Happiness Blooms From Within

 

This beautiful thought came from a packet of pictures Julie gave me to paint for my birthday. Thank you Julie, they have made my life much more fun and beautiful!

Mother's Day flowers from Cindy way up North in "Never Never Land", where anything beautiful can be found.  Thank you, Cindy, you are so thoughtful.  And to me, they represent your talented way of making everything  you do become beautiful, useful, welcoming and sharing your love for others with things they can see or feel.

Thank you  more than I can put in words!!  Love you tons!! Mom.

Cindy's flowers also decorated in front of the pictures of Wendell and me when we were on our mission to Spain.  The picture to it's left is one that I painted of the Incredibly high mountains in the southern  part of Chile.  The picture on the right was painted by my Brother, Ron. When you look at it for several minutes in looks like the water is moving in waves.

Brock Pierce.  He has been called to the San Bernardino Mission.  He is so excited to go there.  He and Aiden Rawlings hope that they will be assigned  close to each other and be able to work together.

Many of us are hoping for the same thing if it is pleasing to Heavenly Father, for He knows best.  We can pray for them every day and know that God will do what is best for both of them and the mission.

OH , BY THE WAY, HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW HANDSOME HE IS?

 Here I am with Philip Barlow and Sarah, We hope soon she will be Sarah Barlow.  Aren't they a sweet couple!!  They told  us many stories about how they met and knew they were meant for each other... still they want to wait a year or so to be sure.  We suggested strongly that, if they still are in love after three months, they hurry up and get married. 💗 

Now that is pretty safe advice isn't it!!  Especially if they pray about it!!!   

No fooling Sarah.  We already love you and want you to be a permanent part of our family!!! 

These are the flowers from Philip and Sarah.  They look so fresh and beautiful.  Thank you so very  much!  And big hugs to both of you.

This is the Bybee Family.  They came to Family Home Evening to hear all about Easter Island, where Wendell and I served one of our missions.  

Left to right: Leora, Allya, Grandmother Christensen, Emma, Jeffery,  Front - left to right - Johny, Harley, James,  & Rylan with a big smile and flowers over his head.

We all had a great time, learning, laughing, eating, running around outside of our house,  Rylan made it in only 16 seconds the first time around.  What a champ.

This is our view from our Patio on the west side of our house, where we ate lunch.  We marveled at how huge the snowball bush has grown, and tried to find Easter Falls on the mountain.  We decided that it is about half the way up the mountain behind the snowball bush.

We decided that we would like to hike up and find Easter Falls this summer.  However Grandma gets to ride in a truck 😊

That's all for this time.  We love you all and hope you love this Blog.  Just remember, "Happiness Blooms From Within."

Much Love, Great Grandma Christensen, & Peggy & Bruce Royer.