So the last two years have been bittersweet as Christmas goes. This year we didn't get to have our Bryans and Rex here for our Gardner Christmas Gala, so we have the love of our Savior in knowing we shall be a family forever!!! We are so blessed to have the most awesome individuals in our family!! I love this time of year and will enjoy the opportunity to someday be able to go to wherever our families are!! Our home is blessed to be the central point for our family. I love you all!!!!!

Here he is---here he really is......

Okay, so Verg SAYS he has to go to Tucson Tuesday to get some oxide for the shop. He is usually gone for most of the day so when he comes walking into my office at 4:15 I thought, Wow that was fast! He said that didn't take as long as he thought then the door opened and in walked a handsome young man...wait WHAT....it's REX!! Now he wasn't suppose to be here until the end of January!! Imagine my delight and yes I screamed!! For the past two mornings it has be a blast waking up to our Rex sitting in the recliner!! I just forget sometimes how much I really miss him and how he makes this home light up!! Rex, you do so much good for your mother's heart and your father's too!! We love you!!!

After SIX years, she has "Mastered" it....

She is amazing!!! Yep, she has accomplished her goal in receiving her Masters in Secondary Education in History!! It was a great graduation and we were so blessed to be able to go. Amber and C.J. are going to do great things and now Amber is going for her GHHTMCAPAOTMS (translation: Get Her Husband Through MCAT And On To Med School) degree!!!
We are so proud of you, Ber, and love you dearly!!

Let it snow....

Verg and I went to the Valley today to do some shopping and pick-up a new piece of equipment for the monument company!! We have a "system" moving through the state, the one that hit California pretty hard. On the way back we were going through Superior and it started snowing, I mean REALLY snowing, I have pictures to show it and I will post them when we figure out how to get them off Verg's phone!! It was so beautiful and peaceful and really made me stop to think how blessed we are to have some of Heaven's beauties right now.
I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who loves us UNCONDITIONALLY and is willing to wait for us to find that out!!
May this time of the year help us all to reflect just how important we are in the grand scheme of things!!
I love you all!!!!