As I read the other blogs I have enjoyed the thoughts that have been expressed in words. I thought of a Neal Maxwell quote that I have on a book mark. The more we ponder where we stand in relation to Christ the more we realize that we do not stand at all...we only kneel. I LOVE that. I am so proud of all my children and where they "stand" in their relationship to the Savior and the gospel! Life is hard sometimes but we need to "come what may and love it!

Lately I have been writing on my blog like I write in my journal, spasmodic. My mind is all jumbled with thought. We are preparing for our mission, for sure. We need to proceed with all the papers and Dr. and dentist but we know where we are going. When we are ready to submit, we call Pres. Walker in the Tucson Mission home and he will intercept our assignment. We are trying to think about what to do with the house and stuff in it(that is the hard part). We are trying to fiqure out our budget and such. On a lighter note, we danced in Cedar City last weekend and had alot of fun. Margaret went and actually drove down. She has been recouping from a hip replacement. It was fun to spend time with her again. We met Pat and Linda at the motel where the 4 of us stayed together. We ate lunch and rested and visited. We danced our Hip Hop for the girls game and the "Good Times" for the guys game. They were a good crowd and told us what a good group we were. I got home about 1:30 Sunday. We danced for U of U last night, Wednesday. I think they knew we were from Provo, they were not as enthusiastic. We will dance for UVU next Wed. We have the Ca. trip after that. Today we are going to go watch Dusty play basketball. His team is doing well and has a chance for state. That would be so awesome, his Senior year and their first year as a team in the new high school.

I did not realize that is almost a week since I wrote. I went to the quilt shop Thursday for a paper piecing class. It is really fun. This is the procedure people use to put together quilts with lots of little pieces. I am making an Easter quilt. We dance Sat. in Cedar City. We are doing our new hip hop dance. It does not look like hip hop but it is fun. We went to Dusty's last home game last night. It was so much fun! They introduced each Senior with his parents and told of their future plans. The game was intense. They would make a basket and the other team would make a basket, this went on quite awhile. Second half Salem Hills got 10 pts. ahead and kept the lead to win. Then they had the Seniors cut down the basket. There were alot of people at the game, good support.

Yesterday, Sunday, was another quiet day. We went to church and I taught my wonderful SS class. After church I went to bed and stayed there all day. I took a 2 hour nap! Dad went to Sorena's for a couple of hours and had dinner. I have been praying about going to Az to work in the mission home. I am not sure what Dad thinks. We will see what happens.

We are going to be hit with another snow storm today. It is overcast and WHITE outside. As I have been reading Danette's and others blogs I am realizing that I am not a writer. And, I hope I don't talk the way I write. BORING. I thought I was a little entertaining, not so. Writing does help me think about the way I say things so maybe it will get better. I never took a writing class but thinking it is probably a good thing for everyone to do. Yesterday was a quiet day after several busy ones. Dad is recuperating from a cold and I think he shared it with me.

Dance

We danced for the Utah Jazz last night. They were a good but different audience. There were the beer drinkers laughing and spilling their drinks when they bumped into you. The girls dressed very immodestly. But I saw Maryn. She said that she was going to the game Thurs. night and I said I am dancing at the game. We were excited and couldn't believe our luck. I was able to see her for a minute and give her a hug. I got home about 11:30, I am tired. Too many late nights.

ok so I still have some things to learn, my names for people were under their pictures but I so frustrated right now that I am leaving it the way itis #*%#@^

One of my favorite things about Utah are the sunrises over the mountains

Little Women

Alexis is in a group at school called "Spotlight Players". Last night we went to see their production of Little Women in which Lexi plays Beth. It was so good I even cried when Beth died. They brought her out in a wheelchair and she and Jo have a conversation about her dying. They sang a song called Some things are meant to Be. The they hugged each other and Lexi drops her arm and goes limp and Jo cries and hollers for Marnee. Lexi looked so adorable! She did a great job. Her big blue eyes were sparling in the lights. The girl who played Jo is Craig Christian's niece. The family lives in Sorena's ward. The father died last week so Celeste has been in rehearsals and grieving over her father. Isn't that sad!

Beth Jo Colleen Weaver-the masseur

Sunday

Sunday was our Sunday to have everyone over, we had so much fun. It was Stake Conf. for Belliston, Marbles, and us. Green's came later. I tried Danette's recipe for the Chicken Garlic Farelle(close enough). The adults and most of the children loved it! It is so yummy. Margot's dental office has a conference in Vegas and they are having a dance competition. She was showing us the dance and being so funny we laughed til we were crying and coughing. She would do a step and say now I do this, now I do that. She would complete a step and ask did that look stupid? The Greens brought Michael Yakkman(did I spell that correctly?) over, he is attending BYU. He played the guitar and sang to us. Jordan joined him as did the rest of us when we knew the words. The guys watched the SUPERBOWL. Needless to say they were disappointed with the outcome. Doesn't sound like a very reverent Sabbath does it? oops. Some random pictures

Nico Mickenna and Bubba Bubba

Lindsey being creative with the paper shredder

Glenn Beck

You may have already heard this but--last night when I was driving home from dance and listening to Glenn he said that he could imagine that we, his listeners, were probably feeling very frustrated about the countries woes and where we are going. He said that he was fortunate to have a job that gave him a voice that we might not have. Especially since our representatives do not listen to their constituency. He is giving us a chance to be part of changing America. This is big. What you do is sent a picture and an e-mail to wesurroundthem@gmail.com. He has 9 points of concern, they are on his web, I agree w/ all 9. They are things like God is the center of this country, the government works for me, I am in charge of raising my family (w/o government), etc. I wrote on my e-mail, I agree 9 out of 9 and sent it. I think the pictures are a way to indicate that these are concerned Americans and not made up. He will have a show around Feb. 27 that we can participate in either by going to NY or on the web. I think a trip would be fun because we could accidentally see Ryne. Just kidding about the trip. Please e-mail everyone and ask them to do this, we can change things!!

Dance

Saturday night we danced at Westminister College in SL. I rode up with a few of my friends. It was alot of fun. It is a really nice school. We have not danced for them before. After the dance we went to Olive Garden. I do not like eating that late but it sure tasted good. When we dropped Jane off at her apt. she fell on the ice. She appeared to be ok. She was laughing and I told her to stop because I couldn't help her if we were laughing. She also has a really bad shoulder. This is a picture of her and Jean and the school mascot.

Nicolas

Nicolas crawled through the doors on my fireplace screen and shut the doors after him. Cute huh! We haven't had a fire in it but it still is kinda dirty.

One of my favorite things in Az, besides my children and grandchildren are the sunsets. They are so fabulous! This was the night of Dad's birthday. We told him it was God's gift to him for his b-day