TIMELESS TUESDAY:

We had a day together yesterday. Me and My Sweetie. TEST'S, Tests. Gearing up to make sure exercising is safe for Mr. Clark. Hoping to find some miracle to make him more comfortable? His neuoprathy s/p? in his legs is frustrating him. He had the case of the GRrrrrssss. Tired of struggling to even get out of the car. Frustrated because we felt kinda old being in a place that 80 year olds meet for health care and wanting to feel young again! So we were reminiscing on the good ol' day's. When we were invincible with no inclination life could get to be so challenging! Our Dating years were phenomenal! We had some awesome times. And then remembering when Mr. Clark could run up and down mountains hunting and had an amazing endurance level that never tired. We were talking about the times water skiing when he could land on shore from his ski's! The farming days when we could spend hours on the tractor. Sitting side be side acre after acre! Hustling cattle. Ooooo remembering holding down the calf's for castrating etc. Or battling loading animals. I totally disliked the PIGS....They were Clarks favorite. The day's spent riding in the roll off truck or garbage truck with all three kids! Or the day's when we would take metal to Spanish Fork for the family business. Oh and don't forget the time when we went around the Power Plant turn up Price canyon and spilled a load of scrap iron and frantically was picking it up across the highway... LOL:) It stinks not to be in good health. Soon things will get better. Clark's Dad once said he was older at 40 than he is at 65. That gives us HOPE! We know it could be worse, for that we are grateful for the minimal challenges today. Update: On April 22nd Clark is going in for a heart cath. We know this is a common proceedure.His tests showed signs of a blockage so we are hoping that they can FIX things, so that he can function and have some comfort. Keep him in your prayers.

Miraculous Monday

HA--- the sun came out and we experienced a nice day yesterday with the exception of trying to scrape our windows for church. Glad no one was taking a picture of me taking the shovel to chip the ice away after breaking my scraper:( Luckily Elder Albaugh was hollering at me to prevent me from busting my windshield! OOoooopsie! 1/2 inch to 1 1/2 inch thick Ice... On Sundays I pick up a college girl to take her to church and I got stuck in the parking lot:( not from deep snow but no traction on the ICE COVERED parking lot. Just kept spinning those tires. We have the miracle of power back on, but a single sister and her son still do not have power so they came over for the day yesterday. Another miracle is that I always have enough food? Honestly, I feel sometimes like the miracle of the loaves and fishes is Jesus's time. I can't describe it, but I recognize that as a blessing. By the way we had Stacie's Chicken Pot Pie (from the meal exchange) and it was YUMMY. I also experienced the blessing of having a good friend who after we ate cleaned my whole kitchen! THANKS MAMA BEAR!!!!!! YOU ARE MY MIRACLE FRIEND! and YES the miracle of the Ice Shimmering Trees. Couldn't capture the beauty with my camera you had to see it for yourself.

THE BLESSINGS OF AN ELECTRICIAN!

THE POWER IS --OFF/ON

WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE ELDER ALBAUGH IN OUR HOME! He wired in the house to the generator when the city power was out. We are blessed to have Elder Albaugh's expertise. Another reason housing the missionaries is a blessing!

Yes we had the FURNACE, THE FIRE PLACE and ALL the LIGHTS IN THE HOUSE 'ON' we were so excited that we were prepared to have all the comforts of life for 5 hours! What a good feeling to have our home a safe haven.

THE BLIZZARD!

ICE TREES!

The SNOW is NOT FLUFFY it is more like SNOW BRICKS/ SOLID ICE!

This is the reason the power was out. So much heavy ICE on the trees and power lines. Snapped and Broke Power Lines EVERYWHERE...

GUESS WHAT... After lunch our POWER went out

Some serious NERKS, Slap Jack and Go fish!

Ice on the windows on Friday The power is out in part of the town, so we are having a "Party" with a member family that had a tree fall on their car and they have no power!

The Ice cycles we woke up to this morning.

FABULOUS FRIDAY!

The day is over, I'm ready to hit the pillow. Thankgoodness for several day's of sunshine so that I can actually enjoy a day a "STAYING IN FROM THE RAIN/SNOW/ICE! I enjoyed the day of a pot of soup and a good book. We'll see what I'm like after 3 days of this?

THANKFUL THURSDAY

Today was a "ahhh ya, quit panicking moment". 'JUST TAKE IT DAY BY DAY. I am the queen of saying if you can't change it today don't worry about it. Well, Clark and I went to bed this night WORRIED. Just the toe issue (by the way is doing great)and going to the cardiologist. Clark is suffering from LOW blood pressure...Mystery of the 'NOT KNOWING' what to expect. Amazing how the 'NIGHT' sometimes can be filled with such GRIMNESS. Any way today I am THANKFUL for the MIRACLES of GREAT doctors and TECHNOLOGY. I am also THANKFUL our problems can always be put into perspective. Compared to the problems others face. We are THANKFUL for the life we have TODAY.

TIMELESS TUESDAY: The Garden Mode

My Dad and his "BAKERS ACRE"

I love spring. I get in the garden mode. Clark and I didn't do very well planning our yard (the builder offered us a good deal he'd include sod and sprinkling system) Our regret is that we didn't think out planting trees and leaving a spot before it was all put in. So we are still trying to decide where to plot our little garden around the sprinkling system. Last year we tried just planting a few things in pots. It didn't work out. Sister Albaugh and I watered the plants to death! So this year, we've got to get us a special place. While in Utah, Paul's family had already tilled and prepared their garden spot and had Onions growing to about 4" and were planting peas and chard. If you know Angela (Paul's wife) she is AMAZINGLY AMBITIOUS! What talent she has! She inspires me! Growing up, my father would have his garden growing also. He retired at 52 so he devoted his days to his Garden. He decided one fall to dig up all the tulip bulbs in his flower beds and so he planted ROWS of tulips on his little acre of garden. It was so fun to go to his house every spring and see his garden blooming with tulips, Peas popping through the ground and the Orchard all in Blossom. I think I still get that little excitement in my stomach every spring because of the life I grew up with loving SPRING! I'll post pictures of the garden spot progress later!