We had Jeanne's memorial on Aug 13, 2011. All of her siblings were able to come except Lyn, who was in the hospital with problems from his hip surgery and Phil who is on a mission with Jane, in CA. We were happy to have Monica there to represent his family. Jeanne's remains are buried between her stone and Mom and Dad's stone. It was a nice afternoon to be together and honor Jeanne's life. She was a super person and we all miss her sweet spirit, but we know she has moved on to greater things. (I am posting this earlier than what it really was so it can be next to my memories of Jeanne)

For Jeanne

As I have gone through the pictures that I wanted to put on this blog I found that most of them were of Jeanne with me or with the family. That is the way Jeanne was--she was a people person and all that knew her loved her and she loved them. She always knew just what to say to help someone with their problems and how to make them feel that they were important. Her and Billy thought that they might come into some money and the only thing they ever talked about doing with that money is what they could do for those who needed it more than they did. I never heard her, even one time, say that they were going to spend any of it on themselves, except that she would buy a ticket to fly home to Utah. She would do anything for anyone and she did a lot to help others. Jeanne loved life and just enjoyed being here doing the things that she did. She did love playing the piano, trouble-shooting the computer, working in her yard, traveling in her motor home, taking her cats for walks, visiting with people, doing Swedish Weave, organizing things, and just relaxing in her back yard watching the squirrels and birds. We will all miss Jeanne and her example of love and her joy of life. I have been so blessed to have been "womb mates" with her and to have shared 61 years having her as my best friend. I know that she is in a much better place and I am so grateful for the gospel to know that we will be able to hold hands again and share our secrets with each other. She has been a great sister all of our lives and I will miss her terribly. Farewell for now my sweet sister, until we meet again. (The pictures are in no particular order, just put in randomly).

What a fun Christmas this year. We started off on Christmas Eve and went to Jeri and Lee's for their traditional Christmas Eve dinner. It is always fun to go and spend that time with them and besides that they always have really good food and played some Canasta. Christmas morning we got up and went to Lorrie and Scott's and watched them open their presents. After that we had Scott's yummy omeletts and Lorrie's yummy caramel pull aparts. They got a wii this year and so we played some games with them on the wii. We left there and went to Jamie and Eric's and played one of their new wii games and ate some of Jamies yummy coffee cake. After Jamie and Eric's we left and went to Jon and Gingers and had a yummy dinner with them and had a good time visiting with them. For Christmas this year the kids gave us a beautiful picture of the Logan temple (it is the temple Gary and I were married in) and they also gave us a book that Ginger had made with pictures from the whole family. They were both beautiful. We talked to our families in Hawii and Georgia and found them well and happy. We spent part of Christmas Eve day with Ro and Larry and Beth and Randi. Talked to Thelma and Helen on Christmas day and found them well also. Thelma has just received her mission call to Paris France Youth Center and leaves Mar. 21. Many blessings of family and friends this whole year. We love you all!

Winter Beauty

I thought we were going to have a brown Christmas here in Spanish Fork. It would snow and then it would rain and the snow would be gone. However, it started to snow on Mon. and kept snowing. We had the driveway cleared out Monday night when we went to bed and when I got up Tues. morning there was 10" of snow in our driveway. It was wet, heavy snow. I went out to shovel and would never have gotten it done except for 3 wonderful neighbor boys that came over and helped me out. Bryce Elhert, and 2 of the Baum boys came over. I was so grateful to them. I love the beauty of the earth when everything is covered in white. I had to take some pictures of our yard so I could remember how beautiful everything was.
It looked like a "Winter Wonderland"



This is between us and the Newmans with their lights on their trees.

Shane cleaning his truck off

I don't think Caddy liked the snow too much. It was soo deep she couldn't even leave the deck.