Spending time with good friends

This spring break we went to Phoenix to see our friends Stacey and Charlie Kingston. This is a picture of our car we rented which we didn't like very much. It was gangster looking car. The color blinded your eyes. In the back ground is their house. It was really nice. We played rock guitar and bowling on the wii. We sat around and talked and enjoyed dinners and lunches together.



Amazingly enough this is Heather. The little tiny girl that we used to babysit and saw all the time. She has grown into a beautiful young woman. She is married and her husband, Dominic, is in Korea. He is full time military. He won't be home until September.

This is Stacey and Charlie standing in front of a little green area across their house. . We got to go and see one of his radiation treatments at the cancer center. He was pretty amazing. We went to see old cars and went to a antique mall. Stacey was funny because she gave to the good will a piece of furniture and she saw it at the antique mall for sale for 145.00. She was amazed.

When we said goodbye on Saturday we gave hugs and it was extremely hard to know that when I hugged Charlie it might be the last time I will see him alive. It was a hard goodbye.

When we got to the airport I had made a mistake on our return date and we weren't on that flight. I made the return date for May 9th. We had another adventure. We just got a hotel room and came home very early on Sunday morning. We got up at 4:00 a.m. and we were at the airport checked in and sitting down waiting for our flight by 4:25. Simply amazing!!! I sat on the plane between two really old men who fell asleep right away. Bill sat in front of me between two women. One was really young the other about our age. It was a bittersweet trip. I loved seeing Matthew their son which I forgot to get a picture of. He is about 6'4" and very handsome. He is a very respectful young man and is about to graduate from High School. We pray for Charlie and his family to help them endure what is ahead of them. We love you.

2008 Christmas

I have been having a hard time remembering how to do video's. Bill helps me and I told him that pretend I'm a 7th grader. He said, "I can't, they would get it by now!" Ha. Ha

A visit from Gabe and Val and the kids

Jordyn is so tiny. She is crawling now and is such a happy baby. She was performing for us in the frontroom today.

Enjoying the Grandkids

This reminded me of when A.J. used to love to play with string and attach an army man or something and hang it over the banister. He would play with that for hours. Anthony was having so much fun with the box. Cheap toys.

Surgery Time/Emma's Birthday

These are pictures of my ankle that I have to have surgery on soon. My arthritis is so bad I can hardly stand the pain any more. I went to the Dr. on Wednesday and I have absolutely no cartilage to protect my bones from rubbing together. So I have a constant bone on bone movement when I walk and it's pretty painful. I can't decide when to have the surgery because I will be in bed for about 2 weeks. They are going to fuse my bones together. I need to make a decision when soon.

The swelling isn't so bad right now. I have been doing acupuncture and that helps a lot with the swelling. Insurance doesn't cover acupuncture so I have to stop this procedure after two more treatments. After I have surgery I will continue to go to acupuncture. I hate the thoughts of having surgery!!!!

On to a more exciting happenings. EMMA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!!

Emma had about 12 little girls at her party. It was so calm. The girls were putting little pieces of material on some flip flops. Some were frustrated because they had never tied anything before. Emma learned fast.

Emma is looking so grown up. She wasn't even flitting around and talking a hundred miles an hour. She was having so much fun.

Gabe even got into the action. He was helping a little girl tie the material on her flip flops. He was pretty intense. It was the best.

These patient young ladies were waiting to have their toe nails painted. It was simply amazing how they waited their turn.

These are most of the girls that attended Emma's birthday party. In the corner are all her presents. We didn't stay to watch her open her presents but I bet she loved them all.

We spent the rest of our Saturday afternoon cleaning out our garage. It looks great. We didn't get any yard work done but everything was real muddy from all the rain and snow. We will be getting more by morning about 2 to 3 inches in the valley.

Sammy Smiling

Sammy loved being in this chair. It brings back memories of Anthony being in this chair for the first time.

Busy Sunday

Today was pretty awesome. I did something funny that still makes me laugh. I always get my nursery ready before church starts and Bill goes and sits down. When I'm done I go into the chapel and sit next to him, sounds normal. Well today I plop down to who I think is Bill and I turned my head to put my arm around him and it wasn't Bill. He just said hi and I about lost it. I started to laugh and told him he just about got my arm around him. He laughed too. I think about it now and I still laugh. We went to the Temple Dedication at our stake house at 3:30. It started at 4:30 but everyone had to be in their seats by 4:00. It was great. Right after that we had Anthony's 2 year old birthday party. He was quite funny. He is pretty patient and kind. He would turn to everyone and tell them Thank you for the present. It's hard to believe he is two.
We are now relaxing and enjoying each others company.

Friday we had Kelly, Peyton and Emma come over and spend the night. Kelly wanted to do the Twilight thing at midnight and I told her I would take her. I had Anthony and Samuel also and Anthony didn't want to go home so he stayed too. 6:30 came really fast especially when they didn't get to bed until just before I left to take Kelly to Wal Mart to get her video. We were out of the store in ten minutes. I was shocked. It was pretty fun. I always thought people were weird to do stuff like that but it was fun to watch all the people. Thanks Kelly for inviting me to go with you.

Our friends that used to live in our ward but since have moved to Phoenix Arizona called us just before church to tell us that Charlie only has about 2 months to live. Charlie and Stacey Kingston have been our friends for a long time. They have four children and their youngest is now 17. It was a shock. He has malignant melanoma. It has caused him to have fissures is his brain and he has had bad seizures. He sounded really calm when he called. So we are going to go down their on Spring break to basically say goodbye to a really neat person. They will certainly be in our prayers. I am so blessed to believe in eternity and know that we will see our loved ones again.