Life Can Get So Crazy

I know I have been totally MIA.. With five kids, two of them teenagers in school sports, a full time job, etc. etc. the time just gets away.. I did however get to go home to Idaho for the funeral of my beloved Uncle Dave. While I was there I had the opportunity to shovel and snowblow. I have not done that for decades, literally. Living in Georgia, you really forget how cold a Zone 4 can get, especially when you are used to living in a Zone 7b. The Daffodils are starting to peek out of the ground and so are the hyacinths. That gets me excited to see spring, along with all the seed and plant catalog's arriving in the mail. I now leave you with some of the snow photos, photo with my sisters (we don't look a thing alike), and my oldest two boys who are 14 and almost 13. (to really understand how tall they are I am five foot ten inches)...

Family Reunion in Idaho

Grandpa and Grandma had three sons. Those three sons had 17 kids combined. Look what the seventeen kids did.. Had lots of their own.
Can you believe one couple and all of their posterity?..

It really is mind blowing.

It also reminds us that what we do in our life can and will affect our own posterity.

Idaho Mountain Wildflowers

Our trip to the Idaho side of the Grand Tetons was a beautiful one. We were there at the right time, just when all the mountain wildflowers were starting to bloom. I miss is already. The mountains in Georgia are not nearly the same.

Forget Me Not (Myosotis alpestris)

Forget me not, has been around for years. This year is the first year I planted and am kicking myself , trying to figure out why I haven't planted it sooner. It blooms so early and nothing can match it's dainty blue clusters of flowers. My neighbor Miss Terri tells me it can be invasive here in the South, because of it self sows, rather proficiently. Here is considered a herbaceous perennial. I put down more seed in hopes of more flowers. Other areas like Southeastern Idaho where I grew up my grandmothers had to plant it every spring. My grandmother Eva had a magnificent garden, that was featured in the local newspaper many times. I remember as a little girl on the back of the garage a small garden of just forget me nots. Blue as the eye could see. It matched the brisk days and bright blue skies of springtime in the Gem state. Everytime I see the little blue flowers it makes me think of the previous green thumbs in my life.

Well Not Gardening, But My little Sister is....

HOLTOM-BROWNING: Steve and Jan Holtom of Idaho Falls are pleased to announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Adriana M., to Curtis Vaughn Browning, son of Jerry and Karen Browning of St. Anthony.
Curtis and Adriana will be sealed Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. A reception will be held in their honor from 6:30 to 8:30 that evening at The Rose Shop in Idaho Falls.
Adriana is a 1996 graduate of Idaho Falls High School. She attended Ricks College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Lewis-Clark State College in 2000. She has been teaching for eight years. Adriana, or "Miss Holtom," is teaching sixth grade at Sunnyside Elementary School in Idaho Falls.
Curtis is a 1996 graduate of South Fremont High School. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Los Angeles, Calif. He attended Ricks College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in public relations and corporate communications, with a minor in marketing from Utah State University in 2004. He works for RemedyMD as a software representative in Pocatello.
The couple will reside in Idaho Falls.