The New Man in my Life

Carolee gave birth to a sweet baby boy Brady Martin Biehn. It's been my priviledge to be able to come to Pennsylvania and stay with her family and help out. I'm having a wonderful time and it's so good to be with everyone.

Here is my sweet baby boy

Our little Get a Way

Over the Memorial Weekend Ryan and Taryn were going to Utah, so I got the bright idea to go to their cute little home and enjoy come of the activities of LA. On Friday night Bill and I walked to the Westfield Mall (only a 1/2 block from their home ) and saw the movie Robin Hood. Things were going well until the couple next to me yelled at me because I looked to see who was calling me on my phone. I had it on vibrate but was curious to see who called. Geeesh, it wasn't like I was caring on a conversation!



by the way, I liked the movie, but English history did confuse me a bit, I wished we could have paused it so Bill could enlighten me on who was the bad guy or the good guy was.



On our way out of the mall we stopped at Ben and Jerry's yum.



The next day ( by the way the weather was perfect) we went to Panini Cafe which is about 1/2 block from Rodeo drive. It was so delicious. We sat out side on the patio. I was hoping to see movie stars and such, and Bill was enthralled by the expensive cars that drove by. Rolls, Bentleys,

Jaguars, ( they all look the same to me) But we had fun, and THEN, we went two doors down and there was Sprinkles Cupcake store. Oh, was that heaven. I got a vanilla cupcake with cream cheese and coconut frosting, and yes enjoyed every morsel. I"m wishing I had one RIGHT now!



We then drove to the Getty Museum. It was fabulous! HUGE, and we loved the painting, the furniture from the 17th century, tapestries, but at the moment they are having a special feature of Leonardo Divinci. We saw his drawings, some statues. It was all just great. By the way how RICH can J. Paul Getty be? If you haven't gone, you need to experience this! It's free but there is a 15 dollar charge for parking.



We got back Saturday night since Bill was speaking Sunday morning, but we sure had a great time. Thanks to Ryan and Taryn for leaving town!

My Mother's Day

here are a couple of pictures from Mother's day. We had the kids over ( except Melissa and Carolee) for steaks! yum, We always have a great time together. the kids surprised me with some great gifts, and I'm really enjoying Pioneer woman's cookbook! it's wonderful!

Bill bought me some beautiful flowers. It was a relaxing day, and I loved every minute of it.

I'm so looking forward to helping Carolee soon with her new baby coming. I can't wait for this little guy, but boy I have to tell you I sure don't like flying cross country. I'm either getting fatter or they are just plain making those seats smaller!

I also took a quick trip to Mesa, Az. which was so fun seeing everyone down there.

This last weekend we also helped Ryan and Taryn move into a small home in Westwood

it's beautiful.

A Memory of Mine

I was living in Tucson Arizona at the time and had three busy little girls. Life was good but never a dull moment with the three children with the oldest being 4 years old! I had a beautiful home and tried keeping it clean and tidy. My kitchen was large kitchen and somehow the floor didn’t get cleaned as often as it should. This particular day I spent some time really scrubbing it and making it look so nice. That night I had made lemonade to drink. ( do you see the problem coming here?) After dinner I ‘m sure I was busy changing baby Kristen or getting pajamas on Joy so I missed seeing Melissa heading back to the kitchen. She must have enjoyed the lemonade too because without me knowing she climbed onto the kitchen table to get more lemonade for herself. Well you guessed it the WHOLE pitcher of lemonade went crashing into the floor. ( it was a glass pitcher I think ) I heard the noise and was so frustrated at seeing all of my hard work being undone by the huge amount of lemonade ALL over everything! At that moment I just couldn’t deal with the mess, cleanup and my frustration! To make matters worse Bill was gone doing his ward missionary work so I was left alone to deal with it. I decided I couldn’t deal with it and just to let it stay until LATER. After a while my children had been put to bed and I walked into the kitchen and there to my horror and amazement something was STUCK on the sticky kitchen floor, Can you imagine what it was??? Yep, a baby snake ! If I liked snakes I could have thought “poor thing” it’s so sticky it can’t get away, but I was horrified, scared and ANGRY. Where is Bill when I need him? Well, I think I put a big bowl over it and called Bill to come home and rescue me which he did.
Yep, just a day in my life with three little ones. As Melissa said after she learned years later what had happened wasn’t it good she spilled the lemonade to catch a snake in the house!
Thanks Mel

Our Easter Vacation pictures

As you can see we've become quite a group. 9 grand daughters ad 9 grand sons! What a great time we had.

The last night we were together Candice made all the "sissys" laugh with doing thier funny faces

Good times!

( two extra little girls are in the bottom pictures are Rick's daughers)

Grandma is babysittin

these past couple of days Kristen and Todd were able to have a little get away. I hadn't babysat for them so it was long over due to help out. These 5 kids are GREAT. They are so cute. I'm especially glad to have gotten to know little Noah, what a cutie he is. He's getting to talk so much, and what a little sports guy he is. I took them to Target and bought some plastic bat and balls and he can sure swing and hits the ball too! I love it that he sleeps ALL night without a peep!

The kids sure do like to eat! and I forget how quick children make messes, but they are kids and we had a good time.

My only complaint is that they go to bed soooo late! and I'm so tired by the end of the day.

now Bill and I are off to do a little visit with Ryan and Taryn and Nate and Macy. We sure love our family.

Wonderful Early Easter

This weekend we had our entire family together. It was really fun, we had a wonderful Easter dinner and then we enjoyed our special egg hunt. This year besides some money in some eggs we also had a treasure hunt, they got to pick out prizes . We had a great time . Ryan challenged us all to push ups and I proudly did 20, however these past two days I have SUFFERED with soreness through my body!
It's so fun to be all together. I especially love how the grandkids love each other . They play non stop.
I love my family.

Yesterday while we were enjoying the beautiful sunny weather one of my granddaughers came to me to said "grandma there are hundreds of bees in the back yard" yep we have a beehive,
could have been disasterous , luckily no one got bit.
I get to pay 100 dollars to get it removed. Darn those bees!

Oh, and I got my granite put on my bathroom, I'll post pictures later, but my son in law Jess did that for me, and Troy then painted the room. Love those son in laws!