Fun Stuff

Well we decided to have a diaper drop off for Tammy and Becky to let people in Pine Canyon come and see all the babies, and it helped a little with the cost of the diapers for them too. I t was a lot of fun. We had some good visits and everybody had plenty to eat. We even had Coleen VanDyke and some of her girls come all the way from Roosevelt. What troopers.

The 3 little guys are doing just great. William and Jaxon still have the oxygen but they are growing like weeds and so is Aaron. I love just holding and looking at them all. I'm glad Heavenly Father gives us such sweet little babies.

Tammy came over to visit one night and we decided that Calvin looked bored so Becky, Tammy, and I all piled the babies on his lap. He was hilarious. I don't think he could have moved if his life depended on it, but it made for a great picture any way.

Well, we are getting all ready for Thanksgiving, I am way excited to get to have it here. I have been making little turkeys to set at all the place settings and I have made a few pies. I really want to make some of the bread pudding like mother used to make. I found the recipe so I'm going to try it. Calvin is planning on smoking a turkey and a pork roast for dinner. Dad and Dockie are coming to stay with us and they will be here for dad's birthday on Friday and then we are going to go in to the temple with Shane and Angie on Saturday. It should be a great week and I'm really looking forward to it.

I hope everyone has a super duper Thanksgiving. We sure love you all!!!

Wow. What an October!!!

Wow what an exciting October!!! Tammy and Darin had their twins on Oct. 12 when Tammy was diagnosed with gestational hypertension (preclampsia, or Toximia). They wieghed in at 5 lbs. 1 oz. for William Joseph and 4 lbs. 10 oz. for Jaxon Lee. They have been in the special care nursery since then, but they are doing very well. They are on thier way to passing off the 4 stages of growing to get to go home. We are hoping that tonight they will pass off the 1st stage.










And then just 9 days later on Oct. 21st Becky and Mike had Aaron Andrew who weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. He is doing great also and they brought him home on Saturday Oct. 23rd. Nayeli and Zack are way excited to have him here, they are sooooo cute with him.















Calvin and I left Yesterday to go to Idaho to see Sara and Corbin talking and singing in thier primary program. They did such a cute job. And Corbin Also gave the scripture and prayer in Primary opening exercises. It was great to be there with them. Natalie and Nate have really been working hard on thier house and it looks awesome. We had a great time visiting with them.

Wow, Where did summer go!? I can't believe how fast the time goes any more. I decided it was way past time for me to update our blog. We have been fairly busy this summer, but I think busy is very good. We all got together and went camping at Elkhorn in July. It was great to get to be with family and friends and catch up on things. We had a great week. Thanks to everyone for coming!!!!

We have been busy with the band playing at quite a few different events, it was great to get to go to the U of U and play for the Salt Lake area Young Single Adults, There were a lot of people there and they were just really enjoying the evening. Calvin and the rest of the band went to Ibapah for the all nighter while I went to California for Uncle Arnolds Memorial. They said it was a very good night and we have played for some back yard parties also.

Calvin and I got the opportunity to go visit Rene and Colleen in Roosevelt. They took us to Flaming Gorge and we got to see such beautiful country. I think we will have to talk all the kids into going there for a family trip. There were even quite a few 4-wheeling trails and tons of water. It was way neat. We went to dinner while we were there. Rene and Colleens daughter works there for the summer and she got to be our waitress. Dinner was great and we had a great time. Thanks again to Rene and Colleen. You guys are awesome.

I have been able to go trucking quite a bit this summer, we got to go the New Mexico and Denver and the usual Idaho and St. George. I enjoy getting to be with Calvin. It's great that he still is my best friend, Even though I sleep alot in the truck. I just have a really hard time staying awake.

It was hard to have to go back to school but now that I'm there it's o.k. I can handle it.

I also got to make some cradles for Tammy's twins and of course I really enjoyed doing that. Now I get to make a bench with a toy box in it for Becky and I think that will be a lot of fun too.

O.K. Well I think I'm all caught up on everything now. I hope everyone has a great fall because we all know it's coming quick. I love ya all.

Well, Girls camp is officially over now. It was a terrific experience!!!

I have been in this calling for 3 years and I don't know weather to be happy or sad to be released. We had some great spiritual experiences while we were

there this year. I know Heavenly Father loves all of these young
women beyond comprehension and hopefully they know how pre-

cious they are to Him. We had quite a bit of scary weather to start

us all out, but after saying a prayer as a stake staff the winds died

down and the rain calmed. The sun actually came out on Thursday

and we were able to do our destinies and we really were thankful

for everything from then on out. We had a destiny about Christ and

about how precious the Young women are. We gave them each a

mirror and a letter from Heavenly Father. They seemed to really be

touched by the spirit. Then the Stake R.S. came up and talked to them

about the precious Women of the Bible, We learned about Esther, Abigail, and Ruth. It was Awesome. Then on Friday we taught about the refiners fire and how the Savior washed His deciples feet at the last supper. We had all of the girls wash each others feet. At first they were a little sqeamish, but once they got going the spirit was sooooooo Strong that most of them were crying and commented on how loved they felt. Later that night we fed everybody Spaghetti and salad, only we didn't give them any silver ware so they had to eat it with their hands. It was great!!! I think they all had a blast with it. And even the Stake President was laughing and enjoying his meal. I can truely say I will miss being there next year!!!!!

Shock!!!

We got a really strange phone call a few weeks ago. It was from an executive secretary in another stake. He set up an appointment for us to go see the stake president in that stake. When we got there we found out that Calvin was being called to be the 2nd counselor in the Bishopric of the singles ward. We both will be released from all of our ward callings ( I do get to finish out the stake camp director calling) and we will be attending the 24th ward in the Tooele Stake for the next 3 years. Calvin was put in last week and we went to our new stakes conference today. We are really excited to get to have this calling. These young single adults seem to be just awesome. We will be attending family home evenings, Relief society nights, and all other activities they have every week. It should be very busy, but I think it will be great for us. The wives of the new Bishopric have our first big assignment this next Sunday. We are going to be cooking dinner for a "Linger Longer" after the block of meetings. We should be feeding between 50 and 80 people a full meal with dessert. I hope it goes o.k.
I think the moral of this story is to not get too comfortable in your WARD, because you never know what Heavenly Father is going to throw your way.

Wow it is really time to update!! I hope you have all been doing well. It seems like the time has been just flying by. We have been busy at our house.

Life has gotten a little funner as Becky and Mike and Nayeli and Zack have moved in with us. They are a lot of fun to have around.

It didn't take long for the ward to put them to work here, Mike is the Preist Quarum Advisor in the Young Mens and Becky is the Camp Director for the Young Women. They have both been doing great.

At conference time, Calving and I got to take Tom and Gwen with us and go to Idaho to see Natalie and Nate. We met them at Lava Hot Springs and Tom and Gwen went with them to the Hot Springs for a while. We took Sara and Nate their Birthday presents and had a really nice visit with them. We love to get to see and love on those little grandkids. I hope this summer I can get up there a little more to see them, I really miss them all. We were supposed to go camping for Easter, But instead we got 15 inches of snow! We packed everything and went out to Terra, but we turned right around and came back home because the weather was HORRIBLE; so we just all camped at home for the week. I think it was harder work to camp at home though!

We spent a lot of time in the shop and since Calvin and Darin built a smoker last fall we did a lot of smoking meat. In fact we have decided that we have taken up smoking as a habit. But it is just making us all fat. Oh well we are all getting fat together!

Since the weather finally warmed up we have been working on the yard. I think that since there isn't a park in Pine Canyon that we have decided to make our own. Mike built a double swing for the swingset and then painted the swingset black so it looks awesome. and then yesterday the family got together and built a teeter tawter to put in the yard too. I don't have these pictures on the computer yet so I'll have to get them on here later.

Well we love you all sooooooo much and hopefully I will keep this a little better updated.

Well Christmas has been a lot of fun this year, although it always is. Natalie and Nate and their family came down on Christmas eve and Tom and Gwen came over at 5:30 or so in the moring on Christmas to watch the kids open presents. Then Tammy and Darin came over at about 11:00. We are missing Mike and Becky this year. It's really wierd not to have them here, but I think they had a wonderful Christmas at home. They are talking about coming up for new years though and that would be great. I think everyone has had a good time. We cooked a Prime rib roast for dinner and we've been playing a lot of games. We got the game "Things" and that is a fun game. But Tammy bought Darin the game called "Quelf". That is the weirdest game, but it is a lot of fun to play. We have all laughed a whole lot.

Nate is heading home today and Natalie and the kids are going to stay for the week. She wants to go to St. George on Tuesday and see Becky and I think Gwen is going to go with her. They should have fun doing that.

Oh yeah, We had an explosion at our house yesterday. We were all sitting at the table eating some lunch when calvin decided to open a coke that had been outside. Needless to say he got covered in Coke along with the whole kitchen and front room and Gwen. I think it might be that first picture. It was sooooooo funny and all I could think of was "Don't move, I need to grab the camera" It took a little while to clean it up, but it was all worth it because we all got such a good laugh out of it.

Well, we hope you all have had a great Christmas!!!! It really is a wonderful time of the year.