Happy Birthday to Julia, Alaya and Rachel

Happy Birthday to Julia Pearl Hillman  December 7.  We are so pleased that Julia is in Kindergarten and doing so well.  She is so much fun.  I love being with Julia.  Have a very Happy Birthday Julia.

















Happy Birthday to Alaya Janice Hillman on December 14.  Alaya will be 9.  I am so happy she got baptized on her last birthday.  That was a very special day during our winter.  Alaya always brings a winter joy on her birthday. It is always halfway through December before Christmas.  Alaya is a Christmas gift to us all.

Happy Birthday to Rachel Elnora Cramer.  I have come to really love Rachel.  It is so fun to live with her and watch how she can show love to so many others.  Rachel has a gift of charity and love and she shows it to all the family as well as to others we visit.  It is a blessing to have a little time with Rachel.

Happy Birthday to Andrew, Kierra, and Irene

October 22  Happy Birthday to Andrew who turned 14 and was ordained to the office of a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood.  We are proud of you Andrew.

November 22 Happy 14th birthday to Kierra.  Kierra always has a smile.

November 23 - Happy 7th Birthday to Irene.  Irene was happy to have a fruit cake....A cake made of fruit for her birthday party.

Pumpkin Patch

We found a pumpkin patch and asked how much the pumpkins were.  I had to ask at 3 houses to find the owners.  They were not home, but I found them later and they said to take all we want for free.  So we filled the car with pumpkins.  Now we are eating a pumpkin every day.  We have pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin in our bread, pumpkin soup, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin dip and pumpkin toppings.  I am grateful for such good food.

Happy 14th Birthday to Andrew

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW!

I cannot believe that Andrew is already 14.  I can remember thinking I was an adult at 14 and I was as tall I am now.  I am so grateful for the chance to get to really know Andrew and what a quality, kind and generous person he is.  I am grateful for his strength and wisdom and his willingness to do what is right.

This big tree blew over in the park next to us in a big storm..

Andrew working with Charles on the farm.

Conference Books

I was really impressed that everyone really watched and listened to conference.  Some of the grandkids even did conference books and they were so awesome.  Here are some thoughts from Joel's Sunday book.  He could not find the one he drew beautiful pictures in so he just quickly wrote down some of the things he heard.  I loved it.  It inspired me.

Birthdays

Jan 1 - 1st Birthday ....,,,,..Nellie
Jan 10 - 12th Birthday ......Mariah
Jan 16 - 7th Birthday........Joel
Feb 13 - 5th Birthday........Alan
May 14 - 5th Birthday ..... Logan
May 24 - 4th Birthday ..... Titus
June 11 -  4th Birthday ..... Joseph
July 14 -  3rd Birthday.......Kenny
July 25 -  10th Birthday .... Enoch
July 28 -  3rd Birthday........Gloria
Aug 6 -  5th Birthday..........Summer
Aug 13 - 1st Birthday .........Lawrence
Sept 1 - 9th Birthday ..........Ellie
Sept 17 -  1st Birthday ...... Timmy
Sept. 19 - Happy Birthday to Clary Sage
Oct. 22 - 14th Birthday......Andrew
Nov. 12 - 1st Birthday .......Richard
Nov. 22 - 14th Birthday .....Kierra
Nov. 23 - 7th Birthday........Irene
Dec. 7 - 6th Birthday .........Julia
Dec. 14 - 9th Birthday........ Alaya
Dec. 15 - 11th Birthday........Rachel

We hope to wish you each a happy Birthday on the Grandkids blog on your birthday so be sure to look for your birthday greetings.  Also you can wish someone else birthday on the blog.  We are excited to have a blog for all 22 grandkids.

It was fun to see my Utah Grandkids and to have a picnic with them.

It was so much fun to see Clary Sage and spend a little tiny bit of time with her and all the kids.

Grandma loved the beautiful weather, the mountains and the good feeling as we took a break between conference sessions.

Grandkids show love by visiting othersTh

This is some of the girls visiting Peggy Grigg.  She was so happy to have us visit.  She and Sam are cousins to grandma Carey. They live in a nursing home and are really bored there.

Here is Andrew working on the farm.  Oh he found a praying mantis on my back and kept putting it really close to the camera.

This is Aunt Lynese who came to visit.  She lives in Spokane/

This is Lavita Boyce.  She is a sister-in-law to Spencer Grigg.  She has a lavender farm and distills her own lavender oils.

This is Jing and her mother from China.  We had so much fun going to visit them and seeing how big Jason is in just 2 years.  They loved us and showered us with gifts.

Grandkids Blog contributors

If any grandkids have their own email and want to be invited to be a contributor on the blog, just let me know and I can add you.  We have added andrew and mariah as contributors and hope to see lots of grandkids posting here!

Kenny and Joseph's artwork

Here are some fun pictures. This one is by Kenny. It is an "angry Mommy chasing a laughing Kenny who won't stay in his bed." Oops. I shouldn't have gotten mad at him. The little person in the corner with a lot of toes is Richard.

This is Joseph's picture of Mommy. Pretty flattering eh?

Thanks Parley for such a fun blog!!