Time for change

There comes a time for change...

We blogged our two year mission...

Home coming...

Reentry into the 'Family World'...

It has been fun...

We enjoy looking back at what we have done this year...

The fun..

The Trials...

The changes..

I will make entries...

But they won't be as regular...

Check in once in a while if you want...

The passing of many friends...

and Family...

Has changed my direction...

I have numerous thoughts and feelings...

A place to record those is what I want to do...

BUT...

For this week... 

 We started back at the temple this week...

There was freezing ice...

Burrrrr.

Michelle's birthday was January 15...

Stan and I took her and Mike to lunch at the River Rock Grill.

It was good to visit with them...

They both look really good...

Forgot to take a picture.

It was time to take care of the year end projects...

I collected all our tax important receipts etc...

and filed them in a two gallon Zip Lock bag with 2012 on it...

Very simple filing system.

I record a journal daily...

Nothing much...

But...

it dose serve as a reference...

When we can't remember how something happened...

I can refer back to what my perspective was...

We were married in 1967

But I didn't really start a journal till 1971.

It was by hand in a note book...

I did transfer them to type written when we acquired a computer...

I also keep letters and memorabilia from friends and family. 

It is kind of a history of our family and friends in a very loose way.

2012 Journal and memorabilia

I love the scriptures...

I love the feeling I get when I read them...

I am so grateful for my calling as Gospel Doctrine Teacher...

It is humbling...

I also wonder 'why me'?

I feel so selfish...

I learn so much more than what I give...

Our weather has gone from Extremely cold...
To quite warm and balmy...
This caused the snow in the roof to melt and drop...
Stan shoveled I believe three times Saturday...
this is almost midnight...

Through the night we had another 5-6 inches of snow...

The picture below is what Stan had cleared the night before...

We had a snow day from church today...
It has been quiet...
We are together...
That doesn't happen much.

This week Mary sent a message from by Elder F. Enzio Busche .
It is a video created to go along with his talk in 1997
I will leave the link here as my thought this week.

We are never to old, or knowledgeable to be able to:

'Unleash the Dormant Spirit in us"

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAjZ8mfoYw&feature=youtu.be        

A successful but very cold week...

The Neilson's in Smithfield...

Once again allowed me to crash at their home...

THANK YOU SO MUCH...

At the end of the week...

I was given a clean bill of sale from Dr. Clegg...

and

Ryan who is my therapist...

YES!

I feel great...

I have a lot of weight to lose...

Energy to find...

and my life routine to give me sense of direction.

There are those in our family who have had ...

Trials this year as well...

I AM MAKING A DECLARATION!

2013 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD YEAR!

(Knock on wood)

Better news then that!

We have a new grandson...

Steve and Natalie AND Claire...

Have a new little boy...

Cash Hazelton Campbell

Born January 16, 2013

      This was taken when he was first born...

Look at those eyes...

When Steve called me about an hour after the birth...

He was screaming...

He is here and everyone better watch out!

the Neilson family all have their birthday's within a couple of weeks...

Starting with Jordon and ending with Becky...

We always find a fun place to go celebrate.

This year is was The Coppermill.   

 Thank you guys for all you do for us...

( Larry Becky Sydney and JORDON now 13)

The next night Elder Cody Hyer and his beautiful wife Brooke...

Chose The Coppermill to meet and eat...

Good thing the Coppermill has super food.  

       He was a great missionary...

But we got to know him well when we were in the office...

And he was an Assistant to the President.

 It was so good to visit...

We were almost escorted out because we were visiting to long.    

I also saw two good movies I would like to recommend.
Les Miserable and Lincoln.  
(both very long but worth it) 

Good times....

BUT...

It is so cold...

Cache Valley is a bowel...

It catches and hangs on to that cold air FOREVER....

It is beautiful....

Diamonds floating in the air...

Covering the ground...

The fog leaves everything looking like a scene from Dr Zhivago

The sunset....

      

 The purpose of mortality...
 is to learn and to grow...
 to be more like our Father, 
and it is often during the difficult times...
 that we learn the most, 
as painful as the lessons may be."—

Thomas S. Monson,

Looking up....

Life is looking good...

I can sleep flat on my back...

I can go up and down stairs carrying things. 

I cleaned the larger portion of my house...

BY MYSELF...

 

I have nothing but gratitude in my heart for the healing taking place in my body.  

 

The Twin Falls Temple is closed for two weeks of cleaning and maintenance.   

With the day free...

I have been doing double time on therapy...

 Larry and Becky have made their home available to me.

They have a room and bathroom downstairs that I can use.

I can study my Gospel Doctrine lesson...

I can exercise...

and Sleep!

This is Logan Therapy...

 

  The people here know me well...

First my knee...

Now my back...

They are so friendly and fun.

I love going and getting that extra boost.

It has really helped me...

It feels good to be more independent...

Yes I get tired...

I am still very weak..

BUT

I feel daily improvement.

I am knocking on wood when I say this...

BUT...

I am so excited...

I want to claim my health again.

        

 Princesses everywhere....

 Reigan was invited to a princess party...

Beth Campbell took Reigan and her daughter Naomi over to Malta Saturday morning...

Beth's comment was that was quite the 'gaggle' of princesses.

 She loves her Bell dress and was so excited to wear it...

Nothing like a princess around the house to make things...

magical. 

I only stayed in Logan two days instead of three for Thearpy...

Because of the winter storm...

So glad I did.

The next day the high way closed down.

I would have been out till Friday sometime...

When the storm settled and the sun came out...

It was so beautiful.

Stan said on the way to church today...

It is wonderful the way the Lord makes snow so beautiful.

That helps us to endure it.       

 Picnic table

 That read strip...Sand box...

 After Stan shoveled...

The pat to Ben's...

Kids who come and go to chore have paved the way.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ

 is the very root of Christian doctrine.  

You may know much about the gospel 

as it branches out from there,

 but 

if you only know the branches

 and those branches do not touch that root,

 if they have been cut free from that truth,

 there will be no life 

nor substance

 nor redemption in them.

Boyd K Packer

Love

Today I have been pondering life...

and...

love.

As far back as I know...

in my family there has been contention among siblings.

Way back to Joseph Elijah Fordom

No details...

BUT

It is something that has prevailed...

I have overcome a lot in my life...

I have tried so hard...

BUT

There is that same contention amongst our children...

I pray for healing...

I pray that Love will prevail...

Saturday Stan and I had the privilege to witness family love in action.

Our dauther in law Melissa Moser Campbell

Comes from a family that is a perfect example of that Christ like Love that should exist in families.

 Melissa's mother passed away Wednesday January 2, 2012

After a extremely valiant battle with cancer...

She wouldn't take it lying down...

Nor did she allow her family to give up.

One thing she taught her family was...

I may not love what you are doing 

BUT

I Love You.

This was really put to the test when her son declared he was Gay.

It took the wind out of the family.

BUT...

This great lady reached out and loved her son and his partner.

She showed the others how love works...

The funeral was beautiful

One of the best I have ever attended.

BUT...

It was the lesson this family taught us that spoke louder than words.

This wonderful son...

Was included in the program...

He was given pure unconditional love by all his siblings and extended family.                 

Love can be given to anyone...

NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO OR SAY.

The Savior taught that great lesson in the life He lived.

 

Darlene Marie  Briggs Moser

March 31, 1939 - January 2, 2013

 It is always amazing to me to see these guys...

Pallbearers... 

So much love and tenderness for the deceased.

So much Priesthood power..

Lined up to do such a wonderful work.

 Ben and Melissa with Melissa's sister next to her with Ross.

Grandpa Ross saying his last good bye's

 It was so cold...

Yet these flowers...

Like Darlene...

Just wouldn't give up.

Ben's family absent is little Ross.

 

She will be missed...

But the legacy she left will live on in her children and grandchildren.

New Year 2013

We went to bed early

BUT

New Years day we had Chris' family and Ben and Steve

for a wonderful meal.

Melissa was with her family in Rigby.

So glad she could be there with her mom.

Reigan was cold so she put the heat pack on her head...

 

Reigan playing picture domino's with Grandpa

 Sierra and Jayden

 Jose

 Reigan is still trying to get warm...

This time in Jayden's coat.

 Maybe Serra thinks she is our couch...

 

 Angie knows her computer...

She is an up and coming computer Geek.

 Jayden is still working on our Santa puzzle.

 

 Sierra is quite the gal...

 Oh oh...

This is what I get for giving Reigan the camera to click some Pics.

 

 Seirra again being herself...

   

Becky and Larry's family came out to visit and play in the snow...

they brought this to us...

Five years ago our daughter husband and little girl were killed in an accident.

The girls collected Audrey's things and were going to make a shadow box out of it.

Years have passed and I thought it was forgotten...

Well Larry built the shadow box 37x37 sq.

It is very impressive...    

 When Becky put it together she left the pants with the dirt

Boots with manure..

clogs with dirt still on them...

Her little gloves just as she left them

She was only two but she did a few competitions for toddlers

some of which included a stick horse...    

 The last Rodeo...

Diana Jo (aka Joie) was competeing.

It was her first year for real Queen Competition.

She got Miss Conventionality.

Not quite eight years old...

  

 That same day Audrey did her stick competition.

 Here she is with the other toddlers and her prize in hand...

The blue ribbons in the shadow box came from actual competition on a horse.

 Here she is watching her big sister perform.

  

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It has been very cold...

We have had fog that has kept us a little bit warmer then surrounding areas.

It is so beautiful as much as I hate it.

I couldn't stop taking pictures of the snow.

 Blackpine..

 Entering Logan...

 The temple is so pretty on the hill...

Sorry about all the stuff in front of it.

 In the Evening coming home from Logan...

 The fog frost everything...

 Sunrise on our trip up to Rigby for Darlene Moser's funeral...

 Dani showing off her new hardware...

 Melissa came home with the kids then went to Logan to get braces for Dani...

All planned before Melissa's mom died.

 The boys..

Dylan and Ross above...

Ben and Steve below...

Having some of Grandma's 'Campbell' soup.  

Today the fog lifted...

Sunset coming home from the funeral...

President Thomas S. Monson January 2012

Living the abundant life.

At the advent of the new year.

I challenge latter-day saints..

 everywhere to undertake a personal,

 diligent, 

significant 

quest for what I call the abundant life-- 

a life filled with abundance of success,

goodness,

and blessings.

Just as we learned the ABC's in school.

I offer my own ABC's to help us all gain the abundant life

A. Have a Positive Attitude.

William James wrote, 

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery

 that human beings,

 by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,

 can change the outer aspects of their lives.    

B.Believe in Yourself.

B is for believe--

in yourself,

in those around you.

and in eternal principles.

C. Face Challenges with Courage.

C is for courage.

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue

when it is regarded not so much as a willingness

to die manfully

but

as a determination to live decently.