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.

Our 4th & Last Daughter Beginning Her Senior Year!:(

Just thought I'd pay a little tribute to Heather. I'm feeling sad, but excited for Heather. My baby girl with big beautiful blue eyes is a SENIOR! She has enjoyed Ballroom for 2 years, cheerleading, Choir, and mostly socializing, she has many friends, because she is kind and loyal. She has a flare for fashion. Her sisters ask her opinion all the time, and she loves to do hair and make-up. When she graduates, she is planning on going on to Cosmetology school in Rexburg. Perfect fit for her. She is making good choices! She makes us proud & we all love her!

Scout Camp & World Series

The last two weeks have been busy with Baseball, Scout camp, girls camp, dance camp, and the World Series in Logan. This was a good year for the Bodily Boys. Andrew and Aaron were on Staff, Andrew was a commissioner, Aaron a counselor. Eric took his troop, which Tanner and Ben are a part of. During the week, Ben had to go back down to Rigby three nights in a row to play baseball, they were playing for the chance to go to the World Series in Logan, Utah. They ended up taking second place, the top two teams got to go to Logan.



The last night up at camp, Eric won the Scout Master Belly flop contest, you should ask him about it at the reunion.

Ben and a couple of the boys on his team, Tuesdays game got rained out, so Eric and I got the chance to go to the Logan Temple. We drove Ben by it later that night, he said it looked like a castle. What a pretty temple.

Bens team, The Ammon Knights, I thought that was a pretty cool name for a team. They ended up playing the other Idaho Falls team in the semi finals. This team (Westside) has beat us all three times that we played them, they always beat us by one point, so naturally we were a little concerned about what would happen. Our boys were able to pull it off, what a high tense game, we beat them by one point 7-6. As far as were were concerned that was our victory game. We then got to go on to play for 1st or 2nd place. We had too many errors, so ended up with 2nd place. They had five games to play and won 4 out of the 5. They did and awesome job.

Jessica had girls camp the week we went to Logan, and a dance camp. Aaron had to work, they worked in Grand Teton National Park for the week. Andrew and Tanner went up to Scout camp to work. So it was just Eric, Ben and Linda that got to go to Logan. Amazingly we even got to see Torrey in Logan for a few minutes. He was driving right next to us when we noticed him, so we pulled over and talked for a bit. Small world.

Remember Camp Ylidob?

Our little family got together and had a blast this last week end. With the Indian theme of Camp Ylidob and some feather earning feats, ole Chief Sitting Bull taught the grands about choosing the right and being warriors made strong by obedience to parents and the prophet. We had such a great time. I love this family more than words can say. How did I get so lucky?

Awesome Family Trip

We took a great family trip in July. We drove to central California and saw the bay area (Oakland Temple), Lombard street (the crooked one), the bay brideges, and did Six Flags Marine World Theme Park. Then we went up the coast seeing beautiful redwoods, ocean, and scenery. One place was Crescent City (with a lighthouse, Renee!). It was partially wiped out by a tsunami in 1964 when the Alsakan earthquake happened. Then we came inland through the corner of Oregon visiting Oregon Caves National Park and stunning Crater Lake. It was a memorable time with four of our boys!!