~ RUSSELL AND TRACY AND FAMILY 2009 ~

This part of the family went to school for about 10 yrs, starting in Boston and ending at Utah State U. for undergrad and  Portland U. for their Masters of Fine Arts. I SAY 'THEY' BECAUSE BOTH RUSSELL AND TRACY DID ABOUT AN EQUAL PART IN GETTING THE DEGREES WITH TRACY DOING MUCH OF THE GROUNDWORK AND FOOTWORK.  Tracy spent time with  numerous jobs to help support the family when in Utah and Oregon-and one of the parents were always with the kids! They made a great team and now Russ is teaching high school art in a great place in Washington state. Aftyn 3 yrs, is the joy of all their lives-the little one that the boys used to pray to have come to their family, and who is the sweet spirit they waited for. The boys, Gavin, 15 yrs (he says he loves reading, running endurance, fencing, tennis, guitar) and Asher, almost 13 yrs, ( he loves reading, video games, trumpet, outdoors)  . We've visited them a couple of times and can see what a good place they have to raise kids in and have a good life. in this last photo we are at The Potholes with them, which is an area of small lava lakes not too far from where they live. last water fun of the season before winter set in.
 they have sincere and pure hearts and give them freely-we have such great admiration for these folks of ours!!
LOVE ALL MY KIDS!!!

~glenn and robin and kids 2009~

this is GLENN and ROBIN and some of their family's activities for the year-well...yes, just some of them. they are a fun and neat group. ARIEL became a cheerleader for our local university this year as a freshman and loves it-especially being on the top like this. she cheered her whole high school experience.TRIS continues to find new and fun things to do-he's 13 yrs and going. he's in this pic with some cousins at our family gathering in july, they had some teenage game they were goofing around with.  some of these shots are of their family vacation during the summer, like this one with his mom. GLENN loves his mountain biking! this shot of him is when he went with friends on a three-day to the Stanley area in the high mountains. ROBIN and her dog, Darby, loved each other like mad! unfortunately Darby died last fall. GLENN and ROBIN have rescued greyhounds and had two that also had been a part of the family-Thomas, the Lord of All, and Frankie, the sweetheart. too bad dogs of that size don't have long lives. they sure were good to know in their time spent with this family. this is Rupert, their newest friend, just a pup last summer. but these BUGS, i don't know where they came from?!
these are neat and amazing people!

LOVE ALL MY KIDS!!!

~Matt and Jenn and girls 2009~

i could keep adding more and more of my family...but my goal is to have at least one photo of each of the forty-nine of them~our kids, their kids, and their kids' kids. love them all to death! what a full and grand year it was...on the Florida beach with Jennifer and daughters Anna, Abby and Allie-great fun was had last May when they were able to go to Disney World and area! and then sweet Abby with her bonnet.

 Matthew and Jennifer and their three lovely and fun daughters, Abby now 8 yrs old, Anna 5 yrs old, and Allie(Alora) now 3 yrs old, live very close to us and it's fun to see them often and have three little girls at our house to play with me.

love these last pics of Allie and Anna swinging, and of Abby on the carosel at DisneyWorld.
Matt might be transfered to Colorado next year. that would be cool-we'd have even more excuse to travel to that gorgeous state and be in the midst of Boulder, Red Rocks, Morrison and the dino tracks, the Air Force Academy, the Denver Aquarium, etc, etc. i love to travel for family!
LOVE ALL MY KIDS!!!

~ The Family in 2009~

a year in the life of...some of my many kids and their families.

   from top to bottom: our kids and grandkids putting the tramp together for the family gathering in July.  then there's Aiden, Lotus and Grant's youngest son. and Fiona, Elijah, Sebastian, baby Brighton. the little girls, Scarlett and Haven-all the kids of Heidi and Dave.
Allie, and then Anna, two of Matt and Jenn's girls. mantid bag hatching for our sunroom pest control.
 some of the deck container garden.
   pirates threatening their grama, Asher, Laurel, David, Ivy, Brenna, Rose, Ian, Gavin. and at bottom is a small part of the back yard viewed through deck rails.  more of the
family for 2009 in days to come...

Sun, I Love You...

mr. sun, i can't help but notice that you are in my heart today,
my eyes,my skin-all over the wonderful parts of ME!
my soul refreshes in you. the way you get into those
dark little crannies and make them shine-oh you are good.
yellow, orange, red, and all colors in between.
i love what you do for me. thanks for sharing!