Shopping

We are in Utah enjoying our grandchildren here especially Jacob's baptism. We have bought our winter coats for our mission in England. Rex bought two new suits and I bought a couple of sweaters. We are so excited to be leaving in a month for our mission. Our farewell is on the 29th of Nov. at 11 am. Hope to see you all there. We will have a light lunch afterwards. We are thrilled to have all of our children home with us for Thanksgiving and our grandchildren!!!!! I will be blogging our mission so you can all enjoy some of it with us. Patrice is going to teach me how to be an expert blogger!!!! I bought a new camera and have a new laptop so I am sooooo ready to become an expert blogger. That will become the first miracle of our mission. We will be located in Carmarthen, Wales. It is a little coastal village that has a small branch that we will have the privilege to work with. We will also be working with the elders in the Wales area. We are trying to locate our "flat" in Carmarthen right now. What an experience. We will have a rental car we rent from the church. We go into the mission home on the 7th of Dec. and leave for Paris, France on the 14th of Dec. and then fly on to Birmingham, England on the 15th. There we will learn to drive on the wrong side of the road and have dinner at the mission home with the other senior missionaries. That night we will be staying in King Henry the eighth's castle made into a hotel and then that next day drive to Carmarthen where we will set up our little home and then go to work for the Lord. What a great boss!!! We will continue to add posts and share this adventure with you all.

It's On It's Way . . .

Rex and I are going on a mission!!  If all goes as planned, we will get our call this week.  Put in your best guess, and you could win a $25 gift certificate.  If two people guess the same place, the first one in wins.  The deadline is Thursday . . .

Good luck!

Grandchild #21!!!

Today at 7:30 a.m. little Isabella Kaye Crandall was born! She was 7 lbs. 10 oz. and 21 and 3/4 inches. She is so very, very beautiful with lots of dark hair. She looks a lot like Abbygail did. Isn't it amazing that every new child is just simply a miracle. Ally is doing very well and had a great delivery. Justin is certainly the proud father. It was thrilling for me to hear his excited voice this morning announcing the birth of his third child. Rex was afraid he would miss the birth while he was babysitting Kaylene and Ruel's children in Boise -- and he did!

Ethan was so excited about Isabella that he tried to rearrange the entire hospital room!

Abbygail is already acting like a little mother. She cheered when her dad called this morning with the good news.

Thoughts from Grandpa

I have been so busy but you have all been on my mind since Grandpa's birthday party. He was so touched by all you all did for him. He has read his book many, many times and comments on all of you every day. Thank you all for your pictures and thoughts. You have made him so happy. I love you all for your great lives. We had one of our ward members come that night to the party and he commented on this must be how the Celestial kingdom must feel because there is so much love here and you can just feel it! What a family you have, he said. And we do. I am so grateful I am part of all of your lives. We are also so excited about Ruel and Kaylene and family moving to Kingman. Ruel has a great job as an attorney. We are meeting them in Kingman this week and will look the area over with them. I am just happy to be getting away. Now I have three out of the five children close to home. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

We had the most fun at our family reunion this past month. On the first day we went to Raging Waters and I did survive my grandchildren in the Wave Pool. It was so fun and the grandkids were determined to have me surf every wave on my tube. We then went to Park City and stayed in a great resort where we could prepare our own meals and just enjoy each other. Saturday morning our company sponsored a shopping spree for each family and it was really fun. The activities at Park City were awesome with a Zip Line, a Coaster, the Alpine Slide and lots of fun children's rides. Our tickets allowed us to go as many times on the rides as we wanted to so needless to say we were there for hours having a blast!! You should have seen me ride the Coaster at full speed. The instructor told me to keep it at high speed or I would spoil it for everyone else--so of course I didn't want to spoil it for anyone else, so I went the fastest you could go!!! What an experience!!!!!! Sunday some of us went to the Spoken Word in the Conference Center(you had to be 8 years old or older to attend). That is such a neat experience, be sure to go if you ever have the chance. We played in the park, played games and had a testimony meeting. It was a special day. On Monday we had so much fun riding rides at Lagoon. The most fun for me was seeing grandchildren of the same age enjoy each other and become friends. How I love my family!!!!! They are my most choice blessings. I am thankful for their good lives. They all love the gospel and are busy serving in their individual areas and are such good parents and children. I am so BLESSED!!!!

Survived Camp--Can you beleive it!! And more----

I am sure I was the oldest lady at Camp but I was the first one up everyday and I loved the entire time. I got close to my girls so it was really worth it. It was very cold at night until we got more blankets. I had treats for the girls each day and they seemed to enjoy that. On another note--be sure to get you pictures and thoughts about Grandpa to Ally by the 24th of June. This will mean so much to Grandpa. We are getting excited about the Rex Crandall reunion coming up next week. We are going to Park City in Utah and have lots planned like--Raging Waters on Friday, Park City Activities on Saturday , The Spoken Word on Sunday and Lagoon on Monday. I think everyone will be there and I can't wait. We are going to take Grandpa to Utah in July to see his family over the 24th of July. Shane will be marching in a parade in his marching band and so we will try to be there also. A busy, busy summer and I tell you Young Women's is busyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! Yikes!

Double blessings coming this year

Last week I went to Women's Conference and Kaylene and I stayed at Kristie's home. As we arrived Kristie said they had saved the dessert for us until we arrived. As we went into the kitchen to have dessert, we saw a cake and on the cake it stated,"Coming December 2nd"sooooooooo we are going to have a grand baby in October from Justin and Ally and another one in December from Kristie and Joe!! Yeah!!! That will make 22 very special blessings in our life. It was wonderful seeing Michelle and John's children while we were up there and Kristie's and Joe's children also.