The Men in my life....

My favorite guy, John, lost his job on Monday. He is showing great faith and perserverance and has hit the ground running looking for a new job. I believe all will be well somehow someway. We keep hearing it is hard times out there but we do see many jobs that would be a good fit for John. We are glad we have tried to be frugal with our money and hope to survive without too much of a hitch. However we are both hard workers and we will survive!!! and I'm sure we will be better for it. John is an amazing person. Not many people know of his talents. He has made many good changes in every job he has worked. Mostly he gives every person the respect they deserve no matter what their position and helps them be the best and produce the best they can. He makes things happen by making the employees a team and raising each to their potential. He is a kind sole and a VERY hard and SMart worker. So I believe with all that and the Lords help we will be fine. I am VERY grateful for such a wonderful man!!!

Another of my favorite guys, my Dad, under went surgery to take out his prostate over a week ago. We went to the Dr's today and all is well. The cancer didn't spread at all so all he has to do is heal. He was hillarious in the hospital. He suffered VERY little pain and had all the nursed wrapped around his little finger. He told my sister, my mother and myself EXACTLY what a prostate does!!! WOW! He is doing well and can't wait to get back to work at 74 years of age. He is amazing and in GREAT health aparently!

My favorite little man either warms my heart in love or frustration!!! More love than frustration fortunatley. I have LOVED seeing life through the eyes of a little boy! He is sooo happy to have his daddy home. If only we were independantly wealthy!!! We are all loving the TIME together! Too bad it takes sooo much time to produce $$$.

I feel So Blessed to have such outstanding Men in my life!!!

Santa our Guitar Hero

I had to post this one last Christmas picture because

I'm sure it won't happen for too many more years.

I'm glad it happened this year. He asked for Guitar Hero.

How about THAT...

Maybe there is some magic to that ole' St. Nick!

Merry Christma$

Christma$ was lots of fun as usual.

I know my girls need clothes, however they never like what I give them sooo...

this year I gave all the girls a crisp $100 bill to buy their own. It was GREAT! They all loved it and enjoyed the shopping. The only question is How do I surprise them next year. Natalie was pretty cute. She was the first to discover the $100 and the excitement was priceless. Brittney didn't want any Christmas morning pictures. Personally I think they are adorable and don't need makeup. But I sure enjoy her excitement at Christmas. The little girl peaks out every so often!

I know we are the VERY last family in the whole wide world to get one of these!

We are sure enjoying it...

The guitars are now a permanent fixture in our family room.

Natalie made most of our Christmas Dinner

which was GREAT fun for her and GREAT fun for me. She did a great job also, everything was VERY Yummy!

We sure enjoyed having the girls home and I know Grandma and Grandpa enjoyed them as well.

There is nothing like a good ole Christmas at home!!!

More Christmas dipping chocolates....

One of my favorite traditions is dipping Chocolates.

Of course I have the idealic view that they love it too,

but not soo much now that they are teenagers.

Teenagers WOE IS ME!!!

Christmas...

I always give the kids and ornament. THis is a tradition my Aunt Kathryn started me on at Brittney's first Christmas. So someday when they go they will have a nice collection of ornaments. This year I found this old photo of me and had it make into these darling porcelin ornaments.

I LOVE christmas!

I love having the house transformed into a Christmas wonderland.

I love giving and making Christmas gifts.

I especially love time together as a family

more Thanksgiving

Finally I finished uploading Thanksgiving pictures. We had such a good time. We saw Brigham Youngs house Jacob Hamblins House ( I think that was his name) and we saw the tree lighting ceremony at the St. George Temple. So the pictures are in NO particular order. Notice the Teenagers at the tree lighting ceremony! How did we ever survive without cell phones!!

The cell phone companies should use this for a comercial. How did we ever survive???

Uncle Dell's favorite thing to do is Dog Pile everyone on Chandler!

How funny is this picture! Chandler is forever trying to get into the pictures!

Thanksgiving in St. George

So we went to St. George for Thanksgiving so we could meet Brittney, Collette and my sister and brother and their families. We left VERY early on Thanksgiving morning 3AM and got to ST. George in time to rest and then go to a restaurant to eat. I think it is a GREAT way to do Thanksgiving! NO dishes and NO Cooking. Actually the food was great. Here is a piture of our feast and family.

Later we did pool shuffle board and swimming. Grandma and Grandpa were at a nice camp Ground which was lots of fun!!!

I LOVE this picture. Chandler is always doing the funny faces on the girls pictures. So Brittney did a nice job of getting back at him. More of Thanksgiving after lunch.