HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISTA!!!

Today is my one and only sisters birthday!!! She is celebrating her 3oth today!!! Yes - I said 30th!!!! I just wanted to wish her a very happy birthday. She has been such a blessing in my life. We have become really good friends through the years. We are 12 years apart and our roles in the family were totally different. I was the oldest daughter and the 2nd mother to all my brothers. She was the youngest daughter and had to survive ALL my brothers. When Tim and I got married, she was only 8 years old (crazy)!!! It has been neat to watch her grow-up into this amazing woman!! She has been blessed with so many gifts/talents and she is ALWAYS sharing these gifts/talents with others. I love our morning phone calls and I love the fact that she lives so close by. Happy Birthday Dear Sister!! - I LOVE YOU!!!

Meet Mary our "little princess"!!

Please let me introduce you - this is Princess Mary - she is the newest addition to our royal family!! Mary came to live with us last August. She has been so much fun and as you can see she is ALL girl!! She loves playing dress up and with her doll house. I must say it has been FUN for me to have a little princess around since the previous princess grew up, got married and moved in with her prince charming:) We are not sure if this BEAUTIFUL little princess is going to get to stay with our family forever but we are trusting and hoping that the Royal Courts Above will intervene!!!

We will know more on the 21st of April - we are going to court and hopefully a decision will be made. Hopefully the RIGHT decision!!! It will be devistating to our family if she had leave because we LOVE her so and I try really hard not to think about it because it brings me to tears.

We love you Mary - you are a "Ray of Sunshine" and we know that Heavenly Father is mindful of you and we are going to put our trust in him!!

THE GIFTS OF SPRING!!

What mom doesn't love the warmth of the sun on her skin??

What mom doesn't love the sound of birds singing in the morning??

What mom doesn't love it when it's warm enough outside for her children to play??

What mom doesn't love watching her son play in a baseball game or run in a track meet??

What mom doesn't love watching neighborhood children at play??

What mom doesn't love the smell of chicken cooking on the grill??

What mom doesn't love it when her child runs inside with a BEAUTIFUL picked flower just for her!!!

I LOVE SPRING and ALL it brings!!!

Eagle Project FINALLY finished!!

JT finally got his Eagle Project finished. His project was 2 sets of double sided bookshelf's for Mountain Meadows Primary School. He did a great job and had a lot of help from friends, coaches and family. A man in the community (Gerd) was incredible help. He is such a nice man and let JT use his garage and all his power tools, if it wasn't for him the project probably wouldn't have gotten done. So, Gerd - we THANK YOU!!!! It's been a long road and Tim and I are not the best with raising scouts. It didn't help that the first scout camp JT went to he had a broken arm (from a motorcycle accident) and the second scout camp he attended he got his finger chopped off!! So, needles to say he was a little behind. With much perseverance, prodding, yelling, threatening and LOVE he finally did it!!!

Way to go BUBBA!!!

Since I'm talking about JT I do have to mention that Mogollon had its Basketball Banquet and Jt received:

*Most Outstanding Player

*First Team - All Region Award

*1A - All Tournament Team

Not that I really know what all that means, but he does and maybe when he reads this 20 years from now he will be reminded of what a successful junior year he had and he can feed that amazing large ego of his!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MACKY!!

Macky turned 15 on the 25th of March. He always gets the shaft because his b-day is during spring break. Tim and I have missed a couple of his birthdays through the years because we have been gone. This year Tim took Macky and a couple of his friends to ShowLow to eat Papa Johns and go bowling. I can't believe that in September he will be driving the streets of Heber (everyone - watch out:)

Macky loves games (anything that has to do with battles and armies). He loves spending time playing computer games with UB - aka Uncle Brandon. He is pretty helpful and at times I don't give him enough praise for All the things that he does for me. He is pretty savey with the girls, he gets that from his dad, he is a "Little Romeo" !! He tries hard to befriend the friendless and sticks up for the under dog. He makes us laugh and quotes movie line after movie line. He is a great son, big brother and Priesthood holder!!! WE LOVE YOU MACKY!!!

I HATE the wind!!!

Yesterday was so WINDY - so windy in fact that we lost electricity for hours!!! We came home from church, started making homemade pizza, preheated the oven and POOF - no power!!

What is a family to do with no power???? Poor pioneers!! I would have made a terrible, whiny pioneer. We busted out all the candles and spent the rest of our Sunday entertaining each other. We told story after story and Nate had the best stories ever, they always included a BIG bear and some type of gun:) The boys got creative and taped flashlights to their air soft guns (need I say more)!!! We then spent most of the night hiding from each other and playing flashlight hide and seek. Mary and I had the best hiding spot, we smoked the boys and they could NEVER find us.

I know we didn't do a very good job of keeping the Sabbath day holy but it did make me think of my pioneer ancestors and what hardships they went through. It also made me think of what's to come.

What is to come????
I do not know, but I do know we could fight off the "bad guys" and we know where to hide!!!!!!

My "Biggest Loser" !!

I just have to brag on my honey. We started this "Biggest Loser" competition the beginning of January with about 12 other people. Tim is in the top 3 for losing the most weight. He has lost over 40 pounds!!! I must admit when I first approached him about signing up with me, I didn't think he would do it. Boy - did he prove me wrong!!!! I am just really happy for him. It is such a challenge to lose weight and to exercise on a daily basis. This morning he came in from his workout and was beaming, he came in and gave me a big kiss and informed me that he just ran a mile!!! WOW - HOLY COW - WAY TO GO - KEEP IT UP!!!!

I love him - EVERY BIT OF HIM:)