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Janis  & Karl Boise Temple Deborah, Carolyn, Janis three sisters at Boise temple

I was able to visit family in Oregon & Washington this past September.  My sisters Carolyn and Janis and her husband Karl came for a visit to Boise.  We went through the Boise temple visited Mt Home where mom lived as a little girl.  We stopped in Baker City and spent the night and went through a Pioneer museum & got lost outside of Pendleton, Oregon.  It was a fun trip.  I got to see family I hadn't seen in almost 10 years. 

I lived in Alaska 14 years and never saw guys that were this cute up there!  But I did find a bunch of them who would try and run me over when waiting for a bus in Anchorage, and splash me with mud on purpose.  I dated one who left me at a Mexican restaurant one time after having a severe acid reflux attack and called me a bunch of names because I had "embarrassed him."  One time I was waiting for a bus in Anchorage and a guy went by and said --"Why don't you get a job barfly?"  Amazing to me is that I was working two jobs at the time and have never drank a day in my life.  When I lived in Wasilla I had one man follow me home and accuse me of drinking and driving!  Maybe because I wasn't skinny enough for these men and wasn't blonde and blue eyed who knows?  There is alot of alcoholism, wife abuse, and drunks in Alaska.  I don't think the Alaska Men's Magazine mentions that however. 

Brilliant Berried Lanterns | First for Women

Pumpkin Spice Football Whoopie Pies | First for Women

Harvest Crabapple Wreath | First for Women

I bet wearing this Muslem bathing suit on the beach would help American girls tremendously with unwanted pregnancy.

  Pictures of my cute nieces Sandra, Sara, and Candace. 

These are pictures of my nieces Mikela & her sister from Washington.  I remember when Christina and her sister Sam were about the same ages. 

  Not sure who the one is on the right?  Sam?    Candance lost custody of her little girl Alexandra.  Didn't get to see her for almost nine months.  Her husband and his family doesn't care how they hurt Candance.  It's a sad thing to see. 

Spoilt rotten kids? Is it my imagination but since all of these abuse laws were enacted, parents are afraid to discipline their own kids! Hence, the screamers at Walmart and the bratty black kids where I live playing basketball at 2 in the morning! One man was so tired of listening to a kid at Walmart having a temper tantrum, that he took the kid out of the shopping cart and wailed the tar out of him! Guess who gets convicted? And the bus driver who left a bunch of screamers on the bus and just quit. Guess who lost his job!~

The theme of the Young Women's this year is Standing in Holy Places. But I think that goes for all of us. The world has gotten alot louder and alot more wicked it seems. I really haven't liked living in Boise, Idaho as much as I thought I would. I live by a bunch of foreigners who are loud and noisy all the time and their kids as well. This sweltering heat hasn't helped much. Plus their throwing garbage everywhere hasn't helped. And the water. If the manager's weren't too cheap to just water the grass more! I hate apartment living. Still looking for that perfect place to live. In Alaska it was just the drunken neighbors I had to contend with thinking they were so funny and cute throwing beer bottles and trash for someone else to pick up. I don't think I ever saw so many drunks as I did in Alaska. My niece Cindy is an alcoholic along with her husband Ken. Her entire life is wrapped up in getting another bottle. How sad. And she's mean and

When I was in high school the war in Vietnam was still going on. John Currie Hansen who lived just up the street from me when I was in diapers was KIA July 15, 1969 as a helicopter pilot from my hometown in Oregon. I have known alot of Vietnam vets from that war. I didn't know what a blood bath it really was until years later. I wrote to a boy Brian Rollman who was from Minot, North Dakota when he was stationed in the Mekong Delta in 1968-69. He came home and took me to my prom. I still have that picture of us when I wore my pretty pink prom dress. In 1974, I was working in Portland, Oregon as a Dental Assistant and back then I loved to dance. I went to a dance in Washington State and just met a guy just home from the war. He wouldn't stop dancing with me. I promised to meet him the next week for a date but came down sick. He felt I had just stood him up and went out and got drunk and in a horrible car accident. The next time I visited Washington I asked my sist

When I lived in Wasilla, Alaska I was babysetting my nephews Jay & Andy and told them we lived in the "redneck valley." Andy said he thought we were living in the Mantanuska Valley. I told him "No, we live in the redneck valley." Of course he wanted to know what a redneck was right? So I told him--"See the neighbor with the 25 dead cars? That's a redneck." When we were in Anchorage one day we were going to the local Walmart store (another indication you might be a redneck) and we had a limo behind us. Andy piped up and said--"Auntie there is a redneck following us!" Cathy and I looked in the rearview mirrors and said--"No, that doesn't classfy as a redneck" and we laughed.

There was a woman in Wasilla who said cats were worthless animals. Well I tend to disagree. I've always been a cat person and find these little creatures more lovable and kind than alot of human's I've known. I have had three female cats I've adored plus many more. Katarina who was put in an animal shelter without my permission by Herder Winkleman. He not only took her life but made me homeless as well when I first moved to Anchorage, Alaska. I can only imagine how she must have felt when he'd betrayed her. And then there was my dear Pokey who died in 2010 of liver cancer. People had given me her in 2002 when leaving Alaska and she was already six years old. What I loved about Pokey is that she was feisty and spirited. If she didn't like someone she'd go and bite them a good one. Didn't take anything off anybody! But when I was diagnosed with cancer in 2008 Pokey started going into convulsions. She had some liver problems and we put her on

The theme for the Young Women's this year is standing in Holy Places. What better place can you stand in a holy place than in the House of the Lord? But other Holy Places are our chapels and homes. There should be no shouting, name-calling, put downs, or making fun of family members in the home. But so often that just isn't the case. I've seen people be pretty irreverant in the temple too especially in Alaska; wearing blue jeans, talking loudly. And sometimes people in the church can be pretty cruel as well when they gossip about someone or judge them too. I try and remember that about keeping your house a Holy Place. Sissy and I get along pretty good. I call her "baby baby" and "Sissy Marie." She knows she's a loved cat. And also keeping your house orderly and clean. That was isn't really that hard. Except all the dust piling up!

I remember growing up in Oregon and I had a huge family. Someone was always coming to visit and we'd have big family dinners on Sunday and the holiday's. But after my father died that all changed. We were forced into selling our house in Cascade Locks and mom moved in with my sister and her family. And then after mom died my sister and brother-in-law sold their house. I've been a single woman since 1980 and never remarried. It didn't bother me so much living in Alaska because I had alot of friends and callings in the LDS church. But living in Boise, Idaho? I feel so alone here. And I rarely hear from family anymore. I sometimes think my family on the otherside love me more than the living ones do.

Pictures of my niece Jacqueline with her boyfriend, friends, and baby Dyson.