It's my birthday! November 7, 2013

For my birthday, Clinton gave me a day to do whatever I wanted.  I had him take me to Idaho Falls, and had a shopping day.  Clinton just followed me around to the different shops, carried my bags and wore a blister on his foot.  I forgot to tell him that you don't wear new shoes when you are having a shopping day.  We only took breaks for food.  Lunch was at Babes Bakery.

 

We did have a hot chocolate break at The Cocoa Bean.  Later for dinner we ate at Blue Hashi.

 

Brock and Carrie had this fancy cake waiting for me.  It is chocolate cake and frosting, surrounded by all this yummy candy!  It was so nice to have someone make me a birthday cake.

 

 

Payton got to help me blow out the candles.  Then we watched "Monster's University".  In this age of technology, I had lots of friends and family send me birthday wishes on Facebook.  By the end of the day I sure felt special.

 

To top it off, I found these cupcakes and a card on my back step when I got home.  They were from the Young Women.

 

Clinton gave me the beautiful flowers too.  I have enjoyed every minute of this day!

I Love Halloween!!! October 31, 2013

I just love Halloween!  It is a toss up between this and Christmas!  The YW had a Halloween Party on Tuesday, October 29th.  It was a dress up party with Halloweenie treats and a spook alley.

 

I dressed up as one of the Flintstone's characters. 

 

This year Halloween fell on our bowling day.  Our team and the Sunshine Girls were in charge of the treats.  We had quite a delicious sampling of festive foods.  These bone sandwiches, spider ice cubes and spider web dip have become such a tradition for me, I was excited to share them with the girls at bowling. 

 

                                                                 Bone Sandwiches

 

                                                                  Spider Ice Cubes

 

Spider Web Dip

The highlight of the evening was having 2 of our cute grandchildren come Trick or Treat us. 
Payton makes a cute fireman.

Braden was his side kick and came as a Dalmatian Puppy.  Then we kept up with tradition and watched "The Ghost & Mr. Chicken"!

Braden's Blessing October 27, 2013

     This little guy is the reason we went to Utah this weekend.  Brock gave Braden a name and a blessing.  He is starting to smile.  I just love it when you talk to these little ones and they smile back at you. 
     We went down to Utah on Friday evening.  On Saturday I got the fun job of playing with Payton, while Clinton helped Brock load up the trailer.  They are moving to Rexburg this week.  Brock is going to work in the accounting department at Agritech.  That means we get family close by, especially grandkids!

 

Payton is sure enjoying playing in the leaves!

 

It was fun to have Chelsi join us for this picture right after church today.

I am grateful for a son who is a worthy Priesthood holder so he could bless Braden today.

Stepping out of the box! October 23, 2013

This Halloween Season we decided to step out of our box.  We heard that the Playmill Theater group was doing a haunted house called "The House of 7 Gables".  My mistake was to think that it would not be as scary as a regular haunted house.  Well I was wrong.  I think I broke Clinton's hand and I heard myself screaming during the presentation. 

 

We invited some friends to join along in the fun.  The Archibald's and Zollinger's were good sports to go along with us.  I hope they are still our friends after such a frightful evening!