winding down

It is hard to believe that six weeks have past since I last posted on the blog.  Maybe no one is following any more.  But it is good for me to bring it up to date.  Mike came out in Dec. following the end of his semester.  We worked hard to get the rest of the family photo's and important documents gathered and put in his dad's apartment.  We had a great time together and it was so good to see him.  This has been a lot of time apart (recently 5 weeks).  I went home for Christmas and Jessica and Jared had decorated the house and got the meals and food ready.  Jessica was so helpful and unselfish.  We really did very little for the kids for Christmas but we had a wonderful reunion and felt a very strong spirit in the home.  It was one of those special Christmas eve's and days never to be forgotten.  Jessica dropped me off at the airport on her way to school so the timing to return to CA worked out great.  I cam back and most of the painting inside was done. 

The cabinets have been my challenge.  I happen to get in the middle of the cabinet makers personal challenges so everything was down hill.  The Lord has blessed me with solutions to the problem they just take time and of course money.  But all in all I fell very blessed.  I was living with a woman from the ward that I have known for 30 years but I moved back into the house after returning from a wonderful week with Tiffany, Nate and my wonderful grandchildren.  Here are some updated picture of the house.  I have quite a few so it may take quite a bit of space. OK I had to add this one of my trip to AZ.  They are so cute and wonderful.