Just a Little Snow in Flagstaff

This is the view from the other side of my cul-de-sac so you can see the snow pile in the middle. It is much bigger now than it was at Christmas time. And the snow is now about 4 - 5 feet high in places. It is supposed to get a couple more feet by tomorrow. It's crazy.

See that little guy up there on the roof? Yup, that's Don. holding his trusty snow shovel. He worked up there for about an hour and a half and came in soaking wet. Poor guy. Glad I'm not a man....

In town there have been some roof collapses. like Joann Fabrics (boo hoo!) And Bookmans. I hear that place is toast now. too bad really. It was a great store! Hey, maybe when they start up again they will take some of my books they wouldn't take before....

DON'T GO DADDY! DON'T GO!
I love these pics! Meredith let me steal them from her facebook. She told me how.
This what the boys do when Eric has to leave for work. Isn't it precious!

Click on it and you can see Logan is there too.

My Ode to the Holiday

-By Karen Rowley

The mansion is empty,
The trash is all dumped
The kitties they sleep on the couch in a lump.
The tree, it still standeth
I can't say goodbye.
It just looks so pretty
That maybe I'll cry.

It's too quiet here.
Not much cleaning's been done,
With more things around
I remember the fun.
I've found a green boot
And a little toy soldier,
A ship in a bag
And some socks left to molder.

The snow mountain misses
The children's loud squeals,
The van that careened around on two wheels.
The kitchen's not crowded
There's still food galore
And right now there's nothing spilled on the floor.
No kids at the counter all drinking hot chocolate.
No Dads in the family room ready to Risk it.

So maybe I'll spend one more day in a trance
Remembering the children who did a fine dance
And the wild country fiddlin' and hootin' and yellin'
The puzzling and gaming and sick belly aching.

Now the children are happy in their own snuggly beds
And visions of summertime dance in their heads,
When once again there will be noise all around
And kidlets so numerous the mothers will frown
And say "are they yours? I'm not going to claim them!
It's way too much work just to try to contain them!"

So we'll let them go running and screaming outside
They'll laugh and they'll play and they'll slip and they'll slide.
Us grown-ups will sit back relax and watch movies
And phone for some Pizza.
Oh, it will be Groovy!

We FINALLY took down the Christmas tree. Last night. But all the other decorations are still up. Maybe we will take them down for our date night tonight. We have to move the car out of the garage and climb up into the attic to get all the boxes to fill up so that's one reason it's taking so long. Plus, the holidays were just so fun that It's been easy to let it keep going with the decorations keeping the feelings alive.

We had such a wonderful Christmas! We took this pic just before church. It started at 3 pm so you can see how close we were. some of the family was sick with fluey stuff and didn't get to go. But I love the picture! It is ALL of us!

Wahoo!!! I spent the day from 9 a.m. to 5:40 p.m. at a CPR/First Aid class. So if you are injured or choking or having a heart attack, I'm you man! I mean woman... Come to me!! me! me!

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Yesterday I got to do interpreting at the high school! It was a good experience. I worked in a math class which was hard at first to figure out the specific signs for Y axis and X axis and intercept etc but it turned out ok because they only had 1/2 hour of instruction and then took a test. Easy for me! Then in the cooking class I just did explanations and then the students ate left over turkey dinner (yes, I had some!) and then played games. It was a good day for the regular interpreter to be out. A good starting point for me in the 'big leagues'. I don't like the high school too much though. Too many weirdo teenagers.....
But Mrs. Izbell remembered Kimi and Mrs. Burris remembered Eric and the cooking teacher Can't remember her name, remembered Eric too. Hmmmmm. he graduated in 1998. Why would she remember him??? Eric?

Logan Adventures

Kimi took us to the museum at USU to dventures

see the display she made with two other girls. They spent countless hours and efforts to put this together . Even Cherise helped out with painting. It's named Message On A Body.

Among other things there is info on tattoos & corsettes.

This head is shaped with boards strapped to a child's head and he is not taken out of his cradle to play for 2 years!

These tiny shoes were worn in China during the 1000 years that girl's feet were bound.

They actually constantly break bones in the feet to fold them under and they end up only 3 inches long. The display was excellent! We are very proud of the work she did.

Sophie and Allessia having fun at Cherise's house on conference sunday.

We were so glad they came to visit!!!

Checking to see who has the fever....


My three daughters! Aren't they beautiful?

"What we did on our Conference Vacation"

We had quite the trip over conference weekend. We traveled all the way up to Logan, Utah and back so we could visit with 5 of the kids. We stopped in Cedar city first to see Christine's family, then headed up to SLC to visit with Jen's family then on up to Logan where we saw Cherise and Kimi and even Annette came down with her family for the visit. It was great to see everyone and conference too. We would have gone to session of conference but someone left the tickets in the wrong state.... But it didn't matter. This way we were able to make halloween decorations with Maddie, Jaren,Tanner and Tae on sunday morning.

Here are the kids with their little baby bear.
Baby Bear Chase himself

Cutest tungue ever!

Dad showing off for the grandkids. Luckily he didn't hurt anything.

Notice the bats and pumpkin hanging from the ceiling.

HALLOWEEN

Each Halloween our extended family comes to visit after trick-or-treating. Cody, Zack and Max empty their candy on the floor and count and seperate it just like every kid in the universe. I love it!

So here is the family this year. Josh the Orange haired, Soldier Cody, Batman Zach ,Chrystal the Mom, and Eeyore Max

Aren't they cute? They make it feel like the beginning of the holidays!
Thank you!!!