A FEW MORE PICTURES FOR MY NEW BLOG BOOK....

Got your boots on? OK, come on along with me (Sophia)
to see a bunch of my grandma's fun family pictures.

Our daughter Lindsey and our BIG Golden, Cougar. As you can tell,
Cougar loves to sit on laps because he envisions himself as a baby...
boy oh boy is he ever a BIG lap dog baby!

Sweet baby Claire in all her cuteness.

Issac and Tiffany looking awesome as they are now the parents of 3 little ones.

Bobby has found a new place he likes to nap in!

Natalie and her 12th birthday, such a beautiful and sweet young lady!

Shane and Kelton on the day of Kelton's baptism, Jan. 2012.

Our daughter Lindsey and her sweet family...

Sophia and her daddy...

~Angel Sophia~

Brickelle in a school play as...Tiny Tim.

Kelton's 8th birthday

Caleb in his bomber jacket that we gave him, such a handsome guy!

Our daughter Lisa and her sweet little family

Brody and his mama

Cute bunch of goofs!

Gorgeous girls

Our son Corey and his family

Caleb, Claire and Ella

Tiffany, Issac and Claire

Ella and Claire...sister love

Caleb, who lives and breaths Super Heroes

Don't speak to Claire in a low voice, it makes her bottom lip pop out!

Sophia got her cast off and her little arm is "all better!"

Such sweetie-pies, Ella & Claire.

Happy 6th Birthday to darling Emry!

My older sister Alda who has been battling cancer these last few months.

My darling younger sister Martha who lives in Alaska.

Ron and I visiting at our daughters for Christmas 2011.

St. George, Utah... where we have bought a little home. Hopefully this
year our home here will sell, and we can be on to St. George to live out
our lives in serving our dear Lord Jesus Christ. I love this quote;

"God is eagerly waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and
fulfill your dreams, just as he always has. But he can't if you don't
pray, and he can't if you don't dream. In short, he can't if you don't
believe." (Jeffery R. Holland)

I am counting on this and that the righteous desires of our hearts
will be granted as we do all that we can to live as he would have us do.


These pictures will be the tail end of my second blog book. I will be using Blurb
again, since the first one is so great. It costs about half to do a blog book compared
to developing pictures, so it is a pretty good deal. One day, in my old age, I will
enjoy sitting and looking back over my life with these blog books.


LOVE TO ALL

JULIE

FAMILY AND FUN....

My daughter Lindsey, who is a graphic designer, recently did this for a gal who has a cute
boutique. You can find Lindsey's design blog here...http://lindesyndesign.blogspot.com
She does great work and is very reasonable in her prices.

We have been gone for a bit but I will be here this week, so I will be around to visit you!

Recently we were leaving to be with family for a grand daughters baptism. As we left we
took our little dogs and loaded them up in the car to go with us. I have never seen our big
Golden, Cougar look so sad! His big sad eyes really broke my heart and I said to my husband;
"I wish we had a bigger vehicle so we could take Cougar too!" Then I got thinking...we do have
a very big trunk and it opens up into the car! So we made him a cushy bed in the trunk and
opened the opening up into the car...and just look at his happy face!

Our grand daughter Natalie sat by him and he snuggled up to her, he got
lots of petting and he was so happy. He would stick his head and paws through
and sleep on the arm rest and then sometimes he would go into the back and sleep.
He wasn't any trouble at all, we made lots of stops and took walks. He was just so
happy to be with us, and it was so fun to have him along with us!

My husband, and me with my arms full of 2 of our grands...Sophia and Brody.

This is the 8 year old getting baptized...Megan.

She has real long blond hair and big blue eyes, most
of the time she has bangs too but today we could see
every bit of her beauty and those blue eyes. She was SO
happy, her parents had bought her a gorgeous white dress and the
cutest shoes, she felt like a princess! I love that "one big tooth" grin!

Megan's family
Britton, Megan, our son Darin and his wife Laura.

We all went to Darin and Laura's for dinner after.
I think Sophia loved having "snow balls"...she was
pretty amazed by them!

~Nothing makes me happier than being with family~
I envision myself always surrounded by family for all my life
and for all eternity...that is what it's all about.

Brody loves eating olives just the way I do...one on every finger!

"Some"... of our family there to support Megan and her parents.
We will all be gathering at our home for Thanksgiving this year
and I am so excited!

After dinner, Megan brought out her guitar and played and sang
us some songs, I thought she was so brave and so sweet. She loves
to go duck hunting with her dad and she has a tiny little frog in her
room that she caught, and is feeding.

Our daughter Jennifer and her two kids, Gavin and Hannah.

This month, I have been thinking about, and am so grateful for the many miracles that fill
up my life. A year and a half ago, I nearly lost my life...(I had a hysterectomy and 2 weeks late hemorrhaged. Had to be life flighted after bleeding for 5 hours) I am SO very thankful
that I didn't die. I want to live as long as I can, always having my family to fill up my
life, always serving my fellow man and my God who gives me everything....
everything! I cannot think of one thing I have that is not a blessing from Him.

I believe that as we read the scriptures and say our prayers, talking to Him about
everything, miracles will happen for us. We are SO LOVED by Him, and all He asks from
us it to love others...not too hard I think.


"SENDING ALL MY LOVE TO YOU"