December

December was a busy month. It started out with a bang with Malia and Jayson Jaquish getting married! December 1st in the Payson temple.  It was a cold, but beautiful day.  They were married at 11 a.m.  We then took family pictures.
At 2:30 we were seated for the ring ceremony which began at 3 p.m.  David's dad, Mike Brady, officiated at the ring ceremony.

After the ring ceremony we had the wedding lunch at 3:30.  After the lunch we went to Mom's to wait until the reception at 6:30 p.m.

In December we had some snow.  There Jacob is playing at a friend's house.

Jaxon and Alex Nef with Jacob sledding

I was going through some old things and found this newspaper article from January 1971...my first grade year.  This was Joy, Me, Wendy Roberts and Linda Ferrari riding the bus.











We had our annual friends Christmas party at Chris Sorensen's house.

Front: Tina Ackerman, Steve Smith, Lori Harward, Tori Potestio, Chris Sorensen
Middle: Brenda Reese, Sherry Jones, Me, Elroy Vogler
Back: Paul Sorensen, Lloyd Jomes, Clark White

In December Jacob sang in Sacrament meeting with a small group of kids.  They did pretty well.  Mom and Erin came to hear them and stayed for dinner.

We decorated Ginger bread houses at Jared and Stephanie's.

Lego's at the library

Jacob's class had the chance to see 1 act of the Nutcracker ballet.  I was able to go with him to to see it.  So fun!  At least for me.  I think ballerinas are so graceful!

On Sunday, the 20th Roy and Vina, Jason's Aunt and Uncle from Hawaii came to spend Christmas with the family. They didn't stay with any of us, but rather in a hotel nearby.

They brought their son Corey, his wife Erin and their triplets.  Autumn, Tasha and Mia.  They are 6 and have a ton of energy!

Jason, Jared, Stephanie, Robbie, Dan, Emma, Abby,
Lilly and Autumn

Sunday dinner was at our house.

Jacob, Mia, Tasha, Randy, Irina and Stephen

Irina, Josh, Karen, Aunt Vina, Randy, Jared

MarySue, Jenny, Jacob, Stephen

Corey, Uncle Roy, Erin

Kids playing in the basement

Abby not sure what to do with all the commotion

Corey, Erin, Emma, Randy, Irina, MarySue, Linde, Stephanie, Lilly, Abby, Jacob, Jenny
Back: Josh, Jason, Jared, Roy, Karen, Robbie

Monday Josh and Irina took them to Big Springs to sled.

Monday night we had dinner at Randy's and then we went home and had Christmas Eve.  I had made Jason and Jacob sleep pants for Christmas and Jared made a t-shirt to go with it for Jacob.

Santa came!!

New bike pump

Flip camera and slippers from Gr. Safsten

Gaming headphones

After opening our gifts we went to Randy's where Santa (Karen) had left stockings for everyone.  She did such a fantastic job on all of them!!

Everyone wearing their Hawaii t-shirts from Roy and Vina.

Playing games

Irina brought some games and one had you using a slinky attached to a belt on both ends.  People wear the belt and try to move a CD disk from one end to the other. It is funny!

Here Jacob is enjoying his new pillow and headphones.  The day after Christmas Roy, Vina and crew went to Thanksgiving Point with Jared and Stephanie.  We went to the church for a Nerf gun war.

Wednesday night we had an anniversary party for Roy and Vina.  Played the Newlywed Game and Karen had made a picture frame for them.

Newlywed Game

Thursday morning we went with Catheys and Browns to Airborne to jump.

Thursday afternoon Josh, Irina, their kids, Jason, Jacob, Roy, Corey and his family went up to Alta to ski.  Had a good time, but when they were ready to go the road was closed temporarily.  So they were at the lodge for a while.  We were going to have a family dinner that night, but it ended up that some of us were at Randy's waiting while the skiers were stuck at the lodge.  

Funny thing is Irina had the crock pot with rice in her car (that she was going to bring to the dinner.  So instead they ate that while waiting to come down the mountain.

Friday we took them to Temple Square.  It was cold and not so sure how interested they were in it.  Roy and Vina had seen it before, so they didn't have questions, but Erin was curious.

Saturday morning we all met at Randy's, had breakfast and then they left.  It was great to see them.  They are so nice!!

Monday we were going to have a New Year's Eve party and Ahyou's church, but they were sick.  Instead we did ice skating in the afternoon.

Jacob showing Christian his game

Since our original plans fell through we went to Elizabeth's house and played games with them.

On to 2019!

November

The first Sunday in November was Hannah's blessing day.  Everyone was there and she looked darling!

Our Master bathroom toilet has had a small crack in it for a couple of years.  We decided to change it before it became a problem.  Jacob helped.

After the toilet was removed Jacob and Gabe got to smash it.  Lesson learned for Jason...a plastic drop cloth doesn't cut it with a bunch of broken ceramic pieces.  They cut right through the plastic as you are trying to lift the mess into the garbage. 

Funtopia again.  Jacob decided to jump and was glad he did!

 Chris and family came for Thanksgiving.  We had dinner with them and Mom.  Joy had her family over and Heidi had her family at her house.  We all then went to Heidi's for dessert.  We're getting so big it is difficult to fit in one place.









Thanksgiving night Garrett came and slept over with Jacob.  He loved it.  They did it about 5 years ago.

June 2013  Jacob - 5 yr. Garrett - 11 yr.

November 2018 Jacob - 10 yr. Garret - 15 yr. 

Jacob received his Arrow of Light award.  It was really cool.  I need to see if I can find more pictures from other people since I was up in front as he received the award.

 Jason went to career day at school and explained what he did at work.  Afterward Jacob graduated from D.A.R.E.

 Chris and family went home after Thanksgiving and Chris came back a week later for Malia's wedding.

David and Heidi had a beautiful dinner at their house the night before so everyone could get to know each other.

October

 October begin with General Conference.  Changes have been happening at Conference!  At this one President Nelson announced  that the church block on Sunday would change from 3 hours to 2 hours.
Sacrament meeting would be 1 hour, a 10 minute break to move to classes and then 50 minutes of: primary (5 min. opening, 20 min singing, switch and 20 minute lesson), or 1st and 3rd Sunday--Sunday School and 2nd and 4th Sundays, Relief Society, Priesthood, YM/YW.
I remember back in 1979 when we were building the new Redwood City building we moved to the 3 hour block and can remember people wondering how to keep kids attention for the 2 hour block!  :)
Previous to that we had gone to church all day.  Dad would go to Priesthood meeting, come home and we'd all go to Sunday School and Jr. Sunday School, come home, eat lunch and then go back in the evening for an hour and a half Sacrament meeting around 5:30.  My how things are changing.

 The change is to encourage a home centered, church supported Gospel study.












MarySue's mom has a huge apple tree in her backyard and lets us come pick apples every year .  This year we went over and got quite a few.  Norma (MarySue's mom) was there, but stayed inside as her health wasn't good.
It turned out that this year would be our last as Norma passed away in November.
She has always been in good health, but began to fall down towards the end of October.  MarySue brought her home and began to take care of her until she passed away.  She was a very nice lady!

 We continued our tradition of going to Gardner Village with Terri Hodgen and Debbie Kirby and kids.

 Jacob and his friend Carter were able to ride the back roads to get a treat at Pirate O's.
I remember years ago, before I moved to Draper....whenever I would drive down here and see Pirate O's I always thought it was a bar!  :)
Actually it is a specialty food store.

 We had a change in October to go to Funtopia with Catheys and Browns.  Had fun there!!

I have been taking a quilt class with my friend Andrea.  I finally decided to put last years quilt squares together for a lap blanket.  Here is the result of the blocks sewn together.  I still need to put a boarder etc. on it. 

 We went to STEM Fest with Conner and Gabe.

On Wednesdays Jacob and his friends have film crew after school.  They are always wanting to play together so we decided to have a playgroup each week.  Here they are at our house using Play-Doh. 

Fun at Classic Skating during a school break

Halloween parade

Halloween....had the class party and I helped again.  Here Jacob is at one of the stations.

 Jared and Stephanie invited us over to a cake decorating contest.  It was fun!

All of our cakes

I've always thought it would be interesting to stand beside a stop light to show just how big it actually is!

















Instead of a Pinewood Derby, this year they did a rocket derby.  Jason was out of town, but helped Jacob build it. Then Randy came to help us make sure it flew!

 Jason brings cups to work.  Jacob saw this on the counter and added a note to it.  Such a funny kid!