Just had to say a little bit about Wesley's farewell...
Our church time's overlapped, so we were going to miss the last hour of our meetings to get to hear him speak.
Kelley and KC and Candice went over after Sunday school...so glad Candice could spend the day with us....so fun to have her with us for the whole weekend!
Stacey had asked me to help the young women learn this song to sing during her Relief Society lesson next week, and last week when we practiced it, well, they needed a lot more work on it.  So I was going to go in there with them for a few minutes, then head over to the other building. 
Well those few minutes turned into a half hour...they were really doing pretty well with the song, but it just took that long.  So as soon as we got done, I hurried over to their church.  When I walked in, they were just finishing singing a musical number, so I thought I had missed his talk.  Then to reinforce...KC said...yup you missed it. (ooooh I will get him!) Then this other speaker got up and took till almost 2:00.  Then Brett got up there and sang a song I had never heard before.  It was really good!  Wow!  He has a real nice voice! Who knew?
 Then after he sat down, Wesley got up there to talk!  I was so glad I hadn't missed it!  He gave a really good talk...seems like the extra time has helped him be really ready for his mission.  He will be a great missionary in Argentina.
We went over to their house after church.  It was great to see all the Wrights....they are like second family to us.  Also very good to have a chance to sit and visit with all of our dear friends. We laughed a lot, which really felt good...just what I needed.  That really topped off the Thanksgiving weekend.  I feel so blessed to have all  these people in my life.

Kelley's been working on some fun "projects" out in the garage.

Comes in from the hut completely covered in fine saw dust. ( Can't wait to see what he's done!)

I think his favorite project though is to give me fits.  The other night we were making some fudge and I ran out of chocolate chips, so I called Stacey to see if I could borrow some.  I was going to send Kelley down there to get them, but he has had a bad cold and I could tell he wasn't feeling very good, so I said never mind, I'll go get them.  So I ran down there.

On the way home, as I ran past Jerry's wall, Kelley jumps out from behind it like he's going to grab me.  Yes, I wet my pants.

(p.s. thanks for sharing that with our friends at church yesterday...ha!  just remember what Karl says...what go round, come round)

 These are some projects I've been working on.... hmmm this one is only a year late!

For Emily's new little one....

I walked out the door the other day with these two shoes on.  Wow, besides the bladder control problems, I apparently can't see very well either!

Scaring myself.

Love this picture of Sam...surprised?  No.  Camille said he just really wanted to get out of that jacket.  Does not like long sleeves. Gosh I'm missing them a lot.  Think it's time for a visit!

What a nice Thanksgiving....so great to  have Katie here with us for a few days!

  We.....shopped, baked, played games, ate... (a lot), napped, watched movies, made candy, ate candy, snuggled on couch, crocheted ( is that how you spell it?) shopped some more....yes, we were brave!, visited with friends and family, and before we knew it, it was time for Kate to leave.

The only thing we were missing. (Kellen too!)

And we were sure missing them.

Toothless old biddy

So Thursday, I started having a toothache. It was on the top, so I hoped maybe it was just my sinus's.
Friday was no better...in fact. it was way worse. So I called Dr. L. This answering machine came on saying it was someone named Trish.  What?  I probably mis-dialed, but took it as a sign that i needed to find a new dentist.  So I called Travis to see if he would look at my teeth.  He said he is working in a pediatric office now, so he referred me to his buddy Dave.  Dave has done some work on Kelley and Katie and they both liked him, so I gave him a call.  I told  him I was in quite a bit of pain, so he said to come in that afternoon. 
They took a bunch of x-rays and poked around in my mouth.  Then after a long look at my x-rays, he says...."I have some bad news.  Not only is the tooth that hurts probably a goner, but there is one on the bottom that looks really bad too."  Really?  But that can't be!  I brush and floss every day...and for the past week, I haven't eaten hardly any candy! 
He said the teeth with the problems had crowns on them that had kind of fallen apart under the crown.  How does this happen?  ok, aside from me eating waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much candy.  Shouldn't they hold up better than that?
He said he couldn't fix it that day, so he sent me home with some pain pills to get me through the weekend, and told me to come in on Tuesday.
So Tuesday, I went back in and he went to work on the tooth on the top that was hurting me.  He took off the crown...no wait first he has to deaden the top of my mouth...I really hate that.  dang, it hurts getting a shot in the roof of your mouth. 
Anyway, after I was good and numb, he took off the crown and started drilling.  He said there was a lot of decay but he would try to save the tooth.  He drilled and drilled.  Then he said, "Well, there isn't much left of that tooth now".  He said he could try to build it up with posts and stuff, but he was afraid it wouldn't work out very well in the long run.  He said he would rather do an implant there.  Implant???? NOOOOOOOOO!  I told him about all the trouble I've had with the implant I got from Dr. L.  He said that wouldn't happen on the top teeth, because there are no nerves there.
  Oh man, I felt like crying.  He was really sorry and I think a little afraid to tell me this...
So after we talked a while, I decided to go with the implant.  He said he wanted to do a bone graft after he removed the tooth so I would have a strong area for the implant.  So he pulled my tooth.
It was.....difficult.  By the time he got it out, I had tears running into my ears.  It didn't hurt...just so much pressure.  I felt like he was pulling my cheek bone out.
After breaking it into pieces, he finally got it out.  He cleaned it up and put this bone graft stuff up in the hole it left.  Then he sewed it shut.
I  will go back in a few months and have him start the implant process. 
Not cool.
I had a flash back of  standing at the bathroom mirror doing mum's hair.  She smiled (showing the  missing the tooth (partial) that she kept losing, so we finally just didn't replace it) a big smile and looking at her reflection said in her sweet voice..."You toothless old biddy!"

Well,  after another wonderful day with my sisters at mum and daddy's place, these are a few treasures I came home with. 

Mum didn't do a lot of stitchery like this, so this was pretty neat to find.

Brenda told us that the canyon had been closed on Friday so we didnt' know for sure if we would be able to make it through on Saturday morning.  It cleared off though and the snow plows did their job so we sailed right along.  Mum got a lot more snow than we did...about 10 inches!  Turned the place into the enchanted winter wonderland we all love.  Made my heart ache when I thought about this being the last fall-winter season we would spend looking out the kitchen window at this beautiful sight.

We decided to tackle daddy's room.  We've been moving everything that we didn't want to deal with in there...and it was about stacked to the ceiling.

We went through the coat rack of mum's old coats and daddy's hats.  Daddy had some real nice ones he would wear to church or special  occasions.

 We went through the beautiful cabinet in there and cleared out all books and nick knacks.  There were a few things in there we still couldn't decide what to do with, so we put them in a different pile in that room.  Ha!   I'm afraid we are going to need till June to get this done!

We found several flower arrangements mum had made that had ended up in that room and divided them all up.  These big white flowers were on the dresser upstairs  in the room where I would sleep for as long as I can remember.

We found some cool books about Providence and her people.  These ladies were my mom's friends and I remember them fondly from church, moms club, and just being neighbors. 

There's a big pheasant up there under those trees...really!

\Aaron said the deer have been wandering around the yard already too.

We took  more pictures and  things off the walls, stirring up a ton of memories of gifts and projects from Birthday's, Christmas's and mother's day's of the past. 

This was a favorite one of mine because it described how daddy was with the grand kids to a T.

We found some great old pictures that are real treasures!

This is mum when she was six.  So cute!

Bruces band..."The Esquires"

 I love this picture of daddy. 

And this one of mum and Mittens.

A teen age Bruce

Daddy with his war buddies

His horse "Dusty" 

 He used to tell us about how he worked for a man on a ranch in Wyoming during the summer and for his pay, the ranch owner let him find a wild horse and keep it.  He found "Dusty" and brought him home and tamed him.    When he went on his mission, he took him back up to Wyoming and let him go....then when he got home from the war, he went back up and found him and brought him back home and rode him for many more years.

Home...

My grandma and grampa...Elmer and Lena Yost....I didn't  get a chance to know her here on this earth...she died when I was one.  I've heard so many lovely things about her though...looking forward to meeting her in heaven.

Wow this is a good one.  The whole Braegger clan....and this is grandma and grampa Braegger and their kids.

 The old Providence elementary school...I can still picture where each of my classes were and my teachers faces.

 Another classic...all of us girls as teen-agers!

 Dreamy...right?  Mom was a beauty!

I'm sure grateful mum and daddy kept all these pictures and things.  It makes it a little easier to let go knowing we can always look at these pictures and remember people, places and how our lives were growing up there. 

I saw a quote the other day that got me thinking...

"What if you woke up today with ONLY the things you thanked Heavenly Father for last night?"

I know I'd have my family...they are always at the top of the list of my "thankful for" in my prayers!

 Miss them so!

Love having KC back with us!...he brings such a great spirit into our home!

 So thankful for Kelley!  He's an amazing husband and wonderful father! If I started listing reasons why I'm thankful for him, I'd be here all day.

For my beautiful,  loving, supportive, smart, funny, kind hearted girls.

Pretty cool how these amazing girls have grown up to be my very best friends.

They are funny and  always make me smile!

So thankful for my family!