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memories of Grandma

My maternal grandmother passed away Sunday after a long fight with Lupus(no clue if I spelled it right). My Grandma Wamsley was a beautiful woman who never went anywhere without her candy apple red lipstick. Even when she has been hospitalized,which has been a lot, that is one of the first things she ever wants from home. That and a good cup of coffee, which she drinks several cups every morning of. And which when I a little girl, and we would visit once every three years for one month, I would race to wake up in the morning to make her coffee.
Grandma taught me the best place to hide a gun(in the bra) where no one would suspect and I swear you couldn't tell that she hid a little pistol. She taught my brothers and sisters the best places to find old green glass, and arrow heads, and all the wonders of camping in the high uintah mountains. She was never so happy as when she was in the mountains with nothing more than a radio and a very occasional visitor.
My grandma was an incredibly loyal friend. She loved poetry and wrote many poems. Quite a few on whatever she could find at the time inspiration struck. My favorite on is called a "card for any day." She took me to get my ears pierced whether my mo wanted her to or not.
She and I have very different personalities and often ran out of things to talk about but she was my link to a stable world outside of the military as a child. Grandma was strict and didn't accept excuses. I miss her already.
I know that she is happier now and she is with my grandpa whom I never knew. And in one year her work will be done in the temple to seal all of us together as a family. Until then, Grandma, goodbye.

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PIctures

Here are some pictures from Easter Vacation in Vernal

The move from........!

We are officially out of our house on Bomar and into our house on base. The weather leading up to move was beautiful with highs in the 50's and sunny nearly windless days. Then it was Saturday we woke to clouds and the temp. plummeting nearly 30 degrees in one day. The snow started and so did the wind. We had about 4 of the brethren from church show to help load the truck and none by the time we unloaded. Nathan called the other LDS pilot in the squadron and the two of them moved all our very heavy furniture in. We are so very grateful to "Joe the pilot" for all his help. Unfortunately one trip was not all it took. We continued loading and unloading trailers for the next three days, as Nathan was still working. The temp. that week were even worse than Sat. with highs around -12 degrees and winds reaching 50 knots. In non-military language it was roughly 70mph. Hurricane force winds:( My mother, bless her, was here and so we at least didn't have to pawn our children out for nearly a week and she practically cleaned the whole of our old house. We are truly grateful for her presence. I really think she is what kept me sane. Our sweet landlord granted us an extension because of the weather. This too, saved my sanity.We finally checked out officially today. YEAH!! So far the kitchen, bathroom, and projector are all set up. The silver lining in this move is the fact that between the move and tax returns we will be out of credit card debt in about 3 weeks.

a post about my sweetie

I have recently been asked by multiple people to blog about my dear husband's obsession. Nathan loves most things "Star Wars." But most of all he loves Lego's. To the point that we have a 3 foot "Star Destroyer." In our current house, which we will be moving out of in January, we set aside an entire room just for Nathan's collections. Books and Lego's. Every time we move Nathan carefully takes each set apart and puts it in Ziploc bags. When you consider that we have at least 12 X-wings that is an awful lot of pieces. Anyway, I have now blogged about Nathan's "mistress."If you would like our new address please email me and I will reply as soon as I can.

Christmas letter for those of you I don't have e-mail addresses for:)

Hello Friends and Family,

Since I am so very terrible at actually mailing Christmas letters I thought I would cheat and do the e-mail thing this year. We have had a fast yet somewhat uneventful year. Hopefully this letter doesn't bore you to death:)

Nathan has been very busy doing what he loves best... his job. Nathan flies on average about twice a week( he wishes it were a lot more). This year his most interesting flights have been: flying a huey to Vernal in two hours to have lunch with Becky ; a flight to pick up some General and he literally came home with 26 mosquito bites just on his knees; he also spotted a wildfire. Nathan has followed college football quite a bit more this year than he has in the past. We even went to the BYU vs.. Air Force game with Nathan's parents. Nathan continues to work on his Master's program. He is only taking one class at time but the reading alone takes up quite a bit of his time:( Oh, and at the squadron Christmas party Nathan was awarded the "Deer in the Headlights" award.

I have been busy with the girls. I volunteer in Mara's Class on day one and three. The schools here have a weird program for the days the kids do "Specialty" classes. I take Mara's class to Computer lab and then to Library. I really enjoy my time there. Becca comes along too. My ward calling in the Young Women's also keeps me quite busy. I do enjoy it though. I am the Mia-maid advisor. There is just nothing like a bunch of teenage girls thinking you are still cool to make you feel younger. I started seeing a craniofacial specialist this year for my TMJ and will hopefully get to ditch this splint for braces in February or March. I know its pathetic to wish for braces. I have also enjoyed watching my friend Jayne become quite the little baker with a little encouragement:) I made my very first dress this year. It was for Teia and wasn't the best craftsmanship in the world; the zipper was crooked and so was the hem. But I still made it all by myself.

MaraLenae has lost 7 teeth this year. She is extremely proud of each one she looses. Mara has to call Grandpa Roy every time she looses a tooth. I think, because he pulled her first one. The crowning event was loosing Three teeth in two days. Mara has continued to amaze us with her capability in reading. This summer she read "the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" three times. MaraLenae is definitely the big sister in our family and loves to mother everyone including me. Mara has taken on the challenge of learning the Harp. This presents a unique challenge for me since I don't read music and to my knowledge there are no harp teachers her in Cheyenne. Grandma Becky gives her a lesson every time they come for a visit.

Teiajanae loves Kindergarten. She had gotten past the shy stage and is really starting to shine. Teia's talent in school so farhas been in math. She can just whiz through simple addition and subtraction problems. Teia is the "pet" of her class. The quite literally pet her and carry her around. She doesn't seem to mind it at all. Teia is still very attached to her stuffed puppy "Bubba", she takes him with everywhere but school. Then I get to, please, watch her. Yes, bubba is a girl. Teia loves to write. You can most often find her with a notebook copying random words she finds.

BeccaCorinne is four years old. That pretty much sums it up. Becca loves dressing up. Her favorite books are the "Fancy Nancy the "pinkalicious" books. Becca loves to write and her name. B is the letter she always goes to first because that's her letter. Becca is very attached to the daughters of our very good friends the Jenkins. There are very few days that she doesn't ask to see Amy and Lydia. Those three are practically joined at the hip. Becca had a lesson in church about three months ago in which they talked about serving like Jesus. Becca, since then loves to "help" me and makes sure that I know that she is serving like Jesus. She also likes to remind everyone(strangers included) that I am not her servant,yet another lesson. Becca is very attached to her blanky and to a stuffed puppy named "Lucky." She even feeds Lucky pretend food. No sweets, it has to be healthy food or he might get a cavity. Becca is still my little cuddle bug and will just curl up in my lap for long periods of time. Becca hates going to bed at night.

I think that gives you all an idea of what we have been doing in this last year. I pray for all of you a happy and healthy new year.May your Christmas be very Merry.

Love to you all