Jonathon Mission Call....

June 26, 2017

David called me tonight to let me know that Jonathon Mendoza, his step son, was now a Elder.  He will be leaving on a Mission to the Madagascar Antananarivo Mission,  Aug 16, 2017
Jonathon was asked who he would like to ordain him a Elder?  His reply was David....

My heart was filled with warmth and joy.  This Mission will be good for David, Marisol and Jonathon.

Growing Family...

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Our family is growing again this year, faster than I can keep up with.

Ivie, Launie's daughter, is getting married 25th of April.

David, is getting married for the third time, 3rd of April, in the American Fork Temple.

Mike and Jennifer are expecting  number five some time in Sept. or Oct.

Lynn and I will be married Fifty years in June.


I wish Lynn and I were younger so we could enjoy our family more...It seems younger
folks like to be more with others closer to their own age.  Right now Lynn and I are over
forty years older.  Not as active, and facing more physical problems at this age, that the
younger ones don't know and have not experienced yet.

 I understand,... I have done that to....but I still miss them, they are my children...


Up Date:  Amber, Launie's daughter, who just came home from her Mission is getting
Married June 20, 2015.....



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Our New Grandson...

    Eian Mitchell Inman was born today, April 19th, in the West Jordan Hospital, in Utah.

His Proud Parents are Paulette and James Inman.

He weighed 7 lb, and 11 oz. and is 20 and 1/4 inches in length.

He was very comfy and warm and was not in a hurry to meet this big world.

Growing Family...

Our Family will be growing by two this year.
Paulette and James baby Eian, who is due April 26, 2012

On Valentine day, Jodie and Will informed us they were expecting this year too.

So lots of smiles as these cousins come into our family.... :)

UPDATE: 3-24-2012 Jodie called this morning. She had seen the Dr. this last week, the date their baby is due is Oct 15, 2012..

UPDATE: 7-14-2012  Jodie informed us at Eian blessing, (Pauli and James baby )  that her baby is due Oct 5th.

Baby Shower....

What a Wonderful time to celebrate, as a new life will be entering this world, and into arms that will dearly love him.

A Baby Shower for Paulette and James new baby, Eian Mitchell Inman. Was held last Saturday on his mothers birthday February 11. With lots of friends, over 25 in attendance. Lots of appreciated gifts were given to help with this first born to start life. Lots of cute Rubber Ducks were major in the decorating of the room. Paulette and James made Snow globs with mini rubber ducks in them for people to take home as a Thank you for coming.

Eian due date is April 26, 2012. We are all excited to meet him when he comes...

Austin Maughan....

Last Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. Austin Ryder Maughan was blessed, and given his name, by his Dad, Mike, in Surprise Arizona. He was born March 29, 2011, in Sandy Utah.
His family moved to Surprise Arizona shortly after his birth.

Austin is the son of Jennifer and Mike Maughan.
He is our eleventh grandchild.

Jodie and Will's Wedding...10-8-2011...

Today I witnessed answers to many of my prayers to Father in Heaven, as I watched my daughter, Jodie, Wearing her Temple clothing, kneel at the alter in the Salt Lake Temple, holding hands with the one she loved, being sealed for this time, and all eternity, by the power of the Holy Priesthood. One of the greatest joys, a Mother can have, is to be in the Temple with her children.

Both Lynn and Will's father were asked to be the witnesses. That left a empty chair beside me. I saw Danny, Will's Aunt, and motioned for her to come and sit by me. Danny is very friendly, has never been married, and does not have any children of her own. She expressed appreciation of being able to experience this part of a sealing from a family side. After the Marriage, Danny helped me dress, and lace Jodie's wedding dress in back, for her pictures on the Temple grounds.

Of those in attendance that I knew, were Cory and Marilyn Grua, (Our former Bishop), Paulette and James Inman, Breanne Jensen Ballard.

Most all the chairs on the right side of the room were filled with the Jolley,s family. The other side of the room was mostly filled by friends and Jodie's family.

Launie and Amber, Ivie waited outside to greet Jodie and Will....

Jodie and Will's Wedding Reception...10-7-2011...

This week has been so Awesome...Jodie and Will's Wedding Reception was held at Will's church, instead of outside at his home, because it was raining and had snowed on the mountains the night before, the weather was very cold.

The Jolley's had created a beautiful, elegant, atmosphere in the cultural hall at church. They seemed to have everything catered, including food and a chocolate fountain, beautiful wooden chairs, five candelabras, which hung with curtains and draperies. White strings of small lights were strung across the room above our heads, helping to light the room with a soft light. The table settings were created by Jodie, and were stunning. On each of the seven round tables were large center piece vases, with fall colored flowers, surrounded with assorted crystal candle holders, with battery type candles in them. About ten poster size photographs, of the couple Bridals, were displayed. Beautiful, tall, crystal goblets with candles twinkled on the gift table as you entered the room. Pauli made a beautiful Wedding Book, for the guest to sign, at the guest table.

Pauli and I worked on the Wedding cake at Will's home, for two days. It was very nice by the time we finished the eleven to twelve cakes. I give the credit to Pauli for finishing most of the cakes, as my energy ran out. Danny, Will's Aunt, gave a beautiful large, hand blown glass Salt lake Temple, which was displayed with a light under the main Wedding cake.

Jodie's colors were in the Fall colors. Pauli was asked to be Jodie's Maid of honor, and wore a beautiful chocolate colored formal which looked very nice on her. Amber and Ivie, Launie's daughters, were asked to be bridesmaids. Two of Will's sisters were asked to be bridesmaids, but did not stand in the greeting line, even though they were in formals. Also four of Will's brothers were asked, and were in tucks, but did not stand in the line. But were there for the family pictures.

Lynn told me we had spent around a thousand on Jodie's wedding, and it was nothing compared to what the Jolley's must have spent. It was very beautiful and more than what we could have ever done.

(As Beautiful as the evening was... there seemed to be something missing....)

19 Wedding Cakes and Counting...

On the 19th of this month, Lisa and Troy, Lynn's brother allowed Lynn and myself to invade their kitchen at their home in Lindon Utah. We used their two ovens to bake 20 cakes. One cake crashed, so we had 19 done, and 4 left to bake by the end of the day.

Lisa had a 'Jenn-air' oven on top, which I fell in love with. The element would heat the oven up to the temperature, then a fan would come on and circulate the air around inside. It didn't matter how big the cake was, from 14" to 6" the cakes would all come out even. That was so nice...If I were younger and doing all the baking I use to do, I would ask to have a Jenn-air oven. It cost more, but it would be so worth it...

Engagement...

Aug 2, 2011

Will gave Jodie her Engagement Ring, in the Celestral Room, in the Salt Lake Temple.

Oct. 8, 2011...

Sunday Will Jolley and Jodie spent the afternoon with us. Will asked for our approval of their plans for Marriage in October. They have scheduled an appointment in the Salt Lake Temple, On October 8,2011, at 3:00 pm.

It will be nice to have Will as part of our family.
There first date was to the Manti Temple.

Will promised Lynn and I that They would marry in the Temple.
That he would never physically hurt Jodie.
That he love Jodie with all his heart.

A New Grandaughter...

This is taken from Mike's Blog, my son-inlaw
Violet Ruth Maughan Oct. 13, 2008
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Then there was Twig........ and we saw that it was good.


So my buddy Sam and his wife and kids came down to visit. Well they came for a funarel, but visiting us was a good biproduct. :) They left sunday morning and we went about our regular daily activities. Jen went to cleaning up toys and I went to studing and so forth. Jen was tired and didn't feel up to church so I went and took the worm. Nothing really significant happened on Sunday; until around 11pm. I was asleep and Jen was not. She didn't tell me that she had started contractions. My alarm goes off at around 6am(being extra tired cause Jen was up half the night "cleaning" and keeping busy but hadn't yet told me why) I thought it highly suspicious that she would ask me as I'm going out the door if I have the cell phone and if it's on. I go to class (which I was an hour early for.) and sit and talk to a class mate of mine. He hadn't been able to guess the weight of the unborn yet, so we chatted and I told him I was expecting a call from Jen to go have a baby. Not more than 5 minutes later, Jen called and I laughed and told my friend that I had to go and to tell our teacher that I was at the hospital having a baby.(well not me but my wife) and off we go. We get to the hospital and after about 45min of paper work and check ups. they take us to the "offical" Delivery room. 30 minutes later the man giving out drugs in the form of an epidural shows up. (Jen was in great pain at this point) and after he's done she doesn't feel much diffrent. It was a little late. 15 minutes later the nurse said she could see and feel the head of the baby coming through and so she told the Doc to git in the room. He had been in the hall for a bit just waiting for it to get closer. He had just check Jen like 2 minutes before the nurse said that he needs to get in there! I was a little worried that I would have to put on the catchers mask and go to work. No sooner than the doctor got his gown on and sites down does the head show up and poor Jen almost no drug relief, now has to push the kid out. The doctor tells her 1 good 10 second push and it will all be over. So she does and to the doctors dismay only the head comes out and the sholders just don't. So 2 more big pushes and it was over. We have a twig! Now you might be wondering why we call her "Twig" it's a nic and our first daughter has one it's "worm" cause she wiggled a lot. We couldn't call this one the same thing for obviouse reasons so it became twig. Violet was born Oct. 13th 2008 at 10:06 am (only an hour and a half after getting there) She weighed in at 7lbs 12 oz. Just one more ounce than Sarah was at. She was 19.5 inches long. Mother and Daughter are doing fine and are looking forward to coming home today.

David's World...

This is taken from my son's blog "Thoughts of a Small Dragon" I had a good laugh, David is over 6 feet tall. And I know the feeling of flying pillows.

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Satin Sheets

What do you think of Satin Sheets?

Well let me tell you a story about them, that happened to me.
I was talking to my mother about these sheets and she had a good laugh and said I needed to blog about them.

In my room, I have been sleeping on the same sheet and blanket for about 6 years, of course I have been washing them often, so they are faded. It does not help either that the bed is next to the window and for some reason the sun does help fade the colors. hahaha

I moved to a new place and the apartment already came with a bed frame. It does not have a foot board or a head board.

The bed that I had bought I needed to put in storage while I live where I am now until I move. That seems like a good idea because I wont wear out my bed frame.

I thought it would be good to have a change of color instead of having a black bed in color and try to find something that looks Asian.

I thought I found something good. It is cool in a way. I also thought that with summer almost here my room always gets really hot. So, I thought maybe I might buy new sheets for the bed.

I looked around for different colors to match the tan colored bed spread. I did find a nice color for about $20. They were made out of cotton.

Then I found these satin sheets. Wow, They are only $2 more. You know when moving on satin, from place to place it gets cold. That is just what I need to stay cool at night.

So I bought them.

I put my bed together. It really looked nice and feels good. The satin just lets you slide every where and cool.

Note: DO NOT LET IT FOOL YOU.

That night was sooooo uncomfortable.I kept sliding allover the place. My pillow kept shooting off the bed for the lack of head board. I got no sleep. It gives me a kinked neck.

After 3 nights of trying it, I yanked off the satin sheets as fast as I could, and put my faded sheets back on including the pillow case. After that, I have been getting a good nights sleep.

Satin Sheets are NOT for ME.

Thought of a Small Dragon.

Never Forgotten...

Beautiful pictures flash across my computer screen of my son's 3 children. Its been a few years since I've seen them. Because of a messy divorce David has limited time with them, mostly 1, 2, hours a month. This month is special, Bryce, his oldest just turned 13, and being my husband and I have moved to Utah, David asked for extra time and brought the kids to our home for a birthday party for all the kids.

This Saturday was extra busy, Lynn and I work with the Stake Single Program, and it was the Thanksgiving dinner for the 50+ group. We had to be at the Church at 2:00pm to help set up tables, work with the food, and help with meals to go out to the housebound folks. Sense there was enough help, Lynn and I were able to go home around 4pm and be there when David arrived. Jennifer my daughter was also visiting from Ariz. with her daughter, Sarah, who is 2 and a half years.
David would be able to stay with the kids for about a hour or little more, then comes the long drive back home... Lynn and I would return to Church at 6pm to help serve the meal for the evening.

The request for strawberry cheesecake, and vanilla ice cream, was changed a little, as I found a cheesecake that had multi flavors, and we got two different kinds of ice cream. that seemed to please everybody. So we had pink candles on cheesecake, all the kids help blow them out. And had fun opening their small presents, with "Heavy, heavy, hangover, thy poor head...What do you wish this person???"
A tradition in our family for years, to which the Birthday person, not knowing who the giver is, would express a special gift, or wish to go to the person who has given the gift. Sometimes this can be quite funny.

Over the years I have sent to each of my Grandchildren, Holiday cards with a stick of Juicy fruit Gum inside. I hoped that somehow they would remember that their grandparents were the ones who sent the cards and the gum, with a reminder that we love them. (Taste buds have a way of remembering good things).
I also included a small package of Juicy Fruit gum with their birthday gifts.

Time flew by, and they were gone.....Bryce 13, had gotten so tall. Darren who is 7 is about the same height as his little sister Melody, who is 5, almost 6. The last time I had seen Melody, she was about a year and a half. I know she didn't remember me. However Sarah and Melody had a great time playing together, and Melody was all smiles before she left to go home.

I watch the pictures, over and over, of that day, time was too short to remember.
David brought someone with him, and paid him to take alot of photos. Then he made a CD, with a slide show on it, for me to see my grandchildren.

Paulette's World...

October 19, 2007
Sunshine and Sandals


yah... three years ago, i remember seeing this image on my apartment's mailbox in Payson, Utah. It was the very first time in my entire life, to be honest. I think I ran out there with my snow-boots strapped on to poke and laugh at it for days on end. I remember when the stupid mailbox simply disappeared during that rather harsh winter... and i didn't see my pair of sandals for MONTHS on end afterwards.

The next winter we were in Springville... and the stupid storm-cloud dumped a foot of snow on my one and only Tulip over-night! (i hand planted that poor little thing) We were in a basement apartment that year with not much more than our kitchen stove to keep us warm... and that little tulip was my "bit of sunshine" deeply needed. For weeks after that, i sheltered the tulip with our large orange snow-shovel, making it a safe little home from the wind, hail, and snow until it was safe for it to come out again. Course, it wasn't long, after the snow melted, that i awoke one morning to find that some kid had simply cut it off by it's throat and it was gone. i think i cried. Anyways... THAT winter, i drug a chair and an umbrella out into the snow, sat down, and wrote a scene in my book as fast as i could, in the middle of a blizzard, about how COLD Wyan felt as he was lost in the forest one night. Trust me... i had ALL the details i could possibly want! (and it was rather awful penmanship too)

the winter after that we were in Tooele (there was another home in between those two, but it was only over the fall) We had huge boulders that eventually hid themselves all together like little waves in the snow. My dog would run across the yard and hit one, noise-planting herself on the other side. She'd also simply fall-off the edge of our rock-wall and completely disappear... and for an Australian-Shepard, that's a pretty good trick! THAT year, the ladies in our church decided to get together and do a morning walk every week-day for a month... and it was THAT year that i made knee-deep boot-prints through the snow and down my drive-way to join them... only to stand out there in my fat bright yellow coat for an hour, and then turn around and go back home... alone. (don't ask me why i kept going out... but i did, every day that entire month!) I think it was also that year that Twilight first came out... and i read the opening chapter in her book in my 32 deg basement. I finished that book in the same winter, but she tortured me with the constant reminder of how warm it was in Phoenix and how my fingers would NOT have been turning an unhealthy shade of blue had i still been there! (btw: Phoenix is my "home town") THAT year my friends kept finding me up on the roof as i tried to soak in some reflective warmth from our dark-black shingles and proved how much of a Snow-Bird i should be!

Course, the only reason I'm thinking about this, is because my mom just wrote me and told me that the snow-season was starting again. And here I sit, THIS winter in Bullhead City, Arizona... still wearing my t-shirt, sandals, and capris, as the average temperature is still in the solid 80s. (or was it finally 79-i forget) Either way, today is actually 92 and last night my AC in my home still came on to cool us down, and it's only set for 78. Go figure. Yesterday, my husband and i took our dogs out on a walk as the sun was setting, and completely enjoyed every minute of it... jacket free. Couldn't even tell that winter's coming (other than i'm not roasting alive anymore inside!) No wait, i take it back... i just put my toes up on my chair and sat on them cuz they were a little chilly. But just the ones on my right foot :)

Last year (christmas), my husband and i started a new tradition. We're going to make a new tree-ornament in honor of that year. So, we'll sit down and discuss what was significant about the year, and than get something to represent it and put it in a little clear-glass ornament ball. The one from 3 years ago, i filled with a ton of fake-snow.... this year i may just fill it with sand. (j/k) I wonder where NEXT year will take us...

Meanwhile, I'm sure not doing much blogging about that poor little book of mine. (probably a good reason for that... cringe) I should get busy!

Laters... (Paulette)