Grandma & Grandpa:


Ron & Maud Mary Family:


Dan & Verna Family:

Hello Family,

A big thank you for coming to mom/grandma's party and helping. It turned out so fun! It was fun to see all of you. Next on the agenda is our family party on June 19th at the Draper Park. My family is in charge and we are doing a breakfast/brunch thing. Please put it on your calendar now so you won't forget. We will be doing breakfast/brunch at 10:00 am. We will also be having some games and stuff for the kids so it should be fun.
If you have any kiddie pools, would you let me know? We are going to do some water games.

As far as my family, we are doing well. Dan is working hard and will soon be finished with another semester at CEU/Utah State College. My oldest girls we to Jr. Prom this past month and looked gorgeous. I can't believe they will be seniors next year. Like many girls their age, Courtney decided it was time to be on her own, so she recently moved out and is living with her friends in Castle Dale. We miss her, but she continues to go to school and is working hard and learning about the world outside of Ferron Utah! Tanya will be representing her high school next year as a cheerleader which she hasn't done since she was in Jr. High. Cammie is working towards her drivers license. KaRanda and I will fly to Oregon over Spring Break to meet some of her long lost sisters. Kara is getting excited to go to Jr. High and Faith and I just finished being in a cute, cute play called HONK. We are anxiously awaiting approval of my fingerprints from the FBI so that our adoption of Miguel can go through. We have an adoption date of April 22 if the fingerprints are back, if not . . . who knows. We still have a sealing date of May 1 in the Draper Temple at 10:00 am if we do get the adoption finalized, so please keep us in your prayers. That's it for the Higbee's in Ferron.



Gary & Bev Family:

It was great to see everyone at Mom's birthday. We had a wonderful time! March has gone by so fast but it has been an eventful month for Gary and Family! Riley and Tricia's oldest turned 9 years old on March 8. Chelsey is such a sweetheart and we are so proud of her. On March 10th Britany and Jeremy went to court and finalized adoption of Devin. It was great to be with them on the courthouse and in the judges chambers when the final word was pronounced. Then we were able to go to the Temple on Saturday March 13 and have him sealed to them. And the next day they blessed him at church. We are also sorry to say that Jeremy's grandmother passed away on March 22. So they will be going to California for her funeral. Kellen is back to school after mid-terms and spring break. But, he sees a light at the end of the tunnel, he will graduate in December of this year. Camille and Liv are counting the months! Gary and Bev are just plugging away. Feeling older as the family gets older but we love being around the kids and grand kids!
Oh, and Congratulations to Dwayne and Patty on their new grandson!



Dwayne & Patty Family:

I must repent for not having our info in the last newsletter, so I will get everyone caught up! We had all our children and grand kids home for Christmas. Jacob and Ryder met for the first time and had a great time with each other. Jacob was our alarm clock each morning coming in and saying "time to get up Grandma and Grandpa". Jacob loved the snow and played as much as he could out there. Ryder would have been out there if he was a little bigger. We welcomed a new grandson into our family on March 15. Todd and Jade welcomed Hudson into their sweet family. He weighed 8lbs 11 oz and was 20 inches long. We can hardly wait to meet him, and by the pictures we've seen he is a beautiful baby. Everyone is doing well and staying busy with work and school. WE have truly been blessed with wonderful children and grandchildren. We had a great time visiting with everyone at mom's 80th birthday celebration.



Hal & Diana Family:

Hi everyone from Richfield,
Things are going great here in the central part of Utah.
Spring is sticking its head up and finally the snow is going away.
This past week, I finally went back to work. It was great to be back with the ladies I spend so much of my life with. They are great women.
Our family is doing well. I always hesitate to say to much as to what they are doing because I hope they will add their little bit to the newsletter, however if they don't:
Josh and Jessica just got back from Hawaii. We were able to spend some time with their kids while they were gone. We really enjoyed having them
Jeremy and Laura will be looking for a place in St. George at the end of the summer, if anyone has any ideas, let them know.
Jared and Brittany are doing great! They have just spent several days building a fence for privacy in their yard. Brittany has an unknown to the world blog that is fun to read that keeps us caught up on what they are doing!
Kelly and Steph just had a successful yard sale. Now they are ready to start filling out papers for adoption. Thanks to some of the family members for your advice, help and kind words, as they go through this. I can't believe how many great people have helped them.
As a mom and a grandma, it kills me that I can't help them more, but it sounds like things are going very well and we just want to thank everyone for their help.
Well, that's it.
If my kids add to this newsletter, forget everything I said and pretend you didn't know!
Happy Spring


Jared and Brittany family:
We don't contribute to the newsletter very often because we don't want Jareds name and face out there because of his job (he's a Trooper, in case you didn't know!)
I did however start a private blog if anyone is interested in viewing it, please send me an email to brittejensen@yahoo.com and please put Wilkinson in the subject bar so I know what it is and don't just delete them! Then you will get an invite to view our blog, it will come from Britty. Thanks!


Kelly and Steph:
We have been very busy lately, we are not sure if everyone knows, but we found out we are not able to have our own children. So, we have decided to adopt! We are trying to get the word out to EVERYONE! If you hear of anyone who is going to be putting their child up for adoption, please let us know! We are in the process right now of putting our papers in with LDS Family Services. We are hoping to have all the papers in, our home study done, and on the adoption list by the end of the month! So far we are ahead of schedule!!