Remembering Grandma - 1 year later

One year ago, on January 26, 2007, Grandma Larkins passed away. We took the time yesterday to get together and celebrate her life. I stopped at the Farmington cemetery to visit her grave and took some pictures.

I ran into a couple of other people who also had stopped to visit the cemetery - Granpa, Mom, and Debbie. It was a beautiful day.

More Snow!

We woke up this morning, Monday, January 21, 2008, to about 4 inches of new snow and the snow still coming down. It still hasn't stopped and it's noon! This is one of the best days for it to snow...NO SCHOOL for Martin Luther King, Jr. day. I love days like this! These pictures are from our yard. The ones of the dogs and the barn are my favorite.

Sunday Dinner

Sunday dinners, as most of you know, have a great deal of tradition in my family. There is usually roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, Yorkshire pudding and a veggie. Grandpa has been the official meet cutter for many years. Here he is doing his work.

Having never had a young sibling of his own to torment, Darrin takes this opportunity to harrass his nephew, Carson. Phil, Peg and Carson are temporarily living with Grandpa while they build their home in South Weber.

Carson was not really in the mood to be teased as he had just been awakened from his nap. He was a pretty good sport about it anyway. (Mean ol' Darrin)

After dinner, and feeling much more awake, Carson found some of Grandma's teddy bears from out patient surgeries she had and showed them all to us. He is hilarious. While Grandpa is in the back sitting room under a blanket watching T.V., Carson will run back and scream at him trying to scare him. Grandpa and Carson are great friends.

Carson loves to play with cars and Cars is his favorite movie. This little mischievous look comes after I tried to touch his Lightening McQueen car shown on the table.

Snow Snow Everywhere

On Wednesday, January 9th, we awoke to about 8 inches of snow. I spent the morning digging out the dogs' houses on the back deck so that they could have somewhere to stand during the day. We thought it was almost enough to have a snow-day from school; but we were not that lucky.

Mom is starting so shovel at the top of the driveway. It is now when we realize just how long our driveway is.....it's really long. We had shoveled about 1/4 of it before our neighbor, Nancy Bell, came over to help us. She is so friendly. She just talked and helped and the work went much faster after that. Then we went to help the woman next door whose husband had hip replacement surgery three days after Christmas.

Here is the gift the snow plow left us. It covers the fire-hydrant and almost our mailbox. At least it can be a shield from any out-of-control cars who come sliding into our cul-de-sac.

Here is the other large snow pack from the snow plow. The neighborhood kids take their sleds out on it to slide down. I remember doing that when I was a kid. We haven't had this much snow all at once in a long time. It is pretty; I like it. It's just cold!

My Nephew Conner Turns 8 and is baptized

On Wednesday, January 2, Conner Romney turned 8 years old.

This giant number 8 was floating above his presents when we got to his house.


Conner is here singing "Happy Birthday" to himself while we all sing along. In our many years of singing this song, the Romney clan has actually become rather good at it. We won't be doing any recordings any time soon.

Conner was baptized on January 5th by his father, my brother, Brent. Here they are dressed in white - representing purity - ready for the baptism program and ordinance.

Here is Lori and Brent's cute little family. Lori is holding Sam, Conner, of course is in white and Caleb is standing in front.

Brent and Conner at their home after the baptism. Here is the newest member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in our family.

Christmas 2007

Christmas Eve at the Romney home finds the Romney's at Mom's house having a traditional Turkey dinner and a devotional before everyone rushes home to go to bed. I hope that all reading this had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year!


Philip, Peggy and Carson enjoying some fruit cocktail at the beginning of the meal.




Sammy really liked the fruit cocktail and insisted on eating it all by himself.
Ben and Tate
Caleb and Conner waiting for dinner to start.
Kennedy being silly.