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Time Capsule

Just for today...
Steven's in El Salvador, Kerry's on the golf course, Emily's in the other room, Thomas and Adam are in Utah, Veronica's in Kentucky, and Marisa is in Cincinnati.
Just for today...
I went on a bike ride around Rose Pond, got lunch at Rupe's for Emily & I, and I'm washing some sheets and pillowcases for the Scharf's and Thomas & Caley to arrive tonight.  I've also been switching sprinklers around the yard all day.  The mailbox had the usual bills and ads, and a card from one of our children thanking us for being good parents.
Just for today...
I am a grandma to one perfect granddaughter, a mother in law to 3 of the best people I could have ever hoped for my children to marry, a wife of 32 years, a great aunt to 8, and 3 out of 4 of our parents are living.  I have never seen the Atlantic Ocean.
I haven't been to Canada for 32 years.
I have run 7 marathons and one half-marathon.
I played drawing games and word games with Veronica and Adam.  Just like when they were little, except there weren't smart phones, just smart kids.
Just for today, Friday the 13th, that's how it's going so far.  Tomorrow, will be almost the same.
10 years ago we were just finishing up our Martin's Cove Trek and getting ready for Adam to come home from his mission.
10 years from now...Kerry and I will be in our 60's and I will have more than one perfect granddaughter, and that's all I know for sure.

Photo Of The Day

We found some photos that probably haven't been viewed for 20 years or more. 

I can't figure out where this was exactly, maybe near the apartments we lived in on 1600 West in Provo when Adam was not quite a year old.

I like it because I'm laughing, and it reminds me of how much fun it was to have a baby even though we were young, broke, college students living in an apartment in West Provo.

And, I was still skinny enough to wear that dress I wore the day I got married.

Hey Steven

Long before Taylor Swift wrote a song for Steven, there was this one.

He's the fifth child of a fifth child, so that's got to be lucky, right?

Lucky for me.

Twelve Parks of Christmas

Christmas 2011

This one isn't awkward, it's perfect!  Perfect attendance at Christmas this year.  Finishing out 2011 with the 11 people I love most in the world.  Today we put five of those people on airplanes and I miss them, and the boy who will be leaving shortly on a mission for 2 years I will miss, and the couple who will be moving to Colorado next month will also be missed, as is the one who lives in Utah all the time.  Thanks everyone for coming home and filling it up with joy and laughter and love.

Eleven Eleven Eleven (Pipers Piping)

A very snowy outdoor live nativity 2008

So sad that baby Cora and her weary parents did not make it here tonight, but glad we will see them tomorrow and hope they can get some sleep tonight.  I was looking forward to holding the baby while they got to sleep a little longer than they've been able to lately.  In the other room, kids are playing card games while that little girl sings the song from Polar Express about Christmas coming to town.  There's a pack 'n play set up in Emily's room, all ready to go.

Ten of Twelve

Santa 1984 - 1st Christmas,
 Motola home, Murray, Utah

It's hard for me to separate Dad and Santa in my memory, Santa has always been my Dad.  Or in this case, Veronica's grandpa.