travel time!

This has been such a fun two weeks for me!  I started off at Holly and Aaron's the day before Halloween and it was so fun being there!  I loved spending time with her cute family.  I loved spending time with Holly Christmas shopping, going trick or treating with Lucy and Grace, birthday shopping with Lucy, going to the gym with Holly and her friend Jill every morning at 5:30 a.m., finding and making new yummy recipes, going to the school for lunch,watching Noah and Grace swim, going on a field trip with Lucy and her pre-school, going to High School Musical three, and all of the other fun things that I got to participate in by just being there!  Here are a few pictures of our time together.  I have a new video camera...It opens up a whole new world!

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Isn't she just the star?

        

I loved watching Noah and Grace practice with their swim teams!  They really are good swimmers!

Halloween day

I feel so blessed to be able to visit my kids and their families.  They are always so gracious and willing to let me come!  Thanks Holly and Aaron!

I love you and your family!

update

Happy Birthday in October to Olivia, Lucy and Austin! Liv's birthday was on the 1st of October. She turned 10! Two whole hands old! Lucy's birthday is also on the 1st. She is 4 and I can't wait to go and see her. We will go birthday shopping! That will be fun! Austin turned 7 on the 26th of October. Can you believe how old they are getting?


Olivia and I had a fabulous time birthday shopping. She wanted things to decorate her room and bed. How do you think we did?

great mirror, don't you think?

Liv is a great shopping partner. I can' wait to go with her again!

austin and I also went shopping and it was great. It was a totally different experience with him than with Liv, but one just as satisfying! After shopping and lunch, Amy put on an amazing party with 20 of Austin's closest friends.

As you can see, it was quite the group!

everyone was singing Happy Birthday so loud, Austin had to cover his ears!

I love being a grandma! It is so fun to take the kids birthday shopping. Having them one on one is a treat for me.

And now I am off to Omaha to visit Holly, Aaron, Noah, Grace, Lucy, and Jacob for a week. Then to Austin to spend a week with Jeff, Brenna, Jackson, and James.

Watch for my travel journal. I will let you know where I am and what we are doing!

I think Mel wants me to blog!

It has been such  long time since I have added anything to my blog!  I think Mel is trying to encourage me since she tagged me.  This one is a thinker.

8 favorite TV shows

24

Prison Break

Fox News

Turner Classic Movies

Western channel movies

and that's all I know about that.

8 favorite restaurants 

Arid Club

Columbia Tower

Olive Garden

California Pizza Kitchen

Chapala

Quiznos

Mr. Bird's Kitchen (rack of lamb)

Cold Stone

8 things on my wish list

to have my party house done

have it be 4th of July week again

all my children and grandchildren lived in Boise or Donnelly/McCall

my husband would retire in Donnelly

my hand would never go to sleep

my parents were still here.  

I could eat anything and never gain weight

I had a convertible  

8 things I look forward to

5 feet of snow in my yard

Mel coming to see me for both Thanksgiving and Christmas

sitting in the hot tub in the middle of a snow storm

seeing the Ogdens and Bird's (Jeff) in a week or so

going to the temple anytime!

taking my grandchildren birthday shopping

Friday nights because that's when Dad comes to spend the weekend

french toast on Sunday mornings

eating breakfast while studying my scriptures

8 things that happened today

I worked out ( upper body)

cleaned bathrooms

mopped all the wood floors

did laundry

talked to Mel and Amy on the phone

went to the post office

found a cow and calf in the yard

packed to go to Seattle

I tag:

Grace

Noah

Ethan (with Mom's help)

Ty (with Mom's help)

Brenna

Jeff

Thanks Mel for helping me get back to my blogging.  I will try and do better!