what a great time to live! wouldn't you agree

I took this picture last Fri at Dusk as we left the temple--(it was so quiet and serene at the time)

dad and I can't quit thinking about 5 more new temples to dot the earth--wow--we really live in a great time-
in coodination with our stake conference dad and I attended the temple last --this is what dad said about it-"Friday we had stake temple day and Pres Vassel one of the counselors talked about responding to the feelings we get and the blessings that occur when we do. It was really great ...."

fall, art fun...

these first two pictures are what I call "mayley's pumkin patch ' and "hunter's pumpkin patch" painting--hunter kept saying grandma I need green and then he would tell grandpa "I did It" after he painted--and we had such fun-if you look really close you can see (below) Hunter scratched into the paint-then it got covered by a pumkin--but its still a cute part of the art I thought--(next week after the kirks girls put the details on some 'ocean' paintings they have been working on --I'll post them in my "art corner"

this is a good time of year for painting outside with the warm weather we were motivated by hearing about kerri doing some Halloween are (by the way--can't wait to see kerri's haunted house) pictured here are --mayley and hunter got the Halloween mural started all and any can come paint on it--should be cute when all grandchildren painters and and grandma have made a contribution to it-we'll add more pics as more artist work on it--

it all started when...-I bought a big old mural at DI then painted it all white and outlined it for the grandkids to fill in--I thought --

"lets just see" how this works out--I'll probably hang it in my kitchen for that holiday--fun huh?

listening to the voice of a prophet...

We surely enjoyed conference weekend. Listening to the voice of a living prophet is a great part of living in a dispensation when the gospel is on the Earth- we loved hearing his council and teachings and the announcements of 5 new temples.
how blessed we are to live in a time of mortality--when the prophet of The Lord leads and guides. We enjoyed the other talks as well, and the messages, including those regarding aunt Lucy (In the talk about the influence of righteous people-I actually forgot the speaker name now) and also about hearing about grandpa paxman --giving his life in the building of the manti temple- also the talk about missionaries made me cry --when they showed the sister missionaries walking around to homes--and I was so thankful Hayley can be a part of taking the good news of the gospel to others-t

birthday weekend Fun...

kinda fuzzy --but my birthday hat from portugal

had fun taking mayley and hunter to the witch festival at archibalds the fri before conference.. (the kids walking around could dress up -for fun)

we had the traditional conference-Homemade- (sub sandwich) between session

the weekend was made complete with birthday celebrations

before and after --the session of Preistood session for both abbie and I --so great weekend all in all-

"Simple pleasures are life's treasures"

this may look like an ordainary treausre box--but lately--it been holding treasures--(little treasures) at the end of treasures hunts for the grandkids--I remembered making these little clues and hunts for LaNae when I was little and she would make them for me--and it was a fun part of our childhood so I started from time to time on the their visits to make short treasure hunts for the kids--just for fun --they like 'em.
Simple pleasures are life's treasure's a saying that is on my wall--how true it is --I'm easily
entertained and delight is so many of life's simple pleasures---(even as little as a treasure hunt)
and the squeals of little kids laughing as they go about it.--

how about those cougars? courgar fans unite (:

Fall and good football games always seem to go to gether--Stephen has been taking the kids to different home games--bryan and dad are going on Fri. We've been following them on T.V. -it brings back memories to me when I was in college and went to all the games while playing in the courgar band--but now I watch the game and fold laundry--but its still fun to me to hear the game--even if I'm doing projects and multi-tasking-(got to many things going on right not to just watch--with undivided attention) but my loyalty it there--
GO Cougars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are an awesome group of wonderful athletes and men on and off of the field. cougar fans unite! and cheer them on-- (:

when we were hiking secret lake--on labor day dad was wearing this hat (pictured ) and byu-fans would say things like "go courgars" then stephen was wearing something that had byu--and when folks would comment to him--abbie said-"mom I think that those people think dad is on the byu football team " (I paraphrased her comment)
I thought that was so cute--that she thought that--kids think their dad's are capible of anything (actually he is a great football player--but at this time a spectator)

Fall, Fall, Fall ...

Oh, family, --hope you are all doing well

for dad and I are enjoying fall --below are some of our FALL accomplishments and our fall joys

--I'll just start with

1) great temperatures in the weather-

2)-good veggies to eat,
3)I'm back at Horizon Elem. glad for my school schedule--(1/2 day) I have some great assignments.--
4)this week we put up 14 more quarts of grapes juice -we mixed it with apple juice (some of it) 5)we picked all the rest of our apples

well it all combined to make for a great week, plus (all that and the mind is reeling that there's more) (:

6) kerri's mom verda was here visiting so we went to a few places for fun..it seems it takes a visitor in our world to motivate to go fun places that are around us all the time for example we went to the

7) gardens at Thanksgiving point--I've never been in all these years--so glad we went.

8)later on in the week (Thurs) the kirks and I, went to the circus (dad had meetings--darn)

(compliments of tickets by bryan and brianne as they were off in lovely CA-hope your trip was great by the way--can't wait to hear the details) --

10)then to finish up a great week we took a last hike to "silver lake' to add to our list of Lakes that dad and I have visited this summer...

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so I've said it before and I'll say it again--IT'S a WONDERFUL LIFE' or for this blog I should say; 'its a wonderful fall season'---