Dear family members,
We arrived back in St George today. The weather is great. It was also great in Draper. Our Thanksgiving will be different this year. We hope all of you have a good Thanksgiving. We are going to Gary and Bev's for Thanksgiving. We are looking forward to seeing their new house and visiting with them. We appreciate their invitation. We are seeing exciting things happening in your homes. We congratulate John and Elizabeth on their new son today. We wish them well. We met Brent an Melissa'a new little foster child. He is a Cutie. We look forward to seeing Jeremy and Britany's new little child when it arrives.We now have 30 great grand children. We are both doing fine and invite you to come and visit with us.Here is a closing thought. "We often assume that the people around us know how much we love them. We should never assume, but let them know we love them. we will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown.
Lots of love to all of you from Grandma and Grandpa
Ron & Maud Mary:
Our family is doing pretty good this month. Ron finally got a real job and has been working there for a week. He is back to playing on the computer for his job so he is happy. Brent and Melissa have a new foster child. His name is Travis and he is a very very active almost 1 year old. He has only part of his heart working so he is on constant oxygen. We have already grown attached to him. In Eric and Shannon’s house there has been a few things going on. Last week Niki cut their hair and a few days later Lizzy decided to try to cut her own hair. She is now the proud owner of a cute little bob haircut. Also Eric's car died so they are looking to get a new one (a used new one). We will miss seeing all of you this Thanksgiving and hope that everyone has a great holiday. )This year we all have to go by ourselves to the Friday morning sales...Good luck and happy hunting). Have a great Thanksgiving!
Brent, Melissa & Boys
Hi everyone! Things are well with us! We have a new addition, as I am sure most of you know by now. Travis came to us last month (on Jordan’s birthday in fact!) He will be one on Nov 18! He is a very active, curious and fun little guy and has blended well into our family! First term SEPs went well! We are proud of the boys. Jordan turned 7 and had a GREAT birthday. Braden is adjusting to being a big brother again and sharing mommy. Sometimes he struggles and sometimes he does great! He’s 2 what can we expect? Kolby is doing well! We are looking forward to spending the week of Thanksgiving in Park City with Melissa’s family. It will be nice to get away! We hope everyone has a GREAT Thanksgiving! If you want to read more on our family send me your email and I will invite you to our family blog! brownie109@comcast.net
Dan & Verna:
We had an awesome Halloween, lots of treats no tricks just fun, fun. It wasn't until a few days later on November 4 that the real fun began. Liz began to have labor pains at around 7. They came quickly and hard. At around 9 John, yes, my son the OBGYN, delivered a cute 10 lb 5 oz and 23 inch baby boy on the floor of their bathroom. They named him Zachary James Higbee. About five minutes after the delivery, the midwife arrived and finished up the work she, John and Liz had started. Friday night, Liz was up and around, looking chipper and feeling great. What a story to tell their grandchildren!
In other news, we have had our share of the sick and icky flu and colds. Faith and Kara both have had the strep. Tanya and Miguel have had colds.
Dan and Robert took a quick trip to California. Dan's mom broke her hip and had to have a hip replacement. Then she took a turn for the worse and Dan and Robert went to California over the weekend. She is doing better as of now, despite the fact she is still in the hospital and will need a blood transfusion. So, life is good.
Other news of interest, we go to court in January hopefully to terminate the parental rights of Miguel's bio mother and to open up the way for our adoption of him.
Thanksgiving plans include staying home and enjoying a turkey dinner.
Brandon & Suzanne:
Dear Family,
Brandt is now almost 7months old and has started to scoot his body to get places. Picture a snail and that might give you a good idea of how it looks. It works nicely with his rolling. Keaton has been enjoying Preschool and Joy-school. Suzanne loves that both schools are very close to home. Keaton and a classmate named Ada have become quite inseparable. For Halloween, Keaton went as Super Why. Suzanne and his Grandma Stemmons did a great job on the costume. Suzanne also enjoys taking the boys to discovery gateway on the off days. September, Brandon dusted off his coaching whistle and made the tiny-tots into a championship team. Keaton loved kicking the soccer ball around with his team and can't wait for the spring season. Brandon still works for Wells Fargo as an Analyst in their Life Insurance & Annuities group.Suzanne now holds the highly sought after calling of Visiting teaching supervisor. Brandon continues to be the ward employment specialist. Let him know if you know of anyone hiring. Just today, our ward became a part of a brand new Stake and we are excited for the change. We hope that everyone will have a great thanksgiving and say congrats to those with new babies.
Gary & Bev:
Exciting changes have been happening in our family! Britany and Jeremy have a new baby boy! See their blog for more info on that! We are all really happy for them and are looking forward to meeting him!
Riley, Tricia and kids vacationed in Arizona over Halloween, they ended up staying longer then planned, but the kids could not have been happier about it! There was a whole lot of swimming going on during the visit, it was a lot of fun!
Kellen, Camille and Liv are all surviving while Kellen is in school! Lots of hard hours are being put in so he can argue with the best of them!!!!
Now, we are all looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Dwayne & Patty:
We spent October going to the U of Utah football games. We went to Las Vegas for a weekend to visit Todd, Jade and Ryder. They are in their new home and doing well. We went to watch the Utes play UNLV while we were there, and we also saw Gary and Bev there. Ryder is walking around like crazy, even trying to escape through the doggie door. Jacob was Darth Vader for Halloween much to his father's delight. He is consumed with all Star Wars stuff. We are all looking for the holidays because we will all be here together.
Hal & Diana:
All is well in Richfield. We just wanted to wish Dad a very happy Birthday. We love you Dad and appreciate all you do.Some of the members of our family were in a little accident yesterday Tonight, everyone is safe and sound and at home. Our family was really protected yesterday.Life is good. We love the Holidays. Hope the rest of you are all well.
Jeremy & Laura:
We really don't have much to share with everyone. We had a good Halloween in Richfield. Paul was very excited to go trick-or-treating. The kids looked really cute in their costumes. Pictures are on our blog. Our landlady painted our house. So, instead of a pale peach color, it can now be best described as Wendy's chocolate frosty. Other than that, we have raked leaves, done laundry, washed dishes and children, winterized our windows, and watched Bob the Builder about a hundred times. Katie has a new tooth on bottom bringing her total teeth count to 5.
We are excited for the upcoming holidays.
David Archuleta, we really like your Christmas album.
