Easter at the Nead's & Missionary Reunion

Easter Weekend we went to Utah for a wonderful missionary reunion.

Then we drove back to Rigby and spent Saturday night and Sunday at Kelly and Rebecca's.

It was fun watching the kids have fun looking for Easter Eggs. Kelly and Matt (assisted by their wives) fixed a wonderful Sunday dinner. We managed to listen to a good share of conference, but now we need to go back and catch the talks we missed.

April & Book #4

I just read a great book. It's book #4 of reaching my goals. The book is by Orson Scott Card (famous LDS author) and the title is "Rebekah" Women of Genesis. I really enjoyed the book and now want to study the bible and the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Esau. I know he added a lot of his own thoughts but some of the things he said I need to verify that's how it really happened.

Ted @ Work and Wizard of Oz

Tia and Jared brought Porter & Selah up on Saturday. We took them and Keelee and Tiana to the Wizard of Oz play in Jackson, Wyoming. It was lots of fun watching the kids get excited when they killed the wicked witch. They were clapping and singing "Ding Dong the witch is dead." Miss Keelee sang through the whole thing. At one point Selah and Tiana both poked her and told her to "Shhsh!!!" People around us were laughing at Keelee being so cute witht the songs. After the play we came back to our house and Porter played Games on the computer.


Selah, her mom and I put this puzzle of Aladdin together. I thought Porter would want to do the puzzle, but Selah was the one interested in helping.
You see underneath Alladin is another puzzle that I have finished this year. I'll take a better picture of it later.

Many of you have asked how Elder Kasper is and what is he doing. I decided to share with you his work. Everyone knows he spends a lot of time on the river fishing. Yesterday he said he caught 21 fish. But only 9 of them were keepers. Wrong kind of fish or the wrong size...He spends a lot of time in his work shop mending and repairing things. He's always got a project going.
He has spent a lot of time building also. This table is something he just finished yesterday. I think he does a great job and really liked the table when he finished it.
Before the table he did a headboard for our bed. You can see it in the next picture. He didn't let me see it until it was completed. It looks very nice in our bedroom. I told him, "Now I want head boards for all the beds!!!"
I guess these are the kind of things you can do when you are retired. I think I am liking him being retired and having time to do some fun things for us!!!

Birthday Fun

My goals are being fulfilled. I just finished puzzle #3. This was a great puzzle to do. It was so much fun. Kent and JaNell came for Sunday dinner and we started it....Then I finished it throughout the week.
I also finished Book #3, "Agent Bishop." It was interesting. It was about a man who was in the FBI and served as a bishop 4 times while in the FBI.
My other goals are coming along. I am even exercising better. That's probably my week point right now. It seems to be warming up outside so I hope I will be more inclined to keep up with my goals.

I had so many people remember me on my birthday this year. Thank you everyone. I feel as though I was well taken care of this year! You are all the greatest. My kids were great too. Some of them came to visit the weekend before my birthday. We enjoyed their visit and had fun playing some games. Then on my birthday, Tia and I went cross country skiing. I wish I had taken some pictures. We had so much fun and it was so beautiful.
Friday, after my birthday, Chelsea and the 2 little girls (Keelee and Tiana) took me to Idaho Falls for a girls day out. We had such a good time. Well......mostly a good time. As you see by this picture, Tiana was pretty upset at the mall. We all had pedicures at the mall, then we went into some stores. Tiana was not doing as her mother instructed so she got in trouble for a few minutes.... Isn't that just the sweetest unhappy face you ever saw!!! I had to take a picture and that only made the crying more dramatic!!!






Chelsea was trying to get her settled back down here!! Cute daughter-in-law and cute granddaughter!!



















Oh now she has the happy face. These little rides are in the mall and the girls were trying them all out!



















Besides the pedicure and shopping, the girls also took me to lunch. It really was a nice day. Thanks Chelsea, Keelee and Tiana. Also, Miss Keelee said, "We can do it again for your Birthday next year Grandma!" Isn't that sweet?

A rush of Birthday's

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. This is Selah Fay's Birthday party. Talley and Monika both have birthdays this month too. Boston's birthday was Jan 31st and Chelsea's birthday is Valentines day. Sarah's birthday also Valentines day and Jared's birthday on the 25th. Also need to include my Uncle Don's birthday on Tuesday the 9th. That's 8 of the special people in my life!!!

The kids gathered for a picture. Keelee and Tiana both wanted to know why Alex didn't come to the party. It's hard for them to understand he's so far away!! At least you know you were missed Mr. Alex!!
This is the CAKE Tia made for Selah!! It was so cute. Those are heart cookies that she cooked and decorated and then put them on the cake and turned them into flowers! I thought she was very creative. Good job Tia!!! Selah's lucky to have you for a mom!!

BEAUTIFUL DAY OF SNOWSHOEING

Ted & I went in the west hills of the valley we live in and found a fun place to spend the afternoon. It was a glorious warm winter day. The trees were beautiful and nothing but the quiet gentle sounds of the woods could be heard.

We found Snowshoe Rabbit tracks in the snow and also the tracks of elk. We were quiet and the only sound we heard was the crunch made as our snowshoes hit the snow with each step.

There were some fascinating views of how the snow lay in the bushes and trees. The picture doesn't do justice to how we felt.

Adjusing our snowshoes. It was only the 2nd time we have snowshoed this year.

Hope this provides a small glimpse into a wonderful day. Even the sky was magnificent looking.

Goals being Fullfilled

It's only the 9th of February and

I finished my 2nd puzzle and read my 2nd book. I read "All I Ever Needed to Know I learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Folghum. It was an interesting book. His view makes you think about some things.

I also started my indexing for Family History again. My goal is to acceed 1000 names a month. I should be able to do that easily. Indexing is a wonderful service to give to the Family History Program of the church.

My goal to attend the temple is working also. We attended the Idaho Falls temple, the Rexburg Temple and the Salt Lake Temple in January. For February we attended the Rexburg temple once so far....and our plans are to attend the Twin Falls Idaho Temple next week. For all of our friends in India you may know that Pres. Nelson who served as mission president to India lives in Twin Falls. I understand he is in the temple presidency????? I'll tell you for sure after next week. I'm hoping we get to meet him.