Happy Holidays

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM OUR HOUSE TO YOURS!

AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

and People pay for this!!!!!!

Our daughter Amy had to have sinus surgery on Friday. It was a medical surgery, Not a nose job!

Anyway, when she was in recovery and since she's been home, We've talked about how many people have this and more done just for BEAUTY! They risk their lives and appearance forever and so many of the results are SCARY! "THEY ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS". Her surgery wasn't as involved as most and she was miserable. It was really hard being her parent seeing what she was going thru. (Her husband is in Iraq and would have been here if he could have)

I do know there are good reasons for having plastic surg., etc. And they should be done. But just to have it done all in the name of being VAIN. WOW, they have a lot more tolerance for pain then I do!

We're glad hers is over. It should improve her health a lot. She's glad she had the whole weekend off to kind of recover. She originally thought she might beable to work on Saturday. NO WAY. Her work was smart telling her she better have saturday off too. Thank You!

She's doing good, she's very sore and she's starting to be able to breath thru her nose some again. (that would freak me out! I know I'm a big woose but I like breathing and I'm not into pain.)

We're glad it's over Amy. You are one tuff cookie! We LOVE YOU!

Christmas past

These are just a few of my favorite pictures from Christmas' past.

We've been able to be with our grandkids (also their Dad, our son, and their Mom) for Christmas. We always have the best time. Tamara and Jason have an annual Cookie Party. They do it Christmas Eve day morning. They do breakfast for all the family(brothers, sisters, Grandparents, cousins, etc.) and after eating, all the kids decorate sugar cookies for Santa. The kids just love being able to take home their own creations.

Our oldest Granddaughter, Maddy and her cousin Hannah.

This is Jake, Our favorite "Grandson". ha ha (we only have one) We're so glad he's ours!

This is Cookie (Brooklyn) and cousin Mike.

Then Christmas Eve Tamara's parents have a really nice dinner at their house. They are always so wonderful to include us. After dinner they read from the scriptures of Jesus' birth and the children all participate in acting it out. We LOVE them all so much for letting us be part of their family traditions.

Christmas PJ 2006

Christmas PJ 2007

This is all the kids and cousins. There has been a couple of new cousins since this was taken and new ones to come. A big family brings lots of blessings.

All because two people fell in LOVE!

As you can see, it's a lot of FUN. We can hardly wait to be with them for this Christmas. It can't come soon enough for me.

Thanksgiving

Here are a few pictures from our Thanksgiving. We're really into decorating as you can see. We need your expertise Tam. We really had a nice time visiting and eating GREAT food. There was 24 of us.

Grandma is doing really good.

Hannah didn't want me to take her picture so Kassidy was holding her for me. She had her hair all curled and looked so cute. She had dream hair as Cookie would say!

Alisha, skinny Amy, Monica and Chase, Reed and Hannah.

I'm posting this one so Maddy can see how tall Kassidy has gotten. She really wanted you to be here Maddy, she really doesn't like being the only big girl with all the boys. You know that one! Having all those boy cousins! She says Hi.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Nothing important to blog about lately.
I hope everyones plans for TURKEY day are coming along?
I have so much to be THANKFUL for. And GRATEFUL for this time of the year. It's so easy to get caught up in the world and forget how BLESSED we really are!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Amy & Craig!

November 8th - Happy Anniversary to "2" very special people!

It's really been good to see you Happy. We know this year has been tough at times but we know there is LOTS of Great Years to come.

Thank You Craig for being willing to Protect our country and Thank You Amy for being understanding about this time. It won't be long and the long 16 months will be over and you can get on with the next adventure in your lives together. :)

We LOVE YOU and wish you MANY HAPPY ANNIVERARIES to come.

Stay SAFE CRAIG our prayers are always with you.

Happy Halloween from Our 4 Legged residence!

These are the Trick or Treater's from our house this year :)

They'll do just about anything for a treat, Except wear a costume. Bogart (the black pug, Amy's dog) just wanted to eat his Bat hat and Ziggy Pumpkin head (our little maltipoo) was so humilated all he wanted to do is hide. Sorry Zig, I do Love you!


I've learned taking pictures of animals isn't easy. I tried to fix red eye, blue eye, and blurry but need more practice w/photoshop. Some pictures are better then none, it's a good laugh. Beside they kind of look spoooooky....

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

My Favorite Halloween

I was looking thru some of our pictures and ran across these. It was so much fun having Jason, Tamara and the Grandkids at our house for Halloween a few years ago. They were here from Arizona.

It was a little different for them Trick or Treating in Idaho. They had to dress a little warmer. Thank goodness the weather was nice, a little chilly and a little of Idaho wind but no snow or rain.

We even got to carve pumpkins from our garden. It was so much fun watching them create.

We always look forward to having the neighbor kids and Ward kids come to our door. But having our Grandkids here was the very BEST!

I'm blogging!

I'm going to give this a try. This was one of our classes at our Relief Society Super Saturday. They convinced me I needed to do this. I LOVE Tamara's so much that I thought it would be something I could do especially for my Grandkids.
I'm just learning so be patient with me. :)

I think Summer is over...

This is what our Saturday was doing. The first snow of the season.

It's sad to see our nice Idaho summer temperatures leaving.

Sunday morning we had about an inch, maybe a little more. I think we've seen the last of the 70's and 80's. Most of the snow melted today except in the shade. But our temps are only suppose to get as high as the 60's.