Already a month into the new year.  WOW, how time moves swiftly by.  Winter is here but hopefully it will move by swiftly too so we can have warm and sunny days again!  Beach living is just more fun when all around is warm and we can walk on the sand and feel the ocean breeze.  Although, this past Christmas gave us a surprise- warm weather! All who visited got to enjoy the outdoors. The park and the beach made for some fun outings.  Frisbee, kite, football, bucket and shovel.  All our gear loaded and off we went for some adventure.
Ready for some more of these days....

I really am going to start posting again!  The past months have been wonderful as we welcomed David home from his mission, went on a family vacation and started a new year.  So thankful for my big wonderful family. They bring me so much joy and my 9 grands are still the best part of having children.  They truly are GRAND in every way.  I love getting each of them for a birthday weekend and having individual time with them.  I love taking pictures and looking at them over and over again.  With that being said.....enjoy some photos!

May

It's May!  The nice warm beach weather has returned and just makes me feel Happy:).  Mother's Day was wonderful.  My children are always so thoughtful and kind.  I love spending time with them and talking to them and texting and emailing.  I love all the modern ways we have to say I love you!   Being a Mom and Grammy is the best:)

Skyping with David brought smiles:)

The weather made a weekend beach walk nice.

New cake pans, and a mixer and a beautiful plant. Just perfect! 

Come on over and I will bake a cake!

Thank you sweet children for being the best!

February zoomed right on by but there was a couple of birthdays to cheer about.  Beth and I are always the picture takers so we don't always get in lots of the pictures!  I do have a favorite photo from years ago that I wanted to share that reminds me how thankful I am for my beautiful daughter.  We share the same birthday month, same amount of children, same love for sewing and much more but the most important thing I love that we share... she will always be my forever friend.

January brings birthday time for Will and our Twin Grands- Kaitlyn and Natalie and our Son in law, Rob. We hope it is a great month for all our birthday children.  

We love our Will!  Happy birthday # 26 on Jan. 19  

 Will in his zone with his cool tablet

Happy Birthday to our Favorite Son in law, Rob... turning 1 year greater on the 25!

Finally on Jan. 30 our double  blessing...our pretty grand twins, Natalie and Kaitlyn will have birthday # 7!

 I think they win the cutest ballerina's around:)

Lastly, a big Thumbs up for our January birthdays!

Hope you each have a beautiful day!  We love you !!

Christmas Time

I love everything about Christmas.  I love watching the Christmas devotional to start out the season.  I love our Savior and putting my favorite picture of him as a baby at the temple over my mantle. I love opening the Christmas boxes and setting up the tree and all my nativities.  I love making our home light up with Christmas! I love to sit in our family room and see all the lights come on  every evening. I love listening to Christmas songs, buying gifts, baking goodies and waiting for family to arrive. Yes, it is the most wonderful time of year.  Merry Christmas everyone!  

My favorite time of year

I am getting that wonderful feeling about this time of year. I love the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Jerry went with me on Saturday to look at holiday decorations. I was looking for a tall skinny Christmas tree for my tall family room.  I had to scout out all the stores to see who had the one I liked the best and the one that would fit in my budget.  Jerry was such a good sport as we went from store to store. Of course the one I liked was already sold out but they thought they would have some more in by the end of the month.  I will get busy with all the other decorations and save the  tree for last.
I had to get David's Christmas package in the mail this past weekend.  The Canada mail service is very slow.  We are almost at 1/2 time for his mission! (That really feels good to say) It has been a great year for David. We love reading his emails each week and learning of all the grand experiences he is having. He is use to the really cold weather.....burr. He is a great missionary and we love that he has the desire to serve. Cant wait for our Christmas skpe call!
This month we celebrate and give extra Thanks. Today our grands Carolyn and Alee celebrate their 9th and 4th birthdays and David will celebrate his Birthday #20 on Tuesday.
We give thanks that our Chloe is recovering from surgery. (She had a heart block and had to have a pacemaker put in.) She is a tough little girl and we are so grateful for her zest and strong will to bounce back and push through difficult things.
May we all remember our blessings and smile at all the wonderful things we have been given from above.