Month of Love and I Mean LOVE!

Tera finally snagged the man of her dreams! Thanks Brendan for making her so happy and being a great Dad to Tenlee. They were married on Feb 18th. It was a beautiful wedding with Tenlee leading the way, carrying the rings, and stopping to smile at the photographer every few feet. Then came Tera with Frank and Terry both walking her down. It was very important to Terry to have this honor. After the beautiful ceremony, performed by Brendan's uncle, we then had a delicious Chinese Haystack dinner, followed by the reception. They had a nice turn out with several of Tera's old high school buddies attending.

Thank heavens for Valene as she took charge of serving the refreshments - Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae's. Theresa did a beautiful job on the invitations and on the slide show for the reception.

Darling, cute little Maci J had to let everyone know she was important as well, so she pee'd all over my lap during the dinner! Frank just told people that I forgot wear my Depends! Luckily, my dress was a silky print so you couldn't see it.

The next morning we met the newlyweds at Smitty's for breakfast. That is where Frank and I had our first breakfast, nearly 44 years ago! They then went to Southern California for a honeymoon, staying on the Queen Mary! It sounds like they had a lot of fun. She called me every day, it wasn't me calling her.....

The Month of Love - February - Part One

Even though it was a short month, it was packed full of events.

First came Super Bowl Sunday on the 6th. Yes, we did go to Church! Priorities, right? We didn't have much of crowd for Super Bowl but we loved the company we did have. Theresa, Rich and Maci joined us for the afternoon but left shortly after the game started to go his mom's house for a Family Home Evening. Tera, Brendan (the only Steeler's fan in the group) and Tenlee were here and the we were joined by our good friends (and my co-worker) John & Peggy Taylor and her mom. Everyone was rooting for the Packers to win and they did! Yes, we ate way too much but that's the best part of watching the game. Again, priorities!

We then enjoyed Family Home Evening at Dad and Merlene's houseon the 7th. Merlene fixed a great supper for us all and then Dad gave a lesson based on the experiences of Larry H Miller, owner of the Jazz team, and his conversion and belief in paying tithing. Excellent reminder for us all.

Ashtyn Sophie Garrett

Jana designed this card. Her father-in-law, John, took the pictures.

Love it! Good job Jana and John.

January and I Already Blew It!

My New Years resolution is to update my blog at least once a month. So far, I'm doing terrible. It's already Febuary! But, this post is going to be for January 2011 and I WILL post again this month!

We started our New Year off with Jana and Dave and our new little granddaughter, Ashtyn Sophie. She is named after my grandma, Sophie Neisess. Ashtyn was born Dec 2 and we didn't get to see her until Christmas Day! That was awful...

Ashtyn is such a little sweetheart. We spent nine days with Jana and Dave for the holidays. Ashtyn was blessed on Dec 26th. Jana chose to have her wear her own blessing dress. What a special thing to do and the dress is still beautiful. It was made by my good friend and one-time drapery business partner, Lynn Francis, while we lived in Alberta.

Jana and Dave are going to be wonderful parents. Dave is a "hands-on" dad and doesn't even mind changing dirty diapers!

While we were in Texas we visited the NASA Space Center. It is such an interesting place I hope we go back again and spend more time. We also spent a day at a huge flea market that had close to 1000 vendors! They sold everything you could imagine, new and old stuff.

Frank had knee surgery on October 27th to replace his ACL and do something about his huge menisus tears. He has done really well. During his down time he has been working on our Freelife and TAIslim business. We attended the Las Vegas Success School on Jan 14th - the 16th. It was a great time other than the six hours spent in the Twin Falls airport. Our plane blew a tire and they finally brought another one in from Washington so we didn't get into Vegas until 3:00 am! Bryan and Ali received a lot of awards and recognition for their accomplishments with Freelife. They are top qualifiers for the trip to Alaska in June.

As a family, we have started having Family Home Evning once a month. We rotate from family to family where we go and the host family provides dinner and the lesson. This month we went to Layne and Val's for a terrific evening.

On Sunday the 23rd we took Rich's mom, Glenna, to Rexburg where we had dinner with Sam and Kendra Angel (Richs nephew) and then went Jake's Eagle Court of Honor. Jake is Richs youngest son. It was a nice evening and Rich did a wonderful job speaking. He is a natural speaker.

Theresa is so happy with Rich and her beautiful little Maci Jeannette. What a special little girl in our family. She has far exceeded our expectations! she really loves grandpa Frank and he has even babysat her.

On the 29th was Karlee's birthday. Zak, Tanner, Karlee and Brandi came over for Sunday dinner on the 30th. We played a couple of games and Yahtzee and had a nice time. It's hard to believe that Karlee is ten years old already! She is such a good little girl and so easy to be around.