February 2014 - Snow!

 Casey sent me this adorable picture of Dalton yesterday and I just had to post it.  Wish I was there to hold and hug him!  He's 9 weeks old already!  It makes my day when I get a picture of my grandchildren or get to talk to them!

More snow for Vancouver - this is our biggest winter storm since 2008.  I love the beautiful snow and made some yummy snow ice cream last night.  My mom said we made it when I was a kid but I don't remember.  This is our third day of being snowed in.  Freezing rain is in the forecast next as the temperatures should start rising.  I walked 2.5 miles in the snow yesterday.  It was quite the workout!

Piano Guys and Breakfast - Eugene/Tualatin, Oregon

 I got to spend 18 hours with Nate, Misty and the kids this week.  It was so much fun.  I met them in Eugene at Pizza Research Institute for dinner.  It was so good.  We had a pear, pesto, red potato pizza and it was unbelievably delicious.  I would love to go there again.  

Then Misty, the girls and I went to the Piano Guys concert.  You can see that our tickets were the top of the balcony.  The usher was wonderful.  After the show started, he came and told me that he found better seats for me and Adalei since my seat was behind hers and he moved us to the floor, last row.  I was so impressed with him.  Then at intermission, he moved Misty and Brielle to come sit with us.  When I bought tickets the show was almost sold out and only single seats were available to buy so we couldn't sit together.  The usher said he thought we would enjoy the show more if we could sit together.

 We loved the concert.  It was awesome!  It was very windy and temperatures around 20 degrees so we were cold outside.  They were selling CDs at the concert and I checked amazon - the prices on amazon were less than 1/2 the price of CDs at the show.  I ordered CDs that will be delivered to them today.  The CD is also a DVD so I thought that was a great deal for approximately $10.

 Nate was in Tualatin for business so he drove the boys to a hotel there after dinner.  Then the rest of us drove there after the concert.  I had a separate room with Adalei, Brielle, and Elijah.  We had a fun time the next morning watching piano guys videos on my phone waiting for everyone else to get up.

 I think breakfast took us close to 2 hours.  The kids colored and Brielle posed for me with the chef that they gave her.  You can see Nate in the background on a business phone call.

After this long but delicious breakfast, we took the kids swimming for a few minutes and then checked out of the hotel.  We had planned to go to the Portland Aquarium but didn't have time to do so.  We're saving the tickets for next time they come.  By then it started to snow and Misty needed to get air in the tires of her van so I went with her there and then left shortly afterward to go home.  The roads were packed with traffic and icy so it was a stressful drive home.  It was a great 18 hours with Nate and his family.  I'm so grateful they invited me to spend this time with them.  It will be a long wait until April when I see them again.

This is a picture of the delicious pizza!  Yum!

Grandma Creek Visiting Grants Pass

Grandma Creek made several visits to Grants Pass in 2013 for dental appointments.  I enjoyed seeing her and we had fun visiting Nate's family.  Isaiah was really good for his great-grandmother.  She came in the spring with Carma and then came again a couple of months later.

Adalei's Baptism - September 28, 2013

 For Adalei's baptism, we had the whole family there and all the cousins sang at the baptism.  Casey and family, Jason and family, and Charity were there.  Misty's sister Sarah and her family were there along with Misty's parents also.

 Nate baptized Adalei.  She looks so happy.

 A picture of the proud grandmothers - Misty's mom, Stephanie, and me with Adalei.

 This is a group picture of everyone at the baptism.

 A picture of Adalei with her family and her three grandparents.

 A lovely picture of Adalei with her mom.

 After the baptism, we had BBQ and Casey/Nate were clipping the chickens' wings so they wouldn't fly.

 Casey hung onto that chicken.

 Ready to clip her wings.

 Weston helping.

 Paisley, Benson, Elijah, and Braxton playing in the stream in the back yard.

 Brave Weston!

 A great picture of Elijah!

 Adalei in her baptism dress at the Medford temple.

 Before the rest of the family arrived, I took Adalei, Brielle and Elijah on "dates."  We went out to eat and then I got them something.  Elijah picked a plastic pumpkin and a dog toy after we had lunch at Subway.  He was so excited - I had to take a picture.

Brielle and I went to Shari's for dinner.  Adalei and I shopped at Fred Meyer's for a princess carriage for her.

 For Adalei's birthday, I got her luggage.

 Adalei has her scriptures and her luggage.  We thought she looked like a missionary getting ready to leave home.

 Adalei's birthday cake and the sundae cupcakes that were delicious.  She was making a birthday wish in this picture. 

 Adalei with her parents.

 Adalei and her family.

Adalei holding eight white carnations a friend gave her at the baptism.

It was wonderful to have all my children and their families at the baptism.  I gave the talk on "baptism" at the baptism.  I was so excited to be there and be part of this special event.

(Thank you to Misty and Sarah for the pictures.  I lost all my pictures of the baptism trip when my computer crashed in November.)