All Snowed IN

We decided to go up to the mountain condo for the Presidents Day Weekend even though we knew it was going to be a stormy weekend.

Believe it or not the weekend before there was no snow on the ground.

We shovel snow off the back deck the Saturday we arrived and the boys had fun playing in it. Below is a picture of the two of them goofing around in the snow they dug out of the side of the cabin wall.

Baseball Time Is Here

Baseball season is approaching soon. I am baseball taxi Mom once more. Christopher is back at playing baseball. He is one level higher in the league, playing on a majors teams the Astros. Coaches are very hard core put do know we have other family members to care for so they only have practice one and a half hours three days a week. When the full season begins they say it will be cut to two days a week.

Family doing well, busy with school and David starting tax season.
Looking forward of the new grandson in early April and David will be juggling tax season crunch and being a single parent while I'm in Idaho helping Jennifer.

Just hared from the other party's Insurance and they have finally expected the fault of the accident, we can now get that behind us and feel more at ease. We were thinking of having to hire on your attorney friend in the ward.

Hope this will help me have a better night sleep.

Sickness in 2009

It is 2009 and we had the joy of having Jennifer and the two children stay with us this last week. It was fun having them just wished some of us didn't get the sickness still going back and for worth through the children. Christopher came home Friday after school with the high fever and Saturday and today he has a bad cough lingering. Jennifer and children left Saturday to go back home to Idaho.

Today I spoke in two wards which is part of my new calling in the church. It was high counsel Sunday and I spoke in my home ward and Third ward, glad that that assignment is over. My calling is in the Stake Primary Presidency and we are assigned to speak with the High counselor on a signed Sunday's. I believe I am free for an other three months.

Christmas is over and a New Year to begin

Saturday before Christmas I got my first gift my new car. We had looked at this Honda before and drove it and really liked it but it with a little above your price range. then David and his brother were looking in the computer at work and punch in a web site of request of a Honda pilot and this same car came up again but they had lowered the price of this 2008 last one on the lot and we went to see the dealer again that weekend. They had gave us a good deal on this new 2008 only 20 miles on it we took the deal and I drove off the lot after about four hours of paper work and cleaning and setting -up the car that the dealer does before releasing the car to the owner.


Tuesday December 23rd we had a family birthday celebration for David's birthday. Jennifer and her family were there and also David's parents. We had a spaghetti dinner a tradition for Davids birthday and a cake made by his mother which was a cake he had most birthdays when he was a young boy. Angel food cake with ice cream and peppermint's with pecan's.

Christmas morning was great the family all together again with Margaret and Jennifer. Things changed just before we were to be heading to David's parents for Christmas dinner Matthew came down with an illness so David and him stayed home will the rest of us went to his parents.

It was hard not having them there with us but latter they did show up for a little time for David and Matthew to open up gifts then go back home. We where able to get this family picture.

Nightmare Tuesday

I will be getting a new car for Christmas.

Not the way I would of like that to come about.

Tuesday night I was taking the boys to the church for Young Men's and Scouts. When going through the intersection of Green Valley and Mangles a women run the light and hit me.

I think of what could happen if I had been farther in the intersection when the women came speeding through the intersection.

The two boys plus their neighbor friends where also in the car with me, they were not hurt but I'm sure they are shaken up like me. I have some bruising on my left shoulder and lower pain in back and neck but I think it is more due to stress of the season.

We look at it has we where being watched that we had not injuries more sirius.

Bartley Thanksgiving

Had a nice Thanksgiving at the Edmans home. Marge and Jim Edman are good friends with David's parents. Their son and daughter inlaw (Jamie and Marsha) live with them in their home. Jamie was the bishop when David served with him almost twelve years ago. We had Christopher when David severed with him as his second counselor in the Cordelia ward.

We did this last year but we hosted Thanksgiving at our home. We decided to get together again because they had none of their married family coming home for the holiday. Both families enjoy each others company. I forgot my camera but I'm hoping I can get some form David's father.

David and I went out shopping for Christmas in an old mining town up above Sacramento Saturday morning. Was a fun area by the name of Sutter Creek. May sound familiar a lot of history in the little town. We found a few things and enjoyed having lunch there also.