Autumn From the Past

 

Autumn is my favorite season!!!! As a little girl, I sang:

It's Autumn time, it's Autumn time
Leaves are on the ground..........

I still hear the song in my mind along with the memories of my childhood, sweeping the autumn leaves into a big bunch and making nests in the leaves, playing "squirrels". Years later, but many years ago now, my little ones played the same. Our yard was full of leaves and children for many years.
Now there are no leaves and no children playing squirrels, but many delightful memories.

Reflections

Defrosted Food

What do you do when the refrigerator goes out and the food defrosts? Thankfully, there was no meat (we could have had a barbeque). Well, since I had bought a canner the day before, I canned the defrosted bag of green beans (5 pints) made strawberry freezer jam (1 1/2 quarts) from the defrosted, mushy strawberries and canned 14 quarts of peaches that we had planned to eat for the next couple of weeks (love a peach a day)since there is no room in my kitchen refrigerator for anything extra. This is probably a blessing in disguise as we can't store extra frozen goodies or fast foods now.We can look forward to eating peaches for more than a couple of weeks.

Enchanted Garden

Enchanting little Elsa in my enchanted garden.

Fresh new herb garden with a year old basil plant that survived the hot summer and revived after it dwindled to a little twig.

Beautiful Baby Katherine

How precious to visit our beautiful daughter, Hannelora and her beautiful daughter, Katherine

A fun time - the kids and Uncle Jared- Lucky us!! Alexandria loves Katherine

Beautiful Mommy and Baby

Family togetherness is the sweetest treasure of life!

Soccer Sam

What fun to watch Sam play soccer! He might be #6, but to us he's #1!

Timid Storm

Memory Lane

Happy 3rd Anniversary Jake & Susie

Happy Birthday Missy

Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary to my beautiful daughter, Melissa and her incredible husband, Shawn! All celebrations within a few days - super planning for a week of sharing memories and parties.

Precious Missy has brought sweetness and laughter into our family, into her own family, and into the lives of those who know her! How we all love her and are grateful she is part of our life!

Jared's Mission Call

It came! Jared's mission call to South Africa - Johannesburg!

He reports didrectly to the MTC in Johannesburg December 10!

41 years together - so worth it!!

Happy Birthday Joe

Happy Birthday to our dear son, Joseph, who has always tackled life with impetuous enthusiasm. He is like his Grandpa Sevey as he searches for answers to questions and defends his beliefs fervently. He is like his Great Grandpa Joe Chesley with a great sense of humor and a love for jokes. He is like his Opa Bielefeldt with a kind and generous heart. We send him love and joy on this special day.

God Bless America

Marty and I enjoyed watching the Rockin' R Ranch Fireworks from our balcony. We feel so blessed to live in this great land of liberty. May we all unite our prayers for God to bless America through the trials ahead.

Key to Happiness

We send our love to all our dear children and their spouses and our precious grandchildren. We have found the key to joy and are delighted to share with each of you the key which opens the greatest treasure of life - "happiness and peace in daily living" - This key only works to open this sought after treasure when we notice the little positive details of the people we love or want to love with gratitude. The bonus is that when we also notice little positive details of daily living with gratitude our hearts swell with more joy than we can contain. This key is very simple, but when used with determined effort, then all our prayers can and will be answered. It is worth it to guard this key and use it diligently.

Family Fun in Las Vegas

Being with some of our precious family is the best fun we can imagine. What a delight to spend several special several days with our Jensen grandkids in Las Vegas. Friday evening we enjoyed yummy shrimp quesedillas with a dance show afterwards performed by the little girls. They can actually ballet on their toes - the choreography is incredible! On Saturday we had such fun at the park. On Sunday we enjoyed the peace of chuch meetings. On Monday evening we had great fun with a special patriotic family night, learning about the first flag of our country and the declaration of Independence - we learned how to make a 5 point star - and finally we had a spectaculor firework show put on by all of us, but directed by Ben - and last of all, a yummy old-fashioned blueberry cobbler with icecream! A multitude of original craft projects were interwoven into every available hour of the day and evening by the children - from crowns of all sorts, to stars, to all manner of drawings and colorings of cards and pictures, to a noise maker made with 2 cups taped together and filled with rice. It seems like all of our grandchildren are bursting with creative ideas.

Celebrating Dad