This is a common site in our neighborhood. Bambi and family LOVE Hidden Oaks. They eat everything but the rocks! They are beautiful but they need to return to their mountain home. My neighbor Cindy told me see saw 17 in their back yard last week. Oh deer is right!
Yea baby, tomorrow is the first day of Spring and I have Spring fever! I have been cleaning like crazy this week and love hearing the birds singing and seeing the grass start to turn green. I heard a Meadowlark (the Wyoming State Bird) singing when I came out of the temple on Tuesday. They have a pretty song and it always reminds me of home. I hope it will be a nice, long Spring!
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's Party!" - Robin Williams
Everything I Need to Know About Life, I Learned From Noah's Ark!!
It seems most things I do revolve around my church calling. I am grateful to be able to serve and I guess it's all things Relief Society for now! I served as a ward president for 4 years, a counselor in the stake Relief Society for a year and half and have been serving as a stake Relief Society president for 3 years.
My counselors Val Peterson, Valerie Blain and my secretary Ann Adamson always give their all to help prepare for any meeting we have.
Val and Ann created this beautiful display.
Grandma Federer made this quilt for for my high school graduation (1976). She made all of her grandchildren a quilt or two! My Mom made many of my dresses and she saved the scraps. She gave them to Grandma who turned them into a beautiful "Flower Garden" quilt. It is one of my most precious possession.
This display had to be moved because we had to make room to set up about 6 more tables to accommodate a much bigger crowd than we expected. The Stake Center, which is larger was not available (and this was the only time our guest speaker could come), so needless to say it got a little cozy in this building!! We never know how many sisters will attend so we just use the average from previous years but yikes this caught us by surprise. A quick run to Kohler's to grab a few more rolls and things and we managed to serve everyone. It's that loaves and fishes principle!!
Dear friends who stayed to help clean up ... Valerie, Susan, Christina, Whitney (just home from a mission to Japan), Val and Ann.
A group of sisters sang the song that was our theme:
Grandpa Glenn with Christopher Glenn - June 1988by Paul Harvey
I'd really like for them to know about hand-me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meatloaf sandwiches. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen. I hope you have a job by then.
It will be good if at least one time you can see a baby calf born and your old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the line because he is scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a Disney movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride I hope your driver doesn't have to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as un-cool as your mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
When you learn to use those newfangled computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get razzed by your friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I don't care if you try beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and the joy of holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster of Paris mold of your hand.
These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
And I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your grandpa.
Paul Harvey
"Someone or something is forever telling us we need to be more handsome or more wealthy, more applauded or more admired than we see ourselves as being. We are told we haven’t collected enough possessions or gone to enough fun places. We are bombarded with the message that on the world’s scale of things we have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other. I know that if we will be faithful, there is a perfectly tailored robe of righteousness ready and waiting for everyone, robes … made … white in the blood of the Lamb.” May we encourage each other in our effort to win that prize..."
-Jeffrey R. Holland
I miss my cowboy friend. He passed away on February 24, 2007 ... two years ago. With Susan always by his side, Luke dedicated his life to serving the Lord - cheerfully giving his all.
We had a wonderful visit with Elder and Sister Savage while they were serving a mission at San Clemente, California. - July 2003
I made this quilt in honor of their missionary service. They came to love the Marines that were stationed at Camp Pendleton. Semper Fi - "Always Faithful"
It took us 30 hours to get to Hong Kong but oh it was worth it. We enjoyed another amazing time together with Luke and Susan.
Chinese Emperor Luke! Susan and Luke gave a wonderful presentation at Relief Society about their experiences in Hong Kong.
Another quilt I made to honor Susan and Luke for their missionary service in Hong Kong. I used pictures that Susan had sent me. My favorite is the one where Luke accidentally put on 2 different cowboy boots. At least they were both black!!
One of our many trips to Lake Powell with Luke and Susan. George got to go with us this time. We were actually there during the 9/11 tragedy and had no idea it had happened for a few days. These vacations will always be Chris and Mark's favorite!
My Valentine's ... have brought me happiness in ways I never dreamed of and in ways that I find difficult to express. My family, I love you all so much!