Mothers Day

Mothers day was really nice. We had all of the Family come over to our house for a barbecue, Hamburgers and Hot Dogs. Mom got a dozen roses from dad. The grand kids + Todd played Frisbee in the back yard. Grandpa and Grandma were really worn out by the end of the Day. It was a loud and wonder full day.

Bruce has found a couple of jobs that he likes, working at homes to help children with mental or social problems. He has been accepted at the University of Utah College of Social work, they only except thirty five new students each year.

We worked most of the day yesterday getting the gardens in place. Bruce and Tara are planting a lot of vegetables, Tomatoes, Corn, Cucumbers, Zucnni, Pole Beans and Crook Neck Squash. I worked Planting the Flower Garden. It seems sad to be planting things that we will not see produce this year. The back yard looks good so far.

It looks like summer or something like it is on the way. It is suppose to be in the high eighty degrees by the weekend. We have got the sprinklers in place ready for the heat.

Graduation

Well the day has come. We went down to Snow College to be at Bruce and Tara's gradation. Bruce received his Associate of Science degree in Social Work and Tara two degrees in child care management a Applied Associate of Science and Associate of Science Degree. Bruce has been accepted in the College if Social Work at the University of Utah. They will be in our house while we go on our mission.

We have all of our papers done and just need to have the Stake President send them in. We are executed to go. Bishop Summers has come down with phenomena and so will not be able to interview us until Tuesday.

Mom is all excited about the Jazz going to the second round of the playoffs. She is not too excited about them playing the Lakers. The Lakers seem to have been able to handle the Jazz this year with ease.

Todd went on his first date since he became single. Marty set him up with a girl from his work. The girl is thirty five, almost ten years younger than him. It is good to see him moving on with his life. He has had a hard time adjusting to being single. He seems to be getting lots of free food from people who love him.

Bruce called and wanted to know if they could bring a Puppy when they come to stay at our house. Tara had a teacher at school that had a dog that she could not keep. When they brought the "puppy" It was a full grown German Shepherd Dog. It was suppose to have been to obedience school, but it must of flunked out because it love to jump up on people especially on mom. We have made it very clear that any dog at our house will be an outdoors dog, especially a big dog.

long time no write

We have been busy lately. We went to Snow College so Bruce and Tara could talk about us as a assignment for their Communications Class. That was on April 22. The presentation was well done. It was interesting to be in their class with all of the young people. We went to a Mexican Restaurant with them. We also drove the motor home to Fairview as it was a nice day. The weather has been really unpredictable lately. It storms one day and then a few days are like summer and it storms again. Yesterday it was 80 degrees so we woke up this morning to snow about one inch on the lawn. Snow on the First of May! It is suppose to be up in the high 70 again this week end.

We had a temple session on 24th with Melody and Marty. It was our Stake was our Stake Temple Day. We then had a dinner for our Stake at the Temple. It was special for the Marty and Melody to be in the Temple with us. I was able to have Melody in my initiatory. She looked so cute and it was a joy to be with her. We then went to a wedding reception for Allison's brother. It was a really nice.

Melody had a special gift for me last week. She came to our house and gave me my missing wedding ring. She found it in her bedroom when she was cleaning up. It had been missing for almost nine months when I was in my bedroom and misplaced it. How it got to be in Melody's bedroom in the real Question.

Allision has her surgery and is now home. She feel fine and will soon be able to do all she did before the procedure. She still feels bad about not having a belly button but will live with it.

Todd is excited because he has a date. Marty has set up him up with one of his friends from work. It is good to see Todd starting to get on with his life.

Bruce and Tara will graduate from Snow College this Saturday then up to our house. We are hoping that they will be able to stay in our home and take care of it while we are on our Mission. We are still waiting for our interviews so we can get our Call.

Getting Ready

We have been busy this last week getting all the things done so we can submit our Mission application papers.


We went to the doctors and got poked and humiliated to see if we could live for 18 more months. They took 9 test tubes of blood from each of us. They will test the blood to see if we have still antibodies for the diseases that we have had shots for in the past. Marlene had just prior to the Missionary physical been up the Huntsman Cancer Center for her yearly screening. They took 4 test tubes of blood there so all in all she gave 13 tubes of the precious liquid. The worse part of the whole thing was when Dr Wendy Macy, Yup it is a girl, had me drop my drawers to check my prostrate. It hurt me both Physically and Emotionally.

We then went then to the dentist. Well, all of my old fillings had to come out. I thought just being old was Ok. As it has been with me personally! But Steve Wright would not go for It. So out with the old in in for the new. These guys don,t like to do fillings much so I got to have new caps. Marlene had been to the dentist just a couple of months ago so she got a free pass.

We had Todd take some pictures so we could put one on the application. The old folks look pretty good. Mom is sure a good looking Grandma.






Now we next get to visit with the Bishop and the Stake President. Then we wait.

sad days for the glads

Our oldest son's wife, Shaylynn, passed away on March 19th. She has been struggling with health problems for many years. She was almost in constant pain and had difficulty in eating. She has had many surgeries and has been in and out of the hospital almost constantly. It is very sad that she is gone but She is now in a better place where there in no pain and suffering. We hurt to see the pain that Todd has had to go through at this early time in his life. We know that life will go on but takes time for the hurt to go away from the separation but like the song goes

"All is Well"

We needed some time away so we went to California to visit with our Grandchildren, Nathan, Megan and Tyler. There parents were there also. We had a great time hugging and telling stories. We may not see them for more than a couple of years as we are planning to go on a Mission for 18 months. Nathan had a great time teaching Grandma how to play the Piano

We went bowling with all of the kids. It was great fun. Tyler was a little weak on his throw, A man from the Alley had to come and push the ball so it would get to the pins one time. Me, Marlene, Megan, Nathan, and Tyler with Angels help played. Roy was kind enough to pretend to have a sore back so we could play.

We drove to Las Vegas and stayed one Night before getting back to Salt Lake all tired out. Angel called and said the after we left that Tyler packed his bag and asked her to take him to see Grandma and Grandpa. We are glad to be back home.

We go to the doctor to get our Physicals Friday. Time is going by!

We survived this week so far

This has been a sad week, I am really feeling so mixed emotions,. Todds wife that has been his companion for 25 years passed away Wednesday. March 19. We were in the temple and the secretary said I had a message. My daughter was crying so I knew it was bad. Dwayne met me after I changed to my street clothes and we went to Todds.

It was unreal seeing her just laying in her bed not alive.! There were all my family except Angel and family. After they took her away, a tough thing for us,we had a family prayer and gave Todd a blessing . Thank good ness for our church and their benefits of comfort. We beleive she will be alive again. She will have a sweet release from the body that sometimes was so frail she had to be in a doctors care alot.

Anyway. The viewing is at 65oo Redwood Rd. Memorial Sunday night at 6-to 8. This is Easter and he is happy we are having it then. The funeral is Monday 31. at 11:00 . Kearns 21st Ward. 4270 West 5700 South. A viewing an hour before It will be a tough day or two. Pray for the Glads. She will be buried in Fairview , Utah.

I hope to write some happy news next time. Thank goodness for Easter and the resurrection. Happy Easter!

Marlene

Things are Great

Our Grandson Jimmy, who had a brain tumor removed 3 years ago, had his follow up MRI today. He is still stable. We were worried because on the last test there was a light spot on the film. The test was to follow up and see if there was any change. We are so happy.

We can now get ready to serve another Mission for our Church. We wanted to be sure that every thing was settled with Jimmy before we put our papers in. We are trying to figure what to do with our home while we are gone. We hope that maybe Bruce and Tara come to here to attend the University of Utah. So They can stay in our home while we are gone.

I moved the computer and all of my other stuff in to Bruce's old bedroom. I now have my own den. It was a lot of work. I had to move all of the cables from the our bedroom in to the new den. I put the wires from the closet in the TV room into the attic and the down the closet in the my new den. It was a lot of work crawling around in the attic pulling the wires. Then when we were moving the computer desk the legs broke off. I fixed it so now every thing it ok.

It looks pretty good and mom is excited about a lot of empty spaces in the bedroom.

Spring is here the flowers are starting to come up. The only bad thing I can thing of is that the ducks are back in our pond. The fish made it through the winter now if the ducks don't eat them all we will be ok.