Sacrament at Bear Lake

This is the last Sunday of August.  Summer is over.  It had has gone by very fast as it ways does.  Craig & I came to the lake for the weekend by our selves.  We needed a break from all our family. Moving Chaudhry family & moving in with us has been a lot of work. It has wore is out.  Feels good to be in sacrament.  

What is my purpose in life? Follow the savior and live the gospel of Jesus Christ.    Talked about the blessing of the priesthood in our lives.   Sons of Mosiah,  

Love priesthood leaders,  Believed in God and risk their lives,  they are humble, fathers that would not break their covenants with the lord to go to battle,  they took actions,  they were physically fit they applied what theirs mothers taught them ,  following the duty of God program,  they knew the gospel . To love God and that God loves them.  This strengthen us thru priesthood power to build the kingdom of God,  apply the power of the priesthood in our lives,

Cleaning house & Laundry

I was beat from my work in the yard yesterday.  I stayed and clean house and did laundry.  I have spent the day working.  It is 6pm and I've put a full day in.  It feels good to have the house clean and tidy and all the laundry done.  It is more work for me with the Chaudhry family here.  I'm enjoying the time they are here.

Hard working day

Yesterday I worked hard in the yard,digging out infected sod and replacing with new sod.  It was a back breaking job.  Craig started the job last Thursday.  He hurt his knee and had not felt up to the task.  I spent the entire day in the yard.  It was raining and felt good to have a cooler day to work in.  It has been really hot.  I worked hard and I was beat by 3pm.  I had gotten so dirty!!  Had to come in and take a shower and get ready to baby sit Nixon the neighbor boy. He was going to play with Landon but he did not get home in time So it was Nixon and I for an hour riding bikes and going to the park.  He is a sweet boy and good friend to Landon while he is living here.

Sweet Letter from Trisha

Trisha wrote me a very sweet letter while she was at youth conference this year with our Saydee bug.  Trisha is serving in the Young Women's Presidency as a counselor.  I really appreciate the kind word from her.

Going to the dump

We took all the junk left in the trailor to the dump today it was a stinking mess nice to get the trailer cleaned out, we had lots of junk in the trailer from moving Shannon and Ryan. today's been a hard-working day.  I babysat Tasha's kids for about four hours and did laundry all day, went to the dump, came home and fix dinner,& cleaned up,  falling dead tired in bed tonight.  This has been a good hard-working day

Sacrament notes

Sacrament notes August 2   New family in Ward Allstrom their father and son shared a very touching testimony  little boy told a story so amazing can tell his parents are teaching him.   Relief society Lesson:  the on Meekness is controlling our temper, meekness is growing daily growing & perfecting our lives everyday striving to do better.  

August 23rd.  Felt good to be in our home Ward today.  We took the Cbaudhry boys with us.  I enjoyed spending time in my meeting.  Loved Sunday school.  Learning about the mission of the apostle Paul in the New Testament.   Sister Roberts did a great job teaching.  I'm weak in this area of the bible.  Need to study more of the new testament.  Relief society  we talked about keeping the Sabbeth holy. My visiting teacher Michele taught the lesson.  She is such a sweet and funny sister in our Ward.   Need to be

Better in making keeping the sabbath day.  It is challenging in many ways.   Conference talk very good to study.  

By Elder Russell M. Nelson

How can you ensure that your behavior on the Sabbath will lead to joy and rejoicing?

Busy week moving

This has been a very busy week helping the Chaudhry family move.  I worked really hard Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday helping them get things packed up and out of the house it was a lot of work for all of us, they made three trailer loads to their storage unit and Thursday we were able to finalize things and get them here for the night.  It was a race against the clock to get everything done Thursday morning we needed to clean we had everything pretty much out needed to have it cleaned by 1 o'clock I was able to call Telma my Mexican lady that cleans and she had three friends that could come and clean for us for three hours..  It was a lifesaver there was no way Shannon and I were going to get that all done in three hours, it took us three hours just finishing up what we did and all three of them working too, we meet our time schedule!!  It was a huge Sigh of relief,  bittersweet for Shannon she got emotional saying goodbye to her home that she has been in for 14 years.  They have been growing years for their family hard to believe that they had lived in their home over 14 years Alec was just a baby when they moved in.  Their onto a new chapter in their lives. We went over to see the new house and it's progress and it's coming along so nicely so excited for them to be in a new home.  They will be staying in our home for about four weeks and then we have to move everything out of their storage.  We are also tired it has been a lot of work!!!

Shannon is moving

 Shannon's moving tomorrow after my class today I'm heading out to help her pack so another daughter in transition I'll be spending all day tomorrow helping her pack and finish and getting things out of her house that they close on Wednesday so excited for them in their new home he'll be living with us for about a month until they can move into their new home

BYU Education week

I got up at 6am this morning to get ready.  Only 6 hours of sleep.  I wanted to get here for the 8:30am class but I'm standing in a long line for a ticket.  Ramona is saving me a seat for the next class.  Excited to hear brother Wilcox classes about the temple.  I would really like to go all week but Shannon is moving this week.  She called this weekend saying she needs her mommy!!  I need to help her pack and move this week.  So I have only one day to attend.  I really love to my classes that I took today brother Keith Wilcox is such an amazing teacher he taught three classes on the importance of the temple in our lives and brought out so much information he is such a great teacher tell so many life stories that applying his life that can apply our own lies he's just such a good storyteller I also took another class about feeling more positive in our lives.where's that Shannon get her the class that I took I felt like it would be very uplifting to her I took another class with her mono about organizing and D sizing the clutter in our homes that when we get rid of clutter we can have more joy in our lives in the Lord can speak to us more as a BD clutter our lives from the things around us they were all excellent classes I'm so glad that I was able to attend

Home Sweet Home

Craig & I arrived to the cabin about 11pm Saturday night.   We spent the day at the cabin resting some what.  We both tinker the day away.  We left for home about 6pm.  I spent the day at the cabin cleaning and I got home and had to do the same.  Stacy spent the week at our house.  Three little ones can make a mess.   Trisha and buck came by to clean their boat parked in our lower garage.   We visited,  I didn't crawl in bed  until midnight.   Feel so good to be home.

Our last Day

Time to head back home.  We have had a very nice trip.  We wanted to get on the lake with our see-doo's but a storm rolled in with extreme winds we were not able to get on the lake.  Hoping today that the wind would die down but it is too windy today and a lot cooler.  We did ride  a boat over this morning to see the beautiful golf course with the floating green and had breakfast.  It is so beautiful here, the flowers are so beautiful  !!  Love the beds full of the red germanin's,    Time to go home.

View from our resort room.

 we have a lovely view at our resort overlooking the water. The  lake is so pretty

Friday already

Craig had another morning meeting and then we drove 4 of the agents to the airport in Spokane Washington.  We had lunch at Anthony's on the Spokane River.  We have never been to Washinton State before. We are visiting several states on this trip.  Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montanna, Washington⚓️.   We came back to our resort hoping to get on the lake this afternoon.  A wind Storm blew in. It never let up.  We have spent the rest of the day hanging out in our room.    Hopefully tomorrow is better weather.

Our Boat Ride

We had a lovely day on the lake.  We rode on a house boat for 6 hrs.  Up and down the lake.   We had lunch in a little town call Harrison at the south end of the lake.  The lake is 27 miles long and about 130 miles to drive around it.  

Beautiful Day

Wow it is really hot here!!  100 degrees today. Didn't expect it to be so warm being this far north.  Thought it would be

On the cool side like Bear Lake.  Beautiful sun rise.   We are going on a boat tour today, will get to see the lake more.   We have great view fr our room over looking the lake.

We're here!!

We woke up at about 7am drove into Missoula Montanna and had breakfast.  It is so beautiful.   The drive has been worth it.  Drove 3 hours and arrived to our beautiful resort.  We are staying at the Courte deAlene Resort.  It is a so pretty!!  Fun to have a Get away!! We checked in and our

room won't be ready for a couple of hours.  We just went to the car wash.  Our truck is really dirty from all the bugs last night,  it was raining bugs.   

  Dinner tonight on the top terrace watching the sun set.

Craig & I driving to Courte Layne

Craig and left late afternoon  Tuesday for our convention trip to Courte de alene, Idaho.   We drove 7 hr, stopped T a resting ground and slept in the back of our truck.  We brought pads from the  cabin to sleep on. Felt good to get some sleep.  We enjoyed the drive.  Nice to have some quite time from all the grandkids noise this past weekend.   

Wonder Women

Love this post from Facebook I'm always losing my keys & my purse I'm the wonder woman for sure !!

Grand Kids at the Lake

We had a great time at the lake.  I'm really tired !!  It is a lot of work the cousins all had a great time 

Our Lagoon Day

Took the Chaudhry boys to Lagoon on Wednesday.  We met Shar there with her kids.  I hung out with Landon Jacob and Boston. 

Celebrating August Family Birthdays

August 8th. 2015,  today is our little Winston Thomas 3rd Birthday.  He is such a darling little boy.  We've all gathered as family this weekend to celebrate Winn b-day, Craig's 60th and Austin's 10th birthday.   We are having a family party on Sunday evening. When all the family gets here.  

Best Friends

Romona came to the Lake with us and spent three days.  We celebrated Craigs 60th birthday. We've been friends since I was 14 years old for 44 years.  She has one more week to visit.  Going home the 20th.  

Our Sunday

Went church to church with the grandkids today,  it felt good to be in sacrament.  A time to slow down and feel the spirit of the Lord.  Nice to sit quietly and rest from our loud family time with all the kids.   

Michael slept over

Michael slept over Monday night. Craig  & Michael went for a long bike ride up immigration Canyon Tuesday morning they had a great time.  Michels gotten so big we are so proud of him, hard to believe he's 16 years old now!!

Grandmother Lavon in town

Tuesday night grandma Lavon slept over at our house.  She came in town for the big raspberry weekend.   She rode up with Chris and Terry so she'll be riding with them up to the lake they'll only be here a short time they're leaving Friday morning so if we don't get up there today I won't see them before they leave.   mom Lavon is slowing down you can tell, she turned 80 this year she still likes to get out and go!! We've had a lot of family and friends in and out the last few weeks.  Feels like the "SYMES Hotel"

It's raspberry weekend

 It's raspberry weekend it Bear Lake.  We are going to have a cabin full.  I've got lots to do to get ready to leave town today got to muster up some energy from my Lagoon day.  Summer is a busy time with the kids.  Stacy has been here all week she's leaving with us today so we can see the parade at 6 PM tonight.  The three Chaudhry boys  slept over so they could go up with us for the weekend.  Shannon has been really sick this week, sick with some type of a flu bug, plus she's got to pack, they have to be out of their house by next weekend.  I told her to take the boys so she could get some things done and hopefully she'll start feeling better.  Ive got to go grocery shopping today and pack for our trip next week we will not be coming home from the lake.   We are celebrating Winston Craig and Austin's birthday this weekend too.  I need to get birthday presents and prepare for a birthday party.  Lots to do before I leave town today need to get going.  

Took Grandkids to Lagoon

 

 I spent the day yesterday at Lagoon with the grandkids.  We met Shar there with her kids, she's babysitting Carly & Boston for the week while Trisha is at girls camp.  I picked up Landon, Jackson Alec and took them with me.  We all stayed till closing, so I didn't get home till close to midnight last night I'm so tired today.  They all have a really fun time

I hung out with the three younger ones on the kiddie rides so the older kids could do their thing.  Landon,

Boston & Jacob having a fun time !!

James Addison Johnson great great grandpa

In the middle of my summer activities I have been working on my family history I found this tombstone marker on ancestry.com.  

James Addison Johnson

1830-1899

   

Monday morning

It's raining this morning!!  Feel so nice to have rain we've had such a mild July this month had lots of cool weather and more rain than we normally again things are pretty and green right now.  Not sure what we're doing today Tasha asked that I babysit her kids for a few hours this afternoon so I'm sure all of the cousins  will have fun playing with one another and probably go out to lunch.  It's family night so I might think about planning something special for the little kids some type of a lesson.  Need to look in the Ensign this month and see what there is for ideas.  

Sabbath Day

Today was a nice day at church, Fast Sunday. We were able to go to our ward. We haven't been there  for quite a while it felt nice to socialize with our ward members.  With the summer season here we have been going to church at Bear Lake with our grandkids.  I had to get up and share my testimony.  I was baptized in the church at the age of 12 years old on July 28th 1968- 47 years ago. as I reflected upon my baptism and all my many blessings my heart began to pound and I felt like I needed to share my testimony.   So grateful for my membership at the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Our lives have been so blessed because of the many blessings striving to live the gospel and now watching my daughters participate is a great blessing to see them raise their families and the gospel as well.  I told them that I now have 17 grandchildren, nobody can believe that, I guess I look kind a young for being a granmother.  After church are able to come home and have a nice dinner and just visit and relax fun to visit with Stacy and her kids,little baby Farah so darling right now,she's all full of smiles,  Stacy gave up her home so the Tosha and Burger could live in until they find a house I feel bad for stacy right now because I know she probably feels lost without having her home right now.  I have a early moved out she had all her furniture and all her things there they took very little when they move to California for the summer. Their planning on moving to California which we're not really excited about,  Stacy will be in town till next week so I want to spend as much time with her as I can.  Going to have to divide my time with her and Romona this week it's a very busy time

Saturday moving day

Tosha and Bridger are moving today Greg and I went out about 9 o'clock to help them and ended up staying all day had no idea would be there so long they needed lots of help.   She had all her basement packed with boxes Bridger went and got four Mexican guys and pay them by the hour and they loaded our trailer twice with all the things that they had to put it in storage our third load by 3  pm we were all so tired.  We all had to push to keep going .  Still has to load all their clothes and all the things that were left in the house that she needed to take over to Stacy's and that . they couldn't fit in the storage there were lots of odds and ends left.   By 5:30 we were able to say quits for the day.  You are starving I had not eaten all day so we went to Saddler's and had a nice dinner.  Then had to drive the third trailer load to Stacy and Chad's house and leave it on the driveway so virgin and Tosha get unloaded there.  We got home about 8 PM I was so tired I had to go take a hot bath I fell asleep in the tub soaking my feet by 1130 close to midnight heard the baby.  Stacy decided to come stay here she was going to the Towner's house for the weekend but decided she'd rather hang out with us and be all alone over there they were out of town for the weekend.   But I'm glad that she came here to show only be here one more week and then she'll be going back to California so we can spend time with her and the kids.   We have a houseful again with Stacy and her three kids and Ramona staying here now.   

Friday

Romona came here on Thursday.  Her daughter and her husband left for a family reunion so she's going to be staying here for the rest of the week.  Earlier that day. And I went on the 17 mile bike ride we rode on the Murdoch trail along the river towards Pleasant Grove along the mountains it was a beautiful ride I had fun.  Remount I got here about 430 I was really tired from our bike ride to take a hot bath and clean up and then we all went out to dinner to Applebee's was fun to visit.   Friday we got cleaned up and spent the afternoon going to the Salt Lake parade it was fun to see homes everything so modern right now it's not really my taste.   I love to see a home that has been nicely decorated them put together well it's fun to see how things come together.   Craig and I had Steve and Jill Mcpherron's wedding to go to their last son getting married to Robin they will be officially empty-nesters now.  We've been empty-nesters since 2009 technically but we've had a lot of family in and out since then.  After the wedding reception we came home and changed her clothes and drove out to Shannon's house to see how his progress it was all she wrote this last week so it's coming along so quickly .  We needed some scrap sheet rock to repair some of the things around here so we grab some scrap saw you were there.  Excited for Shannon and Ryan in their new home.