Roses

This will be a short blog but a fun one.
Mom died one year ago on the 18th of Feb. When I went into the back room to work, there was these beautiful Roses. The thing is that they just keep getting more beautiful. Then yesterday I was cleaning a closet in Grandmas house and on the top shelf clear to the back I found these Roses......

Each rose has a 5 and a 1 so there is about $36 dollars not a huge amount of money but it was fun to find. And I must say I love both of my flowers.

200 kids later

I just thought it would be fun to show you what it's like on PARTY day at K.K. As you can see it looks like a fun day just watching the kids....visiting......eating cookies (only the homemade ones) This is Melinda and a lady in her ward.

Looking at your valentines

making a card for the parents......the mother in red is Melodie Glade remember her?

play in the balls......

PLAY GAMES..........

musical chairs...

more games

and more games

I did say there were a lot of kids.

and since there are sooooo many kids you have to play the same game over and over and over again 18 times to be exact.

Cute little Zanna wasn't to sure about ALL the kids there at once..... but I don't blame her, that's a lot of kids.

I did say the cookies were good, just ask little Grady

cookies and fruit loops yumm!

Balls! and more Balls!

It's February and that means that it's time to put the sand pile away (YEA!!!!) I was going to be sure and take the camera so I could get all the steps of the transformation from sand box to ball pit but I remembered as the kids were pouring the balls in so I made them stop so I could go home and get my camera.
May I just say that we couldn't get it put up fast enoughfor the kids they wanted to start playing as soon as the first ball hit the bottom. some just couldn't resist and got in before they should have.

This one thought he'd died and gone to heaven...until he started to sink.

Young and old get to fill the pit with balls...some do it one at a time

others....a whole bag at a time. By the way can you see where Kayden is dumping the balls...Chester is being covered with balls as they are being dumped

This is where Grady is wondering if he likes the balls. He was crying so I took him out only to have him cry harder because his mean Grandma took him out of the balls. mean Grandma!!

If you watch the sides of the ball pit you can watch the balls get higher and higher.

this is great fun. "lets see how far under I can get."

This picture is the way most of the kids like to be. Every thing covered but their face.

These 2 sweet little girls like the balls as much as the boys.

Even when they get a shower of balls.

NOW is that a lot of ball to play in or what.....we still had to add the extra walls to keep the balls in, before it was finished. But don't they look like they're having fun?
Did I say that I'm glad that the sand is put away? The sand is just messy. YUCK!

On a second note it is alway intersting to see what we find at the bottom of the ball pit when it's time to put them away. socks, rings, bows, clips, toys, odds and ends of just about anything.

My time in Rochester

May I say that my time in Rochester with the Gregory's was a fun time the kids were good they did what they were asked and the conflict between siblings were few and far between. Grandma says thanks. Breakfast was cold cereal, hot cereal, french toast, and waffles. But their favorite was the cold cereal. this is what I saw most mornings.

One of the things we did a lot of was puzzles I would work on one side of the table and the kids would be on the other.

This was the easiest puzzle that I did, it only took me one day to do this one.

This one on the other hand was the hardest and took the longest to do. When T came home before his surgery he helped me with it and there were days that I almost gave up. but after T left on Tuesday I finally finished. Thanks T for your help.

This one was fun to to but as I was doing this one 2 pieces dropped on the floor and got behind the curtain and it was driving me crazy because I couldn't find them. May I say it's a good thing to sweep the floor because that's when I found the 2 pieces.

And I thought we had a lot of snow in Utah this storm left about 12 inches

So when the Family came home before T's surgery they went out to clean the drive way. I think the kids just played while......

Joanna did all the work. She really needs a Snow blower

For F.H. E. we made Christmas trees. And may I just say that I am not the best picture taker most of the pictures I took were blurry OK worse that the one you'll see here. but you can see what we did.

All of us busy at work.

T's and C's finished trees

Sorry Joanna, but even blurry you look great..Oh so does your tree.

This is almost too funny the only picture that came out good was the picture of MY tree....ha h

One of the fun things I got to do while here was to do the girls hair in all these different ways. These next 3 pictures was the last Sunday morning I was there.

This is Am's hair style

This is Ab's hair one of my favorite

And this is E's this was the first time doing this "do" so there were some things I would change but it turned out cute.

This is the back view. Thanks girls for being so patience while I played with your hair.

Thanks Joanna for the opportunity to spend time with your cute kids.

OH WHAT FUN

I took our camera to school yesterday trying to get something to blog about Well the first pictures I took were ALL blurry...(may I say that it isn't easy to do things one handed and it takes 3 times as long to do the things that you can do) any way these first picture were just cute pictures that I couldn't resist taking. and the last 3 kind of speak for themselves. :)

After going in the back room to get some pictures, this is what I saw as I came through the door. Zanna was cleaning the chalk board. And it was so sweet I couldn't resist taking a picture. She is just tooooo cute. this picture is a little blurry but they were on the move and I had to be quick. As you should know these 2 cute little boys are big rivals and to have them holding hands and walking together is a miracle. I had to get this picture.

this is the grand kids favorite place to play...Why?.... they get to play with toys that the rest of the school kids don't get to play with yet. Zanna and Grady playing...usually there are more toys there so it's hard to get out the door. They aren't as messy as the bigger kids.

This is our new toy for this year and the kids love it. I loved this picture because it was all grand kids on it.

If you have read Liseanne's blog you read about us going to the show at 12:20 in the morning and all the embroidery she did the next day.......well this is what we saw :)

3 of the 17 sweatshirts

She looks like she has soooooo much energy. And she's sooooo awake.................

OH wait! She's not really awake. Her BIG drink didn't even help. OH! I know just how she feels.