CHRISTMAS...2012

Pumpkin Rolls...

I know it is crazy...

I wasn't going to make them...

THEN...

Dani said she would do it.

I knew she couldn't do it alone...

SO

Jayden came to the rescue...

Still there was a lot for me to do...

I think it was a project that...

Well...

I had the girls and that made it all worth while.

 Jayden making the filling, Dani making the cakes...

I rolled them and wrapped them...

 The first two of 22...Ready to be wrapped

 There was flour and powder sugar everywhere...

 BUT it did clean up nicely...

Then we delivered them...

 It was icy cold with a strong wind blowing snow...

But these girls delivered all of them except for the two neighbors who were not home.

 It is always so beautiful with the sun and blowing snow...

BUT...

 IT IS JUST SO COLD...

We did the rolls Christmas Eve...

Then in the evening...

 Jayden and Dani's families came for dinner and games...

 I love it when Melissa is here, she brings all her games...

 Dylan found a quiet place to use my Ipod.

Stan and Jose

Christmas 2012..

What a Celestial Day.

Being in Grandma Rosalie's home is like the Celestial Kingdom...

 I got to shower her and get her ready for the day...

Stan and I were just about ready to have her open her gifts...

When,,,

Out on the porch there arose such a clatter....

Wayne and Karen's daughter Katie and her children came to see Great Grandma...

 Of course they saw that it was about 11 in the morning and there were still gifts under the tree.

That can't be....

So these little elves helped her unwrap them...

She was so cute and animated....

What a blessing to have this little family come...

It wouldn't have been near as much fun with Stan and I there...

 She really likes her naps...

Becky and Larry's family also came and sang carols with Grandma.

Oh how she loves to sing...

She sings all the time...

Most of the time it is...

"Wake up and do something more then dream of your mansions above'

She also sings Families can be together forever a lot.

We had dinner and she loved the baked sweet potato.

We also had pumpkin roll and ice cream....

How cute and animated she was at that treat.

The Christmas card she got from Craig and Suzie Campbell was unique...

 Stan and I had a great laugh over this one...

I think Kayleen stitched this for Grandma...

I have always loved it...

Stan's mom is such an angel...

I am so grateful for her and love her so much...

 To His Mother

Mother-in-law! They say and yet

Somhow I simply can't forget

'Twas you who watched his baby wasys

Who taught him his first hymn of praise.

Who smiled on him with loving pride

When he first todled by you side

"Mother-in-law but oh twas you

Who taught him to be kind and true

when He was tired, almost asleep.

Twas to your arms he used to creep.

And when he brused his tiny knee,

Twas you who kissed it tenderly.

Mother-in-law they say and yet

somehow I never shall forget

How very much I owe

to you who taught him how to grow

You trained your son to look above

You made of him the man I love,

And so I think of that today

Ah! Then with thankful heart I'll say

Our Mother...

Down her hall are family pictures...

Stan calls it her hall of fame....

 She loves to have the scriptures read to her...

The day went all to quickly and it was time to tuck her into bed.

Oh how I love this woman. 

 Christmas morning entering Cache valley/Logan...

 Wellsville range

 View of the valley...Covered with a blanket of fog...

 Wellsville range

 Headed down into the valley...

The Sanford and Rosalie Campbell Home....

"There is no fog so dense,

no night so dark,

no gale so strong,

no mariner so lost

but what the lighthouse of the Lord

can rescue.

It beckons through the storms of life.

It calls, 'This way to safety.

This way to home.'

It sends forth signals of light easily seen

and never failing.

If followed,

those signals will guide you back to your heavenly home."

—Thomas S. Monson,