Margaret Avonell Flannery has chosen to be baptized. The service will be this Saturday at 4:00 at our meetinghouse (2850 W 3835 S). We will be going out for dinner after and all who would like to join us are welcome.
I'll try to get Shaun to call most of you but... in case he doesn't you have now been officially invited.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Just a note
Hey Kids,
It's the first of May so we are starting our 2nd month of blogging. Congratulations to those of you who jumped in and did it. I mailed 3 copies only - Dustin, Lucas and GrandPa/GrandMa.
Login with the info I sent in the email, get your own login - it's easy! - and let's BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's the first of May so we are starting our 2nd month of blogging. Congratulations to those of you who jumped in and did it. I mailed 3 copies only - Dustin, Lucas and GrandPa/GrandMa.
Login with the info I sent in the email, get your own login - it's easy! - and let's BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!
From GrandPa and GrandMa
Blanding City April 29th-08
Dear Wandering Bloggers( whatever that means)
The force was with me and the cherry pie, promised for my Valentines Day (didn’t happen) re-promised for my birthday (didn’t happen), showed up and was I eating high on the hog! Perchance the hog was eating high, ‘cause I accidentally got most of it. T’was way good.
Tuesday the 28 the Granny and I were off to Red Canyon to see the Purple Sage and talk to the rock and of course check on the chickens. (Chukar Partridges) Well, the dumb Purple Sage was like the dumb tulips Mike raises and there was no, none, not any in bloom. Maybe later. The only chicken (partridge, no pear tree)we saw was miles from where we normally see them. However the Indian Paint Brush was majestic. The Primrose was spectacular. We encountered 4 deer. One beautiful hawk. We feasted on Diet Mountain Dew, Sandwiches and Peanut Nut rolls. In addition and also I was in exceptionally good company all day long and the day was declared a success by one and all.
After only seven years of service, we sustained a new Bishop last Sunday. Hopefully the new Bishop will pay more attention to our needs and bring groceries and good stuff around.
Occasionally. After all it has been nearly 20 years since I have had gainful employment, and the Grandmother for one is beginning to doubt if I am really look for a job.
A yearning to rock my two youngest granddaughters, and the small Sectarian grandson, as well as a whole bunch of gorgeous great grands, there for I threaten to venture north in the next week or two or three. The grandmother makes a list, admits she doesn’t trust my driving and says I want to come to stock up on ice cream.
The Grand Mother says she will pay for the Reunion Costs at Thanksgiving Point and likely for the Catered cost at the church or wherever. Pres. Monson said, “Don’t let your yearning exceed your earning.” Good advice. Love by the bushel and peck.
Lark L (GrandPa)
Placed on the blog by J.B. with some help from Penelope and my computer buddy Mark Bird.
I got this note from Alayna and decided I would stick it on here:
Dear family,I will keep this very short as I do not have much to say. Nate graduates on May 18th and we move the week after to parts still unknown. Isn't life a fun adventure? On the bright side I get to quit my job here in a few weeks! I will give you all our new address as soon as we have it. If you think of it, please say an extra prayer for us and the job search. We love you!Alayna Sechrest
Dear Wandering Bloggers( whatever that means)
The force was with me and the cherry pie, promised for my Valentines Day (didn’t happen) re-promised for my birthday (didn’t happen), showed up and was I eating high on the hog! Perchance the hog was eating high, ‘cause I accidentally got most of it. T’was way good.
Tuesday the 28 the Granny and I were off to Red Canyon to see the Purple Sage and talk to the rock and of course check on the chickens. (Chukar Partridges) Well, the dumb Purple Sage was like the dumb tulips Mike raises and there was no, none, not any in bloom. Maybe later. The only chicken (partridge, no pear tree)we saw was miles from where we normally see them. However the Indian Paint Brush was majestic. The Primrose was spectacular. We encountered 4 deer. One beautiful hawk. We feasted on Diet Mountain Dew, Sandwiches and Peanut Nut rolls. In addition and also I was in exceptionally good company all day long and the day was declared a success by one and all.
After only seven years of service, we sustained a new Bishop last Sunday. Hopefully the new Bishop will pay more attention to our needs and bring groceries and good stuff around.
Occasionally. After all it has been nearly 20 years since I have had gainful employment, and the Grandmother for one is beginning to doubt if I am really look for a job.
A yearning to rock my two youngest granddaughters, and the small Sectarian grandson, as well as a whole bunch of gorgeous great grands, there for I threaten to venture north in the next week or two or three. The grandmother makes a list, admits she doesn’t trust my driving and says I want to come to stock up on ice cream.
The Grand Mother says she will pay for the Reunion Costs at Thanksgiving Point and likely for the Catered cost at the church or wherever. Pres. Monson said, “Don’t let your yearning exceed your earning.” Good advice. Love by the bushel and peck.
Lark L (GrandPa)
Placed on the blog by J.B. with some help from Penelope and my computer buddy Mark Bird.
I got this note from Alayna and decided I would stick it on here:
Dear family,I will keep this very short as I do not have much to say. Nate graduates on May 18th and we move the week after to parts still unknown. Isn't life a fun adventure? On the bright side I get to quit my job here in a few weeks! I will give you all our new address as soon as we have it. If you think of it, please say an extra prayer for us and the job search. We love you!Alayna Sechrest
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tiptoe through the Tulips
Hello everyone. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY (21) to Brien! The tulips came late to Thanksgiving Point this year. Now that the Festival ended last Saturday this week is the best time to see them. I think they will be at their peak this weekend assuming the snow and cold don't kill them tonight or tomorrow. I took someone through today who was absolutely beside himself at every turn. I felt the same way and this is my 5th year of seeing them. Penelope, you should come back and see them; it would be worth the trip. Mom and Dad, it's not too late.
Two weeks ago Lyn and Hugh Mortenson came over from Grand Junction for the Tulip Festival and Lyn did storytelling with silly hats in the Secret Garden and then autographed and sold her children's books in the Visitors Center. It was really fun to see them. Debra and I had dinner with them at Harvest and had a wonderful visit catching up on families, etc. Then Peggy and Shelby went back with us on Saturday and attended her storytelling and visited some more.
Debra and I get to go on a whirlwind tour of children's museums next week. We leave Monday morning and fly to Boston, then Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and St. Louis to see some of the best children's museums in the country. It's our last look at what others are doing before we finalize our plans for Thanksgiving Point's new Museum of Natural Curiosity.
Debra and I went to Wilmington, North Carolina three weeks ago with our friends, Leonard and Cheri Reynolds. We had a great time relaxing and eating lots of sea food. We ate buckets (literally) of oysters, shrimp, crab cakes, clams, scallops - mostly accompanied by hush puppies or conch fritters. Very, very tasty. We spent a lot of time going to various video stores to find and rent the original "Cape Fear" with Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen. We were at Cape Fear so it seemed like the right thing to do. Some of us enjoyed it and some of us enjoyed making fun of the melodramatic acting... and some plain old bad acting. We also went to the Airlie Gardens and saw the Bottle Chapel - very cool; something I thought Dad should add to his collection of yard art. (I tried to post a picture but it didn't seem to work - I guess you'll have to google it on your own.) There was supposed to be an Azalea Festival, but they had had an early spring so there were very few azalea's to be seen. It's challenging to time things when weather and climate are involved.
This weekend Brien heads to Jacob Lake Inn, near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, to work for a couple of months. He's going with a couple of his returned missionary high school buddies. We hope he has a great experience. It will be good for him to be away from home and gain some independence.
We love you all and look forward to regular updates from each one of you. Love,
Mike
Two weeks ago Lyn and Hugh Mortenson came over from Grand Junction for the Tulip Festival and Lyn did storytelling with silly hats in the Secret Garden and then autographed and sold her children's books in the Visitors Center. It was really fun to see them. Debra and I had dinner with them at Harvest and had a wonderful visit catching up on families, etc. Then Peggy and Shelby went back with us on Saturday and attended her storytelling and visited some more.
Debra and I get to go on a whirlwind tour of children's museums next week. We leave Monday morning and fly to Boston, then Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and St. Louis to see some of the best children's museums in the country. It's our last look at what others are doing before we finalize our plans for Thanksgiving Point's new Museum of Natural Curiosity.
Debra and I went to Wilmington, North Carolina three weeks ago with our friends, Leonard and Cheri Reynolds. We had a great time relaxing and eating lots of sea food. We ate buckets (literally) of oysters, shrimp, crab cakes, clams, scallops - mostly accompanied by hush puppies or conch fritters. Very, very tasty. We spent a lot of time going to various video stores to find and rent the original "Cape Fear" with Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen. We were at Cape Fear so it seemed like the right thing to do. Some of us enjoyed it and some of us enjoyed making fun of the melodramatic acting... and some plain old bad acting. We also went to the Airlie Gardens and saw the Bottle Chapel - very cool; something I thought Dad should add to his collection of yard art. (I tried to post a picture but it didn't seem to work - I guess you'll have to google it on your own.) There was supposed to be an Azalea Festival, but they had had an early spring so there were very few azalea's to be seen. It's challenging to time things when weather and climate are involved.
This weekend Brien heads to Jacob Lake Inn, near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, to work for a couple of months. He's going with a couple of his returned missionary high school buddies. We hope he has a great experience. It will be good for him to be away from home and gain some independence.
We love you all and look forward to regular updates from each one of you. Love,
Mike
Penelope's Contribution
Who knows if this will even work...but here goes. Not really much going on here. However, we (Duane and I) do only have 3 more Mondays in this school year. That's 3 too many for me, but I guess I will survive. We have lots of veggies going crazy in dad's greenhouse but it's still freezing here so we can't put them out yet. We have lots of flowers there and at home that I"m really wanting to plant. So we're hoping for warmer weather. It's nice (but windy) during the day but below freezing at least once a week.
Allison, we called them potato bugs and also roly poly bugs. It is kind of gross that they are lice (if they really are). And it doesn't come as news flash to me that Hannah Montana is so famous, Maggie and I discussed that very topic at great length while we were getting her birthday pedicure.
We were sad (well at least I was) that we couldn't go to the Tulip Festival, but we had to come home for school.
I'm excited for the reunion this summer and really excited for summer.
Much love to everyone and I hope this really works!!! Pen
Allison, we called them potato bugs and also roly poly bugs. It is kind of gross that they are lice (if they really are). And it doesn't come as news flash to me that Hannah Montana is so famous, Maggie and I discussed that very topic at great length while we were getting her birthday pedicure.
We were sad (well at least I was) that we couldn't go to the Tulip Festival, but we had to come home for school.
I'm excited for the reunion this summer and really excited for summer.
Much love to everyone and I hope this really works!!! Pen
Monday, April 28, 2008
Missionary Farewell and Tulip Festival
Yesterday was a great day for many of us. Julie's nephew, John Anderson has his mission call to Hamburg, Germany and his farewell was yesterday. It was a really good Sacrament meeting and John did a great job. We had a huge turn out at Dave and Anita's for dinner after. Julie and I made a couple of salads that disappeared in a hurry. One was a sweet potato and black bean salad and the other was a soy bean and black bean salad. They both had corn in them and very light vinagrette dressings. They had lots of troops there and plenty of food. After we got done, Mike had called and left a mesage about the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival, so Julie called her sisters to see who wanted to go to see the tulips and we ended up with a big bunch at TGP to see the tulips. Several people there said they would get on the blog and get something in for this month.
Alison had said something about each person having an individual login and Jabe sent me the following instructions which I followed and it was really easy to do so each person who wants can have their own login.
"If you go into the Settings for the blog and then Permissions, you can add yourself as a contributor. Actually, I think you can have up 100 contributors for each blog, so everyone could get their own Blogger ID and then they'd be identified automatically when they logged in. I did it right after Allison put up that post (though I must admit I didn't know anything about it before then). I think you have to basically login as wasjb@wfrmls (or whatever) and then send a permission email or something to the new user account you want to add (so you could add Shash if you wanted). If I remember correctly, what it does then is it emails a link to you, which you then have to click on to make yourself a user. If you go to the Wanderer blog you will notice that it shows both me and Allison, as well as the Family one you set up, on the left side under contributors."
You will each have to use the login I emailed you to get in, then you can follow the instructions above and set up your own login and password.
Alison had said something about each person having an individual login and Jabe sent me the following instructions which I followed and it was really easy to do so each person who wants can have their own login.
"If you go into the Settings for the blog and then Permissions, you can add yourself as a contributor. Actually, I think you can have up 100 contributors for each blog, so everyone could get their own Blogger ID and then they'd be identified automatically when they logged in. I did it right after Allison put up that post (though I must admit I didn't know anything about it before then). I think you have to basically login as wasjb@wfrmls (or whatever) and then send a permission email or something to the new user account you want to add (so you could add Shash if you wanted). If I remember correctly, what it does then is it emails a link to you, which you then have to click on to make yourself a user. If you go to the Wanderer blog you will notice that it shows both me and Allison, as well as the Family one you set up, on the left side under contributors."
You will each have to use the login I emailed you to get in, then you can follow the instructions above and set up your own login and password.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Fun & Interesting? Doubtful, but Maybe...
So what's new with us? Not much. We got a fish tank (from Kristin's brother) and we bought 14 fish to put in it. It's not a very interesting story, but for those of you who are reading this online, rather than a hard copy, you can read all about it in our blog. There's plenty there that is interesting to me, but I make no promises that it will be interesting to you.
AJ is good. He's 6 1/2 months old and he's a happy kid. We went to Southern California a couple of weeks ago. This picture of AJ was taken at Dodger Stadium. He's sitting on Kristin's lap, but you can't really see her. He was very pleasant for most of the drive down to L.A. and back, and he was very well-behaved at the Dodger game and both days at Disneyland. He had his rotten moments, but I think we got off pretty easy.
At his 6 month check-up he got his 3rd round of immunizations, which he did not enjoy, but he recovered much more quickly than at the 2 and 4 month rounds. The first two times he cried a lot more and then was kind of ill-tempered for a few days after. This time he only cried until it was over and showed no ill effects at all. To be honest, I've wondered a little whether they actually gave him anything this time.
Alexa's good, too. She's 8 1/2 and cute as can be. She's cruising along through second grade and she still doesn't have enough to do when she's at our house. I wish she had some friends around here, but she doesn't go to school here (she goes to Driggs on 27th East and 45th South by her mom's house), and our primary doesn't really have much to offer, since most of the families in the ward are old with adult children who've long-since moved away. The bishop told me recently that more than a third of the families in our ward are the original owners of the homes. Since most of the houses were built between 1955 and 1964, well, do the math. But Alexa does pretty well in most any situation. She can play with kids that are 5 or more years older than she is, or kids that are 3 or 4 years younger, too. If we could find any kids that met that pretty simple requirement, we'd be set. There are a couple of semi-obnoxious (but pretty harmless) teenage boys next door, but that doesn't help us. She's been playing the violin for almost a year now and is doing very well. I think her teacher is kind of an idiot, but Alexa really likes her. I'm clear on the fact that Liz (the teacher) can play the violin very well. I'm not, however, sold on her ability to teach it to others.
At his 6 month check-up he got his 3rd round of immunizations, which he did not enjoy, but he recovered much more quickly than at the 2 and 4 month rounds. The first two times he cried a lot more and then was kind of ill-tempered for a few days after. This time he only cried until it was over and showed no ill effects at all. To be honest, I've wondered a little whether they actually gave him anything this time.
Alexa's good, too. She's 8 1/2 and cute as can be. She's cruising along through second grade and she still doesn't have enough to do when she's at our house. I wish she had some friends around here, but she doesn't go to school here (she goes to Driggs on 27th East and 45th South by her mom's house), and our primary doesn't really have much to offer, since most of the families in the ward are old with adult children who've long-since moved away. The bishop told me recently that more than a third of the families in our ward are the original owners of the homes. Since most of the houses were built between 1955 and 1964, well, do the math. But Alexa does pretty well in most any situation. She can play with kids that are 5 or more years older than she is, or kids that are 3 or 4 years younger, too. If we could find any kids that met that pretty simple requirement, we'd be set. There are a couple of semi-obnoxious (but pretty harmless) teenage boys next door, but that doesn't help us. She's been playing the violin for almost a year now and is doing very well. I think her teacher is kind of an idiot, but Alexa really likes her. I'm clear on the fact that Liz (the teacher) can play the violin very well. I'm not, however, sold on her ability to teach it to others.
Kristin just c
hopped (actually Peggy did the chopping) of about 11 inches of her hair, which is funny because she originally wanted to donate her hair to Locks of Love, but since they require 10 inches of hair, Kristin was afraid she'd have to cut off more than she was willing to part with. Then she saw Hilary Swank on the Rachael Ray show talking about a similar organization called Beautiful Lengths, but instead of making wigs for kids with cancer (which is what Locks of Love does), they make wigs for women with cancer. Kristin's sister-in-law, Amanda, has cancer, so I guess that hit close to home (and it helped that they only require 8 inches of hair for donation. The reason that whole thing is funny to me is that after Peg cut off the "8 inches" (I put this in quotes because it was actually more like 10 1/2 inches), she ended up cutting off even more than that to make Kristin's hair into the style that Kristin thought she'd like. I guess she wants to color it, too, but we didn't tell Peggy she wanted to do that today, so we had to plan that one for another day. I like the way her hair turned out. She seems to like it also, but she commented that it wasn't as shocking as she had thought it would be. I have a vague recollection of having seen pictures of Kristin with her hair cut in a similar manner a long time ago (when she was in college, she thinks), but while she was pregnant with AJ and again just before she got it cut today, it was longer than it's ever been in her life. So now it's short. I like it, she likes it. It's all good.
hopped (actually Peggy did the chopping) of about 11 inches of her hair, which is funny because she originally wanted to donate her hair to Locks of Love, but since they require 10 inches of hair, Kristin was afraid she'd have to cut off more than she was willing to part with. Then she saw Hilary Swank on the Rachael Ray show talking about a similar organization called Beautiful Lengths, but instead of making wigs for kids with cancer (which is what Locks of Love does), they make wigs for women with cancer. Kristin's sister-in-law, Amanda, has cancer, so I guess that hit close to home (and it helped that they only require 8 inches of hair for donation. The reason that whole thing is funny to me is that after Peg cut off the "8 inches" (I put this in quotes because it was actually more like 10 1/2 inches), she ended up cutting off even more than that to make Kristin's hair into the style that Kristin thought she'd like. I guess she wants to color it, too, but we didn't tell Peggy she wanted to do that today, so we had to plan that one for another day. I like the way her hair turned out. She seems to like it also, but she commented that it wasn't as shocking as she had thought it would be. I have a vague recollection of having seen pictures of Kristin with her hair cut in a similar manner a long time ago (when she was in college, she thinks), but while she was pregnant with AJ and again just before she got it cut today, it was longer than it's ever been in her life. So now it's short. I like it, she likes it. It's all good.
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