Spinning, Spinning, Spinning!!!

My first Physical Therapy session was yesterday.....I was in pain all night long!!! They tell me it gets better!
My knee has made a lot of improvement since these pics were taken.



We have been leasing the home we have been in for the last year, but apparently the owner hasn't been paying the bank and it was supposed to be sold at public auction TODAY!!! The owner got an extention so we can see if we can buy the house.....our former employer really messed us up that way by the way he "took care of our home in Nevada". We will let you know....hopefully we will be able to swing it!!







Time goes on. Yesterday Preston got his learner's permit and has been driving with his dad ever since. will I think I do what I did when Sandy learned to drive. I made a big sign for the back of the truck that said "Caution: Student Driver and Nervous Parents".




















Aimee graduated from High School and is excited about attending BYU next fall. I had her lei made out of
one dollar bills folded like leaves and blue silk flowers.




A week after I had my surgery Alex had another litter, her fifth, of three females. I have told Rick I want Alex and Walker both "fixed" ENOUGH!!! She started to whelp as I was out the door to have my staples removed so I called a neighbor to attend her while she had her pups. The neighbor and her kids really enjoyed it. Good to have great neighbors!!! That's about it for now. We keep busy but love to hear from you and think of you all the time. Love, Janet

I FELL AND I CAN'T GET UP!!!!

Well, my knee had finally "had it" and so decided last Monday to have my knee replaced the following Wednesday, tje 13th. So you knbow the drill, no food or water after 12 noon the day before but I was finally going to get this thing taken care of. So bright and early Wednesday I was at the hospital waiting axsiously for this new knee. After surgery I was doing great. ThePT
said I was amazing and things were going quite well. By Saturday I was really doing well and words like Amazing were being used discribe my recovery. So Saturday aftenoon I was off to a rehab place to continue my record setting recovery. By 10"00 that evening I was getting ready for bed and and low, something happened and I BROKE MY LEG.......SAME LEG. Just shattered the righ knee cap.....so it's off to the hospital in an amblance for evaluation......they have been evaluating ever since and about 11:00 this morning finally told me they would be doing surgery again tomorrow morning. This really the pitts for a b'day surprise! :o)

You might send up a little prayer for me, I'd appreciate it. My love to all of you and God bless
Janet

What a Busy, Busy Week......I wore a lot of hats!

BE SURE AND READ THE FOLLOWING POST FOR TODAY AS WELL.
I have a friend in our ward here in South Jordan that I have known all my life. Her sister and I were very good friends all through school. Anyway, she has had 10 children.....WOW am I impressed!!! She does have a beautiful family and her husband is in our Bishopric. Anyway, I told her about six weeks ago that I would make her daughter's wedding cake for her reception on March 26th. Well, I have also been called as the Compassionate Service Leader in Relief Society. So on Sunday the 22nd, our neighbor's daughter died and was to be buried on THURSDAY!! I was near panic! But we have wonderful sisters in our ward that really pitched in and helped with the dinners and the luncheon after the funeral. That evening I was able to get the cake to the reception on time......so it was a good day. The neighbor's daughter was handicapped and had lived to be 30. She was a very sweet young lady.....we will all miss her. The bride was beautiful!
The circle of life.

During this time I was also trying to buy our house and the owner is trying to sell it to someone else. There's a story there!! Anyway, we are hanging on waiting for hopefully, good news and won't have to move. But it has been a very anxious few weeks. On top of that I have been dealing with the bank over the house we left in Nevada that the "Godfather" (Rick's boss that brought us back from Nevada and then closed the clinic) was supposed to take care of as part of our employment package. You would think at my age and with my experiences I would have gotten all this in writing, but let me tell you, he was smooth. So I have an appointment tomorrow to continue to deal with that and am anxiously awaiting papers on the house, which may or may not come. But you know what I did during all this stressful time? I shuck (how do you spell "snuck"? and is it even a word? I use it all the time) away, I told my mother in law I had an appointment and I went and got a massage.....didn't tell a soul I just went and guess
what? I am going to have another one this week!! I also think it will help my hip which has never really done as well as I had hoped.

I know the Lord has a plan for us and I only want the house if that is okay with Him and it's his will for us. I know he has a plan and that works for me!!!

A Wedding and a Sealing!!!

March 6th was a wonderful day for our family. (I can not figure out why this is all underlined....and it's so hard to get pics where you want them. )Maybe that's why I don't write in my blog as often as I would like to. I was born a little late for all this high

tech stuff!! Anyway, what a great day. First we went to Amanda and David's sealing and honestly, I don't think I have ever been to a nicer one. It was a very spiritual experience.
Amanda and David looked like the perfect couple they are. We were so glad and happy and grateful to be there. Then we all went to lunch at the Spaghetti Factory at Trolley Square given by David's family and had a wonderful lunch and good time. Then it was back to the Salt Lake Temple were Wendy and Paul were sealed. My heart could've just sung. What a gift that day was. I will always remember and Cherish it. I made the cake as Amanda and David designed it and it turned out just the way they wanted it. I think they did a very clever thing. They had their reception the night BEFORE the wedding, which took all the major stress off of the wedding day itself and after the wedding and the sealing we were all able to go home and just relax.
I am very blessed.

A SHOWER FOR AMANDA!!

The ladies of Amanda's home ward.....and my old ward....gave Amanda a very nice shower
on Thursday February 19th. We had the shower at the home of Marjean Bingham and it
was hosted as only Marjean can do it! It was a fun, fun evening and Amanda received a lot
of very nice things. Next Saturday, after Amanda receives her endowments we will have
a "family shower" and luncheon at Teri's.....I am looking forward to that.
Amanda received a nice set of towels, a shower curtain and hooks from Grandma Nell. I gave her a starter tool kit all her own.......hammer, nails, flashlight etc.,

The excitement is in the air. Only 18 more days until my oldest grand daughter Amanda, marries her sweetheart, David Christensen, in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. We have showers to go to and I am going to make the wedding cake. It will be a white fondant. Then, after Amanda and David's wedding and luncheon, we will go back to the Salt Lake Temple where my third daughter, Wendy, will be sealed to her husband, Paul Gaskins, for "Time and All Eternity". What a great day it will be for our family.

Pretty Views From My Bedroom

The funny story I mentioned on Facebook is the previous entry to this one.

I was making the bed the other day and thought how beautiful the sun was on the Oquirrh Mountains, and I should take some pictures. So here are a few. Our ward building is just to the Southwest of us (Preston jumps the fence) and the Salt Lake Equestrian Center is just to the Northwest of us. Preston goes over to watch the races etc., on a regular basis. We love living here. We are about one mile from a shopping center and a movie theater with 20 screens to the West and we are about five miles to a very big shopping center to the East, along with Costco and dozens of places to eat. There is also a small strip mall about a mile to the East of us. We are 3 1/2 miles from Sonic. Rick is about 3 1/2 miles from work, just across the street from Sonic!!!! I love this location. I hope our offer on the house goes through......time will tell.

If you look really closely at the fourth picture down you can see the new Oquirrh Temple. The Oquirrh Temple is l 1/2 miles to the West of us and the Jordan River Temple is 1 1/2 miles to the East of us.