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Monday, February 6, 2017

Grandpa Tingey

We went over to see grandpa Tingey last Friday before heading down to St George. Lots of family were flying in because he told Sara that he wouldn't be around for much longer.

I think he was much better than Sara thought. I asked him how he was doing. He said he was in pain but "they all think I'm dying!"

I asked if he was afraid to die and he said, "I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be here when it happens!"

The World Mark lady shows up at the door hoping to get us to a breakfast pitch the next morning. She's got a pan of hot cookies to close the deal. Then she asks, "and remember you get an extra 2000 points for coming to the owner presentation." Thad chimes in like he normally does with a sly face and words way beyond his years, "It's gonna take more than 2000."

Fam trip to St George

These two crack me up. In fact these 3 are a wild inseparable combo when we get together

They are a funny little trio

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Christmas 2016

Another amazing, spiritual,beautiful & exhausting holiday in the books!

We had a personal visit from Santa!

Jude was terrified at first & ran into the kitchen.He warmed up a bit.

He even tried to share w Santa

Golden Star came again this year to visit. One of our favorite mornings was to see his mad Etch a Sketch skills!

Christmas Eve--the ONLY time the entire season at the mall--to see the train for Jude who's obsessed & say hi to Tayah while she worked.

Another memorable moment was being able to see our old, sweet neighbor Brother Lee Foster who moved into Treeo shortly before his wife passed away. He's an amazing man who has a light in his eyes.

We made one of our favorite treks down to Provo to see Grandpa Tingey, eat & sing with family. It was raining on the way their & while driving back, it has just started to turn to snow. Keat really wanted a white Christmas & he certainly got one Christmas morning!

Christmas was on a Sun this year--my favorite! We were able to go with Kara & Marty's family to Sacrament before we headed over to Grandma & Grandpa's.

JoD made her awesome blankets for all the cousins

The boys played in the snow for hours with their cousins. Poor Grandpa was sick & was in exile upstairs.

We then made the trek down to Jas & Kristina's. It was slick & we were going slower around 50/55. Jas was in the carpool lane, but the snow was getting packed so he tried to cross over to the next lane & another car was doing the same. We started fish tailing & jas had to correct like 5 times. We almost hit the railing multiple times. I said a prayer vocally while it was happening. It was one of the scariest moments. Jas was calm and able to correct the van. I know we were blessed & Heavenly Father answered our prayers. It shook me to the core. It certainly changes your perspective & reminds you how fragile life can be.

After a delicious meal thanks to Kristina, Nana read a story to us.

We drove home tired & grateful for not only all our blessings, but to also be alive.

Dec. 26 was a much needed down time after a 13 hour Christmas away from home. The boys had a blast playing with their awesome remote control cars that Santa brought!

T & I put together his Trio castle--quite a feat!

Grandpa Scott & Grandma Rita came into town & we were busy from Salt Lake Eve to dinners, playing games & sledding!

Hilarious game!

Grandpa Scott joined in the wrestle mania!

We ended the Season exhausted & unfortunatly sick. Now here's to 2017 looking forward with our dreams and faith.

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Jude's diggers

Jude ate it big atleast 4 times yesterday! The first may have been my fault. He kept begging me to help him do those backflips. He must have got dizzy because he planted his face in the stairs.

He took a decent spill in the kitchen with Thad. Then in a few seconds started climbing again.

Delivering Christmas presents he literally fell off of the Gentrys front porch and hit his head on their house on the way down.

Then to close out the day he fell from the top of the bunk bed. Luckily he got wedged between the wall and the bed before hitting the ground. Unluckily, he hit his jaw on the bed board and put his tooth through his tongue. He was in loads of pain and was bleeding biggly. Still, 5 minutes later he was climbing that ridiculous bed again. This snowman was the only way Jude would show his tongue to us.