Happy New Year

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season... Mom, and I had a very quite New Year, she was down stairs putting her holiday puzzle togather and I was watching TV until about 11:56 then we watched the ball in time square fall to help bring in the year 2011... Our weather has been most intresting this year they say we have received over 300% of the water we normally get in the water year.. that is alot of wet...
I went monday, for my monthly blood draw I still haven't received the ressults yet so hear's hoping that I will be normal in both numbers range; that has not happened in almost 4 years.. Mom is doing very well and is anxious to get started in her new assigment at her work place that would be as a nurse markter...They did have interviews for her position today so that person should be ready for mom to start traing some time next week ??..
I was wondering what we had decided about starting the family letter? It was suggested that we send a notebook around so that everything can be togather and after it is filled up that it be sent to mom and for keeping.. There are so many special thing that are shared that it would be a shame to lose it again.. Anyway please let me know what you all think about this suggestion... I will buy the notebook and start the first letter if this is what everyone wants to do..Please think about it and let me know... Love Dad

Missing the warmth!

Well, Christmas is come and gone. It was a very nice and relaxing one for us this year! More than can truly be said for some of the years past.

We had the chance to go down and spend Christmas with Mom & Dad this year! It is much easier I have to say, when the kids are older, to have Christmas someplace other than your own home.

I am not saying that I plan on making a practice of this, but merely that it is easier now that the kids are older than I would imagine it would have been when they were little!

That being said, can I just tell you, now that we are home, how very much I am missing the warmth of the southern sun! I got to go outside and run while we were there! I haven't been, and won't be able to do that here at home for a very long time yet! The weather we wonderful, and we had such a nice relaxing time! If time would permit I would go back down tomorrow!

Besides....I was just starting to get acclimated! ;)

I love you all and hope that this Christmas found you all well and healthy! Now I am hoping it will bring us all the best New Year we are willing to work for! I believe that we do get what we work for!

I love you all and hope to get to see you all again soon! Jana & Family!

HAPPY HOLIDAY

Dear Family,
I hope everyone is ready for Christmas, and all the special times that come to our families.. Mom, and i are doing well.. My blood is up and holding strong.. I have another blood draw 1/4/11,I feel everything we be fine then too...
Mom, went to Salt, last week end to take christmas presents and visit with everyone she could.. Sat eve she Megan,Christi, Madie,Gillie,and Mindy got to go out for dinner... Then Sunday morning they all attended the sunday morning Christmas Spokenword program... She then stopped at Steve place and had lunch with them before starting home to St George... She was able to watch Katie and Ryan open their gifts.. Katie loved her new dress but when Ryan opened his gift he started to cry.. and said I don't need clothes I need toys...
Chet had his surgery today and Jan reports he is doing okey tonight.. They plan to come to St George to be with us for Christmas.. That is if the weather is good enough to allow them to travel safely.. We really hope to see them and to spend time with their family...
We just received a note from Mindy, she suggested we as a family we should restart the fanily letter, and start sending it around to each family.. She believes it would help bring us closer as a family and help bring as closer to each other.. I agree, there is something more personal about hold and reading something that one of your family prepared and mailed to other members.. Please don't let this idea fall by the way side I hope everyone will give this serious consideration..
I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a very happy Hoilady season .. LOVE DAD

I have been thinking a lot lately about how the years come and go, but with ever passing year though they might be similar they are nevercompletely the same!

Part of what has got

me thinking about this is the "Ice Thing" that Chet

does every year.

Some years it gets going really fast, some years the wind blows and it grows a little lop sided, some years it gets going just a bit at a time, growing day by day, inch by inch. Sometimes, it starts out looking great, and like this year it gets warm and melts before it has much of a chance to get very big.

Like the ice thing, every year brings us different challenges and different lessons that we are suppose to be learning. Hopefully the lessons we have learned have been learned well enough that we won't need to repeat these particular lessons again, but we will continue to grow day by day, inch by inch, into something that when people pass by us they want to stop and look because we have touched them somehow in their life.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas full of all the joys that this season is suppose to bring. With more focus being on the gift that the Savior gave to us That through the years as we continue to grow and change we will be molded into the people that his gift gives us the opportunity to become! Always remembering that things are never staying the same! Excpet for the love our Savior has for each and everyone of us!

Love you all Merry Christmas.

Greatful To All Of You

I am so very greatful to each of you for so many reasons. You are such a great example for Mom and I..You are such great teachers to you children and others in your walk though life... Mom and I had the pleasure to attend Gillie and Paiges, baptisems this past month.. I would like to thank Christi and Chris and Dave and Jennah for their making me and Mom feel so welcome in their homes.. I am always happy to interact with our Grand kids as they continue to grow and develop their lives.. Mom and I had a great trip to Salt Lake and Colo. the weather was good and we didn't have any bad roads to travel on..
While we traveled through Colo we stopped in Idaho Springs, where Mom has some of her jewelry on consignment.. That little shop is really neat and fun.. Mom also found another little shop that may be intrested in some of her stuff if she can find some aspen leaves that are treated in gold, silver etc.. they do make beautiful neckless and earrings... but the leaves are a little pricey to get..
Steve and his family moved the later part of Oct. and are busy setting up their new home as well as Steve, getting to know about his new job.. While we miss them we are also greatful for our peace and quite ..Lilly really misses Katie, who each moring would come upstairs and fist thing, sit down and pat and visit with her.. In fact she still goes around the house looking for them, to play with...
I had my Dr.s visit last Wed. my blood is up to 39 & 13, which just about puts me in the normal range..


Hi everyone! I don't often have a chance to even talk with most of you anymore, so it's nice to say hi this way! I miss you all and love you so much!
You are all a great inspiration to me, as I watch you go about your lives, meet your challenges, and find solutions. I am so pleased that you are all trying your best to live the gospel, and to teach your children. You are so much more faithful than we ever managed to be!
I'm so grateful that you are strong enough to have survived us and come out stronger for the experiences. I hope you can forgive us for our mistakes, and love us anyway. We are always so glad to see you and to hear from you.
It's been a busy month! We went to No. UT for Gilli's baptism, then I did 'What Women Want', then we went to Co. for Paige's baptism. Then we barely got back from CO when I learned I would be going to No. UT again for a conference with work, so Mon. night my immediate supervisor and I left for SLC. The drive up was good, we spent 2 days learning new stuff, the late Wed. afternoon, we headed back home. The drive back wasn't so good, as it was snowing, but in answer to my prayers, the Lord did 'open the way before', as I literally followed a snow plow for most of the way betweenbetween Scipio and Beaver before the snow let up and we felt safe. I was very grateful for the answer to prayers, as I hate driving in snow, especially in the dark! Then, Friday night it was "Art on Main" here in St George. I hadn't heard anything from the organizer so thought it had been cancelled, but then finally Fri AM got an email from her and it was still on, so had to rush home from work to load up and get back. It wasn't very well attended, saw only about 25 or 30 people, but it was OK. Got home about 10 PM. Sat. AM was the Alzheimer's Memory Walk to raise funds. I donated a piece of jewelry as a prize. All in all, it's been a long month and I've been really tired, but life is good, and I'm grateful!
Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Love to all of you!!! Mom

Thankful

As this is the time of year and the month for it I just wanted to tell you all how grateful I am that I get to be numbered among such amazing people!

I am grateful of the wonderful memories of growing up! Fighting and learning things both the fun and easy way, and the hard way (which lessons I seem to remember the best).

I am grateful for being born into a family with the blessings of the gospel in our lives and that we had parents that tried to make sure we knew and understood the importance of said blessing.

I am grateful that we are all different individuals with unique personalities and quirks that make us who we are!

Mostly I am glad we are friends! Please squeeze your families for me and tell everyone I miss them. I have no idea when I will be able to see any of you and it would be great if you could maybe make a little post in here and tell me (US) how you are all doing!

Happy November, and Thanksgiving! Love Jana & Family!

Hey guys! We're getting more and more settled each day that goes by. Still have a lot of stuff in the garage, and even more stuff in the basement, but we're getting there. We've decided that we're not ever going to move again because of all the crap that we have had to buy and build. Not much fun. Work is going well. I work for America's best from Ogden to Orem and all places in between. Hope things are going well, and if you have any good books, I am spending a lot of time reading, so I'll take any you want to lend.
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