SNOW on October 11th!!

Well, we woke up to a White World this morning---snow all over everything!! I LOVE the snow, but it seems to me to have arrived a bit EARLY this year, so we'll likley be seeing LOTS of it for the next 4 or 5 months. A snowy Saturday, makes for a lazy-day-in-front-of-the-fireplace kind of feeling--don't you think?? Dennis was going to go hunting with Trent this morning, but he was so exhausted from all the hunting he did YESTERDAY, that he opted out of it this morning; so we are just lounging around, enjoying the warmth and cozy-ness of our fireplace.

(Trent DID, however, head out for a second day of deer-hunting, taking a couple 4-wheelers on the trailer, and I guess the trailer got two flat tires before noon, so it sounds like they're heading back already. There was 6 or 8 inches of snow up in the mountains where they went, and it was supposed to be pretty good for 'hunting trackability', but........maybe they'll get their deer NEXT week!)

Trent and Melissa and the kids stayed overnight last night and it was fun to have them. Josh and Sara say and do the CUTEST things!! Most everything Josh does, Sara tries to duplicate, and she does a great job of it!! If I knew how to put pictures in here, I'd put in some cute ones of the two of them. Also, Tristan and Ryan stayed the night with this Grandma Thursday night after Ryan's Flag Football game got over, and we made a whole bunch of Halloween cut-out cookies yesterday morning. Here again, pictures would be nice....eh?? At the football game, little Anna refused to come to me to sit on my lap, but after the game got over, when she saw that her two brothers were going to get to 'stay all night with Grandma', boyee--she scrambled over to me and climbed into my arms, and got all "happy-ed up" and wanted me to take her with me so SHE could 'stay over' TOO! What a 'fickle' little doll!!

Lance and Jen are in Salt Lake with Blaine and Lisa, and Wade's gone to California this week-end, so I bet he's enjoying much warmer weather than the rest of us around here are! Our 'high' temp today is just supposed to be 35! Well--Happy Snowy Fall Day to everyone!!

Well, I'm sure SLOW about this 'Blogging Stuff!'

I guess I'd better take time to put more information on my Blog, 'cause people may be checking in to see what I've written, from time to time. Now that I'm reading so many other peoples' blogs, I find that I have to use a 'blogging title' in order to even COMMENT about things they've said. So that makes my 'Karen's Korner 66' title available to other readers. But I don't know how to post pictures, so anything I write will likely not be very "entertaining" to anyone. (By the way--the 66 is not for my age---yet---but for a YEAR that's very dear to us.)

The thing that is most 'dear to us' at this stage of life is our FAMILY!! We LOVE being with our kids and with our grandkids. We have such a good, good time together. (If I knew how to post pictures, I'd put up a picture of each of our individual little families at this point....) We took a big week-long Family Reunion trip to the Oregon Coast the first of August this year, and all had a WONDERFUL time together. Now that Brian and Kam and their two little ones have moved back here to Idaho from living in London, England---I think we'll ALL be able to get together lots more often. I'm glad they lived in England for a time like they did, though, because it provided an opportunity for me and Dennis to go to Europe three different times during the 4 years they lived there. We even went just in April of this year, and it was SO FUN!

Three of our sons live within 25 miles of us here in Idaho, with their darling families and we have marvelous times being with all of them. And our other son, Blaine and his little family just live in Utah, 2 1/2 hours away from us. (Blaine and his wife, Lisa and their four kids just boarded a plane yesterday and flew to San Francisco; and I talked with him a few minutes ago as they were just arriving at Fisherman's Wharf for a day of sight-seeing. What a fun time they're having!)

I have lots of interesting things going on in my life, but without pictures, it'll likely be boring for anyone to just READ what I have to say, so I'm going to quit writing at this point and try to figure out how to put pictures in with what I write. I mean---how interesting would it be for you to hear all about me making lots of containers of beautiful strawberry freezer jam, without being able to SEE all those lovely little red jams??? (...too bad I don't know how to put cutsie little 'smiley faces' in here, either....) Anyway--General Conference is about ready to start, so bye for now.