I got a new haircut today. It's amazing how good chopping off just two inches can feel. I am getting so many gray roots that I told my hairdresser that I may go blonde so I don't have to keep touching them up. Oh well, so glad for her expertise. She is the cutest little hairdresser (as young as my daughters but doesn't treat me like an old lady). She keeps me up with the trends.

It's almost Valentine's Day and I am finishing up making all my Valentines this year....so far up to 17. I love to scrapbook, an this is just another mini form of it. I try to make each Valentine

fit the person's personality. Here is a sample that I made for Wayne.

We are headed to Disneyland with all the kids and grandkids at the end of February. We are all trying to stay well but right now Alex is sick with a staff infection in his intestine and has lost 23 pounds, Joey and Toby are home for the week with asthma, and I am trying not to fall down from the slick sidewalks everywhere. Since my fall, my knee and ankle still don't seem to want to work together. We have a snow blower for which we are grateful and Wayne has had to use it several times a week. Last Sunday we had a snow day from church. Very few could even get out of their driveways and Wayne spent several hours helping the neighbors dig out too.

It's a new year with lots of possibilities. I decided not to make resolutions this year. I will set some goals and post them in front of the computer as a reminder, so they will be worked on and not just broken. One of them is to keep in touch a little better with those we love. Help me will you?

This is the home we built in Boise. Dad did the brickwork and fireplace.

October 10th and 11th Wayne and I went to Boise, Idaho for a business trip. I sat in the car and read. (yea, an excuse to sit and read without having to feel guilty). We went to all the places we lived and haunted when we were newlyweds 37 years ago. The parks look the same . We found our first apartment and the subsequent houses we lived in until 1977. The little town of Eagle, has gone from under 400 people to over 20,000 since we lived there.

Needless to say, we had a hard time finding anything familiar. The home that we built there is still the nicest home on the street. That made me feel good.