Primary Program

So I just loooove the once a year Primary program!  Instantly I tear up when the kids give there 1-2 sec little thought.  Really I do.  Just the thought of them being next makes me cry.  MOMS!  just look at us...or is it just me tearing  up?

Grocery Store??

As I went to the dreaded grocery store....which with some thought realized it is a huge blessing, I now consider the chore one of the hugest blessings I am able to be a part of!  K, so how very very lucky we are to be able to go to the grocery store.  There are many many choices just alone in the produce section.
I didn't have to grow the carrots, spinach or corn I bought...  I didn't have to wait for it to be in season...
I just went in without thinking and grabbed the produce I wanted.  Hmmm I bet the Pioneers dreamt of this  often!  There are so many things that can be found that I don't even have to get out a pan to cook anything.  Premade meals are found everywhere.   Bread, the staple of life, was just thrown into my cart.  No planting the grain, praying for great weather, harvesting, and separating grain from hull, no grinding of the seed, no all day process of making dough and baking.  A simple grab and throw was the effort put into our daily bread.  Could eating our daily meals even get any easier?  How very very blessed I consider my self as I put into my face the eggs, bacon, toast and oj I bought at the store just yesterday.

Crafts......Creativiness..Randomness...And Friends Talking Silliness

K so every once in awhile my friend Amberlee and I, just have to have a reason to get together eat lunch...eat chocolate...chit chat and do something worth while...and...so we did!  Amberlee, her sis Nicole, Jenny and our invisible friend for the day Ang (home with sick kids), did just that!  We started our craft day with inspiration from our Neighbor Melissa Quigley who happened to be on Studio 5  (which we love...Studio 5 and Melissa of course :) ) We then moved on to TURKEYS!  Those silly little birds that we love to eat on Thanksgiving day.  Along with chocolate, potatoe soup, artichoke dip and our rebellious drink...beer  (rootbeer that is!) Our turkeys turned out quite cute and silly and the day was fabulous even with a house full of kids....11 to be exact I believe.  Love dear friends and any reason to get together!

Miracles + Modern Medicine= GRATITUDE

So my sweet Mom went in once again for surgery on her mouth, just a little over a year from last years surgery for oral cancer that was to leave her with  a great chance of leaving her face deformed,  her speech to be relearned, and eating from a feeding tube a must for many weeks.  We experienced a Miracle last year as we watched her come from 15 hours of surgery into her room looking as beautiful on the outside as she is on the inside.  The next day she was speaking, and a couple weeks later eating.  A miracle?  most DEFINITELY!!  The power of the Priesthood was defiantly witnessed last year. 
Well the metal plate they put in her jaw had broke...Titanium it was and yes it broke!  So she went into surgery again 2 days ago to have it replaced.  Once again she was told she would remain in the hospital 3-5 days.  Well she came home yesterday morning.  There is no words of gratitude that can be expressed to a loving Heavenly Father that would even come close to the gratitude that fills my heart and would be enough to thank him properly.  What a miracle my Sis, Brothers and I have witnessed.   

BeD TiMe

So I watched my niece and nephew tonight ages 4 and 2 and it occured to me that I could actually have these children and they would fit in age wise with our 9 and 7 year old.  I was then very grateful that we have a Heavenly Father who know each of us so well and blessed Ken and I  with 4 children with the first 2 and the last 2 with 7 years in between!  We had lots of fun but oh how you forget the demands of kids under 5!  At the end of the night I was most grateful for this......

Memories...

Memories..  I am grateful for my Memories!  I was driving home from Target and suddenly a Memory of my Grandpa came to mind and then it went on to my Gram and then my other grandparents and it was awesome!  I made many great memories with them.  Gram Blackner memories....Summer sleepovers, trips to the little store, sitting in pajamas next to Gram watching cartoons, sleeping in the tall bed and listening to the wind and the tree branch hitting the window (South Weber wind :)), deep spoons and oatmeal with half and half, brownies with mint frosting and fudge on top, running through the sprinklers, all the cherries we could eat off the tree in the yard, chickens and brown eggs, big barn where we played house among the hay bails, HUGE snow drifts (South Weber Wind!) and  words only that Grandma could say to Grandpa "ohhhh Daddy!"  Grandpa Blackner.....Tractor rides, bailing hay, many many stories of "back in my day..." prickly kisses, and rocks, rocks, rocks!  He polished many a rocks!
Grandma Jacobsen.... Lots and Lots of Hot Fudge on ice cream, thick thick tinsel on her Christmas Tree,  teaching me how to Crochet, how to play the card game speed, BIG hugs!  Flamingo Mirror in her Bathroom and lots of gaudy jewelry!  Grandpa Jacobsen.....hours on hours of fishing ( I was his best fishing buddy!)  Hee Haw every Sunday, Mowing the lawn with the push blade mower, camping trips, and being called "tee legged tie legged" Tammy and him singing the song "Tammy" to me.  Great Grandma Keyes.....Beautiful handmade Christmas ornaments and ceramic trees, Beautiful dolls and crotchet doilies  and a long beautiful life!   Thanks for all the Memories Grams and Gramps and here's to many more when we meet again!

Gratitude and 10 Days before Thanksgiving Advent (advent - arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

So we were reading about Jacob and his Sons and it says Joseph was his favorite.  Ke'Nia said "I know who your favorite is....Daddy!"  Today I am grateful for the obvious to our daughter Ke'Nia.  How I count myself as blessed with a loving husband and father.  The fact that we love each other is often taken for granted but it's nice to know that it's obvious to those around us.  In a world of troubled marriages and not enough effort in commitments,  it makes me so grateful for Our love.  Love used as a Noun, Verb, and Adjective, for it is all 3.