Puzzled?

Question? Could this be a new blade on the old tractor, that will move snow this winter? Stylin', Dad only wishes we had more snow to move. Question? What are these people doing in the mud? Well it is very tasty mud and we made a lot of chocolates and made a big mess and we had lots of helpers.

Question? What is Meggie Sue doing? They are doing a great service project in their ward and making quilts for Primary Children's Hospital, where they will travel in the spring to deliver.

Question? More mud? You just have to really get into it.

Question? Who got to see Santa? These cute ones were never afraid of this Santa. Ward party 2008.

Question? isn't this puzzling all these questions? Well I have had the fever and took on a 1000 piece puzzle and have really found it relaxing. I need help finishing, any volunteers?

One more question? Guess who will be here on the 19th? We are settling in for Christmas festivities. Yahoo!!!!!!

Another star and another Nativity

I know that this picture is not the best, but the only one that we could get. Bri scored 2 points in this game that they won. She is really a little hustler, she played with girls a lot bigger than her. This takes us way back to the Bod family Christmas party at Marci and Troy's. We had the Weiser B's and all the local ones. We ate big sandwiches, did the nativity with the cutest sheep you ever saw and picked out our snowflake doilies that Grandma O had made for us. She handed out the new 2009 calendars that were just darling.

What good sports.

A snow plow?

Stay tuned for pictures and story!

Hot Chocolate

The bank gave us a present for our families, they rented a theatre and we could take our family to see a movie, the one playing was "Alvin and the Chipmunks". Bri, Dalton and Maeley got to go with me. We had treats and got presents from Santa and then I think the part they liked the best was going to Bubba's for hot chocolate and breakfast. Yup! that was the best part. Sorry no pictures. I forgot my camera.

Also, this week I was in SLC for meetings, we had an Executive Banking Christmas dinner and then it was fun to have the Utah kids come and swim in the pool and have a short visit. Then we were on to Friday meetins and our annual service project for EB. We went to a shelter for families that have lost their housing for some reason or another and they are temporarily housed at this shelter, where they are counseled and they get help finding jobs and affordable housing. It was an eye opener. We decorated their offices and a main part of their shelter for Christmas. I am thankful for my job and my home, me and my family are so blessed.

Nativities and Christmas

Okay, I don't know how to turn this picture, after trying, I think it would be better if you turn you head to look at it. ;o) This is my new tree that I got at Tai Pan's for cheap. So I have a thing for nativities. They all are special to me. This one is a puzzle, when put together it fits in the fram at the back. It was a little painstaking to paint all the figures, thus it has become very special and the kids like to put the puzzle togehter.

This one was hand etched on the glass and sits in a wooden base This is one that is a smaller version that Barb and Steve gave us, of a bigger one that we got when I was in Primary, many years ago.

This is a picture (with a big flash of light in it) of a nativity that the Bod family depicted about ten years ago. I loved it so much I had to frame it.

This nativity was one that I bought the little figures and made my our stable and it has been with us for many years.

This one is special because Jill got it in Jerusalem where it was hand made of the olive wood there.

I love Christmas and it has been fun to decorate. Now we have to get on with the shopping and get the gifts.

Remembering a friend

We got word on Thanksgiving weekend that Charlotte a friend and schoolmate had been killed in an accident near her home. She was raised here in our little community where they were good friends with the Cook's. They moved from here but they continued to go to school with us and we graduated from high school together. We enjoyed many activities together and just recently we celebrated our 40th class reunion and we got to see and visit with her and her husband, another of our schoolmates. It was a reality check for both of us. We thought we were too young to die, now we know that our time here could be shorter than we thought. Who knows, but we are thankful for our lives that were touched for good because of Char and Dean.

'Cook'ies for Christmas

So we have to make the traditional cut-out cookies for Christmas. . . . . .We had lots of good help. More troops came by to help get the job done. It helps us get in the Christmas spirit. Love these kids aren't they the best?

They even taste pretty good (the cookies, not the grandkids)!!!!!!

Is that Grandpa's hand? He must be sneaking some treats, too.