Furniture Time

We are all fixed up in our new apartment with all the necessities of life. :)

Mexico Mission

We left our Colorado home and flew to Mexico to serve our second mission. We stayed with the Johnson's until we found our own apartment just across the way from them. They live in this beautiful complex and we wanted to leave quick before we got spoiled.






Our yellow high rise among all the other high rises.



We have a beautiful view from our windows.

Allred's All Together

40 Years of Marriage

Alaskan Cruise

For our anniversary we went on cruise to Alaska. The scenery was magnificent!

Stair Remodel

We went to our cabin in the mountains to do spring cleaning. What a job! We are so excited for Spring to finally be here. Then we ripped up dirty carpet on the stairs and replaced it with slate and wood. I am not sure how we get ourselves into all of these repair jobs. We hope our handy man projects are finally finished because we are ready to play again in the sunshine of Colorado!

Grandkids weekend

We had Darin and Lori's kids for the weekend while they celebrated their anniversary. We had a so much fun with the grandkids. Sunday we were asked to speak in a small branch in Limon and Paris and Savanna sang the special number. We were so proud of their first time to sing in church! Thanks Darin and Lori for letting us have a great time playing with your kids. It is always fun to entertain the grandkids.

Spring!!!

We finally are getting green here. We have even enjoyed some days out side.

More Snow!

What do you do when it snows again in April? Work on your life history. I have been sorting years of letters, journals and creating a start on my life history. I have had this goal for a lifetime and the snow is helping me accomplish this. :)

Clear skies

The same view from our house the day after our crazy snow storm. Now we have beautiful clear skies.

Easter

Easter Sunday we were so snowed in we could not get to church. All the snow plows took the day off and the roads were snow packed plus we had white out conditions. I was so sad because I love the Easter celebration and programs. I am so grateful for our Savior and his Atonement for us all.




We had Darin and Lori and the kids over for Easter Saturday. We had so much fun coloring eggs even if it was so cold we moved to the garage with a space heater to keep us warm. We loved having the kids come and play for the day.

We just returned from a wonderful trip to Utah. I say wonderful because we were able to celebrate the life of our nephew, David Allred. His young life and fight with cancer has been an example to all of us. We are so grateful for his testimony and we pray for his family in his absence for a season. We are so thankful for the gospel and the eternal nature of families. We were able to see so much family. Trevor came with his two children and Darin and Lori with their family.



After the funeral we headed for Salt Lake City to wait for general conference. I have never attended live conference in the convention center and Clyde wanted to visit the Family History Library. So we spent the week in Salt Lake and loved every minute of it. We soaked up the history of the church by visiting the museum, watching the Joseph Smith film, attending the temple, and temple visitors center, seeing the Mormon art show and listening to the organ recital. We practiced our skills of research on family lines. I say practice because we are novices at really how to do research. We had a blast with so much information and help in one place. We saw friends from our mission and old friends from Texas.






The most wonderful thing about the trip to Salt Lake was conference. We were able to attend all but one session in person. We sat at the feet (literally on the middle 13th row from the front) of our apostles and prophet and drank of the Spirit. It was literally a life changing experience to see the gospel in action. We have lived in the mission field so many years and there is nothing like seeing the world wide church to make you grateful for our leaders and their sacrifices in our behalf. I am so grateful to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Blessing and BD

We had a wonderful time in Texas welcoming Brynlee to this earth. Jared gave her a sweet blessing. She is such a precious little one.



Just before we left we got to celebrate Tanner's third birthday.

Grandbaby #15!

A couple of happy BIG brothers


We are all excited to have the pink little bundle of joy home.




We are so blessed to have 15 precious ones in our family. Brynlee Jane Allred is the latest and she sure is a cutie! Lucky us, we got to share the day of the excitement with Jared and Janene.

Retirement to rehirement

One job jobbed! :)

New chair



Old dirty chair




What do you do when you get bored with retirement? You work at the cabin, reupholster, babysit the grandkids, remodel the kid's house. You name and we have been up to it. Who says retirement is boring?

For Hire

What amazes me is all the talent in the Allred family. :)

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Kitchen done and now on to the bathroom.


but the results were well worth it all.

Poor Janene was in for a surprise with all the demolition,


We are your home improvement make overs. Jared and Janene decided they needed a new kitchen look just weeks before the new baby comes.

New Year 2009

GOOD JOB!!

New tile

Off with the old ugly wildflower wallpaper.

We celebrated the New Year with a road trip to California. A little work and a little play. The work was a new remodeled bathroom. The play was downtown LA. All in all it was great to see the grandkids and Trevor and Gretchen. Great memory and fun with family again.

We had a great holiday with Darin and Lori and the grandkids at the cabin in the snow. It was great to spend the holidays with family. The snow was gorgeous and we even got a little skiing in.