February is our Month of Birthdays

February starts out with Taylor's birthday - it's his 14th this year and he was ordained a teacher.  What can we say other than Taylor now has the rubber chicken.

Brittney's birthday is just before Valentine's Day.

Ali Jo and Tyce will always be together even though they are years apart.

Tyce is Captain America this year.

And all Ali wants is her two front teeth.  So cute with a toothless smile.















Melanee rounds out the February cluster of birthdays.  She got a new house this year and they came to St. George to visit to celebrate this year.

Happy Birthday to all.

Curt - 40th Birthday -- Seems like only 27 years ago:)

January 11, 2018 is a special day in our family, Curt turned 40 years old.  We were in St. George, Marc was busy, Adrian had other plans and Melanee was tending the kids and going crazy - no one noticed (so Curt thought).

Actually Melanee planned a huge birthday party for him on the Saturday after his birthday.  We made a surprise appearance and so did many others.  Here's a few of the pictures of those who attended.  Curt you have lots of friends and family who love you and lots of well wishes for lots of coming years.

Happy Birthday!!!

 Can't have a party without Cleadus.

 Even Gregor was there.

 John and Rachel and smiling Melanee.

 Jesse couldn't figure out what was going on.

 Come on Curt -- blow ---------

Marc, you will get there one of these years, also.

And, we can't forget Aunt Neala and Uncle Louis.  This may be their last Utah party.  We'll have to go to Texas and celebrate.

Starting 2018 A Bit Late - January

Okay, sometimes you just can't get everything done and sometimes you are just behind.  Well, 2018 is a little of both.  We were called the end of December to serve as assistant coordinators of the FamilySearch Center.  It has been a challenge to learn our new responsibilities - Shanna is in charge of scheduling missionaries for the evening groups and keeping the WIKI up-to-date.  Theron is in charge of keeping all the equipment and computers going.  So, this is our excuse for being behind.

We are just now getting caught up.  In addition, they have started our pool and we are trying to coordinate the building of the block walls and Theron and Craig will be plumbing the gas lines.

Then, Curt and Melanee found a home and moved the first part of March which means we are getting our home in NSL ready to sell.  Add to this, Theron is helping Neala and Louis pack for their big move to Texas on March 30.

Okay, enough excuses.  Taking a few minutes each week to write down some memories should be easy to do and we just need to keep a half-hour set aside for this.  Memories are so important at our age ... now what was I writing about?

January 2018
The first of January brought a great visit from our Samoan friends, Rusty and Cindy Gillette.  They live in Idaho and we traveling to California.  It was so fun to be with them again.

Thinking that we could help build the faux rock feature for the swimming pool, Theron bought a welder and Rusty gave him a few lessons.  Well, the faux rock feature is going to be so much more complex and bigger than we can handle, Theron may never use the welder.  Still, it was so fun to have a lesson from our expert.  They are a delight to be with.