Sunday Smiles with Loni

Hello again .
Here it is Sunday and time to think about the smiles I've
been accumulating.

I did get all my Christmas decorations packed back into
their boxes.... which if you saw my last post you realize that
was not an easy task.
As it turned out, my friend Terry did come over and
give me a hand. I was just kidding when I asked for help
on my post.... but she showed up... marched into our game room
and started helping me pack and tape up the boxes.
I can assure you that made me smile!!!
I didn't get a picture but I won't forget her help.
...
The rest of the smiles I am sharing today
involve our 11 year old Lonica.
I've told you about what a good little dancer she is.
Watching her dance always makes me smile.
I got to go with her to her dance studio and watch her
run her new solo dance she is working on for competition.
I was smiling the whole time.
...
It was freezing the whole time we were in Utah.
(I am smiling to be back home in CA where the temp is in the 70s.)

It was the coldest I ever remember it being in Utah.
(It was as cold as we were when we went to Idaho, Marie.)

The temperatures ranged between 9 and 22 degrees.

This is the street in front of Lynell's house.
It snowed so much that the snow plows could not keep up.
I gave up trying to drive and I didn't go outside unless I had to....

... but not Loni. Doesn't that face make you smile.
She is a nut!
One day she stayed outside for 2 hours building us a
snow ramp we could slide down.
She was an icicle when she finally came in.

Loni and Grampy's buttermilk toast tradition always makes me smile.

They are the only 2 in the family that like the stuff.
As soon as we get there,
Loni runs to get some buttermilk to share with Grampy.
She and Grampy crack me up.

Her willingness to help makes me smile.
She loves to go down to Erin's and give her a hand with the babies.

She wears herself out ....

...But she is never too tired to play with Ellie and Calan...
or feed them.... or change them.
She will be a great little babysitter when she turns 12.

She even lets Cal play with her cat, Lucy.
Cal loves Lucy.... but I don't think the feeling is mutual.

Smile....smile

...

Loni's cooking makes me smile.

She loves to cook.

She can follow a recipe and cook almost anything from scratch.
You would be proud of her Marie.

She made us a delicious home made cake

and decorated it for New Years.

I was full of smiles.
So from Lonica and me....
Happy New Year.
I hope you have a week full of smile.