Valentines 2025

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

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

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

 

My new favorite hobby

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

It has been so much fun!

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

 

Mom's 90th birthday

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

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

Lani and I loved being togerther at the temple!

 

A fun Valentine craft

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

January Birthdays

I was able to celebrate Katie's birthday by taking her out to Zupa's for lunch.  It was so fun to spend time with her.   This year it waa not possible to find a Sunday in January to clelbrate Aida and Katie's 16th birthdays with the whole family, so we had Josh and Jamie's family for dinner one Sunday to celebrate Katie's birthday.  She wanted Chicken and Dumplings.

Mike and I took Aida out to Tropical Smoothie Cafe to celebrate her birthday .  It was somewhere we had never been but really good.  We had fun visiting with her, she had just passed her drivers test the day before and was so excited to get her license. .  We had Jordan and Krista's family over for Sunday dinner last Sunday to celebrate Aida's birthday.  She chose crepes, so yummy.

Exciting times for Logan

On Sunday, Jan 6, Logan was ordained a Deacon by his dad.  Such a great day!  All our kids were there and our boys, Mike and Matt, Jamie's brother, and a member of their bishopric, were able to stand in the circle.

On Tuesday, (the first day the temple was open after he was ordained,)  Logan got to do baptisms for the dead at the beautiful Saratoga Springs temple.  I was able to tend their other kids while they went.  Logan is such a great young man and today was called to be the Deacon President in his ward.

 

December Birthdays

One of the funnest things we have done this year, is take our grandkids out to lunch or dinner for their birthdays.  It's so nice to be with just one of them and really get to visit with them.  Sophie wanted to go to Chili's and it was so yummy!

Mike wasn't feeling great, so I took Savannah by myself.  She wanted to go to Chick fil A.  

Such fun little girls!