Beautiful!

We really got hit yesterday with lots of snow. First thing in the morning, we scraped ice caused by freezing rain off of the cars. Dd#4 was late to school. It was an ice rink on the roads. It reminded me of Portland and their ice storms. The snow just kept coming and cleared the gunky air. It's beautiful this morning. Here are some shots of the snow. The sun will be melting the roads today just in time for another pretty good storm tonight. I love watching the pieces of snow drop off the tree limbs to the ground. Christmas will soon be here!

Happy Birthday

It was Grandpa and DIL's birthday this past weekend. We had a nice visit with Grandpa on the phone. With the family that was available, we had a birthday party for our DIL. Here we are serenading her with our recorders. 

    The night before, dd#4 went to her first teen dance. She met a few there that went to her school and she had a good time. 

We were able to put together our dining room over the weekend. With two leaves, it will fit twelve. I am so happy with how it looks. 

Masquerade Ball

Saturday night was the high school's masquerade ball. It was girls' choice and dd#3 went with a wonderful young man. They went with three other couples. They had an afternoon of ice skating first. DH and I went to Ikea to purchase a few things, came back and saw the beautiful gown with the beautiful girl inside. How fun are masks!( I should have taken a picture of them with their masks.) They went to the dance and ended the night playing games and watching Phantom of the Opera.

Young Woman Medallion

Wednesday night was our ward's Young Women in Excellence. Our #3 daughter was able to receive her medallion. The YW President invited the mothers of the girls to pick a flower that reminds them of their daughter, explain why, present her with the flower and give a minute or two talk about her. I was so honored to to that for her. Her dad and I chose the sunflower. The condensed version of the talk centered around the ability of the sunflower to follow the sun. They are a symbol of radiant warmth, loyalty and pure thoughts. No flower can lift spirits quite like the sunflower can. They are bright and cheery. Our daughter is a prime example of these qualities and she does strive to follow the "Son."

She had her wisdom teeth taken out only five days before the meeting and she looked and felt pretty normal for the night's activity.

DD#4.....so proud of them!

The girls with our wonderful friend and their YW leader in our other ward.

October Fun!





Men folk hard at work!

 October just flew by as we were so involved in getting the kitchen finished. We had a lot of help with the flooring and putting in the appliances. Thank you all so very much! As of tonight, Halloween, we still need to install the backsplash, mouldings and purchase area rugs and a dining set. I will be spending quality time with all of the instruction booklets for the appliances this week. I will soon discover all of the bells and whistles before the big turkey day. Last weekend we had a birthday celebration for dd#2. She came from college with a room mate and we also had grandpa and grandma here. The kids went down to "Witches Night Out" at Gardner Village too.


Happy Birthday sweetie!





Birthday guests