The 29th on the 29th.

Last Saturday was our 29th Anniversary making it a special one because it was our 29th on January 29th!!! Pretty cool. Les and I were reminiscing at dinner about that day 29 years ago. It was a cold snowy day but such a great day as we celebrated it with our family and friends. I remember that Les was so scared...well can you blame him?!? Here he was taking on a built in family of 4 kids never having had any children of his own. It was little scary for me as well after having had a pretty dysfunctional first marriage. But we took the plunge and here we are 29 years later. I said to Les, "well would you do it again knowing what you know now?" And his answer was, "ABSOLUTELY!" Smart Man!!! And I feel the same way. We've weathered some storms, raised 3 kids, Doug doesn't could because he was pretty much raised. And have 16 grand kids and 5 great grand kids to show for it. And who knows what lies a head of us. Hopefully lots of good things. The family...Doug and his 1st wife Lisa, Les and I, Rodney, Jeramy and Ashlyn. Now it's Doug who has the mustache and beard as well and Les is clean shaven. Rod and Family aren't in this photo:-(

Rod, Raquel and boys, not a recent photo but this is one of my favorite photos of their family.

Oh no I have nothing to do...Spit in your shoe and watch it come through

I know your all saying, "What is that all about? Where did that come from?" It was a saying that Les's Grandmother Kiki use to say to them when they were kids. This time of the year really starts to get to me. I don't like the cold. I don't like going out in it, I don't like driving in it. I don't like the inversion. The first of the year, my new years resolution was to be more positive, "Come what may and love it." That's from one of Elder Wirthlin's last talks." I can already see that this is a challenge with me. That doesn't mean if the sun shines I'll love life, if I have a fun friend to go visit or do something with I'll be happy, it really means come what may and love it. I'm not one of those people that I've seen on Oprahs new Channel OWN that wakes up curious and knowing where they're going in life. I have got to change that...if I can figure out how.

I should have stayed in bed!!!

Yes, that is my new car that we've only had for 4 months, and NO, IT WAS NOT MY FAULT Thank goodness!!! I was driving down the road minding my own business, on my way over to help take Mom's Christmas tree down when a lady who had pulled over to the side of the road decided to do a good deed. She saw a man walking with a gas can in his hand and because it was so cold she and her mother decided to see if he needed a ride. She looked in her side mirror and didn't see anything...I must have been in her blind spot. She swung around clipping the right rear side of my car. I could have cried. When Ashlyn, the girls and I went to see David Archuleta at Christmas time a rock hit the windshield and made a chip that I had to repair and now this. I was thinking do I have a target painted on my car. Some days it would pay to just stay in bed.