Merry Christmas you all!!! We love you and pray for you and hope this day brings a full measure of joy for you and your beautiful families!!!
These are tough times in our world and this season is a wonderful island of refuge. Let's enjoy it for all it's worth!!!
Thanks for being so wonderful!!!
Love,
DAD and MOM
PS: We're off to the airport to gather in Sarah's big present!!
This isn't as much fun as I thought it would be. You guys are too busy! Can't wait to see your next posts....
Oh well...I'll have to go back and re-size the pics another time. If you click on them you can see them in Photobucket.
Love,
Dad
Hi y'all! Mom and I loved our Thanksgiving weekend together. What a great time. What great memories. I love you all and was so happy to have you all together being so Happy! No tension, just fun! Perfect.
Here are some pics to help us all remember and continue to enjoy. First, the food:
The whole Gang:
Hi everyone. Hope all is well with all of you...or that all is well with you if and when you ever get around to reading this post!
I just got back from DC. I was there election night. I had to put my earplugs in at around 2 am to get to sleep in my hotel (downtown DC) because of all the loud celebrating in the streets as it became clear that we had elected our first African American president.
I did not vote for him, but I refuse to be a bitter loser. We are the UNITED States of America. We are all children of our Heavenly Father. At some level I can appreciate the emotion blacks feel at this point. After all, it was only 40 years ago that we had to pass legislation to ensure them the right to register and vote in our country. At that time no one, white or black, could have imagined a black being elected president.
He made some outrageous campaign promises...many of which I hope he is not able to deliver on. But if he can help unite us and if he can do anything to diminish or mitigate the bitter partisanship and hostility in the government and among the governed, I am behind him. I honor the office and the person who occupies it. It's time we put America first...ahead of party and political dogma.
While we should espouse our views and work for what we believe is right, we can do that in the spirit of unity and civility.
What do you all think? How are you feeling now that the campaign is over?
I love you all and hope we can count our blessings and work to maintain America's greatness for our children and grandchildren!!!
DAD
Hi y'all. Not much happening around here. Just working a lot and hunting a little for me. Sarah and Pedro (need I say more.....). Hannah got a great report card...all A's and B+'s . Nate is doing OK...working pulling cable at the new high school. If any of you get a chance, you should come over to Heber and check out this school. It is a fantastic structure. You'll love it. Hannah gets to go to it next year and graduate from it.
Mom got laid off at the title company but she has a job interview on Thursday that looks good.
I enjoyed my cheap trip to ND and shot a lot of phez and sharpies and huns. I shot my first two blue grouse on Saturday morning. I guess I'm enjoying bird hunting. Whoever would like to go, give me a call and we'll get down to Earls and shoot some.
Post More! I always check, but posts are few. I know...you're all busy. Love you all. Have a fun Halloween!!
Hi everyone. We sure enjoyed having you all here for all or part of the conference weekend. What fun to have all the grandkids here too!
We enjoyed sharing conference, good food, and good laughs with you all.
Alex and Jamie and I had a good hunt on Friday, too.
Seems the men need to find a rabbit hunting date that works for all of us. Alex said we could hunt up at Otter Creek! Let's make it happen.
Deb and Sarah and all the girls are sure enjoying the preparation for Sarah and Pedro's big day.
We love you all!!!
Mom was able to go to the General Women's meeting with her daughters that were able to make it up to Heber. Danny and Nate babysat!! Way to go gals and guys!
I was following a more selfish pursuit with Alex. We hunted Sage Grouse up in Randolph. We had fun and some success. Here's a pic, if I can post it correctly:
http://s180.photobucket.com/albums/x123/mtnvalleysetters/?action=view¤t=DSCN0935.jpg
BTW, I loved your most recent post, Holly. You guys and your kids are awesome!!
Love you all,
DAD
Wow, you kids are better blog makers than we are. Cool blogs!! I like the music, the pics, the layout...everything. I need to learn how to add music and to post pics.
Anyway, Since I last posted, we have put up some frozen peaches. So, next family party we will have Pete's Peach Milk Shakes!!!
I also drove out to Nebraska with Nate and Dustin to get Gus, who was out there for summer bird dog training camp. We had a great time. If I knew how to post pics, I would do so. But for now, check out this link on the bird dog forum:
http://www.utahbirddogs.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2866
I think this will be a fun season.
We sure enjoyed our summer. It's only too short. Autumn is beautiful. We need to have some kind of family party to enjoy the wonderful outside weather before it's gone!
Love you all,
DAD
Last night we harvested our 3 rows of corn (we shared the 12 rows with 3 other families). We ended up freezing 11 very full quart bags of delicious sweet corn and put several more ears in the fridge to eat fresh. Mom, Sarah, and Hannah and I worked together in an assembly line...picking, husking, blanching, cooling, cutting, and bagging. Great fun. Great eats! It will be a nice complement to 60 quarts of green beans. Potatoes and beats are next. We've enjoyed a lot of zucchine and cucumbers to date...even a few pods of fresh okra! And wonderful herbs...sage, mint, basil, and oregano! And the lettuce has been especially good and productive this year. Alas, we have bushels of green tomatoes. I've got them caged in plastic and we cover them every night...so maybe we will get them ripe...only 2...yes that's 2, so far!
Happy gardening y'all!
So, Andy and Janna, I couldn't find where to make a comment on your blog??? Maybe you don't want comments....
OK, you children of mine, do I really need to "sign in" to your blogs if I want to post comments? Do I use the same username and password I use to sign in to our blog? If no one looks at this and comments, I guess I'll have to call one of you.
Thanks for helping an old fart!
Mom and I have been threatening for several months to create our own blog. I just created this, so I'll go first and express my hopes and purpose for the blog. I'm sure Mom will add very important thoughts...and that as we use this new medium, and learn more about it, our hopes and purposes will evolve. But here are my current feelings:
We love the blogs you, our children, have already created. We want to put links to all of them on our blog...and hope we can work together to link them all into an extended family blogging network.
Mom and I want to publish information about our lives together...our plans and hope and dreams.
We want to publish photos of special events...some that only we are involved in and some that most or all of us are involved in. We are thrilled you are all doing the same. It's an amazing way to save and archive visual remembrances of events...while we also save and archive narrative descriptions of the events.
We are certainly open to your suggestions on how to do this, and what you would enjoy seeing/reading from us.
We really don't know much about how to do some of the technical stuff...like post pics. You are welcome to offer us a tutorial on these things too.
