November 7, 2010

The Wisconsin Haws Family

The week has flown by. We had the roof repaired this week after last week's wind damage. I was most grateful that the cost was minimal. I count it was one of the blessings of the Lord.

Logan participated in his school's major fundraiser. Mom helped out too. It was called Alpine Holidays. They had all sorts of things going on including bands and various musicians, raffles, games (with Logan in charge of one of them), food stands and of course a beer garden. It is Wisconsin you know. I thing Logan enjoyed his part of the activities.

Emily played pep band this week for the Marshfield football team. Much to her amazement and the amazement of most of Marshfield the team won. They are in the state playoffs and will advance now to the quarter finals. Emily is excited to go to the next game but not as excited as the upcoming release of Harry Potter. Emily took her SAT yesterday. We are hoping to hear great results that may pay off with a scholarship.

Lanette has had a pretty quiet weekend. She always likes to visit someone but that did not work out this week. I did take her to the Alpine Holidays to walk around the area as Logan and mom worked.

Mom and I lost a dear friend. Leonard Zilch has been a person in our branch that was always especially kind to mom. He would drop of chocolate to her when she was working in the library. He was a delight in our high priest quorum. He passed away quickly over a few weeks after being identified to have liver cancer. We will be attending his funeral tomorrow.

Yesterday I had hoped to be able to attend the temple and take Lanette so that she could do baptisms for the dead. I had a sick patient come in on Friday evening so I could not leave town but it did give me a chance to build some cabinets that mom wanted me to build. As I was shelving the books I found some random pictures of some of you as children. It brings memories of how blessed I have been to be your dad.

Grant's News

This week was mostly just work, work, work for Grant. His boss was on vacation and that has Grant closing the restaurant every night. And that isn't so bad; however, when he has to go in early to work to finish up some projects and then has to stay until the wee hours of the morning because guests don't want to go home...then it is not too fun. Or like Tuesday, he has to be in Appleton (which is two hours away) for a meeting, then drive back to Marshfield and close the restaurant. Veteran's Day is this coming Thursday, so there has been a lot of preparation for that at work since veterans and active duty military eat free that day. On his day off this week Grant made the family his favorite fall dish, which is cranberry glazed pork roast, smashed red potatoes, brussel sprouts, and pumpkin cornbread. Emily wasn't a fan of the pork and Logan wasn't a fan of the brussel sprouts...but in general, everybody liked it.

News from Newport News

Not too much has happened this week. Andy was suppose to have a class here at Fort Eustis for the week, but since Fort Lee did not schedule a bus to transport the soldiers back and forth each day they canceled the class. Since they canceled the class, Andy decided to surprise the girls and I Monday night showing up at the house, but then had to leave at 3:00 am Tuesday morning to go back to Fort Lee. On Saturday we took the girls to the Home Depot workshop where they built spice racks (which the girls turned them into bookshelves). Leave it to both mommy and daddy to put the "bookshelves" together wrong by placing the backend in the front even when reading the directions!


The Jackson's of Albuquerque


This week was crazy at UNM with debates over tearing down dormitories and cutting budgets. Stacie and Kevin continue to be fearful about their future at the university. There are plenty of discussions about cutting employees in Stacie's department and cutting funding in Kevin's program. As they consider schools for Kevin's doctoral program, they are definitely focusing on university funding. Hopefully there will be more outside opportunities for them to excel in their current situation.


Other than that constant worry, the week went pretty well. Stacie helped the Mia Maids lead a combined "Service Scavenger Hunt" where the young men and women helped do small and simple services around local grocery stores. On Friday Stacie and Kevin joined some fellow graduate students for dinner. One of the graduates hosted "Icelandic Fish Stew" night, where they enjoyed a stew of Icelandic haddock, monk fish, baby shrimp, salmon. For dessert they had skyr, a tangy, rich yogurt with fruit and juice. On Saturday Kevin went in to work for much longer than expected to help with sport sign-ups at the YMCA and Stacie ran errands around town. They were very happy to spend the evening together enjoying dinner and a movie.