Our Austin

This morning in Fast and Testimony meeting a man gave a quote that is written BOLDLY in my Sunday journal now
"We don't just believe in miracles, We rely upon them."
Through the power of the Priesthood and the faith, prayers and fasting of family, friends and even strangers our grandson Austin is alive and home again.
We are forever grateful for the tremendous blessings our Heavenly Father has given to Austin for his life,health and strength that He has restored.
Thankful for all the support and love that has been shown to our family. Thank you
We love and appreciate so very much what you have shared with us through this experience.

Oh the places we will see...

Allen is going to APS Corporate Headquarters for a year. His new job will begin July 11th. On my birthday we went to the Valley, he had a Peer Group meeting on Wednesday and we spent most of those tree days looking at places to rent for our year in the Valley of the SUN (hot weather!!!) Oh the places we saw, expensive and then places we didn't even get out of the car, just turned around in the parking lot and went to the next place.Allen wanted to live in downtown within walking distance for him to work, well there wasn't an apartment available at the "Met" till August, this is the place that his co-workers had suggested in their move to "Corporate"... so the next place had a one bedroom that the window faced a wall for almost $1,200 a month w/o utilities.. so Allen said we could look in Mesa close to the 202 and see if we could find anything less than that... We have rented a condo in Mesa and it is quite, off the beaten path and even next to a corn field! We are a bit overwhelmed by this latest challenge in our lives; the hour is fast approaching to our arrival and the boxes are slowly getting packed. We will return often to JC and take grandkids for a stay. I use to tell Allen I wanted to go back to Mesa but came to the conclusion it wasn't going to happen; and our lives and hearts have grown around this little bit of heaven that we love so much, the people make this town the place you want to live we have been so blessed to live here and raise our family here and I have never regretted that choice to live here. So now we will get to have a different adventure in our lives... till the next post

Out and About

We have been on a few trips lately , of course to the valley for Allen and work. Then on the 19th we headed up to Logan Utah to spend the weekend with Blaine, Amy and Logan. we always enjoy the time we spend together and it's even better when we are spending time with our family! It is an 11 hour drive and we planned on going to "Black and White Days" in the town of Richmond, but there is a disease with the horses in Utah so any event they had with horses was cancelled, it rained alot while we were there but we drove up to Bear Lake and then up and around through Preston Idaho and back down to Logan. It is some of the prettiest country around, it's so green, and still alot of snow on the mountains. We stayed till Sunday morning and then headed for home with a side trip to Hurricane to visit my Aunt Evalyn, and family. It was fun! On monday we were home and I was busy getting Allen and I ready for a trip to San Antonio Texas on tuesday, as he had a conference for work to attend. We flew out of Sky Harbor in Phx. for a two hr. flight. Our hotel was really nice The Valencia Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio. about 5 blocks to the Alamo and all kinds of shopping, yeehaw!! We enjoyed every bit of the trip except the HUMIDITY...yuch :( why fix your hair? Allen didn't have this problem with his hair;)We flew home Friday afternoon and then Allen had a meeting with the boss at "Corporate" in phx, so by the time that was over and we finally had dinner at "The Keg" (Tempe marketplace) awesome food!! We were so tired we stayed the night at our favorite Hyatt Place in Mesa and headed home saturday morning. We had a bit of jet lag needless to say. but it was worth it, we'd do it again in a heartbeat, I love spending time with Allen~ he's the best.

Two "New" additions to...

First we got a puppy she is a "shorkie" half shih tzu and half Yorkie she is a toy and will be 4 months old on the 4 of may, everyone just loves her and she has become a favorite of the grandkids. Her name is Coco because her face looked like it was dipped in chocolate.
Then our next addition is the truck GMC sierra slt 4x4 diesel. We love it, we sold the Tahoe which we had bought new in June 2003 it had been a good SUV but I was ready for a change-- When we bought the Tahoe, Allen had tried to convince me to get a truck then but I thought we needed the extra seat and room since we still had the last two girls at home so we went from a Suburban to a Tahoe. And since I don't like going places in Allen's truck (a cowboy truck for sure!)We bought a new truck for the empty nesters! We both like it and yes I know I'm spoiled but isn't that what wives are for is to spend money on? Allen is just the best, and I love him sooo much :)


*definition of a cowboy truck:
always dirty inside and out, full of hay , manure on the wheels, no air conditioning, and when you sit on the seat you get hay & dust on your britches!

page two: Our House...

another page to copy and add to your scrapbooks. We built our home in the year 1978, in fact Boyd Westover poured the basement floor the morning Blaine was being born and we moved into the home right before halloween. Allen built it himself and we loved the 23 years we spent in it. Keate Despain did the block work on the basement walls and we contracted out the plumbing, electrical & heating, drywall. The rest we did ourselves quite an accomplishment for a 20 year old. We all have such good memories of the house that Allen built his family.

The House that Allen Built

I told the girls I would post pictures of our home on 3rd in Joseph City. I have some others and will post in a day or two.