June 2008
Mom & Ramon. In January we visited families we both have in Arizona. We stayed with Lucy and Matt and the girls in their beautiful home. Dan came for Sunday dinner and we really had a lot of fun. We also went to dinner with Ramon's daughter Colleen and her son Jonathan. Ramon's son Stan and his wife Sheryl and their family treated us to lunch.
On February 10th the LDS Temple in Rexburg was dedicated and we started our service as Temple Ordinance Workers February 13th.
In April we took a trip to Utah. Our mission friends, the Christensen's, live in Richfield and we spent the day with them. We then drove to St. George to visit Ramon's daughter Maureen. We spent the weekend with her and enjoyed her wonderful food. We drove to several family history sites in the area.
We enjoyed many school activities in May for Cassidy and Mille in Keizer, Oregon. They had their school choir competitions in Portland and Mille also had a piano recital that we attended. The big show was the Keizer Jr. Miss Program on May 10th. David and Jenni and their family drove down for it. We cheered and clapped throughout the show; there were 20 girls participating. Then they started announcing the awards. Cassidy received awards for talent, fitness, the interview, and then they announced the winner: Cassidy Nelson. We were so excited! Cassidy did a beautiful presentation and we were very proud of her.
My 70th birthday was celebrated June 11th at my brother Dell's home. Vera Mae invited us for a luncheon and family get together. Lucy and the girls were there, also my brother John and Jeff, Vickie, Jaran, and Kathy Raybould-Ericksen and her children. We had a wonderful time. It was one of my best birthdays ever. I want to thank everyone for the lovely cards and beautiful flowers you sent. Then June 14th we were in Salt Lake City for Doug's wedding to Teresa Schiess. It was a very beautiful day and a beautiful wedding.
We are thankful for the family that we have and love you all very much. If you want, you can read more about our family at gregandkandice.blogspot.com.
Kelsey works in banquet services at the casino in Worley, Idaho. She stays very busy. She called last Wednesday and had already worked 39 hours that week. She leaves for BYU-Hawaii August 1st.
Robert is nearly finished with the Rainier Valley portion of his light rail project and is moving on to the airport phase. He’s the mastermind and busiest laborer on our extreme landscape makeover.
I’ve been the slave-driver around here. I took the boys to pick strawberries and we made 14 quarts of jam. Then we spent a day at Grandma Escalante’s house weeding her substantial garden. The 22,000 pounds of dirt was the day after that. I learned this keep-them-busy technique from our parents. It’s awesome.
Remember...
Reunion for the descendants of Leopold Wolf and Amalia Fetzner Saturday, July 26 at the Eberle farm, 2702 Fairbanks Road.
On February 10th the LDS Temple in Rexburg was dedicated and we started our service as Temple Ordinance Workers February 13th.
In April we took a trip to Utah. Our mission friends, the Christensen's, live in Richfield and we spent the day with them. We then drove to St. George to visit Ramon's daughter Maureen. We spent the weekend with her and enjoyed her wonderful food. We drove to several family history sites in the area.
We enjoyed many school activities in May for Cassidy and Mille in Keizer, Oregon. They had their school choir competitions in Portland and Mille also had a piano recital that we attended. The big show was the Keizer Jr. Miss Program on May 10th. David and Jenni and their family drove down for it. We cheered and clapped throughout the show; there were 20 girls participating. Then they started announcing the awards. Cassidy received awards for talent, fitness, the interview, and then they announced the winner: Cassidy Nelson. We were so excited! Cassidy did a beautiful presentation and we were very proud of her.
My 70th birthday was celebrated June 11th at my brother Dell's home. Vera Mae invited us for a luncheon and family get together. Lucy and the girls were there, also my brother John and Jeff, Vickie, Jaran, and Kathy Raybould-Ericksen and her children. We had a wonderful time. It was one of my best birthdays ever. I want to thank everyone for the lovely cards and beautiful flowers you sent. Then June 14th we were in Salt Lake City for Doug's wedding to Teresa Schiess. It was a very beautiful day and a beautiful wedding.
Annie. Lots of news around here--where ever here is! Right now, I'm looking out my window at Lake Geneva and the clouds obscuring the mountains while movers carry our lives out the door and load it into a container. The container will end up on a ship bound for Singapore and meet up with us again in July--if the boat doesn't sink.Rachel graduated with her International Baccalaureate high school diploma last week. At her school, the principals write lovely things to say about each graduate and read it before the student is handed his/her diploma. Very nice. They talked about Rachel's outgoing and bubbly personality, her musical talents, and the quiet confidence she gets from her deep faith. Right after the graduation, I had to drive Al to the airport in Geneva so he could catch a flight to Singapore, and then hurry back for the fancy celebration dinner for the graduation--all with a terrible cold. Why are life's big moments always like that?Allen has been back and forth between Lausanne and Singapore four times in the last two months. We'll be happy to get settled. Will got the last spot in eighth grade in the Singapore American School--he's looking forward to the change. Actually, the only thing Will really looks forward to is the next video game release. He's following in his brother's footsteps as a hardcore gamer.My novel, now titled Taken By Storm, is revised, copy-edited and on its way to typesetting as of yesterday. As some of you know, it's about the only Mormon girl in Tekoa High School--who conveniently lives on our farm! She falls in love with the new kid in town who is sent to live with his grandmother after his parents die when a hurricane capsizes their dive boat. He conveniently lives in Grandma Wolf's old house. All the people are made up--but the places are real. If anyone has digital pictures of the farm or Tekoa or the lake, please send them to me so I can put them on my website. If you want to visit my website, it's www.angela-morrison.com.We leave Switzerland on June 15th, have a day layover in NYC where I have meetings with Penguin, fly to SLC, get Rachel settled at BYU and see Shante and Rob, visit Mom and Ramon, then go down to Phoenix for a week to see Lucy, Dan and his new family, and look at housing, then we fly to Singapore. Phew! We love you all and can't wait to hear all your news.
Melody. Well, I have no one graduating here (Congrats to the graduates!), I’m not moving, and I’m not getting married (Congrats to Dan & Nadya, Doug & Teresa, Jim & Beth!).
I would like to tell you of a strange and wonderful odyssey that is unfolding in my life. When Jim emailed that he was marrying Beth, I just sat there riveted to the screen for about three minutes without a thought in my head except, "I need to be there." I was stunned. After that, it was "Why, Lord, why do I need to be there?" "To carry My Presence," was given to me. Without going into a lot of detail, this is to be my walk of faith. Please pray with me. I need to stay focused on my purpose. I need the Lord to provide for me if I am to go. I started at absolute zero.
We serve a great big Lord, don't we? Let me tell of His faith and provision in my life. I put everything I thought of “on the altar.” “Lord, I'll take my whole vacation to go and come back if I need to. Lord, I'll sleep at the cheapest hotel without air conditioning - or the beach, if I have to. Lord...”
Jim offered frequent flyer miles. In the same day a lady I house sit for called me and said, "I don't have any jobs for you now, but we want to give you some money to go...and if I think of any jobs, you can do that, too." She sent me $100. The last thing I did that day was check my mailbox. There was a check from another lady I house sit for, for $1,000! Since then, a third lady called and asked if I could house sit for two weeks. I've gotten some overtime and some mileage money from work. It just keeps getting better and better! THANK YOU LORD!!!
I don't usually use WPN to air my testimonies, so I hope you'll forgive me, but this was too sweet and too big to sit on. I am sooooo excited! He really does make a way where there is no other way. I would not be doing this without Him. I love you all. I'm looking forward to seeing some of you.
Nick & Rachel. Summer is here and we love it. After our first experiences with sub-zero temperatures this winter, Rachel and I are enjoying the 75 to 80 degree days and thunderstorms that come with a Colorado summer.
Summer is a big change of pace for us in other ways. For Rachel, summer is the busy season at the YMCA's program for school-aged children. This summer she is in charge of the program for 4th - 6th graders. She enjoys the added responsibility and the chance to work with the more mature grade schoolers. This decreases the number of finger paintings Rachel brings home, but to compensate, she gets to coach a soccer team for the YMCA summer league and get paid for it. I survived my first year of graduate school at the University of Colorado. In the summer I get to turn my focus from moderately enjoyable class work to extremely enjoyable research. I claim to be using supercomputers to model the interior of the sun, while Rachel claims that I simply make funny looking pictures using a computer all day. We also just found out that I will be teaching early morning seminary at our local high school this coming school year, which will be an interesting experience since it doesn't seem like it was very long ago that I was in seminary. Overall, summer is beautiful, life is good, and we are thankful for such a good family.
Greg & Kandice. Hello, Family! We’ve been busy these last couple of months. Greg finished his internship in Washington. We packed everything up and thanks to the help of some friends we were able to get all of our stuff back to Rexburg. Once in Rexburg we had to find a place to live and get Greg ready for classes. The first week of classes was crazy because we moved into our apartment half-way through the week. We are now settled in, love our apartment, and Greg is enjoying his classes.
Zachary and I stay at home and I’m babysitting a boy that Zachary loves to play with. We are enjoying the warm weather that is finally coming our way.
Our biggest news for the time being is that Zachary turned one-year old. He enjoyed unwrapping presents and then playing with the wrapping. He enjoys the toys, clothes, and books that he got. I think that his favorite part was the cake. It isn’t very often you get two whole pieces of cake to munch on.
Melody. Well, I have no one graduating here (Congrats to the graduates!), I’m not moving, and I’m not getting married (Congrats to Dan & Nadya, Doug & Teresa, Jim & Beth!).
I would like to tell you of a strange and wonderful odyssey that is unfolding in my life. When Jim emailed that he was marrying Beth, I just sat there riveted to the screen for about three minutes without a thought in my head except, "I need to be there." I was stunned. After that, it was "Why, Lord, why do I need to be there?" "To carry My Presence," was given to me. Without going into a lot of detail, this is to be my walk of faith. Please pray with me. I need to stay focused on my purpose. I need the Lord to provide for me if I am to go. I started at absolute zero.
We serve a great big Lord, don't we? Let me tell of His faith and provision in my life. I put everything I thought of “on the altar.” “Lord, I'll take my whole vacation to go and come back if I need to. Lord, I'll sleep at the cheapest hotel without air conditioning - or the beach, if I have to. Lord...”
Jim offered frequent flyer miles. In the same day a lady I house sit for called me and said, "I don't have any jobs for you now, but we want to give you some money to go...and if I think of any jobs, you can do that, too." She sent me $100. The last thing I did that day was check my mailbox. There was a check from another lady I house sit for, for $1,000! Since then, a third lady called and asked if I could house sit for two weeks. I've gotten some overtime and some mileage money from work. It just keeps getting better and better! THANK YOU LORD!!!
I don't usually use WPN to air my testimonies, so I hope you'll forgive me, but this was too sweet and too big to sit on. I am sooooo excited! He really does make a way where there is no other way. I would not be doing this without Him. I love you all. I'm looking forward to seeing some of you.
Nick & Rachel. Summer is here and we love it. After our first experiences with sub-zero temperatures this winter, Rachel and I are enjoying the 75 to 80 degree days and thunderstorms that come with a Colorado summer.
Summer is a big change of pace for us in other ways. For Rachel, summer is the busy season at the YMCA's program for school-aged children. This summer she is in charge of the program for 4th - 6th graders. She enjoys the added responsibility and the chance to work with the more mature grade schoolers. This decreases the number of finger paintings Rachel brings home, but to compensate, she gets to coach a soccer team for the YMCA summer league and get paid for it. I survived my first year of graduate school at the University of Colorado. In the summer I get to turn my focus from moderately enjoyable class work to extremely enjoyable research. I claim to be using supercomputers to model the interior of the sun, while Rachel claims that I simply make funny looking pictures using a computer all day. We also just found out that I will be teaching early morning seminary at our local high school this coming school year, which will be an interesting experience since it doesn't seem like it was very long ago that I was in seminary. Overall, summer is beautiful, life is good, and we are thankful for such a good family.
Greg & Kandice. Hello, Family! We’ve been busy these last couple of months. Greg finished his internship in Washington. We packed everything up and thanks to the help of some friends we were able to get all of our stuff back to Rexburg. Once in Rexburg we had to find a place to live and get Greg ready for classes. The first week of classes was crazy because we moved into our apartment half-way through the week. We are now settled in, love our apartment, and Greg is enjoying his classes.
Zachary and I stay at home and I’m babysitting a boy that Zachary loves to play with. We are enjoying the warm weather that is finally coming our way.
Our biggest news for the time being is that Zachary turned one-year old. He enjoyed unwrapping presents and then playing with the wrapping. He enjoys the toys, clothes, and books that he got. I think that his favorite part was the cake. It isn’t very often you get two whole pieces of cake to munch on.
We are thankful for the family that we have and love you all very much. If you want, you can read more about our family at gregandkandice.blogspot.com.Laurie. Our most exciting news is that Chris is home from his mission! He arrived in Portland June 18th and two days later Neil and I flew back to Louisville, KY with him to attend the temple with a woman that he baptized on his mission. We had a wonderful trip, met lots of nice folk and even did some family history work in Cedar Grove, Indiana where some of our ancestors lived in the 1800's. It is wonderful to have Chris here at home for a while until he heads back to BYU in the fall.
Cassidy and Camille are at Girls' Camp. They look forward to it every year. Cassidy is working as a lifeguard this summer and preparing for the state Junior Miss Program. In May, she was named Keizer's Jr. Miss and that was pretty exciting. Camille just finished a great soccer season. Their team came on very strong at the end of the season and ended up taking second in the play-offs. Camille is a tough defender. She also made the chorus in next year's musical---a pretty good feat for a freshman! She and Cassidy will be in the musical together next January.
Our entire Nelson family will be together in a few weeks at Twin Lakes in Inchelium, Washington. There are 14 of us including grandchildren. Because of schedules we will actually only all be there at the same time for less than 24 hours. Neil and I can't wait! Being with family is our favorite thing! And we love our extended family, too. Thanks for being such wonderful examples to us.
Dan. Our big news is that Nadya is pregnant and expecting at the end of February. We had a nice Sedona wedding and a great time with those of you that were able to come.
Our summer plans include a trip to Mom's place and Yellowstone Park. Other than that, just sitting around the house and watching Nadya's belly grow. We are hoping for a girl and, God willing, if we are so fortunate her name will be Sophia. We are taking suggestions on a middle name. If it is a boy, we will put him for sale on e-bay, and will leave the naming up to the new owners.
Danil is having a good summer. He’s adjusting to his new home and hanging out with his new buddy, Andrew, my Ukrainian 'slave'. Andrew is staying with us again and working with me. He was here last summer but eats better this year, now that Nadya is here. I am also eating more, now that Nadya is pregnant, and am beginning to show. I hope they make maternity clothes for men too.
It's hot here now, so we wait for our July rains, passing the time with water gun fights. We had to put our dog down a couple of weeks ago so we are missing a wet nose around the house. Well, we still have Danil’s. We plan on getting another dog, probably a Labrador, soon.
Anyway, all is good here. We are healthy and happy and pray the same for all of you. Have a great summer, enjoy your families, and laugh often. We love you all.
Rob & Shante. So much has happened since the last WPN. Rob graduated in April and accepted a job with McCann Erickson Worldwide in downtown Salt Lake City. He is working on their Microsoft account as an Account Executive. He really likes it so far, and is enjoying life after school.
We recently moved to Lehi, UT to a condo. We are so happy to finally be done with student housing, especially since we are expecting a baby around December 3rd. We are very excited about the new addition to our family and can't wait to find out the gender of the baby next month!
Cassidy and Camille are at Girls' Camp. They look forward to it every year. Cassidy is working as a lifeguard this summer and preparing for the state Junior Miss Program. In May, she was named Keizer's Jr. Miss and that was pretty exciting. Camille just finished a great soccer season. Their team came on very strong at the end of the season and ended up taking second in the play-offs. Camille is a tough defender. She also made the chorus in next year's musical---a pretty good feat for a freshman! She and Cassidy will be in the musical together next January.
Our entire Nelson family will be together in a few weeks at Twin Lakes in Inchelium, Washington. There are 14 of us including grandchildren. Because of schedules we will actually only all be there at the same time for less than 24 hours. Neil and I can't wait! Being with family is our favorite thing! And we love our extended family, too. Thanks for being such wonderful examples to us.
Dan. Our big news is that Nadya is pregnant and expecting at the end of February. We had a nice Sedona wedding and a great time with those of you that were able to come.
Our summer plans include a trip to Mom's place and Yellowstone Park. Other than that, just sitting around the house and watching Nadya's belly grow. We are hoping for a girl and, God willing, if we are so fortunate her name will be Sophia. We are taking suggestions on a middle name. If it is a boy, we will put him for sale on e-bay, and will leave the naming up to the new owners.
Danil is having a good summer. He’s adjusting to his new home and hanging out with his new buddy, Andrew, my Ukrainian 'slave'. Andrew is staying with us again and working with me. He was here last summer but eats better this year, now that Nadya is here. I am also eating more, now that Nadya is pregnant, and am beginning to show. I hope they make maternity clothes for men too.
It's hot here now, so we wait for our July rains, passing the time with water gun fights. We had to put our dog down a couple of weeks ago so we are missing a wet nose around the house. Well, we still have Danil’s. We plan on getting another dog, probably a Labrador, soon.
Anyway, all is good here. We are healthy and happy and pray the same for all of you. Have a great summer, enjoy your families, and laugh often. We love you all.
Rob & Shante. So much has happened since the last WPN. Rob graduated in April and accepted a job with McCann Erickson Worldwide in downtown Salt Lake City. He is working on their Microsoft account as an Account Executive. He really likes it so far, and is enjoying life after school.
We recently moved to Lehi, UT to a condo. We are so happy to finally be done with student housing, especially since we are expecting a baby around December 3rd. We are very excited about the new addition to our family and can't wait to find out the gender of the baby next month!
Amy. Hi to everyone! We did have one of the big three (graduate, move, or marriage) last month. Brittany graduated in a class of 601 students (a little different from Tekoa High School). It was wonderful to meet Nadya and Danil and see some of you in Sedona! Now we are getting ready for our annual trip to the Archibald's cabin in Wisconsin over the 4th of July. Then we have a family reunion at Waterton National Park in Alberta the end of July. August 20th we take Brittany out to BYU. In between we have a lot of lacrosse, basketball, hockey, running, and a little work sprinkled in. Have a great summer!
Merrily. Abraham started piano lessons. He will attend an art camp this summer that has a Hawaiian theme. They’ll draw birds and fish and make tikis and leis. And he can hardly wait for the first annual Escalante backyard campout.
Solomon played spring league basketball. He mostly plays point guard and at nine years old he’s a better ball-handler than I ever was. His summer will consist of Cub Scout Day Camp, sports, and a song-writing class—and some going to the beach, the park, camping...
Eliahs and Victor are helping Robert build a deck. Last weekend we all worked together and moved about nine cubic yards of dirt. Solomon figured out that that’s over 22,000 pounds. No wonder our arms are sore!
We took the four boys down Highway 101 to Kaela’s graduation in May. We played at the sand dunes in Oregon and went to the Redwood Forest in California. Kaela now lives in Kahuku, HI. She works at Subway and is deciding how to use the scholarship she received. She does her best thinking about it at the beach!
Solomon played spring league basketball. He mostly plays point guard and at nine years old he’s a better ball-handler than I ever was. His summer will consist of Cub Scout Day Camp, sports, and a song-writing class—and some going to the beach, the park, camping...
Eliahs and Victor are helping Robert build a deck. Last weekend we all worked together and moved about nine cubic yards of dirt. Solomon figured out that that’s over 22,000 pounds. No wonder our arms are sore!
We took the four boys down Highway 101 to Kaela’s graduation in May. We played at the sand dunes in Oregon and went to the Redwood Forest in California. Kaela now lives in Kahuku, HI. She works at Subway and is deciding how to use the scholarship she received. She does her best thinking about it at the beach!
Kelsey works in banquet services at the casino in Worley, Idaho. She stays very busy. She called last Wednesday and had already worked 39 hours that week. She leaves for BYU-Hawaii August 1st.Robert is nearly finished with the Rainier Valley portion of his light rail project and is moving on to the airport phase. He’s the mastermind and busiest laborer on our extreme landscape makeover.
I’ve been the slave-driver around here. I took the boys to pick strawberries and we made 14 quarts of jam. Then we spent a day at Grandma Escalante’s house weeding her substantial garden. The 22,000 pounds of dirt was the day after that. I learned this keep-them-busy technique from our parents. It’s awesome.
Remember...
Reunion for the descendants of Leopold Wolf and Amalia Fetzner Saturday, July 26 at the Eberle farm, 2702 Fairbanks Road.
