August 8, 2010

From the Editor's Desk


Time seems to fly by. I was reading my journal entry of July 8th and realized how much has happened in the last month. I hope that the blog gives you the opportunity to look at your lives and what makes life wonderful as well as gives you the chance to share with all of us about things going on.


The Wisconsin Haws Family

This has been a pretty busy week for us here. Logan went to the opening meeting for sports participation at Columbus Middle School. He is very excited about the school, new friends and teachers. We think this will be great opportunity for Logan. The most exciting news for Logan is that six new chicks arrived at our home last Monday. He and Emily love to hold the chicks. We are working on the chicken tractor. It is coming right along and I hope that it will be done very soon. Logan got a job with Sister Delie to walk her dog, Mya. He is excited.

Emily went to girl's camp this week. Her big news this week is that she was hired to work at Chips Restaurant. She will be going in on Tuesday for an introductory meeting. This will be Emily's first employment opportunity.

Lanette has spent the week in Janesville. She was able to go with some of the other students to Navy Pier Amusement Park in Chicago. She was able to go on subway, water taxi, large spinning swing and much more. She really had a good time. On Saturday she was able to visit some people in the Janesville ward. This will be here last week of working this summer. She has done really well.

Grant has had an interesting week at work with Marshfield holding the Hunters and Trappers Convention. Wednesday he had his first shift managing on his own...and since the restaurant didn't burn down, it went well. Otherwise, not much for him in news this week.

Mom has been feeling a bit poorly but we were able to enjoy a special date together to Royal Tokyo and a family trip to the Big Eau Plaine for kayaking and a picnic. It was really a lot of fun to go out together on the flowage. I am hoping that we will be able to do that again. She is looking forward to doing a special sewing class next week.


I was really delighted to hear this week that Julie and Jeff and Stacie and Kevin were able to do temple work for our ancestors yesterday. Julie and Jeff attended the Washington D.C. temple and did sealings. Stacie and Kevin attended the Albuquerque temple and did endowments. I love to think about how joyous our ancestors were as they saw their work done for them. Thank you, thank you, thank you.


The International Haws family

Dad and Mom,

Since we finally have computer access to pictures again I thought that I
would make up for time lost. I have set the images to a lower resolution
size so that they can be all included in a single email.

Pictures vary from your visit to a school party for Renata. There should be
a picture of Renata's newest nephew who arrived on Wednesday.

Beyond that life has been very normal. Kids are back in school, Renata as
well. Work continues challenging and exciting.

Jeff


Please review the many great pictures that Jeff and Renata sent this month.


The Albuquerque Jackson's

Stacie and Kevin had an enjoyable week. They played frisbee at the park, baked a cake to celebrate President Obama's birthday, and enjoyed what little time they had away from work. On Thursday Stacie learned that her best friend, Rowena Mensinger, was engaged recently. Stacie hopes to visit her for her wedding in Nauvoo at Christmas time, given that the weather doesn't prove it impossible. On Friday both Stacie and Kevin worked late. With residents checking in soon, Stacie finds herself endlessly busy at work. Kevin's work is much slower, however he often has the problem of working out schedules with other employees. Saturday was a wonderful day together. They replaced their bookshelf, attended the temple, and stayed up late watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Although the next few weeks will be very busy as Kevin begins school and Stacie becomes more and more busy at work, they look forward to the changes to their daily routine.


Newsport News

This week has flown by I can't even recall much of what we did this week. I took Haley to get her kindergarten physical, it is bitter-sweet that our little girl is growing up. The girls had fun at our community swimming pool where they were actually able to get wet, now that we don't have any casts on. I also took the girls to Kids Day at Fort Monroe. They had a wonderful time having the clown teach them how to make balloon dogs. Andy is training the new people that will be taking over their exercises in Iraq, because we only have 18 more days until Andy comes home. YEAH!


The Lanes of Virginia

Howdy! We have had a busy week here: Between creating a family goal chart, completing some goals, and reporting drunks we have been able to go on a date to see "Inception", attend the temple and hang out with some great people. Jeff and I decided that we wanted to work on somethings that have needed completion, but just have not gotten to it, so we made a chart to record what we have completed and when we have completed it by. So far we have studied some books, trimmed some waists and sanded some wood. We are hoping to keep this up- maybe not the wood for too long or we will end up with a bunch of toothpicks or a big pile of sawdust. Jeff has been getting a lot of studying in this week; which is awesome!! Julie is happy and sad. Happy that he is learning and sad because it cuts into "Julie's Hangout Time". Speaking of sanding wood. Julie is attempting to have a "legacy moment" where she carves a beautiful symbol into the chair. Instead of a sunset she is attempting a tree. Cross your fingers that she does not screw it up!!! Just so there is no question in anyone's mind- she is not wearing Eliza's wedding dress as she does it or screaming for "Richard".Tonight as we were coming home from an older couple's house where we had just stuffed ourselves on s'mores, lemonade and good company we spotted a drunk. For the twentieth time since we got married we have had to report a incident to the police. So far we have had to call in multiple noise violations, a burglary, a non-functioning streetlight (we got stuck at), a "high" driver and a drunk driver. We are becoming pro's, maybe we will both become cops someday when we grow up! Haha However to top that off - when we pulled up to our complex our new neighbor had his window open and was not wearing much- if you catch our drift. All we can say is that we are glad that we are have already put in our moving notice and we don't go out every night!!! Oh and we are excited because we figured out how to make some GOOOD GUMBO! Julie felt like she needed to watch "The Princess Frog" all week long! She loves that movie! For all who have not seen it you should because it is good!

Julie is having some health troubles so if you can remember her in your prayers it would be appreciated.