Saturday, October 25, 2008

Sometimes We Crash

After my first post I received the cutest reprimand from Spencer about forgetting his birthday. I had initially listed his birthday then as I was rearranging things to include Luke & Alex's baptisms the blog monster must have eaten Spencer's birthday. I could never forget Spencer and Alex's birthdays because they are the only members of my November club. Don't ask me what exactly that means. In his reprimand to make up for my "crash" he said I should send him "copious amounts of gifts" on his birthday. I haven't yet looked up what "copious amounts of gifts" means - do you think Webster could help me out with that one? Or if any of you can help me with my illiteracy about copious amounts of gifts I would appreciate it.
Of course I will help Spencer celebrate his birthday (remember it's on November 12) After all it is his first "post college" birthday, his first birthday as Preston's Dad, his first birthday in Layton, his first birthday as Dr. Turner. Wow we have a lot to celebrate.
Can anyone tell me how to send the blog monster into time out for eating Spencer's birthday from my post?

We all crash doing one thing or another. Thank you Spencer for letting me joke around about your sledding crash. It was a lame effort to cover up my "crash" at missing your birth date on the family calendar. But you'll notice in the last picture he survived the crash and hopefully I'll survive my crash as well.




Can you all remember how cold it was the morning we took off to ride snow mobiles at our reunion in the Soda Springs Mountains. After we got back to the lodge and went sledding Spencer took several pictures of the ice crystals that had formed on the weeds. I love these pictures. Thank you Spencer for always sharing your many talents with us. I don't know how I got the writing on the right side of that picture. This blogging stuff is more complicated than I thought it would be. I'm getting better though. You should have seen the mess I made on my first attempt at this write-up and inserting these pictures. Now maybe I'm ready to do our Williamsburg trip - maybe.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Our First Post

!!! YOU ARE EACH A BLESSING IN OUR LIVES!!!



We Did It! We are official bloggers. Okay, Valerie & EmmaLee now it's your turn to get one set up for your families so we can all keep in touch again. If I can do it you can too. I miss our Fast Sunday letters so maybe now this can take their place.

This first post is just a test but check back again soon to see our pictures and a brief write up of our recent trip to Williamsburg, Virginia.
Thanks to all of you for being so wonderful. I hear unpleasant stories from other families about their attempts to bring their adult children together and I feel bad for them. I love spending time with all of you and whenever we're together I feel such joy and seldom if any contention. It is my prayer it stays that way forever.

Upcoming family suff:

Luke's 8th birthday - October 21st
Grandpa Ward's birthday - October 22nd
Halloween Dinner - October 31st at 4:30 pm then trick or treating afterwards
Luke's baptism - November 1st 3:00 PM in Tooele
Alex's 8th birthday - November 19th
Kristine's birthday - November 21st
Alex's baptism - November 22nd - If this is not correct please let me know
Thanksgiving Dinner at the Pryors - November 27th

I'd like to do a service project sometime Thanksgiving day/weekend - any idea are welcome

Well there you have it the first blog post from Keith & Kristine