Special Fast

For anyone who doesn't know, my mom has a leaky valve in her heart. It's not too serious yet, but she has had to have a few tests done. Our Christensen side of the family is fasting for her this Sunday, and I would like to ask the Larsen side to as well. Also, I heard that Uncle Dean has had more tests done on his heart as well, so please include him in the fast also. Thanks!!

Pioneer Day

For the 24th G-ma, Diane, Jerry, Melissa, Ryan, Preston, Chandler, Dylan, Jacob, and I went to fishlake. Some of us went on a hike to the totem pole and this is a picture of us. We had a lot of fun. Any news on if there is going to be an upcoming family reunion?

Holidays

So I know it is kind of early to be thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I am. What are everybody's plans for those holidays? We are thinking about Thanksgiving in Richfield and Christmas on the east coast, but nothing is set in stone. If we do that, we would probably go to Richfield the day after Christmas.

Brigham Isaac Wilson

I am posting this for everyone, I hope it's o.k.
Brigham Isaac Wilson was born July 10 and weighed in at 9 lbs 11 oz! Mommy & Baby and Daddy and siblings are all doing well! My mom and dad went to Rexburg to help and of course my mom is in heaven. You know her. Becky came home Friday night and from what I hear everything is going great! I'll have to get my mom to post some more pictures--I pulled these from their website, I don't know if they'll work.

New Addition to Our Family

I heard a rumor that Becky and Chris got their new baby! Congratulations!! We'd love to see pictures!!!

3rd of July Fun

As you all know, Richfield has a Primary children's parade on July 3rd. Well, this year our ward went all out. Preston and Chandler were in the back of this wagon, that was pulled by the Bishop and male Primary teachers in our ward. They had such a great time!
And because I'm in the Primary Presidency, Dylan got to be in the parade with me. He's supposed to be pretending to go to a "Family Picnic 100 years ago" but he's just trying to steal anything from my purse he can get!

I took Leslie's advise and read on Christi and Jeremy's blog. She's right, the last few entries are so funny!! Having 3 kids is hard enough for me! I admire so many of my cousins for how great you all are with your children!

Christi & Jeremy

For those of you who haven't visited their website lately, click on Christi & Jeremy, then click on "home updates" in the left column, and have fun reading the last 5 or so entries. Hilarious. Oh but start on the Happy Independence Day and then move up.
Also, as for the talk of a reunion, when is the best time for everyone to get together? Weekends? Summer? Fall? I would like some input so maybe we can actually plan one!

Hi Everyone,

Tasey, Thank you so much for the wonderful family newsletter. It was so amazing and you made it so cute and fun. You must have spent so much valuable time on it. You are definitely the permanent editor of this publication. Anyway, I loved it, and thank you so much for the idea and then following through on it, even when some of us were late getting it in. I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. I am so thankful for the opportunity of living in this free land and for all the blessings it brings. Well, keep up the blogging. Love to you all, LaRita

Finally posting!

Hi guys, finally thought I should post a quick hello. We've been way busy this weekend. had a huge neighborhood / friend / family party at our house on the 4th. We pulled the bbq in the street and had tables of tons of food. After, we did fireworks and the show lasted 2 1/2 hours and the best was we only spent $35. We just watched everybody else's fireworks. Anyway, Hope everybody had a great 4th. Yeah, just watching the news. Supposed to be over 112 tomorrow. EEEK. Swim lessons at 10, Dr for Tatum at 1 and then probably swimming the rest of the week. Love ya all.

P.S. Thanks Les for the compliment on the newsletter. It was fun and I enjoyed it.

Umm....

Dear Melissa, Diane, and Chad-
You are not the only family posting because if you remember I was the first person to post on this blog...and now Leslie has as well.

Dear Everybody-
We have spent this last week or so in Pennsylvania. We spent a lot of time at the Kutztown Folk Festival (if you want to read more about it visit my blog.) We went to Philadelphia to see the parade on the 4th. There was a lot of neat floats and people there, but my favorite was the mummers. Here are some pictures of them.They play music and dress funny. These pictures just do not do them justice. I hope that everybody else had a wonderful 4th! (and I look forward to more posts) leslie-a reunion would be great.

Newsletter

WOW!!! Were all of you amazed as I at the family newsletter Tasey put together?!?! Tasey--thank you thank you thank you! You are so cute and fun and CREATIVE!!! I couldn't believe all the fun little graphics and layout. Incredible! It was fun to read about everyone. And it got me thinking--um...reunion????

We are the only family posting!!

Looks like we're the only cool family here because we're the only ones posting! Just kidding. We haven't done that much these last couple of months, but this month will be REALLY busy! So, we'll have more pictures to post later. The very end of April, we went to Ecuador to where I served my mission. It was a blast!!!! Other than that, we've just been hanging out in Richfield, working our lives away. But for those who know us, you know that we don't stay still for very long, so we have a few trips planned in the next couple of months. What can we say? - We love to have fun!!! We are the Wolf leaders for our Cub Scout Pack in our ward, and that has been an.... experience. We've kind of had fun with the 8 year olds, but kind of not. We will be celebrating our 2 year anniversary this Saturday! The time has flown, but it seems like we've know each other forever! Anyway, that's our life for now.
Chad & Aubrey

If we can blog, anyone can!

We just got back from a cruise to Alaska with some friends. Jerry had wanted to try kayaking for quite a while now. Diane was a little hesitant, but we did it and had a great time!

Happy Posting!