Welcome Home Jonathan!

On the Temple Grounds, waiting for Kellie !

Kellie's dinner at the Johnson's home.

At the Temple Grounds again.

Spring Fling!

Pittsburgh Steelers Statium

Pittsburgh Baseball Statium from the road across the bridge.

My booth at Market

Wow! what a spring we have had at out house. And it will not be over until Sunday. David and I returned from Hawaii on May 6th. We had a wondeful time. of course, we went over to the small island of Lanai, just to see what it was like. David had meetings and pently of spare time to relax.

The next Wednesday, Sarah and I flew to Pittsburgh for Quilt Market. We came home Monday morning and we have been trying to get things ready for Jonathan to come home Saturday.

Pittsburgh was beautiful - very green and trees all over. We saw a wild turkey walking through a field right by our hotel. It was huge, black and colorful tail feathers. Pittsburgh also has many bridges, to accross the rivier from the convention center. One more that was just for trains that rain at least 3 times a day.

The baseball and football statudiums were just across the river also, we saw the baseball games being played as we left each night. Our friend from the booth next to us went to one of the games, they had two people give them tickets, but it rained just as the game started.

The rest of the week is being filled with the wonderful excitment of Kellie's wedding. We are so happy for her and wish her every blessing and happiness she deserves.

Jonathan is speaking at our church on Sunday, 1:00 Sacrament meeting. You are all invitited and we will have food at our house after. See you soon, Laurie

RS Trunks Show is Over

Yea, my Trunk Show is over and it went OK. I took all of the quilts I still have at home, so some of the ladies were a little surprised that I had so many. It did seem funny not to have some of the quilts I sold, but I will get use to that.

Thanks for coming, it was nice to have "family faces" in the room. I was a little scattered brained in my presentation. I had answered so many questions before I began that I did not want to repeat myself too much.

Our house smells wonderful now thanks to Liz's wickless candles. Thanks Liz!

January Snow

Here are some pictures I have forgot to show you before.

Hello again!

Today Sarah and I went to Welfare Square to make applesauce. We arrived on time (!) and told them why we were there, the people in charge gave us blank looks. They had sent out a message that they were doing salsa instead of applesauce over a month ago. OK, we went to wait until they were ready to tell us what to do, about 10 minutes. When the lady came in to tell us what to do, she told us to go home. We gave 10 minutes of service, just sitting around waiting. It was a nice surprise in that we had the whole morning to do what we had to do at home, but we did not have the opportunity help others. I know this is silly to those of you that preform service all the time. But it was the first time for Sarah to go with me, and it did not turn out the way we had expected.

On the way home I complained about the thing I hate the most about driving inbetween snow storms. Dirty windshields!. I hate dirty windshields in good weather. But when the roads are wet and slushly evey car that goes by sends a mist of salt and water/slush on your car. My windshield wiper on the drivers side is not good, so the passenger side can see great, but I can't. What a mess! How silly it sounds when I write it down. Next time I will talk about our wonderful family, etc. I hope!

Change of supject - Tuesday, January 13th I will be giving a trunk show and mini class for my Relief Society. Everyone is invited to come, we will also have lunch after the trunk show.

I am teaching them to make a lap quilt to use during our Sacrament Meetings. We freeze in the summers and sometimes during the winter.

No pressure!

Christmas Photos

The pile of shoes gets bigger every year.

Happy New Year!

It is 2009 and we have a whole year before us to do what ever we want to do. I hope we all have a wonderful year full of love, family and uplifting experiences. Of course we will have our problems, but we can all look for the good in others and in every situation we find ourselves.

OK, now that I have given myself a pep talk, here are some of the pictures we took at Janet's house. Thanks you Janet and Dave for your never ending hospitality.

After Christmas - What a relief!

Salzberg, Austria



Maribel Gardens - Salzberg, Austria ( Sound of Music backdrop)

Small Towns on the cost of Italy

Portovino, Italy along the coast of Italy

David's favorite car from his mission - this car was too small for the missionaries to drive.

Our hotel on Lake Como, Italy

Real cow bells in the Alps.

Addie - Christmas morning

Monday - Christmas is a memory now and I can finally think again. This has been a strange year for me. I lost a few weeks due to the cold and flu that took over my life for 2 1/2 weeks. I'm still not quiet back to normal. I was behind in every thing that I had to do, and Christmas still came and went just as it does every year. I hope I did not miss any thing important, or any one. If so I am deeply sorry, I will do better next year.

I hate New Year Resolutions. I have never been able to keep them and then I feel worse about myself than before I made the resolution. So now I just write down a few goals that I think I remember to keep. Goals like putting my shoes away when I come home. They have a habit of vanishing into the woodwork. I can not find them when I want to go someplace so I have to go and find another pair of shoes that will be lost again. It is a vicious cycle.

I promised to post a few more pictures of our trip and I have a few more from Christmas. I hope you will enjoy them. Good bye for now - Laurie

Rome at night

David just outide of Hyde Park

Florence

Hello Everyone!

How fast time goes by – I did not realize that it had been so long since I wrote on the blog. I have been told that a good blog has a little bit of everything – so – here goes!

First and most important – Addie!
She is he most darling little girl – I can say that because I’m her grandmother and I’m not partial at all. She has grown so much and continues to keep all of us at her beck and call.

When ever we take her places, people stop and want to know about her – how old is she, she is not very big for her age – was she early?

She looks just like a living China Doll – Beautiful light skin, big blue eyes, and dark hair. She is our “Bug”

When ever I see a baby I look, just like everyone does, isn’t funny what watching a baby does for you. They are so sweet and innocent and make us remember how darling our babies were.

2nd – Europe!

Europe was exciting, beautiful, fast, full of history, beauty and the most wonderful 2 ½ weeks I have had in a long time. David and I left on a Saturday and began out adventure in London the next afternoon. The trains that were suppose to be the best way into the city was closed because of a fatal accident. We took the underground and ended up catching a cab finally to get to the hotel. We spent only 12 hours in England and ended the 2nd day in Geneva. The next morning we started our drive through Italy.

I would go back in a minute, now that I’m over the plane ride. Here are a few pictures of our adventure.

Happy Thanksgiving and I’ll try to blog again.
Bye