A couple of months ago I went with my daughter and her husband who had a business trip in San Fransisco so I went with them and their 3 children. We went to Fishermans warf and looked across the water to Alcatraz and also went across the golden gate bridge. we also went to china town and bought funny little head massagers and bread from the bakery. My grandaughter was having a little fit about something and one of the little china ladies immitated her bad behavior which made my grandaughter stop immediately what she was doing. We also ate lunch there at a park while the children played with the toys. The park was full of pigeons wanting our lunch. Another day we went to half moon bay and there was an eighty foot dead whale washed up on shore. It had been there for two weeks so it was somewhat decomposed and stinky. It was a tremendous sight. I touched it with my foot. I had shoes on of course.

Christmas was very fun and busy. We had a couple of fun family parties. One was a swedish Christmas party because of our heritage and we also had a program about our Savior with musical numbers from each family unit. Our church ward had a Christmas breakfast with a nice program. All in all it was a great holiday season.

Our daughter Aubrey and husband Jess who already have one little boy are now expecting twin boys in May and we about fainted when we found out. There are several sets of twin boys in our family tree so it shouldn't be such a surprise really. We are excited at the same time.

The snow piled up so quickly after a huge storm yesterday. At the same time a crown on a back tooth of mine has come loose, I have a feeling this tooth might have to be pulled. It feel terrible and I feel like pulling it myself. Our dentist is not back till the new year and in the meantime it hurts . This is like the third crown of mine to have this problem. I really need some tooth implants. Some day I hope. I guess I have to have something fall apart as part of turning 50 soon. I guess there could always be worse things. Grandkids are fighting downstairs and lots of crying is going on. Hopefully things get back to normal next week.