Alan's return home!

Crazy kids piling on the bed.

Big sign with Welcome Home Alan on the garage doors. Eric, David, Alan, Cindy, and Rach.

1st Wish...eat at Panda Express!

John and I with the new return missionary!!! We love him so much and so happy to have my son home safe. My family is all home now after at least 12 years of missionaries. What a nice birthday and christmas present. I am so very blessed!

Oh my baby!!!

2010 Halloween

When I first started this blog thing...It was Halloween time in 2008...time goes by so fast.

I am so thankful for my kids blogs to see all the cute grandkids and events in everyones life.

Stop this Life...It is going by too fast!

Alan on a mission still in Argentina but....comes home in December!

He is so cute with those fingers!

Proud Grandma

My wonderful children...some are a little stiff but still love them!

Ok, so I haven't written since August...we had a GREAT time in Cooke City...LIKE ALWAYS!

Well, school started when I got back and it was crazy busy. They are changing things in my dept and I am the one to write the proposal, abstract, documentation....pages long for the future of my class. What? I am the peon of the whole group and I had just a few days to complete that.

Now we move on to Cindy's baby and Amy's wedding. Those two are close but really...haha

Cindy had her baby on Sept 23 and Amy had her wedding on Sept 24.

I have sure been a busy bee but sooooo happy for my two daughters!!!

For the next two weeks, I take students to St George for the World Senior games. We provide health screenings for the seniors at the games. It is fun to stay at my house and the kids have a great time learning also.

I am very tired but so happy and enjoy all the busy times in my 50's.

Cooke City 2010

Cooke city is always so beautiful! We loved the 4-wheeling to see all the flowers and mountains.

The wildlife is always a Plus with the moose and baby, dear, fox, and the rascal yellowbellied hairy marmot, but not the Bear. We were saddened with the loss of life by a bear this year at a camp a mile away. I am NOT a gun person but This is one place where we do need a gun.

Happy Birthday to you!!! Happy Birthday to you!!! John celebrated his 61st birthday with lots of Huckleberry syrup, candy, and jam. Love you honey and hope to have MANY more years to come.

Are these just the cutest brothers EVER!!! They are so fun to have around and love them so much. This is on our hike to Leckie Falls...we named it of course!

John and Rilla at Leckie Falls in Cooke City, Montana August 2010

New Grandbaby

New grand baby girl.

Proud Papa and older brother. The other older brother (age 2) was probably pushing buttons or pushing something around. They are going to be the best big brothers to new baby sister.

Japan

Eating food with Octopus and squid...Yum!!!

John getting used to sitting (and sleeping) on the floor.

Rainy day walking to church after a train ride and bus ride.

Rilla feeding the deer.

Previous missionary companions that Eric loved!!! We took them to lunch.

Japan

We also went for 10 days to Japan to visit Eric's mission and some sites in other areas. We had a wonderful time visiting with families he loves so much. We are so thankful for their kindness.

China

We enjoyed our trip to China. We found the country to be happy, lots of new building going on, people seem to have more money, and it was great. The food was good most of the time. We stayed in very nice hotels with nice beds and GREAT locations so we could walk the streets and watch them ALL exercise each morning. The people were very nice and a great trip with LOTS of walking. John lost weight / me NONE!

Trip to China May 2010

Terra Cotta Warriors in Xiam, China. Absolutely Amazing!

Shanghi, China...very up and coming city....lots of business people.

Great Wall in Bejing, China. Fun and BIG and LOTS of people.

Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. Bejing,China

Christmas at Home Dec 2009

We are all having just a fun time. We had Christmas with the family a week before John and I went to Hawaii. I did miss the cutie kids playing on the beach, maybe someday???

Even Grandma Leckie got into the spirit with Santa....hohohoho!!! at 93 yrs old and living at the Hearthstone.

Her wish from Santa....be with my DAD! Miss you Daddy!

Christmas December 2009

This is the end of the road on one side of Oahu. We had a fun time driving from side to side.

Fun to visit family. Stephanie with John. They are living there and just finished school. YaHoo! She took us to the great shrimp trucks and had a ton to eat and great fresh drinks.

The Cutie Forsyth boys. Kristine's in -laws treated us just like family and had dinner there Christmas eve and day. Yummy!! So NICE!

We visited the Temple but it is closed for remodeling. Will just have to return....soon!

Taking our own picture....whatever??!!!