Happy Belated Thanksgiving

Hello all,

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Just want to tell you how excited I am to see everyone over the Christmas holidays. As is tradition, Mom, Me, Evets, and Tasha got up early to hit all the sales. We had a good time dealing with the crazy fun people you encounter. I don't think it would have been bad but we had Julie and her troupe and her friend Susan and her daughter, and Connor's roommates over until 11:30 playing games. Just so everyone know me and Ally kicked it and won Nerts! I thought we had a lot of fun and that we have become almost family with Susan's family (they came over and played games on New Years last year). I am thankful for a loving family that we all have. I am so happy that we still keep in touch and that we are close and can depend on each other.

Love You All
Becky

Very Very Busy

First of all we would like to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving! We are so grateful for all of you and we are so excited to see hopefully all of you at Christmas.

We have been very busy. We finished the 2008 softball season in St. George the weekend of Nov. 8th. YEAH! The girls played really well. Hanalee's team ended up 0-4 which isn't great but they were in each of their games. They usually lost by 2 0r 3 runs. Hanalee pitched really well, now we just need to work on her hitting. Daphne's team ended up 4-2, they also played well. Daphne hit really well she had 1 home run and 2 or 3 triples. The girls had fun and of course Miles was a real trooper. Next year wont be as easy for us because Daphne's team ages up to 14 and under and Hanalee's stays at 12 and under. So we may have more tournaments and play every weekend. BUMMER.

Hanalee is playing the violin in school and really seems to enjoy it, she practices regularly and is improving. She is also on the schools student council.

Daphne is doing well in school and seems to enjoy Jr. High.

Miles is doing AWESOME in 1st grade. He came home from school the other day informing us that he won his class spelling bee. Soccer wasn't the greatest this fall, his team never won a game. Sometimes we thought the boys on the team were afraid of the ball. Hopefully spring will be better. Miles is taking swimming lessons right now and loves them.

Lynn and I are just trying to keep up with the kids. We enjoy spending time with them. Lynn has stayed fairly busy with work which is a big Blessing to all of us. I love being home and catering usually once a month. I am trying to be creative with activities for Hanalee and Miles to do while off track. They are off track until January 5th.

We Love You All!

Janell

One of these days I am gong to figure out how to post pictures.

School Pictures

Hi everyone again! I just got back school pictures so I thought what a good reason to blog. I wish everyone could have seen Tatum at the school pictures, as soon as the lady called her back she had the wickedly fake smile plastered on her face, so the picture lady told her to say "Hi" to try and get rid of the fakey smile and she said "Hi" teeth clenched and all, I just started to laugh, so after about five minutes of adjusting her and we got what I think is a great picture. And Brooks is all about showing those missing teeth on the bottom, but I think his turned out adorable too.

Now that soccer, flag football, tennis and the Primary Program are over I don't feel as stressed, I had myself way over booked for a while. I've working on a couple quilts. Believe it or not Tatum will not give up her wubby blanket. She sleeps with it covering her at night (well, as good as a crib size blanket can cover a four year old) so she's been waking up during the night because she's cold, so I'm doing a complete hodge podge throw blanket for her and so far she seems pretty excited but with her you never know from day to day. And I've had the fabric for books bed since last year so I'm doing his, I need to just take it in and get it machine quilted now.

Brooks starts basketball in couple of weeks and hopefully he'll feel a little more comfortable than he did last year. I'm going to have to take him into the dentist here pretty soon and have him look at his tooth coming in because there is no way the two that size are going to fit in where they are supposed to. Well I better get going Aunt Rose and Uncle Doyle and some of my friends are coming over to watch the BYU game.

Oh, before I forget, a blast from the past found our family blog and emailed me. Sharla Anderson says to tell everyone "Hi" she had been living in Hawaii for about twelve years now and has two boys, one is in 8th grade the the other is in 9th grade. It was really nice hearing from her.

Love,

LaNece

No Curse Bethany Just Really Busy

Hello all,

I know that I have been extremely busy and I have not had a chance to write in a long time.

Bethany, I am so glad to hear how you are doing, and I am so excited to see you guys when you come home at Christmas time! It sounds like Jake had gotten himself a good job (indispensable), and it sounds like your work is coming along. How has the weather been done there? I hear there is another Hurricane headed that way. My prayers are for it to head in a new direction.

Crystal & Max, I am so happy to hear about your news! I heard that your wedding was great and I am glad to hear from you. I am sure that married life is treating you well.

Larry, Congrats! You will make a great grandpa!

To the rest of the family, WHERE ARE YOU???

I am sure that people have been doing things the last couple of months and I haven't heard from anyone.

Just wanted to tell everyone about my Halloween. I got the opportunity to go to Garrett's school and see him in action. He dressed up like Superman. He and another boy in his class were and they were so cute! I will post a picture because it was so fun. Evets sprayed his hair black and I hardly recognized him. I will post the "Where's Garrett" picture.

My work has been overwhelming and with the holidays coming up it will just continue to get worse. We are having cut-backs at work and we are losing 2 staff members starting January 1st. It makes me worry but I feel like my job is secure, but you never know.

Hope to hear from you all soon!

Love Becky

It's like I curse the blog...

...Did I break that blog again?

I swear, every single time I post something everyone disappears and I hear crickets for weeks! LOL. I should only read this blog. LOL. Just kidding. I love you all and miss you terribly.