This past year has been one of ups and downs and twists and turns. Joys and sorrows and times of reflection.
James and I were able to take two trips together this year, one to Pennslyvania and one to California, both were great times for us to share and enjoy one anothers company! Maybe it would be best to start with each child and go through the year.
Dennis Has been working for Harkins theatre and has managed to work up to a managers position. He works long hours but seems to enjoy his job! He is also engaged to a beautiful young woman, Lauren Olsen. They are looking at August for their wedding. (Good month) ;)
Lauren has been attending BYU Idaho and they will both continue their educations there.
Kevin has been serving in the Sao Paulo South Mission for the last two years and on the 17th he will be returning home! We are all excited to see him and see the changes that have occured in the last two years with him. His mom is not excited at all!!!!! ;0 Thursday can't come soon enough!!!!!!
Katlyn is 19 now and has met a wonderful young man, Taylor Ferrin,they are getting married April 23, 2010. He proposed in front of the Christus at the Mesa Visitors center. They are so fun to watch together! O the joys of young love!
Kim Yes you read right! For those of you that don't know we have another member of our family. Kim came to live with us just after Labor Day. She is cute and fun and fits right in with the other children. She is also working for Harkins and love sto come home and tell us about all the people and the strange things they do! Kim is almost 19.
Andrew will be 17 in a few weeks and is busy and active with school, choir, Stagecraft, and computers! He loves to tear them apart and then put them back together! He has gotten good at it! He went to his first school dance in October and he looked marvelous!
Braden is 13 going on 30 :) He is in jr high and loves all his classes! He is in Choir and Orchestra and is doing cross country this year! He made it into the school allstate orchestra and will be performing in march with them! he has gotten taller and is hopeing to pass Kevin someday!
Rayalee and Jon are staying busy. For those of you who have read my blog you see that I have written little this year! Rayalee was expecting twin girls but because of things that happened Ashley and Nichole have returned to live with their Father in Heaven! Rayalee and Jon have been really strong and though this has been a heart breaking experience we have also seen many blessings and tender mercies of our Father in Heaven. Many lives have been touched by these two little angels! Rayalee has stared sewing and is getting really good at it! She got a sewing machine for her birthday. It's all she wanted, and she has so far put it to good use! Jon is working for B of A and staying busy with his exe sec job in their ward! Rayalee is the choirister/ ward choir director.
Brooklyn is three and will talk your arm off! she is such a joy to have around Grandma loves when they both come to visit! She can tell you exactly what is on her mind and when she prays she makes her Grandma cry! Brookln has brown hair and pretty brown eyes
Hailee is almost 2 she is a bundle of joy and energy! She keeps me on my toes! I love to listen to her talk to me when she calls me on her moms cell phone, that little voice calling me gama just melts you! Hailee is her daddies little blondie and her eyes are blue! They both have papa wraped around their little fingers! (ok Grandma to!) :)
James is staying busy with work and ACBA and his church callings. He is now our ward clerk. Right now they are in the middle of tithing settlement and the usual Christmas hustle. He is loving being in this calling and is florishing! He turns the big 50 this year and is always telling me how OLD he is and that he is falling apart. It is quite funny to listen to! :)
I am enjoying being a mom and grandma! I have still been making handmade cards and doing all my scrapbooking and it is still something I truely enjoy!! I have been released as the visiting teaching coordinator and have now been called as the ward Humanitarin Specialist. I hope that I can learn what it is that Heavenly Father wants to teach me!
Well that's what has been happening in the last year! I hope that all of you enjoy this time of reflection of the birth and life of our Saviour Jesus Christ! I see his hand in my life each day!
May you have a joyful Christmas!
James and I were able to take two trips together this year, one to Pennslyvania and one to California, both were great times for us to share and enjoy one anothers company! Maybe it would be best to start with each child and go through the year.
Dennis Has been working for Harkins theatre and has managed to work up to a managers position. He works long hours but seems to enjoy his job! He is also engaged to a beautiful young woman, Lauren Olsen. They are looking at August for their wedding. (Good month) ;)
Lauren has been attending BYU Idaho and they will both continue their educations there.
Kevin has been serving in the Sao Paulo South Mission for the last two years and on the 17th he will be returning home! We are all excited to see him and see the changes that have occured in the last two years with him. His mom is not excited at all!!!!! ;0 Thursday can't come soon enough!!!!!!
Katlyn is 19 now and has met a wonderful young man, Taylor Ferrin,they are getting married April 23, 2010. He proposed in front of the Christus at the Mesa Visitors center. They are so fun to watch together! O the joys of young love!
Kim Yes you read right! For those of you that don't know we have another member of our family. Kim came to live with us just after Labor Day. She is cute and fun and fits right in with the other children. She is also working for Harkins and love sto come home and tell us about all the people and the strange things they do! Kim is almost 19.
Andrew will be 17 in a few weeks and is busy and active with school, choir, Stagecraft, and computers! He loves to tear them apart and then put them back together! He has gotten good at it! He went to his first school dance in October and he looked marvelous!
Braden is 13 going on 30 :) He is in jr high and loves all his classes! He is in Choir and Orchestra and is doing cross country this year! He made it into the school allstate orchestra and will be performing in march with them! he has gotten taller and is hopeing to pass Kevin someday!
Rayalee and Jon are staying busy. For those of you who have read my blog you see that I have written little this year! Rayalee was expecting twin girls but because of things that happened Ashley and Nichole have returned to live with their Father in Heaven! Rayalee and Jon have been really strong and though this has been a heart breaking experience we have also seen many blessings and tender mercies of our Father in Heaven. Many lives have been touched by these two little angels! Rayalee has stared sewing and is getting really good at it! She got a sewing machine for her birthday. It's all she wanted, and she has so far put it to good use! Jon is working for B of A and staying busy with his exe sec job in their ward! Rayalee is the choirister/ ward choir director.
Brooklyn is three and will talk your arm off! she is such a joy to have around Grandma loves when they both come to visit! She can tell you exactly what is on her mind and when she prays she makes her Grandma cry! Brookln has brown hair and pretty brown eyes
Hailee is almost 2 she is a bundle of joy and energy! She keeps me on my toes! I love to listen to her talk to me when she calls me on her moms cell phone, that little voice calling me gama just melts you! Hailee is her daddies little blondie and her eyes are blue! They both have papa wraped around their little fingers! (ok Grandma to!) :)
James is staying busy with work and ACBA and his church callings. He is now our ward clerk. Right now they are in the middle of tithing settlement and the usual Christmas hustle. He is loving being in this calling and is florishing! He turns the big 50 this year and is always telling me how OLD he is and that he is falling apart. It is quite funny to listen to! :)
I am enjoying being a mom and grandma! I have still been making handmade cards and doing all my scrapbooking and it is still something I truely enjoy!! I have been released as the visiting teaching coordinator and have now been called as the ward Humanitarin Specialist. I hope that I can learn what it is that Heavenly Father wants to teach me!
Well that's what has been happening in the last year! I hope that all of you enjoy this time of reflection of the birth and life of our Saviour Jesus Christ! I see his hand in my life each day!
May you have a joyful Christmas!
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