The Hunter Herald
March 2007
NEIL & MIKE-
Trevor & Charmayne-Well, we're getting ready for the car show season to start. Looks like a busy summer already. Race was recognized this Wed. at school for having above grade level test scores last year in Math, Language Arts and Science. Nick tested above grade level for Math and Language arts (they don't do science in his grade). They received nice medals. Kinny is too young for testing but has his eye on the perfect attendance award. We wish him well with that. Race also just passed on to Blazer scouts with his Arrow of Light and 20 patch from WeBeLos. He also, finished the basketball season with his own basket at the tournament. Tom got one too. They were just a few minutes apart. It was a great game. The boys are doing great and Trev and I are trying to keep up as usual. It's hard working from home. We think, "Oh yeah we can go to that!" But then, when do we end up working???? Well, hope all is well with everybody, and we're already looking forward to the reunion...
Terry & Kalli-We have moved out of mom and dad's house! We're back in our duplex where things are a little tight but it's nice to be in our own home and ward. Our new address and phone number are
PO Box 45
Biggs, CA 95917,
(530)868-5652,
street address if anyone wants to visit :)
3141A 5th St.
Biggs, CA.
We sooooo look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion! Love ya, Terry, Kalli and family
LAMONT & EVY-
Mission Address (needs 85 cent stamp):
Melnsila Iela 3-1
LV-1046 Riga
Latvia
LAYNE & FRANKIE-I attended Karali's Senior Piano Recital at BYU. It was absolutely amazing.
I don't know if it is to brag or complain, but we have been doing a lot of yard work. Our flowers in the front are blooming, tomato and squash plants are growing in the garden, and there are little apricots, nectarines, and plums on the trees.
Kara, Ashley and grandkids came to visit a few weeks ago for their spring break. Seth is here now for a few days. And, we hope to see some of you at Bryce's wedding next week.
Rachel & Robert- Here is finally news from our family. We will start at the youngest she is due June 6th. We are expecting a girl. We are excited. I am already collecting a lot of girl clothes. The boys are a little unsure of how this will change our family. I think she will be pretty spoiled and protected by her older brothers.
Dale goes to preschool every morning and really enjoys it. I really enjoy the time to get errands and stuff done. Boyd is doing great in 1st grade. He loves to make books. He writes and illustrates them. He is getting quite the collection. Alex is in 4th grade. He likes talking a lot and tries to avoid the work but is still doing pretty good. He is working hard on getting his Bear in Cub Scouts. Cody is in 6th grade. He will be 12 on March 15th. Mom still feels a little weird about him coming to mutual and getting the priesthood. I know it's a good thing but it seems to soon. Rob is working at Reedly College as the welding instructor. He transferred here a year and a half ago. It has been more of an adjustment than we expected, but he is figuring it out. At church he is the nursery leader. He does a great job. I am serving as secretary in the Young Womens. I enjoy being in the program without as much of the pressure. We are hoping our house will start being built in June. Our old house is on the market and will hopefully sell some day. We are all doing great. Love, Rachel Fransen
Rebekah & Seth-It is almost Easter Vacation and we are so excited!!!
CALVIN & DONNA-
Ryan and Sarah McMullin: As March winds down, so do our classes for the semester. Just three weeks left until finals, and I can't wait for a little vacation. News for the month, I received three new law school acceptance letters during the month: Texas Tech, SMU Dedman, and University of Houston. We haven't made any final decisions, but we'll probably be posting those in the next newsletter. For those of you in the Utah area, I'm throwing a bridal shower for Natalie this Saturday at 3:30p at 397 N 900 W in Provo. Come and have some homemade tamales (Ryan's specialty.) Have a nice conference weekend and a fun Easter.
SHEILA & LYLE-Well, we're still working on getting Bryce married. He is renting the apartment downstairs so we've been fixing it up. I know I'm a dunce, but I'm still trying to figure out how fixing the cabinets turned into laying tile on the floor, turned into putting up sheetrock on walls and ceiling, turned into painting the bedrooms, to new carpet, to new toilet and sink, to new kitchen sink and fixtures to new appliances, to....... Oh dear, I'm tired already. We are having the company author appreciation dinner Thursday night. Tanner is in his mission field with a real companion and had his first baptisms Saturday. We got our first email from him. It is wonderful to have such a wonderful communication tool. One of my authors is presenting a new model for Book of Mormon geography. His thesis is that Arequipa (Tanner's mission) is in the heart of the narrow neck of land. I love the world we live in and I’m excited for the future. It was nice to hear from Mont and Evy. –Lyle
Hello family, We're in the middle of wedding planning. April 7th is coming right up.Bryce and Jessica are so excited. Congratulations Spencer and Shanille. It's a BOY!!! We are so happy for you. Jenna and Kevin It's a GIRL to be born in August. We're so happy for you to. How is LaMont and Evy. Send on there e-mail. We love you all. Come to the wedding. -Sheila
Jenna & Kevin-Today was our big ultrasound! We found out that after 4 boys we are having a girl! I can’t help but think that Grandma had something to do with it! J It came as a huge surprise and Kevin and I just cried. I just took the boys out of school and took them to lunch to let them in on the big news!!! They are very excited! Love you all!!! Kevin, Jenna and boys…..and baby girl. J
Spencer & Shanille-hello everyone, we had our baby; he is a beautiful 5lb. 12oz. 18 inch bundle. He is so tiny, he has a fair amount of long dark hair. (Just in case you were wondering our home teacher has light hair and is bald) we had a very fast labor and delivery 4 hours from start to finish. He couldn’t wait to get here. It was so unexpectedly fast the room was not prepped yet the doctor had not yet arrived. Shanille just reached under her blanket to find his head was completely out. I was in the bathroom when she screamed for me I ran out ripped back the blanket and with my belt and fly undone ran down the hall to the nurse’s station. They flipped, called out an emergency to any available doctors and came running into the room. I beat them there and was holding his head when they pushed me out of the way to catch him. Shanille’s water never even broke so he was delivered in his bag of water. It was all very scary, exciting, I was a bit annoyed with the nurses because I had several conversations with them that she will be very fast once she gets the epidural and to please stay close and monitor her. Oh well everything turned out great. We are very excited, that we got our boy we did not find out what we were having and wanted to be surprised. We love you all and are grateful for your fine examples to us we know that family is what its all about, and through our relationships is how we feel true happiness and joy. We love you all and are truly grateful of the closeness and love that we share.
Bryce-My life is at that point. Remodeling the apartment, trying to keep schooling going, getting married next month, sold Dad's truck, the list goes on. No time to think for myself. Finding money going out of all pockets. Even the ones I thought didn't have holes. It's worth having a beautiful woman by your side. (*I think) I'm really looking forward to the future. Life is good. What more can I say?
Tanner-hello family, I am here in a little place called Peru. It’s nice. ha ha okay where to start where to start. I got to my mission field on Wednesday. I met the president and his wife. My entire group told the president’s wife that I sang Gaston and she wanted me to sing. She made me sing it like 5 different times. Even though it was in English. She says I need to sing it in my ward that I am in for a talent show or something. She says it would save the ward. ha ha. Anyway. I am now here in a place called Tacna. I am serving in the area of natividad. It is really really tiny. I can walk end to end in like 3 minutes no joke. My companion’s name is elder gramajo. He is from Guatemala. He is so happy and helpful. My companion and I met a family on Thursday and we baptized them on Saturday. It felt a little fast but I guess that’s how things run down here. So I got my first baptism already. On Saturday. Awesome huh? We baptized three jovens. Teen-agers. One is 14, 15 and the one I baptized. His name is guippie. He is eleven years old. I am not checking for spelling errors or grammar problems because I want to be sure to write everything down. So if there is bad mistakes forgive me. What else. My apartment is tiny tiny tiny. The toilet doesn’t have a lid. And the shower in the morning if it works is freezing. the baptismal water was freezing tombien. The people here are super nice. They say that my Spanish is good. Though I am sure they are just trying to encourage me. I am understanding more and more everyday. I just hate it when they talk super super fast. Like when there excited. Or when they meet a greenie.
It is so so so different down here. I haven’t been through culture shock yet but yeah. The mtc down here was awesome it was gorgeous. Anyway. I think that is everything. Oh in sacrament meeting yesterday bishop stood up after the sacrament and said we have a new missionary and we will be privileged to hear his testimony. My companion and the Latinos around me said hurry go up. So I had to go up. I just said hello, I don’t know much Spanish and I don’t understand much Spanish but I’m excited to be here and I know the lord loves this ward. Then I bore my testimony and sat down. It was good but was a big surprise to me.
There are lots of dogs. More dogs than people. I bark at them. They like it. big gangs of dogs will just come walking on by. Sometimes it’s scary. Other times not so much. Man I wish I could just tell you everything but I don’t have too much time to talk ton the computer.
GREG & LISA-
