Suzannah and Devin and our Angel Lucy. I took Lucy into the store and everyone we passed stopped and said that she was the cutest thing they had ever seen. So I took her to eat lunch and as I looked around, the whole room was looking at Lucy and pointing at this baby. She is a little bit of heaven.

Cabin trip and Grandkids

We took Jace and Macaia's kids up to the cabin with us a couple of Saturdays ago.

There was a lot of snow, and the gravel pits were packed!

I just had to put this picture on. Devin is so good at making Lucy laugh. He would put her up in the air and say "Are you ready" and she laughed so hard!

Birthdays

Once a month our family has a birthday party for the family members that have a birthday that month. This month Jace, Trever, Devin, Deserie, Anna, and Micah all had birthdays!

They each had their own giant cupcake...

Mexico!

We went to Mexico the day after Christmas to build houses for the two branches in Porto Pinasco.  We worked on 3 different houses.  It was a great experience.

Eileen and family joined us.  We took our lunch hour to ride quads (real cheap).  Branson was the cutest thing ever and he loves motercycles!!!!

Art and Annalyn shoveled sand through a screen for the cement.

We went to the homes on the railroad tracks to give out stuffed animals and clothes and oranges.

We got mobbed!!!

Christmas/ Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we had the grandkids do the Nativity.  Karalee was an Angel!!!

We also did sumo wrestling.  Jace and Macaia brought this tradition to our home.

Mason was Mary

Porter was a shephard

The whole scene!  Spencer was the Joseph and Bryant a shephard and Micah a wiseman!

We also do around the world Christmas Dinner.  A flag in each dish showed where it came from.  We had foods from Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Mexico, China, Germany, Dominican Republic and so on.  Great Food!  We have some good cooks in the Family!!!

More fun in December

It was Spencer and Porter's birthday this month. They were so excited to get the 

Wii star wars legos game!!

We made little chocolate mice for grandma days!!!

But the kids favorite thing to do out of everything is riding the golf cart!!!!

Grandkids and Toys R Us

This past weekend I took 9 of my grandkids to Toys R Us to pick out their Christmas presents. I gave them each a $10 gift certificate and they could get whatever they wanted as long as they stayed within their budget. It was interesting to see them check price tags and then put toys back that were too expensive. I was trying to teach them the value of money and to spend within their means.  It was so fun to spend time with my grandkids!

We also made ginger bread houses...

Bryant and Spencer with their house...

Porter and his toys...

Micah and his knight outfit...

Spencer paying for his toy... I just love the smile!

All the kids had fun playing on the toys inside the store...

Thanksgiving!

For Thanksgiving, we had our family over and some family friends. It has been so much fun. The kids played so well together, and all of the food was really good. We even ordered some snowballs from Bahama Bucks so the grandkids could have a snowball fight.

We had a lot of pies and cake!

All of the Yummy food...

The snowballs for the snowball fight...

Snowball fight!!! 

THE LAST DAYS- Favorite Quote

"Make no mistake about it, brothers and sisters, in the months and years ahead, events are likely to require each member to decide whether or not he will follow the First Presidency. Members will find it more difficult to halt longer between two opinions. President Marion G. Romney said, many years ago, that he had 'never hesitated to follow the counsel of the Authorities of the Church even though it crossed my social, professional or political life.' "This is hard doctrine, but it is particularly vital doctrine in a society which is becoming wicked. In short, brothers and sisters, not being ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ includes not being ashamed of the prophets of Jesus Christ. . . . Your discipleship may see the time when such religious convictions are discounted. . . . This new irreligious imperialism seeks to disallow certain opinions simply because those opinions grow out of religious convictions. "Resistance to abortion will be seen as primitive. Concern over the institution of the family will be viewed as untrendy and unenlightened.... Before the ultimate victory of the forces of righteousness, some skirmishes will be lost. Even in these, however, let us leave a record so that the choices are clear, letting others do as they will in the face of prophetic counsel. There will also be times, happily, when a minor defeat seems probable, but others will step forward, having been rallied to rightness by what we do. We will know the joy, on occasion, of having awakened a slumbering majority of the decent people of all races and creeds which was, till then, unconscious of itself. Jesus said that when the fig trees put forth their leaves, 'summer is nigh.' Thus warned that summer is upon us, let us not then complain of the heat."
--- Elder Neal A. Maxwell, “A More Determined Discipleship,” Ensign, Feb 1979, 69–73

DisneyLand

I started a new tradition in the family to take my grandkids to Disneyland when they turn 8. I am not a fan of Disneyland, so this is all for my grandkids! It was so fun to be with Micah! We talked in family night about looking for ways to serve people on our one day in Disneyland. I saw Micah pick up trash that someone dropped and talked to a little girl who was scared. He also tried to help a lady who twisted her ankle, and most of all he wanted to bring back something for his brothers and sisters. He is such a good kid!

His #1 request is that Annalyn go with him...

Micah was so excited...

This was the new Toy Story ride in California Adventures...

Grandkids!

Nothing much has happened lately... I thought I would post a picture of our newest granddaughter Lucy. She is such a cute baby and smiles all the time... I have the cutest grandkids ever!!!  I just love being a grandma!