Mothers Day 2011

Mothers Day started the day before Mothers Day for me when cute Annie and April surprised me with 2 dozen butter dream cookies from Normandy Cafe. They are the best sugar cookies ever! We all had one then saved the rest for desert on Mothers Day. Thanks girls!

I am so grateful for the babies below. Because of them I get to celebrate being a mother on Mothers Day! Me with Jennifer.

Me with Andrew.

Me with April.

Me with Alyse.

And last but not least me with Adrianna (Annie).

One of the best things about Mothers Day this year was getting to talk on the phone with my missionary daughter pictured above. It made my day!

These four made it really special too. Thanks for being my children and for the gifts kids and to Andrew thanks for manning the grill!

I'm grateful to my children for making me a grandmother! It is the best! I am always after a good picture of my grandchildren together. It keeps eluding me. These are the best I could get. Some one was crying or running away in them. Oh well.

I think this was the best over all one except that Warren wasn't in it. Anyway I am so thankful for all of these cuties, I love being a mother and grandmother!

Mission Report for Alyse

Alyse has finally been transferred to her second area. She spent six months in Victorville and grew to love everyone there so much, but she was ready for a change. She had many people crying when they found out she was leaving and she was given many good bye gifts. She says her new companion is a dream companion and she is so excited to have her. She is from Cambodia. She cooked for Alyse the other day and now Alyse has eaten Cambodian food and she liked it! They are assigned to a Young Single Adult ward so they cover seven areas and are doing lots of driving. Twice a week they are in a booth on a campus talking to students and handing out information on the church. She loves her mission and her testimony is always growing as well as her love for the people in the San Bernardino area. Below is a picture of her with her old district. For a P day activity they had a Polynesian Party. Elder Perry of the twelve came and spoke to their mission as well as the Riverside mission at a mission conference. Below is Alyse with other missionaries after the conference.

Below is Alyse with an Elder from her old area.

We can't wait until Mothers Day when we will get to talk with her on the phone!

Easter and Happy Birthday

When I was tending these cuties last Wed. I decided we should start getting ready for Easter.

So we boiled some eggs and started coloring.

It was good to have some Easter cookies to munch on while we waited for the eggs to dry. Little ones always make holidays more fun.

Easter morning these girls below had fun looking for their Easter baskets. At church Kim gave a wonderful, amazing talk on the Atonement. After church the whole family came over and we enjoyed an Easter egg hunt and a Easter bag/bucket hunt.

He'd taken his tie off before the picture but thought he better sort of have it back on for the picture.

Annie in her Easter dress with the shrug on....

.....and with it off.

I am always trying to get a really good picture of my grand kids. This time I did things a little differently with the hope we could get better pictures if I didn't take them all together. So below are the girls.

And here are the boys.

Below is me with the little girls...

and the little boys...

and the big kids.

At dinner we also celebrated my cute daughter in laws birthday.

Happy Birthday Annie we hope you have a wonderful year!

Grandkids and Spring Break

I had the pleasure of going to the two cute kids below Art Night at their school. Miss E had this picture hanging in the hallway of a snake she had made.

Mr. H had a picture of a Civil War cannon that he had made.

Both of the kids did great in their class dances. Miss E's was a May Pole dance but at first she had told me she was doing a Maple dance. Too funny ha ha. Kids say the cutest things.

Friday night I got to attend Miss E's dance recital or should I say dance production! It was held at Kingsbury Hall. They performed The Secret Garden. It was amazing! Good Job Miss E!

This lucky cute girl below is in Las Vegas with friends for Spring Break working on her tan. Don't have too much fun Annie.

Alyse's Mission and Grandbabies

Alyse is so happy and is doing so well on her mission. She will have her second baptism on April 16th and she is very excited about that. She has been in the same area the whole time she has been serving so far and has had two companions. Below is a picture of her with her District. This is her with her Zone.

This picture was taken of the whole mission at Christmas time. She is in the top picture on the front row towards the center wearing a red skirt and gray jacket.

I love these two babies soooo much. They are both growing so big. I tried getting some smiles but kept missing them. They are cute anyway.

Eliza with her baby sister Kaitlyn.

Annie and Eliza.