My Life After 50

Friday, November 14, 2014

My 10 Little Sweethearts 2014

Presley age 5. She loves her little sis, loves the color purple, loves her dog Simon and her family. She has the prettiest long brown hair and gorgeous smile.

I'm the luckiest grandma in the entire world. I truly believe that. I'm so blessed to have 10 grandkids that all have such fun loving, different personalities. I love spending one on one with each of them. I love asking them how school is, what their favorite food, sport, color, etc are so that I can know them even better. I love hearing them call me "Grandma". Best word in our vocabulary.

Brayden age 13. He's our oldest grandchild and holds a special place in our heart. He's a tall drink of water. He's 6' tall already. Size 11 shoe. He's totally into primping and looking good. He loves baseball, basketball and football. He's quite the athlete.

Easton -AKA Little E. He's 5 and has quite the imagination. He loves to tell tall tales. Loves hunting, fishing, trucks and his dogs and mostly loves his daddy. He has the cutest smile.

Look at Adaline..she's 5 and such a cutie. She loves her big brother Colby. She loves her dog Ruby, she loves to help her mom and grandma bake cookies. She's such a smarty pants.

Dax is 10 and is quite the "go getter" No matter how difficult something is, if he wants it he finds a way. He saved his money that he'd earned by working for grandparents, and his parents to buy his first dirt bike. He's such a hard worker and loves to visit grandma and grandpa and is so loving and sensitive.

Oh Hadley...age 3. She loves dress ups, her dolls, her dog Mia and especially her sissy Presley. Hadley is smarter than a whip and so intelligent. Always on the go and can't sit still for very long but boy does she love her sleep. Still loves to take naps.

Colby the lady killer. Look at what a doll. He's 6 yrs old here. He's learning to read, he loves baseball and soccer. He's a great athlete and he loves his little sisters. Grandma loves to tackle him and roll around on the floor with him.

Gentry age 8. She was baptized this year and is such a beautiful young lady. She loves her American Girl doll, and is a good student in school. She loves to go shopping with me. She has the prettiest long blonde hair.

I love this picture. Makinley, age 10 is picking up the dog poop. She's a good sport to do that. She's such a beautiful young lady and it's so fun to see her growing up. She's an artist, loves to sing, loves to read and especially loves to go shopping with me. She loves her American Girl doll too. She's a comforter and helps me when I'm feeling sad.

This beautiful baby is Vivianne and she is our 10th grandbaby. What a joy it is to have her in our family. She's made us very happy and we love her dearly. We sure wish we could live closer to be able to get to know her better. Right now she loves her bottle, her mommy and daddy and Adaline and Colby.

Each of these sweethearts hold a very special place in my heart. I pray they'll all grow up to be good people and always stay close to their parents and to the gospel. Families are eternal and I want to live with them forever.

4th of July 2014

We're ready for the big rodeo

We spent the 4th of July this year with Shana and Jakes family. I had just had shoulder surgery so that's the reason for my arm in a sling. But we went to dinner with them then went to the Rodeo there in Tooele. Becka joined us for the celebration. It was so nice to have her there with us. She misses her mom so much and especially on holidays. We sure had a fun time and loved the fireworks afterwards.

This is the front page of the rodeo program. Daxton looked at it and said "Grandma this looks just like you" Holy crap it did! Everyone couldn't get over it.

Presley and Hadley loved the rodeo. And they love each other.

Gettin a little grub before we hit the rodeo

Ok this was so funny. Daxton of course loves the rodeo scene. He has his "ins" with the rodeo people. He gets to go in the announcers box etc. Well, we couldn't find him for a while and was wondering where he was. Little did we know he was out there in the rodeo arena herding sheep!! We were laughing so hard. What a little stinker.
I sure love our country and so glad we live where we are free to worship how we want. We're free to live how we want too. God Bless The USA!

Our Yard 2014

I love, love the color in our yard this year. My roses were gorgeous.

Whenever I see a Dahlia flower they remind me of Rogers parents. Dad grew the most beautiful Dahlias around.

This arrangement looked so pretty out in the front.

We had beautiful Geranium flower pots.

I'm so grateful that Roger loves to make the yard look so nice. He works so hard and we have so many people stop and tell us how gorgeous it always looks.

Shana

A photography friend took this beautiful picture of Shana. How stunning she is..

I just wanted to brag about my daughter for a minute. She's such a hard worker, great mom, wife, daughter and friend. Always serving others and helping the underdog. She's a fantastic photographer and has really made a name for herself in the photography world. People have come from all over to have her take their pictures. She works hard at keeping her home nice and clean, works out to stay healthy, teaches Sunday school, and has lots of friends even though she says she doesn't. She has friends all over the world. I'm so grateful that we've both tried so much harder to have a better mother/daughter relationship. We had quite a few rough years but things have been so much better. I owe that to a lot of prayer and hard work. I'm thankful she's my daughter and I love her dearly.

She loves taking selfies. Who wouldn't if you were that beautiful.

She and Jake have such a beautiful marriage. They're such great examples of love and affection.

This is her beautiful family. Picture taken at the Great Salt Lake.

She has dealt with a lot in her young life. First with health problems in high school, getting married young then divorcing. She married Jake and went through his cancer treatments with him twice. But she's stayed true and faithful to the Gospel and to her family. I love her so much.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Shoulder Surgery July 2014

I'd been having left shoulder pain for quite a while and I put up with it long enough. I was losing sleep because of the pain, I had limited motion etc. So I had Dr. Wayne Mortensen xray and found I had a lot of calcium deposits in there. I went in for surgery and it all went well. The recovery this time was so much easier than when I had my right rotator cuff done. This was a breeze.

Post Op and waiting to leave the hospital

Icing the shoulder.

Hair Shouldn't Define Who We Are

We shouldn't let our hair define who we are but boy it sure affects you if you feel cheated in the hair department. I resorted to getting a wiglet (which I have on in this picture) and I don't wear it all the time but it comes in handy when I'm having a bad hair day. People don't even realize I have it on unless you know me well. Sure wish I had thick hair like my little sister Cyndee but I don't so I do what I have to do. There's times when I just want to shave it all off and wear a full wig but then I change my mind. I'm 55 yrs old and just grateful to be alive. So hair or no hair I'm still here.

A Summer Of Camping 2014

It's my 55th birthday and we celebrated it camping at Strawberry. We had our 4 wheeler and we borrowed Wilsons Trex so that we could take all the kids.