Hooray for Jeff!

Congratulations to Jeff on snagging a job in risk management! He will be working in Orange County. Hope he can still get up this way often. We wish him all the best. More details to follow????

Missin' Our Honolulu Baby

Wish we could see and hold this Hawaiian beauty, Jocelyn, and her Hawaii based parents, Derek and Hillary Williams! It's paradise but it's so far away!! Derek is finishing up his winter semester at BYU and shooting for a December 2009 graduation. If we're lucky we'll see them before then. Until then, we are so grateful for their wonderful blog and pics of all the fun. Love you guys!

Happenings

So fun for my mother (Gigi) and me to hang out together with the Natalie's family over the weekend. Katherine is three and very chatty, cheery and lovable. Still nuts about horses. She is such a beautiful three--with huge grey/green eyes and golden hair. Andrew is Natalie's sidekick and viewed us with great suspicion. In her arms, he is bubbly, chuckly and full of huge smiles. So adorable. The MINTUE we tried to take him into our arms, he fell apart. We need to see him more often and pry him away a little from Natalie and Jeff. Fun to celebrate Jeff's 32nd birthday with him and fam with a lively dinner at the Olive Garden and go to some splendid (or unusual) parks. Check out the peacocks with tails in display. When the kids went down at 7:00 p.m.each night, we adults played Phase 10. Then crashed ourselves. We girls went on walks and worked on knitting hats and read to children while Jeff built hanging shelves in the garage. The weekend went by FAST. Can't wait to see this dear family again. One mishap: we hit a muffler (or something like a metal box) as Mom and I crossed the Pearblossom cutoff in freezing (later snow) rain. Miraculously, just five miles down the road we found a full-service gas station open with mechanic on hand to jack up the car and wire the dangling parking brake cable back up. We got back home in time to sit down to dinner with the Laura's family. What a weekend!

Why Mormons Build Temples

Oh...Brother!!

It looks like another baby boy for Laura and Blaise Harris! Ultrasound shows one large (larger than Will was) healthy male baby to be. "The pressure's on for baby number three," Laura says. But lots of wonderful bennies for two of a kind: they can share clothes; share a room; share toys; shoot hoops; one day help each other serve missions...and on and on down the road of life. What joy this new little person will bring. Conrgratulations to the Harris family. Grandma Christy and Grandpa Ray are thrilled! Can't wait til this new little one arrives!