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| This is a scrapbook page of our Florida trip (See the next page) |
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| Our Primary activity Find Jennifer, Sharilyn, Emily & Aaron I was president with Shari Kunz and DeAnna Pooley as councilors |
Feb
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Jen's friends gave her a surprise birthday party at Courtney Lagers.
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| Beautiful Hulen Meadows View of Bald Mt ski hill from our home |
Sawtoothers were all here for anniversary week. We had a nice outing at Galena Lodge. Someone shared a couple photos with us:
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| Teddy giving Aaron Tiddly-winks Sharilyn with Heather |
Mar
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| Sharilyn's 10th Birthday |
I'm a girl scout cookie mom again this year and we are still piled high with cookie boxes.
Apr
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| Emily in her Kindergarten play |
A song I wrote called "A Light in the Darkness" was sung by our ward choir and then in the adult session of Stake Conference on the day before Easter. Elder Kakuchi and Elder Nelson was there. I'm so excited. I love the song and feel it was given to me through inspiration from the Lord because I heard the beautiful song in my head! I wrote all the words down and then plunked out the melody on a keyboard. That part was quick and easy but it took me a lot of time to work out the piano arrangement.
Aaron woke up and ran downstairs to me saying he had dreamed a song. He wanted to hear it again and seemed frustrated that he was not able to. He tried to sing part of it for me but couldn't seem to get it right. He told me it was called "A City of Love". I told him to close his eyes and just think for a little while and maybe he could remember it. He tried and would say "Ya! That's it! I remember now." Then get up to sing it to me and try and frustratedly say "No that's not right. I asked what it was about and he said it was about Jesus and Spring and a light shining up. I was excited for what he may have heard in his dreams. What wonderful things lie ahead if we are worthy. "Out of the mouths of babes!"
We enjoyed Memorial Day weekend in Rexburg. We went to the temple and got to see John and Merrilee Mo in the new temple film. We had a picnic at Cave Falls with my family. We put flowers on graves in Rexburg and Moore.
There was quite a funny moment with my Mom and Dad and Aaron. He was sitting between Gpa and Gma in the car. As Gma was getting into the car she accidently sat on Aaron's leg. He exclaimed "Woa! You're heavy Grandma." Then realizing that might have made her feel bad, he tried to smooth it over by saying "But a house is heavier." ha ha ha...Mom really laughed! I could just see the wheels turning in his little head worrying that he'd said something unkind and trying to think of something that was heavier than Grandma. Ha ha ha
June
Coulters came to visit and stayed 3 weeks. We went to Baker Lake, Boulder City, Cherry Creek, Craters of the Moon and Red Fish Lake. I also just took them wherever I needed to go ha ha. We had a Pickett reunion at Hunter's Pond and it was so nice of Debbie - she made her secret recipe famous caramels that she sells at bazaars for the reunion. (Pickett's have people bring things to sell to help earn money for the next reunion.) We individually wrapped each caramel and bundled them in half dozens. Sadly nobody wanted any so we tried giving them away and still nobody took any. We were sad and I felt a bit embarrassed. We also took Coulters (and Steve Klingler) to Yellowstone.
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| Fun in the backyard |
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| Yellowstone |
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Young Adults sang the song Peter (and I) wrote for his mission fairwell. It's called Mission Call. I accompanied on piano. He didn't know we were going to sing it and we surprised him to tears!
We are growing a little garden and Aaron gets so excited when he finds a big radish top peaking out of the ground. He has to come get me and asks if he can pull it out. (The radishes are too hot for the kids taste buds but they do love to pull them out!)
Primary Activity
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| Daddy-daughter Party |
We went to a concert for kids in SV. They had instruments for the kids to play along in the "Toy Symphony." The conductor let some of the kids beat the base drum and he lifted Aaron up onto the stand and helped him beat the conducting pattern and cut everyone off at the end. Very thrilling! :)
Sept
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| Emily 1st grade |
Jennifer is so excited about Jr. High. She and three 7th grade boys got invited to move up to 8th grade math. Also she took a science test in which the teacher told them all that most of them would get a 20 but if any got 30 they would do very well in class this year. Jennifer got a 54!
Jennifer went to Germany with her GSA troop! 12 girls and 5 adults. She and I were so nervous before she left. I asked Chris to give her a blessing to keep her safe and healthy and to not get homesick and to feel the companion of the Holy Ghost. Jennifer had a wonderful trip. She even got to call home once. We missed her. After she got home we sent 3 rolls of her film off to be developed and were terribly sad to only get two pictures back. All the rest were black.
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| Jennifer's GSA Troop with leaders Carol and Willa |
Emily asked Jen: "Jennifer, is your cafeteria noisy?" "Oh, not too bad." "You're lucky! Ours is as noisy as 42 chickens cocking on the fence!"
Oct - so what is life like? Mondays are FHE. Tuesdays Jennifer tutors Courtney in math, Sharilyn babysits for Burbies and then has choir practice. Wednesdays - every other is Twin Falls. Thursdays are the same as Tues except we add YW every other for Jen and add choir practice for Chris & I and it's stake meeting night for Chris & sometimes me. (we go to choir because Sis. Devoe is the director, brought into that position from being inactive so we need to support her.)
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| Sheep blocking the road. The Basque drive the sheep a couple times a year and sometimes you just have to wait. |
An outing nearby to Adams Gulch
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| Enjoying nature at Adams Gulch (Debbie's got the popular big glasses for a little while.) |
We have confirmed that we are expecting twins! We went with Leonard and Brenda again to get ultrasounds at the hospital. Leonard is a radiologist there and he is the one that discovered this amazing news - two little hearts beating! Wow! Brenda and I are due within days of each other!
Got to stay at Margo's in San Francisco. She has moved from the top of Nob Hill to the top of Russian Hill. We got to go to a Mozart opera and also saw Les Miserable! We ate at the Fish Grotto #9. You can see it from Margo's roof top. We bought Aaron a fire engine for Christmas at FAO Schwartz. On the way to the airport we saw a glimpse of the tail of Humphrey the Whale. He was beached and people were trying to help him get back out to sea.
Nov
Got to have another ultra sound with Brenda. I'm 12 weeks along and the babies are only 3" long but look like little babies. One was sucking it's thumb! Leonard says he can already see that one looks like a boy. I so hope all goes well. I'm so excited about twins. It's a very special gift I'm so filled with gratitude to the Lord.
The kids were all excited about the news. Sharilyn asked "Mom, do you know what they are yet? Emily looked shocked and replied loudly "Know what they are?!! What do you mean, know what they are?! Do you think Mom's going to have a chicken or something?"
Speaking of chickens, ha ha, After a very monotone sacrament meeting speaker finished speaking, Emily leaned over to me and said "That was about as boring as a dead chicken." Ha ha!
Mom & Dad and Steve came for Thanksgiving.
Dec
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| Sharilyn loves singing with the Sun Valley Serenader's Choir They have been very busy with performances almost every night and practices twice a week. |
The kids are getting excited for Christmas and love to snip the links off of our Christmas chain. Aaron is so excited he counts all the links that are left a couple times a day. :)
Our family was in charge of a sacrament meeting this month. We did musical numbers with singing and viola, flute, guitar and gave talks. Emily & Aaron even memorized their talk. We brought them on Sat before to practice at the pulpit. I was proud of everyone, they did so well. Aaron got a bit too bashful to speak though on Sunday but I was proud of him for trying.
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We had the most adorable Santa for our branch party. Since being Primary President I've been in charge of arranging for Santa and for the goodie bags he gives out. I had Br. Mallard all set but was in a little panic because he had to cancel to be with his mother who was very ill. I tried another person but he couldn't help us. Arlene called her friend who is the cities Santa, Jack Williams. He was booked solid but oh how blessed we were that a miracle happened! Someone cancelled on the very night we needed him! He was the cutest Santa Claus!
Happy 5th Birthday Aaron!!!
