2020 Family Pictures

On Sept 12, we had our family pictures taken.   Our grandkids are old enough, that they were PERFECT!  They did everything the photographer asked!

Krista's Family

 

Krista's Girls

Josh's Family

Josh's Kids

Jamie's Family

(They arrived late and I think the photographer forgot to get pictures of their kids)

Jordan's Family

Jordan's Kids

I always LOVE pictures of the 

Bigs

Middles

Littles

and Savvy is our newest Little

And of course, the Boys!

Our kids

Us and our kids

ALL of our kids

All our grandkids 

Us and the grandkids

Mike and I

Krista and Matt

Josh and Merijane

Jamie and Emily

Jordan and Jamie

These are such a treasure!  I'm so grateful to have all these amazing people in our family!!!!

I decided for our drive by this week, to print off  and frame the pictures for all our grandkids to have one of the cousins their age to put in their room.  I hope they like them.  

Today is President Nelson's 96th birthday.  He is such an amazing prophet, so full of life and energy.  I wanted to take a back to school treat around to all my primary kids, and thought it would be fun to combine his birthday with the treat and deliver it on his birthday.  I sent the parents this note:

Today is President Nelson's 96th birthday.  We want to come around and bring a little birthday treat to help celebrate.  Here is a sweet video that was made about him for his birthday.  I thought the kids might enjoy seeing it.  (Then I sent the link to the video, that Robynn had sent to me 😊)

I made and frosted 4 batches of brownies, my house smelled amazing!

Once a month we have delivered something fun to each child in our primary,

we miss them!  It's nice that we only have 24 families, that makes this doable.  

 

A Fun Sunday

Sunday, is always one of my favorite days, but today was especially nice.  We had tried to schedule our weekly drive by visits for Friday or Saturday, but everyone wasn't available either of those days.  Luckily for us, they were all available on Sunday.  I decided it would be nice to visit Grandma and Grandpa Cline as well, so I got busy and made a batch of Cauliflower soup and a tortellini casserole to drop off to them.  We stopped by grandma's house first and were lucky enough to catch Paula there visiting with Grandma.  It was fun to see her too! (she didn't want her picture taken)

I had also made a batch of salsa that morning to take to Jeffrey, so we stopped by to check on how his feet were doing.  (He had surgery on a hammer toe on each foot 2 weeks ago)

Our next stop was to visit with Krista's family.  I made a yummy gooey snack to take to all our kids. 

1 cup sugar, 1 cup corn syrup, 1 cup peanut butter,

 Bring to a boil then add 5 -  5 1/4 cups corn flakes.  Soooo Good!  

Krista was worried that Sophie might have Covid, so she had taken her in to get tested the day before.  Thankfully, she was negative, so I got in a few good hugs with her!!!!

Our next stop was Jamie's house.  Their family is all doing well.  It was so great to see them.

They have been working hard on their yard and it looked beautiful.

Then we stopped by to drop off Grandpa's dinners.  He is doing well too.

He's excited for his sister Joan's 90th birthday party next week.  

She's coming down from Washington to celebrate with lots of family who live here.

Luckily, Jordan is only about 10 minutes from Grandpa, so this cute family was our next stop.

Savvy showed us her new crawling skills, and can now pull herself up to their gate, or a box, or whatever she feels like.

Our last stop of the day was to visit Josh's family.  We are so blessed to have all our kids so close!

We started our adventure about 12:30 and got home about 7:00.  Such a nice Sunday.😀

 

It's Fall Ya'll

Even though it's supposed to get up to 100 degrees today, it's September, 

so I put out my fall decorations

I still remember painting the ceramic pumpkin with my mom that is on the table .

Every season, when I change my decorations, it brings back so many memories.

She decorated for every holiday, and the last few years, I was able to help her decorate.

The pretty pumpkins on my hearth were hers.

                                                         The cute fall pillow was hers too.  

Fall is such a welcome season after the hot summer. I can't wait!

 

Josh' Kids started school today

Josh's kids were the last ones to start school.

Libbie is in the 9th grade and in Jr. High

Katie is in the 6th grade and in elementary school.

Gabbie is in the 3rd grade

Jack is a kindergarten boy!

They all had a great first day!

A few weeks before school started, we had a sewing class 

Jack LOVED sewing too!

We made a bunch of them!

 

A new skill

I've been trying to think of projects to do since we can't really go anywhere or do anything.  We have had these lights on the front of our house since we moved in.  (I'm sure they were the originals to the house when it was built 40 years ago)  so I decided it was time to replace them.  

I went over to Lowes, and found a few I liked 

(I texted Krista to see which ones she liked) and we chose the one in the center.

I bought one to go by the front door,

and one for either side of the garage.  

Mike taught me how to put them up, and I did one of the ones on the garage, while he was sleeping

Here's a close up, a much more updated look than our old ones. 

Since I now knew how to do the wiring on a light, I took down the light in my hall,

 (I probably should have bought a new one)

and painted it black instead of gold.

Then, I noticed the one in my laundry room was gold also, so I took it down and painted it black.

I had never even realized, that the one in my sewing room was gold too.

Not for long!

My new skill of being able to take lights apart and hook them back up has come in handy.

Thanks Mike, for teaching me something new and useful.

A few weeks after I painted all my lights, Jordan asked me if I would like the lights that he replaced with can lights in his house.  YES! (they were much nicer than mine) sooooo, I got to install these.

I've now had plenty of practice installing lights.

Back to School continued

Krista's girls headed back to school today.  Hailey is in 9th grade and in High School! 

                    

Aida is in the 6th grade and in Middle school.

Sophie is in the 2nd grade and at elementary school.

With the corona virus, Krista didn't want to carpool, so she spends her morning driving the girls to the 3 different schools.  Matt is in charge of picking them up, they get out right before she gets off work.