She is 29

Can this be true. My oldest Daughter
and sweet little girl turned 29 Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010
Am I old enough for this? Well I do have one that is 30. But Elliah was my tiny little baby girl
born 2 weeks after I turned 24. She weighed in at 5 lbs. 5 oz and was 18" long.
In this picture she weighed 8 lbs. and was 2 months old. I still forget how petite she is
until I stand next to her, and put my arm around her. She is little, but has a giant of a personality. I admire her so much. She is one of my very closests friends and confidants, and
is such an example to me. She never wavers, has very high standards, and tries to always improve herself. She is a good wife, wonderful Mother, sweet daughter and thoughtful sister.
Todd and I feel very privileged to have been able to be her parents. We love you Elliah and
want to wish you a very Happy Birthday. Enjoy this next year.
and know that we love you so much. I could write a short novel here in this post about Elliah
and all the things I like about her, but instead I will just say, that she is really NEAT! And I just can't believe that you are 29!

Valentines make me happy, BUT floods do not!

I am posting some of the Valentines I made this year
because this is something that makes me happy.
I loved making Valentines and sharing them on my
creative blog. I swapped some with some other
bloggers and gave some away, and made one just
for a little decoration. This was very satisfying!

The part that makes me really unhappy, is when
we have a flood in our basement. Yes, we had another
flood in our basement yesterday. This is the second time
in 9 months for us. Maybe we have hit our quota for our lifetime.
We woke up to water coming in a basement window because of a broken water
main outside. No insurance covers this one folks. It turns
out, that if you do not carry flood insurance, and you have
a pipe break outside your house and it floods inside it is not
covered unless you carry the Flood insurance. Oh Joy! It
flooded the entire family room and storage room this time.
We spent all day yesterday cleaning up this one. A professional
flood cleaner upper came and pulled the water out of our 6 month old carpeting. I will be okay,
and many professional fans are going right now downstairs for a few days. We did a lot of forced
spring cleaning because of it, and we were not able to
travel up to Provo for a very important funeral. We
just could not leave our house in that state.
This morning already I have been doing some
more cleaning in the storage room.
I have decided that this is just the way life is. And I
have definateily decided that the best way to handle
things like this happening is to KEEP YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR!
p.s. my house smells musty and is feels humid. And I hope you like the Valentines!

We are amazed and we are sad!

Well, I sure never thought I would be posting this post, but in regards to Jerry Askeroth, Todd's dad, well we thought for sure he was going to pass away this past week. This is what every indication gave us. We did not realize the will to live and determination of one's soul really makes a difference sometimes. Jerry has been battling with life and death with pneumonia and a bad fungus throughout his body for a month now, not to mention recovery from Colon cancer surgery, in and out of ICU and completely showing the Dr.s a thing or two. These past three days he has been drinking nourishment sitting up, and carrying on conversations, and speaking and swallowing more clearly than he has in years. On Wed. we were all just waiting for him to pass away. It is another miracle.

SAD NEWS. . .
Now for the sad news. Todd has lost one of his very best friends in his life. Steve Rowley, who was his missionary companion 3 times died on Thursday night in a skiing accident up near Salt Lake City. He was 52. He leaves a lovely wife and five children, son in laws, and grandchildren. What a great man he was. We got an early morning call from his dear wife, and all day on Friday, all we talked about were the many stories of Steve. He had a great sense of Humor, and was a lot of fun., but was also a spiritual giant. He and Todd have stayed such close friends over the years, and even worked together cleaning grocery store floors together after we they were married, back in the early 80's. I am sure he will be sorely missed by all who knew him.