Time for 'catch-up'

Ok, so I was a slacker and hadn't blogged for a couple of months ... and so the other day I caught up with several new posts ... BUT ... somehow 'blogger' or 'Picasa' (I am not sure which was the problem), wouldn't cooperate AND after spending several hours posting ... 1/2 of the pictures were not there !!! ??? ***Dennis even looked at them after he got home from work the other night ... so he is my witness*** I just re-posted them ... and am keeping my fingers crossed.

Misc. pictures from the wedding/sisters weekend!

Donna and Ruthie ... check out Janna on the right ... making a face!

Mom and Carolyn at the Luncheon.

Megan came up with her mom and Kelsey came down from Rexburg for our sisters weekend! Yeah for cousins!

Waiting for the 'drama' of the wedding to end (Claire was having a little meltdown) ... r to l: Amy with Spencer, Seth, Ruthie, Dennis, Wendy, David and Jen.

The bride!! When she looked at Jared she started to cry ... it was very tender!!

Spencer found kisses ... and loved the chocolate!! What a face!

Building the snowmen.

Putting on the details (they kept slipping off!).

Mom's sisters and husbands: seated: Mary Jean and Mom, standing: Bob, Pearl and LaMonte. Pearl and Monte drove down from Idaho and Bob and Mary Jean came from north SL ... good to get them all together for a few minutes of visit time.

Mom/Sisters Weekend - April 2011

This is a bit of a 'memory photo' since we have had several 'steps' pictures taken of our family at Dad and Mom's home in Wildomar. Carol made us all these amazing t-shirts ... that say "Forever Sisters". (Mom's says: Voted no. 1 Mom) We decided to wear them when we went out on the town Sat. afternoon ... for Girls Night Out! Here we are on Diane's steps.


This has also become a bit of a tradition ... going to In n Out for dinner whenever we are together. We actually caused many to stare ... and ask questions about what we were doing. (One group said ... weren't you just at Costco? And yes, it was us!) One young man here loved our shirts so much he had his picture taken with us and was sending it to his mom!! How fun it was ... love being a Moore Girl ... and an Eternal Sister!

Sunday morning we woke up to 8" of snow ... yes ... last night we were out running around in our short sleeved blue shirts ... so between conference sessions we just HAD to build snowmen (we did it in our backyard so our neighbors couldn't laugh at these crazy women!)

It was a fun weekend. A bit of exhaustion, for sure. For some reason we don't sleep well when we are together, but we had a good time. They left at 6 a.m. Monday morning and caravan-ed to Las Vegas, had lunch at Mike and Jodi's bakery, and then Carol went to AZ and the others to CA.

I took this picture today ... Thursday ... and that is all that is left from the 2 snowmen. That is what is called ... spring in Utah!! (If the sun had been out like normal they would of melted even sooner ... gotta love spring!)

Jared and Debra's wedding - 4/1/11

Bishop Doxey preformed the marriage ... and here he is giving them a little advice before the ceremony.

And they sealed it with a kiss!

The MOORE GIRLS Mary Alice, Della, Ruth Ann, Diane, Donna, Carol and Carolyn with Mom Moore seated

Brenna and Abby ... in their darling dresses ... who are excited to get a new Daddy ... Now they say they have '2'!!

Amy's Easter Basket Project!

Amy decided after the Japan Earthquake that she wanted to do something to help someone in need ... and found that Primary Children's Hospital asks for Easter Baskets to be donated this time of the year ... so she sent an email and posted it on Facebook to find out if anyone wanted to help with this project. She got lots of responses. (The nurses said they want to deliver a basket to each bed on the Sat. night before Easter ... and that infant and teenage baskets are the hardest to get.)

The plan was for Amy to gather the baskets and to bring them to our house so that when my sisters were here we could wrap them and put bows on them. It was soon evident that we were going to have more baskets than we expected ... more than 100 possibly, so I started wrapping what we had so it wouldn't be such an overwhelming task. Here are 69 of them ready to go!

Here is a sample of the 'teenage' baskets we put together. They have: lotion, a pair of socks, lip gloss, candy, some small games, a small notebook and a 'fluffy' pen plus a stuffed animal and a nice chunck of Chocolate. They turned out very cute.

Here's the final push ... Amy is sitting in the midst of the ones she brought down and putting them together. We ended up with a grand total of 133 baskets! We have been so thrilled with the response of so many family and friends who generously gave to this project. It is heartwarming to know that there are so many 'giving' people around. Thanks to all who helped!