"MEXICAN FIESTA" (sort of)
(having themes was Ben's suggestion)










This Sunday, March 29, for our family dinner
Menu:
Enchiladas (Brook's suggestion)
Fajitas (Karlene's suggestion)
I do appreciate suggestions – keep them coming!
Love - Grandma

What we're up to!

This cute little bug is POTTY-TRAINED!!! We are so excited for him! He has done really great and it was a lot better than we all expected. He still wears a diaper for naps and bedtime and we choose to stick him in a diaper for long periods away from home just so we don't have to deal with the public toilet thing. He even tells us when he needs to go when he has a diaper on! I am lovin it! On average we are using only 2 diapers a day. Lots of times he wakes up after his nap dry, but I just don't want to mess with it yet. Or I just don't have the energy. Which leads us to our next cool thing! We have less than three weeks left until Mayzie will be here. My doctor will induce me on April 14th, but he said I won't make it that long. I'm at 2cm and 50%. I have regular contractions each day for anywhere from 2-5 hours. I was so excited to hear that they are doing something and I'm not just in pain for no dumb reason. It makes it that much easier to do. My goal was to just get through the wedding (TOMORROW!!!) and my shower (Saturday) then we are good to go. Considering I went from 2cm to 10cm in 3 hours with Myles we are looking at any day.

Life here is pretty great, just hanging out and enjoying the fact that it's spring and spring weather is just around the corner! We love you all and you will be the first to know when Mayzie makes her appearance.

STUCK!!

Austin has been loving the weather! He wakes up every morning and immediately asks if we can go on a walk……. So we end up at the park at least every day and sometimes a couple times a day. On Wednesday we went to the park, Austin was playing and I was sitting on the grass with Tyson (Mike & Macae’s baby) when I heard Austin calling my name and yelling STUCK! And this is how I found him……

Taking pictures of Tyson was so much fun yesterday at my parents house.....he is just sooo CUTE

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

It's our 52nd wedding anniversary today!
52 YEARS together. I can't even imagine life without Grant but I can imagine "forever" together. A temple marriage is wonderful because it gives us that possibility. Wishing all of you a wonderful and happy marriage.
Love - Grandma

EMBARRASSED

How embarrassing! Why didn't you take the picture when the bubble was BIG. I am embarrassed that someone might think I can only blow tiny bubbles.
Grandma

Zona's casserole recipe

Brown:
1 lb. extra lean GROUND BEEF

Add & sauté:
1 large ONION, chopped

Add and heat through, then serve:
About one cup (more or less?) cooked RICE
1 or 2 cans TOMATO SOUP, undiluted (I use Campbell's condensed)
1 can CORN, drained
1 or 2 tsp. CHILI POWDER

P.S. Chili powder wasn't originally in this recipe but I like to add a little.

Note: Actually, I had never written this recipe down until now (3-6-09). Ron asked about some recipe that we used to have when he was a kid. He described this recipe but I thought he meant Tamale Pie so he and Whitney made that one night. It wasn't the one he was thinking of. Hopefully this is the right one. We'll know soon, serving it tomorrow (some of us getting together to work on our Family Quilts, a three year project so far).

P.S. #2 (3-7-09) Ron says it's the one. He loves it.

P.S. #3 (3-9-09) I was happy that nearly everyone wanted this recipe. This morning, Mike even called and asked for it over the phone. Made my day! My challenge now will be not to serve it too often.

History:
When we visited Zona and Walt at the Steiner Ranch, Zona always had a nice dinner fixed for us. This recipe comes from her ward's Relief Society cookbook. We all loved it.
The Steiner Ranch was quite a few miles away from a store so they always served powdered milk rather than fresh. After everyone had finished eating, Walt would go around the table and pour any left over milk, from the individual glasses, back into the pitcher, then place it in the fridge! Zona usually mixed up a fresh pitcher before dinner and that was the only milk I ever drank there.

love - Grandma

Hey, I love this! I've been writting in a journal for years and years and no one has any interest in reading it (including me). But now I have Readers! Yeah!
More to come.
Love - Grandma

Karlene this is soooooooo cute, little shamrocks all around and everything! Thanks for all you do.

I already e-mailed to some of you but just in case you didn't get the information we are going to have a Hawaiian Luau on Sunday for dinner. A couple of weeks ago I asked for suggestions for dinners and got some great ones. Ben suggested theme dinners and Jacob suggested Hawaiian Haystacks. This Sunday we are going to do both. Should be fun.

Aloha - Grandma

So I was upstairs getting ready for us to all go somewhere and when I came down this is how I found my 2 boys! I guess I was taking WAY to long! ha ha!

Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned Part two

I came across this video at a time I think I needed it most. These are a few of the thoughts I had. What were some of yours?

I think there quite a few lessons that can be taught from this story. First and probably the most obvious is that we need to always be generous to others. Second, while a simple joke may be funny to some, it's not always funny to others and we never know what situation they may be in physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Third, teaching by example is usally the best method and the lesson learned is often more valuable.

Brinley had her Valentine's dance. I put this picture up because I love it and she'd probably kill me if I put one of her dancing with a boy:) We received her registration papers for 7th grade. weird huh? She's really excited right now because she was able to get her point shoes in ballet. Here come the blisters. ouch! Baylee, however, hurt her knee in dance and has to have it wrapped. It just popped out of place and she fell on her wrist. I probably should have had her wrist x-rayed, but she says it feels a little better. Oh! This was fun. Trek said in seminary last week, they got "called on missions". He opened his and guess where he went? Mexico! funny huh? He said it got him excited. Whitney is busy with school. She has the Spring Fling dance coming up. It's a casual dance, thank goodness, because it's girl's choice again. Trek has been asked by several girls if he's 16 yet cuz they wanted to take him. He just misses the dance by a week or so. But he'll be able to go to prom. Again, very weird. It's fun the kids are growing up, but so crazy!
Happy blogging! We love you all! Love, "R" gang :D

Count down/up

I am working on finding a missionary ticker for Steven. I don't really want a count down, but more like how long he has been out! Chuck and Amy, if you want a different countdown then just find one you like better, I didn't really know where to look. If anyone else wants a countdown just let me know! There are lots of cute ones for prom, graduation, etc.

I am glad we have this thing going! I think it will be a lot of fun to share information with the family as soon as it happens and show lots of picture!

Love you all!