service do you do
Adrianna said , rake leaves, Abbie said help my mom, Mayley said: help grandma set the table
he asked them funny questions like : what is your favorite food and are you honest? and who is your favorite uncle? and they all said that they're not allowed to answer questions like that...that they like them all the same.... Good answer girlies....they won a tie for all being the prettiest --abbie won for most colorful and mayley for fanciest and Adrianna for best pose

hanging out with Kristi Lund (the 2 birthday pals /also kerri's birthday pals)

bundling up for out of doors
raking and throwing leaves (megan g-lynda, adrianna and hunter)--not pictured here or otherwise ---was a host of pies,, heaping bowls of stuffing, orange rolls, a variety of pies, lots of Mashed potatoes soft and fluffy--and oooh la la
turkey --it was "mashed potatoes and 'turkey' gravey" Marie...(line from you know where__)
just chillin' with the main chef (grandma)_ notice Andrianna has very few teeth to eath the pizza with (all she wants for Christmas is her two front teeth, so she can with ya merry Chrithmas)_
megan happy as a lark on Stephens shoulders
brianne and Hogan
abbie and Adrianna shooting basketballs
raking and throwing leaves in the air (adrianna)
hanging out with cousins
grandpa ice blocking or ice cubing as Mayley calls it
Hayley (red) joe (in black) abbie (in blue)
around the feast of all feasts
on our walk back from bonnies house

my gratitude list

I lay in bed thinking and thinking of the many things I have been Thankful for some of which included:
*Bryan scott and family are moving in closer to us
*having a wonderful husband
*having wonderful kids
* a world wide church
* the gospel teachings
* service
* second chances
*technology
*music
* performances (especially of grandkids) even if it is only in my own front room
*un-expected letters--either snail mail, or email or Cards
*a ten cent surprise
*letters /pictures from a grandchild
*my kids and their spouses
*my grand kids
*new experiences
* a home and the comforts of home



there are two songs I really like...one I only know the chorus to...it from part of a song in the Forgotten Christmas Carols (by Michael McClain)_

it goes..."EVERYTHING I HOPED FOR EVERYTHING I WISHED FOR COULDN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO WHAT I'VE GIVEN..." that is all I can remember and I find myself singing this little ditty while I work....in my case it is soooooo very true.. The Lord has been generous with me and given me more that I could have wished (or prayed ) for....my ideas haven't held a candle to what the Lord has blessed me with.

the second song was--a little thanksgiving song that our folks sung ended with the phrase
"we could've been quite happy --had we only tried" --I am going to "try" to be "quite happy" with all that I have right before me.
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Thanksgiving was Heavenly

Nov 24--Thanksgiving was "Heavenly" to us. that is the best way I can think to describe the day for us overall.

Getting to talk on the phone to Brad, Kerri, Kaci and Forrest, then having Joe, Hayley, Bryan, Brianne, Hunter, Mayley, Hogan, Stephen, Nancy, Abbie
Adrianna, Kyle and Megan all show up for the dinner, made the day complete.
*we love the time eating pie together
*playing in the leaves
*playing games (including rbi baseball challenges, and yahateez and scattagories)
*eathing the main meal of couse
*Ice blocking on the hill
*milling around in socks
*playing in the leaves in the backyard and raking up more leaves and putting in the garden
(hunter's and adrianna's service project)_
*and eating more left overs
*watching Horton hears a hoo
* and just visiting --visiting --visiting
________________________that was all the good news
the bad news.___________________________________________
sweet little megan broke her leg while ice blocking--and we were all sad to see her have to hoe that row. She is such a good girl and it was the saddest thing of the day to see her in pain, they x-rayed it and wrapped it until the swelling goes down and she sat on the couch when she got home and still acted out sherades, and played games--and acted out being a pig and penquin, but you could sense how uncomfortable her leg was making her feel and the discomfort she was having then and will have for the remainder of the healing process. we wish her a speedy recovery.

nutcracker performance...

abbie at dance practice for the nutcracker

Abbie did a wonderful Job dancing on the stage of the covey center in her nutcracker performance. We had seats right up front close and we were all captivated by her smile and ease --as she leaped and skipped and turned to the music. The audience was full of energy as the little dancers ran out from under neath the huge skirt of the lady--on stage and that part of the performance was the cap of the show--(grand mother speaking) but really it was...those little girls captured our hearts

with their (painted on ) rosey cheeks and long eyelashes and sweet little faces--glad you could do that Abbie girl, way to go on a wonderful performance--your long nights of practices paid off.

I love the accordian

hayley invited me to join her at her work along with
those who live at the assisted living we--heard first
hand a gifted accordian player--oh it it was fun
and I am tellin' ya this girl was 'talented' and it
got me excited to play Oh Holy Night for Christmas Eve
PS the Ladies at the Assisted living care --Love Hayley

latest snowfall

Isn't the first snow fall of the winter so "magical"
then we loose our 'enchanment' with the fluffy little
white flakes--as the months roll on--but for now
to me its still magical--we happened to be out
at Bryan and Briannes that morning and I and
the kids played in the snow for quite some time
that's lucky for me --otherwise I would look goofy
out their as an adult playing in the snow all alone. (:

happy birthday (happy) Hogan Ian C

what at happy little fellow--his grin is memorizing,
he is content and easy going, --he is patient to wait for what he needs--he is lovable and peaceful\ Hogan we get a kick out of your singing "La la la" when your mom dances with you to a certain song. we get a kick out of you playing trucks. We chuckle when you climb right in the middle of the lego pile--we smile when you look out of those beautiful brown eyes at us, and we love you for bringing so much joy into our lives since you arrived here on earth--you have a great spirit about you and you will continue to brings us smiles and joy in days to come and we are so glad that you are a part of our clan--how we could be so lucky to get you we don't know--but we are surely glad that you are such a sweetie... love ya lots--you are a good boy
and sent down from Heaven not so long ago and it feels like Heaven when you come into the room.