Yay - Finally Get to Watch Asher

I was very happy when Lindsay asked me to watch Asher because I hardly get to see him. She warned me that he's not taking a bottle as well as he use to, so after trying for 10 minutes by holding him, it didn't seem to be working. He would play with the nipple, bite it, and then start gagging on it. I thought, oh well, he's going to get awfully hungry until Lindsay picks him up.
I put him in his bouncy chair, propped up his bottle, and Lo and Behold
he took his bottle and drank the whold thing. I decided I was pretty clever to get this to work!
It also helped to put in his Little Einstein movie.

He sat and watched the whole movie.

When the credits came on he got a little fussy.

He knew right when it was over!

~THANKS ASHER
FOR BEING SUCH A GOOD BOY
FOR GRANDMA~

February Family Get Together

We watched Bryn & Mason from Thursday - Sunday while Joe & Julie had a getaway to St. George. They made it back just in time for our monthly gettogether.

~Bryn loves her grandpa~

~I call Mason our card king. He'd rather play cards than anything else. I was too busy to play cards with him and when I finally did he was so excited he said he felt tingly all over. The fact of the matter is I can't beat him at a game called golf. It's become a challenge for me. I can be ahead the whole game and he beats me on the last round. It's a game where you have to add and subtract cards from your score and he can figure it out before I can! He's definitely a smart kid

and dang lucky!

~This picture turned out dark but they

all 3 looked so cute on the chair~

(except the old man - ha ha!)

He's definitely a ladie's man!

Hey look at my hand!

So cute!

~Chelsey had a cute craft for the kids to do~

She needed her Dr. Pepper for energy!

Ethan & Mason


Ally & Sierra

~Bryn showing her mom & dad the book she made~
We had a great time & celebrated Mason & Allie's Birthdays.
The kids all got a Valentine Bag full of goodies and the moms got a
yummy popcorn treat!

So scary!

We got home from a trip to St. George last night and instead of unpacking my suitcase and doing laundry, I'm sitting here blogging. Oh well, it'll wait for me, right? Last Thursday, we left on what we thought would be a very uneventful, but fun trip with our friends Gail & Jay to St. George. I checked the weather before and it said "light snow" so no worries. Well, just as we got out of the Beaver pass, we noticed the snow started sticking to the road and cars were speeding past us. The visibility was pretty poor and all of a sudden we saw cars stopping in front of us. Ron put on the brakes and we starting skidding but he got stopped in time. Then we braced ourselves for any cars behind us that might not stop, but lucky for us they did. Everyone was stopped and a highway patrolman said we wouldn't be going anywhere soon, so we got out and walked around. Just ahead of us a UPS truck jacknifed and hit a Penske truck which ran over the front of this car. The people were all right but pretty shaken up.

We waited about an hour and talked to the highway patrolman. He said there was an accident ahead of us that had a fatality and an oil spill from a semi, so the freeway would be closed for at least 7 hours. We felt really bad about the fatality and started to realize how fortunate we were not to have been a few feet ahead since we could have easily been hit by this semi. We noticed a few cars were going to a turnaround a little ways ahead of us and going to the other side of the freeway. We asked the patrolman if we could do that and he said to go ahead and go about a mile where we could go on an overpass and drive along a frontage road which would take us past the wreckage and back on the freeway to St. George. So we did that and drove past all the wrecks and we couldn't believe what we saw. There were about 30 cars and semis either off the road or crashed into each other. We heard later, everyone was stuck there for at least 8 hours. We felt really thankful that we were safe and sound. It really makes you realize how fragile life is. After our harrowing experience, we still had a lot of fun with our friends. We played tennis, went to the Parade of Homes, played lots of cards, and ate out every chance we got. Glad we were able to give them a little thrill on the way down. We won't forget this trip very soon and are feeling very grateful for a good outcome. I don't think I'll believe the weather report again when they say "light snow!"

Ally's Birthday

We would like to wish our sweet granddaughter

Ally a very

Happy Birthday!

Ally is Chad's stepdaughter and the minute we met her,

we fell in love with her. Not only is she smart

(straight A student),

but she is incredibly talented (dances, sings, models).

She is wonderful with children (great babysitter),

extremely helpful, friendly, sweet, loving, thoughtful,

beautiful, and with all these traits,

not one bit conceited.

Sierra, Ally, Berkley, and Dymin

Her good friend, Sierra. These 2 are inseparable.

Her darling room that she decorated.

We are so happy to have you a part of our familyand hope you had a wonderful

12th Birthday!