Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
2009 Reunion Information
Dear family...
We are actively planning our family reunion for this August. There are a couple of activities that we wanted to make you aware of because some preparation needs to be made. The official reunion will begin Tuesday, August 11th. We will kick off the reunion with a visit to Great Grandma Bea. We are trying to put together a slide show for this event. We have some pictures of Grandma Bea given to us by Aunt Joyce but we need more. If you possess any pictures of you or your families with Grandma Bea would you please scan them and Email them to us? We would truly appreciate it! We have some pictures of her last few birthdays...going back to 2002. Before that, we don't have a lot. Thanks a lot!
Second, on the last day of the reunion (Friday, August 14th) we have made an appointment to do baptisms for the dead at the Portland temple. Obviously, this will include all youth over the age of 12. (we are arranging for all younger children to be babysat at a nearby home). As the family has grown, this will include over half of our group!!! This will give the adults six months or so to get their temple recommends current...if they are not already. Also, as the time draws closer, Casey will Email you with instructions on what to do to get Bishop interviews for your youth. Furthermore, the temple has asked us to provide up to 80 names of our own!! Do you guys think in six months we can come up with that many names to be ready to go through the temple? If you think you have some family names that have not had their work done, will you Email us and let us know? If we as a family can't come up with some, I'm sure we can find some from members of our ward. (It would be pretty neat if we could make them family names though). We are making Portland the conclusion to our reunion so that those that are travelling back home can leave from Portland if they want to get home before Sunday. If not, you are all welcome to come spend Sunday in our awesome Ward! We have a pretty cool Bishop!
Sandwiched in between these two days, we have a ton of fun activities! It should be a great reunion and we can't wait for August!
Thanks guys!
Andrea and Casey
We are actively planning our family reunion for this August. There are a couple of activities that we wanted to make you aware of because some preparation needs to be made. The official reunion will begin Tuesday, August 11th. We will kick off the reunion with a visit to Great Grandma Bea. We are trying to put together a slide show for this event. We have some pictures of Grandma Bea given to us by Aunt Joyce but we need more. If you possess any pictures of you or your families with Grandma Bea would you please scan them and Email them to us? We would truly appreciate it! We have some pictures of her last few birthdays...going back to 2002. Before that, we don't have a lot. Thanks a lot!
Second, on the last day of the reunion (Friday, August 14th) we have made an appointment to do baptisms for the dead at the Portland temple. Obviously, this will include all youth over the age of 12. (we are arranging for all younger children to be babysat at a nearby home). As the family has grown, this will include over half of our group!!! This will give the adults six months or so to get their temple recommends current...if they are not already. Also, as the time draws closer, Casey will Email you with instructions on what to do to get Bishop interviews for your youth. Furthermore, the temple has asked us to provide up to 80 names of our own!! Do you guys think in six months we can come up with that many names to be ready to go through the temple? If you think you have some family names that have not had their work done, will you Email us and let us know? If we as a family can't come up with some, I'm sure we can find some from members of our ward. (It would be pretty neat if we could make them family names though). We are making Portland the conclusion to our reunion so that those that are travelling back home can leave from Portland if they want to get home before Sunday. If not, you are all welcome to come spend Sunday in our awesome Ward! We have a pretty cool Bishop!
Sandwiched in between these two days, we have a ton of fun activities! It should be a great reunion and we can't wait for August!
Thanks guys!
Andrea and Casey
Monday, February 2, 2009
Bryce and Laura Update
Hey family. We miss all you and can't wait til this summer to see ya'll.
We are really loving talking to all of you on FB. It has been great joking and reading all your creative blogging going on. We really do have a weird family when it comes right down to it. The Blog has also been great too. To see your pictures and hear about you and your kids and see them growing up has been priceless.
We in Utah are in the process of redoing our entire house. We have ordered a new kitchen which comes feb 26th. We just had our roof fixed so that it doesn't leak, retiled the downstairs bathroom, fixed my car, repaneling the sides of our house and maybe painting this summer and then re-sheetrocking our living room due to the previously mentioned roof leak. We really thought about moving but decided to stay and fix up the place so we might want to stay. so needless to say, we are really busy right now with the house.
Jordan just finished his Eagle project and will turn it in this week to Primary childrens hospital, and Spencer just finished his junior yr of swim team. Adam and Kaylee are in piano together and really enjoy it as well. Me and Laura can't wait for the warmer weather to come back soon. Be Safe and can't wait to see you all soon.
Love Bryce, Laura and kids
We also added more pictures to Lauras Face book page.
We are really loving talking to all of you on FB. It has been great joking and reading all your creative blogging going on. We really do have a weird family when it comes right down to it. The Blog has also been great too. To see your pictures and hear about you and your kids and see them growing up has been priceless.
We in Utah are in the process of redoing our entire house. We have ordered a new kitchen which comes feb 26th. We just had our roof fixed so that it doesn't leak, retiled the downstairs bathroom, fixed my car, repaneling the sides of our house and maybe painting this summer and then re-sheetrocking our living room due to the previously mentioned roof leak. We really thought about moving but decided to stay and fix up the place so we might want to stay. so needless to say, we are really busy right now with the house.
Jordan just finished his Eagle project and will turn it in this week to Primary childrens hospital, and Spencer just finished his junior yr of swim team. Adam and Kaylee are in piano together and really enjoy it as well. Me and Laura can't wait for the warmer weather to come back soon. Be Safe and can't wait to see you all soon.
Love Bryce, Laura and kids
We also added more pictures to Lauras Face book page.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Maria and Kelly Update
These weeks don't seem to be too exciting, but I will try to think of something to write. This week was conferences and it was nice to talk to all of the kids teachers. Marissa is a sweetheart at school and doing very well. Her teacher likes her a lot. Megan is doing great and gets along well at school, Steven has good grades even if he isn't using his time to the best of his ability during class (he needs to leave his library books in his locker!) and Amber impresses her teachers all around. It is nice to know that they are doing well, but there are some things that need some work, still. All the kids except Amber had the day off on Thursday, and since I wasn't feeling too well (Kelly's cold caught up to me) I made sure David got breakfast and went back to bed. It is nice to have older kids to hold down the fort so I can sleep. Friday all of the kids were home and we did nothing! One of these weekends I will actually plan to go somewhere, but it sure is nice not to have to do anything! We had the missionaries over for dinner on Saturday and attended the baptism of two friends in primary. Kelly took Amber, Megan and Steven to help an inactive sister in our ward move on Friday night. Not many people were there to help, so they made a big difference. The trip to DQ afterwards was nice, as well. Yesterday was downright warm. David ripped off his jacket and ran around in short sleeves and Megan said it felt like summer. The temp. was about 45 degrees and sunny. We know the winter is not over, but it was a welcome teaser of what lies ahead (in two, maybe three months). We had a nice dinner at a friends home tonight. We had waffles with all of the toppings you could imagine. Yummy! We need to get to bed. We drive for seminary this week, so that means we have to leave the house by 5:40am. Amber is trying to convince us that we don't need our cars tomorrow and just let her drive and park the car at school.
Arizona Update
We have been in our new area of Inscription House for three weeks and it has been refreshing. The branch has a president that is concerned and involved with the congregation. He has taken us out twice to meet less active members and families. We have started teaching them the missionary lessons and have given two FHE presentations. The branch is small but functioning. Our biggest challenge was the muddy, rut filled dirt roads. We decided we couldn't accomplish our mission with our car. Last Saturday we went into Flagstaff on an SUV hunt. We tossed out all our firm requirement of never buying a brand new car and bought a 2009 Suburu Forester with all the bells and whistles!!!! (heated leather front seats, GPS monitor, all wheel drive and electronic gizmos and gadgets that will take time to learn) Comfort for our old age became more important. We hope to drive it for many years.
We were greeted with more gorgeous Arizona scenery. Our branch takes in Navajo Mt. 40 miles to the north and 5 miles into Utah. We have some active members there. It is a beautiful drive.
Last night we went up to Page to watch a performance by "Living Legends" a BYU dance troop who's dances represent the many Lamanite people of the Southwest, Mexico and the South Pacific Islands. It was a wonderfully colorful presentation. We went with a couple from Navajo Mt. He is a Doctor at a clinic there. They went to Mongolia on a health services mission with the church's measles vaccination program. They feel they are continuing their mission here on the Reservation by helping the branch function. I have been helping her in primary with the music and sharing time. She isn't called to anything but the P. president doesn't always show up. So she fills in as needed. Sound familiar?
Well I will close for now. Happy Birthday William, Andrea, Allison, Layne, Dave, Andy W.
Love to all
We were greeted with more gorgeous Arizona scenery. Our branch takes in Navajo Mt. 40 miles to the north and 5 miles into Utah. We have some active members there. It is a beautiful drive.
Last night we went up to Page to watch a performance by "Living Legends" a BYU dance troop who's dances represent the many Lamanite people of the Southwest, Mexico and the South Pacific Islands. It was a wonderfully colorful presentation. We went with a couple from Navajo Mt. He is a Doctor at a clinic there. They went to Mongolia on a health services mission with the church's measles vaccination program. They feel they are continuing their mission here on the Reservation by helping the branch function. I have been helping her in primary with the music and sharing time. She isn't called to anything but the P. president doesn't always show up. So she fills in as needed. Sound familiar?
Well I will close for now. Happy Birthday William, Andrea, Allison, Layne, Dave, Andy W.
Love to all
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