The Hill Tribe

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Dear Family,

This week we have been busy with the grandchildren. Maria's tribe came over Saturday. I was off to the temple praying about names for a new position in the Ward. Very strange how those answers come. I did not feel good about those name for one reason or not and I left the temple asking the Lord to let me know if there were someone else out there. Sure enough when I went up to the church parking lot for the HALLOWEEN ACTIVITY my man was there. I called the new Ward MIssion leader today and he will be sustained next week. WE had new people come out today, yet when the Ward started we only had 25 members there and after Sacrament there were at least 50. I talked last week, because of extra time left amd Bro Standing talked this week since there was on speaking calling in sick.

Last Friday Kyle went to SLC for a job interview at Hill Air Force Base. If the isn't a catcher nothing is! Our prayers are with you, Kyle. Cindy's Tribe came Friday. We went to the park to play scoccer and got home right before dark. The kids had fun running, kicking, bouncing the ball past the goal against grandpa, watching the Gordan Russel Football Team, rolling down the hill (don't tell mom!), and playing in the sand by the track. We started home when it started to lightly strinkle. It was a good excuse to come home. Shad was wet so we had to dry his pants in the dryer when he got back. He really didn't like the pink loaner sweat pants, but they were the only ones in the house.

This week the class has been studying clocktime. some students have become real experts! The other class is doing a power point on Portland all in Spanish. If you were to say I would use this technology 10 years ago I would have said you are crazy, but the kids know all about this technology so I am the expert with the Language and the students work very well by themselves on their power points.

Mom is busy with her genalogy as usual. She found somebody who is related to Robert Moosman in 1843. she sent the email for contact information and hopefully she will get some info back this coming week. She went to the library with some friends this week and they are finding info a bunch on their family names that needed to be done. As you know there nothing mom can't find for genalogy.

Hope your week goes well.

Love you all!

Dad

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Summer Projects

I know its been a couple of months since we have blogged but the summer has went by so fast. Heres a little peek at a couple of the projects that we got done in the last couple of weeks. Guy took a trip to Provo for a week and I got to stay home and recoup from a little bruised rib incident that I obtained while trying to cut down a bush...okay, so the cortizone shot had worn off of my right hand and I couldnt get the loppers to cut so I braced them against me...dumb move..the pain killers and a little rib brace made it possible for me to keep moving while he was gone. The bright side of all of that is that Guy was able to take Maria and her kids to Provo with him to see Missy.

This is a little table that Mike had in his room that got a coat of paint...sorry Mike! The next picture is of my very green family room in the basement. It actually looks a different color than the photo...hard to describe but I am gonna leave it till probably next summer. Its alot calmer than it looks...honest...this is a bright sun day...in Oregon we dont get many of them. In the early hours and late hours it takes on an olive tint that makes it cozy feeling. Thats the cedar chest that I picked up a while back that finally made it out of the garage and a new table that I got at a garage sale. I love it. The older woman that I bought it from said it was old when she bought it. One day I will try to find out when it was actually made. The next photo actually show the room a bit. I think once I get pillows and curtains up that it will all pull together.

at least that is what I keep trying to tell myself. I had just started painting and realized that although it really was the color I had picked out...and planned on picking out, that my mother had painted a room that very color in my home once while I was growing up and I had wondered even then what she could be thinking. Ya leave an old lady alone in a house for a week and she needs something fun to do for entertainment. Imagine what my children would have to deal with if anything ever took my husband away from me for any real length of time! Daddy and I are slowly moving our stuff back down to the basement for the winter months. The whole renting it out idea is on the back burner for a bit. I am sure that daddy will want to blog about his trip but he was able to bring not only Maria and Kids back to Portland with him, but Mike too! Mandy stayed in Provo and worked and Mike came home to try to make some extra cash during the semester break.

We were so excited to have someone here to help us. He moved all the heavy objects all over the house for us. The TV downstairs again...all the books out of the den. The big desk out of the basement...etc. He pretty much worked from the time he got up until he crashed in bed but boy did he get a ton of my projects done. The biggest one was the floor in Guys old bedroom. It had been green since 1993 when we moved into this house. We were able to pick up a great deal on some really nice wide plank laminate at the Eagle Outlet in Sandy. The first day Guy and I tried to figure it out but it wasnt holding together. Mike worked for Dave that day. The next morning Mike came in to help us and he figured out the problem right off. We werent being mean enough to it and tapping the pieces into place so that they locked. By evening the floor was in and the woodwork trimmed to a matching color! Mike had boxed up all the books and the closet stuff and torn up the old carpet and pad in the first hour he worked...it would have taken us a couple of weeks to get that much done. Not only is the floor georgous but my hands are still functioning! if I had tried to do all that, I wouldnt have been able to move my right hand for a week! It was fun to be able to sepnd time with him and to see him working with his dad. He had so much to figure out and do when he got home from his mission about this time last fall, that we hadn't really just had time to hang with him. It meant a ton to get to do that. We watched a few movies and just pretty much chilled while he was here but it was probably one of the biggest highlights of the summer.The floor is actually a cherry color..the lighting makes it look light...oh well, I tried.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Crater Lake..Another Stamp!

Here is a picture of mom on our return trip from Klamath Falls visiting JP and Jen a couple weeks ago. Doesn't mom just look beautiful!

...And Dad, not so beautiful!

Thanks to Allison and Guy, here we are on mad hunt for "Cancellations", which stamps the location and date of your visit, much like a cancellation of a postage stamp. You can see I am all grin in getting another cancellation in my passport booklet!

So this is the location where you get those famous cancellations, that I would never would had known, if it were not for Guy and Allison introducing us to this activity.
Thanks..., only another hundreds of national locations to go. I am sure we all will be seeing much more national parks in the future!

One Hot Momma

So Guy and Allison have inspired us to g

et these old bodies moving. I did 2 miles of a daddy jog this morning at only about 75degrees and look like this. I need to add a few things to my run. A headband for the sweat and a lighter shirt...the shoes luckily arent causing any blisters...or wait, maybe thats cause they arent actually moving very fast or far! We will keep you posted. Oh, Daddy went 5 in the neighborhood this morning and just got in...nope...no red face or sweat...I am not going to let that bother me..it feels good to be moving!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I THINK, i am getting the hang of this!

You must note that for as long as Tyler Keith has been sitting in his carseat, this is not too bad of a picture. You might just fill in the words he is thinking.... Are we there yet?.... Do I ready get to celebrate the 4th any where but in this car seat? or I hope you know there is a limit t

o sitting in this carseat! Tyler ready was a trooper taking in the 105 heat, living in a motel while away from home, and sitting in a carseat!

Somehow, when we went down into the caves, Brayden fell asleep. No, problem, he was fun to carry; only problem was carrying him up the quarter miles coming out of the cave climbing 300 feet. Needless to say, alittle rest came with the tour at this point !

Brayden is having fun! What was that you were saying grandpa? I think this was coming out of the park where Guy and Alison ran 4 miles. Yeah!... in preparation for the 26 mile Marathon in St George, this coming October. We were on our way to the bus to get back to the van, so we could continue our visit that day to the caves and then to the rest of the missions and then to the old town sections of home and finally for the fireworks (what we saw).

Once again, Brayden enjoying the boat ride on the canals of San Antonio. This was really a great place to see a lot of San Antonio without walking a step, other than boarding the boat. The tour guides were so informed on the oldest and latest facts of San Antonio. This was a must if you go and see San Antonio!