New Car

This is my new Car!!!!! It is a Nissan Altima. I really like it and enjoy driving it. I liked my previous Nissan Versa, but this is a lot nicer and more comfortable for me to drive. I find it hard sometimes to fit in cars because I am so short and round!

Crocheting Afghans

These are a few of the Afghans that I have been making lately. This one is for Nicole Witte Nagelschmidt.
This one is for Tovi's new baby. Lanie Vaea Cain.
This rainbow one I gave to a coworker at the hospital for her new baby girl which should be born shortly. I am working on a few more.

April Fool's

Well, what a funny April Fool's Joke!!!! Somebody must have spent all night setting this one up. You would hardly think it was Spring.
I was remembering some of the fun April Fool's Days from my past. When we were kids someone would always trade the salt for the sugar before breakfast, Koolaid was made without sugar. Grandma Henry would come over very early in the morning and with a ball of yarn tie up the cupboard doors, wrap the yarn around the furniture and around door knobs, it was a fun maze and my parents would never let us cut the yarn. It was Grandma Millet's birthday and when we were visiting her there were always lots of tricks pulled. One time my dad made a beautiful birthday cake for her out of a block of wood. He even decorated it so awesomely. She actually started crying when she couldn't cut it with her knife. Then he brought out the real cake. It is fun when you actually fall for the joke. I like to laugh at myself. At work we would list all kinds of weird patients on the board and get a good laugh at the looks on the next shift nurses and doctors faces. One time in Rexburg one of the nurses tied a string around a rocking chair in an empty room and out through the window. He would make the chair rock when people walked by. What a fun tradition and day!!!!!

Visiting

Had a fun visit with my oldest brother Ed and his wife Joyce. We had a nice chat about families, and plans for the future. What a nice afternoon. We also had delicious parsnip soup which Holly made and cinnamon pull aparts. That all just made it perfect. Wish we could have more of these times together.

Broken Foot.

Well here is a picture from last Thursday. I was riding my pet giraffe, he got running really fast and then pulled up short and I fell off (actually I stepped on a blanket, hiding under the blanket was a sippy cup, which of course rolled and tripped me up). It was a long way to fall and of course I twisted both of my ankles. The right one took the full weight of my fall and so I broke my posterior malleolus bone on the lower back of the tibia. I also put a little crack in the fibula. The doctor put me in this boot to support the ankle but told me not to walk on it. So I am hobbling around with a walker, and hopping on my sprained, left ankle.
I am so glad to have good helpers here to take care of me. I am spending a lot of time in the recliner with both legs elevated. Everyone brings me medicine, drinks and anything else I happen to need.
The really frustrating thing is that I can't work until I can walk on the foot. Which means that for now I am using personal leave and my coworkers are having to pick up the shifts. I feel really bad about that, wish I could do something about it, but I can't.
I go back to the doctor on Thursday and then we talk about how well it is healing and what the future course will be.

Rhona and Johnny had a baby girl on January 3. Penelope Joyce. She is way cute. She was born a month early but weighed 5 # 11 oz. Rhona and Penny are doing good.

Busy Body

I was playing with Ady and she was so cute and busy. I was really getting worn out. I turned to her and said, "You are such a cute little busy body." She replied back very indignant. "No Grandma, I not a busy body, I a busy bottom." Later as we were picking up toys, and I bent over to pick up a toy, she said, "Look Grandma has a busy bottom too." I started laughing, that was just the cutest thing. Later as I told her parents the story. I laughed so hard I almost stopped breathing. I haven't had that good of a laugh in a long time. Kids are so cute and keep you young.