Day in the Life of a 90 Year Old

I made a reel of this with the music of "Forever Young" sung by Rod Stewart.

Poinsettia Relief Society Newsletter Spotlight for the Month of February

Welcome to Janet Hardy! At the end of October, Janet joined our ward, when she moved in with her daughter & son-in-law, Linda & Gary Pulsipher. Last month, she turned 90 & she wears it well!         Janet was born in Ogden Utah, during the depression. When she was just a year old, her family moved to a small town in Montana, where they were the only LDS family. She graduated from high school, attended BYU, & graduated with a degree in elementary education. She then taught school for a year in Billings, Montana. When school let out, she & a girlfriend took a road trip down the West Coast through Oregon, & down through California. They stopped in San Diego, when they saw how beautiful it was. They were smitten.  They found the office of education, interested to inquire about teaching positions. Although the hiring director was on vacation, when the office found out that they were BYU graduates, they guaranteed them a teaching position on the spot. After going back to Montana to pack up her things, in 1956, Janet made San Diego her home. A few years later, she met her husband, Richard. Six weeks later they married & went on to have 4 children, 2 boys & 2 girls. After having children, Janet quit teaching and pursued a real estate license. She served in many callings in the church.  In 1996, her husband passed away. Janet sold their home & went to live with her children. After several years, she bought a home in Lake Almanor, California, located in northeast California, situated where Yosemite meets the Cascades. She lived there for 22 years. It was a wonderful place to live. She attended & served in various callings in the branch there. Her children & grandchildren loved to visit her there. Having experience with loan processing, Janet went to work for the SBA ( Small Business Administration) providing disaster relief. She would travel for months at a time & process low interest loans for homes that were destroyed by flooding or other natural disasters. She worked for many years, until at age 79, she finally retired.   Janet enjoys time with her family. Linda Pulsipher is the 2nd of her 4 children & James Hardy, also in our ward, is her youngest.  Janet has 15 grand kids & 13 great grand kids. She has so many great and inspiring stories to tell, so get to know her. We're so glad she's here!

Margaret Sent Pix of Lake Almanor!

So beautiful, I miss it and she does, too.  Living and working in Redding now.

 

Finally See Kham after almost 2 years!

 Mitch and family and Maria came over on Thursday afternoon and brought Mexican food and I served them my raisin cookies which they liked so well I sent them home with them.

Kham is a doll and wanted to go upstairs and find the toys I told him were up there.  Finally they went up and he was not interested in much till he found a large blue plastic ring which he enjoyed throwing down the stairs.

Then they went on the patio and we did the 4 generation picture and family picture.  He found the red and white beach ball that has been out there for awhile and started throwing it at Sadie and she started tossing it back and he was having so much fun he laughed and laughed out loud.  I told him he could take the ball he loved it so much.  I thought it was for Rowan who is now in Las Vegas.  But when I asked Linda she said she did not know where it came from.  Oh, oh, probably over the fence from the neighbors.  Oh, oh.

Anyway I am so glad they came over and visited me.  Kham has a piece of cookie in each hand to entice him to sit for the pix.

90th Birthday Party at Linda's Home

 Gary and Craig had to blow up all these balloons for the setting Linda wanted.

Maria brought this of what was happening the year I was born!

Linda and Gary prepared a Chipotle type supper with shredded chicken and Cafe Rio dressing and the best guacamole and salad, my favorite kind of meal.  Maria brought the Sprinkles Cupcakes which I have not had in about 5 years...up to $5 each now but well worth it!!!!   

Such good food as it always is at Linda's, she and Gary are a good team.

 

 Camber's Dad Greg is a storyteller and he has sooo many!

Pix were taken with everyone.  Granddaughter Kelsi.

Son James

Son-in-law Gary

Daughter Linda

Granddaughter Lea

Grandson Jimmy, He had to leave early to go to work at Jake's, a restaurant.

Kelsi and Lea, my beauty advisors!

Great Grandson Nico volunteered to take a picture with me for a cupcake.

Great Granddaughter Eden,  she always romped with Sadie, he really loves her.  She is a big reader, just like her Mom and Keira.

Great Granddaughter Keira, the sci fi girl who knows how to make movies really well, and is an avid reader.

Meagan's husband Matt is a brain with charm.  I like the beard.

lst Granddaughter Meagan, we had a lot of life together, helping one another.

The darling Massey family! Maria and Johnny gave me the cute sweatshirt!

Not that I ever was gorgeous, but I'll take it.

Daughter Maria, always compassionate and knows just what to give you.

Johnny and Maria, Johnny had to fly from his work site in Bay Area and fly back to come to my party!!!  Appreciated that so much.

These peeps just live down the street.  Their home was always open to me and I lived with them a lot.  James was always generous and even sent me on my $3500 trip to Scandinavia.

Always helping me, Linda and Gary, always there for me, moved me so many times as I changed my hats several times after Richard died.

Wax lips used to be a big thing in my childhood.  I had fun opening a box of candy from Maria and Johnny which was all the candy popular in 1933.

They got into the 1933 candy box and have the candy cigarettes.  It is hard to believe but we had them all the time and nobody thought anything of it.

 Camber's Dad came and ate with us, Mary was with Camber at UCSD hospital, she is getting the help she needs now and doing so much better, pray it continues!!!

Jimmy keeps us smiling!

I received many greetings from family who are spread all over the country.

15 grandchildren and families, 13 great grandchildren

I also loved hearing from so many friends and other family.  Great Day!

And Row sent me a Happy Birthday greeting, too.  

Linda made a movie of my life and we are watching it at the party!  And there is the open box of 1933 candy.

Morning after the party Linda couldn't walk Sadie as she and Gary were sub teaching in Seminary so I had to quickly get dressed and walk Sadie.   Linda was home when I got back and she took this picture.

 What a fantastic birthday I had, does my family know how to throw a party, oh yes!!