Monday, February 28, 2011

I am sorry it has taken me about a year to make another post on here. I am going to try and do better. I am trying to get rid of my worry that I will hit a wrong key on the computer and blow up the world. I am not as comfortable on the internet as my daughters who write everyday and are experts in the field. In fact, Mie has a degree in computer science and Lari has done it at work so she is really good. I don't know how ofte Sabrina writes anything but she is probably very adept, also.
This past several months have been fun, what with BYU doing so well in football and now they are very good in basketball, too. As you know, we go to all of the home football and basketball games and that is about our extent of entertainment. Jerry does not like to go to the movies and I do but there is no one to go with most of the time. Jerry's sister, Della, and I made a deal that we were going to start going to all the movies we wanted to see together and we went to see "Blindside" last winter. Before we got to go again, she passed away unexpectedly and I am again without anyone to go to the movies with. (never end a sentence with a preposition, sorry.)
Troy and Marie bought a new house on the west side of Salt Lake in a beautiful neighborhood and I love the house. I guess they do, too.
I am still writing the news articles about the city council meetings and my column for Calvin's paper. It is fun and I have done it so long that it is not difficult. The biggest problem I have is my hearing which is not good. The microphones at the meetings do not work well but the city officials are good to let me talk to them afterward to be sure I have everything down right.
Strawberry Days meetings have started up and we meet the last Monday of each month until June to make sure we are all doing our jobs and to get caught up on all the plans. There is great concern about how to stop people from taking too many cups of strawberries at the concert in the park. No matter what new efforts we make each year, people still take far too many cups than their family needs at the concert. Some take them home and do not even stay for the concert.
One Friday night we went with Kassie to eat at the cafeteria at a business where Jessie works and the food was great and we hope to go again soon.
We hit a big sale at the Provo mall and both Jerry and I got some new togs. I got some tops and several trousers which I needed badly, and so did Jerry. The best things we found were at Dillards and Sears. Their prices were great. As of last Saturday, the sales were still in progress.
My nephew Craig and his wife were sealed in the Ogden LDS Temple recently and we were able to go. It was my first time in the Ogden Temple. We just do not take the time to drive all the way to Ogden to go to the temple. We usually go to the Mt. Timpanogos Temple.
We sure enjoy having the grandkids visit and we have sleepovers for them on occasion. It is a lot of fun and I enjoy having them. That way I have someone to talk to as Jerry very seldom talks unless I ask him a question and then I have to ask it a couple of times before I get his attention. I just finished reading the book on the life of President Thomas Monson and it was wonderful. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Now that the temperatures are warming up I hope to get back to working on my scrapbooks in the basement. It is too cold down there in the winter most of the time to stay very long working at it.
Oh, by the way, we bought a larger screen tv for downstairs and fixed it up so that we can watch movies whether they are on disc or on tape. Before we just had the tape kind and the kids like to watch discs most of the time now.
I am so proud of Sabrina's family. Mike decided to go on a diet and exercise and lose weight. He did it and he looks wonderful. So Sabrina and the kids (except Dallas and Steffie) joined in and everyone looks so great. I don't run anymore. I am not as sure on my feet as I once was and so I like to walk and Jerry and I do it quite often. We mostly do it at the mall where it is warm in the winter. In the summer we do it at the park or at the mall where it is cool.
My visiting teaching partner and I are going out this afternoon to do our teaching. We have tried all month and the last day was the best we could do with our ladies. They made me the compassionate service leader in Relief Society and I have not had to do much til this past weekend when a little gal in our ward had her first baby so I was able to get meals in to them for the whole weekend. The only other meals I have had to worry about I did myself.
If anyone reads this please let me know. I have waited so long to write most everyone may have given up on me.
Please make any comments you would like as I would enjoy that and will respond back.