WHERE IS THE SUNSHINE ?

If the storm that is coming in tonight is suppose to be as bad as what they are making it out to be,....I don't want any part of it ! ! ! I can't like SNOW for the rest of SPRING ! Bring on the FLOWERS !

Happy Birthday Sioux!

I’m going to get a head start on wishing Susan a HaPpY HaPpy BiRtHdAy on the 27th of this month. Seems like I’m always the one lagging at reading other’s posts and commenting on them. I have been so busy at work and away from work with things that are going on right now that I find it hard just to sit down at the computer (I do it all day) and browse or do emails and posts. Susan has a very special place in my heart. I know I don’t get to be ‘with’ her or ’visit’ with her as much as other‘s do, but I always think about her and our childhood and things we use to do with each other when we were younger. I remember things like when I got to spend the night over at Grandpa’s and Grandma Mary’s . We’d go to the elementary school to climb up the fire escape and play on the playground equipment. She would let me get on the back of her bicycle and she would be the ‘driver’. We would ride around the old neighborhood in Layton and go for walks up to the store to get penny candy. We would go to her friend’s and play with some very special girls that I later got to know real well in school. Several times I got to go with Grandpa, Grandma and Sue up to Morgan or down to a house my Grandma Mary had on Redwood Rd. We would play around the yard while there and just seemed to have so much fun. One time when my family still lived in the little house south on Main Street, Susan and I went for a walk when it was really foggy. We were over in the Experimental Orchard down the road a ways in one of the fields. I can’t remember if we were pretending we were disorientated and lost or if we really were. I DO remember somewhat being scared however. We made our way back to the house though and were safe and sound once again. We would be invited together to go to my aunts or step aunts to help when they had a new baby, or we went to Aunt Dott’s down in SLC together for the weekend. After Grandma Mary moved back to Salt Lake, we would spend weekends with her. We loved to go out on the corner of 7th East and 13th South and watch the guys pass in their cars. Then there were the years that Sue lived with us. She didn’t know it at the time, but I always wanted to be as cute and popular as she was. She had her friends and I had mine through those years, but because she was my age, we seemed to do more with each other than my other sisters did. We would end up together at Lagoon and would always go to the photo booth and take pictures. We walked to the church together and went and dragged main after MIA with the boys in our ward. She had a lot of the guys always calling her and wanting to date her. Sometimes she wasn’t at home when they called so I got to talk to them. One time one of them called and I had to reassure him she really wasn’t there and that most definitely not with another guy. It took a lot of REASSURING in fact! Susan was always more like a friend and sister to me than an aunt. There were several years at different times in our lives when we haven’t lived very close to one another and I didn’t really know what was going on in her life like other friends and family did, which I regret. However, I have gotten to know Sue even more since she started her blog. I’ve realized more and more what a special lady “my” Sue is and all her many talents. She is a beautiful writer and poet. She’s a wonderful mother and grandma. Her family means so much to her. She loves and appreciates her older siblings and she has grown to be the kind of a person that we all love and appreciate also. I’m not good with words Sue,….but know that you are a very special part of my life. So,….after all of this, once again I am wishing you a very Happy Birthday! I Love You Sioux!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Janette's Own St. Patrick's Day

Wish For All Those Who Read It!
March 2009

By: Nettie
I wasn’t born an Irishman
But it’s fun to celebrate the day,
And r’ceive all the Irish Blessin’s
In each and every way.

I’d like luck to be my companion
It’s a blessin’ I could use,
Good luck, good friends, and happiness
Are all things I can’t refuse.

On St. Patricks Day NOT wearin’ o’ the green
is NOT the thing ta’ do,
It’s fe'r sure a favorite day fe’r me
But I don’t want a pinch from you!

It’s a day for jigs and Irish songs
And parades along the streets,
A day I’d like ta’ find a ‘Wild Irish Rose’
Cuz’ it’s a flower that’s o’ so sweet!

So here’s a wish from a non-Irishman
But ya’ can bet it’s a wish that tis’ true,
For ya’ to have a Happy St. Paddy’s Day,
This wish comes from me to you!

Happy St. Patrick's Day on the 17th ! !

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is here, you see.

We'll pick some shamrocks, one, two, three.
We'll count the leaves and look them over,

And maybe find a four-leafed clover.

I'll sew green buttons on my vest,

Green for St. Patrick is the best.

I'll wear a green hat, very high,

And dance a jig--at least I'll try!

(Author Unknown)

I got asked to be on the "St. Patrick's Day" party committee at work! Yeah! We are having a pot luck (everybody is suppose to bring some type of green food,....oooo-weeeee!) and we're all suppose to wear green (of course), ..... I'm going to try and over-do it just for fun! We'll see what I can come up with. There may be some suprises too! Sheila, Dawn and myself are doing the planning. Dawn found a shamrock shaped "word find" and I found a "St. Patrick's IQ Test". Gonna be fun, I hope!

Mom's 78th Birthday Party

Second post for the night. I'm doin' good,....and it's only 11:40 p.m. I guess it's a good thing I got these done, cuz' I'm ready for BED ! ! !

Once I got back up to Kaysville after the bridal shower (mentioned in the post below this one) Ashley did for her friend, we went over to Mom's for her party. What fun it was to see my Aunt Florene and Cousin Marilynn there all the way from Grand Junction, CO. ! (and of course everybody else that came). Thanks to everybody for coming because my Mom really enjoyed it! I am so happy that Denice could come from WI and be a part of all of it. It's always great to have her here. I'm not going to go in to detail because Whitey has already done so along with posting a slide show. She did a beautiful job on the book she made for Mom and everybody really enjoyed looking at it. And there was Cheryl's idea of the Memory Box and Kari's beautiful job in making it along with KD helping get the memories typed up. (We missed you and all your's KD. Wish you and all the other's up your way could have been there). Before the party,.....maybe a couple of weeks, Clydene sent out an email message to a few of us (Sue, KC, KD and myself) asking "can you help me with this you need to get your cowboy twang going". This was a story Mom had told over the years about her friend Vada and herself. Clydene wanted a poem telling the story that she could use in her book she was making for Mom. This was her notes about the story Mom told.

Veda and I watched the cows as they came marching (parading) home today from mountains high to the greener pasture were they could roam and eat to their contentment. but in the mix of these female bovine a bull elk did appear and with one look from him we surely feared he wanted us for supper. So up a tree we both did scamper and right behind us the sound of his breath we could feel on the back of our necks so up the tree we sat all day till Veda's big brother came and chased away that big old elk and rescued us from our fate.

So,......I took the elk by the horn (no punn intended) and wrote a poem using as much of Clydene's notes as I could. For those of you who haven't seen it yet, .... this is how it goes.

The Elk and the Tree
Written by: Janette
The cows we were watchin’ my friend Vada and me
As they paraded down the mountain fer' us both to see.
They were headed for the pastures where they’d eat all day
They’d mosey and browse eatin’ what they may.
Well it’s fer’ sure it’s been a mighty long time ago
I remember we couldn’t afford to take it real slow.
For amongst those cows a BIG bull elk did stand
Wanting to eat us for supper we feared was his plan.
One look from the elk is all it took
To run for our lives while in our shoes we shook.
So Vada and me we ran as fast as we could
Cuz’ that BIG bull elk made himself understood.
Up the tree we scampered, we feared for our lives
The only thing on our minds was fer’ us to survive.
As we climbed up the tree we could feel the HOT breath
Of the BIG bull elk on the back of our necks.
So up that tree we sat the whole day through
And how to get down we had not a clue.
Out yonder in the distance Vada’s brother did see
What was happenin’ to us both while up in that tree.
So he ran and he chased that old elk away
And rescued us from our fate on that dreaded day.

Like Clydene requested, there is a little bit of cowboy twang in there. I tried to read it for Mom so she kind of got the jest of how it was suppose to sound. Don't really know how it went over. The picture above is the very tree they climbed up and a picture of Mom and Vada that Clydene had in the book next to my poem.

Bridal Shower for Ashley's Friend

It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted. Ashley and I were getting ready for her best friend’s bridal shower for Sat. 2/21. We had it at the Marriott Fairfield Inn down in Provo. It turned out quite nice. Kimberly’s colors are Black, Hot Pink and White. We made the invitations and got them all put together. Ashley cut the white flowers (suppose to represent a Gerber Daisey) out with her Cricket. For the middle of the flower we put a black button and I did a cross stitch in the holes of the button with the hot pink thread. We also did favors that were really cute, but a lot of work! They were plastic clear tube things that we filled with the Valentine colors of (pink ,white and red) M&M’s and Ashley cut the words “from this moment” out of black vinyl with her Cricket. We stuck them on the tubes. We trimmed the tubes with black ribbon with hot pink poka-dots and tied them on the end of the tube. I made some really good Chicken Salad which everybody seemed to enjoy (they had seconds). The croissants were huge! I let them put their own slivered almonds, cranraisins and purple onions and lettuce on their sandwiches. I brought veggie trays and Kimberly’s momma brought a fruit platter. We also provided drinks and a cake with cupcakes around it. Ashley had a really cute game where she had asked Kimberley's future husband some questions which he answered. Kimberly was asked the questions. With every wrong answer she got a piece of bubble gum she had to chew. She ended up with a good size wad, but not as bad as it could have been. Also Ash sent around a piece of paper where we all wrote 2 lines that ended up in a pretty cute poem. She kept folding the paper so that the next person couldn't see what the previous person had written. That was a lot of fun! Here are some pictures from the shower. WOW! Kimberly only has 25 days til’ her wedding. This is a young lady that I have more or less watched grow-up with Ashley from Kindergarten on in Kemmerer, WY. In fact, she was mostly the reason that we let Ashley go back up to WY the last half of her senior year so she could graduate with Kim and the rest of her Class of 2002’. I can’t believe how fast the last almost 7 years have flown by since their graduation. Anyway, a good time was had by all that attended. Then we were off and running to get back up to Kaysville for Mom’s 78th Birthday Party!!!!