Pictures from the Past

Kyle spinning in our kitchen



My sister Susan and her husband Jim Andrew. This is about 3 years ago.

Melanie and Renato. I think maybe at her birthday.

My sister Penny and her husband Kelly. Same time as with Sue and her husband. We were at Chili's

The birth of Jordyn. Nyleen is talking to Annie, I think. Gabe is holding Anthony

Jordyn Macie. Welcome to the world little one.

Grandpa Bill holding Jordyn. She is only a few hours old. #6

She was so aware for only being around a few minutes. She looked major like Peyton.

What a typical picture for A.J. He was camping with dad at the Fathers and Sons outing I think last summer.

Four generation picture. Melanie, Shauna, Audrey and, of course, Anthony .

Emma's birthday. She was hiding her face for some reason. This was her last birthday.

Peyton dancing at Emma's birthday party.

Kyle in our kitchen. He is always smiling.

Bill shaking Eric Reidel's hand because he graduated from some military thing and this is a ceremony that is performed. It was pretty cool. He had to give Bill a silver dollar bill. (something we just happend to have because we purchased two of them when we were in the Philippines on Curador Island).

The salute and then the passing of the silver dollar bill.

Grandma Audrey at the birthday party when we were at Chili's. Same time I took the pictures of all of us.

Kyle again at Grandma and Grandpa Keil's house in Kearns.

Almost all of the grandkids. Heather is pregnant with Kyle. We love to bowl. I think A.J. is smelling his armpits. Ha.

Gabe and A.J. being silly.

Anthony and myself at Wheeler farm. Anthony loved the horses. This was last summer

Anthony's first birthday. He loved the cake.

Bill and I at the Chili's dinner.

Chris who loves to have his picture taken. Oh, I think I almost see a smile coming on!

Grandma and Grandpa 08

Today was just a busy cleaning day. Bill is organizing "underneath" his computer station!!!! He really must be sick. It looks great. I have to laugh at myself when I clean. I started putting things away in a drawer in the kitchen and I couldn't stand how disorganized it was so I spent time doing that. I put something away in another drawer and ta da it is also organized. I fixed my vacuum that I thought we would have to throw away and get a new one. My mother was pulling into her driveway and hit Stevie's rig and broke her light on her car. She is really freaked about it. I told her not to even fix it because she doesn't drive at night and she doesn't have to have it inspected until March of 09. We are hoping that she will sell the house and move in with one of us girls. It's been a great day.

One day older and wiser

Georgia On My Mind

We went to Georgia around the 5th of July, 08. It was of course a lot of fun. We went several places. My favorite was Stone Mountain. I'm sure that Bill's favorite was Six Flags. The weather was beautiful. The kids did a program at their church that was so cute. Lucas was quite the singer when he went up front. I loved the part when Chris played Jesus. It's hard to leave knowing that we won't see them for a while.

California 2008

Enjoying Life!!!

Thank heaven's for technology. We were just watching the video of Kyle dancing and seeing the beautiful smile of Jordyn. Our hearts cry out to be there with you as you grow and become your own little person. We are so lucky to have the children that we do. Complete joy is what we feel when we think of you.

Today was good. Nothing exciting. I picked up our van after having the brakes fixed. Came home and fixed dinner and Bill brought the yound men over to play wii. Talk about crazy. Males are definately much different than the young women.

Lazy Sunday

I love Sundays. I teach in the nursery. Bill is in Young Men. I have nine little ones in my class. they are so fun. Two hours goes by really fast. I wasn't really lazy today, I worked on my cut outs for nursery. President Beck, our former Stake President, spoke at a fireside tonight. It was wonderful as usual. He us one of my favorite people. He serve as Mission President in California for 3 years. I know how to write really well on my blog I am just learning how to add things. I changed my background. It's only 9:06 p.m. instead of midnight. My mother is progressing nicely. She came up tonight and seemed to be getting around a lot better. I need to sign off for now. I'll be back.

Another Lovely Day

Saturday October 18, 2008

It seems that when I got on my blog it wasn't set up so I must have done something that made it go away. I love to read Heather and Val's blog it makes me so jealous. I will try and do as good as you guys. However, I always start these very late at night and it is now 10:46 p.m.

It has been a crazy weekend. Friday morning at about 12:55 a.m. we got a phone call from my mothers house. She fell and hit her head on her tile floor. She has a big goose egg. She was hurting pretty bad and because she takes cumadin (sp) her blood is really thin. She was taking away in an ambulance and taken to Jordan Valley Hospital. by 4:00 a.m. she was ok and sent home. She stayed with us Thursday and Friday night. She is full of bruises and very sore but we are very thank ful that she is still with us. Bill says she has more lives than a cat.

Bill and I are very happy. We are trying to get our back yard finished. It is very hard work and we can tell that we are getting very old. We can't do as much as we used to. We are of course excited to add number 13 to our list of grandchildren. Heather and Ben are very creative in announcing the new arrival. Gabe and Val were pretty creative with the movie announcement with Emma I think it was. Two new grandchildren!!! How blessed can we be.

Michael tried out to sing the national anthem at the Jazz game and he was on the news as one of the contestants. I didn't see him but heard him singing. Bill was laughing and ran downstairs to tell me Michael was on the news. We don't know yet if he made it.

Melanie is looking pretty pregnant and will probably have her baby around the 19th of December.

Julia is same old same old. She has Fridays off until the end of the year and so she takes paratransit to the temple. They are so helpful with her and she stays all day.

You know about Gabe and Val and Ben and Heather from their blogs.

Annie and Chris and still trying to find a house and the kids are doing very well in school.

I will try and learn all I can to make this blog the best it can be. I'm sure I will never reach the level of Val and Heather but I will try. Right now my patience is ok. Hopefully I won't lose this one. It is weird that I lost it because Heather even made a comment on my last one.