Mothers day pictures

It feels SO good to be blogging! Really it does. I have a lot to blog about but I'll do it.

On Mothers day after church & before dinner we went over to the cemetery . All 15 of us. :) We put in roses and then Jenny brought a rose for each of us to put in with the other roses. It was such a nice time so spend with each other. Here are some pictures I took. I was very happy with the pictures I took!











Cammi was so cute and asked me to take some separate pictures of just her.



After we were done I took a rose and walked over to another part of the cemetery where our friend's grave it. She was only 5 or 6 when she passed away. I knew her if her mom & family had been there they would have brought some flowers, but she they weren't I decided I would and left a rose.
I hope you all had a wonderful mothers day with your family's.

What makes you happy?

Yesterday marked 6 months since my wonderful sweet grandma leaving this earth. I am sad. But I know I have much reason to be sad. One of the most elect lady's has left us and returned to our father in heaven. She is happy and I know wants me to be too, even though it is really hard. I know she is right now doing something that brought her much joy in her life. Sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know she is helping others to learn of this wonderful church. She is being very patient and loving while she does this too I know. It is amazing to imagine. I will try to do my best to also share the gospel with others, so that they can feel the joy and peace that I have!

My Grandma was a LOT of fun. She was always telling us stories, or making us laugh. She loved to laugh! She taught me how to make her amazing brownies, and always showed us what she was sewing. A lot of the things she made for us! She was the queen of games and loved a good game of phase 10 or scrabble. She would always sing some pretty funny songs to me and she always encouraged me and was there to talk to me.

I Miss her a LOT. But I know she's busy somewhere on the other side smiling.... and when she smiles YOU smile. I know she would not want me posting about how sad I was here but instead finding something else to be happy about. So here are some things that I am happy about that have been going on in my life or have made me smile.

I am happy about completing our Classical acting play "Two gentleman of Verona". It was so much fun to do but the joy definitely comes in the completing of it! My mom was the director and she did an amazing job. She spent more than 12 plus hours a day for a few weeks on this play!

Evan, My mom and Me


Here is just one of me..... Don't you love that creepy hand in the background... Megan. :)


I was happy that I got to spend Natalie's birthday evening with her. It was on the night of the play. Here she is opening the gifts I got her. I got her a bunch of our "Favorite things" we like to eat or do. And just some random stuff too, but she liked it. Sorry the picture is blurry.

This picture So makes me smile!!


I am really happy because I now have a garden!!! For one of my classes we have to plant a Garden and I finally did it. It is a hanging garden made from shoe organizer. Sounds weird yes, but I think it it pretty cool! I am growing, 3 kinds of flowers, carrots, rosemary, cilantro, green onions, lettuce, and spinach.

I also planted this pretty flower that has an AMAZING fragrance!
And.... A raspberry bush! We havn't planted it yet, but it's outside and it does look better than it does in the picture. (That's a picture from when I first bought it.)

I am happy because on Sunday we are leaving for a little vacation! My dad has work in Arizona and we are staying at a really nice hotel! This is just ONE of the pictures (I found on there website) of the pools where we are staying. They have a lazy river too! I can't wait to go get in that pool....


In my new swimsuit from lands end!
Isn't it cute?!


But I'm smiling even more because some of my favorite people are coming and meeting up with us in Arizona!! Susan, Dave, Josh and Holly! Were excited!

Evan, Susan and Josh on new years eve.

I am happy for this pretty picture of some flowers in my Grandparents backyard after General conference. Conference was awesome!

And I was so happy for the great hike me and Evan went on yesterday. It was so pretty!



And lastly am happy to share a sneak peak with you of some cookies I made today!

Okay and now I am happy because I finally got got up with some stuff I've been doing! I'm not at all caught up with my flicker but at least I am with my blog! :)

Happy Birthday Grannyannie

Yesterday would have been my Grandma's 69th Birthday.

So we decided even thought she wasn't there to celebrate for her. We did a balloon release for her (like we did at her funeral) in colors that she liked. The colors were Purple, lavender and white. Those colors are just her. We sang happy birthday to her, let go of the balloons, watched them and of course thought of her.

We got her some pretty artificial tulips for her headstone and I really like how they look. It was hard at times to celebrate because we miss her so much. But she would have wanted the party to go on. So it did!

We had a dinner that was breaded chicken (that she made for us and I loved)and our favorite potatoes she always made at family dinners. She always made them and I'm missed them, but even more I've missed her not being here to make them for the family. She loved doing anything for her family.

And we HAD to have Peanut M&Ms. It would be wrong to not have them... this was her party!

But some members of the family are allergic to nuts so we had: M&Ms, Dark choc M&Ms, Pretzel M&Ms AND Peanut M&Ms! And cinnamon bears which she loved.

We had a nothing bunt cake and sang to her. I know she was there with us and I'm sure she had quite a few laughs at us that evening. That's just what she'd be doing. :)

Grandma Anne's birthday. Jan 20th 2011

She is my hero and one of my greatest examples. I am lucky to be named after her and of course my other amazing Grandma who passed away before I was born. Happy Birthday Grandma! I love you! I am so blessed to have you as my Grandma! And I can't wait till that joyous day when I'll be able to see you and laugh with you again.