It's Been A Long time

Since keeping busy on Facebook I have failed to keep up on my blog. So, I shall do a little catching up this time. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at our home with the kids who were here. good food and good company. It is always fu to get together with the kids!

Christmas came along soon. This year we went to Mike and Angela's home. All Jim's kids were home from college so we were happy to have all of them here. Andrew is in school in Chicago studying to be an optometrist. We had great food, as usual, and then the wild time of gift opening and little kids running around with toys after. ow the teens, they are another story; They were doing funny poses for the camera and seemed to enjoy the time together. Our daughter-in-law, Angela, made a family tree for us that is so neat. It is a big tree and starts with Wayne and I at the bottom and all the important dates - goes through all our kids and grandkids. A special gift!

Last Saturday Lisa's youngest,Lauren, was baptized. My gift to the girls on their baptism year is a Marie Osmond collector doll - hopefully that will help them remember how special Grandma and Grandpa feel that day is. the boys get $100,00 for their mission fund. We had a great dinner at Lisa's after. a great family get together.

Wayne is keeping busy doing yard work - ours and he does three others that he gets paid for. He really enjoys working outside. You can get him off the rance but can't get the ranch out of him! Lisa has a new dog that is little and so cute. For the first time in all these years I heard Wayne say he would like a dog like that. I told him I would take care of it for Father's day. The next day I asked if he had the dog out of his system yet - he answered with a yes. So, no cute little dog. We can babysit Lisa's!

We are flying to Houston on April 1 to spend a week with Nikki and family. Angela and Ben are driving from St. Louis to be there too so it should be fun. Our only concern is that Wayne has a sister with cancer and it is growing quickly. He plans on flying to SLC and then driving to Canada with his sister Ruth to visit Fae. We are hoping both trips work out and we don;t have to change anything last minute. We pray for Fae and don't want her to suffer a long time.

Seems to us that the beginning of the very last days have raised it's ugly head throughout the world. Things are pretty messed up everywhere including in our country. We watch the signs and strive to live more Christ-like lives. We pray for our children and grandchildren that they will hold to the rod and be strong and true to the gospel as it is the only way to true happiness. Our fathers are aging but doing well all things considered.