Cline's Corner

Valentine Party

2012-02-11T16:41:00.000-08:00

We did a Valentine Party for the girls and gave their parents the opportunity to go out on a date. I had them help me make lunch, they had to smash the biscuits and then wrap the hotdog all cozy, for the pigs in a blanket.

Lunch is served

They sure enjoyed frosting and adding sprinkles to the cupcakes to take home to their parents.

The girls watched a fun movie while we cleaned up the lunch and cupcake mess.

They made valentine cards

The 3 big girls all wrote their own valentines and helped the little girls with theirs.

We played a few games. Their favorite is hide the valentine, and then do the Hot or Cold, to help find it. It was such a nice day, that the girls spent some time out in the back yard playing.
We sure had a good time with those tiny girls.

Redecorated bedrooms!

2012-02-11T15:50:00.000-08:00

Last summer, Jamie and Emily got new bedding for their bedroom. (Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of it, but it looks really great) For Christmas Krista and Matt got new bedding that is really cute too.

Jamie and Jordan got a new bedroom set and new bedding for Christmas. It is sooooo nice!

Wednesday we went to Josh's house he had just painted and put up bead board in their bedroom. For Christmas, they wanted new bedding for their bed, and finally found what they wanted. It turned out so cute I couldn't believe it!!!

My brother Ric and sister in law Kathy just got new bedroom furniture and bedding for their room and I think because so many people were redoing their rooms, it really got me in the mood for a change. On Monday, we got an ad in the mail from the Quilt shop at Gardener Village. They had this darling quilt on their ad for a price that was very reasonable. Krista went with me after school on Tues to check it out. I was sure that they were going to charge a fortune for the pillow shams that went with it, but shocker, they were included in the price, so I bought it. Thurs. I went to the fabric store and bought 10 yards of fabric for the dust ruffle and valance. I sewed for a little while Thurs. night, then finished it up on Friday. I found melon colored sheets that looked great with the bedspread, made a few pillows, and walah. (I already had the green pillows from my previous bedding) I am thrilled with how it turned out!!!

I made the valance just like I did the dust ruffle. I am so grateful for the gathering and hemming foot for my machine.

I LOVE all the ruffles on the dust ruffle.

It's birthday week

2012-01-25T21:04:00.000-08:00

Katie and Aida are turning 3 this week. It is hard to believe that these two tiny girls are growing up so fast. They are so much fun and we are so blessed to have them both in our family. They are such good little friends and have lots of fun together. Happy Birthday Katie on Jan. 26th and Aida on Jan. 27th! We are having a double birthday party at our house for them on Saturday. Should be lots of fun!!!!

Another painting project

2012-01-16T07:34:00.000-08:00

In two weeks Katie and Aida are turning 3. I love shopping for tiny girls, so I have found them a couple of darling little outfits at Children's place on clearance, but wanted to get them something fun to go with them. Last week I took Aida and Hailey with me when we went to tend Josh's girls on Wednesday, and Aida spent a good share of the time we were there riding Katie's scooter around the house. I went right out and bought her a scooter, but couldn't figure out what to get Katie. Josh mentioned it would be fun to have a little table and chairs. They already had a cute wood table I had found at a yard sale a few years ago, but it needed to be refinished, so I took it home with me and got to work sanding and painting it. On Saturday, I went to Ikea and bought some little chairs to go with it. I got them all built and hope she will enjoy it!!!

Here's a close up of the table and chairs. I am so happy with how it turned out!

Good bye Elder Levens, Hello Elder Signs

2012-01-15T14:31:00.000-08:00

Wednesday was transfer day, I always dread transfers. We really learn to love our Elders and hate to see them go. Elder Levens is heading off to Kearns.

We are really going to miss Elder Levens, he has been great fun to have around.

Elder Aguilar's new companion is Elder Signs from New Mexico. He is the oldest in his family and is another great elder. We are happy to have him in our home!

My project for the weekend, painting a bookshelf.

2012-01-08T08:28:00.000-08:00

This week, we have taken down all our Christmas decorations. I think I get tired of so much stuff and just want things to look clean again. Saturday, I decided that the nursery was out of control, and needed to dejunk it a bit. I had dress ups, and all kinds of things in bins up there, just too much stuff. I bought this tiny bookshelf at a yard sale a couple of summers ago, it was unfinished and has sat in my garage for the last few years. I have had all my children's books in a HUGE basket in the corner of the nursery, and I have so many books, it was overflowing, and always looked messy. If the girls wanted a book, they had to dig through the whole pile. So I dug out the book case and painted it, I took all the dress ups down stairs to the play room and got that room all organized again, and put all the books on the book shelf. It is amazing how many books I could put on a tiny little book shelf. It looks so much better!

There is still a lot of stuff in a small bedroom.......

but it feels so much better having it a little more organized!!!

It has been so nice to have a nursery, now I just need to keep it clean and organized!

Skyler and Kara's wedding

2012-01-08T07:45:00.000-08:00

December 30, 2011 was a wonderful day for our family. Skyler and Kara were married in the Dallas temple. Mom, Dad, Lani and I were able to fly to Dallas for the great day. Robynn arranged for us to stay at one of her friends houses who was out of town. It was just 2 blocks from her house. We had such a great time! We arrived the day before the wedding, and spent that day visiting with family. Friday, the weather was amazing, a perfect day for a wedding. After the wedding, Robynn and Dick treated all of us to a fun luncheon at a great French restaurant right by the temple. After the luncheon, all the girls, (except Kara) went to the American Girl Doll store. Then it was time to go home and get ready for the reception. We headed for the reception, and ended up getting lost. Luckily, Ricky and Dick came and rescued us and led the way for us to find it. The reception was very nice. They had tons of delicious food, and fun music and dancing. That was the favorite part of our little girls and Pamela's adorable little boys, Oliver and Miles. The next day was New Years Eve, we had fun visiting again, and did a little shopping, before the yummy New Years Eve dinner that Robynn made for us. Sunday morning, we packed up and headed to the airport and arrived home in time for church at 11:00. We had such a great time, Robynn and Dick are the best hosts for a fun wedding weekend. Thanks so much!!!!

The girls had so much fun climbing in the trees while they waited. For some reason, Keelie really liked me, she came and wanted me to hold her and give her hugs a lot, I LOVED it!!!!

Hang on Brooklyn

Addison is so cute, when the sun gets in her eyes she winks, most of my pictures of her she is winking, there was a lot of sun that day!

Mom and Callum

Everyone is waiting to see them come out. (Aren't those little girls adorable!)

The proud parents get a glimpse of the bride and groom.

Skyler looked so handsome, and Kira was GORGEOUS!!!!

It was so fun to see the two little cousins,(and their parents) they are both sooooo sweet!!!

What a wonderful and BEAUTIFUL family Robynn and Dick have!!! It was a very special day to be in the temple with all of them.

Little Christmas Eve

2011-12-24T04:16:00.000-08:00

In our family, for the last few years, we have been celebrating Little Christmas Eve. (It is Christmas Eve's eve) Most of our kids go to the inlaws on Christmas Eve, and then Christmas day is so busy, that we have really enjoyed doing our Christmas a few days early. Tonight we had a delicious dinner of chicken rollups, rice, yummy salad, darling Santa rolls, (see picture below) green bean casserole, amazing caramel brownies and peppermint icecream.

Here's a shot of everyone who came to dinner

It was fun to have all the grandparents and Lani, besides our kids and grandkids.

It's so nice to fit so many people in our kitchen!

Look at the camera Katie,(I think she is trying to make bunny ears on Abbie.)

Our big 3 girls

I was surprised, they really ate pretty well for being so excited for the evening activities

Here's the girls right after opening the presents from mom and dad, I love how excited they were about everything, and I especially love the look on mom and dads faces. These tiny girls are so blessed to have so many grandparents who just adore them!!!

Abbie is so cute, as soon as the girls opened the outfits we gave them, she had to put hers right on. I hope the rest of the girls look as cute in theirs as Abbie does in hers!

Lani brought a fun white elephant game with enough presents for everyone all in paper bags. Everyone had a great time trying to decide if they should keep their gift or trade it for the one someone else got. Jamie got an awesome chocolate orange.

All the girls were so excited when we brought out their doll houses! I think they are going to really enjoy them!

It was so fun to listen to them as they played with their houses.

Here's Aida testing out her new car.

Grandma Cline gave all the girls Barbie dolls to play with in their doll houses

Lani gave all the girls the cutest red wool coats! They loved them and they LOVE her! Mom and Dad gave them Clifford the dog books and stuffed animals, sooooo cute!

Just before the girls left, I told them the story of Teach the Children. I had Santa's bag filled with all the Christmas things, a tree, wreath, candy cane, ornament, etc. We talked about what each of them symbolized and asked them to try to remember what they mean when they see them. I think their favorite was that a candy cane not only symbolizes the shephards hook, to bring back the lost sheep, but if you turn it upside down, it is a J for Jesus who is the reason for the season!!!!
Right before everyone left, Jordan called and was at the airport in SLC for a 20 minute layover. We were so wishing it would have been longer so we could have all gone to see him! He got to talk to all the kids, and it made it fun to have him join our celebration, even though it was just on the phone! We sure miss him and Jamie, but are happy for them to be spending Christmas in California with Jamie's family. I hope everyone has as wonderful a Christmas as we did!!!

3 Adorable Doll Houses

2011-12-10T12:20:00.000-08:00

For Christmas this year, we got our granddaughters cute wooden Barbie Doll Houses. I have had so much fun putting them together and getting them all ready for them. I made some chair pads, and recovered the couch in the one for Hailey and Aida, (it wasn't as cute as I knew it could be.) They are nearly 4 1/2 feet tall by almost 3 feet wide so they are pretty big!!!

The beds weren't too attractive, sooooooo

I had fun making mattresses, sheets, blankets and pillows.

Merijane and Emily chose this doll house for their girls.

Hailey and Aida's play room is done in bright colors, so Krista chose the bright colored doll house for them. I can't wait until Christmas!!!!!

Aunt Rosella's funeral

2011-12-06T20:19:00.000-08:00

My Aunt Rosella passed away last week and her funeral was held up in Nampa, Idaho. Mom, Dad, Lani, Ric, Kathy, Mike and I were all able to go. We had a great trip up there.
I enjoyed getting to see all of Rosella's kids at the funeral.

I have such great memories of staying at Aunt Ruby's house and playing with all these fun cousins. Gayle was the only one that wasn't able to make it.

All of dad's brothers and sisters that are still alive were there.

This is a picture of all my cousins that were at the funeral. It was so nice to see so many of them. Even though we don't get together very often, we love visiting and catching up on what's been going on in their lives.

A temple trip with Mark and Lyndi

2011-12-06T20:12:00.000-08:00

Our niece Lyndi is leaving on a mission tomorrow for Boise, Idaho! Mark will be dropping her off at the MTC. On Sunday, we had a big family dinner to say good bye to her. She is such a darling girl, she will be a GREAT missionary. Today, Lyndi, Mark, Mike and his dad went to the Salt Lake Temple together. Good Luck Lyndi!!!

Lyndi and Mark

Our new table

2011-11-26T17:59:00.000-08:00

Krista has started refinishing furniture and selling it. A few weeks ago, she and Matt refinished this beautiful table. Her neighbors were getting rid of it, and put it on the side of the road for the garbage man to pick up. She asked them if they cared if she took it and they said that she could. One of the legs was broken, and the top was in terrible shape. Krista sanded it and Matt painted it, and it turned out amazing. She was all ready to sell it, and took this picture of it in her living room to put on KSL. When I saw it, I LOVED it and wanted to buy it. My table seats 6, so every time our kids come, we have to add a card table to our table. This one is huge, you can put 2 on each end, and 3 down the sides, and you can add a leaf for even more. I told her I wanted to buy it, and she called all our kids, and they went in on it, and gave it to us for Christmas!

We then refinished all of my chairs, bar stools and side table to match. Krista sanded them, Matt painted them, I glazed them, and Mike did the final finish spraying.

I am sooooo happy with them, they turned out great!

Thanksgiving 2011

2011-11-26T15:58:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, this was a really great Thanksgiving. We had lots of family, 29 people, and it was a little cozy in our basement, but lots of fun. Unfortunatly, most of my pictures were messed up when I downloaded them. I forgot to turn the printer off, and for some reason, if it's on, it makes the pictures download with CRAZY colored lines all through them. I only had a couple that worked.

Mike and I were so glad everything turned out well.

Mom and Dad finishing up their dinner

After dinner, everyone read the ads to check out what they wanted to shop for on Black Friday! It was a great Thanksgiving and one of the best dinners I can remember, thanks everyone for doing such a great job!

2011 Primary Programs.

2011-11-13T11:48:00.000-08:00

Today was our last primary program. Molly's ward has TONS of kids, unbelievable, and they did such a nice job. What a lot of work! Primary programs are so fun when you are the grandparents! I have no idea how any of the other kids did, because I couldn't take my eyes off of my adorable granddaughters!

Hailey's program was lot of fun too. Those kids sure can sing!

We have had a great time going to everyone's program.

Hailey and Libbie's programs were on the same day, so we went to Libbie's Saturday practice and were able to take pictures of her at the pulpit. They all did such a cute job!

Beauty and the Beast

2011-11-13T11:30:00.000-08:00

My school has been working REALLY hard, ever since school started on the play Beauty and the Beast. This past weekend was the production of it, and we took the three big girls to see it. The students did a great job, and the girls really enjoyed it. The director let us sit up in the balcony, which was closed to the public, so they wouldn't have to clean it. So there was just one other family up there. It was so fun, the girls danced in the isles and really enjoyed the show.

Quite a few of my students were in it. Belle is in my Teen Living class, and such a cute girl.

Here they are with the baker.

And posing with one of the village people.

Amanda is one of my sweetest students.

Molly wore her beautiful princess dress and curtsied whenever I took a picture. Several of them, she wasn't in because she was in a low curtsey!

Finally, we got to take a picture with Belle, the girls thought she was sooooo Beautiful! Libbie decided she wanted to have a Belle birthday party and invite her to come. (She had just been to an Arial birthday party, and they had Arial come)

The Smurf Movie

2011-11-08T20:04:00.000-08:00

Over the weekend, we took our girls to see the new Smurf movie. They LOVED it!!! They laughed and laughed and had so much fun. Mike and I really enjoyed it too. It was definitely worth a dollar!

Halloween 2011

2011-11-01T19:15:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks before Halloween, we had the girls dress in their costumes so we could take pictures. They are finally big enough to all look in the same direction, I hope someday, they will all smile!!!!

Molly wanted to be a girl lion and Emily found a darling costume online for her. Abbie was the cutest little lady bug! (They forgot their costumes for the above picture, so we went to their house on Halloween to see them all dressed up.)

Hailey wanted to be Tiana from Princess and the frog and Aida was a darling little Tinkerbell. They went to Gardner Village and took these cute pictures. Mom,dad, and Lani, went with them and had a great time!

Libbie loves the Wizard of Oz movie, and wanted to be Dorothy this year. Her mom had been looking for a costume, but could only find adult Dorothy costumes. I offered to make it, and had a lot of fun sewing it for her. Katie wanted to be a witch, and is wearing the costume that Gigi made for Cierra about 20 years ago. Thanks Kathy for taking good care of it and letting her borrow it!

Merijane was able to find red sparkly shoes to complete the costume!

Molly and Abbie's vacation at our house

2011-10-23T13:22:00.000-07:00

Tues. night Jamie and Emily and their girls came for a sleep over. Jamie and Emily were heading to Cabo San Lucas for a weeks vacation early Wed. morning, so thought it would be easier to sleep over. Molly and Abbie stayed with us until Saturday night when we took them for a vacation with their other grandparents. We had such a great time with these darling little girls.

Sweet Molly

Adorable Abbie

Mike tended the girls on Wed. and after school, we went to Josh's and played with his girls.

They played play dough.

We went to grandma Clines and they had a fun time playing blocks.

When I asked Molly is she would like to go to Gigi's house she said "Yes, I would LOVE to, and can we play on her crazy monkey bars" The girls had so much fun on the monkey bars, they spent probably a good 45 minutes just climbing up and down them. We got the cutest pictures of them!

We went to Burger King with mom and dad, and Krista and her girls came along

Aida and Abbie loved the slides

We took the girls and Hailey to Gardiner Village to see the witches.

There were all kinds of crazy witches!

The girls enjoy walking over to the park and playing on the playground! Ready, set, go!

Be so careful Molly!

It's nice to have a big sister to push the little sister

I was in charge of our stake blood drive on Friday. Molly came and worked with me as a volunteer.

Molly was our helper and gave out the snacks to everyone. She took her job very seriously.

Molly and Abbie painted pumpkins and some little ceramic animals.

Abbie painted a little bear

Hailey stopped by with Matt to mow our lawn and the girls had a good time playing together. They love doing puzzles.

On our way to drop the girls off at their other grandparent's house, we stopped at a new park we had never played at. Molly REALLY loves the monkey bars!

Abbie really loves the slides! We had such a fun time, we hated to drop them off, but we know their other grandparents will have a great time too!

A trip to the mountains

2011-10-10T19:28:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago, Josh planned a trip to the mountains. When he planned it, it was still nice and warm outside. Even though it had cooled down, he still wanted to go, so we got out our winter clothes and headed for the mountains. The girls were thrilled that there was still a little snow. They couldn't wait to make snow angels.

We had a fire to roast hot dogs and marshmallows, and to keep us warm!

Krista brought these HUGE orange pumpkin marshmallows that made amazing sommores!

Aida and Katie

Sit very still Hailey, don't fall out of the tree!

Aida was the one we had to keep an eye on, she took off running every chance she got.

Libbie and Hailey kept wanting to go on little hikes. They have their hot chocolate and are all set for an adventure.

Hailey and Libbie

The Cline family

The Hurst Family

Even though it was a bit chilly, we sure had a fun time!

Abbie turns 2

2011-10-02T20:05:00.000-07:00

It's hard to believe our baby girl is 2 years old! She is the cutest 2 year old talker you ever heard, she is such a little chatter box.

Abbie loves Dora, and got a giant Dora balloon.

There were cupcakes for the girls to frost and decorate

Emily made her a cute butterfly birthday cake, it was very tasty!

We got her a doll house that she looked like she is going to have lots of fun with. She is such a cute little 2 year old birthday girl.

21 quarts of pears

2011-09-29T20:15:00.000-07:00

A month or so ago, Merijane told us about an opportunity to buy pears from the church farm. They were the ones that didn't fit in the machines, so they sold them. Merijane, Krista and I all bought a 20 lb. box of them. On Tues. Krista called and said that they were ripe and ready to can. I had something going on every night until Thurs. and was hoping that they would be patient and wait for me. Tonight, Mike and I canned them and they turned out great! I haven't done any canning for YEARS, and this year I also did a couple of batches of peaches. I am feeling pretty domestic!

The Circus is back in town!!!

2011-09-25T17:57:00.001-07:00

When I first heard that the circus was heading to SLC, I quickly got tickets for us to take our 3 big girls, so we were able to get great seats on row 14. It is nice to be that close, so you can see things pretty well. Robynn had this cute picture on her blog when she went to the circus, so Mike turned it into an invitation for the girls and we gave it to them about a month ago. They have been counting down and it is finally here!

What cute girls all ready for the circus. I got them bright matching tee shirts so we could keep track of them. It worked, no one got lost!!!

Before the show started, we got to go down and see some of the performers. The dancers taught the kids a little dance.

Put your hands in the air!

Trying out a few dance moves.

Waiting with Opi for the show to begin.

There were tons of clowns and they came in on some of the craziest bikes and cars.

There were lots of people with these crazy shoes that were about 4 feet in the air and made them bounce like Tigger. They were lots of fun to watch!

Two men were on top of what looked like giant gerbil wheels that were moving and spinning as they did all kinds of tricks. We were very worried that they were going to fall off, and they almost did.

There were tigers.

There were strong men that held up huge lots with swings on the end and 4 girls were swinging from them as they spun around, it was crazy!

The elephants did all kinds of tricks, the girls were wishing that they could ride on the elephants.

After the circus, we stopped and had dinner at McDonalds, and then took the girls back home. It was sure a fun day!

Welcome Elder Aguilar

2011-09-25T17:53:00.000-07:00

Elder Giles headed off to a new area to become a zone leader and Elder Aguilar moved in. He is from Mexico, so he already speaks Spanish perfectly. He is working on his English, and doing very well. He is a very sweet elder, and he and Elder Levens have a lot of fun together!!!

Happy Birthday Dad!

2011-09-17T07:04:00.000-07:00

Sept. 16, 1928 was a great day, my dad, Orval Jay Birks was born. He is such an amazing man, and I love him so much. He has taught me so many things, how to work, how to serve, and how to save my money, just to mention a few. He has been a great example to me and my family. I know he would do anything for any of us, I'm so glad he is my dad!!!! Happy Birthday Dad, I LOVE YOU!!!!

New Family Pictures

2011-09-03T10:52:00.001-07:00

When we realized that Jamie and Jordan were going to be able to come with us to Bear Lake, we started trying to figure out how we could do a family picture. Our last one was almost 2 years ago, when Abbie was a tiny baby. We decided to try to do it while we were at the cabin. Last year we met this sweet little man that lives right by the cabin who has some old farm equipment and awesome cars that we thought might be fun in the pictures. I contacted him to find out if we could use them in our pictures, and he was nice enough to let us do it. I wonder if we will ever get a picture of all of these girls looking and smiling at the camera?????

Josh set up his tripod and snapped a ton of pictures, and by putting two together, we were able to get one that was pretty good of everyone. Thanks Josh for all your hard work and Mike for putting the two pictures together

2011 Bear Lake trip

2011-08-11T05:17:00.001-07:00

Last year as we were getting ready to leave Bear Lake, our kids said they thought we should make it a tradition to go there every year, so we booked the cabin for this summer. We had such a fun time, everyone got along so well and helped out. Each family was in charge of making and cleaning up one meal, and then we just took stuff to make sandwiches both days to the lake. On our way, our car stopped at the new Brigham City temple, it is so pretty!

We celebrated Molly's birthday while were were there.

Make a wish and blow out those candles!

The kids rented a canoe and had fun rowing around the lake

We brought rafts and tubes to float around in. The girls loved pulling people around in the rafts

Jamie's family playing in the sand

Jamie and Jordan on the beach

Josh's family

The Hurst family

Opi and Grammy

Matt drove his truck, so they had room to bring their jeep. Aida gave her dad a ride in the jeep, I didn't know it could hold adults!

Abbie loved having a turn to drive the jeep, I love the look on her face!

We had a fun family game of kick ball. Everyone got to play and had a great time, kick it hard Aida.

Run Abbie, Run!!!!

Safe!!!!

In the evenings we played games. There were fun things to do all the time.

Krista brought some glittery fingernail polish and the girls had fun getting a manicure or pedicure.

Don gave Matt and Aida a ride in his truck

Victor the cat kept the girls entertained. He was at the cabin most of the time, even though he belonged to Don, who picked up our garbage every morning in his cool truck.

The big girls loved playing puzzles

I brought some playdough for the girls to play with

The big girls had fun playing Molly's new game.

Jamie and Emily had to leave Tues. night since it was finals week for Jamie, so before they left, we made sommores, at the fire pit near the cabin.

Wednesday morning, we packed up and headed for home. We sure had a great time, thanks everyone for taking time out of your busy schedule to come with us!!!

Taylor Jay Birks' blessing day

2011-08-10T18:59:00.000-07:00

Today was Taylor's blessing day. Chip gave him a beautiful blessing. Taylor is a darling baby, and they are the cutest little family!

Jamie and Jordan were so thrilled that they could be here for the blessing. Chip and Elycia invited them over for a sleepover the night before, and they had fun playing with Taylor.

What cute boys!

Our adventure day

2011-08-04T06:07:00.000-07:00

Josh is at scout camp this week, and since Merijane works on Wednesday, we picked up the girls early today so she could go to work. Just before I went to pick up the girls, I got this great idea to play at Gateway on the way home. I called Krista at 9:15 and she was out jogging. I had to pick up the girls in Woodscross at 10:00. I asked Krista if she and her girls would like to join us. She turned around and headed for home, and grabbed their swim suits, and met me at the freeway and we made it to Josh's house on time. I loved this picture of Aida

Nothing like water to put a smile on your face

4 very wet girls

Getting wet when it's so warm feels soooooo good!

On our way out of Gateway, Libbie showed us this great echo room. The girls loved making all kinds of noises, very loud, and running all around there.

Just as we were leaving Gateway,we saw the Trax train go by. We had never taken them on a ride on it, and I asked them if they would like to go, and they were all excited so away we went. Here they are waiting for the train.

Here we are on Trax, the girls were great and loved the ride!

Krista had been wanting to take the girls to the Church History Museum, so when they announced the Temple Square stop, we hopped off and headed there. They had the funnest display set up and the girls absolutely LOVED it. We were there for 2 hours and they didn't want to leave. They had Nephi's boat and some fishing poles with magnets and fish, Libbie and Katie were fishing and Hailey was below putting fish on their lines down below

Aida checking out Nephi's boat

There was a display teaching the girls how to hand sew that was giant

These two really got into the sewing

There were lots of quilts and they had magnet quilt pieces the kids could put together on a HUGE magnet board to make all kinds of interesting patterns

there was an area where you could plant a garden

There was a wall that had tons of Book of Mormon dolls, lots were made of wood and had clothes you could velcro on

More Book of Mormon dolls

There was a table where you could pretend to eat dinner with the missionaries

Aida doing dishes after feeding the missionaries

They had a display where the kids could put on fancy Mexican skirts, and had a video on a big screen showing them how to dance. On the other wall was a mirror that was huge!!!!

The dancing was Hailey's favorite part of the day, we need to make the girls some skirts like these, they were darling.

We had some very tired girls at the end of the trip. Katie and Aida made a little bed for themselves out of some benches and giant soft building blocks. It was such a fun day, thanks Krista for dropping everything and coming to play! I think that was the most spontaneous, fun day I have had in years!!!

Laundry room cabinets

2011-08-04T05:52:00.000-07:00

This is the first summer in YEARS, that we haven't had some kind of a project around the house. With only a few days left until I go back to school, I decided it was time to paint the cabinets in my laundry room. They are the only ones in my house that are still the original ugly brown that were all through out the house when we bought it. I had some paint left from doing the red wall in my kitchen, and Kathy let me use some of the glaze she used on Carissa's bedroom furniture and here is what they look like now. I had never glazed anything before, so they didn't look the best, but Krista came over and touched up a few places and I think they turned out really cute!

More Texas cousins!

2011-08-01T18:22:00.000-07:00

Pam, Oliver and Miles have spent the summer here in Utah. Today, they came to our house for a play date. We invited all our grand daughters to come and meet Oliver and Miles.

The kids played with play dough for a long time, they made all kinds of interesting things

Oliver had fun with the playrug, train and tractor

Miles liked playing with the tools and toolbench

3 little girls plaing in the kitchen

At lunchtime, we had everyone make their own pizza, even the little ones did a good job

Yummy, yummy pizza, these are some really great pizza makers

What a pile of cute little cousins.

Cousins are the best, we will miss you Oliver!

My trip to Arizona

2011-07-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

It has been way too long since I have been to Arizona to visit Bonnie. I have been wanting to go for the last couple of years, and something has always come up, so this summer I finally made it. We had such a fun time, it was very warm, but we managed to stay cool swimming in her beautiful pool, shopping, visiting her kids in their beautiful homes, eating, attending a 24th of July celebration, reading and I'm sure a few things I forgot.

Bonnie and Bekka both made darling shower curtains for their bathrooms. So cute!

Here's Bonnie in her Beautiful bedroom, her shirt matched her bedroom so cute, I had to take a picture. I loved being at her house and getting to visit with her and her sweet family.

Lunch with Gigi at McDonalds

2011-07-15T17:30:00.000-07:00

We had a really fun day today. Libbie and Katie slept over, Josh and Merijane are at Youth Conference with their ward. We called mom up to see if she wanted to go to McDonalds with us for lunch. Jamie dropped Molly off on his way to work so she could play with the girls. We spent about 2 hours at McDonalds, the girls had such a great time on the play ground, and we enjoyed watching them have so much fun! Mom bought the girls happy meals and the loved the Strawberry Shortcake dolls in them.

Don't you love spray paint????

2011-07-15T06:53:00.000-07:00

Summer is flying by, and I haven't done much cleaning of closets yet, so this week I got busy and have made a dent in it. Yesterday, I cleaned out my closet and had a couple of pair of shoes that were cute, but weird colors, so I never wore them. I was going to get rid of them, but came up with this brilliant idea to spray paint them the color I wanted. I needed new red and pink shoes, so bought some spray paint and wah lah!!!! Here are the shoes I painted red,they were just too cute to throw away, even though the color was strange.

I don't know how long it will last, but instead of polishing, I can always respray!!! If anyone wants hot pink shoes, I have a lot of spray paint and would be happy to share.

Millcreek Canyon

2011-07-10T17:48:00.000-07:00

My nephew Charlie and his family are in town for Cierra's wedding and one of the things he wanted to do while he was here, was go to the mountains and roast hotdogs. Josh knew of a beautiful place up Millcreek canyon, so as many of us as were available, headed up there.

We were able to find a great spot with a table and fire pit for roasting the hot dogs and marshmallows. We ended up with quite a group of people!

We had a delicious picnic, and fun visit

Robynn brought the biggest marshmallows I have ever seen and Keelie roasted them perfectly!

The girls LOVED Skyler and Kara. They blew bubbles with them and hiked all around the area. Before we left, I asked Libbie if she would like to come again, she said, YES, and let's invite Skyler and Kara too!!!

Before we left, we went to see a beautiful waterfall, what a great evening, we can't wait to go back!!!

Cierra and Riley are married!

2011-07-10T16:50:00.000-07:00

July 9, 2011, Cierra and Riley were married in the Timpanogos temple

What good looking parents Cierra has

There was lots of family at the wedding

Skyler and Kara

Me and Lani in our matching sweaters, you would have thought we planned it

Emily and Jamie were able to come

Robynn, Dick and their adorable grandbabies

The bride, groom and grandparents

They are so cute!!!

The reception was that evening

The place they chose for the reception, the Alpine Art Center was incredible!

The beautiful bride and handsome groom

Krista made Cierra's cake and it was AMAZING!!!!!!

A close up of the cake

EVERYTHING was just perfect!!!

There were people at the reception before 7:00 and there was a constant line until about 9:30! Those in the line never got a break the entire evening.

We had lots of family there, so we went outside to visit. All of our kids and grandkids,except Jamie and Jordan who live in Georgia, were there, also Mom, Dad, Lani, Jeff and Jen, Robynn, Dick, Tatia, Penny, Charlie and his family, Skyler, Boyd and Deeanne, Marie and Michelle, Kathy, Kim and Danny. We had a great time visiting outside where the girls could run wild and free, and they did!!!

The girls loved playing with Keelie's grandpa, Uncle Dick

Molly and Keelie

Jen and Jeff

Robynn and Dick

Three of Dads siblings came to the wedding

Danny, Kim and Kathy

Emily, Jamie, Josh and Merijane

These little girls had a blast running around outside during the reception, it was in such a beautiful place!!! By the end of the night they were pretty tired.

2011 is a great year!

2011-07-10T16:39:00.000-07:00

2011 is a great year in our family! We had 3 sweet little babies born and they were all together for Cierra's wedding.

Here is a close up of cute little Callum Jay

adorable little Penny Elaine

and darling Taylor Jay Birks

Fun in the Fountains at Gateway

2011-07-10T16:18:00.000-07:00

Since Charlie and Tatia were in town, we decided to all meet up at Gateway to play in the fountains. It was so fun to see Keelie fit right in with all our little girls. They just adore her!!!

Our four big girls drying off after playing in the fountains

and the 3 little girls

Slow down Hailey!

Waiting for the water by them to shoot up

and waiting

They start out kind of small, just shooting up here and there........

then the fountains go absolutely crazy, and the girls LOVED running through them!

What a fun day for these 7 little cousins!!!!

Gigi and Molly meet Penny

2011-07-07T05:48:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Robynn, Dick, Tatia and Penny came into town. I got to pick them up at the airport and then took them over to mom and dad's so they could get to meet Penny.

Jamie and Molly came over to mom's house to get to visit with them. I have never seen anything cuter than Molly with Penny! She loved her!!!! Mom was holding Penny, and Molly stood right by her and just kept touching her little hands and feet and kept saying that she was super cute, and her shoes were cute and her pants were cute and she liked her bow, she was just DARLING!!! She was thrilled when she got to hold tiny Penny. Thanks for sharing her with us Tatia!!!!

Another visit to the most Amazing Playhouse Ever!!!

2011-07-02T15:04:00.000-07:00

Molly and Libbie weren't here when I took Hailey and Aida to see my friend's playhouse, so before Hailey's birthday party, we stopped by to check it out.

What a cute smile!

Cousins are the best friends you can have

Molly on her way up to the reading loft

Checking out the little table and chairs

Hailey turns 5

2011-07-02T14:01:00.001-07:00

Hailey had a party last night for the family and one in the afternoon for her friends. Here she is ready to blow out the candles on her Mad Hatters Cake Krista made.

Hailey got lots of fun presents

Hailey loves taking pictures, she took my camera and went around taking pictures of everyone

It was fun to have Misty and Carol Sue in town

Hi Grandpa Birks

Lani and Mom

Another of Hailey's photos, smile Grandma Cline

Lani entertained the kids with giant bubbles

Hailey was the cutest birthday girl. She had 12 friends (including Molly and Libbie)come to her friend birthday party, and they had such a great time.

Krista made a darling Mad Hatters cake and some yummy cup cakes. There were also little sandwiches, strawberries, carrots, and watermelon, all set up so cute on the serving table.

They had fun decorating some crazy hats for the Mad Hatters Party

They had a yummy lunch with flower or star sandwiches, watermelon, strawberries, and cupcakes

Krista made a bunch of bean bags, and they had a bean bag toss

They played a game of croquet

The pinata Mike made turned out great! Matt hung it on a rope from the corner of their garage to the corner of their house.

Everyone got a chance to hit it 3 times, I forgot how much kids like pinatas!

Candy went everywhere, and there was some left in the body that the kids quickly got as well. What a fun party that was!!!!

Cierra goes to the temple

2011-07-02T13:55:00.000-07:00

This morning, Mom, Dad, Lani, Krista, Mike and I were able to go to the beautiful Timpanogus Temple and be there when Cierra took out her endowments. Only 6 more days and she and Riley will be married, they are such a darling couple!!!!

Another great day for Ric and Kathy, they have such wonderful kids, we are so happy to be relataed to them!!!

Chandler is an Eagle Scout

2011-07-02T10:53:00.000-07:00

Chandler and 6 of his friends from his ward received their Eagle Scout award this past week. They had a guy bring an Eagle to the ceremony and tell all about it. That is a real live eagle behind the boys!!!

What a great young man Chandler is! He has some great parents that have helped him become who he is.

This is one very proud grandmother! All 10 of her grandsons are now Eagle Scouts, way to go boys!!!!

Breakfast for the missionaries

2011-07-01T20:32:00.000-07:00

Molly and Libbie had a sleepover, so they could be all ready for Hailey's birthday party. Since I wasn't going to be home Saturday morning, to make breakfast for the missionaries, (I get to go to the temple with Cierra) I thought it would be nice to make it today with the extra help.

They were a big help scrambling the eggs and cooking them

The girls are pretty good at setting the table

Here are our Elders, Elder Levens and Elder Giles after the good breakfast that the girls helped make for them.

Cline Family Picnic

2011-06-28T05:27:00.000-07:00

Last night we got together with all the Utah Clines and some of our Texas family too. Stephanie, Andrew, Henry, Carol Sue and Misty were in town, so we had a picnic at the park by our house. All of Grandma Clines great grandkids were there, so I thought it was the perfect opportunity for a little photo shoot.

We brought the girls bikes to keep them entertained

Little Henry enjoyed trying out all the bikes and scooters

Our 3 big girls loved doing acrobats on the railings

Our 3 little girls had so much fun riding the bikes

I had lots of fun watching all the kids have so much fun!

The kids really had a great time riding around the park

Krista and Jenn were such good friends when they were little girls, and had fun catching up

It was so great to see Stephanie, Andrew and adorable Henry again!

We are so blessed to have such cute, sweet girls in our family!

Everyone enjoyed just standing around and visiting

or sitting around and visiting!

It was so much fun to get together and see everyone! Families are the BEST!!!!

Most amazing play house EVER!!!!!

2011-06-26T20:45:00.001-07:00

We have a neighbor at the end of our street that has the most amazing play house EVER! She has invited me to bring the girls over, and so last week when we were tending Hailey and Aida, I took her up on her offer. They had such a fun time.

For some reason, Aida is very impressed with doors and went in and out of this one 100 times

Hailey just chillin on the front porch

Aida was good at climbing the ladder to the reading loft

She thought it was pretty great

These girls had such a fun time playing at the most amazing play house EVER!!!!

Utah Arts Festival

2011-06-26T19:41:00.000-07:00

This year for Father's Day, Josh and Merijane gave Mike tickets to the Utah Art Festival. They came with us and we had lots of fun looking at all the cool things people made. They had a section just for kids, and Libbie had a great time. Katie fell asleep and slept through most of it.

There was a huge dragon that the kids got to paint scales to go on.

Libbie loved playing in the water and climbing on the brick wall

They had some people there from Sommerhays music, that let the kids try out all the instruments.

She did very well on the flute, made some great music!

She also tried out the violin

She made a fun mask

There were things for the kids to paint

There were lots of crazy things made out of yarn, this car was totally covered with things that were knit or crocheted.

Both girls had fun getting wet

Katie fell asleep, and took a good nap while Libbie had fun

It was a really hot day, and we enjoyed cooling off in the fountain

Taylorsville Days

2011-06-26T19:07:00.000-07:00

This has been such a fun weekend! It is Taylorsville days here in Taylorsville, and they have all kinds of things going on. Friday night, I talked my friend Patt and her husband into going with Mike and I to the Elvis concert. They had a darling Elvis impersonator who did a wonderful job. He sang GREAT and looked so much like Elvis that it made it a really fun night. Afterwards they put on an amazing display of fireworks.

On Saturday night, Krista, Matt and the girls came with us to the Abba impersonator concert. It didn't start until 8:00, so I wondered how the girls would do. They were WONDERFUL! I think Hailey danced almost the entire 2 hours, I took videos of her dancing, but haven't figured out how to put those on my blog. It was so much fun, they stayed awake the whole time, and loved the fireworks after wards. I think that was the only time Hailey sat down. The fireworks were to music and for the finale, they sang the Abba song, Dancing Queen, and Hailey jumped out of her seat and began dancing again. I was smiling the whole night just watching her in action!

We brought plenty of snacks so no one would get hungry

Thanks Krista and Matt for letting the girls stay out sooooooo late and helping to make it so much fun for us!

Hailey took our picture, and did a pretty good job for an almost 5 year old.

Our trip to Georgia

2011-06-20T20:45:00.000-07:00

Mike and I just got home from one of our funnest vacations ever! We were gone for 2 1/2 weeks, and had such a great time. We were able to visit lots of family and see some beautiful parts of the country that we had never seen before. I really wanted to get a GPS before we went, but Mike had a map, and was convinced that was all he needed. He was right, we made it all the way to Georgia and home, without getting totally lost. He did a great job of being our GPS!!!!! Jeff checked out our van before we went and said it looked like it would make it, and we had no problems at all, thanks Jeff!!!! We put 5033 miles on the van, so it was a real trouper, I guess with it's new front end paint job, it felt like a new car.

We left early Friday morning June 3, and drove to Albuquerque where we had a fun visit with Mike's Aunt JoAnne and Uncle LaVelle. We spent the night with them and then left about 4:00 am for Dallas. We arrived at the Thiot's at about 3:30 Saturday afternoon. Robynn and Dick had planned a fun Pre Blessing Day BBQ in their back yard. This is my first glimps of adorable little Penny, who we have come to see get blessed on Sunday.

Tatia is such a cute mom, it is fun to see her in action!

Anyone that has been to the Thiot's house, knows what a great hostess Robynn is. She makes you feel so at home, and welcome in her beautiful home.

She had tables set up outside, but it was so hot, they brought the chairs inside and we all ate in her house. She had a table all ready for the tiny girls to eat at.

Jake's family was in town for the blessing so they were at the BBQ. Kara, Skyler's girlfriend and her family were at the party too.

Robynn and Dick had a delicious BBQ meal catered for about 28 people! The food was amazing!

Robynn had 2 swimming pools filled up and the kids had a great time swimming
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Sunday June 5, was a very special day in our Family. Penny Elaine Grange was blessed in Robynn and Dick's ward by her dad Jake. He gave her a beautiful blessing. Afterwards, we went to the Thiots for another delicious meal. What a great day

Sunday night we met Mark and Jayna over at Stephanie and Andrew's house. We had a fun visit with their sweet family. Henry or Hank as they sometimes call him, is their only grandchild and the apple of EVERYONE's eye!

He is soooooo cute! We loved getting better acquainted with him.

On Monday we rode the Dart train with Mark and Jayna to Dallas.

Mark took us to see some of the walls he had plastered in town. He does amazing work! Then they took us out to lunch at the Blue Mesa that he had also plastered.

We went to the Arboretum and saw all the beautiful flowers and trees. It was really hot, so we didn't stay too long.

Tues. we went to Tatia's house and had a fun visit with them. Robynn is LOVING having Tatia and her family so close by.

They have the cutest house, and have decorated Penny's nursery so darling.

On Thurs. morning, we left Dallas and headed to New Orleans. It was the scenic route to Georgia, but Mike thought as long as we were heading East, we should take a little southern detour, and see New Orleans. We spent a couple of days there, the first night we went to a Jazz concert in this really pretty park. Luckily, it was inside, because it was VERY HOT!!! We took a cruise down the Mississippi River on this Steam Boat. We had lunch on the boat and enjoyed seeing and hearing about all the sights.

This is a picture in front of a really old cathedral. We went inside and got to see all the cool stained glass windows and statues.

This guy was standing in the street pretending to be a statue. He stood in the same position forever, and it was HOT outside!

They have a flea market that has lots of little booths with all kinds of crazy stuff.

We went on a trolley ride around the city, and saw lots of beautiful southern mansions.

Our last night in New Orleans, we went to the City Diner, that had amazing Po Boy sandwiches! Our home teacher Mo, is from New Orleans, and said that we had to try one of them while we were there. He was right, they were delicious!!!

We left New Orleans early Saturday morning, the drive was beautiful. It is so green there it was hard to believe it was real. We drove along the coastline and enjoyed seeing the ocean as we drove.

We arrived at Jordan and Jamie's apartment Saturday afternoon. It was so good to see them! We got to go to church with them on Sunday, and loved their ward. Everyone was so nice, and several people came up to us and told us how much they enjoyed having them in their ward. Sunday night we went over to some of their friends house to play games. It was lots of fun!!!

Monday morning, we noticed the pool right outside their apartment was empty, so we put on our suits and headed over for a swim. The weather was wonderful while we were in Georgia. They had been in a drought for quite a while, so the humidity was very low, and even though it was hot, it wasn't bad at all.

June 13th was Lani and Lexi's birthday. To celebrate, Jamie threw a birthday bash for Lexi, (we were thinking of you too Lani) Jamie baked all kinds of different shapes that she put together to make the most adorable doggie birthday cake you ever saw.

Lexi patiently watched Jamie make her birthday cake. Anyone that checks out Jamie and Jordan's blog, knows what an amazing pup Lexi is! She does all kinds of tricks one of our favorites is when they play hide and seek with her. Jordan takes her leash and pretends to hide it in several different places. She sits patiently and watches every move he makes. Then he finally puts it down somewhere, and she retraces all the places he went and then to the final place and picks it up and brings it to him. We really do have a smart little grandpup!

Here is Lexi with some of her friends that came to the party. There were about 7 couples with their kids or dogs that came. They grilled hot dogs and everyone brought a side dish to go with it. Jamie had darling party favors for all the dogs and kids, they all had something to do with dogs.

Isn't this the cutest cake ever!!!! Jamie did such a great job of it. What an amazing cake decorator we have in our family.

On Tues. morning, we all got in our van and headed to Savannah. It was a 4 hour drive but well worth it. We got to stay at a VERY NICE Hilton Hotel where Jordan gets all kinds of perks, because he travels so much. Delicious breakfasts, and dinners were included each day, YUMMY! Savannah is a BEAUTIFUL city!!!! There are parks every 2-3 blocks throughout the entire city, not with swings and slides, just beautiful trees, flowers, fountains, and benches.

There were magnolia trees with HUGE flowers on them! I have never seen anything like them.

We enjoyed walking through lots of the beautiful parks during our time in Savannah.

The last time Jamie and Jordan were in Savannah, they discovered this fun restaurant that they wanted us to be sure and go to. It is located on Tybee Island, about 20 minutes from Savanah. The Crab Shack had delicious food and the atmosphere was awesome!
The restaurant was built totally around the trees and landscaping, and it was right on the beach.

At the Crab Shack, they had live alligators, and LOTS of them.

The beach was beautiful, we really had fun with Jamie and Jordan, they are so cute!

We swam for a couple of hours and the water was soooooo warm! We headed back to the hotel for a good nights sleep and then went back to Savannah Thurs. morning to see a few more of the sights. There were lots of fun shops to check out. Thurs. afternoon we returned to Albany (Al-Binny as the locals call it)

Friday morning we left Jordan and Jamie's at about 5:00 and drove all the way to Dallas. Mike had forgotten his suit at Mark and Jayna's house, so we stopped by to pick it up and spent the night with them.

Saturday morning we headed off to Abilene Texas to visit Sterling and his family, about a 3 hour drive. We had a fun visit with them, and had planned on staying overnight and going to church with them on Sunday, and leaving Monday, but about 4:00 in the afternoon, decided that we were ready to be home, so we headed out.

We were not exactly sure how to get back to the freeway, so Sterling hopped on his sweet new motorcycle and gave us an escort.

We drove to Tucumcarri New Mexico Saturday night, and stayed at the Route 66 motel. We got up about 5:00 and headed for home Sunday morning. Although we LOVED all the beautiful green trees along the roads in the south we welcomed the sight of the colorful mountains of Spanish Fork Canyon. We arrived home about 6:00 Sunday night. What a long but very fun trip!!!!

After a good nights sleep, the first thing we did was blow up our new swimming pool and invite the girls over for a swim. Boy did they have fun!!!! It's good to be back home!!!!

Molly's Preschool Program

2011-05-29T06:02:00.000-07:00

Molly had a preschool program last Wednesday. Unfortunately for me, it was right during the middle of the day, and on a CRAZY day so I couldn't miss school. Mike was able to go, and said she was a GREAT singer.

Congratulations Molly for finishing your first year of Preschool! Just one more year and you are off to Kindergarten.

Preschool Programs

2011-05-21T18:19:00.000-07:00

We have had a fun week attending Preschool Programs. Libbie's was last night and Hailey's on Wed, and Molly's is next week.

They sang such cute songs, they all know all the words and performed just darling!

It was so cute, after the program, Libbie had to hug all of her friends, she is one friendly little girl!

Look out Kindergarten, Here Comes Libbie Jane!!!!

It's hard to believe that this little girl is graduating from preschool too, and ready to move on to Kindergarten!

She had a darling program and invited all her grandparents to come.

They had cute props for the songs that they sang.

They learned some little dances and some pretty fancy moves too!! You are going to be a great kindergarten girl Hailey!

Mother's Day 2011

2011-05-15T06:57:00.000-07:00

Since Josh had to work on Mothers day, they invited all of us to come to a really fun park in West Jordan to celebrate early on Saturday. The kids took care of the meal and all the details, and all Mike and I had to do was show up! It was such a beautiful day, the only one without rain, and lots of sunshine!!!

Me and Abbie

The big kids had a game of soccer while the little kids played on the playground

The big girls just LOVE little Abbie!

Krista and Hailey with some beautiful flowers they picked from their garden for the centerpiece on the table

Opi and the 3 little girls on the swings

Libbie and Molly on the monkey bars

Abbie loved playing on the playground

Jordan and Jamie gave Mike and I an early Fathers Day/Mothers Day gift by treating us to a night at the Holiday Inn up in Park City. We had a great time and it was a beautiful hotel.

It has been the rainiest spring ever this year, so Krista and her family gave me these darling rainboots to keep my feet dry.

Jamie and Emily gave me this darling rod iron hanger and the cute butterfly and flower on it to go in my side yard.

Josh and Merijane came with flowers and planted my planters for me. A few years ago, they gave me a couple of big pots, full of flowers, and every year since, they have replanted them for me. They look great again this year!!!

Thanks everyone for making it such a fun Mothers day!!!!!

Two new babies in our family

2011-05-13T18:09:00.000-07:00

May has been a great month in our family. The first week in May, our tiny little Penny Elaine was born, and my sister Robynn became a grammy for the 5th time! It is hard to believe that each time is just as wonderful as the first.

Ric and Kathy are Grandparents too!!!! Taylor Jay Birks was born at 3:04 on May 12th weighing in at a whopping 9 lbs 14 oz. and 20 1/2 inches long. He is one adorable baby. Congratulations to the newest parents and grandparents in our family!!!!

Kids say the darndest things!!!

2011-05-02T20:15:00.000-07:00

Last night the girls were down playing in the play room. Libbie had on a pair of princess shoes that went with her princess dress. She took them off while she was playing and Hailey slipped them on her own feet. When Libbie noticed this she said "Hailey, those are my shoes, you have 2 choices, you can either give them to me, or I will take them from you......1, 2, 3 it was your choice, now I have to take them from you, and she did, and Hailey just let her do it. I guess even 4 year olds can use love and logic! (Merijane has been using it on Libbie and it sounds like she is learning how to use it too!!!)

Tonight on my way home from school I was visiting with Hailey. I got home and went in the house and she wanted to talk to Opi. I couldn't find him and she said, he is probably playing hide and seek, just say ready or not here I come. I still couldn't find him and she told me to go check under or behind the couch.

Fancy Nancy and her Family History

2011-05-01T20:08:00.000-07:00

I found a fun new Fancy Nancy book about Family History. Tonight we had all our kids and grandkids over, and invited Grandpa Cline to join us for dinner. After dinner, we read the new book about Fancy Nancy's ancestors, and asked Grandpa Cline some questions about his ancestors. It was fun to hear about his parents and grandparents! We want to go visit the other great grandparents and have them tell some stories about their ancestors soon.

Dressing up for the Royal Wedding!

2011-05-01T06:41:00.000-07:00

This has been an exciting week getting to watch all the hype about the Royal Wedding. The teachers at our school dressed up on Friday, and had a Royal Tea after school, it was so much fun! Saturday night we tended Jamie and Krista's girls and they always love dressing up when they come to our house. It is so funny, now even the tiny girls want to get in on the action. Aida came in carrying this dress and wanted to get all dressed up.

Abbie picked out a size 6 that was way too big. Luckily she was happy with a dress I found in the closet I had bought years ago. I can see I need to start watching for some smaller dress ups for these little gals!

Hailey is modeling a new favorite that I found last weekend.

And last, but certainly not least is Molly in the new spring line of dresses. They are so much fun!!!

What a difference a day makes!

2011-04-30T07:33:00.000-07:00

This is what we woke up to on Saturday morning! I couldn't believe how much snow we got.

Hard to believe that a week ago we were taking pictures of the girls in our front yard and now.....

Well, as they say, "If you don't like the weather, just wait a few hours, this is the same day, about 8 hours later!

It looks like everything survived, what crazy spring weather we have in Utah!!!!

6 Beautiful girls in my flowers!!!

2011-04-28T19:43:00.000-07:00

The Spring flowers are definitely out and in full bloom. Last Thurs. we had all the girls over for an early Easter lunch and photo shoot.

Josh took tons of pictures, and there wasn't one with everyone even looking at the camera, let alone smiling!

They all looked so cute in their new dresses, even if they wouldn't smile for the camera.

The 3 little girls

The 3 big girls

Libbie

Hailey

Molly

Katie

Aida

And Abbie

It's yard sale time!

2011-04-03T12:23:00.000-07:00

I hit my first yard sale of the season, I was so excited to find some fun puzzles, a strawberry shortcake game, 2 darling kids folding chairs and 4 kids bike helmets, all for $12.00. I LOVE yard sales!!!!

A baby shower for Elycia

2011-04-01T21:45:00.000-07:00

Elycia is only about 6 weeks away from having her baby boy. Lani, mom and I gave her a baby shower tonight. It turned out really fun.

Robynn and Tatia figured out how to make the cutest Easter topiary, and shared the idea with mom, who taught me how to make it. Pretty amazing what you can do with a styrofoam ball and a bag of jelly beans! I loved it by the bunnies Emily gave me for my birthday.

We had a delicious dinner, Chinese Sundaes, orange rolls and brownies. So tasty!!!!

Mom gave her some tiny little onsies, a matching blanket and the cutest little stuffed monkey.

Here's the darling outfit that Jamie and Jordan sent.

Robynn and Tatia made the cutest diaper and wipes holder, they are so talented!

She got a darling swing from Kathy and her mom. There were so many fun presents, that tiny Birks boy is going to be in good shape!!! Thanks everyone for coming.

Goodbye Elder Perez - Hello Elder Giles

2011-03-28T18:01:00.000-07:00

We have really enjoyed having Elder Perez in our home. He finished his mission last Thurs. and we will really miss him. He was a great Elder, always so happy and polite.

It's been fun to have the elders join us for breakfast on Saturday mornings.

Elder Giles moved in last week and is another very sweet Elder. He is from Pennsylvania, and has been out almost 11 months.

Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

2011-03-12T05:34:00.001-08:00

This week my school was performing Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Quite a few of my students were in it, and I thought it would be fun to take our big girls to see it. Unfortunately, Molly was in Arizona with her family so she wasn't able to come with us, but Libbie and Hailey were available, so off we went. Before the play, we took them to dinner at Fat Cats, a fun pizza place near my school. They have the most amazing and tasty breadsticks that are really on a stick, soooo yummy!!!

They had a play ground to help get some of their energy out before the play

Look out Below!!!!

I was so impressed with Libbie and Hailey. They LOVED the play and sat and watched the entire performance. I thought we might end up needing to leave at the intermission, but they were totally entertained!

Shelbie was one of the workers in the chocolate factory. She was in my class that did the preschool, and both of the girls remembered her because she was so sweet to them, and she remembered their names when we saw her after the play!

They got to pose with Lindsay, who was our favorite oompa loompa.

Here they are with one of my students Brooke, who was a squirrel.

Thanks girls for making it such a fun night for me and Opi!!!!

Valentine date night

2011-02-21T13:49:00.001-08:00

Mike had a great idea to invite all our granddaughters over for a Valentine party on Valentines night so their parents could have a date night. (We celebrated on Saturday with a fun movie and delicious dinner.) We had lots of fun with them. He found a Valentine movie that they watched on the computer. When I came downstairs, the 3 big girls were all in a pile in the chair watching it. They are so cute!!!!

Here's our 3 little girls finishing up their dinner.

We made giant valentine cards for their parents and our elders.

It was a little wild with all 6 frosting, decorating and eating cupcakes!

Hailey did a very nice job on hers!

They frosted some amazing cupcakes for themselves, their parents and our missionaries

All 6 girls in their jammies ready for mom and dad to pick them up.

Our Elders are here!

2011-02-13T16:31:00.000-08:00

On Thursday, Elder Perez from Guatemala, and Elder Tyndall from North Carolina moved into our home. As you can see, they are just darling, and we love having them here with us. They bring a great spirit and we are happy to be able to share our home with them.

Happy Birthday Mom and Jeff

2011-02-13T16:17:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, Feb. 12, was Mom's 76th birthday! Robynn was in town, and kinda thought we should have a big celebration, complete with a 76 trombone marching band, but my basement just wasn't big enough. We did have a yummy breakfast and then a presentation of the Grammy awards. There were so many fun awards given.

We had a bunch of people at the ping pong table and then a bunch at the 2 long tables.

We put the big girls in the play room to eat, and play and eat and play.

Since Robynn and Dick had to leave in the afternoon, we decided to do a breakfast, we had the breakfast casseroles, doughnuts, muffins, cinnamon rolls, fruit, milk and juice. Boy was it tasty!!!!

Everyone enjoyed the yummy food! Thanks everyone for bringing such good stuff!!!

It's Birthday week!

2011-02-05T19:46:00.000-08:00

Katie and Aida both just turned 2 years old and had such fun birthday parties. Here are a few pictures from each. Katie's party was tonight and Aida's was last weekend.

Since Josh's family had just barely returned from Disneyland, they did a Minnie Mouse birthday party for Katie, complete with a Minnie Mouse cake.

They made the cutest Minnie Mouse cupcakes that were very yummy!

Katie blowing out the candles on her birthday cake.

Here's our two cute 2 year olds. They are so much fun!

Katie got lots of fun presents, we found her this doll that makes all kinds of noises and when it drinks a bottle it's cheeks move in and out, very cool!!!

Katie moved in with Libbie and they redid Libbie's room, it turned out darling!!!! Katie is in a little toddler bed right next to Libbie's bed so she won't fall out.

Krista had such a fun party for Aida. She had about 30 people there, with just grandparents, great grandparents, and Aida's aunts, uncles and cousins. She is an adorable little 2 year old birthday girl.

Krista made all sorts of yummy treats.

She got a cute new baby doll, all our girls love dolls!

Aida had a heart shaped cake that was delicious!

Aida was such a fun birthday girl, she loved all her presents.

Part of Aida's birthday from Krista was redoing she and Hailey's room. Lani and Krista made the adorable quilts and she did lots of other darling things to match it. Check out Krista's blog for all the cute pictures!

It's circus time!

2011-02-02T05:07:00.000-08:00

Ever since we took the girls to the circus a year and a half ago, Hailey has wanted to go again. I have been watching for it to come to town again, and a few weeks ago, I noticed a smaller circus would be in town, so we got tickets and took the big 3 girls. They were so good, and we had lots of fun!

Here we are waiting for the circus to start.

There were tigers that did tricks.

They had all kinds of bounce houses.

They had an elephant that gave rides.

Here they are trying out their own tricks!

Welcome Missionaries!

2011-01-22T08:29:00.000-08:00

A week ago, one of the counselors from the stake presidency came to chat with us. He asked us if we would be willing to have a couple of Missionaries move in with us. Since we do have a few empty bedrooms, and we LOVE missionaries, we told him we would be happy to have them come. He told us they were checking with 4 other families, and he would get back with us. Thursday night, he stopped by again, and told us we were the winners!!!! None of the others were able to take them. Yesterday, Mike started cleaning out the bedroom downstairs, and we moved beds around and here is the finished product.

A little closer look! I think it turned out pretty nice. They should be moving in around the 1st of Feb.

Another Sleepover (and they actually slept!)

2011-01-18T19:21:00.000-08:00

Sunday night we had these 3 for a sleepover, and made them sleep in separate rooms, and they actually went to sleep. They were so good, we will do it again!!! Here they are watching The Swan Princess, one of their favorite movies to watch at my house.

New Pictures for my wall

2011-01-16T05:13:00.000-08:00

Since it is almost Aida's birthday, Krista took her in and had the CUTEST pictures taken of her. She had a couple with both girls that turned out adorable too!!!

Krista has a friend who is just starting out a photography business. Emily traded her a haircut and color, for a photo shoot. She did a great job with these two adorable little girls!

Yesterday we met Merijane at the Children's Museum to play with her girls for a few minutes so she could go shopping at Old Navy and hit some of their great sales. Since I didn't have a new picture of Libbie and Katie, while we were at the museum, I sat them next to a wall and snapped a few. This one turned out pretty cute I think!

Happy New Year!!!!

2011-01-09T06:46:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year! We had a really fun New Year's Eve. It was the first time in YEARS that I have still been awake at Midnight! We tended all 6 of our granddaughters, while all of our kids went to Krista and Matt's house for a party. It was so much fun, until bedtime. The 3 little ones all went to bed pretty good, and Molly is awesome to go to bed, but Libbie and Hailey, would NOT go to sleep. Finally at 11:30, I was exhausted, so I told them I was going to bed. (I had been laying down with them trying to get them to go to sleep.) A few minutes after I got into bed, they came in looking for crayons, they wanted to color. I couldn't believe they had any energy left. Finally, shortly after midnight, I threatened them with their lives if they said another word, and after about 30 seconds of quiet, they were both asleep.
We decided that we wouldn't have all 6 for a sleepover again for a while, but that it was fun to have them when they were awake. Friday night, we invited them all to come and play, so their parents could have a date night. They all got here about 5:00, and the last ones left at 9:00. A much better plan!!! They have so much fun together, and it's nice that they are big enough that we can handle all 6 at once.
We made some of the craziest breadsticks you have ever seen. I let the girls take turns cutting them, and they were in all shapes and sizes. Here's Libbie pretending to roll out breadsticks, everyone is watching so they can do it too.

Josh and Merijane brought some delicious Chicken and Dumplings for the girls to eat for dinner, yum yum!!!!

After dinner, we covered our coffee table downstairs and gave the girls each a new coloring book to keep them busy coloring. It is amazing that even tiny Abbie likes to color! We had such a good time that we decided to do it once a month, so the cousins can play and the parents get a fun date night.

Christams Open House

2010-12-26T07:43:00.000-08:00

We had a great time getting to visit with our family at mom and dad's house on Christmas. Instead of trying to have everyone come at the same time, they did an open house and invited family to stop by between 1:00-6:00. After spending a little time with Grandma Cline, we went to mom and dad's and stayed for a while, so we could visit with everyone. It made it nice for those who had several places to be, to come when it was convenient for them. Thanks mom and dad for being so flexible!

Christmas Eve's Eve

2010-12-26T07:26:00.000-08:00

This year we did Christmas a little different, and we really liked it! Josh was supposed to work on Christmas, and Jamie and Jordan were supposed to be on their way home to Georgia, so we decided to celebrate Christmas with our little family on Christmas Eve's Eve (Dec. 23rd) We invited Mom, Dad, Lani, since Lani would be in California with the Thiots, and Grandpa Cline to join us. It was so much fun!!!! We had a yummy dinner and then exchanged our presents. After dinner we did a Nativity Puppet show. The big girls helped and it was a little wild, but very fun.

Lani gave the girls the cute red jogging suits that they immediately stripped down and put on. They are so cute.

We got 2 seater Princess cruisers for each little family, the big sisters get to be the drivers until the little sisters feet reach the pedals. Jamie built Molly and Abbie's at our house so the girls could try them out.

Hailey and Aida are enjoying theirs!

I think the girls are going to have a lot of fun in these cute little cars!

Our kids Christmas 2010

2010-12-26T06:37:00.000-08:00

This is the picture of Krista and Matt's family this year

This is a picture I took of Josh's little family on Christmas morning.

This was the picture on Jamie and Emily's Christmas card.

Here's the picture that was on Jamie and Jordan's Christmas card this year

Another trip to the Children's Museum

2010-12-26T05:52:00.000-08:00

I took a day off, the week before Christmas to take the girls to the Children's Museum. Jamie and Jordan had never been and since they were in town, we invited the girls to come with us. Krista, Josh and Merijane joined the group. Abbie stayed home to take a nap, but all the other girls were able to come. They always have a fun projet for them to do. Here's Libbie, Hailey and Molly making a snowman with LOTS of cotton balls.

Katie had fun making a snowman as well!

Aida is great at gluing!

With the help of Josh, Jamie, and Jordan, the girls built AMAZINGLY tall towers!

Here are the 5 girls getting ready for a ride, what a cute group!

Our 2010 Christmas Card

2010-12-19T05:12:00.000-08:00

This year, since our whole family wasn't going to be together for a picture until too late to send cards, I decided to put our adorable granddaughters on it. I wanted a picture of all 6 together, but thankfully, Krista talked me into doing just the sisters. Out of 63 pictures, we got 1 of each set that was pretty cute. I can't imagine how many hundred it would have taken to get all 6 looking cute!!!!!

Molly and Abbie

Hailey and Aida

Libbie and Katie

Jamie and Jordan will be here in 6 more days!

2010-12-12T20:12:00.000-08:00

We are getting so excited to see Jamie and Jordan and meet our little grandpup Lexi. They will leave Texas on Friday the 17th and drive to Utah. They get to stay for about 6 days. It will be so fun to have them here!!!!

Game night

2010-12-12T19:53:00.001-08:00

A few weeks ago I had this great idea to do a game night with my siblings. They were all up for it, so we met at our house, everyone brought something yummy to eat and we had a fun time playing games. I can't wait to do it again!!!

Jen, Jeff, Carissa (not one of my siblings, but a fun addition) and Kathy

Jen and Jeff, they are so cute!!!!

The boys

Chillin in my Grammy rocker after the party. I do love my rocker!

Hailey's primary program

2010-12-12T19:40:00.000-08:00

Today was Hailey's Primary Program in Sacrament meeting. She did such a good job on her speaking part and singing, she sings so pretty and loud! She was right by the microphone, so we could hear her sweet voice very well.

Hailey by her super star bulletin board in the primary room

Hailey and Aida

Here's Hailey and her silly family in the primary room after her program.

Libbie and Hailey's preschool Christmas Programs

2010-12-12T07:54:00.000-08:00

We got to go to Libbie's preschool program on Dec. 18th. The teacher had decorated the church with projects that the kids had worked on for the last month. They had some darling art work that we got to see and then they took home. We love being grandparents and getting invited to all the fun programs.

They had actions and props for all the songs, and did such a cute job.

Singing in Santa's hat

After her program, she and Katie got to sit on Santa's lap.

Last Wednesday night, Hailey invited us to her Preschool Christmas Program. They sang so many cute songs, it was really fun to be there! She did a great job and looked so cute in her Christmas dress, she is getting so big.

Aida enjoyed the program too, it won't be long and she'll be a preschooler!

One of the songs they sang was the Peppermint Twist, and boy could those kids dance!

As the kids were singing jingle bells, Santa made his entrance. Here's Hailey waiting in line to see him

Hailey was very excited to get to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what she wants for Christmas

Aida got to sit on Santa's lap too, but was a little nervous about him!

Cline family Christmas Party

2010-12-12T07:42:00.001-08:00

Last week Jenny called Grandma Cline to see about organizing a Cline Christmas party. They decided on doing a brunch on Saturday, and miracle of miracles, everyone was able to come!!!! Each family brought something to add to our meal, we had pancakes, waffles, bacon, sausage, hash browns, eggs, OJ Apple juice and milk. There was so much good food, and with everyone helping it was easy and delicious!!! Thanks Jenny for the great idea.

New coloring books

The girls enjoyed coloring with Opi

After dinner the adults enjoyed sitting around and visiting

More visiting!

Happy Birthday Jamie!

2010-11-30T15:34:00.000-08:00

November 30th 1982 was a great day in our family. It was the worst snow storm of the winter, and we were out in Dugway. I had been so worried that I wouldn't know exactly when I needed to go to the hospital, so I was really glad that my water broke. Jamie was the only baby that my water broke before I got to the hospital. We got out to get into our car, and had a flat tire. While Mike changed the tire, he sent me over to his school to leave lesson plans for a sub. (only in Dugway, did the teachers have keys to the outside door of the school) By the time I got home, he had the tire changed on the car and we were on our way. Mom and dad met us at the hospital, and took Krista and Josh. 2 hours later, Jamie was born, he was the easiest delivery of all my babies. It has been fun to watch him grow up, and turn into such a darling husband and dad. Here are a few pictures of that cute boy!!!! He is 6 months old in this one

Here he is 3 years old (about Molly's age) There is a little resemblance don't you think?

This is his first grade picture
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It's Christmas time once again!

2010-11-28T06:17:00.001-08:00

With the new snow we just received, it is really looking like Christmas. I got all our decorations up, just before the next snow storm hit. Jamie is so sweet to make my blog all festive as well. (she promised to teach me how to do it when she comes into town in a few weeks, I can't wait!!!)

A close up by our front door

Our kitchen table

The corner of our kitchen with a few Alpine trees

Here's our kitchen window

Here's our tree, I always remember when I broke my foot a few years ago, and was feeling so sad to miss the Black Friday sales. The phone rang about 7:00am and Krista asked me if I wanted her to pick me up and go to JoAnne's to buy new decorations for my tree. We had such a fun time picking out all the decorations, and then she came and decorated it for me. I have LOVED it!!!!

Our coffee table, with the candles that we light one more each Sunday until Christmas while reading stories about Christmas. It's a tradition Mike learned in Germany. (It has a name, but I can't remember what it is)

One of our end tables all decked out for the holidays

Our other end table

I love all the little trees with lights.

A close up of our fireplace, I actually had a fire burnhing in the fireplace which we don't do very often.

Here's a shot of my living room. I do love this time of year!

I put a garland and a few decorations on our entertainment center downstairs to make it a little more festive!

We put a little tree downstairs in our family room with all of the decorations we have collected through the years. They bring back lots of memories!!!

Krista and I hit the Black Friday sales a few days ago and I pretty much finished up my shopping! Now I can just sit back and enjoy the holiday.

Our Early Thanksgiving Dinner

2010-11-21T15:00:00.001-08:00

This is the year that all our kids go to the in-laws for Thanksgiving. Since Jordan was going to be in town for the weekend before Thanksgiving, I decided it would be fun to do an early Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone was game, so last night we had everyone over. Each family brought something delicious to contribute to the meal, it was sure tasty. Here is our family room all ready for the 35 people to join us.

I got a picture of most of the people who came. Here's Grandpa Cline

Dad, mom and Mike

Chase and Morgan

Jen, Jamie and Emily

Ric, Merijane, Chase and Kathy

Mom and Jeffrey

Cierra and Riley

Skyler and Jen's daughter Lauren

Me and Katie

Aida and Katie

3 crazy big girls that had to put on the princess dresses to eat in.

Jen and her daughter Lauren

Jeff and Jen

Carissa and Abbie

The highlight of our evening was the announcement by Chip and Elycia, that they are going to have a baby in May. Congratulations!

What a fun group we had, thanks everyone for coming!!

At 10:30 this morning, I took Jordan to the airport to head home. I am so happy that he was able to come and spend an early Thanksgiving with us!!! (Between 6:00 last night and 6:00 this morning, we got 12 inches of snow!!!!)

A visit with mom and dad

2010-11-14T07:34:00.000-08:00

Merijane and Josh invited Krista and Matt, and Jamie and Emily and their families to come to dinner and play games on Friday night. I thought they might have a better chance of playing games, if we kept the 2 tiny girls with us. We took them to visit mom and dad, and Colleen and Olivia. We had a great time, (no one was smiling, but we really did have fun.)

Mom fell about a week ago and really hurt herself. She has been taking it easy and trying to get feeling better ever since.

Mom has the cutest doll buggy that is fun for the girls to push around

The girls both love rocking in the tiny rocker mom has had since Krista was little. Mom and Dad have given one to the first child in each family for their first Christmas.

Grammy's preschool

2010-11-14T07:03:00.001-08:00

Last week was the time we do preschool with my 8th graders. Since the class was at 8:00 in the morning, Libbie slept over at my house and went with me and Molly slept at Hailey's and Krista brought them over. Krista and Aida hung out with us.

They each made a cute macaroni necklace

Aida made a macaroni necklace too, with the help of one of my students

These 3 girls LOVE being together!

One of the groups made this cute Mayflower ship for the kids to pick songs from.

They enjoyed singing time, and were great at Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.

Libbie and Hailey's Primary Program

2010-10-31T16:38:00.000-07:00

It has been about 13 years since I have had one of my kids in the primary program. It was so much fun to go as a grandparent! Libbie and Hailey both did a great job on their speaking parts, and sang so cute.