A Driver's License and A Survivor

Yup, Jonathan passed his driving test today and we got to take him for his driver's license! Now he's looking for a job. Any leads? Richard had the fun of an upper GI and a Colonoscopy today. It was really nice when he could actually eat real food again. Oh, the joys of aging!

Easter, Conference and Birthday Celebrations!

Such a fun couple of days! First of all General Conference was outstanding!
Here we are at Salsa Leedos for dinner before the Priesthood session! Steph's mom, Heidi joined us. Here's the birthday/Easter loot this morning before anyone got up! I got the most amazing gifts ever for my birthday this year. Most of my kids gave me this!! Something I've wanted ever since we got the Wii for Christmas! And I was totally amazed at this beautiful quilt that Jessica made!! The last quilt she made for her first boyfriend was a disaster and look at how beautiful this is! Wow!

So Jack bought Jess' Honda from us. He needs a car to take to Seattle with him.

So here's my biggest Birthday gift ever! A new Sienna van! I love it! We had another incredible dinner at Grandma's to top off the day! Here's Josh and Meg too full to move!

Here's the cake for the strawberry shortcake! (She also had berry pie and ice cream and Meg brought almond brownies). I got so many nice emails and messages on Facebook and phone calls! Thanks everyone! I feel very loved! Let's see when do all the stars align again for another triple header? Not for 11 years, I googled it! Easter will be on April 4th in 2021. The last one was 1999. Every 11 years?

Jonathan and I are getting old, a house and Just Dance fun!

Today the Primary sang "Happy Birthday" to me since we don't have regular church next week. They were amazed to hear how old I'm going to be! Then I taught sharing time on the Latter-Day Prophets and I discovered that I have been alive for half of the Latter-Day Prophets!! The last 8 of the 16! Speaking of 16; Jonathan went on his first date on Friday! And he blessed the sacrament today. When did he grow up? Just yesterday he was playing with trains!
Josh and Meg appear to have bought a house! They accepted the counter-0ffer and should be under contract any day now!
We got the fun of having Summer and the kids come over for Sunday dinner with us today! Summer is amazing at taking care of 3 little ones! Here's a great shot of Summer and Meg dancing! Grant loved the swing and later Ava loved it,too. I somehow missed the shots of Ava dancing. She had better moves than any of the adults! I couldn't resist these videos of Meg and Summer's first dance and then Josh and Richard dancing! Jonathan refuses to try it! Thanks to Amanda's great blog post that convinced me I had to have this game for my birthday! I do it every morning in-between yoga and my walk!

Happy Anniversay to the Kendalls!

I can't wait to see what the next 2 years bring!!

Sweet 16!

Don't worry! He still needs a few road drives before he gets his driver's license! You are safe for now! Unless you are an eligible young woman! He is now ready to date!

This funny "indestructable" keyboard was probably the thing he was most excited about today! He was also ordained a Priest today, accompanied Gloria as she sang at her farewell, and was asked to sing in a special number for the stake fireside on Wednesday, so he got to practice for that. He heard from all his brothers and sisters, except Joni, who was having car problems. All in all I think it was a pretty stellar birthday!

The Prebirthday Party!

So Jonathan didn't want to have a birthday party (too stressful). Nonetheless, his friends took him to see "Alice in Wonderland" and then came over for pizza! Kind of like a party, eh? Stress free though.

Ducks and Tenderfoots

These ducks were in the front yard when I started my walk this morning. I wonder if there's some eggs in one of our flower beds? Corey, Ted, and Nick all got their Tenderfoot rank advancement at the Court of Honor last night! Here's my cubs and my 11 year olds (all but Trevor) in the same picture! And here's my 11 year olds in uniform with Trevor. The Scout Master and the Young Men presidency had a huge (and long) 100 years of scouting dinner and Court of Honor. The boys all got steak and the rest of us got grilled chicken. It was very nice! The scouts served us! Then we had dutch oven apple pie for dessert! It was a very great success! I was amazed that they invited all of the cubs and their families, too. And they didn't ask the women to do any of the work!!! I'm pretty sure this is a first in my experience in the church! Thanks for a great evening men and scouts!

Poor Jonathan was the only one there not in uniform. I gave his uniform to Ted. Oops!