christmas carol.....

    

this past Friday evening David & I went to the Hale CentreTheatre and saw 
"A Christmas Carol"..... 

It was the best..... 

I love going to the theatre and the Hale Centre Theatre is one of my most favorites. I would encourage any one to go who love the theatre.... 

we will most certainly be going again..... 

it is such a treat.....

this & that.....

yesterday was a productive day..... 

i finished my "sisters" gifts, they turned out very nicely; if i do say so myself..... 

i made not 1 but 2 pots of homemade soup for our annual extended daniel family Christmas get together..... they turned out very yummy; if i do say so myself, as did everyone else who ate them..... 

wish more of the family could of been there, with all the sickness and gps not working it was the smallest turnout we have had..... 

maybe next year.....

all 3 of my grandsons were here a week ago last saturday and the ice cream truck came by, 

they all wanted a treat..... 

they really did enjoy them.....

our family dog even had to get in on the fun.....

these boys are the cutest.....

good time.....

the weekend is over.....
I know it has been for 2 days now..... I am happy to say the yummies baked for the baby shower turned out very nicely..... 

I am thrilled with the turn out we had..... 

mommy and baby were showered beautifully..... 

I love giving the parties...... 

I am thankful for the opportunity of being with family and friends..... 

old and new.....

mini cupcakes.....

cream puffs.....

Katie (mommy to be) & Lizzie (big sister to be).....

Tarra & Lauren.....

family.....

baking.....

the first fall like day since last February and I am spending it baking.....

I am giving a niece a baby shower tomorrow and I am bringing all kinds of goodies.....

cream puffs, mini cup cakes a very yummy hot white cheddar and bacon dip and so much more.....

my home is smelling pretty darn yummy..... 

if my computer had smell-o-vision you would be jealous.....
just saying.....

sunshine.....

I am thankful today for the sunshine.....

I do not mind a rainy day...or even a cloudy day...

but I do love me some sunshine.....

if asked on Tuesday night I just might of told you the sun was not going to shine for the next 4 years... but I know better than that... and sure enough it did shine...

 Wednesday morning just like it does most every morning here in the sun belt.....

hanging in there.....

the election is over, I am thankful for the privilege of voting.....

I will not say the best man won, 

but for all the praying and fasting that has gone into this election, I must have faith and believe that my Father in Heaven has a plan..... 

now the wait and patience comes into play.....

I find comfort in the fact that our Pres. can not run again, and I must believe that our country will survive him and the leaders in Washington DC for the next 4 years.....

I will continue to live each day as would be found acceptable by Father in Heaven and I will do my very best to make a difference in all that I do daily...... 

God Bless America and keep Her free.....

vote.....

I am thankful for and to the men and women who have fought to keep this land safe and for the opportunity and privilege to vote.....

I cast my early ballot but, will drop it off today..... I still like to hand deliver and make sure my vote is counted..... 

God Bless America and my she always be FREE.....

priesthood.....

today I am thankful for the Priesthood.....

I feel so blessed to have a worthy priesthood holder, three to be exact, in my home.....

there is a real comfort that comes from knowing my home is blessed in that very real

way.....

thankful.....

I have been thinking about a quote I read recently and it goes something like this: "what if this morning you awoke to only the things you thanked Father for yesterday?"..... This has been on my mind and seeing as how this is the month of "Thanksgiving" I will give thanks.....

I am thankful for my sweetheart; David, our children; Tyler, Leland, Ashley & Bryan, grandchildren; little David, Carter & Jeremy, my in-law children; Angie, Lauren & Nick.....

my sweetheart.....

 Bryan, Leland, Ashely & Tyler.....

Jeremy, little David & Carter.....

the whole family.....
for my parents  and my siblings.....

my parents.....

my siblings..... 

and this is only a start.....

started.....

I have officially started my Christmas shopping..... 

lets see here there are 7 weeks and 3 days to get it all done......

 good luck to all.....

because, it will, be here before we know it.....

just saying.....

celebration.....

last night David & I celebrated our belated 31 anniversary..... David out did himself as usual..... he made reservations for the 

"Compass Room" the very same place he took me when he asked me to share my life with him for all eternity..... 

how romantic is that..... 

I love my man.....

David & I.....

we had such a lovely time, I did not for one minute miss being at home passing out Halloween candy..... 

little David & Angie.....

Tyler, little David & Jeremy.....

Uncle Bryan, little David & Jeremy....

Lauren, Carter & Leland.....

seeing as how the night before we spent the evening with all of our children at the Halloween Block Party that Tyler & Angie's neighborhood hosts we were able to be apart of all the festivities..... 

I love fall.....

baby.....

this morning I had the humbling experience of going with my daughter for an ultra-sound.

 She is 15 weeks along, I have had 4 of my own and the technology continues to change. what a beautiful experience it was. My little grand baby was stretching and moving a lot. We do not know the gender as of yet; male or female I love  "baby Borden".....

They are hoping to find out the first week of December...... what an exciting time.....

halloween.....

the beans are cooking for the chili this evening, the sugar cookies are cooling on the racks and I am trying to get the inside and outside of my home ready for our annual Halloween family get together.....

we always have chili and beans, corn bread or fry bread homemade sugar cookies (we each decorate them how ever we want, I have plenty of candy for said decorating) and then we carve our pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns..... family, food and fun..... the very best part is David is on his way home as I write this post, yes he will be with us for our party..... 

just a few pictures  from last years party.....

carter, ashley, jeremy & nick.....

just getting started.....

little david and his project.....

feeling very blessed today.....

the cats away.....

David is not really a "cat", unless of course you want to refer to him as a "cool cat" maybe even a 

"wild cat" he is a fan after all of the U of A wild cats..... and I personally believe him to be pretty cool...

Leland & Lauren along with Carter invited me to dinner last night, they are looking out for me while "the Cats away"... I had such a fun evening dining with them all... We ate at the Olive Garden, I had not been there in a while and it was as good as it has always been...

What a fun evening......dining with a little one is always so eventful, Carter had all the servers eating out of his hand with his lovely manners and all... 

He is so darn cute....

Carter enjoying his pizza.....

Thank you Leland & Lauren for asking me to share a wonderful evening with you.....

there and yonder.....

David left Phoenix Sunday evening for Switzerland, he arrived there late Monday night, worked all day Tuesday. Left Switzerland Wednesday at noon, arriving in New York early Wednesday afternoon, then headed to Puerto Rico and arrived there by midnight.

 He will be there until the testers are speaking to one another once again. Mind you the last part is my lame attempt to explain just why he is there in the first place. He tell me like this "saying it the way you would; the testers are not playing in the sand box nice". David informed me that he will not be home until they are speaking once again, to this I say hurry up, I have plans for this weekend...... love me my man......

so far away.....

thirty-one years ago today I married my sweetheart and friend......

I can honestly say that saying "yes" has been the single most important decision I have made in my adult life.....

at our reception.....

I would do it all over again.....

I just wish David was here at home so we could celebrate together..... 
unfortunately he was sent to Switzerland on Sunday for work so we are apart for the very first time in thirty-one years on our anniversary.....

he is a bit far away.....

this makes me a bit sad.....

at the Temple.....

weekend.....

mom & dad in their living room.....

 another beautiful weekend in the White Mountains of Arizona! Friday David & I along with my folks went up to their cabin so we could close it up for the winter. It is always bitter sweet, we have so much fun during the summer months that it is hard to think of not going up for 6 months or so. We had my brother and his 2 sons, his sweet wife had to stay home and direct the primary children in their sacrament program, we missed you Becki! We also had two of our sons and a grandson with us what a treat that is!

my son Leland, my brother Leland along with Jace and Colton.....

there has been some ugliness associated with the cabin this summer, some people do not take well to change and so change brings out a part of them that both saddens me and makes me just a little bit disappointed in them. I feel so badly for my folks, they have served their family for all their lives and this has been hard on them emotionally, mentally and physically...... 

Carter.....

I am now and forever grateful for parents and their open and loving ways..... they have raised a wonderful family and some do not appreciate that fact.....

until next summer I will have to be content with pictures of the mountains and the memories that I will have with me forever.....

I love the the season change and the effects it has on the trees.....

grandma.....

Little David Wayne Daniel

a very short 6 years ago this little man came into the world and I have been forever changed from a mom to a mom and a grandma! Life is sweet with these little ones in it. In all of my life there is nothing sweeter then being wife, mother and now grandmother. I love my little grandson who is growing so very fast.....

Little David & I

folks.....

last weekend my sister Robyn and I took our parents on a road trip to Northern Arizona to visit moms twin brother and some of our cousins and a nephew and his family. 

Uncle Coran, (moms twin), Robyn and Mom in the cannery at our cousins.....

We had a wonderful time. Robyn and I spend the night time (sleeping time) talking a lot, as in all night long. We like to think of it as an extended sleep over! We laugh giggle like when we were little and then we solve all the worlds problems, if only someone would listen.....

Uncle Coran's home.....

     We arrived on Friday afternoon, Friday night Robyn and I made a late night run to the store for a forgotten pillow and blanket, it did not matter to us that the closest open store was in Hurricane, Utah and it was a 50 minute drive away. We had a blast. 
     Saturday we went back to Hurricane to visit our nephew and his little family, they took us site seeing to Brigham Youngs' winter home and to Jacob Hamblins' home we loved every minute of it.

Robyn and the bread machine.....

     Sunday we watched conference and spent the evening visiting with many of our cousins. 

We come home tired but happy and we are already planning the next one. I love road trips with my sister and folks, with my honey, with my family or with them all.....

faith.....

my youngest is having his wisdom teeth removed tomorrow, having said that I do know that people have them removed everyday, but he will be put under to have them removed and it bothers him a bit..... 

He asked his dad to give him a priesthood blessing, he was looking for some comfort. I so love the fact that when ever any of us wants and or needs a little extra we are blessed to have the priesthood in our home. I must admit that I probably have received as much comfort as my son.....

I feel so very blessed.....

homecoming.....

today I had the opportunity of speaking at my alma mater. This week is Homecoming and today was an assembly to kick off the festivities for the rest of the week. It was fun to be back at my old high school, I am sure it has been 25 years at the least since being there. It was the same yet so very different! A big thanks to my niece for asking me to help out! Love you Kyndra......

game.....

last night was the first opportunity I had of going to a U of A game with David, we have been buying season tickets for the past couple of years and each game he takes one of our children or me. 

Off we go to the game in Tucson; we are driving along on the I-10 minding our own business when a big truck pulling a horse trailer in the lane next to us and just ahead looses his transmission. No kidding, it was a very scary thing, David never lost his cool or control of our car as metal pieces and asphalt and tranny fluid are coming at us with lighting speed, (at least it seemed that way to me, seeing as how it was all in my face because I was on the side that the truck was). 

A metal gear of some sort hit the front of our car, I will post a picture as soon as we get our car home, along with the gear hitting our car, metal fragments coming up off the road punctured our radiator. We did not know about the radiator until we got off the freeway and onto the streets of Tucson and the car started to overheat. We got off the road and the fluid was just running out from the radiator, needless to say 

it was not drivable and we had not yet gone to our game. A friends sister picked us up and took us to the game and after the game our son Leland came and brought us home. 

David said that this is the first time something like this has happened and it was the first time I had gone to a game.....

David & I at the game.....

maybe I should reconsider going to another one?

babies.....as in fish.....

while David was in Switzerland 2 of our boys decided to put up and get running a fish tank for their dad. He was surprised and happy to see it when he arrived home. (I will be honest it was hard not letting the cat out of the bag).

That was a very short 3 weeks ago, and just this past Wednesday he had another fun surprise, one of our African Cichlids had babies......13 to be exact! 

Bryan and I just put together the nursery for the 13 babies......

the tank.....

I am just saying that I am happy that the fish had 13 babies and that I had mine one at a time.....

Tyler.....

Tyler  6 days old.....

Thirty years ago today I gave birth to my first child. I remember the longing and the anticipation waiting for him to come. He was due on the 4th of September and made his appearance on the 23rd of September. I didn't believe that he would ever get here. 

I had been to see my Doctor the Thursday before he was born, he told me that if the baby had not made an appearance by my next visit he was putting me into the hospital and finding out why. 

The next Wednesday I started bleeding so off I went to the hospital, I was certain that my baby was going to be born soon, that was not the case at all. I was admitted and hooked up to all sorts of machines ( at least it felt like it). Then I started into labor, I labored for all of Wednesday and well into Thursday. My body was just not doing its thing properly, my doctor actually came in and stayed with David & I for several hours Thursday. I did not seem to be doing anything at all. I finally felt like pushing  when my blood pressure went crazy high and my babies heart rate nearly stopped. My doctor decided then that we were through letting me take my time and I had an emergency C-section. I was relieved to hear that. I was so tired. 
Tyler Wayne Daniel made his appearance at 7:49 pm, he weighed 8 pounds 14 ounces 21 inches long, and he was beautiful.

My doctor told me later that he had never had a patient look better after surgery than before. The waiting room full of family and friends just waiting to meet our little one. (We did not know before hand if we were having a boy or girl). My doctor let me have visitors for as long as I felt up to it.

 Tyler my life has never been the same. I am so richly blessed to by your mother, my Father in Heaven has entrusted you into my care and I have tried to be the best mom I know how. 

Tyler 6 days old.....

Tyler.....

sleeping with his daddy.....

Happy Birthday Son.....

visits.....

last night I had a much needed get together with one of my BFF...... I love her so much, we can talk about everything and solve all the worlds problems; if only they would listen? We never seem to have enough time to get together any more, so I cherish the moments when we do.....

Terri & Dave

riding.....

     I ride my bike most mornings around 6:30, pretty early for some not too bad for me, I love mornings. This morning this is what I came across in the road....... 

ick.....

Yes I did scream then I turned around and took a picture with my phone.....

which all by itself is crazy, it used to be we used cameras to take pictures.....

overnighter.....

     this past weekend David & I had the pleasure of taking care of our 3 grandsons. What a fun time we had. We decided it would be better for the boys for us to go to their home and stay the night, so that is what we did.

one of our many activities with the grandsons.....

     Tyler surprised Angie with a trip to their alma mater  for her birthday, so off to Tucson they went. Seeing as how we were going to have 2 of the 3 grandsons, we called Leland & Lauren and offered to take their little guy also. The boys had such a good time together it was fun! We brought dinner over to them, they were not interested in food they just wanted to play and that is what they did. 

     I wondered about bed time, I had no need to fear they went right to bed when it was time. 

I think they had as much fun as David & I did. Love these boys for sure!

Ashley & I at Les Misersables.....

Leland & Lauren said they would watch the boys while David went to Tucson for the U of A football game and Ashley and I went to Les Miserables, wonderful!!!! We surely had a memorable weekend. I love family, fall and all it brings with it.

rain.....

Dear Father in Heaven, 

thank you for the rain.....

lakefront property.....

It appears that David & I have lakefront property.....

the lake next door to my home.....

the rain we had all morning has been so wonderful and now it looks as tho we have a home on the lake! Love our Arizona Monsoons!

David.....

My honey has been out of the country for the past seven days and it feels like an eternity, I am so very ready for him to return home to me safe and sound. 

sisterhood.....

     Last night was my wards Relief Society Homemaking, it was so fun to get to go and visit with the sisters in my ward, I have not been able to attend regularly for the last 2 years, seeing as how David & I taught Institute on Thursday evenings. We have now been released from that calling and my ward is now holding homemaking on Tuesday evenings.

       Our theme was "back to school" and we had 3 mini classes they were: music, math and seminary. I was asked to teach the seminary class and asked to use the topic of " the importance of Sisterhood". I truly believe that the one giving the talk or teaching the class learns more than those who are receiving the message. What a blessing it was to be able to be a part of such a wonderful evening.

       I am so blessed not only to have 6 birth sisters but to belong to such an organization where sisterhood is one of the perks. Father truly loves his children.....