My first posting!!

My daughter's, Stephanie, Stacie and Christine thought that I should create a blog so a couple of weeks ago with their help I started a blog. So here goes with my first posting! I'm so new at all of this that I almost chose the font Webdings but then I realized you might not be able to read it! LOL! So I changed it to Georgia!

Lately I've been thinking about what I'm grateful for. Life definately gives us challenges, but we have so much to be grateful for and I know I need to focus more on the positive in my life! I'm so grateful for the Gospel in my life; I don't know where I would be with out it! Next I'm grateful for a wonderful husband---we've been married almost 38 years!! Can't believe it! Steve is a wonderful, kind, compassionate person! Then I think about our three wonderful children and the three great mates that they are married to! And they have blessed us with eight beautiful grandchildren---that have touched our lives with joy and happiness! I feel so blessed! My family means soooo much to me!

A couple of weeks ago Steve turned 60, so we had a surprise birthday party for him that the theme was Scottish! It was a lot of fun planning and preparing for his party! Stephanie, Greg and kids came from Utah and surprised him Friday night, then the guys took Steve golfing Saturday and the surpirse party was Saturday night. We had a bagpiper, Highland dancers, a Scottish trivia game and a game about Steve! It was a lot of fun to get together with family and friends!

So for now I think this is the end of my first posting, but as I end this I wanted to share a thought. I've been reading a book by Jeffrey R. Holland -- Broken Things to Mend and one of his quotes is as follows: No earlier people down through the gospel ages---including our own parents, in many cases---have had anywhere near the blessings that you and I have been given.