Jessica wont brag

SOOOO you KNOW the grandma will! Jessi's cheer team took 1st place last week at their competition and this week at a different competition took second place! WoW! Jess, congratulations and if you have any pictures please post them!

Bob's card trick

OK, OK you men, I get it! I sent an email to you guys asking for help with a "card trick" that was driving me crazy and you all wrote back to explain, in very detailed, (and I'm pretty sure condescending)terms how it was done. I'm so lucky to have you! And, I loved that you came to my rescue!
Love you tons,
Mom

Kayla's game

I went to MaKayla's basketball game today. You might want to know that she is the star player! Well, I guess the whole team did well. They beat Helper by about 15 points and led by 20 till the very last. MaKayla made fourteen of them and at least one three pointer, maybe two! She really is very good and it was fun to watch her play. At half time Brynlee and I ran out to the car for some cash and back for "slurpies" (snow cones) and popcorn. She played so cute with a little boy about her size. He brought tractors and horses and cowboys and she was very content to play with him; even shared her suckers with him. Quite the kid!

Jim and I are teaching a basic EMT class on Wed and Thur nights in CD. It is fun, I enjoy teaching and it feels good to feel like doing it!

Jen and Greg

Whew! The days don't seem to slow down! Jen and Greg celebrated their wedding anniversary on the 17th of January. ELEVEN years! They made their annual trip to Mesquite. Linda and Reese, Jeff and Kim, and I tended the little ones and they were so fun. Chase would have liked to have gone swimming cuz he has only been one time to the new pool in FOUR years! I'm not sure how that works out when they just opened the pool last year but oh well. As old as I am he really thinks I can handle four little ones at the pool! Not bad, huh? Just let him keep thinking it,k? We had mac and cheese and ramen noodles for dinner and eggs "over easy" for breakfast one day - they were really impressed that I could cook an egg w/o breaking the yolk. Magic grandma! And the next morning we had Chocolate syrup and biscuits. Yeah, I know, you are all jealous. We read stories, watched movies, had friends over and snuggled. They are SO good to snuggle with me. I griped some because I was trying to keep the house clean for Jen and Greg but they were forgiving and helped me out. We all slept all over the mom and dad's bedroom. Meinkina is such a night owl but she hasn't been feeling very good so she went to sleep early, slept late and napped in the afternoon. And, the rest of the time she was grandma's princess. Such fun.

Update on my face - I have had little sensations for a couple of week in my face. Nothing painful, just like twitches. Then brushing my teeth at Jen's I got a shock. Not very painful but scared the crud out of me! I was tearful and prayerful all day but it never did come back. I called Dr. Aphlebaum's office and they said it happens sometimes and said I should get some Tegretal to have on hand (the anti-seizure drug that makes you fall asleep while jogging!) and to come back in if it gets bad. I told her it wasn't going to get bad. I would be back for surgery before I had to go through that again. Anyway, I had a couple of stressful days, worrying but still nothing and I'm ready to believe it was just a fluke. Heavenly Father has been so incredibly good to me that I hate asking for more but I do beg him to keep blessing me to keep my TN at bay.

We have a brand new member of the Church!

It's been forever since I posted but wanted to make sure everyone knew about Ashlynne's baptism. It was on Jan. 10th. Ashlynne and Chase share birthdays. Chase turned 10 and it was Ashlynne's 8th so she was baptised on her birthday! Her cousins, Breanne and Cedar spoke. She was baptised and confirmed by her daddy and we had a great day!Ashlynne was beautiful and so poised. Cedar sat down after her talk and teared up as she felt the spirit of the day. Kim made the most delicious quiche and others brought rolls. Misha brought rolls that made a hit with everyone EXCEPT her brother, Jeff. He said, after eating 10 or 12 of them, that he didn't think they were his favorite anymore! Sorry Misha; the rest of us loved them! We sang Happy Birthday to both birthday kids and they opened presents and we had birthday cake. What a wonderful day! Grandma forgot her camera so the pictures have to wait till one of you others post them, so get busy!

Jennifer!

Make sure you click on the "comments" under "FUNNY" and read Jen's comments. JEN! YOU are a brat! You are suppose to be the responsible slash adult slash aunt slash mom by now! At least pretend! (Sorry, I had to use the tamn slashes)
You are TOo funny.
mom

FUNNY!

If you haven't seen this yet (it came out by a different lady a year or so ago) it is hilarious! Dot sent it and suggested I put it on our RS blog. I thought you moms might enjoy it too.
northlandchurch.net/webstream_worship/index.html You may have to type it into your address bar, I can't get it to paste for some reason...Jase?
Stephanie called and sounded wonderful! Phyllis and I were going out the door to do VT so I didn't get to talk to her as long as I would have liked to. Her first day of classes were good. She thinks she is going to really like it. Her "fourth" room mate isn't coming so for now there are just the three of them. She says the new girl...oh DARN, I was going to remember her name...and it's gone...is nice. They are playing games already and making "apartment rules", oh my goodness do you older ones remember those days?
Love you muchly!
Don't forget your prayers,
Mom