Showing posts with label granddaughters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label granddaughters. Show all posts

Friday, January 29, 2016

The lovely Ara Grace - turning 19 in 2 more days!!


Goodness but we were excited to greet the lovely Ara Grace - I can still remember Grandpa walking across the playground at Wildrose School where I was teaching and giving me the wonderful news.
 

Such  a sweet girl - and don't you love the hat??
 

Dancing at Eliza's wedding!  The "little kids" especially loved having a niece of their very own!
 

So many lovely memories - need several days to think about them all - I am really wondering where all the years went!!

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Where oh where did the years go??


We are getting ready to celebrate this girl's 19th birthday!!
 

Sounds trite but it's true - the years just fly!
 

And I've quoted it before - and will undoubtedly quote it again - but as the poet Yeats penned, "I sigh that kiss you, for I must own, that I shall miss you, when you have grown!"
 

So exciting to be part of your life lovely Ara Grace!

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Women's Broadcast - Fall 2015


The Women's Broadcasts are always great - I can hardly remember not having them - so glad we do have them.  I especially love how the women in our family feel so connected by them.  We discuss them often - text threads, email threads, photo-sharing - sometimes we are lucky enough to enjoy them together!!  Like I did last night with Dawn and Eve.  And then Dad came down from the stand and joined us - a veritable treat!!
 

Phoebe shared the fun of sharing the broadcast with Agnes for the first time.  Oh the joy of a daughter!
 

And Ara was able to go to the Conference Center - with some good friends and some pretty good seats!!  I recall going to General Conference for the first time when I was a freshman at BYU.  I didn't realize or appreciate it at the time, but at the session that I attended, Thomas S. Monson was sustained as the newest apostle!

We loved hearing from Linda Reeves - beloved former member of Arcadia Stake.  Mormons are so good at connections, aren't they??

I loved the closing choir number.  The worldwide audience sang along while the choir sang an accompaniment - I felt like I was singing with the choir. For a non-singer like myself - who loves to sing anyway - it was a real treat.

Let's hear it for the general auxiliary presidencies who put it all together!!

(And on a male note, I always love President Uchtdorf - who did not disappoint!)