Dad and Mom off to the Temple

We thought that we would show you by example that we do go to the temple in our finest duds and with our best attitudes. We leave ther house at 9:00 AM so we can be in our preperation meeting by 11:05 AM and it is a spiritual meetin each week. We love working at the Temple and love working together when we get the chance. We officiate the 4:30 PM Session every Wednesday together and really love it. It gets us home about 45 minutes later that we would get home if we left at 5:00 PM when our shift ends. Please go to the Temple as often as you possibly can, you learn more everytime you go. It is the Lords University.

Cemetery Work

Here are the pictures that we took as we worked at the cemetery.

Are you There?

Would welcome an occasinal comment, just so we know if you are there.
Love Mom

Annie's First Sewing Project

This is Annie's first sewing project that she made at Hanna's house. Hanna is her good friend that she spends a let of time with. She made, as you can see John Deere pillow cases, on for her and one for Jeni. She is very proud of her work. She did do a great job.

Keeping busy

Well, we seem to keep busy. We have opportunity to not only attend the temple on Wednesday, but last Saturday went up with 3 other couples and did iniatories. Got around 80 women names and probably as many male names.
Yesterday was special as Grandmother and Walt came to the 4:30 session. Daddy officiates and I am the first follower. That gave me the opportunity to assist Grandmother in every aspect of the session. It is pretty amazing when the spirit takes over how the memory is pricked.
I also taught my fourth Sunday lesson in Relief Society last week. That is always a busy day as I teach my Sunday School Class on the fourth week as well. However as most of my kids were gone for the day, Darla Scihopan, who also teaches the same Sunday School Class let me combine with her and that gave me a breather before Relief Society.
Tuesday Lisa, Annie and I went to the church and participated in our humanitarian day.We are making slippers, P.J.'s, blankets and wall hangings as well as baby nighties to be sent to church headquarters and then distributed to orphanages.
There are so many needs in the world.( Daddy worked on genealogy while we were gone.)
I watched American Idol two different nights and I was a basket case. The faces of those beautiful little children from Africa and around the U.S. are just haunting.
Daddy and I have talked and we believe if each of our families would only donate $5.00 a month to the humanitarian efforts along with our tithing and fast offering it would make an impact and we would be assured that it would all reach our intended destination.
We have so much to be grateful for and we are so thankful that our grandchildren are not among the broken and devastated families of the world. Thank you all.
Today Daddy, Annie and I went up to the cemetery to do a little care giving. The grass has just never grown very well on Joshua and Noah's grave and it looked pretty bad. The headstones had a lot of moss and discoloration on them as well.
So we cleaned the headstones (grandpa's too) Then we prepared the grave top to lay sod on it tomorrow. Had to dig down a couple of inches, rake and fertilize. It will look a lot nicer for Memorial Day.
This weekend is Stake Relief Society Conference.
The gospel is true and families are forever.
Love to All
Mom (Grandma)

Annie getting ready

Annie

Annie preparing for FHE

Andrea has been attending Family Home Evening at the stake center with the young adults since returning from Washington. She is just putting on the finishing touches.

Today there is sunshine

It is looking beautiful out there (maybe a little cool) but Sunshine.
Daddy and I attended the temple yesterday and as usual had a super day. I hope you all know that my half hour of time in the celestial room is in quite prayer for all of my children and grandchildren. I hope you feel that spirit of love within your families.
Each time there I am reminded of the reality of "Families are Forever".
I am also reminded everytime that I am there, that the day will come when " every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ".
How amazing will that be?
It is a troubled world that we live in, but our hope lies in our testimonies of the truth.
How grateful I am to be called to the work, and to have a testimony of it's divinity. To stand with your father in the capicity of officiating the most sacred of work.
The reality that We are loved by our Father in Heaven and have been entrusted with this responsibility is incredible.
Every week, we get to close out the world for 8 hours and concentrate on the things of eternity. How wonderful!
But to our Father, all is Eternal. Either eternal Joy or Eternal sadness.
My prayer today, is that the experiences of this life will indeed lead all of us closer to Eternal Joy.
Sometimes the daily routine can cloud the possibilities and cause us to stumble and wonder. But Truth is Truth, plain and simple.
And I am grateful for the rain, because it makes the Sun seem brighter.
I am so grateful to have been called to be your Mother and Grandmother. You have taught me many lessons.
I look forward to more.
I love that you are all "going about, doing good".
GO, TEAM!!!!!!!!!
Love Mom

Just a quick Hi.

We are having quite a time getting the hang of this. Hope to get as proficient as the Devericks family are eventually.
Love Mom (grandma)

Here are the pix of the front yard...And flowers that we will be planting.

Trying to figure it out

Can't seem to get my pictures to come up. will try here.

Opening Day

With our children spread out over the country and them having blogs we feel that we should attempt to keep up with the technology too. More to keep them all aware as to what Dad,Mom, Lisa and Annie are up too and what changes may be coming in their lives. Right now we are trying to get this place of ours up to par. We have cleaned down below some and have a lot more to do, but Tara it does look more like a Dallas place instead of Falls City. We have about 48 plants to set out when we get a dry, warm day to do it. They are growing in boxes now. The front yard looks very nice as we have weeded and trimmed.