Pilot Mom

Merry Christmas!!!

The Real Meaning of Christmas

The greatest day in history

Is when Jesus came to earth.

Amongst hay and livestock

His mother gave Him birth.

The angels sang and wise men came

To see this baby boy,

For a moment the world stood still…. forever changed,

Can you imagine the excitement and joy?

The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, no scepter or a crown;

The Savior of the world had come and wise men would bow down,

They worshipped Him and laid precious gifts there at his tiny feet,

Could they have known what was to come?

The fate He was to meet?

Today, you see, you have a choice, to accept or reject the Son,

To have your sins forgiven, no matter what you’ve done.

To let Jesus’ blood cleanse you, and make you white as snow,

His mercy, not our good works is there for you to know.

My wish for all this Christmas day is to take some time to pray,

To remember God came down to earth on this very day.

Remember Him when you are settled in, and your family is all around,

Remember what it cost Him and this precious gift you’ve now found.

Will you be the one who accepts the Son and hear the angels sing?

When your time is up and your fate is sealed… what will you hear?

Before you stands the King!!!

By Jim DeVore

Christmas Day 2009

Pilot is Home!!!

Pilot has arrived back on American soil!!! Late Sunday evening he arrived home to his beloved Sarah extremely tired (3 hours sleep in 48 hours) but, oh so happy to set his eyes on his beautiful wife. I got to hear hear his voice just briefly as I announced "breaking news" within our family. [My cousin's daughter had just become engaged!] Pilot and Sarah will spend Christmas with Monte and her family, along with the soon-to-be son-in-law. Then, a week from Wednesday, Dec. 30th, Pilot and Sarah arrive here, in SLC, for a nice long visit...until the middle of January! That news is enough to make this Mom and Dad smile!!!

However, in all the activity of getting ready for THE visit, we discovered a leak in an interior wall downstairs. The leak was coming from the kitchen sink directly above it. When we discovered it last Saturday night our whole weekend turned upside down. We called our insurance company that night, then called a plumber at midnight, who was able to come first thing Sunday morning! With the leak fixed, the insurance adjuster came out and started the whole process of filing our claim.

There was mold behind the sheet rock, and on two bookcases, the carpet was ruined, the wall was opened up and part of our ceiling was cut out. The good news is that I get new carpet for my total "L" shaped room, and a new paint job. But, it is such an overwhelming task to get ready for Christmas when everything is in such disarray downstairs. The boss for the whole renovation job is very nice and extremely knowledgable. We found out that he was the supervisor on the four year renovation project of the Sate Capitol building, which was where Pilot and Sarah were married! He took away some of my overwhelming feelings when he said that he will get movers in here, the Monday after Christmas, to pack up everything and move it out of the house to a Pod which will be parked in our driveway. I am moving all my knick-nacks, and taking all the pics etc off the walls so they can paint.

So the beginning of our visit with Pilot and Sarah will be a little disorganized downstairs but after the first week, we should all be enjoying our "new" room!

Family: Margaret will be getting married in the summer, the date to be determined. That is ALL the info I have at this time. Hopefully, Pilot and Sarah will get the full scoop and we can all make plans to attend! Wouldn't that be a fun reunion?!!

Labels: Christmas, Leak; Family

A Winter View

Here is the view from our patio and living room window on a cold winter's day! Don't let the sunshine fool you! :)

After the Snow...

Here are a couple of pics of one of our trees in the backyard after our snows. With temps in the low 20ºs there hasn't been too much melting going on. Yesterday we finally made it up to 41ºF, which made us feel like we are in a heat wave! :)

A Tribute...P51 Mustang and the brave men who flew them.

It's the one on the right. Be sure to have tissue handy. :)
Thank you to each Veteran and active duty person who has given so much of their lives for our country. We salute you!

Congress: Beware

CONGRESS BEWARE…..

“WE THE PEOPLE” ARE WATCHING.

WE’LL SEE YOU AT THE NEXT ELECTION.

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For those who need a picture,

To Congress:

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you've had 234 years to get it right; it's broke.

Social Security was established in 1935 - you've had 74 years to get it right; it's broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you've had 71 years to get it right; it's broke.

The "War on Poverty" started in 1964 - you've had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked and our entire country is broke.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you've had 44 years to get it right; they're both broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you've had 39 years to get it right; it's broke.

Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the "Stimulus", the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009.... none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.

And finally, to set a new record:

"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress' generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that "services" you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

20% of our entire economy?

With all due respect,

Are you crazy?

Labels: Politics

Say It Ain't So!!!

From this:

To this:

Please, please tell me we are not having snow!

Update: Alas, we did have snow all day long!!! At times it was like a blizzard coming down. One could hardly see in front of them while driving. Thankfully, not much stuck around our home, but in other parts of the valley you would have thought it was Christmas!

Cabo San Lucas

We had a fabulous vacation in Cabo San Lucas. In fact, it was quite difficult to return to life in Utah. From the wonderfully warm and sunny weather we were jolted back into reality when we heard SNOW was being predicted for our area tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. Just let me assure you, dear friends, I am in no way ready for cold weather, much less snow. We need more fall, in my opinion. This was the view from our suite when we first arrived.

We could not swim on the beach at our resort because the rip tides are so deadly. They post warnings all over, along with flying a black flag, which means "death." So on Saturday we took a taxi into Cabo San Lucas and spent the day shopping, taking a boat taxi from the shopping district to one of the public beaches, rescuing Jim after he got bit by a blue jelly fish, and bartering with the vendors who roam the public beaches like ants at a picnic. What a great beginning we had (other than the jelly fish) on our first full day! It was so unplanned, spur of the moment, there just wasn't any way it could have been a better day even if we had tried to plan it out!

Then we noticed the wind had picked up which caused all the sand to blow, which in turn caused our pics to be kind of "dusty."

We began to hear news about hurricane Rick which was headed south of us. We would experience some residual rain as a result. Then Carla came into our room and asked if we had heard the latest on Rick. I, who was on V.A.C.A.T.I.O.N glibly responded about him going south of us. She informed us Rick was headed for a direct hit on Cabo. News alerts were sent out every half hour it seemed, keeping us abreast of the progress, what we needed to do if we decided to stay, etc. I immediately went and got on Facebook, and my email and sent out a massive prayer request requesting that God would downgrade Rick from a Catagory 5 to a tropical storm. Soon we began hearing that it would be a Catagory 2 or 1 by the time it would hit land. But if you will notice in the pics, land for us was not many yards away from the water! Waves got to be 15 feet! The song which kept returning to my mind was "It Is Well With My Soul."

"When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll; whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul.

Our great and awesome God is indeed in the business of answering prayers. Thank you to each one of you who took time out to go before His throne of grace on our behalf. And especially thank you to those who were already praying before my prayer request had even gone forth! Rick did turn into a tropical storm, and went so far as to turn away from Cabo and head back out over the Pacific. :) We did have a day of rain, which was then followed by beautiful days of perfect sunshiny weather!

After Rick we played in San Jose Cabo which is much more fun and interesting than Cabo San Lucas itself. It was also only 10 minutes away from our resort. It has an art district, a shopping district, a ton of jewelry stores and loads of excellent little restaurants to choose from.