Happy New Year!

I just want to say that we had a wonderful Christmas with our family. The kids all enjoyed the present that they received. We were home for Sydney to open her gifts from Santa and than we went to Jared and Alisa's to see what the other kids received form Santa. This is something that we started last year...to go to their homes in the morning to see what they got and visit for a while. I have really enjoyed it! It seams to be a lot nicer to have them in their own place and play with all the things that they got and have them show us. We had our family dinner at our home Christmas night and this year we tried a new game called the "present pass". It was really fun! We enjoyed turkey dinner. I am so thankful for this time of year and our family, all the kids and the love we have for each other and the blessings that our Heavenly Father has given us once again this year. I hope that you all have a good New Year.

6 More Days!

I can't believe that their is only 6 more days until Christmas...we have been crazy around here. Today the frig, stove, microwave and the dishwasher are on their way to our new home in the basement. Okay Jake and Marissa's new home. We have picked out everything that their is to pick out and now we are just waiting for it all to arrive. The trim is almost done and it looks so good. I am excited for Christmas and having everyone home...that is my favorite part when we are all together. I hope you all will enjoy your weekend and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Christmas is Coming!

Well November whizzed by and now here we are into December. We had a fun Thanksgiving with all the kids...Ivy came and sleep over with Sydney on Wed. and they all come for dinner on Thursday. We all enjoyed the good food and we took some pictures of the crew that were cute. I just have to say that they are growing up and they are at really fun ages now...they all have their own personality that are adorable. They make my heart happy! The basement is coming a long...we are down to the counter tops will come the first of the week and we need to finish the bathrooms, get the base boards on and the carpet!!! YEAH! It looks so wonderful and Jake, Marissa and Sydney are getting excited too. Life is wonderful and this is the best time of year...enjoy your families.

November already!

I don't know if it is my age or what but this year is zipping by so fast that I can't keep up. I went out to lunch with my sister-in-laws the other day and one of them said...your blog hasn't had anything new for awhile...so here we go.

I got to go to Disney World with Betty and we walked in a 10K race on the 11th of October. We had a really fun time visiting with her mom, sister, and brother who live in Orlando. We wandered around and didn't do a hole lot except we spent 2 days at the hospital visiting her sister who was in for some tests that should of taken maybe a day and it took 2. Well it was a good time to visit and all was well at the end. While we were there I got to see Wendy...yeah!! We went to the beach one day and she came with the boys to meet us and we enjoyed the afternoon together. We went to Wendy's for lunch to have our favorite lunch form the old days and some air conditioning...they were having record days of HEAT each day we were there. The day we left it was going to start cooling off, sure!

Than Halloween was next! It was so fun to see the kids enjoying the costumes and the candy. Jared and Alisa came in and went in the neighborhood with Sydney and than we had some dinner. Fun times. And now it's November!! Thanksgiving is coming soon and so is Christmas...hopefully we can get a picture of all of us for our Christmas letter. All of the kids are getting so big it is truly amazing. Enjoy the fall because the snow is coming SOON as Scott would say.

September!!

One more day and maybe the most important one in September...Kaitlee's Birthday!! She will be 6 years old! She is getting so grown up and has been enjoying school, learning a lot and playing hard everyday. She is a good big sister and helper for her mom...most of the time. This month has just zipped by faster than usual with all the birthdays and our anniversary. On September 16th Scott and I have been married for 32 years...wow...that is a really long time. Ever year we look at each other and say...that is a long time! But on the other hand it seams just like a few years ago. We haven't changed that much except in our old bodies and our gray hair, well Scott's gray hair! Time is a good thing and can also be not so helpful. We had a really fun family reunion in Torry at Linda's house riding 4 wheelers and eating and visiting with all of Scott's sisters. It was a fun weekend. Fall is almost here and I have had a fun summer hiking with Betty. We are going to keep on going and snowshoe in the winter. The pictures are awesome...enjoy them.

Life has been a bit crazy!!! You would think that moving last year that my house would be so clean and not have any junk in it...well not the case. When we moved we did it so fast that we took the junk and just move it from one house to another. Let just say for the record that most of it is Scott's junk! not a lie. Well Jake and Marissa have come to live in our home again and so we have HAD to de-junk. Scott has worked really hard to clean out the garage so we all can have our treasures out there. We are finishing the basement for them but it has a ways to go before they can live down in it. I asked Scott the other day after we went through a bunch of his boxes and I said, Doesn't this feel so good go get rid of all this stuff and he said...doesn't really bother me! So there you have it!
Kaitlee stated kindergarten last week and she is getting so grown up. Sydney went off to pre-school today all excited and Ivy is going to pre-school also. Sonrisa is getting potty trained and Lincoln is getting so strong and big...they are all growing so fast!
Marissa changed my background and we will get some pictures up soon for all of you. Enjoy your week!

I know that I haven't been keeping up so well on the blog thing...but I need to change my picture and back ground and I am just not sure how to do it all. I have taken some pictures of all the hikes that Betty and I have been on this summer...and we have had a wonderful time each week going to a new place. We spend the day together hiking and visiting and eating out packed lunches or out after we are done. It has been a really fun summer in that way. Also, being the primary president has been a bit of a job and keeps me busy. I have also been watching Sydney for Marissa while she works some at the Library. We are starting to finish our basement so workers are going to start being here all day. Our neighborhood is all filled in except for 3 house and 2 lots. The people that have moved in are really nice and friendly with good kids and I am really enjoying our new home. The girls are growing so fast and are getting big, Kaitlee will start kindergarten in a few week, Ivy will be in pre-school, Sydney will be in pre-school also, they are growing fast. Sonrisa is 2 so does that tell you what she is up too. Lincoln is 10 weeks old already and getting big. Jared and Jake have been busy...they were in a 111 mile bike ride 2 weeks ago and finished!! They really did well. Today Jared was in a "Sprint" He had to swim, ride, and run...he did awesome! I just want to say that my life is busy but I enjoy every minute of it and as the new kid across the street told my today..."I don't want to be a suck up but you don't look like you are 50 years old!" He is 14 so what does he know anyway? I'm not getting a big head yet. Enjoy the rest of August and maybe by the middle of September my blog will look a bit better.

July already!

I just can't believe how fast the time goes by. We have been busy doing all kinds of thing that seam to take up a lot of time but I can't really say that they count for much. Can I just say I love not working!! It has been fun to see our little Lincoln grow! He was here yesterday and he is getting big...and his sisters LOVE him to death. It is so sweet to see them hold him and try to fit him in their laps...he still has the bobble-head going on. He is smiling a lot and staying awake more. We just had a sleep over with Kaitlee, Ivy, and Sydney. They had fun together and than in the morning we went to the movie...we wanted to see UP but some co. had bought that showing so we went to see Ice Age. They are so busy ALL the time! You can't believe how many times they take off their clothes to put on dress-ups and you never know who is going to come around the corner naked! It truly is so funny that I laugh most of the time we are together. I just keep thinking that soon it will all end and they won't have anything to do with the old people!
Our yard is done and it looks really nice. We have some trouble spots on the grass that we are dealing with but all that rain has been hard on the new yards around our neighborhood.
I hope that everyone had a good 4th of July and that the 24th will be fun also...Enjoy this summer because it it going fast.

June!

June is a busy month for us in our family...we have 5 Birthdays to calibrate! With our new little Lincoln Scott Maxfield who was born on June 4, he will be the only boy in June and start thing off. Next is Marissa, Sydney, Reesie than Alisa. This month is just like our September. I want all of you to know how much I love and enjoy each one of you and the time we get to spend together. This past weekend we had Sydney with us for 3 days and Reesie and Ivy came for Friday night and then for Sat and Sun we had Sydney and Ivy. We had such a fun time! Grandpa took the girls shopping for a new dress and shoes, he put the tent up in the living room for them to sleep in and play. They played dress up all day long and I think that I must of put their clothes on them about 20 times during the day. They played so hard that on Sat night they both fell asleep around 7:45 on the couch. We went to church and they were so good in class for the teacher. Everyone thought that they were sisters! I just want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you all and I love you.

Busy, Busy!

We have been so busy these past weeks working on our yard. We have been placing bark all around and we are realizing that our yard is VERY big! We have planted a lot of shrubs and plants and it is looking very beautiful. When the guys came to drop off the bark they put it on the side of our house between the empty house and our property...well in the mean time a man bought the unfinished house and has all this bark on his property, oops. When I told Scott where the bark was he was kinda mad!! I told him that the pile was HUGE and that there was no other place to put it. When he came home that night all he said to me was...you weren't kidding!! It's about 5 feet high and 40 feet long and 6 feet wide! So now you know what HUGE is. We have placed most of it and as we look around we think that we will use all of it. The new neighbor is really nice and he will not be putting in a yard until next summer, he needs to finish the house first so all was well with him.

Also, Alisa has been told by her Dr. to take it easy. She has been having pains and is dilated to 2 and has 5 weeks to go...so I have been helping her stay on the couch. She is board and is having a hard time trying not to do to much. It has been fun to be with the girls, they make me laugh and smile!

I am so glad for the beautiful weather we are having and am looking forward to the summer and all that comes with the nice days head. Hope you all have a good week!

Face Book?

Well, I have just signed up on face book! I was more curious about it than anything. I wanted to look at it. When you get on you have to sign up so I did. I am not so sure that I will us it a lot but it is fun to see all the people on it and kinda see what is going on in their lives. I still have questions so any of the Maxfield children you are on call!
Things have calmed down a bit around here. I am feeling better and have that peace that comes from our Heavenly Father. I know that all of mine and Scott siblings and many friends have called with their love for Marissa and Jake and Sydney. Thank you all for you prayers and loving words.
I am getting ready for the plants in our yard and some flowers. We got our bark all around in the front yard and it looks really nice. I am ready for sunny days!

Our Baby Will

This past week on April 21 Marissa and Jake had their baby Will Maxfield born to them. Unfortunately our Heavenly Father needed him right back and he only stayed a few hours with us. He was a strong little guy and we all have felt his spirit touch our hearts. Marissa and Jake are such great examples to us (me) with their strong testimonies of how our Heavenly Father has a plan for us even though we are not always ready for what he has for us to do. I am blessed to have such a wonderful family around me and to be close to my boys my daughters and grand children to see them often and to have that love that only comes from being together. Our prayers are with Marissa and Jake and Sydney that peace will be with them.

Weekend at Grandma's and Grandpa's

This past weekend we had a really fun time with the girlyfield's at our house. Jared and Alisa went to Idaho to a wedding for her cousin and the girls stayed overnight with us. Grandpa went and bought a 3 man tent for them and we set up in the living room! That was there play house and sleeping spot. They had more fun in that thing playing house, hiding from each other, reading stories and sleeping. It was kinda cold out so the riding bikes and playing on the neighbors play ground was not as long lived as they would of liked. Jake and Marissa, Sydney come over on Friday night to eat and all of them had a fun time playing. My mom and dad were hear until Saturday so they got to see our darling girls! I am so thankful that we live so close that we can enjoy them and kiss them often...it really was a fun weekend!

Ivy's Day with Grandma!

On Tuesday this week it was Ivy's day to spend with me all by herself! I went and got her at about 10:00 and when I walked into the house she got this huge smile and came running to be while saying "I'm ready to go with you Grandma". She was all dressed in this really cute outfit with her hair all done. We went to Target and shopped around...she got a new nightgown, flip flops, head band for her hair and most important "makeup" chap stick! Than we went to McDonald's for lunch and to play on the toys, than she wanted to go to my house and see the dogs and watch a movie. We took the dogs for a walk around the block. Than about 3:00 I asked her if it was time to go home and she said,"NO"! Well I packed her up and we headed towards home anyway. When we got to the Maverick in Stansbury I stop to get everyone a ICE and half way to her house she said, Grandma, I really don't want to go home! It made my heart hurt that I was making her go but she was happy to see her Mom and Dad and sisters. She gave them the things that we got for them from Target...they got head bands also. It was a fun day for me and we are going to do this more often with them all. They are so funny when they have your full attention and tell you crazy things that they have made up in their heads. When she come the next day while Jared and Alisa went to get a new vehicle, Ivy was talking about her "special day" that we had together...this is what makes life worth it...the sweet faces of 4 girls that call me Grandma!

Another Trip!

Scott and I were able to go for a little get away this past weekend! We flew to Las Vegas and rented a car and went down to see his sisters, Janet and Bonnie in Quartzsite Arizona. They spend the winter there every year. We went to Mexico for a few hours and got some stuff, and had a wonderful visit. Scott went to play golf one afternoon, the weather was high 70's to mid 80's. The car we rented was a Enclave by Buick and we have been thinking about getting one in the future and it was really nice...made us want it sooner! We went to see Hoover Dam, they are building a new bridge over it and that was really awesome! It isn't finished and the way that they do it was really interesting. We went down to the strip in Vegas and went to see the fountains at the Bellagio and they were really fun, beautiful and awesome! Also we went to Cesar's Palace and went through that mall...we must of walked 10 miles that day! We ate really good food and had a fun time together. I took the camera but of course the battery was dead!!!

I know that it has been forever!! Things are going along well. I just got home from a cruise...girl trip...and Scott was such a sport about it! thanks for taking care of the dogs and the house. He loves to cruise and so for me to go without him was hard for him, but he followed the ship on google earth and new where we were all the time...and I got to call home every night!! We had a fun time in the sun even thought some of the days were cooler and windy it was better than at home. January zipped by and I usually have such a hard time because this is a long month, but not this year. Maybe it is because I have my Primary job to keep me really busy...it is going along well, I'm getting the hang of it all and I have to say that the teachers are supper good to come every week and I have really wonderful counselors that help me ALOT! Huge blessing! Well hope you all have a Happy Valentine's Day!