OK, I lied

The last swim of the season, our pool closes, usually right after Labor Day, but this year it didn't close until the 15th of Sept.
My 3 Jim Fernley Muggles love to swim, at the beginning of the year Nathan would Hadley get off the steps, now he is going under water and jumping off the edge what an improvement.  C.J. could almost swim the width of the pool, but now can swim the length and is becoming very good at the back stroke.  Emily is a fish.  She like to dive to the bottom of the pool and attempt to retrieve whatever is down there. (She usually throws something in). 
We had a great pool year and was sorry when it was over - however, next year is coming!!!

One last catch up post

A Grand-daughter-in-law came to visit this summer and brought two of our darling great grand daughters.  Asuka was in town, she and Ward live in So. Cal., and she came to see us for a couple of hours.  Asuka we really appreciate your effort to let us into your busy life. 

Misaho is 4, I think and Maia is 3?  they are so cute and mature and I can't keep track of all the grands let alone the greats.  Here are some pictures of the girls, they are growing so fast!!

We had a great visit, Misaha wanted to take some pictures, here are some of the things she was interested in:

Thank you again Asuka for including us in your schedule!

September is almost over, however we did get to the Open House of the Brigham City Temple, then last week on the 23 Sept. we attended the dedication of that beautiful temple.  I love the technology that allows us to participate in temple dedications as well as conference in our Stake Centers and of course Conference at home!!  Below are pictures of the Brigham City Temple.
As you can see we went with "The Josephs" two of our favorite people to travel with or play cards with or quilt with (David doesn't quilt).  It is so fun to live close to my sister.

Across the street from the temple is the "famous" Brigham City Tabernacle, and yes we had to go through that building as well.  My HH loves to tour temples and tabernacles.

Catching Catching up

Hooray!! I just found the post I thought I had deleted!!  So today you get a double dose of catching up!!  Gene and I went on a road trip this week and that is my next project so "Stay Tuned".

June was fun - I got at least 20 years older and our little C and then J Fernley turned 8 and was baptized. Katie reported her mission the next day.  look for pictures at the end of this post, I'm not cleaver enough to get them in where they belong.

Unlike most that has a "Summer Vacation" every day is a vacation for me so I'm having a difficult time putting "stuff" in content.  Anyway, July was fine, at the end of July we (Gene and I) went to BYU Idaho for Education week.  A beautiful campus, and area, no wonder Tasha is happy to go to Idaho to school and Nicole likes to go "home" for vacation ets.,

RosaLee and I have worked on several projects, some day I'll get some pictures and post them.  One in particular was a challenge and after it's quilted I'll post it.

The "cousins" got together once in a while, Jemma likes to come visit with the Fernley Cousins so when they come for a day I like to have her come as well. 

I love living in Utah close to family, I can play with my grandchildren, we go to the pool and there is usually come crafts to do and Jemma and Emily change my doll's cloths.  In July the doll had her Halloween costume on, Jemma wanted her to be a witch, but after Jemma left Emily wanted her to have her green dress on.  Fun, Fun little girls - we must have a tea party soon, I wonder if the boys will join us.

 

Catching up!

I am so far behind, I started to catch up a few weeks ago, then I "hit a wrong key" and deleated the whole thing.  Soooooo I gave it up!!  So here is the importing activity I wanted to report:

Our C and then J (Christopher James Fernley) was baptized on the 22 of June by his Dad. 

Handsome Men in my family????  Need I say more about this fun day?

Guess who came to see us??

My Brother John and his wife Theresa came "flying" through the Salt Lake Valley on their way to Elko, Nevada to pick up grand children and stopped for just 1 hour.  RosaLee came over and we had a great visit.  I hadn't seen John and Theresa for a few years.  We do talk once in a while but have not been able to get together.  I hope it isn't that long before I see them again!!!

Katie's Home

It  is soooo good to have Katie home safe and sound, and as you can see the "cousins" took up exactly as they left off!!

 Katie and Tasha came to spend the night and Katie got her first sewing lesson, I hope we will have many more, but this lesson was for Jemma, she received 2 cute jumpers for summer!!

Happy Birthday Troy

Troy and Family came to dinner for his birthday #44!!  I did NOT make the cake, it's his all time favoriate and his sweet wife, Nicole was good enough to make it and bring it to share with us!!

Book Report

Our book club this month is reading "My Stroke of Insighte" by Jill Bolte Taylor PhD

I normally prefer fiction, however this book has been very interesting!!  I don't even pretend to understand what she is talking about when she tells about the function of the brain, but many of her deductions are very interesting.

Jill is a "brain research scientist"  She teaches as well as dissects brains to learn more about the brains functions.  To begin with, her interest began from her brother being diagnosed with schizophrenia (yes I had to look up the spelling).  She went on to be a very knowledgeable scientist on the brain.

Then, she had a stroke!!  She describes how she felt when this was happening an goes through thoughts during and after her stroke.  She totally recovered and then has some interesting takes on what your left brain controls, she lost total function of her left brain.  She could not speak, understand numbers and other functions that are controlled by the left side of her brain. 

Zero in on chapter 17, she tells us that the left brain controls most emotions and it only takes 90 seconds for anger and other negative emotions to curse through your blood stream and then it should be gone.  Therefore, you have a choice to continue to feel anger or simply "give it up".  

It's very interesting, I must confess that I skipped the chapters where she was describing the brain - sorry they were too technical for me, some of the works I could not even pronounce let alone know what they mean.  So, if you want something challenging - you can probably get at your local library, it is not a book that is really in demand.    Happy Reading!! 



Projects finished

We bought a kit from Floyd & Lizzie's a couple of months ago, I finally got it hung on the wall!  So here you see the finished product, daisy's are appliqued, then boarders.  I did add the purple boarder - the yellow just lost me.  RosaLee (my talented sister) quilted it on her machine, I wish you could see the detail, however, it just didn't photograph, I guess you will have to come to my house and inspect the cute "daisy" quilting!!

After the wall hanging, you must have a table topper, additional fabric required for this cute, easy, topper

Then, of course you must have a table runner - once again additional fabric required, however, Floyd & Lizzie's had the full line of matching fabric.  Is it purple enough for everyone??

Because we have RosaLee's quilting machine "up and running" I pulled this little number out of it's box and we quilted it.  Interesting, it's been finished probably 2 years and it only took us about 4 hours to quilt.  Below is some detail,  It's hand embroidered, this process is called blue - red work.  Does that make sense to anyone?

Detail of the village, the pattern called for pieced blocks in the center and on the edge, but when I found this fabric I just forgot  the pieced blocks and set this center in.

 More detail, this is really a Christmas wall hanging, see the bottom picture and you will see Santa sailing accross the sky over the village.  Enjoy!

Easter

Last Wednesday was my turn to "play with my muggles". We picked them up after school - it was early day, they didn't really want to leave their toys and games and Callie (dog) but we had other things to do --- Soo I suggested we color eggs for Easter So here they are, enjoy the fun.

New Furniture

After 25 - 30 years, we decided to treat ourselfs to New Furniture - so at the urging of my sweet daughter, who left just hours before the new furniture arrived I am posting pictures of:

Old Furniture - it doesn't really look that bad, but it is a "bit" dated. And it is extreemly low to the ground. Hard to get up out of especially if you have old knees.

We even went for a darker color on the wood - we are really living "on the edge".

Finally ---- New Furniture ---- Let me know what you think, and I promise you can come and set on it, sleep on it, however you cam NOT jump on it!!

Loralie is 50

Loralie's birthday is today - Feb 21, however we had her "birthday" party on Saturday Feb 18.


Lunch was served and many of our family came to celebrate with her.




Here we were checking our Mitch's new pictures, Mitch is still in Michigan - don't know when he is coming West.








The computer age is alive and strong, the kids each have a phone they are playing a game - notice Tina she is only 4!! Of course Uncle Craig is the biggest kid!!

A fun time was had by all, Loralie turned 50 with the help of her dear family, thanks to all who came to help celebrate and Thanks to all who brought food and helped clean up.

Next post will be, are your ready??? New Furniture, by request!!!

Mandy is leaving us!!

Brothers, I love living close to my two boys, it's also fun to know they are not only brothers, but friends!!

We had a great celebration on Sunday, Mandy did a wonderful job teaching us about Joseph Smith and Modern Day Revelation. A great sermon Mandy that I enjoyed and needed to be reminded about.

Nicole, I love Nicole!! She is always quick to post pictures of myself and my HH (happy hubby) on her blog, so I thought, when I saw this picture, that I would return the favor. Isn't that a sweet pose?? and you can see some of the folks that were there behind her.

I wish I had had the camera in hand (where was Nicole?) when someone shouted up stairs that dinner was ready. There was a stampede of children running down the stairs. Check Nicole's blog www.fernleyfamilydoings.blogspot.com to see a photo she got with Miss Jemma in the middle of the fray.

Last comment in this blog is my beautiful Granddaughter. Amanda Lynn Fernley soon to be Sister Fernley on her way to Argentina. We are so proud of you to choose to go on a mission! Your Bishop was so correct when he said - "N0 matter if they raised the Bar 20 times, Mandy would still be ready and worthy to go serve her Heavenly Father". You go Mandy and we will look forward to your home coming in 18 months - It might be more fun!!!

Jemma came to play!

On Friday, Jemma came to play with "white" Grandma and Papa. After a couple of hours she announced that "Jemma was hungry" and when asked what she wanted for lunch she said "Peanut butter and "red" Jam" so this is how that went - enjoy!!

She actually didn't take more than 2 bites of her "lunch" and later we made a corn dog. That was better.

She brings her "kitty" (hello kitty) bag with her Poo Bear, and Hop Hop and extra diapers, just in case. She went through grandma's toy box and selectively chose toys and put them in her Kitty Bag. Then we took the kitty bag for a walk in the neighborhood. Her intent was to take the toys home, remember these toys are age appropriate for Jemma, no one else will ever miss them if they go with Jemma, so when Mom came she took her kitty bag with the selected toys home.

Jemma is sooooooo much fun, I love to have her come visit - she has a darling personality, knows exactly what she wants and how to get it!!! Thanks Nicole and Troy for sharing her with us!!

Last mega quilt, I hope!

At least that is my plan!! To not make another king size quilt. I still enjoy quilting but "small" projects are preferable!!
This quilt is for my big son Jim and his sweet heart Stephanie, I hope they like it.
Here it is before the boarders!




Here it is on my queen bed, so you can see it is a "big" quilt.



Next step -- the quilting machine in my sister, RosaLee's basement!!
I love working with RosaLee, let's see how long it takes us to get this one finished??

Grandpa went fishing

Last week, my sweetheart went fishing! He has been fishing almost every week since we became established in Utah!! This day he drove up to Big Cottonwood Canyon to fish a stream, unlike the time before, he did NOT fall into the stream! He also did NOT catch any fish! Instead he caught a pumpkin..... floating down the stream was some one's "fruit" from who knows why, so he caught a pumpkin.






Here he is cleaning his catch, he's getting pretty comfortable in the kitchen, I'm hoping he will soon take over the cooking!

Here he is again, amazed that you can actually cook a pumpkin and make it eatable!

Hear to for, he has only carved faces in pumpkins and put a candle inside for Halloween.

The finished product! There was enough for 4 pies, I only made 2 for Thanksgiving and froze enough for 2 more for later! Looks good Huh?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!! we couldn't wait for Thanksgiving, we had to try it out and it is delicious!

Soooooo! Y'all come and try out Grandpa's catch!!

See you Thursday!!!

All I want to do is read!

I am feeling lazy this last couple of weeks and all I do is want to read.

This is probably the "best of the bunch", because it's historical fiction and well written. It gives us just a glimpse into the Japanese Internment during WWII. As well, as the culture of the Chinese, and Japanese and the thoughts and feelings of the Americans without making us feel umcomftorable because of the choices our country made.

Ann Perry is always a fun, easy read. This one takes place with Emily on her own, Emily is Charlotte Pitts Sister and they have solved several mysteries together. This leaves Emily on her own to gain a new respect for an Aunt that has moved away from the family. I takes place is a different place as well. I enjoyed Emily coming down to the "common" people learning about the other side of life.

Glenn Beck, like his last Christmas Book "The Christmas Sweater", keep a box of tissue next to your chair. This book tells of love and abuse through 3 generations and comes together in the end to make it "all better".

Last but, not least Richard Paul Evans new Holiday book. "Lost December:. The story of the prodigal son from the son's point of view. I like RPE's books, I can trust them to be "squeaky" clean and still entertaining. I'm looking forward to his next installment of The Walk, so come on April.

We are coming upon the Holidays and I love Christmas Books, I will probably begin one of my favorites Jan Karon's "Shepard's Abiding" very soon. I also enjoy Lloyd C. Douglas "Home for Christmas" and of course President Monson's recommendation Henry Van Dyke's "The Mansion". I like to add a couple of Christmas Books to my shelf each year so I can go back and relax during the holidays with a "feel good read".