Happy Mother's Day

What a wonderful day mother's day is to think about how grateful we are for our mothers.  I was so blessed with an amazing mom.  It's been almost 10 years since she passed away and I miss her so much.  She would be so proud of my kids and grandkids.  I'm so grateful for the mothers of my sweet grandchildren.  They are all incredible ladies and I love and appreciate them so much!

We had such a fun day.  Krista invited us all over to her house for lunch.  The boys took care of the planning of all the food, aqnd it was DELICIOUS!  They did grilled chicken tacos, with street corn, mexican rice, and ALL the trimmings, complete with homemade salsa. Krista made cheesecake and Lani madea sheetcake for dessert. So Yummy.!

We had the hardest time getting the kids out of the sandpile to come and eat.

They headed there as soon as they arrived and we had to shake the sand off them before they left.

Such a great backyard.

Thanks to Krista for hosting and the boys for organizing it and making the yummy food.

Happy Mother's Day!

 

Bigs Sleepover

It's hard to believe that these three girls are all so grown up!  Molly is graduating in a few days, and will be heading off to BYU.  Hailey leaves on her mission to Houston Texas in July, and Libbie will complete her Associates degree at Salt Lake Community College in December and head to Weber State University.  I decided I wanted to do a last hoorah, a quick Big Girls Getaway.  Amazingly enough, we found a 24 hour time slot that they were all available.  I booked a fun Hotel in Heber and we had a great time being together!  Our first stop was the Dairy Keen.  It is a fun little restaurant in Midway that serves delicious hamburgers, fries and shakes.  It did not disappoint!

Then we walked around the cute little town of Midway.  We went to a few of the shops, but most of them close at 6:00, so we just wandered around.  We found this HUGE field covered in dandelions.

Libbie had the idea to get matching jammies, so we ordered them before we went and they were so cute and cozy!  We moved a table in between the beds to be our game table and had so much fun playing  Sky Jo and Five Crowns.  (Bonnie and Dennis taught us these the last time they came and I bought them right after)

We spent time talking about our favorite memories together, and they remembered the time I made them matching nighties for a sleepover.  They wanted to recreate the picture I had of them in the nighties at breakfast.  Such silly girls!

We went to Midway again and hit the shops that weren't open the day before

Then we headed to the outlets at Park City.  I gave them each shopping money and they had a great time finding all sorts of cute things.  Libbie got a  red Nike hoodie and a pretty silver bracelet.  Hailey got a darling dress and skirt at Down East and a cute shirt at Old Navy, and Molly got 2 fun tops at Gap.  Such a great shopping spree!

Before we knew it, we had to head home to get Molly to a job interview.  I sure love spending time with these AMAZING young ladies.  They are soooo good and are turning out just how I hoped they would..

Boys Sleepover

These cute boys came for a sleepover last weekend.  They like to follow tradition, and the first stop is always the library.  They like to do the scavenger hunt the libraries hae and this time it was finding 15 dinosaurs.  So fun!  Then they check out movies to watch on the sleepover.

The next stop was the playground not far from the library.

They wanted Panda Express for dinner and Mike wasn't feeling well enough to go out so we brought it home to share with him. 

We played games, watched a movie, made muddy buddies, and had a glow stick party.  Jack and Parker had games early in the morning, so we had them home before 10:00.  We know how to have fun fast!

 

Jesus is EVERYWHERE!

A few weeks ago, Jordan ordered 100 tiny Jesus's on Amazon.

When they came to my house on Easter, he gave them to our boys and the grandkids and they hid them all over my house!

In my clock

 In my plants

on my thermostat

In my doorbell box

In my bunny's hands

all over our house!

 In our birdfeeder

In my spice cabinet

It has been so fun finding them.  There was one in the egg carton, the mixing bowl, behind the shampoo, in my shower, and in the dishwasher.  It's been so fun finding them all over and such a good reminder that Jesus is Everywhere!!!! 

 

He is Risen!

The last few years, our church leaders have been asking us to focus more on Easter than just one day.  They have given us sooooo many resources to make this happen.  We have loved spending holy week, reading about what went on each day.  

Our ward did a passover dinner that was very cool.  When we arrived, the tables were all set and the passover food already on them.  The bishop gave a beautiful presentation about ech part of the dinner before we ate that part.  

We did the story of the resurection with scriptures and symbols in each egg with our activity boys for them to take home and do with their families.  We have one little boy who is catholic, and goes to a catholic school.  He knew the story perfectly and shared the whole stroy, very impressive!

Then we made emptly tomb rolls.  They were so fun that I did them with some of my grandkids.

Saturday morning, I venmoed Tatia and Skyler money to buy the ingredients and sent them the recipe.  Tatia's kids made them Easter morning.

We did our Easter celebration with our family on Palm Sunday.  I did a scavenger hunt with scriptures again and this year gave them a beautiful Jesus puzzle and some treats to eat while they work on the puzzle.

I've loved my Easter decorations that focus on our Savior.  I am so grateful for His sacrifice for me!

 

My trip to Arizona

Last week I had a fun quick vacation to Arizona

.  We made an early morning trip to the Gilbert temple.  I couldn't believe how beautiful their flowers were in March!

Bonnie and I got to go see Anything Goes at Hale Theater

President Nelson has asked us to make Easter a special holiday by remembering our savior more. Bonnie found these at Hobby Lobby, but was pretty sure she could improve on them and she sure did!

Dennis cut out all these BEAUTIFUL sepulchers and Bonnie and I put them together and stained them.  We had such a great time thinking about our Savior and what he went through for us as we did it.

I LOVE mine!  We had fun delivering them to Bonnie's kids, She has such a great family.    After I got home, Mike and I delivered  them to our kids.  I love going to visit Bonnie, she makes everything so fun!

 

March/April birthdays

Emily, Jack and I all have March birthdays.  Jamie and Jordan invited us all over to celebrate.  We had a delicious taco bar and these amazing cakes that Jamie made.  She's to talented!

We took Jack out to lunch yesterday for his birthday.  He chose Super Chix, so yummy!

Emily's birthday was last week, but she had a knee replacement the day after, so we are hoping to celebrate this Thursday.

Gabbie is our only April birthday. I took her birthday shopping and she got some fun clothes then we picked up Mike and went to lunch at Zupas.  Such a fun day with our sweet Gabbie!

 

Valentines 2025

To avoid the crazy rush, we celebrated Valentines at Cheesecake Factory a few days before Valentines.  

Hard to believe, I've been lucky enough to have Mike for my Valentine for 47 years.  He is such a kind man.  I don't think I've ever heard him say anything negative about anyone.  He doesn't feel very good most of the time, but seldom ever complains.  He is a great guy and I'm so blessed to have him in my life.  

We delivered Valentines to our grandkids to let them know we LOVE them.

 

My new favorite hobby

I have quite a bit of spare time, and have started machine quilting quilts for the Humanitarian Center.  They have them all pieced together, so i just have to supply the batting and quilt them.  

It has been so much fun!

They have all kinds of fabric, some cuter than others..   I love thinking of a sweet little baby being wrapped in them.  I have done 5 in the last few weeks and have really enjoyed having something to do.  Hard to believe that my old almost 50 year old Bernina is still humming along.

 

Mom's 90th birthday

On Feb. 12, my sweet mom would have turned 90 years old.  She's been gone 10 1/2 years and I sure miss her.  I wanted to do something to honor her, so I invited my siblings,and my kids and grandkids to go to the temple sometime during the month. She LOVED the temple.

Many of them were able to go and what a sweet experience to think of her whicle they were there.  Thanks everyone, I'm sure that made mom happy.

Lani and I loved being togerther at the temple!

 

A fun Valentine craft

A few weeks before Valentines, I found this fun craft at JoAnn's to do with Savvy and Zac.

They had lots of fun with it, so I decided to do it with some of my other favorite kids.

 

I stopped by Carissa's house on my way home from Jordan's and did it with Nora and Thea. A few days later, after going to the temple with Lani, I stopped and Emmy had fun making it into a garland.

I have these sweet girls in my neighborhood that are going to be moving.  They LOVED doing them and did all 10 of the different valentines

I invited my cousin Sandy's great grand kids who just moved to Midvale to come over and play.

I mailed a kit to Tatia to do with her sweet family.  Charlie is getting it all set up and ready to go.

Our Activity Day boys had a great time making them for everyone in their family.

Yesterday I went to visit Chandler and Tesa and their family in their new house and got to meet their tiny baby Wells.  Such a fun time visiting with so many people I love!