Painting the set

Since Charles' family has been doing plays for years at the Circle Moon Theater. Before the play or musical several people from the group have the chance to go clean the building, and get the set ready for the next show. This time since we have moved up here we were able to help get the set ready for the show. Charles painted stars and clouds all over the background of the set. I got to create a rock arch on two of the entrances on the stage. We were both told to be creative and have fun. I think we did just what they wanted, what do you think? They told us it looks great!!!!

Fun weekend

March had many suprises in it and this is the first one. Charles sister Ginny and her family came during the middle of the month to spend some time up here. While they were here Ginny made a cake for me for my birthday since she would not be here on my actual birthday. We also had a family dinner while they were here. The cake shown here is the one Ginny made for me. The other picture was taken while we were watching a movie. Her son Boyd got down on the floor and copied Tommy's position on the floor. It was just so cute that we couldn't resist not taking the picture.

Spoiled...with love and roses

Charles bought me these roses just because he wanted to spoil me. And because I have been so wonderful to him as we have struggled up in Priest River. These roses had two different colors or red in them and they were absolutely beautiful!!
I am grateful to have such a wonderful husband, even during the times we struggle. All marriages seem to have struggles so at least we know we are not alone in having them. He sure does like to do nice things for me.

Lacey's Baptism- Feb 28, 2009

Before the baptism this picture was taken of Lacey's family. Valarie and LD are so pleased with her decision to be baptized.

Lacey will be baptized by her dad, LD. This is one of my favorite pictures taken before the baptism.

Lacey asked her grandparents and older sister, Faith to sing. They did a wonderful job. Faith sang the first verse by herself and then the grandparents joined in.

These two pictures were taken after the baptism. The first one is Valarie, Lacey and LD. The second one is all of the family that came to support Lacey as she was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

After the baptism part of the family went to Shari's for dinner. Here are pictures of all of us waiting to order our food. We had a great time.

Our Trip to Lewiston, ID

We went for a drive to Lewiston for the weekend. Okay, so it was a planned trip due to a baptism for one of our neices, Lacey. She turned 8 in January and was baptized on February 28. Mom and Dad Caldwell were going there for the baptism and we asked if we could go with them.

The afternoon was filled with fun in the backyard with a lot of kids. We played tag with a ball, jumped on a tramp, and the kids even went down a zip line. Needless to say it was a lot of fun. The baptism was that night and Lacey was beautiful all dressed in white. On Sunday morning we drove back to Priest River so that we could attend church in our own ward. Here are some of the pictures from the great weekend we had.

Friendly deer? Maybe

In the last 6 weeks I have seen more deer than I would normally see during the winter months. Sometimes we will be driving down the road to come back home, and there will be 6 deer just going along on the road. We have to drive really slow so that we do not hit any of them. In fact I have been told that the deer hit the cars more often than a car actually hits a deer. Here are a few pictures to show you what I mean.

Happy Valentines Day

Today was a great day to be happy for what you have. I chose to do something special for my husband to let him know how mush I care.

I made breakfast for him and brought it to him in bed. It was his most favorite breakfast--French Toast, and I added scrambled eggs and bacon to go with it.

Then I decorated our home with lots of red and hearts. We spent the day together just enjoying each other's company. We didn't have much to give each other since money is tight and family has been helping us tremendously.

That night we went to a dance that was with the Priest River ward (our ward) and Newport ward. It was so much fun to be with lots of people just enjoying time together. There was a lot of food, dancing, and even a pinata.