It's a New Year!

First, let me appologize for being so behind on getting this out. It is almost time to do next months and this months is just being done, again, I'm sorry! But here are the updates!

Grandpa & Grandma:

Dear family members, Another year has gone. I am having trouble realizing 2008 is over. The snow messed up out Christmas. The good thing is that everybody is safe and sound. We enjoyed having those family members who came to see us along with those we saw later. just before we left St George, we had a snow storm that closed the schools in St George. Our road was clear. We probably had three inches. It was a good day to shop. This was a Christmas the Jensens won't forget. We added two more little ones to our family. Parker made his appearance on Monday of Christmas week to Jared and Brittany. Jeremy and Laura added Katie to there family. We are thrilled that everything is fine. We now have 9 Great Granddaughters and 18 Great grandsons. We will leave on Jan 5 for St George. We are proud of our family.IN Draper, the big news is that our DRAPER temple will open for "open house " in two weeks. March 22 it will be ready for work. It is small. there will not be a cafeteria nor clothing rental. We are anxious to see it. Happy New Year to everyone. We pray that Everyone will continue to have their job and not suffer from the Economic crisis the country . We enjoy your blogs , continue the good work. John and Elizabeth have added their blog. their blog is "worldofhigbee.blogspot.com. I have rattled around on this newsletter. I will do better next time.

Love

Grandma, Grandpa, Mom and Dad

Ron & Maud Mary Family:

Dan & Verna Family:

We had a great holiday. We stayed home for Christmas. It was nice. Dan's mom came to spend Christmas with us. Then we took her to St. George the following Monday to meet her daughter. While in St. George loving the nice weather, our fd KaRanda, visited with her relatives. We also had visits during the week with our friends from Norway, Tamsin, her husband and her parents. Also Suzanne's parents stopped in and visited. It was so fun! It was a good holiday, marred only by Anthony leaving us and going to Minnesota with his grandparents. We missed him terribly. Kaden was with his family as well, so we didn't have any little ones around, but we survived. Cammie, a sister of Courtney and Faith, also joined us. John, Liz and Sara also came to visit. It was a good time. Now we are back in school and can't wait for summer vacation.

John & Liz Family:

John, Liz and Sara
We have had a very busy and fun holiday season. It's always so exciting to have that time of the year come around, but it's also nice to see the chaotic time of the year over as well. In November, we finally jumped on the bandwagon and made a family blog. So instead of getting my long winded version of what we did that month in the family newsletter, you can get the long winded version of what is going on with our family more frequently. With that said, the URL to our family blog is http://www.worldofhigbee.blogspot.com/. For now, it is a public blog so everyone may see it without any special permission. Hope everyone had a safe and Happy Holidays as well!

Gary & Bev Family:

There has been much family together time this Holiday Season! Every one had a great Christmas and we were all together for the ringing in of the New Year! There are many fun and exciting things that we have coming up this year. You can check out all the kids blogs for more info!

Dwayne & Patty Family:

We had a wonderful Christmas holiday. Stephanie and Heather were able to come and spend the holiday with us. Of course you can't have Christmas without snow and snow it did. We went and had Christmas eve breakfast with my brother's family and then went and saw a couple movies. Todd and Ben stayed home with their families for Christmas this year. Ben and Alissa are doing well and busy with work. Jacob loves to talk on the phone with Grandma and Grandpa. Todd had a nice break from school and is getting ready for his last semister. Jade has recovered from having Ryder, and Ryder is growing like a weed, he now weighs 10 pounds. Todd and Jade blessed Ryder January 18, and we had a great time with them and Jade's family. Stephanie is now in her own place and has started taking classes at Dixie. Heather enjoyed her break from school and did well her first semister of school.

We would like to let everyone know that the Wilkinson family reunion will be held July 11, 2009 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm at the Sunridge Park in Layton.We will have more information as it gets closer to the date along with sign-ups. Hope to see you all there!!!

Ben & Alissa Family:

This was the first Christmas Jacob really understood what it means..PRESENTS!! We had a good time opening gifts and singing songs. Jacob is looking forward to Grandma Patty and Grandpa Dwayne coming soon. Hope everyone has a great 2009!

Hal & Diana Family:

Happy New year from Hal and Diana

We had a great Christmas. As many of you know we added two more babies to our family. Parker was born on Monday Dec 22 to Jared and Brittany, this is their first, Katie was born the day after Christmas to Jeremy and Laura. You can check out some of our boys blogs to see pictures. Both babies are doing great and of course are beautiful and cute and all the stuff that proud grandparents say. (But it's true they are truly beautiful)Babies help you to remember the true meaning of Christmas.

Because this is the best time of the year for Ice fishing, we still get to see family members on weekends, so we are happy.We also having a lot of fun at the Wii. We also were lucky enough to get the Wii fit, which I faithfully train on every night.So, those in the family who will be attending Thanksgiving in St.George, beware, we will be ready for you this year.Everyone else in our family is doing great, so far, everyone has a job and is healthy. Our School District is telling us that there will be some major set backs next year but at this time, I think I will still have a job but who knows for sure, I might have 25 preschool children with disabilities and no assistance. (Could happen)Hal thinks his job is still pretty secure also so we feel thankful for that.

Hope everyone else is doing well.

Jeremy & Laura Family:

We had a baby girl on December 26th.
Kathryn Claire Jensen
7 lbs 13 oz, 18.5 inches long
We are all doing well, though sleep deprived.

Kelly & Stephanee:

It is still pretty much the same old thing going on here. Kelly is still working at Learnkey and Stephanee is working at a physical therapy place. We are trying to find a house right now. We have put in an offer on one and are considering putting an offer on another one. We are planning a trip to Cali for our 1 year anniversary coming up in April....so excited for that one!! People say that the first year of marriage is the most difficult, we have had our ups and downs, but i would have to say that it has been the best year that i have had so far in my life. I couldn't have picked anyone better to spend eternity with. Other than everything else mentioned above, we are just living life.....finding a home to call our own, start a family, and get a puppy.