Sunday, April 5, 2009

Our girl trip to St. George Worldmark, April Conference 2009





Playing Donimoes (Grandma calls it that!) This game is called Chicken Feet and it is so fun!!!



Liliana Elizabeth Owens - Our First Great-Grandchild!! Isn't she cute!!
Our proud daughter, Shelley, who became a Grandmother!!!!!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

"Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."- Elizabeth Bowen
Cooper's 1st haircut. His grandpa had fun doing that!
Cooper was such a good boy for Grandpa!

Kristen and Cooper at our Scrapbook Party at Shelley's. Well, actually, we blogged and ate treats and watching funny videos on U-Tube.
Can you believe 6 computers going at once!! We are totally addicted!

What would we do without Shelley's famous scrapbook parties!!!! Thank you for Shelley for opening up your house to our tribe!! We had people sleeping everywhere!!!! So fun!


Shelley used baby items for the centerpieces for the tables at Dawn's shower; the fun part was that Dawn got to keep all of them for her baby!
Cute idea!!!!!

Shelley's friend, Pat, brought this cake for the shower. Pat's friend made it; she taught herself how to decorate cakes by going on the internet! Wow! I am way impressed!!!!


Joni at Dawn's baby shower. This was a way fun shower! Shelley had done so many cute things and the food was soooo good! Wow! Can't believe I will be a Great Grandma in about 2 weeks! her name will be Liliana Elizabeth.
Julie and Joni had to get their bibs on to eat!!!! LOL

Dawn opening her gifts; she got a ton a darling girl things!!!!


This is at a home in the Parade of Homes in St. George that we went to. This hottub is down in a tunnel you go through by the swimming pool. TV even!!!

Ok, this is how I want my backyard to to look like!! This home was only $3 million with $600,000 in furnishings!! No problem!!
Beautiful dining room facing the pool!!!




My sister Margaret; someday I'm going to get brave and go grey like her!!! She and Bill came up to attend the wrestling tournaments for their grandson, Chase. I went to one of the events; wow, I've never seen wrestling before! It was way interesting to see how hard these kids work!!!

Margaret and Bill are going on a mission next month to Nauvoo for a temple mission; they will be working for 6 months in the temple. Can you imagine how great!!

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Kambree in her dressup outfit! She just loves to play dressup! She is definitely all girl!!!!
Our Jan. birthday party after the baptism. Rachel (12), Dakota (8). Love those grandkids!!
Rachel's 12th birthday hug from Grandma Alice! Isn't Rachel just beautiful!!!
Two sweet grandchildren on their baptism day! Franklin Sterling Thomas and Mandi Lynn Platt. Marc and Gail were so proud that day! Marc gave a very special spotlight of Sterling and Gail gave one also of Mandi. What a happy day!!
Our Sweet Dakota on his baptism day, Jan. 31, 2009. This was a proud day for his grandparents!!!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Hey, that's me in the mirrow!!!

Old Lady in the Mirror
A very weird thing has happened. A strange old lady has moved into my house. I have no idea where she came from, or how she got in. I certainly did not invite her. All I know is that one day she wasn't there, and the next day, she was.
She is a clever old lady, and manages to keep out of sight for the most part, but whenever I pass a mirror, I catch a glimpse of her. And whenever I look in the mirror to check my appearance, there she is hogging the whole thing, completely obliterating my gorgeous face and body. This is very rude. I have tried screaming at her, but she just screams back.
If she insists on hanging around, the least she could do is offer to pay part of the rent, but no. Every once in a while, I find a dollar bill stuck in a coat pocket, or some loose change under a sofa cushion, but it is not nearly enough.
I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I think she is stealing money from me. I go to the ATM and withdraw $100, and a few days later it's all gone. I certainly don't spend money THAT fast, so I can only conclude that the money is to buy wrinkle cream. She needs it. And money isn't the only thing I think she is stealing. Food seems to disappear at an alarming rate - especially the good stuff like ice cream, cookies, and candy. I can't seem to keep that stuff in the house anymore. She must have a real sweet tooth, but she'd better watch it, because she is really packing on the pounds. I suspect she realizes this, and to make herself feel better, she is tampering with my scale to make me think I am putting on weight, too.
For an old lady, she is quite childish. She likes to play nasty games, like going into my closets when I'm not home and altering my clothes so they don't fit. And she messes with my files and papers so I can't find anything. This is particularly annoying since I am extremely neat and organized. She also fiddles with my VCR so it does not record what I have carefully and correctly programmed.
She has found other imaginative ways to annoy me. She gets into my mail, newspapers, and magazines before I do, and blurs the print so I can't read it. And she has done something really sinister to the volume controls on my TV, radio and telephone. Now, all I hear are mumbles and whispers.
She has done other things - like make my stairs steeper, my vacuum cleaner heavier and all my knobs and faucets harder to turn. She even made my bed higher so that getting into and out of it is a real challenge. Lately, she has been fooling with my groceries before I put them away, applying glue to the lids, making it almost impossible for me to open the jars. Is this any way to repay my hospitality?
She has taken the fun out of shopping for clothes. When I try something on, she stands in front of the mirror and monopolizes it. She looks totally ridiculous in some of those outfits, plus, she keeps me from seeing how great they look on me.
Just when I thought she couldn't get any meaner, she proved me wrong. She came along when I went to get my picture taken for my driver's license, and just as the camera shutter clicked, she jumped in front of me! No one is going to believe that the picture of that old lady is me.
Answer to riddle at top of page: You can negotiate with a terrorist.