Libbie goes through the temple

December 26th was a great day!  Libbie went to the temple and took our her endowments.  A few years ago, she went to the open house of the beautiful Saratogo Springs temple and decided that that was where she wanted to be married.  Several months ago, she decided she didn't want to wait until she got married to go through the temple, so she made plans to go on December 26th.  What a great Christmas present. 

It was so wonderful to be there with her.  Lani, Krista, Jordan and Jamie, Josh and Merijane, Libbie's other grandparents and 3 of her best friends were there too.  

We're so happy for her!  It is such a great blessing in our lives.  She wants to work in her temple, I know she will love it!  

 

Christmas 2025

Merry Christmas from the whole Cline crew.

One of our favorite traditions on Christmas is to go visit all our kids. (We wish we could have gone to Houston to visit Hailey and Cancun to visit Jamie's family)

Krista's Family

 Our sweet missionary Hailey in Beautiful Houson Texas

Josh's family

Jamie's family in Cancun

Jordan's family

It was a wonderful Christmas Holiday!  We are so grateful for the birth and life of our Savior.  I hope that in this next year I can focus even more on following His great example and being more like Him.  

 

Little Christmas Eve Dinner

We celebrated Christmas with ourkids (minus Jamie's family who were in Cancun) on Little Christmas Eve.  We had DELICIOUS loaded nachos, fruit and amazing cookies!  

We read the Nativity story and sang the songs to go with it.

We played Nativity Bingo.

Jamie bought the  funnest bells this year and brought the for us to play.  We did lots of Christmas songs and the kids did amazing.  They were sooooo fun!

The cousins exchanged gifts and we all had a great time!

 

Christmas Holiday Fun

The holidays are full of lots of fun activities.  We were able to attend Logan's Piano recital.

We went to hear Jack sing at the Tabernacle

We heard Sophie play in her piano recital.

I went shoppping with Molly who is getting ready to go to the temple and get her temple clothes.

We went to an incredible Nativity Extravenganza that Krista's stake put on with her family and Jordan's family.

I went to the Nutcracker with Krista's girls (minus Hailey) and Lani.

We had our activity boys make graham cracker Nativities.

Sohpie, Aida and I decorated a tree for Kathy Plaster.

We had a sleepover with the big boys.

And a Sibling dinner at Lani's with all the Utah Siblings.

It's been a fun holiday;

 

Gentri and Jack

Jack has been singing with an amazing Childrens choir this year.  His group was able to perform with the singing group Gentri at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake.  Jack is on the second row from the bottom on the left.  It was so fun and they did a great job.  

My friend Sherryl Moffitt came with me.

 

Early and Late Thanksgiving celebration

We were able to get together with the Utah Cline cousins to celebrate and early Thanksgiving.  Jenny, Mikey, and Stepahnie and their families, all live here as well as our 4 kids.

Here are all their kids.

We celebrated our Thanksgiving the Sunday after Thanksgiving which was almost December.  I couldn't wait any longer to put up my Christas decorations, so we had Thanksgiving with a Christmas atmosphere.  (I did have white pumpkins on the table)

We had "Leftover turkey panini sandwiches" for dinner and they were delicious!  We were having such a great time that I forgot to take any pictures once everyone arrived.

 

Aunt Darlene passes away

In August, Bonnie was in town, and we were able to go vist my sweet Aunt Darlene who had just moved to a memory care center.  Uncle David had taken care of her for the last few years as she had been struggling with Dementia/Alzheimers.  She finally got to the point he couldn't take care of her.  

She lasted less than a month, but during that time Lani and I were able to visit her every week.  It was so hard to see how fast she went down hill that last month.  She had a beautiful funeral. Matthew, Marci, John and Bonnie spoke and shared some great memories of a great lady.   Robynn came for her funeral and it was so nice to haveall of my siblings there, and see all of Darlene's children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.