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This is where the Lindgrens will gather July 14-17 2010! No one in particular is “in charge.” If you want something to happen in connection with this, let's do it! I look forward to sitting in my camp chair and roasting a marshmallow while listening to all of you talk. I plan on great weather. Five tent sites have been reserved for up to eight people each. We can add more if we are so lucky to get more of you there. Please come, the more the merrier! - Priscilla
Monday, March 15, 2010
Happy Anniversary!
Aaron & Tara, 12 years
Jennifer & Steve, 18 years
Amy & Nathan, 14 years
Priscilla & Jim, 29 years
Zak & Rebecca, 2 years
Jennifer & Steve, 18 years
Amy & Nathan, 14 years
Priscilla & Jim, 29 years
Zak & Rebecca, 2 years
Happy Birthday to you!
March
Jeffrey Troutman, 3-19
Clayton Buhler, 3-20
Gretchen Buhler, 3-21
Becky Tomlinson, 3-21
Isaiah Hanlon, 3-25
Ellie Runnells, 3-30
Ryan Lindgren, 3-31
April
Kristen Yorgason, 4-4
Travis Anderson, 4-7
Jenny Lindgren, 4-8
Magnolia Lindgren, 4-11
Zak Lindgren, 4-12
Alissa Lindgren, 4-13
Tucker Lindgren, 4-14
Marcus Tomlinson, 4-21
Janet Lindgren, 4-22
Katherine Tomlinson, 4-24
Jim Hanlon, 4-25
Bryan Hanlon, 4-26
April Lindgren, 4-30
Saxon Dahle, 4-30
May
Steve Rankin, 5-4
Melissa Dahle, 5-6
Breanna Troutman, 5-6
Emily Anderson, 5-7
Andrea Lindgren, 5-9
Jeffrey Troutman, 3-19
Clayton Buhler, 3-20
Gretchen Buhler, 3-21
Becky Tomlinson, 3-21
Isaiah Hanlon, 3-25
Ellie Runnells, 3-30
Ryan Lindgren, 3-31
April
Kristen Yorgason, 4-4
Travis Anderson, 4-7
Jenny Lindgren, 4-8
Magnolia Lindgren, 4-11
Zak Lindgren, 4-12
Alissa Lindgren, 4-13
Tucker Lindgren, 4-14
Marcus Tomlinson, 4-21
Janet Lindgren, 4-22
Katherine Tomlinson, 4-24
Jim Hanlon, 4-25
Bryan Hanlon, 4-26
April Lindgren, 4-30
Saxon Dahle, 4-30
May
Steve Rankin, 5-4
Melissa Dahle, 5-6
Breanna Troutman, 5-6
Emily Anderson, 5-7
Andrea Lindgren, 5-9
Grandma Martha
Dear Family,
The highlight for this time was going to Boise. Emily drove and when we got there I was able to hold two week old Garrett Yorgason. Lots of blonde hair, the Scandia Viking came through. So cuddly.
A few weeks ago Heather and I went to Dorothy's stake of a Saturday morning to a woman's occasion of talks and a luncheon. Pres. David Christensen of the Oquirrh Temple presidency spoke. He was fun and interesting to listen to.
Spring was in Boise ... Peas were planted. It's still a little cool here and that's good ... I'm not ready for spring fever yet.
100 cards were given to the Bountiful Temple for work and we're waiting for a call for more.
Rick has planned out our Viking cruise for June along the Rhine River. Looking forward to that.
Had a nice lunch with Janet, Heather at Applebees .. courtesy of Jennifer at Christmas time
Not too much has gone on Jan and Feb ... either that or my memory forgot. Looking Forward to your letters and news of a mission call for Marcus. Doing lots of studying with the New Family Search.
Some letters are short and sweet... that's what this one is... so till next time... Much love, Grandma Martha
The highlight for this time was going to Boise. Emily drove and when we got there I was able to hold two week old Garrett Yorgason. Lots of blonde hair, the Scandia Viking came through. So cuddly.
A few weeks ago Heather and I went to Dorothy's stake of a Saturday morning to a woman's occasion of talks and a luncheon. Pres. David Christensen of the Oquirrh Temple presidency spoke. He was fun and interesting to listen to.
Spring was in Boise ... Peas were planted. It's still a little cool here and that's good ... I'm not ready for spring fever yet.
100 cards were given to the Bountiful Temple for work and we're waiting for a call for more.
Rick has planned out our Viking cruise for June along the Rhine River. Looking forward to that.
Had a nice lunch with Janet, Heather at Applebees .. courtesy of Jennifer at Christmas time
Not too much has gone on Jan and Feb ... either that or my memory forgot. Looking Forward to your letters and news of a mission call for Marcus. Doing lots of studying with the New Family Search.
Some letters are short and sweet... that's what this one is... so till next time... Much love, Grandma Martha
Becky
Hello family!
Our prolonged silence may have led you to think we have fallen off the face of the earth. Contrary to popular belief, we are still here. Time gets away from us and we realize we've missed another Lingo.
Short Version: Life is good. We are busy and love (most of) it.
Long Version:
Jason continues to slog through full-time work and part-time graduate school. He enjoys his teachers and classmates and the many extracurricular activities he is involved in. But that light at the end of the tunnel is beckoning! He is currently serving as the Beta Alpha Psi Reporting Secretary. BAP is a service-based honors society for Accounting students. He has recently been spending some Tuesday nights and Saturday mornings doing volunteer income tax preparation at the University. He'll be going to Colorado at the end of the month for a BAP Regional Meeting.
Katherine is our other hard working student. She has more homework than Jason some nights! She gets on the bus everyday with smile and comes home with a bigger smile. In her free time you can usually find her ensconced on the luvsac with a stack of books. She reads everything she can get her hands on; I've had to tell her to ask me before she reads our TIME magazine, so I can check the content.
David loves having some time to himself while Katherine is at school. He is now well-adjusted to living without a big sister to tell him exactly what to play and what to say. They still play well together when she is home, thankfully. When Katherine isn't reading, that is. He is beginning to read, loves to help with the dishes and pick up the food and toys that Dorothea throws.
Dorothea is 13 months, has two teeth and will throw a book at you and crawl into your lap if you sit on the floor. She mostly likes to turn the pages and won't listen if there are more than two words per page. She is thinking about walking, but seems to figure crawling works well enough, so why bother?
Becky is loving the life of a "young mother." She volunteers twice a month or more in Katherine's classroom, where all the kids call her "Miss Becky." This week was nutrition week and Katherine's teacher asked her to give a presentation about bread. Two weeks of planning, seven batches of bread and three jars of flour and wheat for visual aids= recipe requests and lots of hugs from five-year-olds. She has a new found appreciation for the vast amount of work that goes into teaching. She is enjoying her calling as Laurel's Advisor and feels her position gives her inside information on all the best babysitters in the neighborhood.
Lots of love, Jason, Becky and kids
Our prolonged silence may have led you to think we have fallen off the face of the earth. Contrary to popular belief, we are still here. Time gets away from us and we realize we've missed another Lingo.
Short Version: Life is good. We are busy and love (most of) it.
Long Version:
Jason continues to slog through full-time work and part-time graduate school. He enjoys his teachers and classmates and the many extracurricular activities he is involved in. But that light at the end of the tunnel is beckoning! He is currently serving as the Beta Alpha Psi Reporting Secretary. BAP is a service-based honors society for Accounting students. He has recently been spending some Tuesday nights and Saturday mornings doing volunteer income tax preparation at the University. He'll be going to Colorado at the end of the month for a BAP Regional Meeting.
Katherine is our other hard working student. She has more homework than Jason some nights! She gets on the bus everyday with smile and comes home with a bigger smile. In her free time you can usually find her ensconced on the luvsac with a stack of books. She reads everything she can get her hands on; I've had to tell her to ask me before she reads our TIME magazine, so I can check the content.
David loves having some time to himself while Katherine is at school. He is now well-adjusted to living without a big sister to tell him exactly what to play and what to say. They still play well together when she is home, thankfully. When Katherine isn't reading, that is. He is beginning to read, loves to help with the dishes and pick up the food and toys that Dorothea throws.
Dorothea is 13 months, has two teeth and will throw a book at you and crawl into your lap if you sit on the floor. She mostly likes to turn the pages and won't listen if there are more than two words per page. She is thinking about walking, but seems to figure crawling works well enough, so why bother?
Becky is loving the life of a "young mother." She volunteers twice a month or more in Katherine's classroom, where all the kids call her "Miss Becky." This week was nutrition week and Katherine's teacher asked her to give a presentation about bread. Two weeks of planning, seven batches of bread and three jars of flour and wheat for visual aids= recipe requests and lots of hugs from five-year-olds. She has a new found appreciation for the vast amount of work that goes into teaching. She is enjoying her calling as Laurel's Advisor and feels her position gives her inside information on all the best babysitters in the neighborhood.
Lots of love, Jason, Becky and kids
Jennifer
Dear Family,
Congratulations to the Yorgasons on the arrival of Garrett. I've never seen so much blonde hair!
Spring is here -- we have SO many weeds it's hard to keep up...so I just let them grow, why fight it, right? It has been cool and sunny -- perfect weather for taking a walk.
Awesome that Wendy is moving back West. Hope it's Boise:)
It's been nice skyping with Finn and family and sending short videos back and forth -- it makes watching my grandkids growing up before my eyes a little easier. technology these days is so great. I can read a story "live" to Finn. I do love my grandchildren! And Finn loves his little sister Harper. And it's so fun that Finn is talking more and more. He calls me "drandma" and it's so cute. Sometimes he'll talk and talk -- and Angela will have to tell me what he is saying.
We had a "jeans" and pizza day at work yesterday. It was a big cleaning day -- time to clean up our offices and recycle, reuse, and toss...
On the home front we installed new shades in our bedroom since the string on the previous ones just broke making them nonrepairable.
Fun playing Scrabble with Emily and Wendy on FB -- anybody else wanna play?
Hope everyone is doing well. And hope to see you at the reunion in July! Plan on it!
Love, Jennifer & Steve
Wendy
Hi Lingo Folks,
Hope you're doing well and thawing out from this cold winter. My kids have had three snow days . . . in Georgia! That is unheard of. It's just starting to warm up and our hydrangea bush is starting to bloom, so spring in on the way.
Our big news is we put our house up for sale and are planning on moving back West to be closer to our families, once it sells. We've been out here 13 years and we've been feeling the push to live much closer to family, so hopefully we'll see y'all more often! It works out well with my husband's job, since he works from home when he's not traveling. We're narrowing down our cities to Boise, Idaho Falls, or Salt Lake and are making it a matter of prayer. It's a big decision, but we're not thinking too much about it until our house sells, and with the crummy real estate market, it may take a while. Our kids are very excited to move, and it's a good time to do it while they're still young.
We just got back from a whirlwind trip to Philadelphia. Justin and our girls won a song cover contest with his favorite band called Good Old War, and the prize was to sing with the band at their concert in Philly on Saturday night. So we drove 14 hours on Friday, dropping off Benjamin with Ryan and Cheyney on the way (he loved it!). We stayed with Justin's aunt and uncle in Philly and Justin's brother and his family drove down from Vermont to see us. On Saturday afternoon, we toured Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Then they performed with the band at 11 pm, just minutes after our son threw up on Justin. It was a memorable night all around. The band members were really cool and it was awesome to meet them and jam with them. You can check out some of their music videos at: http://goodoldwar.com/video/
Justin and our girls sang "Coney Island"--very catchy. They have great music--influenced by Paul Simon.
On Sunday, we visited the sites in D.C. We saw the Washington Monument, the new WWII monument, Vietnam Memorial, and my favorite, the Lincoln Memorial. Then we did a speed tour through the American History Smithsonian, and then drove that evening to Ryan and Cheyney's in Raleigh to spend the night and pick up our boy.
It was a quick, fun trip and are so glad we did it. I was thinking of taking our kids on a week long trip to see the historical sites in DC, and I'm so glad we just spent an afternoon there--it was plenty of time for little kids. I'd love to go back to the Smithsonians without kids some day and spend a week seeing all the exhibits, but for now, 4 hours was perfect!
Congrats to Lucy on her adorable little Garrett. So very blonde and chubby! I can't believe Grandma Lindgren has a new grandson!!
Love,
Wendy
Hope you're doing well and thawing out from this cold winter. My kids have had three snow days . . . in Georgia! That is unheard of. It's just starting to warm up and our hydrangea bush is starting to bloom, so spring in on the way.
Our big news is we put our house up for sale and are planning on moving back West to be closer to our families, once it sells. We've been out here 13 years and we've been feeling the push to live much closer to family, so hopefully we'll see y'all more often! It works out well with my husband's job, since he works from home when he's not traveling. We're narrowing down our cities to Boise, Idaho Falls, or Salt Lake and are making it a matter of prayer. It's a big decision, but we're not thinking too much about it until our house sells, and with the crummy real estate market, it may take a while. Our kids are very excited to move, and it's a good time to do it while they're still young.
We just got back from a whirlwind trip to Philadelphia. Justin and our girls won a song cover contest with his favorite band called Good Old War, and the prize was to sing with the band at their concert in Philly on Saturday night. So we drove 14 hours on Friday, dropping off Benjamin with Ryan and Cheyney on the way (he loved it!). We stayed with Justin's aunt and uncle in Philly and Justin's brother and his family drove down from Vermont to see us. On Saturday afternoon, we toured Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Then they performed with the band at 11 pm, just minutes after our son threw up on Justin. It was a memorable night all around. The band members were really cool and it was awesome to meet them and jam with them. You can check out some of their music videos at: http://goodoldwar.com/video/
Justin and our girls sang "Coney Island"--very catchy. They have great music--influenced by Paul Simon.
On Sunday, we visited the sites in D.C. We saw the Washington Monument, the new WWII monument, Vietnam Memorial, and my favorite, the Lincoln Memorial. Then we did a speed tour through the American History Smithsonian, and then drove that evening to Ryan and Cheyney's in Raleigh to spend the night and pick up our boy.
It was a quick, fun trip and are so glad we did it. I was thinking of taking our kids on a week long trip to see the historical sites in DC, and I'm so glad we just spent an afternoon there--it was plenty of time for little kids. I'd love to go back to the Smithsonians without kids some day and spend a week seeing all the exhibits, but for now, 4 hours was perfect!
Congrats to Lucy on her adorable little Garrett. So very blonde and chubby! I can't believe Grandma Lindgren has a new grandson!!
Love,
Wendy
Lucy
Hello Family!
Congratulations Marcus on your mission call. We are excited for you.
What can I say -- we had a baby! Garrett Ramon Yorgason was born almost 4 weeks ago. We are having so much fun. Everyday I look at him and feel our family has been missing him and we are glad he finally chose to come. Everyone fights to hold him and change him and be with him. I get him from 8am to 3pm because the kids are at school and I find I am anxious for Monday morning because I don't get to hold him as much on the week-ends.
Delivery went smoothly and I feel great. The first few days were a little emotional for us because we had to admit him back in the hospital for dehydration and high billiruben levels. They tried for 4 hours to find a vein to give him and he was so dehydrated they just couldn't find one larger than the size of a thread. Our pediatrician opted to just feed him frequently and with a bottle through the night. By morning his billiruben levels had gone down and he was appearing much less dehydrated. Plenty of wet diapers. Funny they had to weigh every diaper and take note of every ounce that he ate. He was in a phototherapy bed. It happened to be an "Olympic" brand name so we don't our kids this is what our Olympian was doing. :) We brought him home the next day and he is now a 8lb 10 oz baby. Changing every day and still with his strawberry blonde hair. His eyes appear to be turning blue. He is more Lindgren than our other three children.
Priscilla said his name is Irish and we have a few Garretts in our family history. That's a good thing because he has totally blonde eyebrows and strawberry hair.
Rachel officially has her drivers license and it has been of great benefit to me because I have sent her to the store for things I need and I don't have to go out with this baby. I love it. Her Cheer squad took first place in there last competition.
Nathan has earned his life scout now and is working on his Eagle. I used to say it is because he is the only boy who gets all of Dads encouragement and help. Now we have another boy. I hope he follows his brother's example. I have a feeling Nathan will be a strong influence on this kid.
Kristen is taking private art lessons and I included a picture of a rose she painted. This is from a picture I took of my favorite rose bush in our front yard.
Tulips are coming up and we have had a few sun shining days and even a day or two of snow that melts by noon.
We are looking forward to the reunion this summer. I got on the web site finally and it looks like a great place. We will bring our mountain bikes for sure. Thanks Priscilla and Emily for making that happen and Jennifer for getting the ball rolling. Are we doing a temple session on Wednesday morning for those who are interested? Just a thought. Sounds like Mom and others will find some cozy motel accommodations near by. What do we owe you Priscilla? I rented the Pacific Yurt tent for our family because I am a wimp with tent camping now and especially with a new baby. It is right by the reunion sites. What are we doing for meals?
Much love to you all. Happy Spring!
Lucy
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Tomlinsons
Having a good laugh.
The baby-face cake, idea from Katherine and David.
Playing with their one-year old.
Ariane -- 17 and Irish.
Sisters Kallas, Tomlinson, and Green
Alan's 60th!
Heather
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
As I write this month’s Lingo entry, I’m listening to today’s snow drip from Grandma’s roof. And we thought it was spring here in Utah … Surprise! Maybe this is Winter’s last Big Hurrah before ending… (to make up for the lack of snowstorms this year, I guess.)
I’ve become a music teacher! Mitchell and Alyssa are my ‘guinea pigs’ as I learn how to teach piano. So far, they’ve been patient with me, and they’re doing well. (two lessons so far: quarter notes and half notes) I also do ‘singing time’ with two little girls in my ward. Their mom called one day out of the blue, and said her girls love to sing but she can’t carry a tune. So I go over once a week and sing with them. I pulled out song cards, books, and props that I used for several years as a preschool teacher. It has been fun! (and a good way to earn a little extra money)
I enjoy the bookclub I’ve been a part of for several months. Last month, we read the play “An Ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde. I haven’t read a play since High School, so that was a good mental exercise for me. Ariane and I went to see the play “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Hale Center Theater the week before bookclub met. It was fun to compare two plays by the same playwright. I like his comedy! This month the bookclub read a fascinating Young Adult novel called Someone Named Eva. I recommend it to all of you! It’s WWII historical fiction, but it’s a different story than I have ever heard. It isn’t about Jewish holocaust victims. It’s about a (fictional) young Czech girl from a town that Hitler completely destroyed. But, she's chosen and taken to a ‘safe’ place by the Nazis. It is based on real events the author learned about from the survivors of this event. It’s sad, but fascinating. Read it! (as a librarian, I’ll be buying it for my school – I’d say about 5th grade and up…)
I’m thinking (again) of buying a house. I know, I thought about it last year too. But this time, I actually contacted my realtor friend! So, maybe I’ll actually get a house this time. I’ll keep you posted…
Other events: **enjoyed Ariane’s theater debut: South Pacific and a one-act play her friend directed. She seemed to enjoy herself – maybe we’ll do a show together some time! **went to an Eileen Eivers concert at Kingsbury Hall. It was awesome! She was the fiddler with Riverdance back in the late 90s. I went to her concert in Logan 5 years ago and absolutely LOVED it. So, when I heard she was coming back to Utah, I decided to go again. Glad I did! (it would have been more fun to go with someone, but the two people I invited couldn’t afford it, and I couldn’t afford to pay for a date. So I went on my own, and thoroughly enjoyed it. **watched Marcus open his mission call. I’m excited (and slightly jealous) that he’ll be serving in England. I wouldn’t trade my experience as a missionary in Canada, but I admit that when I opened my own envelope I was secretly hoping for England or Ireland…
Well, I guess that’s all for this time. Happy Spring!
Love, Heather
As I write this month’s Lingo entry, I’m listening to today’s snow drip from Grandma’s roof. And we thought it was spring here in Utah … Surprise! Maybe this is Winter’s last Big Hurrah before ending… (to make up for the lack of snowstorms this year, I guess.)
I’ve become a music teacher! Mitchell and Alyssa are my ‘guinea pigs’ as I learn how to teach piano. So far, they’ve been patient with me, and they’re doing well. (two lessons so far: quarter notes and half notes) I also do ‘singing time’ with two little girls in my ward. Their mom called one day out of the blue, and said her girls love to sing but she can’t carry a tune. So I go over once a week and sing with them. I pulled out song cards, books, and props that I used for several years as a preschool teacher. It has been fun! (and a good way to earn a little extra money)
I enjoy the bookclub I’ve been a part of for several months. Last month, we read the play “An Ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde. I haven’t read a play since High School, so that was a good mental exercise for me. Ariane and I went to see the play “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Hale Center Theater the week before bookclub met. It was fun to compare two plays by the same playwright. I like his comedy! This month the bookclub read a fascinating Young Adult novel called Someone Named Eva. I recommend it to all of you! It’s WWII historical fiction, but it’s a different story than I have ever heard. It isn’t about Jewish holocaust victims. It’s about a (fictional) young Czech girl from a town that Hitler completely destroyed. But, she's chosen and taken to a ‘safe’ place by the Nazis. It is based on real events the author learned about from the survivors of this event. It’s sad, but fascinating. Read it! (as a librarian, I’ll be buying it for my school – I’d say about 5th grade and up…)
I’m thinking (again) of buying a house. I know, I thought about it last year too. But this time, I actually contacted my realtor friend! So, maybe I’ll actually get a house this time. I’ll keep you posted…
Other events: **enjoyed Ariane’s theater debut: South Pacific and a one-act play her friend directed. She seemed to enjoy herself – maybe we’ll do a show together some time! **went to an Eileen Eivers concert at Kingsbury Hall. It was awesome! She was the fiddler with Riverdance back in the late 90s. I went to her concert in Logan 5 years ago and absolutely LOVED it. So, when I heard she was coming back to Utah, I decided to go again. Glad I did! (it would have been more fun to go with someone, but the two people I invited couldn’t afford it, and I couldn’t afford to pay for a date. So I went on my own, and thoroughly enjoyed it. **watched Marcus open his mission call. I’m excited (and slightly jealous) that he’ll be serving in England. I wouldn’t trade my experience as a missionary in Canada, but I admit that when I opened my own envelope I was secretly hoping for England or Ireland…
Well, I guess that’s all for this time. Happy Spring!
Love, Heather
Dorothy
March 14, 2010
Dear Family,
Congratulations Lucy and family with your brand-new baby, Garrett. We are so happy for you!
We have also had a few exciting “highlights” to share since the last lingo. I suppose the biggest news is of Marcus’ mission call that he received just last week. He will be serving in the England London South Mission, reporting to the MTC in England, July 9th, the day of my father’s birthday (Interesting, Penny left on the day of Alan’s father’s birthday). So we’re all pretty excited about that.
Alan was set apart last week to be a temple worker at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. He begins March 20th and will be working the 6 AM to noon shift every Saturday. He was so excited when he got his assignment that he bought his white suit and shoes the very next day. It was as exciting as getting a mission call!!
Another big highlight was Alan’s surprise birthday party for this 60th birthday in January. A LOT of people came to surprise him including all of our children and grandchildren, Mom, Marty & Janet, John & Emily and children, the Spilkers, and lots of other friends, ward members, and former ward members. He was totally surprised which made it all the more fun.
Ariane just turned 17 –our baby is growing up all too fast. She is getting more and more involved in theater in school. She spent two days at Utah Valley University in January for a theater workshop which was a fun learning time for her. About a week ago she had a part in the one act school competition play called “Check Please, Take Two,” where she just laughed and laughed. She did a great job- laughing. Now she is being a student director assistant for another school play for their “Drama Rama.” She hasn’t decided what she wants to focus on in college yet, but for now she is just enjoying high school.
We spent the day (Jan. 30) at Jason’s in Hyde Park to celebrate Dorothea’s first birthday. Then Kevin stayed with Jason’s family for a week and a half before coming back home again.
February 20th (the day of Priscilla’s 50th birthday – congratulations by the way, for becoming a member of the ‘50’s’ club), Alan & I took our 3 children still living at home to see the BYU Ballroom Dance Concert at the Conference Center Theater. We really enjoyed their very polished performance.
The end of February, Mom and Heather joined me at my stake’s Relief Society meeting and luncheon where a member of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple presidency spoke. Then yesterday, Heather, Mom, and I joined Lynnette at her stake’s Relief Society meeting and luncheon where Carol Makita (KSL news anchor and religion specialist) spoke. It is really nice to get physically and spiritually uplifted at these functions together and where we enjoy the sisterhood of the Relief Society.
Penny is doing well on her mission. She has been out just 6 months so she has just one year left. She is currently serving in Airdrie, which is a few miles north of Calgary. This is her 4th area since she arrived in Canada in October, and her 3rd and 4th companions. She is currently in a “three-some.” New sisters are expected to the mission soon at which time she thinks she might become a “trainer” instead of the one being “trained.” She has had a lot of good experiences, taught a lot of people, and was excited about her first baptism the beginning of March. She is also happy to know that the ground breaking of the Calgary Temple will be happening soon and hopes to be involved in some way.
We love you and look forward to reading all about your family’s happenings.
Love, Dorothy and family
Priscilla
Congratulations Marcus on your mission call!
I enjoyed a beautiful but quick trip to “the valley” yesterday as I went down to hear Bryan perform in the all-state 7th grade band. It was excellent. [He plays French horn.] Next Saturday he goes down again for all-state choir as a bass. He is musically gifted and enjoys it. He is still having a great 7th grade year and plans on track starting tomorrow.
Isaiah played basketball this (Jan/Feb) season, but had to sit out a few games with a cast on his arm. January 16th he was playing with his 9 year-old friend Dylan in the afternoon. Dylan has a four wheeler and they went for a ride…When Dylan’s dad brought Isaiah back he said Isaiah had slipped off the back of the four wheeler and had a band-aid on his wrist where he scraped his arm. Isaiah said it was sore. I had an old arm brace that he wore off and on for a couple of days. Two weeks later, after playing basketball and everything else…I grabbed his wrist and he let out a yelp and said that his arm still hurt. I could feel the lump where the bone was healing. So I took him to the Dr. and sure enough it had been broken. It was healing straight. Dr. put a cast on it for protection. The cast would pose a danger to other basketball players on the court, so he couldn’t play for three weeks. He had a teammate (coach’s son) out with a broken foot at the same time. Isaiah is working on getting those multiplication tables down and especially looks forward to our Lindgren reunion.
James just enjoyed the senior digital media class trip to California . They toured L.A. film school, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Sony Studio, the Jeopardy show, the beach, and KABC Channel 5. He is working on his final entry for the local Film Wars to be held this week in Snowflake. This will be its third year and James traditionally brings home a trophy. James is also participating in track.
Hyrum started playing around with making a short clip and hopes to enter next year’s film wars contest. He is taking a political science class at the local community college in addition to regular school. He lifts weights regularly and enjoys a game of soccer now and again in the off season. He also enjoys music and is quite good on the piano. He has been playing around on the guitar dad picked up for me at a garage sale in 1979.
Though none of my kids were in it, Bryan and I enjoyed the local high school production of Bye Bye Birdie earlier this month. Snowflake always puts on a great high school musical. The director for the last two has volunteered as the Theater Department was cut. Much talent in this town.
Riley is getting along and entertaining us.
The attached pictures are cell phone and Facebook pics as my camera has malfunctioned and I need a replacement. Picture of Jim and Priscilla courtesy of the town’s Traditional Sweetheart ball.
Wow! Two months from now we will be having a high school graduation.
Love, Priscilla
Saera
Hi everyone! I'm having a very busy spring semester. I am taking 5 classes this semester, all very challenging: Disease, Famine and Warfare, Self and Society in South Asia, Problems in Anthropology (Junior Year Writing): Neoliberalism, Historical Archaeology, and Hindi I. It's a lot of work but I am excited about the things I am learning. I have the pleasure of being a babysitter! On Sundays I get to babysit 3 sweet little girls for 6 or 7 hours. We have a lot of fun playing things like "evil scientist" (yours truly) tries to capture the superheroes.
In late January, Daniel and I moved to Amherst, which is the town where I attend school. It would have been a LOT of bus riding for him, but he is taking all his classes online this semester. About a week and a half ago we finally purchased a car! It needed more repairs than we anticipated, but it's still awesome to have a functioning vehicle. He has been sweet about dropping me off to things. Its nice to be grocery shopping at the local co-op again, buying food we believe in. Both of us are involved in preparing for the Soka Gakkai International's Rock the Era Culture Festivals. We are having a Zone Festival on March 28th, and an Eastern United States Festival in July.
A friend just got us into the show Big Bang Theory. Daniel's done with his test for tonight, so I think we're going to go watch a couple of episodes. I hope all is well with you folks. Have a fun St. Padraig's Day!
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Saera
In late January, Daniel and I moved to Amherst, which is the town where I attend school. It would have been a LOT of bus riding for him, but he is taking all his classes online this semester. About a week and a half ago we finally purchased a car! It needed more repairs than we anticipated, but it's still awesome to have a functioning vehicle. He has been sweet about dropping me off to things. Its nice to be grocery shopping at the local co-op again, buying food we believe in. Both of us are involved in preparing for the Soka Gakkai International's Rock the Era Culture Festivals. We are having a Zone Festival on March 28th, and an Eastern United States Festival in July.
A friend just got us into the show Big Bang Theory. Daniel's done with his test for tonight, so I think we're going to go watch a couple of episodes. I hope all is well with you folks. Have a fun St. Padraig's Day!
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Saera
Ammon
Lindgrens!
2010 has been going by fairly quickly, and the last few months have seemed to fly by in a flash. Baby Harper has been growing big and growing strong over the last 2 months, and is getting very use to the craziness of having an older 2½ year old brother around. She’s starting to smile a lot and is currently working on sitting up by herself and rolling over. The next few months will be filled with fun milestones to watch her reach.
Finn is Mr. Social everywhere we go—he always wants to hang out with the ‘big kids’ and do whatever they’re doing, he likes getting up in his friends faces to kiss and hug them (whether they like it or not), and he’s never afraid or too shy to say “Hi!” to total strangers. He’s even getting pretty good at talking on the phone, and can even carry a short conversation—er, sort of. He quickly picked up being completely potty trained after Harper arrived (lucky us!), and is talking up a storm, expanding his vocabulary every day—which is fun, and kinda scary. He’s currently obsessed with Fire Trucks, and even has a giant fire truck bed to prove it.
Angela has enjoyed the time off, and isn’t quite looking forward to going back to work full time next month. Lucky for us, we’re going to Maui on March 23rd for a week and a half, for the one last relaxing vacation until the work madness and business kicks into overdrive. Finn has been counting down to Hawaii since November, and he’s really exciting to be going—even though I’m pretty sure he has no idea what Hawaii is.
Hope everyone is doing well, and happy that winter is behind us. Longer days are way cooler than shorter ones—and warmer weather is pretty nice too.
Love,
Ammon, Angela, Finn, Harper
2010 has been going by fairly quickly, and the last few months have seemed to fly by in a flash. Baby Harper has been growing big and growing strong over the last 2 months, and is getting very use to the craziness of having an older 2½ year old brother around. She’s starting to smile a lot and is currently working on sitting up by herself and rolling over. The next few months will be filled with fun milestones to watch her reach.
Finn is Mr. Social everywhere we go—he always wants to hang out with the ‘big kids’ and do whatever they’re doing, he likes getting up in his friends faces to kiss and hug them (whether they like it or not), and he’s never afraid or too shy to say “Hi!” to total strangers. He’s even getting pretty good at talking on the phone, and can even carry a short conversation—er, sort of. He quickly picked up being completely potty trained after Harper arrived (lucky us!), and is talking up a storm, expanding his vocabulary every day—which is fun, and kinda scary. He’s currently obsessed with Fire Trucks, and even has a giant fire truck bed to prove it.
Angela has enjoyed the time off, and isn’t quite looking forward to going back to work full time next month. Lucky for us, we’re going to Maui on March 23rd for a week and a half, for the one last relaxing vacation until the work madness and business kicks into overdrive. Finn has been counting down to Hawaii since November, and he’s really exciting to be going—even though I’m pretty sure he has no idea what Hawaii is.
Hope everyone is doing well, and happy that winter is behind us. Longer days are way cooler than shorter ones—and warmer weather is pretty nice too.
Love,
Ammon, Angela, Finn, Harper
Emily
Hi Family,
Has it already been two months since the last Lingo? I guess it doesn't seem that long to me...... now that I'm a Facebook junkie! Yes, I finally got with the program in 2010! Anyway, it's been fun to catch up with those of you who are on as well. If I haven't made you a friend yet ...then please send me a request! I don't know that you'll ever see me playing Farmville, but I have had fun playing the longest Scrabble games ever with Jennifer and Wendy!
Ok, so since January...things are pretty much the same. I feel like I'm constantly in my car driving back and forth to the old neighborhood taking and picking up kids from school. I think I'm finally going to take Casey in to get his license this week and then beg his high school to let him have a parking permit. They have a rule that only Juniors and Seniors can drive because of limited parking, but we're hoping they can make an exception. I have to renew my drivers license this year as well, and of course all the rules have changed and now I have to go in person. I can't find my birth certificate, so that's on my never ending list of stuff to do this week. I just hope I don't have to take a test :).
As far as our house progression.....well, we took a break for a couple of months and now we're out getting bids again so we can turn in a cost break down to the bank, and even though John plans to do a lot of the manual labor himself, we still have to get bids with the labor as well, in case something happens and we have to pay someone to complete the project. So, that's where we're at ....no new news to tell. I find the process a little frustrating right now because there are so many decisions and too many choices. I'm not sure what I want! I need someone to make the decisions for me. It's too overwhelming... and definitely not my idea of a good time.
Family updates:
Casey went on his first date, Brighton High's Sweethearts dance with a really cute girl and had a great time. He's on Brighton High's Sophomore Lacrosse team and has been practicing every day since the beginning of the year. Games start this weekend, so we're excited to go watch him play. He's counting down the days to getting his braces off next month (something he still thinks he never needed), and last but not least he's looking forward to EFY in July after the family reunion in Manti!
Mitch and Alyssa started piano lessons with Heather this month, and really like it so far. I haven't heard any complaints about practicing so far :)
Mitch is working on his "parade of states" project for school. He basically has to build a float on a wagon with things representing his assigned state of Kansas. Anybody know anything interesting about Kansas? Let us know because he needs to share it with his class in his oral report. He's also supposed to do a demonstration of a forest fire followed by a mud slide next week. We're still not sure how he's (we're) going to pull that one off. I love homework....don't you??!!
Travis is doing great in pre-school, and I'm told by his teachers that he'll be ready for Kindergarten in the fall. He'll be turning 5 in just 3 1/2 weeks!
The kids and Mom and I had a nice time driving up to Boise to see Lucy and her family and especially their new baby Garrett last weekend. He's a cutie. Wish you guys lived a little closer!
Hope you all are doing well. Have a good Easter and a nice Spring!!
Love,
Emily and family
Has it already been two months since the last Lingo? I guess it doesn't seem that long to me...... now that I'm a Facebook junkie! Yes, I finally got with the program in 2010! Anyway, it's been fun to catch up with those of you who are on as well. If I haven't made you a friend yet ...then please send me a request! I don't know that you'll ever see me playing Farmville, but I have had fun playing the longest Scrabble games ever with Jennifer and Wendy!
Ok, so since January...things are pretty much the same. I feel like I'm constantly in my car driving back and forth to the old neighborhood taking and picking up kids from school. I think I'm finally going to take Casey in to get his license this week and then beg his high school to let him have a parking permit. They have a rule that only Juniors and Seniors can drive because of limited parking, but we're hoping they can make an exception. I have to renew my drivers license this year as well, and of course all the rules have changed and now I have to go in person. I can't find my birth certificate, so that's on my never ending list of stuff to do this week. I just hope I don't have to take a test :).
As far as our house progression.....well, we took a break for a couple of months and now we're out getting bids again so we can turn in a cost break down to the bank, and even though John plans to do a lot of the manual labor himself, we still have to get bids with the labor as well, in case something happens and we have to pay someone to complete the project. So, that's where we're at ....no new news to tell. I find the process a little frustrating right now because there are so many decisions and too many choices. I'm not sure what I want! I need someone to make the decisions for me. It's too overwhelming... and definitely not my idea of a good time.
Family updates:
Casey went on his first date, Brighton High's Sweethearts dance with a really cute girl and had a great time. He's on Brighton High's Sophomore Lacrosse team and has been practicing every day since the beginning of the year. Games start this weekend, so we're excited to go watch him play. He's counting down the days to getting his braces off next month (something he still thinks he never needed), and last but not least he's looking forward to EFY in July after the family reunion in Manti!
Mitch and Alyssa started piano lessons with Heather this month, and really like it so far. I haven't heard any complaints about practicing so far :)
Mitch is working on his "parade of states" project for school. He basically has to build a float on a wagon with things representing his assigned state of Kansas. Anybody know anything interesting about Kansas? Let us know because he needs to share it with his class in his oral report. He's also supposed to do a demonstration of a forest fire followed by a mud slide next week. We're still not sure how he's (we're) going to pull that one off. I love homework....don't you??!!
Travis is doing great in pre-school, and I'm told by his teachers that he'll be ready for Kindergarten in the fall. He'll be turning 5 in just 3 1/2 weeks!
The kids and Mom and I had a nice time driving up to Boise to see Lucy and her family and especially their new baby Garrett last weekend. He's a cutie. Wish you guys lived a little closer!
Hope you all are doing well. Have a good Easter and a nice Spring!!
Love,
Emily and family
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