snug as bugs

so much fun watching  movie together, but they were very tired, Jake ended up sleeping here, The big girls in the white room and Calvin and Kalie in the new fold out sofa in the playroom. Calvin didnt feel real good, but really wanted to sleep over. They all love doing creative play and I love watching them. I am so happy that I can share time with them. I wish my mom could have lived closer to my children when they were growing up. I am so happy that my children got to see the fun joyful spirit of my mom. I hope that they will know my fun side and also my love of the Gospel , missionary work, and the importance of the family

decorating with grandpa

dancin with granma

December sleepover

Well, Kayla has been asking for a grandma sleep over for a long time.. We finally set it up on a Saturday night just between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so what better time than bring out the decorations. At first we made ornaments by painting bears and twisting pipecleaners and drawing, We made cookies and pizza and popcorn, We decorated the WHOLE house. We did puzzles, Kallie and Peters favorite. We watch a movie and then slept. BUT, most important we DANCED! There were costumes, hats and fun stories. The next day we had, what else, french toast! I want to do it again,,,real soon

Family History Conference and Jakes Baptism

Most of our energy went into preparing for the conference and going to the conference. We can do more and more with this service mission. Now, it is just making the time. We prepared to post photos and stories to family search. They are still on my key waiting for me to take the time. We like to be available for the family and this time of year means alot of music and celebrations. We heard Mariah play the piano and Blake and Natalie play the violin and the Three Amigos just play!
Most important was attending the temple on Saturday just before Jake was baptized by Derek. In preparing to attend, I fretted about what to wear.It was our first big snow of the season and I wanted to be comfortable and stylish,,until I prayerfully stopped,,a remembered the blessing and honor to attend our grandsons baptism, I felt foolish but grateful  that I remembered. The spirit was strong and I am thankful that I listened

Finally met my goal

Spring of 2014 I set of goal of finishing my mother Joyce Morrison Lund's life history. Many things got in the way. The biggest being my cat! Oreo helped me delete much of the story up to the parts that I remember ( so all of the family history AND  youth my my mother ) One day while typing along on my tablet the cat stepped and deleted and then I deleted ALL  my work. Upset! but then I found my mothers 1939 - 1940 diary, This filled in the spaces that I knew nothing about. Yesterday I visited my Aunt Jean to ask final questions on their junior high years. Sadly Jean did not remember must, She is 88 years old and like my mother before she died, has dementia. She did remember her mother Celia when I showed her photos. She did not know which twin she was in any of the photos, but most of ALL she remembered going to church, Relief Society, Visiting Teaching, and that Celia worked at the Daughters of the Utah Pioneer building. She still has her quick and ready smile. I love her and Love and Miss my mother.  What did I find out about their teenage lives....???   

2 weeks of travel time

After all the helping and serving the family this summer we needed a break. I went to see Valerie come in first in a 1/2 marathon ( in her age group) and 4th over all! She looked great and hardly missed a beat recovering very quickly. It was conference weekend and we saw all 4 sessions with the grandkids. We enjoyed Sunday sessions with 3 new converts  from Puerto Rico and the Philippines. It was so great to share my testimony and inform them of the Family History program and the joys of service.
I returned home for one day which happened to be our senior reunion for the Switzerland Geneva mission. We were reminded that we were the last to serve in that mission as it is now the France Lyon Mission.. we loved being reminded of fond memories
Then we started our trip to CALIFORNIA . We stayed with Terry and Doug in Mariposa and enjoyed a day at the river with Charice and the three kids.The rest of the time we served as missionaries with the Malhums. We even got to go to Zone conference and here Elder Nielsen. So now we are even more excited to serve another full time mission

the rest of the Summer

With my new SMART phone it is harder for me to post photos of our activities. This post includes some of the things we did this summer. After going to Michigan and Carbondale, Colorado we took a few short trips around Utah. We enjoyed our mission at the new location, the Mountain View Institute building , right next to our gym, the Orem Recreation center. So, we would go to serve and work out right after. We enjoy biking on the Murdock Canal, Twice we got up very early to serve at the Timpanogos Temple and the checking the trail and heading north to Alpine.
We wanted to keep August open to help with the new baby at Derek and Missy, but Missy went into Labor on Pioneer Day. Izaak John Anderson was born July 24. 2014, weighing 4plus  and 19 inches. He was  7 weeks early and had to stay in the incu for about a month.  During that time we helped serve the family by helping with the grandchildren.
The last weekend of the summer we went camping at Timpanokee camp site at the base of the trail to hike to the top of the mountain. Dan and some of the older kids hiked while we played with the younger ones. We closed the summer on Labor Day going out to Utah Lake on our new boat, the Aagot Marie.

FUN in Carbondale, Colorado

Under the care of Val and Jason , we rent a cabin at a Koa in Carbondale Colorado. Not knowing what we were getting into, except that we would be sharing time and love with Val and family and Karina and her 4 younger kids. We went biking everyday on a beautiful trail looking at Crystal River and the high mountains of Colorado.  We went hiking with the kids , where we saw love and kindness as they helped each other. In the evening we roasted marshmallows, had skits, and played spoons. It was beautiful and  clean and fun to have more time with family. I love being with the kids and seeing how their children are progressing, in the gospel and love

More Michigan and Mackinac

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these are some photos from my new camera, It took a while for me to find them, but they are the rest of the Michigan Mackinac story. The first one is Erik looking for his family!. Jim and Val standing in front of the finished product,,shed /chateaux.  Me and Val as twinners - never  planned but it happens often. Then there are some biking photos from the Island and fun with the kids. I would love to go again, maybe next time there will be no training wheels!

Michigan-Mackinac Island 2014

I am still figuring out how to post photos from my cell phone, but I do have some from my camera. The first week of this trip was life as usual for me and the grandkids--Library (Val finished first in a hula hoop contest- along with many others --after a LONG time- what 75 minutes?), swimming. biking, church and alot of dancing and singing. Meanwhile Jim, with Val's help built a storage shed or as Jim calls it Le Chateaux. For a long weekend we took the drive to the UP (upper peninsula) to Mackinac Island. We stayed in Mackinac City  and took a ferry to the Island. There are no cars,only horse drawn carriages and alot of bikes. We biked clear around the island and had a blast. It was one of my fav trips --EVER. Why--family. fun, food, alot of biking and swimming and alot o LOVE

Graduation time

This time of year is filled with alot of school activities. I saw dances at Foothill with Mariah and Nattie and Calvin.  Mariah is graduating from Foothill this year and Andrew is graduating but continuing on at UVU to receive his 2 year degree along with everything else. I finally got Smart and Jim and I got the latest, SMART phones, so I dont have photos yet to add to mu blog. as I dont know how to do them down load them yet.
Peter got bit by a tick and is in the hospital with, they think, Lime disease, so I have been spending extra time helping over there,
Jim continues to work on the bathroom, which is looking more and more like it should be finished by,,,,,fathers day?

birthdays and kittens

We have a new kitten, whose name was voted on by the grandkids, Oreo, but I like Velcro because she sticks to me like..well, you get the idea. We have had two birthdays with our cute granddaughters Nattie and Kallie. At Nattie, now 10 years old, we played Mafia and at Kallies, we played at their house with puzzles, animals and balls. Both girls are beautiful and fun in their own ways. Nattie loves bling bling and having a good time. Kallie, now 3, loves to do puzzles with grandma. She also loves Mickey and Cinderella. It has been the greatest blessing for me to get to know these girls. For this reason. living in the snow is alot easier. I am happy that I can share my love with them

Built of the Rock in Remond Washington

There were many youth performing in the musical Built on the Rock. Megan got to dance in the Waters of Mormon scene, The spirit was there and on top of seeing all these youth I got to play with the grandkids, Cade, and Emily and attend a baptism. It was a long but fulfilling 6 days. I returned Mothers Day to Jim working hard at serving her in Orem while I was gone. He is redoing the bathroom and helping Derek make a storage area for his camper

Service with a Smile

This week had the usual- mission work on Monday and Tuesday and serving the grandchildren in anyway that is needed, but on top of all the normal stuff, I was lucky to serve atBYU Women's Conference. I was stationed at the Smith Field House, a building I know. When I started at BYU  we  would go the "pull cards" to get the classes we needed at that buidling. It was also the P.E. department12. My freshman year, at the very first Forum ( We had Forum and Devotional classes that were each Tuesday and Thursday mornings ),  I performed in the Smith Field-house. What dance did I do? I cant remember, there were so many. But, what I do remember, that morning while eating an apple and ironing my costume I fell and cut the side of my eye and had to go on stage with a very large gauze over my face. I still have the scare.
What do I remember of Womens' conference this year? I wont forget the opportunity I had to share my love of BYU and the gospel to a young father and post graduated student from Moscow. I prayed for  MISSIONARY opportunity and even had one that day that I stood all day helping the sisters find their way.

personal strength through the Atonement

I gave the RS lesson last week on Elder Scotts recent talk on the Atonement, At first, I thought, great I am physically strong. I am great for this lesson,but that didnt last long. After reading Elder Hollands paper on what the Atonement was I was indeed humbled and then even more so when I could tell that I was getting the flu (which I havent had for a few years) I learned what earnestly praying for strength was as I tried  to pull myself out of the bed to do my last preparation, and there on good old facebook was a story from Steph Weideman Johnson about sacrifice/donuts/seminary.
 So I presented a lesson with alot of help from the sisters/prayer/preparation and OUR SAVOIR

RASMUS LUND reunion in Midway with 3 cousins David and Lorin

The RASMUS HANSEN LUND scrolls. We are lucky to have found each other through working at the Family Search files and the Puzilla cousin spider web found on Family Search, David Lund responded to my email and facebook and through him we went to Lorin Lunds home in Midway. Here we had a great visit and shared our Lund family stories and got to see the scrolls from our great grand father Rasmus, my father Gordon, his father Djalmar's father. I am excited to get more info and have more visits,  The day started with Jim working hard on our handicapped bathroom... Lucky me

A visit from Divonne Fr with Colette

Colette came to see her son graduate from his masters from BYU, We had a good visit finding out that many of our YSA from Switzerland are now married and living in Ferney Voltaire and even have started their families. We feel so blessed to be apart of their lifes, We also got to show her around Temple Square, We had fun taking many photos of the beautiful temple and the flowers

Saturday afternoon at Big River

Derek has always talked about his favorite musical so I decided to take all the family (that was here and could go) to see Big River. We had Pizza and snacks before,, but because I had hand surgery 3 days before, I kept it easy--strawberries, yogurt and lemon cake, grapes and pizza. Nik loved the food but he was too young to go. Blake loved getting some vitamin D before a basketball game. We missed Peter and Mabel as they were too young. The music was fun and light. We ended the evening at the first Womens Conference were Nattie and Victoria and even Karissa could go! I love my family and look forward to sharing my love with them

more mini Chatterley trip

Here we are on the St johns River which is the 5 largest in USA. It has gaters and all kinds of birds and we stopped at Manetu (SP?) Blue Springs to see the creatures that must live in 72 degree water, which sailors at one kind called Mermaids, they must have been pretty lonely because they are pretty ugly. St Patricks day was celebrated in the green rain shopping. He next  day we drove and stopped at a Georgia Peach roadside. We arrived in Hilton Head and rented bikes. Friday we drove to Savannah and stood in line for 2 hours to eat at Aunt Wilkes Boarding house and walked around downtown Savannah,, We had a lovely visit. It would be great to serve a mission in Savannah, it has alot of spirit