Christmas

You saw the movie "Christmas with the Kranks"....Well, our Christmas wasn't like that. we had a wonderful day with our family....Jeff and Julie consented to have Christmas dinner at their house, since we had Thanksgiving here...it was very nice almost all of the family was there...we had a delicious dinner, everyone brought something...we didn't get to watch the children open their presents...but it was still fun...Thank you family for loving each other. love you all.

thanksgiving

We have much to be thankful for...a wonderful family, good grandchildren and darling great-grandchildren. It was such a blessing to have them all here for Thanksgiving, the only ones that were not here were Cassie and her husband Drew,and their baby, Conrad, Brandon and Becky and little Mariah. We missed them but we will be able to see them Christmas. I love the holidays, it is such a great time of year everyone is so happy. The Holidays make us aware of our many blessings.Everyone was such a big help and of course with so many people we definitely need help. We love our family!!!!

Amy's Blog

We "bloggers" are so excited...Amy Nicole now has a blog...It is dreamyteam6.blogspot.com so now we can keep up with Amy and her babies too. Love you Amy!

Tuesday was such a special day...our granddaughter Jillian went to the Temple and took out her endowments. She had such a great family support group there for her....Both sets of grandparents from her Mom and Dad, Blake's grandparents from his mothers side, three of her cousins, Amber, Courtney,and Teri...her cousin Lindsay was unable to be there because she had a bad cough, Jillian's brother Chris and his wife Jessica was there and last but not least her parents and Blake's parents were there. It was a wonderful day! We are such a blessed family to have each other. Friday will be a such an exciting day...Jillian and Blake will be married for all time and eternity. Yahoo!!!

Cassie's Visit

Halloween

This is a Halloween update from grandma and grandpa....nothing...we didn't dress in costumes, we didn't have many "trick or treaters" just little Cameron and the Galvez boys...and of course granddaughter Lacy....that was it!!! Do we live an exciting life or what???? One exciting thing did happen though....our granddaughter Cassie, Drew, and little Conrad came home to visit Drew's family and Cassie's. Little Conrad is so cute, all smiles, what a happy baby boy...another little great-grandson...how blessed we are. Grandpa and I are going to try and put a picture of their family on the blog so you all can see the Hiatt family....Drew's sister Sam was with them too.

Shopping (Ugh)

It started out as a beautiful Fall day.....I was thinking about going outside and finishing up the yard work that I started the day before. Sheri and Megan came by and one thing led to another, you see I needed to find something to wear for the "BIG WEDDING"....we are all looking forward to it, especially Jillian...I had been looking for something for a week....well the girls said: "Mom why don't we go to Boise and look at the mall". No one wants to go to Boise and the Mall on Saturday!!! Needless to say we did go and it was packed with people, cars, etc.......we went from one end of the mall to the next, could not find anything except a velvet top, couldn't find a skirt to go with it...frustrating....(you know, Grandma is getting old and walking all over the mall, i cannot do anymore) We came home tired, the girls went home. Later that evening, there was a knock on the front door and guess who was there???? Sheri and Amber....they found a skirt for me to go with the top how nice was that....I love my family, they are so good to me. Don't we look happy??

Grandchildren & Naughty Maggie

I am so excited!!! Today I checked my blog and some of my sweet grandchildren wrote something on the blog....this is really fun!!! I am so thankful for my grandchildren they bring blessings to our life. Thank you.
This morning I let Maggie out to do her business and a few minutes later went outside to call her and no Maggie....well, it was dark outside and we couldn't see her anywhere, called and called...still no Maggie....Dave was here to go fishing with grandpa....so Dave called and looked, Grandpa called and looked, I called and looked....no maggie. Dave got in his car and drove all over the neighborhood, Grandpa got in our car and did the same....just about the time I was going to sit down and cry (yes, I said cry) guess who showed up with Todd and Rhonda's dog Rocket and Harley....your right....maggie.....needless to say we were not too happy with her....so she didn't get her usual treat this morning. We live such an exciting life!!! We love you all.

Rats, Rats, Rats and Rats

Here I am again....adding to my blog. We have a very playful granddaughter, actual we have 15 playful granddaughters, but this one thought she was soooooooooooooo funny! We went to bed last night and I laid my head on my pillow and thought golly this is so uncomfortable.......there was a big lump, I picked up my pillow and underneath the pillow laying there on the bed was the most hideous rat I have ever seen....a huge, gray, ugly rat. Grandpa laughed and laughed...I threw it across the room....our grandaughter, Amber tiptoed into our room and put that under my pillow when I wasn't looking and worst of all.....Grandpa knew all about it!!!! Shame on Amber. She had this stuffed ugly rat for Halloween....funny, funny.

This morning our Granddaughter Amber (Monkey Face) decided that I should have a blog and set this one up for me. Maybe I will make this my "Thankful for My Blessings" blog. I will copy another granddaughter's example. First of all I am so thankful for our family, for our wonderful grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I am especially thankful for my good husband. I hope this doesn't sound corny....but that is the way it is....family is the most important thing in our lives. We love our family.