Labor Day 2007

Hi All,

Since everyone thinks I spend all my time on the computer anyway . . . I will prove you all right and bore you with details of my life and bragging about my grand kids!

This has been a great summer to be with my grand kids!

On June 12 Oliver Wayne Wilson was born and like the good grandson that he is he waited for me to arrive in Virginia before making his early arrival. In fact I had been on the ground only about one hour when Scott called to say that Joy's water had broken and they were off to the hospital. Poor Calvin woke up the next morning calling for Mommy and Grandma Bubbles walks in instead. Kind of a shock, but he handled it like a trouper and despite what Joy and Scott may say, we did a great job together considering that I didn't know his schedule and what he liked to do. His parents even made fun of the way I dressed him.

We drove to Wal-mart in Fredricksburg and got stuck in an awful storm but we had a great time. He likes cinnamon bug cookies, in fact in loves any cookies. We visited Mom, Dad and baby Oliver but it was nice when they all came home from the hospital. Calvin did great with the new baby. It was fun to go swimming, feeding the ducks and for walks.

In August Morgan was baptized and it was a wonderful day. She was baptized at the Fairfield Stake Center in the same font as all her older brothers and sister and the same place that all my children were baptized. What a memories that event brought to mind. Brian gave her a beautiful blessing, Dad was proud I'm sure. I gave the talk on Baptism and Cody & Tina both gave the prayers. Morgan was beautiful in her white dress as she walked into the waters of baptism. I know Grandpa was there, he loves her so much.

The next day Brian bore his testimony in Fast Meeting and I was deeply touched by his expressions of love to his family. He however forgot to mention how much he loved his wonderful, widowed mother. Imagine that!

Had a good week with the Addington kids the week before the baptism, but Cody was away at Scout camp. We missed him but he came home on the Saturday of Morgan's baptism. He is so kind to let me use his bedroom and bed whenever I am there. He does a great job with his deacon duties. He was ordained to the priesthood in March and started Jr. High this year. It is hard to believe how grown up he is. We had some fun shopping a Barnes and Nobel on Saturday night.

Troy is improving on his guitar and really enjoying it. It was fun to go swimming at the YMCA with Troy, Brooke and Morgan We also got to see a movie, and you all know how much Troy loves movies!

Brooke was fun, as always. She is quite the little lady and started kindergarten this year. She and Morgan had a wonderful dance they had made up to show me when I got there. They are quite a pair of amazing dancers, reminded me of Joy and Laura when they were young!

Tina is working at Scandia, like her Dad did when he was in high school. It was her first year as a YCL at girls camp and I have heard from several people what a great job she did. I made her some crazy camp pants, which I had all done when I got there but, they were not "in style". So I spent Sunday afternoon redoing her pants . . . at least she liked them then and I heard she did wear them once at camp.

On August 14 Andrew Jonathan Wilson was born! He is a cute blond Zobrist boy. The nurse in the hallway said to the other kids as we were going to see him for the first time, "I know who you kids are going to see, he looks just lie you". And that is a true statement! He does like to eat about every hour and a half now so Cari is not getting much rest.

Emily has been moved up in her swim team and last Saturday had her first competition swim meet with other teams. She is a good swimmer and enjoys it.

Adam, who was baptized in March, is doing cub scouts, tennis, and loves video games and the WII. Babysitting Adam is easy, if you let him play video games.

Josh is starting Tae Kwon Do up again. He is a good reader and likes 2nd grade. He also likes to talk and has lots to tell me.

Ben is such a fun kid. The other day he told me I was his best friend. Then about 20 minutes later he told me, he had lots of best friends. Kind of deflated my happiness balloon. But that Sunday when we stood in church to sing "Called to Serve", he came over and held my hand through the whole song. It was so sweet, made me think of his going off on a mission, in about 16 years!

Hope you enjoy the pictures and you find this blog a place you might like to visit. Please respond to the poll at the bottom of the page . . . You can vote more than once. Grand Kids don't forget to vote that you like it several times!!!!!!!!!