He's Home!!!

Jason is home! He breathes, eats, and talks!! We love it!!

Brooklyn's 1st Birthday!

Hey family! It was Brooklyn's one year birthday on Monday. We had so much fun with presents, balloons, & cake. Here are a few pics from the big day. :) We had so much fun!! Love, Holly

Happy Birthday!


It's Birthday Month for two special people!

Shay and Chad was born on very same day, four years apart.

Shay said that she thought Chad was the best present she ever got. She has mothered and loved him all his life. Chad respects her opinion and often turns to her to ask what girls are thinking about!

I love each of these kids so much! Shay brings with her a friendship with me which I cherish. She is such a good daughter and friend. She really understands me and is so good to talk to me. We can bop each other now and then and still know that the love is there, so "it okay!"

Shay is very on duty with being a full time dedicated and loving mother and is fulfulling her role very well. I'm esp. proud of her for choosing to be a mom and not a career girl. I can see the blessings of this choice in her boys.

She is talented in music and card making, speaking and organizing. She is excellent with handwork and sewing and anything that her her skinny little fingers work on. I like home made stuff she has given me...like cross stitch and cards.

She is very very well disciplined in what ever she sets her mind to, strict to a tee.

She keeps track of "stuff"...everybody's stuff in fact. I've called her before and asked her where something is in my house and she can tell me.

She knows how to live in a budget. She can talk herself in or out of buying anyting.

She is obedient to a T and has a strong testimony of the Gospel. She is righteous!
A covenant keeper. She abhors sin and evil.

She likes clean straight simple lines of design and has very good taste in what she creates and buys. She has class and style. I love whatever she picks out in her home or clothes.

She remembers the craziest things. She takes care of her stuff...like the pencil she used for all thru gradeschool to her clothes and personal possessions.

Shay likes everything to be clean and organized. She doesn't like change. She is a great RS teacher. Her worry button works good.

She is a real joy to me. I love her and wish her many more wonderful years!
Grandpa Jack called Shay..."Shay bug". He liked her to tell him the joke about the big mouthed bull frog. Gramps had a soft spot in his heart for ALL girdas, Shay included!

Jon is a perfect match for Shay....we love to go to their home. I'm very proud of them.




CHAD. How did you get the name Chaddy Boo? Boog? and the Duke?


Chad is such a great last child. He is the most undemanding, wonderful person to be with.

He is kind! mature, loving, senstitive to the Spirit, and spiritual. He is humble. He is patient

and considerate. He gets along with all ages. Everybody thinks Chad is their good friend. He

just makes you feel good. He doesn't critize anybody or anything...ever! He is appreciative of

everything and expects nothing. He "gets by"alot. He is careful with money. He's very

respectful of adults and authority. One of my favorite talents of Chad is his voice. I love to sit

by him in church and hear him sing tenor. He is also a good actor and film maker. He performs

well. He connects with the audience and wins you over immediately. Chad loves chicken

noodle soup and mashed potatoes and chocolate potato cake. He kept a fabulous journal on his

mission and served honorably. His eyes are lethal weapons. They suck you in and you just

can't resist! He loves to be with his family and watch BYU football. He is pure gold.

He has bought us tons of joy. He wants to be good and is good. He has some good memories

of fishing with G and G Hilter. They liked to take him because he was patient! (Still a strength

in his character!) Now, he has found the perfect companion. Happy days!


Happy Birthday kids...WE LOVE YOU!
Mum

Hit it Big

If you've ever seen the "Armor of God" Book of Mormon film and enjoyed it, you're sure to enjoy the latest film produced by Dumpy Bike Productions.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6986312903557721817&q=hit+it+big&hl=en

There's the link. Check it out.

chad

Lions and Ladybugs and a grass head, OH MY!

Pictures

I finally got the other pictures I was trying to put on my last post to work! Yay!




Grandpa let all the grandkids take a turn driving his newly restored tractor! Brooklyn thought it was fun but kind of scary. He had a blast with the kids and is so happy the tractor works!!

Fun October

The girls and I spent a week at mom & dad's in early October. Brooklyn & Kate helped mom with some of her leaves and they also decorated the front porch for fall. We had fun spending time with everyone. Mom even sewed darling witch costumes for the girls. She spoils us.

We also took a drive up Little Cottonwood Canyon and rode the tram to the top of Snowbird. We were at 10,000 feet with snow! It was freezing but fun.

Halloween was fun this year with Kate. She kept saying, "the people give me candy, and they don't take my bag!" She is a riot most of the time and keeps us laughing.

I tried to include some other pictures but I kept getting error messages. I guess I'll try another day!

Wolverine Homecoming

Homecoming Week is a big event for our little town. The kids have activities all week at school. Friday is the big day with a coronation ceremony of the king and queen. Michael was on the court. Then they have a parade through town with all the teams, classes, band, and royalty. The grade school kids (dressed in red and white) line up and the teams jump off the floats and give them high fives. A pep assembly is held at the football field. That night is the homecoming football game with festivites. Football players can't be in the half time thing,so we had Bennett wear Michael's number and take his place that night. He got to sit on a cool car!

So You Think You Can Dance...

Wellll...we hope there are some other fans of "So You Think You Can Dance" out there. We got to go to the Live Tour to see the Top 10 contestants in Miami last night. (There are some perks of living down here!) It was soooo fuuuuun! We watched the entire season (for those of you that aren't famliar, it's like American Idol, but with dancing) and we were really rooting for the 4 LDS contestants in the competition--Benji, his cousin Heidi, Jamez, and Allison. The returned missionary, Benji, won the competition!! After the amazing 3 hour concert, we were walking to our car, and heard a big roar in the crowd--the top 10 came out to sign autographs, and we got to talk with each of them, and got pictures with ALL 10 of them!!!!!! So we thought we'd share...
These are the 4 Lds kids.
Love from florida--Kyla and Ty

Introducing My Fiance- Annie M. Barker/Bodily (Isn't she beautiful?)

Dearest Bodily Family!

Well, it's finally official. The cute girl you've been seeing at all our family get togethers is finally going to be part of the family! It took me awhile to convince her, but I finally got her and I consider myself the luckiest guy ever! I asked her today. As she was walking back from her class in the Hinckley building on campus I had previously rounded up 12 people who Annie didn't know and had them stationed in between the Hinckley and the Library (where I knew Annie would be going after class) with a rose each. As she made her way down from the Hinckley building she was recieving roses from random people. When she made it to the library, the last person to give her a rose also blindfolded her. I then came and got her and took her to my truck where we drove out to Beaver Dick Park and I knelt down and made it official. And she even said yes! I also made a film on my computer of the two of us and showed it to her after. The weather was perfect and it was just great! I'm on cloud 9. So we are getting married in the Bountiful Temple on December 27th. I'll be sending official invitations to you all. I'm the LUCKIEST ever!! Sure love you all.

Chad

We started off with Senior Powder Puff football with the two cutest cousins I know.

The Juniors and Seniors played each other and the juniors got totally wiped out by the Seniors. It was fun to watch.



We had our annual trip to Yellowstone, we actually got to stay in our friends family cabin in Island Park, and then we drove into Yellowstone for the day. Our goal was to see Bears and to take our family pictures, since they will be the last ones for awhile.
As you can see, we took our family pictures and also got a great close up shot of a grizzly. We also got to see a momma black bear and her two cubs, but for some reason, I am only allowed to put five pictures on this blog at a time. How do you guys put more than that on???? We could bore you to death with our Yellowstone pictures, heehee.

We had a great time, we watched home videos and munched out. We had some fun laughs at how silly these kids used to be, actually, they still are, only different.

Well, I better go.

Linda

Here I am doing some peachy canning but look what turned up in the peaches!! The only thing that saved the chicken was I couldn't get him completely in the bottle. So expect to see him from time to time. He is not gone yet.

Recent Family Picture

Found a pretty spot to take a picture!!
Fall is a beautiful time of year!
R & C

Marissa's 4th Birthday

Marissa turned 4 on the 8th of September. We had a fun little party for her. We also had a pioneer celebration in our ward, and I had fun making costumes. Chandler and Marissa are growing and learning like crazy, and Ty is doing well in school.
Love--Kyla, Ty, Marissa, and Chandler

RAK Reunion

We decided it was time to start on a small scale our family reunion, like some of you have. We realize that we are only going to grow bigger and need to get that established. While all were around before college started, we spent a day together. We hiked our hill, and had our morning devotional there and a "breakfast picnic". We set up our 100' slip and slide down the hill. It was a big splash! We also made "master tonic" for all of us to have in our storage. We enjoyed each other's company, played, and ate yummy food!!

While Jared and Kristin were here into the next week, they harvested tomatoes and we canned all one day. We have enjoyed a great garden this year. Randy loves to "unwind" out there, weeding and tending it.

We had a fun hiking day with Jared and Kristen the day before Labor Day. We were sure glad they were following us when our pick-up died going over Galena. They were troopers and stuck with us. What great kids.
This is a little friend Kristen made. He ate all of the nuts out of our trail mix.
This is the lake we hiked into. It's close to Alturus and Redfish. What a beautiful place.
It was quite a hike but worth it once we got there.
Our friend again, he's got a lot of nuts in his cheeks.

Doing things with family make the best memories!

Deena

Wonderful Morning

Wow, what a rewarding morning it was for Eric and I. We spent a wonderful morning in the Temple in Idaho Falls while Andrew took out his endowments. What a neat experience to witness your own child go through the temple. I hope we get to experience that with each one of our kids. The only word that describes it right now is WOW!

Our temple President and Matron are John and Jean Groberg. President Groberg is the one that wrote " The Other Side of Heaven" We were the only missionary going through our session, not even any brides, that was amazing. So we had one on one talks with this amazing couple. Pres. Grobergs brother Joe was also in the temple this morning working, he happened to be my bishop when I was about twelve years old in Denver, which he and his wife also happened to have been called some years ago to be the Mission President for the Peru Lima South mission. Andrew and Eric were able to visit with Joe after they changed and got some advice from him for his mission. I must have my Eric write it down so I know what this advice was ; ^ ) before he forgets. It was an amazing morning.

Salsa Recipe

Hey Bodily Fam!

Since this is the time of year to harvest our gardens and all the ingredients to make fresh salsa are in season I thought I would share this yummy Salsa Recipe. It is the best I have ever had!

12 Cups chopped tomatoes
3 Onions chopped
4 Green peppers chopped
2 T. Salt
3/4 Cup white vinegar
2 tsp. Pepper
1/2 tsp. Garlic salt

Add sugar to taste, start with 2 tsp. You can also puree all the ingredients depending if you like your salsa chunky or not. I puree mine.

Anyway just thought I'd share. We had a great time at the reunion!! We missed all of you who live far away! Love, Holly

One great family!

I just want to say how thankful I am to be a Bodily. How did I luck out?

I love certain things about each one of you! Thank you for all you do. You are wonderful!

Alice, you are doing a great job of keeping us together.

Thanks for a great reunion.