Ok It has been a busy six weeks.  My graduation, our family trip to Disney Land, Dennis had surgery, Stratton was baptized and Jeremiah  left for his mission to Uganda.  That is why I have been so horrible about keeping my history blog up.  Really it has been an amazing few weeks and I have loved every minute of it!  Now I am back in to the mess of life.  Taking care of Grandma Harding right now and my mother.  Dementia is depressing and difficult and they both have it in the extreme!

Recent events.  Mom turned 93 and at her birthday pulled her dentures out and along with her dentures the tooth that held her partial plate in.  It was sad and she had to have the roots removed.  She was brave, but was on a soft diet for a few days.  To top that off Afton is with us right now.  She has had a bladder infection and is 101 (what does that tell you)  It has been an eventual few weeks.  The big event for me is I finally graduated from BYU.  Here are the pictures.  What did I learn from all this.  Be patient and you can take a little lady to the bathroom 100 times in a day.  When your little mom starts to shake after the dentist, feed her a shake.  The sugar can work wonders.  And the third things is never think it is too late to accomplish a worthwhile goal. Go for it!

Today was Stratton's Sunday birthday.  He organized it completely.  He wanted breakfast for dinner, he wanted money and he left me a note that he wanted one 20 two tens and four fives.  He also wanted a Baskin Robbins ice cream stack with his candle on the top.  He was really cute.  It was fun, I knew exactly what he wanted and it made it easy.  What did I learn the last couple of days.  I am not as patient as I want to be and I need to work on it. The Grandma's sometimes try my patience.  I will write about that later (maybe) we are in swimming suits because they played water kick ball.

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What has life taught me today?  Today was a rough day with Afton.  She had a lady come bath her she acted out all day.  It was a struggle because with mom because she is recovering from a tooth incident.  When she pulled her dentures out on Sunday she pulled a tooth out with them.  The roots of the tooth stayed in and the tooth was an anchor for her dentures.  She had to have the roots pulled and her dentures fixed.  It has just been a rough couple of days with her.  So what do I learn, Suck it up and get through the situations and be happy and positive.  It only makes it worse if you walk around feeling sorry for yourself.  I started to think my theme should be let it go.  Meaning do the best you can, work as hard as you can, and then forget about the little hard stuff in live. Let it Go and enjoy the fun and good in life, and have a sense of humor!

Fun with some of our kids at Stadium of Fire!

I am still trying to catch up on my blogging.  It is just a good history of our lives.  I will just try to show what has been going on in pictures.

I am still taking care of the Grandmas.  This is Mom. 

Mom is turning 93 i about a week and a half.  Below is Afton .  She is 101. I never thought that I would be caring for them this long.  They are both pretty cute!

I am really loosing it with my blog.  I have been finishing up my degree and really busy the last several months.  Guess what I finished.  I am graduated!  I started BYU in 1967 and now here is is 48 years later and I am graduating.  I am excited and thankful that I could keep my mind alert enough to take finals and finish classes.  I need to catch up.  I will try to post some pictures of the last few months. 

Basically birthdays and baptisms.  Adaline and Hailey.  Wonderful days!

I have some pictures from Lorie's wedding.  She was one of the happiest brides I have ever seen-Also a few pictures of December.

Beautiful Bride- Happy Day

Christmas Eve Mexican Food.  We have our big crab dinner on Christmas Dinner and eat out for Mexican food on Christmas night.  Great tradition!

Live Nativity.  So fun, peaceful, and a reminder of why we are celebrating the season.

Wendy and Chandlers Birthday party.  Do you love the cake.  Chandler wanted strawberry shortcake and Wendy likes strawberry cake.  

We have had a great February so far-  Addie's baptism, Emma and Grandma Hardings birthdays, Grandma Harding 101  Birthday.  It was great.  Here are pictures.

Bingo on a Sunday  evening.  It is a fun family tradition.  Everyone wins!!!

I have not posted for a few months.  It has been really busy.  November was busy with Thanksgiving and my birthday.  It was great.  Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it makes you pause and think about how blessed you are and be thankful.  You just think about being thankful all month.  We should have thankful thoughts all year as often as we have them in November and who doesn't their birthday.  (even if they are getting really old)

Top picture is my birthday dinner, middle is my birthday cake, and the third is my birthday present from Dennis.  Great fun.