Birthdays and Grandkids

Happy Birthday to Craig! Craig celebrated his 60th, yes 60th, birthday on January 6th. Since it was on Tuesday, he was in Rexburg doing the bishop meeting thing. So I decided to surprise him with his favorite--German chocolate cake and ice cream. I was going to take it to Rexburg, but yet again, the roads were very bad, so I sent it up with his counselor. He took it to one of the apartments that they were visiting that night. When they went into that apartment, everyone started singing Happy Birthday...including Craig. He said he was a little embarrassed when they sang, 'Happy birthday, dear bishop,' and he realized it was for him. He was pretty surprised and very happy to have something to eat besides a Big Mac on his birthday.

Saturday, we had another surprise!! We came home from seeing a real movie in a real movie theater to many messages on the answering machine from Rob and Emily's kids. They were in Ririe! Their grandma Carolyn went to Colorado on Dec 30th and brought the kids to Logan so they could start school the first of the year. (Rob and Emily are moving all their stuff to Logan this coming weekend) So Carolyn brought the kids up to a birthday party for a cousin and to see us! We were very happy to hug and kiss the little dears (:D) I am so excited to have them close enough to drive to see rather than having to take a plane. Rob says we'd better go see them a lot while they are there as who knows where in the world they will be after he graduates in June.

It's about Time!!

Having Christmas early

Mckenna and Addie

I know, I know...write a new post for heaven's sake! Christmas has come and gone and January is half over so maybe I'd better write about our Christmas.....not much to write about....really....but it was nice. We had a great Christmas surprise when Jill let us know that we are going to be adding to the grandchildren count in April. Yea, at trip to Hawaii!!! Megan and Clint spent time with us before Christmas which was great. We got to love the little girls and enjoyed opening Christmas gifts with them a day early. It was the Olsen's turn to have them for Christmas so they went to Pokey on Christmas eve. We hosted the annual Summers' soup supper on Christmas eve and had everyone in the Summers extended family in over except our children. It was maybe a good thing that our kids weren't around as there would not have been enough room. But we really did miss them. Someday..... We spent Christmas day home alone as most everyone was snowed in. No Christmas morning family breakfast. We were able to get out that evening and do a little visiting but the road were trecherous. We have had wild and crazy weather here. So what so different about that?!?

Craig spent Christmas vacation worrying about having any girls in his BYU-I ward. The girls' apartment complex raised the rent by quite a bit so many girls found cheaper places to live. When the apartments weren't filling up, the manager moved all the girls to one end of the complex leaving the apartments in Craig's ward empty. After many phone calls the stake redivided the complex between the 3 wards that share them and put about 50-60 girls in each ward. Craig has 50 girls which is quite a change from the 100 girls he had in the fall semester. The typical ratio of guys to girls in a BYU-I ward is 60:100. Craig has 63:50. The girls like it!