Happy Birthday Sweetheart

Sometime last year I started a tradition of posting some photos of each of our children on their birthdays. I have not written anything other than the title wishing them a happy birthday
I have to make an exception now, because as special as each of these children is to me, they all have to take a back seat to today's birthday person.

When I look at these baby pictures I think of the old song about "You must have been a beautiful baby, cause, baby, look at you now." Jeanne has always been beautiful.

Jeanne was and is a wonderful mother to our children. The proper raising of each one of them, even into adulthood, has always been her primary concern. She knows the importance of how they are taught from birth and now even as she helps them be better parents of their own children.



As the blog title says, we're empty-nesters now and soon I'll leave the day to day grind of work so that we can spend our time together which will be the best thing of all while still on this earth.



I love you Jeanne! Have a WONDERFUL birthday, and together lets make this the best year of our lives so far.

Scott

Repost of HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART!!!

Originally posted on Feb. 18, 2008

On February 18, 19__, Jim and Gert had a beautiful baby girl.  With the capable guidance and tender care of her parents and her older sisters this beautiful baby grew up to be a beautiful woman and after much cajoling, begging and pleading over 30 years ago she agreed to be my wife.  There is no question that she is also my best friend.  For all these years she has taken care of me, has kept a wonderful home that I am always very happy to come home to.  She has tolerated separations as I was on military or other work duties where we have been apart for as much as six months, while she stayed home and took care of the children without ever a word of complaint.  She has given birth to our children and then cared for them and taught them, and yet she has never made me feel like I was taking a back seat to them.  She has been and still is an excellent counselor, often helping me decide what is right and important, sometimes when I didn’t really want to know.  As we have built or remodeled houses she has been an excellent source for both decorating ideas and helping me to know different ways to do things that worked better than the way I was trying to do it.  She has been a wonderful support to me, sometimes even when I wanted to do things that may have seemed risky or scary to her.  At the same time she has stood steadfast when she felt something was too risky or just didn’t make sense.  In matters of the Spirit she has been an example to me.  I have a long way to go to catch up with her.

I am so glad she accepted my invitation (begging and pleading) to be part of my life and let me be part of hers.

I love you sweetheart!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Mothers' Day 2009

I want to make it very public how much I appreciate Jeanne as the Mother to our children. She has been a GREAT example and teacher to them. They and I love her for all that she is and all that she has and continues to do for all of us. Thank you Jeanne for being a wonderful wife and Mother.

Mothers' Day, for me, is about family. We were truly blessed yesterday as all of the family that were close enough to visit did, and the others called. It was a wonderful day of family. I didn't take nearly as many photos as I should have, but there were a couple firsts that needed to be recorded. One, of course was Avery's first Mothers Day, next, obviously would be Melissa's first Mothers' Day as a mother. So we took some photos to commemorate those occasions. I doubt that Avery would remember it without the benefit of some photos.















"Oh the things a baby has to put up with for Mother's Day."

Quilts Quilts Quilts by Jeanne

I attended the Utah Quilt Guild's 30th Annual Quilt Festival this past week. They offer classes from morning til night. I had a class each day for the full four days. The classes were wonderful. I sometimes think my skills lie in the professional student status, always seeing something else I want to learn to do, but never fully mastering the last. The classes I enjoyed the most were the ones centered around Art in Quilting. I'd love to create a quilt without using someone else's pattern something out of a scene that took my breath away.

Colt is the next in line to get a twin sized quilt made by Grandma, then Addison, Campbell, and now Presley. So, I guess I'd better get busy!