Could we just skip March and go right to APRIL?

I am looking out my window at gloomy skies and dreary colors....I know this does not sound like me....hang in there I'll be right back, I think, as soon as April get here. But all is not grey and gloomy...there peeking their pale purple faces out at me from the cold Earth are dozens of happy, brave little crocuses that don't seem to mind the cold wind, the flurries of snow or the grey sky as they open each morning to herald the coming of Spring. I love my brave little harbingers of Spring.

I love the green spears of tulips and daffodills and grape hyacynths and Star of Bethlehem that will soon glorify my gardens. I can hardly wait to get my fingers in the dirt and stir things up again this year. My flowers never really know where they will sit each year because I have so much fun moving things around to get a new look each year. Yes, I'm getting too old for this as my body groans a little more each year and some day things will stay as they were the year before but I still look forward to SPRING!

Yesterday as I sat by my livingroom window I was tickled by the tiny juncos (sparrows) that flit and fly around the ivy growing up the chimney and has made it's way towards framing the big window by the chimney. For several years now they have made nests in the ivy (they must love the warmth of the chimney) and have raised their young as I have watched in awe. they chirp and chrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and flit and swoop and do balancing acts on the leaves and stems of ivy as they teach their babies to 'be brave and fly' . Of course they are just in the 'new nest' building and old nest refurbishing mode now but the babies will come. I can't wait!

Thanks Annie for the new background, I LOVE IT and it lifts my spirits. Like my daddy always said about this time of year:SPRING HAS SPRUNG, THE GRASS HAS RIZ..I WONDER WHERE THE BIRDIES IS !!!

Will I ever learn?

Hello again blogger world,
Annie has been on the phone with me for about an hour trying to help me change my background and post a 'new post'. Well, you will notice that my background HAS NOT CHANGED but I did manage to add some new words of wisdom.....wait, I'm too tired now to think of anything wise....so I'll just be a wiseguy and say that blogging is not for the faint of heart or those over (however old I am).....!

I will not give up! I will learn this art of blogging because I do not things like this conquer me and I think this is fun (as long as one of my daughters or D-I-L-'s hold my hand...thanks girls for being patient with me). I will post a few words now and then until I master this and then you may even see a new background or two and then.............who knows I may even add a pic. or two when I am brave....yes, ON MY OWN!

Dad and I are loving our mission.....this is definitely MISSION HEAVEN. The Humanitarian Program of the Church is sooooo amazing and such a wonderful missionary tool throughout the world. Someone said of the Humanitarian Effort....."The first two agencies on the ground in a disaster is always THE MORMONS and THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS!" Funny how that works.:)

Dad and I have been invited to BYU Women's Week to be in charge of the Humanitarian Dept. display and booths in the Wilkensen Center and the Richards Bldg. We will be in Provo April 27-30. We are both so excited, not only to see our Utah kids but to be a part of the Humanitarian program. Yep, this IS mission Heaven! lov mom