Baby blessing

On Sunday baby R finally got to be blessed. She is now 3 months old and a bit old for a baby blessing, but Amanda has been patient with both sides of her family. In October when she was 1 month old and about the age most people have their babies blessed Dennis was gone Elk hunting. In November at 2 months, Steve's sister has major surgery and needed constant care, so much of Steve's family wouldn't be able to be there, so finally December was the magical month and it is finally done. Amanda made her a beautiful white blessing dress.

Waiting for mommy and grandpa to get the photo shoot set up.


Not too happy about this.


Give me a little more food and I am a much happier baby.


What a little doll!




A good view of the beautiful dress Amanda made for baby R




What a cute smile!

Ice skating

Can I just tell you that we have the best mortgage company in the world. They (Rocky Mountain Mortgage) have several activities throughout the year that they invite all past clients to. Ever since we bought our house 7 years ago we have been invited to their annual summer picnic and swim at Scera pool, Halloween parties, Easter egg hunts and Christmas parties. This year for the first time their Christmas party was ice skating at The Peaks Arena. It was so much fun!! After we left Santa and the train we headed straight to The peaks for 2 hours of a great funfilled time. I was amazed that they even had skates for little L. who is not even two yet. She did pretty good walking in them on the carpeted floor holding someones hand, but being on the ice was not to her liking. She was not in the best of moods yesterday and cried through half of the ice skating as she did through the Santa/train activity. We took turns holding Baby R. and little L. so everyone had a chance to ice skate. It has been years since most of the adults had been on ice skates. In my case it has been over 30 years. The last time I went was at the Provo Boat Harbor (do you old timers remember that?) when Dennis & I were either dating or newly married. Dennis has always been a stuntman on Roller skates, so he took to the ice pretty quickly. At one point we could not find Porter and looked all around. We found him out on the rink holding on to the wall all by himself. He was having such a good time until all the adults started making a fuss about how big he was. Then he got scared and would only go if someone was holding his hand. C & T saw their cousin there and that was cool for them, only the cousin was ready to leave, not so cool. We are all ready and eager to go again. Thanks Rocky Mountain Mortgage for such a delightfully fun afternoon. It was a BLAST!!!

Trains & Santa

>It has become a tradition of ours to go see Santa and the train put on by Dennis' work. First they get to sit on Santa's lap and get a little bag with a small stuffed animal and candy cane and a coloring book on Train safety. Then there are cookies for kids and adults alike. The highlight is to actually climb on an engine and walk all around inside and out. The grandkids think it is way cool.

C on Santa's lap


T on Santa's lap


Amanda's kids on Santa's lap. Little L is not happy about it at all.


Grandpa & Grandma with the grandkids (notice little L is still crying)


Sitting in the Engineers seat


Amanda & Steve's family

Golden Gal

Grandma C. won a contest at the Golden Living Center this past week and was made Queen for the day. She won by telling about how she started painting and telling about one of the few paintings she has left (most of the paintings she has given away to family and I happen to be the lucky recipient of several of them). Here is a picture of the Golden Gal in all her glory minus the flower bouquet.


The picture that made a beautiful lady a winner.

A Golden Living Christmas

Grandma Christensen invited us (Dennis and I) to her Christmas party at the Golden Living Center along with my mom and dad, my sister Nancy and my uncle Wendell. We all showed up to support her and had a lovely time. There was Christmas music in the background while we visited. Then we had a lovely dinner after which there was a raffle. As is usually the case no one from our group won, but that was okay. We enjoyed a great evening with someone we love.

Christmas traditions

It is one of Dennis' favorite traditions at Christmas time to make suckers. (I have to admit that it is not one of my favorite - but some of the kids love it as much as he does). This year Dennis and Amanda got together and made at least 4 double batches. Alisha came to visit and helped them some as well. The house smelled so good with all those flavors. Now I wonder what they are going to do will all of them?

Baby pictures

We realized the other day that we have no pictures of baby R. since her birth. She is now 3 months old, so we did our very own photo shoot. Hope you enjoy!

Isn't she a doll?


Brother and sister lovin' the baby!


What a bunch of cuties!