A great relative of mine...

You won't believe this but I just spent the afternoon with Elder Russell M Ballard. He is a relative of mine. We had a Ballard reunion and my brother decided to ask Elder Ballard to it. He said that he would love to come and see some of his relatives. We weren't sure it was really going to happen, because he is very busy. But it did, and what a wonderful man. He had his wife talk to us and then he talked and told us some stories about our relatives I had never heard about. We share the same great Grandfather. It got to be a little confusing when all the families wanted to get there picture taken with him. But all in all it was a marvelous day. The Fair kept my family from being their and I missed them being able to see this great man. The spirit that he brought to our party was amazing. He and his family are just regular people with the same goals that we have to someday be with those who have gone before us. It will be a day that I will cherish for a long time. Sorry I didn't get a picture of him, I am not that pushy. Anyway just for my records I got to rub shoulders with Apostle Russell M. Ballard today and shake his hand and talk to him just like he was a long lost cousin. WOW!!! I can't believe that really happened. I am proud to be a part of such a good family.....

Box Elder County Fair.....

It is that time of year again and I have to say I love hate it. I love that it is time to show off the projects that the kids have worked so hard at. Show off the talents of many people in the valley and just to get to be together as a community and say Hi. I love that I have had an opportunity to help for the past few years in the exhibit building in the fine arts dept. I get to help with the Afaghan's accept them,do the paper work on them and then present them to the judges. I then get to display them the best that we can. I love that I get to work with my sisters. I started out with Dawn, and I doing this job, them she got moved up the ladder and we recruted D-Ann to help. Either way I get to spend a day with them. I have met and helped with a lot of very nice people that donate there time to the fair. I realize that this is such a small bit of help but it does make me feel good that I can do a tiny bit to help.
I Hate that it is time for summer to be over and I have to go back to work. I hate that my grandkids are growing up so fast and that it will be only a few more years and they will be on there own and who knows where they will be. Life has to move on but some days I hate it. I think I will take back that ugly word Hate and say I just am a little sad instead of hate. I guess I will be Happy and try to forget the sad part. I do love life and want to make everyone around me think that I am a good person and a Happy person so, Here's to another great year at the BOX ELDER COUNTY FAIR. Hope to see you and be able to say HI!!!!!

Thank the good Lord above.....

Thank you thank for answering our prayers. We had a bit of a scare this past week. Our grandaughter (Mckinna) was getting a shot at the Dr. office for school, and her mom said why don't you take a look at this lump that she has on her knee. It isn't hurting but seems to be getting bigger. He looked at it and said, he didn't think it was anything to worry about, but lets get an exray just in case. So they did and then the Dr. called that night and said he didn't like the way the exray looked so let's get a better picture. I need her to get an MRI tomorrow. PANIC!!! That is all I can say we all worried about why the importance and what was it...Your imagination gets the best of you and you have things going wrong that are totally crazy...But we have great news the Dr. report said that it isn't cancer and that if it doesn't hurt we will just keep our eye on it and see if it grows more and then we will decide what to do with it after that. I am very grateful that it turned out to be Okay...I love those grandkids so MUCH!!!!

Need a good laugh???

Well, if you do need a good laugh you need to go to the movie Julie & Julia. It is so funny!!!! I went with my sweet sister Dawn, and we laughed the whole way through it. It was a few of our own comments that got us laughing too...Thanks Dawn for the fun evening. Jim doesn't enjoy going to the movie and I love to, so I have to go any time I get an invite...However I did see a lot of guys there with there wifes. I really didn't see them cracking up with laughter, but I thought how great they were for taking there wives to a movie that was about ladies cooking...Anyway I give this movie a thumbs up from start to finish.

FUN STUFF I HAVE DONE THIS SUMMER

I thought I would make a list of some of the fun stuff that I have had the opportunity to do this fun filled SUMMER.I have enjoyed going to lots of ballgames and watching some amazing grandkids do there thing, I have gone to a Play at the Hale Theatre in Salt Lake City, it was Hello Dolly and was so great. I had never seen that play before. I went to my reunion at Hyrum Park and had a great time visiting and getting re aquanted with my relatives. I got to go to Lagoon 2 times and plan to go again in the fall. I have played with the grandkids as much as possible. I went to the movie with some good friends and lunch also. I however have not done anything with my husband and I have missed that. We usually go for a week somewhere taking our trailer and we didn't get that done. I spent a weekend with Chad and Wanda's family and enjoyed those boys. I think I have had a good summer and feel lucky that I have had so much FUN!!!! Oh I forgot one more thing I went to a Raptor's game to watch Isaac be the bat boy. He got picked and had a lot of fun doing that.... WOW WHAT A BUSY LADY I HAVE BEEN....

Hot Dang Summer in the city!!!

This is a saying my sister say's it is usely when we are playing cards and she gets a really good hand. It is alot of fun to be with my sisters and friends and playing cards. We have started getting together as much as we can. It gives a good excuse to laugh and visit and just have a good time. I am so luckey to have such a great support group out there. I really don't know what I am going to do when I have to go back to school. I have had a really fun summer. I have tried to do something fun everyday. I think I will have fun withdrawls. I guess I will have to make going to work fun then. Because it is so good for us all to laugh at least 20 to 30 times a day. I need to be around happy people to keep my own self happy. I hope I can be that kind of person, so people like to be around me. It somedays is harder than others. I just need to look out there and see that there are so many things to be grateful for and start smileing about that.