I will truly miss you, your enthusiasm for life, your energy at 97 years, your sweet nature. You served with all your heart. When I heard that you had passed away, it took me by surprise, but I also had a peaceful feeling in my heart and soul, knowing that you are with your sweetheart again and all your loved ones.
My husband has to remind me that I should not be sad, you have accomplished so many great things while you were here, but it is hard to loose someone so dear to your heart. You taught me so much during your time as president, and now I need to work a little harder and be a little better. Your memory will live on in my heart. Thanks for your great service.
Love, Christin
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Sharing Time
Well, I was never big on getting in front of people and giving any kind of presentation. But, since I am in Primary, you get to do sharing time every few months and today was my very first sharing time. Last year I taught the 8-11 year olds and they had already done sharing time before I was put in so I did not have to worry about it. This year they moved me to the 4 year old class (big change) and they cannot help much with sharing. Ever since they gave me the manual in December and seeing that I had sharing the last Sunday of January, I have been fretting it. But, no worries now, I made it through and it was totally fine. I did it on the Creation and then played a little game afterwards and I wasn't nervous, took the whole time I needed to, and even went over a little on time. I don't know why I always stress over these kind of things. I also got a cold/sore throat that made my voice all crackly, so I had that to deal with also. I am just grateful to have it over with. I won't be so nervous next time. I hope.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Thank You
Well, I just wanted to thank all the family, friends, and neighbors who have helped us out this last month with Rob being out of commission (so to say). Mainly in the area of snow blowing our driveway and sidewalks. I did not realize how much work it is to shovel a driveway and the sidewalk(we live on a corner, so we have a lot of sidewalk) and also how cold you can get when doing it all by myself. On those days when the snow really came down, my dad or mom would come over and snow blow us out. We have truly appreciated it. We love you all and are so grateful for the help.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Our New Bed
This last Christmas Rob and I decided we would buy furniture, so when the time came we decided to get furniture for our living room and a new bed. We have not found the couches we want yet, but we did buy a Cal King bed with headboard and baseboard. Rob is so long his legs hang off the bed and wasn't sleeping very well. So we went shopping around for mattresses, we even tried out the intelligel beds (way to expensive), which were very nice. We found the one we wanted and Rob picked out the headboard and baseboard. They had to order them in, so we had to wait about a week and a half before we got it.
In the meantime, we picked out some paint and painted the room a brown color. I painted Friday (the base coat) and Saturday morning I woke up at 7:00 and painted for four hours and got the job done. Right now I hate painting. We also bought a new comforter set which arrived two days ago. Our bed was delivered today and we set it up and wow, what a difference.
We feel spoiled really. But we will enjoy it. Here is our finished product:
In the meantime, we picked out some paint and painted the room a brown color. I painted Friday (the base coat) and Saturday morning I woke up at 7:00 and painted for four hours and got the job done. Right now I hate painting. We also bought a new comforter set which arrived two days ago. Our bed was delivered today and we set it up and wow, what a difference.
We feel spoiled really. But we will enjoy it. Here is our finished product:
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Year in Review
Some of the things we did this year were:
Rob and I had birthdays in June and I made my favorite jello poke cake.
Rob graduated from Utah State University in May with his bachelors in Electrical Engineering, and was made an engineer at his place of work.
We moved from our 2 bedroom apartment, into a 4 bedroom home.
My sisters and I made salsa with the plethera of peppers and tomatoes found in our garden, that the previous owners planted. I found my favorite salsa recipe and made salsa, I think I made three batches total. The name of the salsa is Phyl's Salsa @ allrecipes.com. Love it!!
Made waffles for the 1st time on our garage sale find waffle maker (brand new). Had a few spills out the side, but turned out mmmmm fabulous. My moms recipe.
I also tried out my bosch mixer we got for our wedding and didn't have room to use it in our apartment, so I pulled it out and made my first batch of wheat bread, which turned out so sticky, I did not know what to do with it and so I threw it away. My mom came over a few days later to teach me how to make bread, and we made wheat bread, that turned out wonderful.
With the help of my sister, we arranged my furniture and hung pictures so it looks like home. My sister has an eye for this kind of thing.
We raked a massive amount of leaves, totaling about 8 overfilling(filled a huge tarp and stuffed into truckbed) truckloads to the green wast recycling. We could not believe how many leaves came off all our trees, and we also had a crab apple tree, that continuously dropped apples everyday. It still is dropping apples in January. The birds and deer love to eat them. Rob also sprayed out our raingutters.
I added a few touches to our Christmas tree this year. We have had a good year, with its occasional down moments, but nothing we can't handle. That's what life is all about, and we hope for another fun and exciting year.
Rob and I had birthdays in June and I made my favorite jello poke cake.
Rob graduated from Utah State University in May with his bachelors in Electrical Engineering, and was made an engineer at his place of work.
We moved from our 2 bedroom apartment, into a 4 bedroom home.
My sisters and I made salsa with the plethera of peppers and tomatoes found in our garden, that the previous owners planted. I found my favorite salsa recipe and made salsa, I think I made three batches total. The name of the salsa is Phyl's Salsa @ allrecipes.com. Love it!!
Made waffles for the 1st time on our garage sale find waffle maker (brand new). Had a few spills out the side, but turned out mmmmm fabulous. My moms recipe.
I also tried out my bosch mixer we got for our wedding and didn't have room to use it in our apartment, so I pulled it out and made my first batch of wheat bread, which turned out so sticky, I did not know what to do with it and so I threw it away. My mom came over a few days later to teach me how to make bread, and we made wheat bread, that turned out wonderful.
With the help of my sister, we arranged my furniture and hung pictures so it looks like home. My sister has an eye for this kind of thing.
We raked a massive amount of leaves, totaling about 8 overfilling(filled a huge tarp and stuffed into truckbed) truckloads to the green wast recycling. We could not believe how many leaves came off all our trees, and we also had a crab apple tree, that continuously dropped apples everyday. It still is dropping apples in January. The birds and deer love to eat them. Rob also sprayed out our raingutters.
I added a few touches to our Christmas tree this year. We have had a good year, with its occasional down moments, but nothing we can't handle. That's what life is all about, and we hope for another fun and exciting year.
Different Christmas and New Years
Hey everyone, its my own blog. Enjoy
This sure has been a different Christmas for us. My husband had surgery on the 13th of December and everything went well, but we have had 3 ER visits and a hospital stay that happened over Christmas Eve and part of Christmas. We missed all of our Family Christmas parties and we missed our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day festivities. Then things are looking better and going great and so we were going to celebrate New Years, when just before we were going to leave to my parents, Rob didn't feel good and thought he might be coming down with something, so we stayed home, just in case. He was fine, but we missed all of our holiday get togethers this year. We were really bummed. My mom did bring us some goodies and some movies. So we stayed home and watched Stardust and got to bed at 2:00a.m.
But other than that, we are loving life and loving our house we bought this summer. It is located in North Logan in a fabulous neighborhood, where I grew up. We also just bought a Cal King bed and headboard and baseboard. It will probably take up the majority of our bedroom, but it will be nice to have. We are also loving the snow we get to shovel this year and the lawn we got to mow in the fall. It is a lot of work owning your own house, but well worth it. We would not trade it for the world. We fell in love with the backyard, and that was the selling point for me in buying the house. Robs selling point was probably the garage. We have 4 apple trees, all different varieties, and one annoying crab apple tree in the front, that the birds are just loving right now with all the apples that are still on it. With all the apples I picked up this fall, you would think there would be no more apples left, but just the opposite, it doesn't look like any have fallen off at all. We truly love our house and North Logan, and hope everyone has a wonderful new year!
This sure has been a different Christmas for us. My husband had surgery on the 13th of December and everything went well, but we have had 3 ER visits and a hospital stay that happened over Christmas Eve and part of Christmas. We missed all of our Family Christmas parties and we missed our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day festivities. Then things are looking better and going great and so we were going to celebrate New Years, when just before we were going to leave to my parents, Rob didn't feel good and thought he might be coming down with something, so we stayed home, just in case. He was fine, but we missed all of our holiday get togethers this year. We were really bummed. My mom did bring us some goodies and some movies. So we stayed home and watched Stardust and got to bed at 2:00a.m.
But other than that, we are loving life and loving our house we bought this summer. It is located in North Logan in a fabulous neighborhood, where I grew up. We also just bought a Cal King bed and headboard and baseboard. It will probably take up the majority of our bedroom, but it will be nice to have. We are also loving the snow we get to shovel this year and the lawn we got to mow in the fall. It is a lot of work owning your own house, but well worth it. We would not trade it for the world. We fell in love with the backyard, and that was the selling point for me in buying the house. Robs selling point was probably the garage. We have 4 apple trees, all different varieties, and one annoying crab apple tree in the front, that the birds are just loving right now with all the apples that are still on it. With all the apples I picked up this fall, you would think there would be no more apples left, but just the opposite, it doesn't look like any have fallen off at all. We truly love our house and North Logan, and hope everyone has a wonderful new year!
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