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Sunday, March 13, 2011

DAY AT THE MUSEUM

Could someone please get the forklift. Grandma would like to get off.

If your imagination is good enough, anything can be a train.

Great Day, thanks Grandson

Monday, May 10, 2010

Thursday, May 6, 2010

3 MONTHS ROLLED INTO 1 POST!

Hey- I'm lucky I can remember where I live.

Highlights:

Abby-- Young Womens Award at 14 when she has until she's 18 to accomplish it. She also had 10 spare minutes a week in her life so she started a book club.

Noah turned two and we used the same cake mold as his Dad's 5th birthday.

A visit to the Dino Museum at Thanksgiving Point was fun and
educational---

And provided a valuable lesson in patience-- ie:

"If you have the patience to wait, everyone else will get

hungry and go home, and you can have the whole sheebang to
yourself" Yea!!!

Haircuts from CookieCutters are very G.Q.

and Worms are Great..............

Grandparents Day was a blast- thanks for the great time J.

And Miss Heather is Get'n Married

Told you the food was good.

And once again Abby proves she is faster than 99.99% of the

5000 + people that enter the Salt Lake Classic 5K by winning

her age division ---again.

Also 2 Baptisms, Easter, and numerous Birthday's. Where
does our family get their energy. Love you all!!!

Almost forgot Grandma's sewer repair which took 5 days
and added 10 years to my life. This is just one of the hole's.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Well, having our bank fail certainly wasn't on our "list of things to do before we die". Being 1400 miles away from our safety deposit box , checking and MMA account, and having our daughter call and ask "don't you bank with Barnes Bank" was a little disconcerting. If she hadn't called I have no idea how long it would have taken us to become aware that we only had 30 days to find a new bank and get our act together.

I have touted Barnes Bank for the last 25 years. I changed my business account to the small Davis County bank after a larger nationwide bank had really p---ed me off. They were wonderful and have continued to be so in the many years since. 3 weeks after I had opened this new account (25 years ago) I had my checkbook stolen and didn't discover the theft until a day later--Saturday around 3 P.M. The bank closed at 2 P.M on Saturday. I frantically called anyway and lo and behold- 1 hour after the bank had closed the branch manager himself answered the phone and immediately put a flag on my account and told me they would watch it carefully, put a stop on all the remaining check numbers and said there would be "no charge". They earned my un-dying love from that point on. They were a small local bank until the housing/development bubble began to expand. They expanded quickly and I was pleased when I could cash a check at a branch in my mothers town when I went to visit her. They ended up with 11 branches statewide. Makes me wonder if they would still be in business if they had remained small and select. Is particularly interesting because the book tape we selected for the drive to California was "Snowball"- Warren Buffett's biography. This man's motto was "If it sounds too good to be true, run like hell." Damn the housing developers and Bush.

Advice-- have one of your children's name on your safety deposit box so you can call and have them postpone their Saturday skiing to run up and clean out your box. Thanks kids for helping us. The highpoint of this day might be the handful of Christmas M & M's I just found in the bottom of my purse.