Thanks Jill. You were the only one who caught our mistake. How many of you out there noticed that we forgot two people on our birthday greeting this year. One was Rick and the other was Erica. That has been corrected since.

I was looking through some old research and found some bookmarks we had made. Somehow each one of you asked and answered a special question about the scriptures. The very first one was Deena's. Here it is. "What two people besides Moses and Joshua parted the waters and walked through on dry land?" First one to tell us gets a stick of gum. (no fair Deena) If no one gets it I will let Deena tell you. She is the one who asked it.

The second question was given by Steve. "What cities fell into the depths of the earth just prior to Christ's appearance to the Nephites?" Also first one gets a stick of gum.
This Blog is great
RLO

We thought it was summer until last week.

Hello from Rachael!

Hey Bodilys! I was reading over the past blog that doug wrote for us, and realized that he failed to mention one important fact regarding our cruise-winning costumes. It wasn't just our costumes that got us chosen- it was Doug's SWEET dance moves that he did for the crowd :) ! All of the finalists had to "present" themselves to the audience when their name was called, and doug decided to bust out a few moves he had been practicing on... It was hilarious! I was supposed to be dancing with him, but he took me by surprise and I just stood their in awe... hahaha... I wish we could have gotten it on video for our children to see someday. They would think that they had the coolest dad ever!

Doug and I are extremely excited because the semester ends this week, and we will finally have a little bit of a break from school work. Both Doug and I have to endure finals all day tomorrow, and then we will be free! That's about all the great news that we have. Nothing too exciting goes on around here.

I thought it might be fun for me to tell a little bit more about myself, because there are still some of you that I don't know very well. Probably one of the biggest surprises that most people don't know about me is that I am a certified aerobics instructor and I am known for BEING LOUD! This may come as a shock for most of you because I am quiet most of the time! As Doug mentioned earlier, I also enjoy teaching dance. I have found that it is something that is really special and fun for me. I have had the opportunity to coach various groups such as the Bonneville Honeybees, the Brigham Young University-Idaho Dance Team, and was also the director of the BYU-I Cheer and Dance program for several semesters. Currently I coach at Over The Top Gym, where I help choreograph their competitive routines. One of the greatest benefits of working there is the opportunity to work with my amazing nieces! It has been such a great opportunity to spend time with them and really get to know them a lot more. Here are some pictures of me with two of Marci's girls (Nicole-first picture, right side and Megan-second picture, left side.) Both girls took first place with their duet routines. (GOOD JOB GIRLS!)

Doug and I are loving the opportunity to live close to family at this time. Some day in the future we will have to head off for medical school, and it will be a while before we can come back here and settle down. We love you all and enjoy the time we get to spend with you! Hope you are all doing well!
-- Love ya, Rach--

zimbabwe

Hazel's grandson is on a mission in Zimbabwe. We thought it was interesting to show you how much inflation they have. A one thousand dollar bill is worth only one cent in our money. He said it took two of these bills to travel from one area to another. We are inclosing both sides of the bill for you to look at. It looks like a lot of money but it sure isn't.
Signed
ALSBO (WHO IS THIS?)

Trip to D.C.

Hello Family,

We took a trip to D.C. over Spring Break. Torrey's older sister was going and we thought it would be fun to tag along.

I was suprised to see how beautiful the city was. We caught the end of the cherry blossoms, but the dogwoods were blooming and they were gorgeous! I want to find some for my new yard. I was also suprised at how busy the city was with tourists. The lines into everything were worse than Disneyland! We had to get up EARLY (especially two hours ahead of Utah time) to get tickets to the Washington Monument and the Bureau of Engraving & Printing. Our Congressman's office took us on a tour of the Capitol, which was fascinating. We also loved the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetary. The 3 Smithsonian museums we got to see were incredible (there are over 15 in the city). We barely got into the National Archives where they keep the original documents of the Magna Carta, Declaration of Indepence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and many others. It was interesting but not like the movie National Treasure! The kids loved the National Zoo, the C & O Canal ride and the Metro (their subway system.) There was so much walking! I wished I had worn a pedometer so we knew how many miles we walked! Brooklyn was such a trooper and kept right up with us.

We drove down to Mount Vernon and loved it there. So beautiful and interesting. We happened to be there on the first day of their garden festival so we got to go on hayrides and play games in the gardens. We also drove up to Gettysburg that same day but didnt' get to see much because we ran out of daylight. On our way back to D.C. we drove past the D.C. temple which is stunning.

We easily could have stayed another week, but back to real life. We are stir crazy in our apartment. Last week Mom came down and Brooklyn, Kate and I stayed at her hotel and swam. It was fun, though I think she was tired after Kate kept her up all night. Torrey is swamped as he finishes up the last of this semester. He is paying for the week he took off for vacation. It will be nice to see more of him for a couple weeks before his next semester starts. We should be in our house by the end of May.

Love to all!
Jill

The Half Here Group The siblings that are left

Just wanted to show you a few pictures from Rayola's funeral. The first one is at the grave site. The next one is Hazel and I with our special second cousins. We enjoyed them a lot when we were growing up. This brought many memories. I had a great family and friends to associate with as I grew up. The funeral was a great tribute to my sweet sweet sister.
This is my first attempt. I want to send another picture of the five of us that are left but that will have to wait till tomorrow. I hope this all works. Grandma Alice

My New Job

Hey Fam,
i just wanted to post a blog letting you all know what is going on in my life... i am posting some pictures of where I work now... I work at Greg Olsen Art... it is an 8-5 job and it is a perfect job, i get to use my sweet skills that i have for packaging boxes and being a "go-for" i am always moving, and yelling cause it is loud in the warehouse, there is more pictures to come but these are the ones i have for now!


THis is me standing in front of work

This is the building of work






Love you all,
Kim

p.s. chad have you taken that bike off any sweet jumps yet?

April 15, 2006

Steve and I were able to attend the groundbreaking for the Twin Falls Temple. Elder Neil Anderson of the seventy presided. The messages given spoke of the gratitude we feel for those who had prepared the way for this historic occasion.

They reminded us that when King Benjamin spoke to the people, he admonished them to keep their tent doors turned toward the temple. As we anticipate the building of "our" temple, we must prepare ourselves and keep our doors (our lives) pointed in the right direction.

We were reminded of the blessings that come with attending the temple and that in that sacred place, the veil is thin. We know that those who have gone before us are aware of us and thankful when we do their work.

It had rained the night before and was coolish! But as Elder Anderson offered the dedicatory prayer, the sun came out as if to say..."I am the Son, and I will bless you as you work on this holy house."

We are excited to be part of it! When I think about the great sacrifice the Saints were asked to give in building the Kirtland temple....what we are asked to do is soooo little in comparison! All He really asks us to do it GO!!!! I will go to the temple! I love it!

Today, is such a wonderful day. We remember that He lives and loves us!

I love this blog! It's something I look forward to reading it everyday...sometimes, I even check it twice a day. Thank you everyone for being good bloggers! aunt Barb

WATCH OUR MOVIE

Sam and myself recently finished a short movie called "The Aggression Wall" that we entered into a film festival... we made a trailer for the movie as well. They can both be viewed at the following address:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=aggression+wall

They are the 2 produced by Dumpy Bike Films. Go check it out.

chad

Just wanted to share this snap of my wonderful daughter and her two precious sons. I had a grand time with them this week. They are good parents!

Family,
For those of you who have not meet Neal Guymon, this is him. He is Angies friend boy.

Neal Family.

Family Neal.

L Ya RDB

Happy Easter!

Hey everyone! We don't really have any big news to share we just took some cute Easter pics of Brooklyn & wanted to share. We love this little girl!! She just turned 5 months old today.She just learned how to laugh! We are so excited for Shay, what a cute baby boy! Happy Easter! Love, HOlly

Catch up on Heather

This is Heathers Ballroom group can you pick her out? They just got back from tour. They flew to California and performed for two days at Disneyland & also on Catalina Island. She had a lot of fun and made some great memories. In a few weeks she will be off to San-Francisco with her choir group, She is busy! She works at Grand Teton Gastroenterology (Bum doctors) so she can help pay for all her fun. She is trying to decide what to do next year, Cheerleading, Choir or Ballroom she enjoys them all but knows she can't do everything. She gets good grades so has been sending her grades into Tesoro Gas and getting gas cards every sememster, nice when you are buying your own gas!

Love Ya-All
Blog Ya Later
The Iona Bodily's

Ammon Bodilys

Well, we didn't get to go to our Malad Dance competition, a dear friend of ours and the owners husband of the dance studio where Jessica dances passed away on Tuesday, and the funeral was Sat. the 8th. There was now way the girls could have danced if they wanted too. Lynn was like a second dad to all these older girls, they sure loved him. He was only 46 and died of complications to surgery. I offered to put a picture story video together for them, sometimes you feel so helpless, that you want to do something to help ease their burden. I enjoyed putting it together for them, amazingly it got finished in a day and a half.


On the happier note, Aaron had a double header baseball game against Madison, and beat them both games, the first one (we didn't get to see cuz we were at the funeral) the ten runned them. The second one the score was 15-11. I love watching my boys play baseball! Tanner just had tryouts for Babe Ruth, and Ben has been practicing with his two teams that he plays on for two to three weeks with the spring team, and a week with his city team. I love baseball, cuz it keeps them busy and worn out...............YEAH!






Andrew went with the last of his friends down to the MTC, now he doesn't have anybody to play with =^ {. He came home and asked if he could just go on his mission right now. He is so excited to go.

These are some pictures he took on the way down to the MTC. He has a friend in Canada, one going to Panama City, this last one is going to Sweden.

Jessica just sent off a missionary who is going to Tijuana Mexico, she sure looks forward to letters from him. And we love it when she is in a good mood for a few days ; ^ )

Well, it is short, but sweet.

Take care,
Love,
Linda

Spring Break and Rainy Weather

We did some traveling over Spring Break. We went to Washington to visit Rex's family (Randy's brother). We saw the Space Needle, Seattle underground, beautiful vista views of the Puget Sound (the ocean inlet), and the temple. The kids enjoyed the cousins-a lot of corresponding ages.
We got home on Monday, washed and repacked, leaving early Wednesday morning for Rexburg. We spent some time with the college kids- We got to see Kristin's art class, the Teton Dam site, hike R mountain, swim, and other fun together. We spent a quick night with Gr and Gr and headed back home, stopping to celebrate Payson's birthday and then home to enjoy conference.
We have had lots of moisture and the rivers are running high. The water was lapping at the edge of Highway 95(the main road into town) the middle of this week. When we went into mutual, there were some people using snowmobiles like jet skis on the "lakes" that had formed in the fields. Crazy!! There was a crowd of people on the sides watching them (including several police) What we won't do for entertainment in this little town!!! :-)
We love hearing from you and seeing your pictures.
KBb

TANDUM TIME!!!

HEY! It's warming up in Rexburg, Sam, my roomate and Annie's brother fixed up his dad's old tandum bike and we've been riding it around, it's a blast!! Thought I would show it off to ya all :)

Jack Steven Phister!

Our baby is here! Shay went in at 9:00 and had him at 12:15. She had a fabulous nurse and got along perfectly!

He weighs 7 pounds 10 ounces. 20 1/2 inches long. Isn't he a cutie?!

We are so happy and thankful.

(I like his name alot! )

New baby coming....

Shay is going in tomorrow morning to have her baby boy. Her blood protein and blood pressure tells the doctor that it's time! She's a bundle of emotions.

We would appreciate all of your prayers in her behalf. It doesn't get easier the second time, does it? The good thing is..that we know it's all worth it!

Please just say a little prayer for my Shay Shay! thanks, Barb

News from the Cookies

Hello Bodily's What fun to read your news and see your pictures. We certainly enjoyed the Family on conference Sunday. So good to see family.

Well I have to get on the Blog bandwagon and get writing, huh? I just got some exciting news. I am changing jobs, within Zions Bank, I will no longer be a teller, but I will be working with the Executive Banking side of Zions Bank. I will be like a customer service assistant helping with that end of banking. I really will miss the people I work with everyday, but it is time for a change. I have a lot of training to do, a lot of it in Salt Lake and the big change will be that I have to wear a more professional type clothing than I am used to. Oh well, I get to go shopping! It will be a great opportunity for me. I will be split between
the new Ammon branch and the building were I am now in Idaho Falls.

More good news, you will be receiving your reunion invites very soon. Doug helped me get them ready. He did such a good job. My kids are great and we have had fun talking and planning this years reunion. So make plans to come and keep your invitation in sight and do the homework project that is included with it. We are really gonna have some fun.

We love you all. Dodie

Picture

I was sorting through pictures and wanted to share this one. Aren't they cute. We went to Salt Lake and went the the Joseph Smith movie and LOVED IT! Everyone should see it.
We stayed the night in the hotel and then went to a fun show the next day. It was a fun trip but if we asked our kids what they like to do the very best, they would answer 'play bull'. They love to play with daddy!
Cyndee

New happenings in Iona

Jordan got his mission call to Mexico City, Mexico East, he leaves July 12th. We are excited for him.



The Bodily family got together after conference sunday. We thought we would share a few pics. It was fun catching up on everybodys lifes. We sure love our family.

For sale....

Hello everyone....Jon and I have quite an overload of furniture....and don't have room for it. I'm in nesting mode and am trying to consolidate....so, we're selling this couch and 1800s antique desk. Is anyone interested? We don't even know how much to ask for them....give us some offers!!

We're doing good here in SLC. The weather is gorgeous today. Spring is here and we're ready for a new baby in our family. I'm due in 2-3 weeks. Will it ever come? Whew. We're excited to have another boy!

Anywho....hope you all have a great day!

Shay and the Phister boys!

Doug and Rach

Rachael and I are doing very well. We now live right next to my parents in my grandparents old home. We have been married for over a year now. We both are taking a full load of classes at BYU-I and working on the side which keeps us extremely busy throughout the week. I am still planning on becoming a doctor and Rachael is planning on becoming a teacher. We both will hopefully graduate next year. From there it's off to medical school for me.

Rachael is teaching cheer and dance at a local gym and I install satellite dishes for dish network. We can't complain about much. Our life is great!






I won't bore you with words, instead, here are a couple of pictures with comments...


The Cook family at the annual twin lakes trip.

Being avid Napolean Dynamite fans, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to stop by this house during Napolean days in Preston. This is Napolean's house from the movie. The funny thing is behind the camera sitting in the car are two disgusted parents Rick and Delores. They couldn't believe that we would all pile out of the car to take a picture in front of a stranger's house. :)

Jer and I farming.

Rachael and I dressed up as Woody and Bo-Peep off of Toy Story. We entered a costume contest at a local party in Rexburg. We ended up winning the grand prize for the whole party. A one week cruise to the Bahamas. SWEET!!!

Well family. We love ya and thank you for all of your support.

Love Rach and Doug

Ammon Bodilys

This last week has been busy, I had a whole list of things that I wanted to get done during my week long spring break, while my kids were still in school. I am ashamed to say I only got about three things done.

Jessica had a friend staying with us the whole weekend, then she ended up staying the whole week, now she is staying indefinately. She has been living with a young family, and they have not had the experience of living with a teenager. From my perception of talking with the other family, there was not much communication that went on there.


So....Meet Karina Mansilla, our new daughter. She is a very sweet girl, everyone of us really enjoy having her with us. She moved to the United States when she was eleven years old with her mother. Karina was baptized about 4 years ago, and has just recently(past year) become active. She will be recieving her YW medallion probably on Sunday, in her old ward. Her and her mother do not get along. Her mother married an illegal alien, and that is about all I know about the marriage. Her mom wanted her to do homeschool, and work in the potato fields. Karina wanted to get a diploma, her mom got mad at her and kicked her out of the house. That is how she came to live with the other family. She lived with them for five months. It is a long story, so it will have to be told at another time. Because she has been moved around so much, she is going to the alternative school to get enough credits to graduate at the end of the summer.



We have just begun our season of dance competitions with Jessica, this is her and a little girl that she has taught a solo to for the past two years. Her mom and Dad just sold their house, so they will be moving back to St. George, so this was Jessicas last year teaching her (She will have more). She teaches dance and gymnastics at the studio that she dances at. This picture was taken this weekend at the Logan Dance Competition. She placed 4th in her solo, and her team got two 1sts and one 2nd place. They did a really super job. This next Saturday we compete in Malad.

Well, that is it for now, I will have to get more pictures.
Linda

The Morrills

By Torrey
And who said that those Rupert Bodilys were good for nothin? (ha, ha, ha!) This is a cool newsletter because you can write if you want and you don't have to feel the pressure of being a loser when you don't.

We're still apartment dwellers and counting down the days to the completion of our home. It's a dark and dreary world in the basement! Life is treating us well right now. Brookie is loving first grade, reading like a bookworm, starting soccer, and signed up for t-ball. Kate is screaming less and talking more. Her favorite movie is "Annie" and she loves to sing "Tomorrow". In fact, she thought Elder Oaks was Daddy Warbucks during conference today. Jill is very busy trying to get our family more cultured. She went and checked out Oklahoma and South Pacific from the library. (This is a direct result of Delores having the family watch Sound of Music last month when we were up in Idaho--Thanks Delores!!) Can't say I'll watch those shows again. I just can't see how you can break into song at the drop of a hat? I'm surprised I haven't broken into song as I am writing this blog!...or maybe I have!

Jill is keeping busy by fighting the builders every step of the way to make sure they live up to their promises. (I'm glad somebody in this family isn't afraid to stand up for themselves.) She is also scrapbooking on the side! She is bound and determined to prove me wrong when I said it was a waste to buy all that scrapbook stuff! I'm still teaching seminary and praying for Zach to get hired!

As far as fun goes, Jill and I went to see Michael Buble 7th Row in Abravanel Hall, he is a fabulous singer! He's our new favorite artist! CYL (see you later!)