on Sunday our family sang in sacrament meeting. It was me, Craig, Heidi, Rachel, Sarah, Randall,and Amber. It was frightfully scary to do this but we did it. The song was "Come Come Ye Saints". The song in a way reflected what our family has been through this past year.
My grandaughter for some odd reason pressed her top and bottom lip on a hot pan right out of the oven with pizza on it. She cried and wailed for three hours. Luckily she healed in a week, but in the meantime it cured her from sucking her thumb. A bad thing but at least a good thing came out of it.
We went to Idaho this last weekend. We visited Heidi's surgeon that had operated on her a year ago. He was very nice to visit with us and seemed pleased at Heidi' recovery. We told him that we were thankful that he saved Heidi's life. We also visited friends and family there and the president of BYU Idaho and other church BYU leaders there. Heidi bore her testimony in sacrament meeting of her old ward . Over all we had a very nice trip.

My daughter Heidi is doing so much better all the time. I dont have to be right next to her when we are out and about. Her balancing has improved but she would like to be dancing again and that will take a little more time.....She is very inspiring as she keeps on climbing.

My youngest daughter is a cheerleader and her team held a clinic for young girls. My 4 year old grandaughter got to participate and cheer for a half time game and thorougly enjoyed it.

I just recently sewed in the sides of two bridesmaids dresses for the daughters of our friends in the ward. They are a beautiful shiny silver color. I also maide some bonnets and pioneer dresses for an upcoming trek we are having in June for the Stake. I will post pictures soon....!
I have also been adding pretty fabric and crotcheted flowers to headbands. I want to have another boutique at my house this summer....Everyone come!

I am going to Zumba at the Rec Center tonight with my daughter Rachel. Heidi tried once but felt she wasn't ready yet to dance so fast

My niece was just married in the Salt Lake Temple....I was able to watch the beautiful ceremony as they were married for time and all eternity.

I feel so good because I just finished clleaning out my kitchen closet. I got rid of some old table cloths. I was afraid of what i might find, but with some cleaning out and wiping, it is much more cleaner and organized. I ran my fingers through my hair and they got stuck. That stuff is most likely from when I snuggled with my grandbaby. All the family was here on saturday and they were all making different things in the kitchen, mostly messes. Somehow we managed to get it clean eventually. I made up a pattern for a crocheted candy kiss holder. It makes up to be about 6 inches high. I will post the pattern later.

My cute family!

a sew day

my 20 year old daughter Heidi suffered a stroke from an avm which is a tangled vein in her brain that she was born with . It was january 26 of last year that this happened. She has come so far since then. It has been a very long and hard journey. She walks with little balance trouble now and her words are much more clear and precisel. If you want to know more about her go to her blog at heidistaynews@blogspot.com. She is presently working on crocheting a hot pink blanket for herself. Her small motor skills seem to be close to normal. My daughter Sarah brought her sewing machine over here. Her mother in law bought her one for her birthday recently and some patterns. She wants me to teach her how to sew something. I had some lime green fabric and gave it to her and she is going to make her 4 year old daughter a dress. We shall see anyway. The grandkids are running from back and forth from the living room to the kitchen.

My headbands and Hats!

These are a sample of my headbands and hats that I have made. My daughter and her friends are the models!