Wonderful Annie and Bruce!

My sister Annie at her awesome cabin in the redwoods and Annie, husband Bruce and I at the ocean near her home.

I traveled to Trinidad, CA last week to visit with Annie and Bruce. Boy, did we have a great time...visits to the ocean, short walks, ipod lessons, girls talk, sharing photos and music, shopping and eating great food...Thanks you guys, it was wonderful!

Loving those Redheads!

Headed for Nate and Ashley's on Tuesday and have been loving the time with these 2 cute little redheaded granddaughters here...boy are they growing! Got to go to Paige's preschool this morning and have a teaparty with her...she was a great little hostess serving punch and cookies in beautiful little china cups and dishes- boy, for a 3 year old, she did a great job pouring the punch too!

Bryan's had a couple of calls and now appts. to see his house so all has been left tidy and ready. Hopefully all will go well. I will leave tomorrow for a drive down to CA to visit my sister Annie and her husband Bruce for a few days before heading out for Utah and another visit to the jameson jungle. Hopefully the roads will be clear and the traveling easy...a couple of long days of driving ahead in the next week...

Can you believe it???

The painting is finished on my house!!!

It has been a busy 9 months in my life but I will put it into one quick blog and go on. Had some trouble remembering how to get on to new posts but I'm back with the program now. Loved my time in the states with family last time...returned to Sweden and kept busy with friends, church and my house...and loving my granddaughter Zoe and her great folks! Good news...Eimi is expecting again in about 10 days...I was able to get the outside of my house painted, garage door replaced and some yard work done. I also got my upstairs bathroom installed- love it!

Just had to steal this one from your blog Eimi!!!

Came back to the US mid Nov and planned to stay until mid January of this year...kids had a different plan...family reunion in March at Nathan's house so I will be gone about 4 months this time (so sorry my dear Relief Society presidency sisters...I WILL come back and help!!!) Since I have been here this time I have spent some time with Nate, Ashley and their two beautiful redhead daughters, some time with Bryan, Mandy and their 3...Bryce is only a few inches shorter than me at 10 years old, Ashlyn is 6.5 and is full of energy and Lily is 9 months and cute as a bug (once she got used to me and quit screaming every time I got near ;-). Drove with N&A and fam to Utah for Thanksgiving with Scott and family and I stayed on with them for a while. Flew to San Diego area to spend about 10 days with Aaron and got to enjoy his new house...it's beautiful and we got to get some things up on the walls, etc. By the way, he just came in second in a motorcycle race and won his first money as a motorcycle racer last weekend...Go Aaron!!!

Back to Utah for Christmas, then on to Bryan and Mandy's again Christmas night to help them out. Low and behold, they had been offered a job at BYU Hawaii and he had to move and be to work Feb. 1st! Have spent these last few weeks helping out with kids, etc. as they sorted...packed...had the movers come in,out and then they headed off for Hawaii.


Got the house ready for sale, had an open house yesterday and look to going down to N&A's again probably Tues. WOW! If anyone knows of someone looking for a wonderful dream house on a lake in WA, have we got one for you! Check it out: www.1337RoyRoad.com

Anyway, that's my life for the last 8 or 9 months in one blog...time to slow down a bit now and I'll write more often! Hopefully!!