Winco Again

Her Tree she made at Lolo's

I went to a Care Center today and visited with Margaret Mathews. She is having a hard time. She has a blood clot in her leg and it's driving her crazy and she just really wants to go home. I don't blame her.
After visiting with Margaret I went to Winco and did my shopping. Came home and unloaded everything and put the perishable stuff away.
Off to get Gracie from Lolo's. She is always so happy to see me.
I came home and made roasted chicken and parmesean potatoes for dinner.
Janna came home, ate dinner and took Gracie.
Now it's time for putting up my feet and relaxing.
Grateful Statement: I am so grateful for Margaret. She is a good lady that is going through hard times. I am blessed to be her friend.

Conference Weekend

 Gracie has grandpa wrapped around her finger.

Serious John

 My Priesthood Holders

Cute boys playing with Gracie

Dean, John, Harrison and Hayden came up on Saturday to spend the night. They stayed until Sunday and left around noon. Dean listened to conference on the way up and on the way home. John was his captive audience. Once a missionary always a missionary in Dean's case.

I was able to watch all sessions of conference. I am going to listen to each talk at night with no distractions. It was so wonderful to hear the talks on hope and how much our Savior loves us.

And it was so good to spend time with my sons. How I love these two. 

I made Cafe Rio on Saturday so we could have a good dinner Saturday night and Sunday we had sandwiches. It was a wonderful weekend. I was so happy to spend time with my family AND get to listen to conference.

Grateful Statement: I am so grateful for my family. They are what makes me happy. And I am grateful for Conference. What a wonderful, fantastic weekend. I am sooooo blessed.

Ponderizing

I am ponderizing!!

Today is my John's birthday. I called to wish him a happy birthday. He is coming up this weekend to spend a little time with me. Then I can give him his birthday socks.

I also found an app on my phone for Ponderizing. You choose your scripture and it come up morning and night. It changes every week and you choose a new one. I read it a couple of times each day and really think about what it says. I love the phrase "having a perfect brightness of hope". It is the thing I am missing. So I am working on that. 

Grateful Statement: I am so grateful for the Scriptures. They truly are our road map to get through this life worth of Eternal Life. I am so blessed to live in this era with Ipads and phones to read them anywhere I want. Blessing abound.

Legal Guardianship

Thumbs Up!

Gracie is not happy!

We all got up and went to the court house so Janna could finish off the legal guardianship for Gracie. We are very glad this is over and done with. Now we can take care of Gracie in every aspect of her life. Janna is the best. So caring and loving.

Tommy and I came home and didn't do anything until it was time to go to dinner for Austin's belated birthday celebration. He is such a funny boy.

Then it was home and doing nothing again. It's been a wonderful day filled with good things.

Grateful Statement: I am so grateful for Gracie and that Janna is now her legal gurardian. What a blessing that is. We are truly a blessed family.

My Wonderful Hubby Redoing My Shelves

Tearing it apart

 Finished

Now my gallon jars fit.

I wanted to can all my dry food storage in gallon mason jars but they wouldn't fit on my shelf. So I made the suggestion to my dear hubby that it wouldn't be too hard to pull them apart and redo them. He informed me that it would be a job and it would be hard. But the next thing I knew he was figuring out how much shelving he would have to buy to do the job. Aren't I the luckiest lady in the world to be married to this handyman. 

Now let the canning begin. I am going to replace all my cans as we use them. I can reuse these bottles over and over again. I just put the product in and put the sealer for jars that I bought for my Food Saver and suck all the air out. How easy is that, and you can used the lids over and over again.

Grateful Statement: I am so grateful for food storage and that the church has encouraged us to store for years. I have been pretty obedient. Serving a mission at the cannery certainly had it's perks. I am so blessed.

Check Up

 Gracie and her Toy

A-Okay

We went to the doctor this morning so he could look at her ears, nose and throat. Everything is wonderful. She is so good with the doctor. He can do anything and she just lets him. I am so glad everything went well with Gracie's surgery. She so needed to feel good.

Grateful Statement: I am so grateful for doctors that can fix our physical ailments and for my Savior that can fix Spiritual ailments. What a blessing I will never be able to fully understand until I meet Him. Please make it so, that I will be worthy to stay with Him!

Going to Broulims with Gracie

Gracie on the front of the cart.

Gracie and I decided to go to Broulims for rolls and potatoes to go with the Chile that is on the stove. She is such a cute thing. She just jumped on the front of the cart and hung on. We also got her some Tootsie Rolls for her reward when she used the potty. Her surgery sort of put potty training on the back burner. We will have to get on it again.

Grateful Statement: I am so grateful for this little muchkin that I get to take care of. Some days are hard but at the end of each day I am so blessed to have her in my life.