Helping Move

As some of you may have noticed I have not blogged nor written e-mails much in the past couple of weeks so maybe I should explain what has been going on. On the 15th I left here to go help Heather and Stephen and boys pack up their belongings and bring them here. They have been with us the past week while they waited for the apartment to be ready. Today it was finally available and they got moved in (well mostly). Glen came and helped with the heavy stuff this afternoon. I got back here on Sunday night from helping them pack and move then I headed out the following morning to the NWFP Convention in Portland. This year Teri went with me. The only real problem with that is we left Rose home with the stomach flu. She took the whole week to get over it but not without her sharing it around with some of the other family members. It is too much of a story to tell but we are glad that they are settled and Rose is feeling better. Now if Teri and I can just get well.

Back to Work

Well, as always happens, the holiday is coming to an end. Hope there is not too much work piled up from the last couple of weeks.

Everyone has gone home now and things are going to seem quiet around here.

New Year's Day 2009

Do we look old enough to be grandparents to you? I have been thinking about time a bit as we are into the new year. It seems to have really gone by quickly. It will soon be 31 years that we have been married and we now have three grandchildren but it seems like just yesterday that we got married and of course to think we have lived in Washington now for 15 years is almost too much to believe. Anyway here is a link to an essay by Orson Scott Card on the subject of time that I found interesting. http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/orson_scott_card/?id=5656

Everyone Home for Christmas

We were all together for Christmas for the first time in a couple of years so we all got together and took a family picture. The home teachers happened by and pressed the shutter on a couple. We did some with the timer.Rose, Eric, and Glen opening presents on Christmas morning.

Jilly in the high chair.

Eric preparing to open his present from Santa Claus.

Jilly with Elmo.

Grandsons opening presents. They really had the hang of tearing off the wrappping paper. Rip, tear, and move on to the next present. Oh, were we supposed to look at the presents? The unwrapping is so much fun.

The kids are all here for Christmas vacation and we are so thankful that they made it. While the past few days have been cold and snowy it seems that the timing was good for Saturday travel at least coming from Utah and Idaho. It started snowing here quite hard just before Holly and family got here and has snowed pretty much since.

We drove the 4x4 to church today and were kind of glad to have it right now. The main roads and streets were plowed but the side streets were pretty snowy. After we got home from church it started snowing some more. It will be good to just hunker down here in the house for a few days now that everyone is here.

Eric is home for Christmas

Eric got home this evening. He had some bad roads through the Blue Mountains of Oregon. So glad he got home safely. What a relief when he walked in the door.

YYSO Concert at the Yakima Valley Museum

This is Rose playing at the museum on Saturday. She had a lot of playing time this past week.