The Hunter Herald
October 2006
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NEIL & MIKE-I wanted to let everyone know that Jarom came home from the Persian Gulf on August 16th and we were there to see his ship come in and it was really quite a sight!!! We got to have a private tour of the ship later that day and it was amazing, both how big some things were and how small others were, like his bed (or rack as the Navy call it.) It reminded me of the OLD days when all 5 Hunter boys slept in one room and there were bunk beds 3 high on the wall! He recently took a little trip on the ship a few miles north to unload all of their ammo and while traveling they had bodies of veterans who had requested to be buried at sea. Jarom got to be one of 7 to do the 21-gun salute, 3 times. Tom is playing soccer, Rachel is playing volleyball, Brandie is discovering how fun early morning Seminary can be and Tena's in the 8th grade at a new Junior High. Neil's almost finished a loafing shed attached to his barn/shop and anticipating shoulder surgery soon. (He wished it were yesterday) I'm just trying to keep up, or is that keep sane! Love Aunt Mike
Trevor & Charmayne-We're all doing well here in Gridley. Trevor and I are plugging along.
Race survived science camp and seemed to have had a good time. He also was invited to be an ambassador to Italy and Greece next summer with the People to People program. Not sure how that will work if they don't let his mom go.
Nick is reading all the time, everywhere. He even got in trouble for reading and not doing his chores.
Kinny is so excited about his birthday this month. He can hardly stand it.
LAMONT & EVY- Congratulations Lamont & Evy on your mission call. They have been called to the Baltic Mission. They will be serving a CES mission in Latvia. Their departure date is January 8th! We look forward to hearing about their mission! They say everyone is doing well in their family. We hear Justin and Jana’s baby is still hanging in there. Remember to keep him in your prayers.
LAYNE & FRANKIE-Welcome to Madison Hunter born to Ashley and Caleb Hunter on September 2. She is quite beautiful. In fact, I visited all my kids and grandkids this month and strangely enough all of them are handsome and beautiful. Layne had to stay home this trip (he still teaches) so Rayanna and I brought him a birthday present – a motor less Jeep Wrangler. He needed a new project. Kara and Leslie are expecting next spring. Matthew has finally convinced Karali Soderquist (AKA Rali) to marry him. Many of you met her at the family reunion. December 15 in the Bountiful Temple 11:30 AM. A reception will be held in Kimberly ID 12-14-06 and in Selma CA 12-30-06. Please send-email all your addresses.
Rebekah and Seth- What's going on in your life? Not much teaching 7th history. Seth still service tech. Still in Bakersfield. How are your kids doing? Good Elliana broke her arm on friend’s stairs, good otherwise. How does your garden grow? Pretty good we have a decent size pumpkin, good bell peppers and large tomatoes bugs. What have you done this summer? Camping, sea world, knotts berry farm, san diego zoo, pirates dinner theater, water skiing, etc. The usual. Visited Utah. Peyton cannot be around the medically fragile. We were sad to miss reunion but did not want Benjamin’s baby to be ill. How's your church calling going? It is cub scouts so it is always an adventure. Anything else you can think of. I really like jelly belly's. Come visit we are not too far out of L.A. –Rebekah Lafoon p.s. Elliana gets her cast off in two weeks. The day fire in S Cal has rained ash down on us much like a light snow. The boys are enjoying school and Seth and I look forward to the end of the workday to play with our children.
Caleb & Ashley-My wife and I had our 3rd child, 1st girl on Saturday 2 of Sept. at 11:28 in the morning. She was 7lbs 1oz and 19 inches long. Her name is Madison Frankie Hunter. We are excited and enjoying having a new baby in the home. -Caleb
CALVIN & DONNA-
Meredith & Bill-Here is a quick update on Bill and Meredith Sutherland and family. For starters Bill has had a rewarding a successful year! Cal trans has plenty of work, which is a blessing. Bill has been helping a friend find clients for his (the friends) new engineering business, and when Bill is available he does some of the work also. This summer Bill decided to pursue one of his career goals outside of design engineering and that is to teach. He applied at Shasta College for a part time position and they were thrilled with him and he breezed through the hiring process. He now teaches Engineer 1A. So far the work put into the first few classes was grueling. Now he is getting the hang of it and loves it. He has had several students tell him that his class is their favorite! Does that surprise anyone!? Bill is still serving in the bishopric, but the winds of change are blowing...he already has his "new" calling working with the 11 year old scouts. Now the rest of the family...Meredith is full time at the college studying to earn a bachelor's degree in liberal studies. She will pursue her multiple subject teaching credential. She still has about 3 1/2 years until it is all completed. She enjoys her classes. Meredith is the music coordinator for the ward (chorister). She loves this calling. If there were a degree offered for carpooling she would have a master's! The kids keep her running. Anna tried out for a division III traveling soccer team and made it. She has been playing with the team since July. She is an incredible athlete! Having 3 brothers has really toughened her up! The family has enjoyed traveling to the weekend tournaments. Anna is 12 and loves young women's. She is the secretary in her beehive class. Anna is also a very conscientious student and is in honors English and the GATE program. She also plays the clarinet in the school band and her teacher has asked her to play the drums in the jazz band for the second year. Will is 11. He has loved the camp outs, trips, activities and time with dad being an 11-year-old scout includes. Will tried out for the school soccer team. At our school, there is one soccer team it is coed 6th through 8th grade. Usually dominated by 8th graders. He was one of 2 sixth graders to make the 15-member team. He also plays for the soccer league in town. He scored 2 goals in last Saturday's game. He plays hard! Will played all - star baseball this summer, too. Will is an outstanding student. He keeps his grades high. He is too is in GATE. He is well liked by his teachers and classmates. Will started trumpet this week. So far mom makes him practice in the garage, but she did her a tune that resembled, "Hot Cross Buns". Maybe he will be able to play indoors soon. Will (and Anna) are also in the school choir. Thomas is 9 years old in 4th grade. He too, plays soccer for the Redding Youth Soccer League. He is the star defender on his team. His teacher informed mom that he is at the top of his class for schoolwork as well as behavior. He has taken up reading more than ever this year. He likes the children's classics of adventure stories like Robin Hood and Moby Dick. He is also learning to play a recorder (in prep for saxophone?) and has joined the beginning choir. He loves the choir, and will want me to play his songs at the piano so he can sing. Matthew is a tall second grader. (Tall for a Hunter or Sutherland). His teacher called the other day to let us know how skilled he is with math. She said he has extraordinary ability! Matthew also plays soccer. Surprisingly (to us), he is one of the tallest players on his team. He is an excellent player and gives his best every time!
Now that we've updated you (and bragged a little) we can't wait to read about all of you!
Love, Bill, Meredith Anna Will, Thomas and Matthew
The Sutherland's
Hillary & Jason-Our family is in the process of moving yet again. Jason is in his junior year at Chico State University as a business major and I'm in the musical Guys and Dolls as Sarah Brown. Hunter and Ellie just started pre-school and Reese will be turning 6 months old on the 20th of this month. We're in a whirlwind but lovin' life 24-7.
Sarah & Ryan-Well, we’re officially out of vacation mode and back into the full swing of school. Ryan is working like mad in his classes and doing very well. I’ve had fun this last week with the big BYU career fair, running around to all sorts of information sessions and loading up on free pens. The atmosphere around Provo is electric with the football conference games under way and BYU’s big win against TCU. We can’t wait to see a game when we go to homecoming at the end of October against UNLV. Other than that, we’re happy and healthy!
SHEILA & LYLE-Everyone seems to be fine. We see a lot of Jessica. (Bryce's girlfriend.) Tanner hasn't given up girls yet. I've told him he should go into training, but he doesn't see the need. We've been waiting a long time for his papers to be submitted so we can begin the waiting game. I think he is getting tired enough of the warehouse he's ready to go. I told him learning what you don't want to do for the rest of your life is an important lesson. I don't think he appreciated it. Tanner and Leisha are both in The Beauty and the Beast. Tanner is playing Gaston--typecasting, right? Leisha is playing 1st Violin in Utah County Youth Orchestra. It should be a good experience for her.
Bryce is in training, too, but we're not sure what yet. Sheila finally got another counselor in Relief Society (after two and a half months). Hopefully that will relieve a little stress on her part. Not much news here, except worrying about the building. Hopefully we'll be in it in 3 weeks. I know, I've been saying that for 9 weeks already, but what can I say? I think I'll go fishing this weekend. Love, Lyle
How is everyone? I hope your fall is more predictable than ours has been. You know rain, in the 50's, threatening to snow. OK it's in the 70's, but it has rained a lot. The Cooper in me keeps trying to come out. I'm trying to think of news. We loved the BYU game. Moana and Adam always come through with tickets. We are all working some at the office. We have a new game coming out, Celestial Companion. I'm finding out just how much I don't know about my companion. Look for it in Deseret Book, and other fine other LDS bookstores. (hint, hint) Leisha made it in the Utah Valley Youth Symphony, Orchestra. A little challenging, but that’s good for her. Bryce has organized a singing group that meets on Mondays and Thursdays. My favorite time of the day is when they are singing. They’re good. The new building is still NOT finished. We're looking forward to the day. Life is the best when I hear from you, my family. I love you all! Sheila
Jenna & Kevin-Hello family! It’s been a fun month. The fastest month I’ve ever had! We’ve been great! We just watched Kevin’s brother’s 3 boys for 4 days. We took them all ice-skating last night and had a blast! Even Kellan (2) went and loved it!
Spencer & Shanille-Hi everyone, Sorry we missed last month, but we're so boring that we could probably miss 6 months and not skip a beat. To prove how boring we are; the weather here is finally starting to cool off, with temps in the mid to high 90's. Ha, but seriously, we do have a few items of business to report. I better say this first or the wife will get mad at me, we are expecting our fourth. No, we are not trying to single handedly populate the western hemisphere. Oops! There are some crazy people in our ward that seem to think that I am responsible enough to be the scoutmaster for the 12-16 year olds. So that should keep me pretty busy. We will soon be moving into a home, but we will still be renting. The housing market is crashing at such a rapid rate, that by Christmas they should be free, and so we wait. Quenton is loving kindergarten, and t-ball. Wrestling will start in a couple of months. Sage enjoys preschool. She is extremely independent. i.e. SASSY! Emeri has 2 teeth, and loves to show them off. She constantly smiles, she crawls, sits up, pulls herself up to her feet, cries, eats, poops and pees. I wasn't able to make it fishing with Greg and everyone this summer, but hopefully some year. I think Uncle Greg must need to re prioritize his priorities, or at least remember to invite me. If my long lost cousin Cayle reads these things, I think I've been trying to get a hold of him for about 5 years. Well that's enough from the Spencer Mortimer family, or I guess I could talk more about the weather, but I won't. Love you all!
Leisha-hello EVERYONE! How are you all! I’m doing great!! I’ve been keeping myself busy! I just tried out for the Utah valley youth symphony orchestra and I made it!! I had a really accomplished feeling when made it! I think I’ve worked up to this! Yeah!! We’ve only had 2 practices and they've been great so far! I’m also in beauty and the beast the musical with Tanner. Tanner is Gaston! WOW!! Haha I’m just in the chorus! It’s been fun! I also am doing violin lessons, which are also going great! School has been going very well! I’m in a brand new one! It’s really nice! I’ve enjoyed every minute of my life! And I’m looking forward to some more happy memorable memories! Thanks so much love you all! Leisha! **
GREG & LISA-
