There is THREE!

It was sure fun to have almost all of the Askeroth kids home for the holidays.
But this just floored me. Espescially when all three of the pregnant ones would come in the kitchen
and announce that they needed to eat, and eat now! They would need to eat constantly and want
some unusual things at unusual times. It hit me when we took these pictures, and when Kendra said,
"Mom we are pregnant and we need to eat now!"

Kendra at 25 weeks. Kylee at 16 weeks and Tara at 10 weeks. I love it and boy will we all be busy in the spring, and summer.

Scenes from Christmas

This was part of our Christmas morning Breakfast.
It was an orange/cranberry pull apart bread with orange frosting. Very festive and we served bacon and scrambled
eggs, Hot Chocolate and orange juice.
It was a very busy place on Christmas Eve.
Some of the gifts were opened for the family who had to leave that night. We had a wonderful dinner
some entertainment, and then gift exchanging. It was a great night.
Caleb and Evelyn were very entertaining as well as many other
family members.

Appreciation Luncheon

On December 15th, I decided that rather than give a gift in appreciation to my Counselors and teachers in Relief Society, I would like to give them a really nice luncheon at my home, and treat them to some very tasty recipes I got from my most recent Fairview trip. I told them to come and enjoy and bring only themselves. Top Photo is my good friend and 1st counselor Julie Masters.

The Table looked lovely and I even did placecards.
I served. . . Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup
Spinach, bacon and Strawberry Salad/raspberry vinagrette (sp)
Homemade rolls
Apple Carmel Cake

Our Three very wonderful teachers for Sunday Lessons. We love and appreciate them!

Check it all out!

Hey family and friends. There are many new posts on this blog. Check out our great weekend. (at least 4 new posts) We are so glad to be where there is warmer weather and although we loved visiting the snow and seeing how pretty it was, we are so happy to have made it back home. We drove on many snowy roads, (scary) to last us for a long time. We called it white knuckle driving!

Reason for our weekend away!

We were up in Logan Utah and USU for the graduation of our daughter Kendra with her bachelor's degree. It was a wonderful experience. Our first Askeroth child to get a BS degree. Hers was from the school of Humanities with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.

I think she looks quite proud here. It is quite an accomplishment for her. Now she will work full time for a while until her baby is born in April.

Tara also joined us at the ceremony. Pictures of our twins together always amaze me at how different their coloring truly is. Love these girls.

Our Son-in-law Sterling looking very proud of
his wife's accomplishment also. He will graduate in April with his bachelor's degree.

Our very snowy weekend up North!

So fun to see our little Evelyn all
bundled up to play in the snow.

Check out those tiny boots. I love to see little kids and how they react to snow. The cold just doesn't bother them a bit!

Sterling out early to shovel the snow. This is before it got bad. Later in the day it was much worse. We were amazed at how
cold it was there. We are desert rats now!

and more photos

Saturday night at Temple square.
We walked a few blocks from where we stayed to
see the lights and feel the wonderful Christmas spirit.

Some of the trees were so covered with lights, I wondered how they accomplish such perfection.

The Holy family atop of the water, and the lights looked as though they were floating on the water. It
was stunning to see.

We walked through the Tabernacle and I quickly snapped this photo.

Even more photos!

Carys is in Kindergarten

Cameron is in second grade

Afton (Bubba) just had her 4th birthday

I think Todd said something funny to Josh and Courtney! (Obviously)
On Sunday of our trip we made our way to Heber City to visit Josh and Family.
We were certainly lucky to make it there, but the roads were worse after we left
them and drove through Provo Canyon. It was sure great to see them all. Love to them.

Downstairs finally finished

Christmas is really the only holiday that I decorate for. But I do it in a big way at our house.
With my trees, and my North pole Village that I put up every year, it takes me quite a
while to get it all done.
Last year you will remember that my new tree looked an awful lot like this one, but this
year, I left off the big candy peppermint ornaments I made last year.
I found some great vintage snowman postcards and glittered them up a few days ago.
Glitter is messy but I love what it does for anything. I even found vintage glass glitter
on-line this year.

Our family grows every year, and this year we added two. Clinton Dowse
and Ella Mae Askeroth. So it is my tradition to make stockings for all the new
people in our family. This year I made 4 because Kendra and Kylee never had
new ones made like everyone else. I buy new Christmas fabric each year and this year I bought a lot of blue. We have 25 stockings hanging in our family room this year.





This is how different the tree looks without the lights on. I just think it looks so winter like. I guess I need a tree that looks like this one, because it will never snow here. I really miss the
snow, and I have been known to get just a little bit excited when:
I can play in snow,
Ride in snow,
ski in snow,
sled in snow,
anything having to do with snow accept:
drive in it
and shovel it.
Thank goodness we can visit it and then
return to our wonderful non-snow place of Logandale.

A special assignment.

In the last few months I have
been working on a very special
assignment. Todd's mom asked me
to put together a book of her mother's
poetry for her sister's 70th
birthday present. They found their
mother's poetry in a special little tin
after she passed away. I told her I
would be happy to do it. Leslie sent me
two color copies of each poem. I told Leslie I would
do one for her later on.
The Poems arrived and I purchased special paper and
two matching 8x8 books with page protectors. I completed
one book and then set about making one almost identical to
the first one. I wish I had gotten better pictures of them.
On their visit to Logandale for Thanksgiving I brought out the
one I did for her sister. She had tears in her eyes and got a
little emotional. After she got through the entire book, I asked
her if she liked it. She was overwhelmed at how it turned out.
(about 45 pages worth) I then had Todd bring in the second
one all done and said this one is for you! She was so surprised.
She thanked and thanked me, but I thanked her for letting
me do the project which let me get to know Todd's grandmother
Dorothy Elizabeth Chapin better. I love her! Thanks for giving
me the assignment. I enjoyed every minute of it. All 90 pages
worth.

Winter has come!

Well, this is about as close to winter as we get. It is always fun to see the Mormon Mountain with a dusting of snow when the clouds clear away. It is quite windy still and pretty nippy out there. But this is what we get for winter time. We had much needed rain yesterday. And my favorite day is always a cloudy cold rainy day in Southern Nevada. Not because I like gloomy days, I just like the cozy ones. The ones that you just have to stay home, bake something and sit down with a nice cup of herbal tea.

Yep, it is cool and crisp here today!

New things For the Season

Okay I have to brag a little bit. I needed a new wreath. I priced the wreaths at Tai Pan, Roberts and other places. But a bit pricey of course I knew I could make one. I thought I would look at DI and see if there were any old wreaths that I could take apart and redo. There was one with a big ugly bow on it for $2.00. and then I went to Roberts where they were having a big sale on all Decorations and got several Christmas Picks for .50 each. There is no glue involved with this wreath and it now graces my door. I think I spent all of about $6.oo for this new sparkling door decor.

I like to do something different every year even though the ornaments are usually the same or sometimes added to. But this year as I was decorating the upstairs. I thought that I needed a bigger tree skirt. The velvet burgundy one, I made a few years ago buttons down the front. I like it but it is just not big enough. I remembered I had some damask fabric down in the storage room. I pulled it out and came up with this little gem. The tassels came off of some trim, on an old pillow. I was able to make this without even leaving home. I was determined to not have to go to the store to make this happen. It is called making due! Sometimes it pays to save a lot of things.

Love this Little church that Camille gave to me last year as a gift. My centerpiece changes somewhat every year, and thats the fun part about it. Shiny silver and glitter seem to be on my mind a lot this year.

Another view of the centerpiece.