Valentine's Day

I crocheted a heart garland for a Valentine's decoration. I think it's pretty cute! On the morning of Valentine's I made the girls heart shaped cinnamon rolls and pink strawberry milk for breakfast. They loved it. As my gift for Jeremy, I began on February 1st and gave him something everyday with a little note attached to it. For example, I gave him gummy bears with a note that said "life would be unBEARable without you" and junior mints that said "we were MINT to be together". I think he really liked it. He gave me some money to go shopping and then later on that weekend we went to dinner at a fancy penthouse restaurant in downtown San Diego, called Bertrand at Mister A's, while my mom babysat for us. The food was delicious.

Rear-ended

On his way home from work, Jeremy was rear-ended while stopped at the exit on the freeway. Thankfully no one was hurt. The person who hit Jeremy totalled his car and he caused $7,000 worth of damage to our car.

Solid foods

It was time to start Grant on solid foods, so on February 9th he had his first bowl of rice cereal. He LOVES the stuff! I had Macy help me feed him just like Kamryn helped me feed Macy when she had rice cereal for the first time. Now every time I get him in the high chair she pulls up a chair to help me. Sparky seemed to think that the high chair was a new place for him to sit too.

Playing around

I love the moments when the girls actually play nice together. They had fun building things with Lego's. We went to Home Depot and them made little trinket boxes and even got to paint them!

Sunday afternoon

Grandpa Waldram

Life Legacy

Hal Garner Waldram, 86 of Pocatello, passed away peacefully at his wife’s side on January 27, 2012; due to complications from heart and kidney failure. He was grateful he had the opportunity to visit with each of his seven children in the few weeks prior to his death. He was born October 15, 1925 in Sugar City, Idaho to Byron Lorenzo Waldram and Violet Rae Garner Waldram. He was the eighth of nine children. He had seven sisters, Veniece (Owen) Leishman, Marie (Earling) Leholm, Ruth (Yale) Holland, LuDean (Orm) Jergenson, Gwen (Kenneth) Garn, Faye (Ray) Jergenson and Joan (Bob) Rowe, and one brother, Lee (Norma) Waldram.

He attended school in Sugar City, until the end of his junior year of high school. Then he moved with his family to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he attended East High School, and graduated in May of 1943.

He was drafted into the Navy in November 1943. He was sent to the Naval Training Station in Farragut, Idaho on Christmas Eve 1943. After his training, he was stationed on Manus Island in the South Pacific, where he served as a bugler for the Navy from August 1944 until May 1946, at which time he received an honorable discharge.

When he returned from the service, he began studying Business at Idaho State College in August 1946. Two weeks later, he met his eternal companion of 64 years, Barbara Heaton, of Idaho Falls, and they were married on June 18, 1947 in the Idaho Falls Temple. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business from Idaho State University in May 1951.

After graduation he began working at Terrell’s Shoe Store until 1965. At that time he began working for Investors Diversified Services (IDS), later called American Express Financial Advisors as a financial planner, until 1985. He had a very successful career, and was the first to achieve the Multi-Millionaire Club in the Boise, Idaho Division. He received many awards through his work at IDS/American Express Financial Advisors, and as a result had the opportunity to travel with his wife to many places as a reward for his work accomplishments.

Hal was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. He loved serving in the church; he had many opportunities to serve in leadership capacities, including serving as Bishop of the Pocatello 16th ward. His favorite calling was teaching the Gospel Doctrine class.

On October 7, 1980, Hal and Barbara received their greatest calling and opportunity to serve as temple workers in the Idaho Falls Temple. Hal and Barbara left to serve a twelve month mission for the church in the Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission from 1991 – 1992. When they returned from their mission, Hal was called in February 1993 to serve as a Temple Sealer. After 30 years of temple service, they were released in April 2011, due to his health complications. One of his greatest opportunities as a Sealer was to marry 14 of his grand-children. Hal loved serving in the temple and especially the association he had with those he served with.

Hal and Barbara raised six sons and one daughter in Pocatello. He was most proud of his children and family; he considers them his greatest accomplishment in life. He had a wonderful sense of humor and a very contagious laugh; he loved life, his family and serving others. Gardening was one of his passions in life, and he raised a large garden every year with his wife. He also loved fishing and golfing, and spent a lot of time doing both, especially after he retired.

Hal was preceded in death by his mother and father, sisters, Veniece, Marie, Ruth, LuDean, Gwen, and his brother, Lee. He is survived by his loving wife, Barbara, seven children, Craig (Stephane), Tehachapi, California; Bruce (Bonnie), Shelley, Idaho; Scott (Carla), Pocatello, Idaho; Kimm (Margaret), Chubbuck, Idaho; Wendy Brown, Eagle, Idaho; Kelly (Cindy), Maple Valley, Washington; Mark (Connie), Pocatello, Idaho; 24 grand-children and 39 great-grand-children; two sisters, Faye Jergenson and Joan Rowe, both of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Disney on Ice

We went as a family to watch Toy Story 3 on Ice. It was a lot of fun! Macy, as expected, totally loved it. Those ice skaters are pretty talented!