Where did the time go?

Wow! it is February and I haven't updated the blog since September. CRAZY!
Leigh has been serving the Lord in Jamaica for 6 months now. He is doing great and has lost 45 pounds and looks great.
We have had more snow this winter than in the past 5 years combined, but the kids are loving sledding.
Warren played Santa Claus at his brother's ward Christmas party.
My Grandma Smith turned 100 and we had a great party for her. All 10 of my brothers and sisters came into town to help celebrate.
Warren and I celebrated our 23rd Anniversary and still love each other.
Life is great.
Love to you all.
Cindy

Lunar Eclipse August 28 2007

Hey, we got to watch a full lunar eclipse last week. I took some pictures from our front porch.
It was pretty cool even though it was 3AM to 4:30AM that we had to watch it.
Cindy.

The Big Bad Wolf Wind blew and blew!

Hello Everyone,
What wild weather we had in Utah last night. The storm touched off micro bursts and funnel clouds all over Utah and Salt Lake Counties and Tooele areas. Our only casualty was our dog kennell. It was 14 panels of fencing and a 20x10 foot tarp tent roof. As you can see in the pictures it became a crumpled pieces of steel, tarp and wire. The dogs were OK, wandering around the yard, (we were all gone to church activities). We spent this morning playing clean up. We salvaged 6 pieces of kennel fencing to make a temporary shelter for the dogs and moved it down below my deck near the walk out basement doors. The dogs were grateful to sleep in the garage last night. Crazy. My garden fence stayed put though, no damage at all.
Take care,
Cindy

I have some lawn!!!

Hey everyone, I have a lawn. Granted it is only a small patch of it, but it is there. I also have 2 spiral fir trees and 5 bushes. Hurray!! I also am finally getting my garden to grow too. I picked 5 peas off of my stunted 5 pea plants. I have 2 peppers, but the great news is that I finally have blossoms on my squash plants and tomato plants, so maybe by fall I will have something else to pick.
3 weeks of over 100 degree heat didn't help it much.
My son Leigh will be leaving next week to do missionary service for our church in the country of Jamaica. He is excited to start teaching people about Jesus Christ.
Alot of changes in our near future. Love to you all.
Cindy

Sad news.

Hello friends and family,
We have had a sad week where we had to say goodbye to our dear, loyal dog Blackie.
We have had her for over 14 years. Even up until last week she loved to chase the ball and try to beat Lucky (our 10 month old Labrador) to the ball each time we would throw the ball. She loved to play fetch and go for walks.
We buried her down in the lower pasture where she loved to walk with us.
We will miss her alot.

Mother's Day and New kittens

Hello Everyone,
Guess What, we didn't have enough pets with 4 dogs, 5 fish and a cockatiel, we adopted two kittens. Spot and Smokie. Spot is named after Warren's cat Spot that lived with his parents for nearly 20 years. He was Gray and White also. Right now they live in my office in my garage. I am working with an allerist to decrease my sneezing from them.
My kids made me breakfast in bed for Mother's Day and it was alot of fun.
Also see how great my son Leigh can cut up fruit for parties. He is alot of help.
We are working on the yard so I will send pictures when we have something to show for our efforts.
Take care,
Cindy & family

Easter Fun

Happy Easter Everyone.
My kids awoke to a surprise this year. I made a deal with the Easter Bunny and instead of bringing my kids a pail and shovel to pick up their candy in and then play with all year, he brought each of my kids a 5 gallon bucket, new gloves and a new rake to help do landscaping all summer. I laughed and laughed.

Even more pictures!

Hi Everyone,
My neice thinks that I need more pictures, so here are a few more of my house and view and Brian's rock wall.
Take Care, Cindy

Pictures from my new camera!

I think I figured out how to get to some of my pictures.
One picture is of a beautiful full rainbow that we saw just north of our home.
The other pictures are of a trip we went on to Idaho last week. We stopped to see Shoshone Falls near Twin Falls.

a Few more pictures! per special request.

Hello family and friends,
So now that spring starts tomorrow, I finally have some of my Christmas pictures to add to the blog. I got a new camera for Christmas and still haven't figured it all out but here are a few from the old camera.
We had great parties at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I totally love my home.
Take care all of you.
Cindy

a Few more pictures!

I couldn't figure how to add more pictures without starting over.
The puppies are no longer little and we are having fun decorating the house.
Merry Christmas to all.

New Pictures for the holidays.

Hello everyone,
I had some requests for a few more updated pictures. We have been in the house for 9 weeks now. It is pretty fun. Hope you enjoy the picks.

Found my camera adapter so New Pictures.

Hello everyone,
I lost my camera cord in the move plus it took a while to get my computers
up and running correctly, so now I have some pictures.
I love my new house. Thank to all of you who gave us encouragement and support during this time.
Love Cindy

Our stuff is in but not us.

Hello Everyone,
Will add pictures when my computers are back up and running.
We moved all of stuff this weekend, but can't sleep in the new house because it failed final inspection due to one 3 foot window in my bathroom had the wrong type of glass in it. The inspector couldn't OK a temporary fix for it, that has to come from the city engineer who by the way doesn't work on Friday's so can't be reached until Monday morning.
I have a brand new king size bed in my new bedroom and I am sleeping outside in my tent trailer waiting for approval to use it. CRAZY!!!!
Thanks to everyone who helped with the move.
Cindy

some more pictures

here are few more pictures.