MEMORIAL dAY

Today is Memorial day and it is a wonderful day to remember our loved ones that have left us for a while. We are very lucky to be so close to the cemeteries. Our folks are in Bothwell and Tremonton. Since my dad died in 1983 I have taken it upon myself to make sure his headstone is clean and shiney. So we did this a few days ago and I thought it looked great with all the scrubing and polishing. I have also liked to buy some cute little wind mill type ornaments and so I found a fish this year and some flowers for the mom's. The cemetery looked so beautiful and the fresh new rain storm even made it look even better. A big Thank you to those how take care of the cemetery and make sure it looks so nice on this special day. I used to think we needed to have a picnic on this day to make it be some fun along with the visits to the graves. I have learned through out the years that it doesn't matter as long as you remember those who have gone ahead of us. I Love my Mom's and Dad's so much and miss them alot! But I am so grateful that they are in heaven working hard to prepare things for the rest of us to come be with them someday. We have relatives in Logan,Smithfield, and Bear River City. I don't know if we will make it to all of them but we are thinking about them all today. I love this day and find Joy in the remberances.

Service

It is Sunday the 24th and we have had a treat that doesn't happen to often. The Newman family was able to have Sunday dinner with us. They have a Newman tradition that they always eat Sunday dinner with the Newman family and I have been complying with this for alot of years it is a great tradition other than the other side of the family misses out. I was Happy that I had a turn to have them to dinner and I want them to know that they are welcome anytime that the Newmans take a break. I love to have company and it is great to have the bigger kids because they always help clean up so good and that makes it nice for Grandma. I should have company every sunday and try to have different families each week even some in our ward family. Maybe I will get with it and start somthing like that. Or maybe I will just be my old lazy self and do it when I feel like it. What do you think it will be? Anyway Thanks for coming and thanks for the help cleaning up. Grandma and Grandpa Love you all so MUCH!!!!

Mothers Day

I have always loved Mothers Day from the time I was a little girl to now. I loved treating my Mom with special things and giving her the attention that I felt she deserved. I remember fixing her breakfast in bed and thinking I was pretty great that I could be so big to accomplish this. When I got older I used to fix her dinner and try to not have her work at all. I think that is were I learned that service makes you feel so good about yourself. When I became a mother I always loved having my own kids do little acts of kindness that they had thought up. From going out in the yard, or the neighbors yard and picking me some flowers to rubbing my feet or just being helpful in all kinds of ways. This is a great memory for me I love to hear about ways that the little ones try to give of themselves. I ran into a letter that I had saved from one of my kids and it was priceless. Those little things mean so much. I Love you goes along way! We need to teach our kids to say this more often, and mean it. We have tried to do this more often in our family. I love that my grand kids tell me that all the time. They never leave my house without saying I Love you grandma. That is so awesome and it just sends chills up my spine to think about how much I love these grandkids, they mean the wolrd to me and I would fight for any of them. Which I have been known to do that a time or too. This has given me a name of "Rocky", need I say anymore. I do have to remember how old I am and try to act my age. I had a great Mothers day and I thank my family for the memories that they give me.

I do have to say that this Mother's Day is a first for me and Jim. It is the first time that we have celebrated it without our Mothers. It is bitter sweet. So Happy that they are where they are but so sad that we can't just talk to them and give them hugs and kisses. Forever your mom and forever in our hearts you will be. We Love you Moms and miss you so much!!! We will survive and we will continue to have Mothers Day's, but we always remember how much we have loved you for all that you both have done for us. Great Examples and great women to follow in there foot steps. Happy Mothers Day to the Best Moms in the World!!!!!!

Baseball weekend

Well it is affically baseball season and it has been cold so I haven't watched to many games yet. So I volunteered to take Isaac to his Pocatello weekend. I really wanted a day off work so this was a good excuse for me to help Jamie out. We got off early friday morning and we went with Dawn and Tyson. The boys put in a favorite movie and Dawn and I got caught up on a few bits and pieces of the world affairs. You know how good it feels to solve everyones problems. We got to the park and the boys were a bit late so they really had to book it to the field we got there shortly after and apparently the coaches gave the boys a few choice words so my advice for parents. Never get your kids to there games late, it starts the day off on the wrong foot. We just couldn't get the swing of the game that day the boys played like they were all on the outs with each other. After the games that day we went to take the boys for a sandwich, then to get there moms a mothers day present. It was a delight to watch them think about there moms and pick just the right thing for there moms. We got the hotel room and the boys were ready to play with there buddies and relax. The next day was better for games they ended up winning both games and so it was a better day. I am grateful that I have such gifted grandkids that love to play ball and that they like to have there grandma tag along with them. Thanks Isaac for the good weekend and for the good ballgames that you played your best. That is all any of us ask, is that you give it your very best. You are very talented and so your very best is really fun to watch. Keep up the good work and Grandma can't wait to see another game. Hopefully real soon.....Heres to a ballgame weekend!!!!!!!