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.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Grandpa & Grandma:

Dear Family,

We had a great Thanksgiving with those who were able to join us. We thought about the rest of you and hope we can see you soon. We learned there will be 4 more members of our family next year. These are wee ones who have yet to come into mortality.

I remember a Christmas many years ago. We lived about 20 miles outside of Rexburg. There were no paved roads . They were all covered with snow. We lived in a home attached to a one room school house. My father was the school teacher of that school. In the front part of our kitchen was my bed. Then there was a coal burning stove which was our heat for the room. Back of that stove were two more beds, one for our parents and one for the boys. We also had a table in the front of the stove. A lamp furnished our light. We decorated a real tree and put it in the class room. We made decorations out of construction paper. Mainly they were chains made from construction paper. I don't remember if it was on Christmas day or later, but I think it was on Christmas day, our Grandparents along with an uncle and aunt drove their car as far as they could then walked in the deep snow up to our house. They brought with them Puffed Rice balls. They were like popcorn balls but were made out of Puffed rice. I thought they were the neatest thing they could have brought. I don’t remember anything else only those rice balls. Our visitors spent the day with us before setting off into the deep snow headed for home. I don't know if there were any illnesses from that trek. What a sacrifice that was for them. We spent the week tying a quilt in the class room. We expect a very different Christmas this than we had many years ago. I think that year, I received a little rocking chair.
We wish all of you a very happy Christmas and a great prosperous New Year. We all have much to be thankful for.

Much Love
Grandpa and Grandma Wilkinson

Ron & Maud Mary Family:

We are all doing great. We had a fun Thanksgiving and missed those of youwho weren't there. Hopefully we will see you at Christmas.

About the only new news from our family is Brent and Melissa's newadditions. Harley who is 7 months old and Perci who is 2 1/2 years old. Weare all already attached to them.

We are all looking forward to school being out for Christmas Break. Karenis done in 1 week and Anne and Niki are done in 2 weeks.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

From Shannon:
Sweet Potato Casserole
3 cups sweet potato (cooked and mashed)
1 cup sugar1
/2 cup melted butter or margarine
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup milk
mix together well and put in casserole dish
topping
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 1/2 tbs. margarine or butter
1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup pecans (I omit this)
mix together and sprinkle on top of casserole.
bake at 350 for 25 minutes. serve hot

Dan & Verna Family:

We had a wonderful time at Grandma's in Draper. All our family was together and we had to do Thanksgiving in shifts, but that just made it last longer and be more fun. We had Turkey, Ham, salads, dressing, and green bean casserole that I forgot to take out of the oven, bbq weenies, baked beans and for dessert we had yummy pies from JB's that Tisha brought. I didn't count how many were there, but we enjoyed being together. Jamie had the flu and stayed home and Kaden, one of my twins was with his bio family, but otherwise, my whole family was there. It all turned out so fun. Thanks Mom and Dad for the use of your house. We also went to the malls, not on Black Friday, but on Saturday, so it was rather lovely. Next to being with my family the next best thing was Brandon and Suzanne's announcement. I won't go into detail because I am assuming they will contribute to the newsletter, but it was a surprise and I was so happy to hear it.
In other news, Dan is finishing up another semester at school. He should be able to graduate with his associates next spring. Then on to USU (campus in Price). My girls are doing lovely. My twins are so cute. Except I am trying hard to break Anthony of his biting habit. Any ideas from you young mothers out there???? Robert never bit anyone, that I know of. We will be up around the 20th of December for birthday celebrations and early Christmas. Hope to see some of you then.

Brandon & Suzanne Family:
Keaton experienced his first big screen movie Bolt on Thanksgiving after a great brunch at Denny's. Our thanksgiving recipe is, "Go to Denny's and order off their menu." We also got to see the rest of the extended Higbee clan.
Oh and if you didn't know, Eric and Shannon are having another kid.

John & Elizabeth Family:
The month of November was very busy for our family. One of the more exciting things that happened was our daughter, Sara, turned 6 on the 20th. She is getting to be so smart and has such a personality. It's truly amazing to have the perfect child. We are so blessed! In our family, we have a tradition to choose where we want to go for dinner on our birthday. I was trying to prompt her to choose Red Lobster (she loves crab, shrimp, and of course lobster), but she instead chose, ewwwww, Chuck-A-Rama. Oh well. She had a birthday party with our family on Thursday night then had a party with her friends on Saturday at Boondocks. It was great fun. I was a bit worried to see that she had more friends that were boys than girls. I guess I can't blame her. In her class at school, the boys make up 2/3rds of the class. Although, come to think of it, she did invite a 1st grader boy.....hmmmmm. All in all, she had a great birthday. Thank you to Grandma and Grandpa Wilkinson for the card and gift!

Another fun part of the November month was Thanksgiving. We, of course, did the Thanksgiving Day marathon, going from dinner at 1 with Verna and Dan's family in Draper to my brother's family in Park City by 4. It was insane and VERY filling, but also quite fun. We were happy to see all of you and Sara was so excited to hang out with all her aunts. What was not so great was the gaining 5 pounds. I hope I get a treadmill for Christmas. It was also EXTREMELY fun to have the girls to stay overnight a few nights. Tanya, Faith, Kara, KaRanda and I all played Guitar Hero on the 360 until our fingers felt the onset of carpal tunnel. I am greatly looking forward to the next match!

Other than Holidays and birthdays, business is going very well. We hired a several new sales reps and they are already showing signs of promise. It's all SO time consuming but very worthwhile to be able to stay at home to do it.

This time of the year is the best. We always love getting together with family we so rarely see. I was very happy to get my house in complete order (after being here for 2 months, yikes!), but now comes the exciting part of redecorating it for Christmas. Since November is a time for us to be grateful for what we have, I would just like to share a bit of exactly that. First and foremost, I am SO grateful for my family. I have the most wonderful husband in the universe. He does so much for our family and is always so caring of others, he is truly an amazing person. I love him dearly. I couldn't have asked for a better husband and father of Sara. I am extremely grateful to have the daughter I have. She is an amazing person and daily keeps me on my toes to be a better teacher, cleaner, doctor, friend and most importantly, mom. I am truly in awe of how I could deserve to be one of the parents to such an exceptional child. I am grateful that I married into such an amazing family. I love John's mom and dad. They are one-in-a-trillion type of people, as you all know, who I look to for an example. They have two of the best hearts I know. They have awesome children whom I am grateful to call each my brother or sister. I am also very grateful to belong to an amazing Church that has such outstanding values. Daily, it keeps me grounded and when I get down, I know the difficult times are so minute on the grand scale of things. That is so wonderful to know everything we go through has a reason to shape us into people that are worthy of living with our Heavenly Father and brother Jesus Christ again. It's really comforting to know we live in the Truth. I am grateful to be able to live in this difficult but remarkable time that has so many advances in the world. Geez.......I won't write anymore about what I'm grateful for. It would go on forever. Ok, sorry, one last thing. I am grateful to have all of you in my family. Even though we speak so infrequently, you are still in my thoughts and prayers. Hope you all have a very happy holiday!

Recipe for Pear Salad
8 cups of torn lettuce leaves
2/3 cup of caramelized walnuts
blue cheese dressing (Litehouse brand is the best I've found)
1 pear, cut into small slices
restaurant-style croutons
blue cheese crumbles

This is one of the best salads I've ever had and one of the easiest to make. Literally just combine all ingredients above and toss together. To make the caramelized walnuts I just crush them into smaller pieces first, coat them with butter, sprinkle them evenly with brown sugar. Then put them in the oven at 350 degrees for about 7-10 minutes. Let cool in the refrigerator then serve.

Gary & Bev Family:
Our Family was a little scattered for Thanksgiving! Gary & Bev and Riley & Tricia and kids joined everyone in St. George, Kellen & Camille & Olivia were in Salt Lake with Camille's family, and Britany & Jeremy and kids enjoyed Thanksgiving in Arizona. Everyone had a good time in the places that they were!
We had a lot of fun seeing, spending time with and chatting with everyone that was able to make it to St. George. There was a lot of good food served and made us all eat way to much!
We are all looking forward to Christmas and enjoying this time of year!

(Walmart was out of a few things that belong in the salad, so if you see it in the recipe and don't remember it being there, that is why!)
Pasta Salad:
1 (16 oz) pkg Bow Tie Pasta
1 (16 oz) pkg Corkscrew Pasta
1 cup sliced red grapes
1 large can Mandarine Oranges
1 can Pineapple Tidbits
1 can Water Chestnuts
sliced green oinion (optional)
1 cup mayonaise
1 bottle cole slaw dressing (I like to buy 2 and add more after it has set)
1 cup cashews
you can also add chicken to this, that makes it a little more filling!

just mix it all together and there ya go, a tasty pasta salad!

Dwayne & Patty Family:
November has been a great month. We welcomed a new grandson into our family. Ryder Ross Wilkinson was born to Todd and Jade on Nov. 21 at 8:54am. He weighed 6lbs. 9 oz. and was 20 inches long. Todd and Jade have adjusted to parenthood. Jade is recovering nicely. Thanksgiving our family was kinda scattered. Dwayne ( who had to work Friday and Saturday ) was in SL and had Thanksgiving with my brother and his family. Ben and Alissa had Thanksgiving at their home. Alissa's mother and grandmother came and had dinner with them and they had a enjoyable time. Todd, Jade, Steph, Heather and I spent Thanksgiving in St. George. It was great to see family and enjoy the delicious food. Heather and I then went to California for her best friend's wedding. It was good to enjoy the California scenery and visit with friends.
Strawberry Yogurt Salad One container of Cool Whip
2 small strawberry yogurts
1 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
1/2 bag small marshmellows
Mix Cool Whip, yogurts, and strawberries.
Refregerate until ready to serve then add marshmellows.

Hal & Diana Family:
Not much to say, just that it was great to see so many of you after such a long time. We loved Thanksgiving this year. Thanks again to Nicky for cutting my hair and Karen for bringing her Wii games. We are hooked. Also Thanks Kelly for finding us a Wii of our very own. Next year at Thanksgiving, we will be the champion Wii players. Karen, you won't have a chance,be prepared!!!!
Hope ya'll have a Merry Christmas.
We will be spending time in Draper after Christmas, waiting for 2 new grandbabies. Maybe some of you could stop by and say hello.

Jeremy & Laura Family:
Our semester is over next week. We are SOOOOO happy to be done. This means that Laura is all done with her program and will be a bonified teacher. Baby is doing well and will hopefully come in time for Christmas. If not, she will surely come before the new year. :) Paul has enjoyed preschool and learned a lot there. We were surprised to find out that he knew several of his letters and sounds and numbers and colors. Hooray! Jeremy is glad to be done with this semester. Finals are the last thing on our list before we heave a deep sigh and fall onto our couch to rest during our holiday break.

Josh & Jessica Family:
We had a great Thanksgiving this year in St. George. It was great to see everyone and we really did have some great food.
I made the Stuffing and people seemed to like it.
The recipies is
1 1/2 bags of bread crumbs, bacon, sausage, shredded carrots, onions, celery and really any veggies that you want.
While the sausage and bacon is browning add the veggies and cook until veggies are soft.
Pour in a can of chicken broth, season with pepper, salt and poultry seasoning. Add this to the bread crumbs and mix well. Put this stuff in a lightly greased 9x13 pan and pour a cup of melted butter over this. cook at 350 for 20-25 min! That's it.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and we can't wait for Christmas at our house.
McKendry turns 4 on the 14th and is really excited about that. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. Connor is doing great and loves to talk on the phone. I think he gets that from me! The kids loved decorating the house for Christmas and McKendry thinks that our house looks pretty and magical so that is all that matters! Merry Christmas everyone!!

Thanks everyone for participating, I love to be able to post lots of things! It makes me happy, and one last thing, here is everyone enjoying their grub at Thanksgiving in St. George!
(I was just glad that I didn't take to many trips to the table!)

Octobers Highlights!

Grandpa & Grandma
Family:
There are several new happenings in our lives during the last October. First, we returned to St George for the season on the 16th. It's a couple weeks earlier than previous years but our objective is to stay a little longer than six months in our determination to establish St George as our primary residence. When we sell our St George home in a couple years we can avoid a substantial capital gains tax if the sale involves out principal residence. Other measures are to register our automobiles in Washington County and to register to vote in St George. We have done this and voted early.

We have also felt the pinch of a depressed stock market. This is a paper loss at this point but will be a real loss if we sell stock before it fully recovers.

We appreciate the tremendous help of Ron & Maud Mary and Anne and Niki and Amy in inside and outside work of cleaning our St George home as we begin this new season. We also received help from Kelly and Steph in replacing a piece of siding that apparently blew off sometime before we arrived. All of you are appreciated for the concern and care you provide us in our advanced years. I

can't forget to mention that Grandpa suffered about four weeks of sometimes severe back pain during the past month. It's about 99% over and none too soon.

November 8th is our wedding anniversary. It will be 57 years of togetherness and we've loved every minute. Our love for each other is infinite. We love all of you and wish you the same degree of happiness as we have.

Don't forget our annual garage Thanksgiving and Friday evening Nativity at Tuachan.

Grandma & Grandpa


Ron & Maud Mary Family:
Summer is over!!!!! We are all ready for a rest.

Brent and Melissa's family is doing great. Kolby and Jordan are enjoyingschool. Braden is great except for getting molars which makes him a littlegrouchy. He is also climbing everything. Melissa is always finding him inplaces that he knows he shouldn't be.

Eric and Shannon are doing great too. Eric is busy working on his master'sdegree. Shannon is busy with kids and the new one on the way. Emma lovesschool, Dallin loves preschool, and Lizbeth is starting to talk a lot.

Anne is still trying to buy a house. She has either made a bid or tried tomake a bid on 5 different houses. Not one of them has worked out. I guessthe right house has just not shown up yet.

Karen is doing well in school. She has good roommates this year. She isenjoying her classes. The only problem she has this year is getting on thewrong bus to go back to her apartment. She has taken a few interestingtrips to places that she didn't plan on visiting.

Amy is doing lots of crafts and loving it. She has been a great help aroundthe house and at the Ranch this summer.

Niki is a teacher's aide for a special education class in an elementaryschool. She loves it. She is thinking about going back to school to gether teaching degree so she can teach special education. She still does hairon the side but it has been hard to find a good salon to work at.

Ron and Maud Mary are still doing the same old things. They did enjoy thesummer and the break from regular life. They also enjoyed going to St.George with Mom and Dad and helping them get their house and yard ready forthe winter. They are also excited to go visit for Thanksgiving and enjoyingthe good food, good shopping, good company and the Tuacan show.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!


Dan & Verna Family:
The Higbee family is alive and well. We did have a slight mishap with our car. We were at a stop sign and the airbags with off for no reason. Verna suffered a badly bruised arm and Kara suffered a hurt ear, but otherwise, we survived. Now we have to ask why it would go off when we were at a stop sign but not when I hit a deer a few years ago???? Interesting.

KaRanda continues to play socceer. Davey has been playing county football and his team won the Superbowl Championship. Way to go Davey!!

Halloween was a delightful occasion where even my 16 year daughter went out trick or treating to make up for lost time when she was in China. My little boys dressed up and were really cute.

We will be having our own Thanksgiving in Draper at Grandma's house with Robert, Brandon and John and their families along with our current family. We will miss seeing all of you in ST. George, but until gas prices go way down, that's what happens


Robert & Jamie Family:

Hello Family,Well the Higbee Family is doing good in the little town of Clawson. It is always good to read about everybody, and how things are going in their lives. Jamie put together a blog for our family and everyone is welcome to see it (robertandjamie.blogspot.com). It is great to see so many members creating a blog for themselves.

Well right now things are going good with the kids, Davey got his patriarical blessing a couple of weeks ago and we just got the written version of it and I thought it was interesting the first time around, what an awesome experience for him and for us. For those that haven't received one should seek one out, it can be such a tool to help you mold your life to it's guide lines. I feel very blessed to have such a wonderful child and to hear the things that await for him and for the world. I will express that the second coming is really coming and that we should be teaching our children all that we can to prepare them for the all to really reality of what is to come. Family I know that these children that we are bring into our lives are going to be preparing the world for the second coming and it is our jobs to teach them what they need to know so that we do not stand blameless in front of the Lord. I am grateful for this family, I have been blessed with wonderful examples and our family just keeps growing. I am most of all am grateful for being born into to a family that has set a strong foundation in the gospel. Thank you Mom and Dad, Thank you Aunts and Uncles, and a very big thank you Grandma and Grandpa. The holidays are coming and it reminds me of when we were younger and would meet at grandma and grandpa's house and have turkey and stuffing and vegetable tray and 7 layer Jello and pie galor. All us kids would go down stairs and play games watch movies or just make a lot of noise. And every one would know that it was time to go when Grandpa got out the Vacuum. By the way I use the same trick once in a while, it works.
Sorry we won't be in St.Geroge this year but we will try and make it next year.

Love to you all Robert,Jamie,Davey,Becca,Will,Tristen, and Ty.

Brandon & Suzanne Family:

Happy November to all. We had an eventful October. We took our first real vacation and went to Anaheim. We spent 3 days at Disneyland/California Adventure and a day at Huntington Beach. Grandpa & Grandma, thanks for the use of your home in St George to avoid a long driving day. Keaton did well on the drive but was very talkative. We think he liked getting away more than we did. He was thrilled to watch the Jedi training, the Muppet 3D show and the other acts. He loved all the rides. The parades and fireworks were amazing. Keaton brought home a cup full of seashells because he wanted to give them to his friends. It took us a while to get back to being home again. Brandon is already planning for the next trip in about 3 years. Also this month, we had a nice campfire outing with our neighbors. Keaton enjoyed just hanging out with his friends. Conference was inspiring and full of wise counsel. Halloween was nice and apologies to Karen for missing out on their party. We had made plans for Keaton to go trick or treating with his neighborhood friends. Everyone loved his Pirate costume.
That was October for us. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Gary & Bev Family:
October has gone by with all kinds of fall activites here in AZ. They really like Halloween here! We have been to carnivals, ward activites, and other parties. The last week before Halloween, Maya, Kenyon and Olivia wore their costumes every day to something. They got plenty of use out of them. Check blogs for more info.

At the first of the month we went to UT to visit Riley and family. We had such a good time with them. Even though that was the weekend that it snowed. We even convinced Chelsey and Corbin to miss a day of school to spend the day with us. Gary took Corbin to hit golf balls (which they both love to do) and then to lunch. Chelsey, Bev, & Roxzann (Bev's sister) went shopping (which they love to do) and lunch. It was a fun day.

The next weekend Gary & Bev went to Las Vegas for a get a way. It was fun. We saw Phantomof the Opera and Johnny Mathis We know he is an old singer but going to his concert was one of our first dates. So we try to keep up the tradition of seeing him when ever we can.

Looking forward to seeing all for Thanksgiving in St George. Those that can't make it we will miss you. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!


Dwayne & Patty Family:


Hal & Diana Family:
Happy Birthday to Trish and to"our Brittany J", both on the same day.Thanks Trish for doing such a great job with this newsletter. Thanks Brittany for just being who you are.

We had a great Halloween. My first time in a long time to go trick or treating. Thanks Paul for letting me come along.I learned something new this month.

While attending a Preschool conference in Provo, I attended a class on Autism and learned all about Joint Attention. Anyone ever heard about that? I am really interesting in learning more. I am working with several students with Autism and I think it's very interesting stuff.

We are planning to be at the annual Thanksgiving Dinner in St. George.We look forward to seeing some of you who we haven't seen for a while.


Jeremy & Laura Family:

We went to Richfield to spend Halloween with Grandma and Grandpa Jensen. Paul loved trick or treating once he got the idea of what was going on. He went up and down grandma's street. He was an elephant.

Things are kind of boring here with us. The most interesting thing that has happened in the last month is that our transmission went out on our corolla and cost too much to repair. So we sold it to the mechanic for what it was worth and Jared and Brittany were nice enough to sell us their old car to help us get through. So now, that little red Grand Prix has been to three of the four Jensen boys. What a great family we have!


Josh & Jessica Family:

We had a great Halloween. The kids loved dressing up and all the candy that they got. Connor was happy as long as he had something in each hand.

We are excited for Thanksgiving and seeing everyone who makes it down to St. George!

The biggest thing that has happened lately was that I was made the Young Women's President in our new ward!?! Josh is really supportive and I haven't been it that long but have really enjoyed it and can't wait to get to know all the girls better.

Josh had a great time deer hunting with his dad and Jared. Thankfully they didn't get anything but still had a great time!

Connor is talking more each day and Kendry is really loving preschool. We are great and hope to hear more from everyone.