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!!!!

Yup, I'm lovin' the Holidays.......

Sometimes it takes a moment to remember why you feel so blessed, so I am going to try my best to scratch the surface of my thankfulness. Here goes!
I am so blessed to have the Savior in my life, for His Atoning sacrifice and His unconditional love for me!
I am so blessed to be married to my best friend and the love of my life. I will always say (and you can quote me): "Thank heavens for Seminary"!
I am so blessed to be the mother of five incredible people, for their love and support for their Father and I and for each other. I am also blessed to be the MIL of four of the most awesome people our children are able to call their spouses!
I am so blessed for eight of the most perfect little people (with more to come) and I pray I am always the best example I can be as their Mimi!
I am so blessed to have the extended family I have, for their wonderful examples and for the intergity they bring into my life!
I am so blessed to have the friends I have and how they are like my family more than they realize!
I am so blessed to be living in this great country~America! For the liberties and rights I enjoy every day!
I am so blessed to have the job I have, for my family of the people I enjoy working with every day! Also for all the jobs I have had and the MANY experiences and ideals I have been able to work with and for!
I am so blessed to be a member of this glorious gospel, for the Prophet Joseph and all the horrific, joyful, tender, Divine inspirations and for all his family when through.
I am so blessed to the testimony I have and every day is a new learning experience for me and I grow with each and every time in physical and spiritual situations I have! For the blessings of the Temple so I may know Him and run to Him not away from Him!
I am so blessed to have the small joys and loves in my life that I pray I NEVER take them for granted!!
Yes, I am so richly blessed way beyond what I deserve!!
Happy Thanksgiving to all and I love you!!!!

Well ........

So has it been this long since I last posted!!!! WOW!!!! I guess some things are better left unsaid but for this long, gudfree!!!!!

The family is well and as usual, Mimi is having TheronSydneyCodyWyatt withdrawals and I am so ready for the holidays!! Mind you there is a slew of things that need to be completed but more the merrier (what am I saying!!??) so now I have the where-with-all to get, oooohhhh, about 60% done!!!

I must post that my sweetheart excepted a calling as Ward Executive Secretary and he is doing smashingly!! I am so proud of him and as he honors his priesthood I have the peace of mind and heart our lives are only getting better!!! Of course he and Bishop Hackett are having way to much fun with this calling but Bishop knows Verg has his back at all times!!

The weather is now in my most favorite mode~AUTUMN~and I couldn't be more happier (unless surrounded by eight of THE most perfect little people); the air is crisper, the cotton is ready to be picked, the sea of white from the cotton bolls make it look like a snow storm was dumped on the Gila Valley, how everything is getting ready for the cold bite of Winter (ugh)!!!

I am in a warm, fuzzy, loving place right now not saying it might overturn but I can be of good cheer knowing my Savior has my back!! I send love to each and everyone of my family, immediate and extended, near and far!!

The best is yet to come!!!

Ber and Cheej's New Hall Director Apt...

This is what you move "up" to when you are elevated to Hall Director!! This apartment is huge compared to their first place in the Married Housing just across the street from this apartment.
As you can see it is quite comfortable and the principle characters in the pictures are: C.J., Amber's husband in the role of Hall Director, Chris Angle, Amber's Dad and Verg, SueEllen Angle, Amber's mom. They also found out that during Christmas break the maintanence department is putting in new carpet and renevating the kitchen which means they will need to move their things and furniture around again. This was to be done during the summer break but NNNOOOOOOOOOO much to easy.
C.J. has two RA's under him and his boss known only as Peggy (to the rest of us) informed C.J. he will be on all the committees she is suppose to be on including the committee for the new dorms which includes but not limited to: WNMU new president, the contractors and C.J. representing the WNMU Housing Dept. sssooooo he will be a VERY busy fellow. When does the pre-med classes come to play in this scenerio?!! Amber begins her semester, student teaching at a high school in another community!
We are so very proud of them and as we are of all our children, they are doing so good!!!