Dear Family,

We are currently being blown away! I cannot remember when we have had so much snow and so much wind. Much like the old fashioned Monticello snow storms. I guess it was like this 11 years ago. We will be happy to have water nest summer! We do hope that the front porch in Bluff ( which is under reconstructon) is still standing!

We are watching the Jazz and San Antonio. Tilly and Laila each have a TV to watch, (it keeps them from fussing with each other).

I think that Karl, Ben and Wendy will go to Grand Junction tomorrow to pick up more supplies. This storm should move on and then perhaps the roads will be passible.

My old Bernina is still in Bluff from our sewing project, so I haven't worked on anything very exciting. I took my quilt materials down there, but then we came home and I didn't bring anything back home with me. I should come up with a cute design to embroidery for quilt blocks, but I haven't put my head together on that yet. I need to go to Christiansen Wholesale and buy a whole bolt of fabric to make blocks out of, but I haven't get there yet. Perhaps one of these days I'll go on a shopping spree for fabric! I plan to go to Grand Junction when the weather is better to get material for blinds, and cushion covers for the Bluff house.

We look forward to being able to come to Price to see Stacy's new bedroom set and the work being done in her house and the work being done in Kassies too.

Talk to you later. Love to all. Mom

Hey!!

Wow, it is so NICE to read something written on this blog by someone other than me.

Thanks, Mom and Wendy.

Nothing fantastic taking place in our world except I'm starting to feel stretched a bit thin again. (Wish that were literally stretched thin!) Ford's basketball games start this week and he has two games a week, some as far away at North Salt Lake. Ugh!! And we still only have one working vehicle. Still borrowing Grandma's little truck.....BLASTED DURANGO!

Wendy-that's so cool that Denice is getting married again. I hope it will be a good thing for her and her kids. I hope it will erase some of the pain and trauma they've had in their lives.
Good luck with all you're doing. I hope you can get the house finished enough to move into....

Well, better run, I'm trying to get to bed by 10:00 tonight. Got to get myself on a better schedule. Good night!

Hello...it's time for my quarterly update!! Ha ha...

..well, how is everyone? It seems like I have disappeared for the last few months! Thanks Kass for the fun calendar! That is a really creative and useful way to have a calendar. Thanks Karla for the photo album....i filled it with my recipes and it works great! I love it.
I have been busy painting, and running home to wash out my brush and roller, and painting, and running home to wash out my brush and roller, and painting....and you get the idea! The girls room is finished except the little bit of touch-up that I will do last! It is extremely bright and lively in their room...but I am excited about the way it turned out. Today I painted my bathroom, the hallway, kitchen, and a few other misc. areas...kinda a random order but it is using my more expensive paint that is more 'kid-friendly' in the high traffic areas! It is nice to have that much done...we are moving out of our rental at the end of this month....I don't know if we will move into our house or mom and dads...or the crane's! FUN hu! By monday we should be able to tile the girls shower....every project has so many layers to it! Anyway, we are alive still and I do check in to see how you are all doing periodically. I will be coming up north for Denice's wedding the weekend of the 25th...so maybe I can drop in and see Stacy and Kass. Talk to ya'll soon. Love Wendy

happy new year to all

Hi everyone, I guess it is time to start a new year and send everyone a message, at least once a week. It is good to know everyone had a good Christmas and that you are off to a good start for the New Year. I did not make any resolutions so I don't have to worry about breaking them. I would like to make a few improvements as I go along, but I am not publishing any of them! We'll just see how things go as we go along.

I will be going to Bluff Monday afternoon, and staying until Saturday. I need to work on the sewing project and it isn't getting done too fast here. I then plan to go back the next week as well. That week-end is the Balloon festival. 18-20th. Dad is planning to take the mules down on Monday also, so he will be able to keep his chores done. I hope that some of the days will be warm enough that he can go for a ride. We plan to get enough more angle iron to brace up the fence posts that have rotted off. We did two last week and it will work really well.

We are going to Cortez on Saturday to get angle iron, have documents framed, visit wally world and eat out for my b-day. We thought RL could put the new radiant heater in the apartment this Saturday, but He can't do it until next week-end. I hope that this will fix the heating system in the apartment really good. It will also make it easy to add heat to the tack shed if we need to.

Well, Liz and I need to go put Martha Johnson's wood inside her trailer. She is on oxygen now and it is really hard for her to do it after work, when it is dark and cold, so we do it every other day or so. Also need to take our new RS book to Ruth and Jimi Jean. I'll check in on all of you later. Love Mom

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Hope it's a good one for you all!

Love ya,

Kas