The holidays

I am finding that time seems to go by faster each year I get older. It's hard to believe it's December already. Thanksgiving was good. We stayed home this year, and Amber and Devin came up for a few days. It's always fun having them around. Spencer was here along with the Kaycee, Ashley, Kaylee, Riley, Mike and myself. We had a quiet, peaceful, and rainy Thanksgiving day. The Turkey turned out really moist, and Amber made some delicious homemade rolls. Of course I made a couple pumpkin pies, and we had all the rest of the traditional Thanksgiving feast of stuffing, cranberry sauce, potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, jello salad, etc.
I should have a picture somewhere, but it's not on MY camera. So, if I find one I will have to post it later.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving Mike went with Delwin Scoresby to scout out the area they will be hunting. Mike is pretty excited about being drawn for Elk this year. It's been years since he's had the opportunity to go hunting. When he returned that day he brought with him a Christmas Tree, one that he and Delwin cut down, with their Christmas tree permit. It was a nice surprise, so He got it all set up on a stand and Amber, Devin, Me, and the kids decorated it that night. Of course we got all our other decorations out as well. It's always fun, and puts me in the Christmas spirit seeing all the lights and pretty things displayed.
Mike is working in Las Vegas for a couple weeks. So, last weekend I drove down Friday night to stay with him at the Orleans where his company is putting the workers up. He has a nice room and we had a nice weekend together even if he had to go to bed early to be up by 2:30a.m. Saturday he got off early because of the Las Vegas Marathon, that was nice to have the time to spend with him. We went to Ambers and while Amanda, Amber and myself went shopping and to Ambers baby shower Mike stayed at her home and did his laundry.
Ambers baby shower was amazing. Let me tell you, her boss is one of the most generous, thoughtful people in this world. She loves Amber and wanted to give her a special baby shower. Her home was beautiful!! The food was fantastic, and the company enjoyable. Ambers friend Michelle did all the invitations herself, and they looked so professional even though they were handmade. She had this awesome idea of having the guests write on cards " mommy advice for Amber" and then went around taking pictures of everyone...by the end of the night Amber had this neat scrapbook with all the pictures and cards in place. " Finished!!" Wow, I guess those enrichment activities do pay off..hahaha. Anyhow, it was awesome! Amber received alot of nice baby things. She's so excited to have this little baby girl, and will be a wonderful mom, and Devin is going to be a great dad. They waited so long to now finally have this wonderful miracle blessing come to them.
A few weeks after Amber, Amanda will be having her sweet baby girl too!! How exciting is that? It's going to be so fun having two darling granddaughters to spoil, along with my 3 handsome grandsons. I sure wish we lived closer to them, so I could see them all the time. That would be a dream come true.
Well, I was in the kitchen the other day and heard a crashing sound coming from the front room. I walked in there to find my awesome Christmas tree had fallen over!! Yikes...and Mike isn't here to help me get it back up and together again..boy I sure miss him. Spencer came home and helped get it back off, but I had to take all the lights and deocrations off..I'm hoping it will be o.k. and tomorrow I will attempt to redecorate it. Michael Jr. thinks I need to get a different tree, thinking it might be a little too dry, and being the concerned firefighter- he would rather me have a one that won't be such a fire danger. Speaking of Sonny two nights ago he was on his way up to Provo to do a ride-along with Provo's fire dept. Paramedics for his Paramedic class. About 30 miles north of Beaver the weather got really bad. He was driving under the speed limit, ( believe it or not) when suddenly his car began SPINNING...it ended up off the road down the embankment..hitting who knows what along the way. When it stopped he realized it was in flames..and jumped out, grabbed his duffle bag which contained his cloths and lap-top threw it out of the car, grabbed his phone, and wallet, but other items remained in the burning car.
He was in the middle of nowhere, and had to walk up the hill towards the road, called dispatch who said it would be 30 minutes before someone could be there. He was FREEZING because he said..the weather became a " Freakin Blizzard"..finally after about 15 minutes he was able to flag down a car, and the people let him sit in the vehicle to warm up while waiting for the Highway patrol. The people were nice enough to drive him up to Provo, where his friend Blair rescued him, and let him stay at her parents house. Thanks Blair! So, Sonny is pretty upset that his nice car is pretty much roasted now. That was a nice Honda Civic too. Michael said" that was scary, I thought I was going to die"- kind of puts things in perspective doesn't it?
For HIM to make that comment- well yeah it was quit the ordeal for him. I told him, son this is yet another close call where something could of seriously happened to you, and yet you are protected and still here. I think God definately has a plan for him, always have, and know he's meant to do some great things. He could write a book called " my many close calls" probably make some good money..hahahaha.
Well, this is one long post. I will try to find some pictures to post later to go along with all this updated info. Till then...it's all good.