Another great daughter in law joins the Jacquier family!

After 2 1/2 months of anticipation, the much hearalded wedding of our son Jim (aka James), and Amanda McCullom came off without a hitch (well almost) on July 30, 2011. A wonderful reception was held the night before. It was a pleasure to meet Amanda's family who came from Utah, Idaho, West Virginia and other parts of the country for the occasion. Saturday morning dawned cloudy and misty. We all prayed really hard that the sun would be shinning by the time we came out of the temple where they were married (Mt. Timp. in American Fork, UT). The sun gods smiled upon us and it was a beautiful day by the time Jim and Mandy came out. Pictures were taken and lunch was had as we waved good bye to the happy couple.

In the midst of all the wedding fun, son Andrew and his wife Kate and our darling grandaughter Eden (who also lived in Provo) were packing up to move to Texas. Andrew has a job teaching high school physics in Denison, TX. Several hours after the wedding ceremony was over, they left for Bedford, TX where they are staying with Kate's parents until they can find their own place.

As this blog goes to press, we are anxiously anticipating the birth of son Matthew and daughter in law Sarah's first child. Their little girl is due around the 13th of September. They live in Phillipsburg, Kansas where Matthew now works for Boy Scouts. We are looking forward to a trip there after the baby is born.

Our Becky is now living in Knoxville, TN with a friend after spending 2 months this summer as a nanny for our good friends the Ellis's in Ogden, Utah. Timing was great in this respect as she was there for Jim and Mandy's wedding. Hopefully she will be able to find work in Knoxville! We miss her very much!

The heart of the matter

May 20th started out like almost every other day, except that I had an angiogram scheduled at Anaheim Regional hospital. I had already had 2 echo-cardio grams and it was determined that my aeorta valve that wasn't working properly. The angiogram proved this was the case and a cardio surgeon was called in. He convince me to spend the night and have the surgery the next morning. After spending a sleepless night, I was wheeled into surgery about 7:15 a.m. on Sat. May 21st where my aeorta valve was replaced in a 2 hour surgery. When they finished, they all stood back and watched to make sure things were working the way they should be and after a few minutes 2 arteries gave out! A double bypass was done and almost 5 hours later I had new plumbing. Son Jim drove down from Provo to be with us at this time which I really appreciated. Eight days after surgery I was able to come home where Carl tirelessly helped me out. We had dinner provided by our church friends and ladies came and sat with me in the mornings the week after I returned so Carl could return to work.

I healed quickly. Dr. Ott said I was the youngster of the group because most of his patients were at least 10-20 years older than I am. After about 4 weeks I was allowed to drive and at 5 weeks I returned to work. I feel truely blessed that this problem was discovered before more damage was done and am very appreciative of all those who said prayers, sent cards and came to visit me.

Eden Baby

Well Eden made her first visit to California this month (April) with her mom and dad. They were here for 2+ days and we just loved having them here. Eden had a cold but she was still such a good baby. It was painful to say goodbye. We tried to get them to leave her with us and we would bring her back a week or so later when we go up for BYU graduation but they didn't want to take us up on our offer! Imagine that :) Sarah is feeling a little better some of the time now. I am still anticipating the arrival of their little one in mid Sept. with great anticipation!

Grandparenthood X2

Carl and I love grandparenthood soooo much that we decided to do it again! Thanks to Matthew and Sarah we will have grandchild #2 arriving in mid September 2011. We can hardly wait!

Grandparenthood

On Nov. 25, 2010 at 1:40 a.m. (Thanksgiving morning) Carl and I became grandparents! Nana and Papa now have Eden Grace Jacquier (born to Andrew and Kate) to spoil, brag about and love forever. She weighed 7 lbs., 13 ozs. and was 20 1/2 inches long. We were in Provo, when she was born and in fact I was privleged to be in the room when she was actually born. Katie worked hard to bring this little girl into the world and my hat is off to her for her excellent attitude throughout the whole thing. (I know I wasn't that nice when I was giving birth!)

You may wonder why it has taken us so long to post on the blog. After coming home from her birth, we had a couple of weeks of scurried holiday preperations then the day after Christmas we left for Provo again to spend a week with the whole family there. Matthew and Sarah were in Springville, UT visiting Sarah's family, Becky came with us and Jim, Andrew, Kate and Eden live there so it was great to spend some time together with everyone. We all had dinner together a couple of times and the climax was Eden's blessing in church on Sunday, Jan. 2nd. She was blessed by her dad and assisted by Papa Carl, Uncles Jim and Matthew and good friend Travis Ellis. She was a good quiet baby throughout the whole meeting. Kate's mom Shirley was there but her dad was quit sick and could not come. We missed John!

Another exciting thing that happened one night while we were there was that we got stuck on ice while going to a resturant. All those back wheels did was spin, spin, spin. We finally got ove to the side and then had to back down the street to another street that wasn't icy before we could get on our way!

I also was able to surprise Carl, truely surprise him with a lunch for his birthday with everyone there. We went to Applebees and it is the first time in 30 years I have truely surprised him. On our way home to CA we had to spend an extra day and night in St. George, UT because I15 was closed at the Cajon Pass and in Victorville due to snow! A very interesting trip but fun to all be together and to see darling Eden!