Once Upon a Time There Were a Bunch of Demings

Uh, Oops.

2009-12-08T18:36:00.000-08:00

Well, I posted this on accident. Meant for it to got to my blog, but enjoy anyways!
Amy, Roger and the family.

At It Again!

2009-12-08T18:26:00.000-08:00

Turd Furgeson is at it again! Yesterday while baking treats for the neighbors Max got into the flour and ate it, YUCK! It ended up all over him before I even knew what he was up to. He has also been tearing apart my tree since I put it up. I redid it on Friday and actually took the time to WIRE most of the ornaments onto the branches in hopes that it would last the next three weeks. Well, I thought I was doing well when I didn't see even one ornament out of place - UNTIL yesterday. Turd Furgeson managed to tear off at least 5 ornaments before I even realized what was going on. All my hard work for nothing!!! Here are the pictures to accompany said stories, and one more showing you his "personality" shining through! Little Turd!

Merry Christmas . . . just in case!

2009-12-08T16:02:00.001-08:00

In case I get too busy (too lazy) to make up Christmas cards this year again, I wanted to wish my family a Merry Christmas from the Sivill family. Finally got an updated picture with ALL of us. Poor Isaac.

Hello from Spanaway Land here in WA

2009-07-28T09:55:00.000-07:00

I realized today that I havent updated you all on ...well, ANYTHING! Alyssa Mae Eaton was born 12/21/08 8lbs 5oz. She is now 7 months old and all over the place! She is a wonderful child, so joyfull and full of wonder. I hope you all enjoy the pictures! I will pop in from time to time and update a little more often! LOL
Take care everyone! Hugs,
Beth

Got Back from Utah's Dixie

2009-04-30T23:10:00.000-07:00

So we got back today from St. George (or Santa Jorge as Peggy puts it). We had a lot of fun hanging out with mom and dad. Unfortunately for Peggy, the kids are both sun risers and they LOVE their Aunt Peggy so much!! They just had to let her know it at 6:30 in the morning.

It wasn't too hot which was a plus. It was warm enough one day to take the kids down to downtown's splash pad. What a disappointment. The stupid thing only squirts water for like 30 seconds and then takes like 1 1/2 to 2 minutes to recharge itself. Lucky for us, there was a stream feature behind that that flows water constantly and the kids had a blast playing in that. They had so much fun in fact that they both pitched royal fits when we left.

We won't talk about the house models we looked at while we were down there because there is absolutely nothing to say about it so I won't.

Arrivederci Mi Familia

2009-03-30T16:21:00.000-07:00

Okay- just in case you HAVEN'T heard...

I would like to announce that come May 27th, I will no longer be in this country! Nope, I will be teaching English as a Foreign Language through the use of the creative dramatics and theater... in ITALY!!!

I will get to travel all over the country, throughout the summer, one week staying in Rome and the next in Tuscany, the next Milan and so forth!

I will start my journey in a small coastal town called SAN REMO, which is a small coastal town that is very close to Genoa (look at the map).

I am so excited! I hope to see much more than just Italy when I am there, but all in all it's going to be a life-changing summer for me, and I can hardly wait!

Wow we suck -- Let's get on the ball!!

2009-03-30T12:45:00.001-07:00

Ok so happy birthday to the following folks for March --

Madeline - turned 4 this year
Jack -- says he's old enough
Doug -- doesn't care how old he is
Emily -- sweet 16!! (now everyone off the roads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Love you guys!!

Introducing...

2008-08-07T15:24:00.001-07:00

I want to introduce the family to my baby girl, Alysia Mae Eaton! I am 5 months pregnant and am doing well so far. Ryan and I are looking forward to December when we can welcome our child into the world. My official due date is December 27, 2008, so hopefully it will be around there! We ask for your prayers for a healthy baby and pregnancy.
Thank you Whitney for sharing your wisdom and encouragement with me! It really helps!
Take care everyone!
Beth

So with no one posting I will . . .

2008-08-06T20:21:00.000-07:00

post a random thought for the day! I just realized that Maddy, Isaac, Jack, Amy Jo, Brad, Mom and Dad and me are all going to be at Disneyland 3 weeks from now!!!! Yay!!

Here are some fairly recent pics of the kids:

Go Cougs!

Be dilligent young gaming Padawan:

Back again

2008-02-15T09:17:00.000-08:00

Wonderful changes to this blog! I really like it! Nothing really new to report on this end of the world....Chirstmas was uneventful around our house. Thanksgiving went well. We are totally remodeling our bathroom - gutted it and installing all new stuff from the floor up (including the floor!). Its the only bathroom in our house and it should be all worth it. I can provide some pics later.

I have gotten to know Whit and Peggy a little and I would really like to get to know the rest of my extended family, so anyone who would be interested I would love to hear from you! :)

Take care everyone!
Beth (Ted's Daughter)

It's A Deming Family Christmas 2007

2008-02-15T07:40:00.001-08:00

MY PROMISE TO YOU

2008-02-15T06:20:00.001-08:00

Okay family- i promise to all of you that with the changes of the look of this here blog that i will also do a better job writing to all of you-- including new anecdotes and what nots about my life regularly. i think all of you should do the same.

mom and dad... i think you should get a brand new blog and start including pictures and things about your new theater group.

everyone else- you should continue to write on your blogs too.

that is all.

love and miss you every day!

Halloween at the Sivills

2007-11-06T09:19:00.002-08:00

Um so blogger in all its finickiness is NOT letting me post pictures. It does this sometimes where it will not let me view or make comments to blog posts. I think it has to do with the fact that these functions are considered pop-ups and blogger and my computer do not agree about the usefulness of pop-ups. So instead I will update the kid's individual websites with the few pics I have of this year's Halloween.

http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/m/madelinecrackers/

&

https://www.babiesonline.com/babies/b/babybean2/

A Day in the Life of a Wheeling Momma - Part One - The Awakening

2007-11-06T09:17:00.001-08:00

Jack's alarm goes off at 6am and even though every rational part of my brain tells me I should get up with him because that will give me an extra hour or so before the kids get up, I pull the cover back up to my chin and fall to sleep. I justify this by saying to myself. I need to make up for the 20 minutes it took me to get the baby back to sleep this morning at 4am. Despite my best efforts to go back to sleep, Jack comes back in at 6:45 to kiss me goodbye which sets off a lovely chain of events. This wakes up Isaac who now thinks its time to play, and Jack's walking out the front door wakes Madeline up. So we're a merry bunch in my bed at 7am - bright and early. Thank heaven that either Dora the Explorer or Go Diego Go! comes on right about then because I can have Isaac amused by Maddy and Maddy amused by cartoons (hey Dora's educational - she teaches Maddy to speak Spanish) while I pull the covers back up to my chin and doze for another lovely 20 minutes.

By the time I'm back to conciousness again, Dora's over and Maddy wants breakfast and Isaac is back to sleep. This next part is always interesting. Maddy can hop out of bed no problem but I usually have to roll to the side to push myself up, but the baby is laying right next to me. The dilemma - do I push him over so I can sit up with the added consequence of waking him up or do I somehow manage to grab the edge of the nightstand with one hand, wedge my elbow between my body and the baby, attempt to sit up with all the grace of a beached whale, also with the possibility that I would wake the baby because of my awkward shuffling? I opt for the awkward shuffling since I know for sure shoving him over would wake him up, and luckily this morning the bassinette is sitting right next to the bed. So I manage to get halfway up when an inadvertant loss of balance swipes my elbow across poor Isaac's head. He stirs as I hold my breath. His eyes flutter open, look up at me, and as his eyes slowly close again he gets a small dimpled smile on his face. First obsticale to getting out of bed accomplished.

I face my second obsticale - the wheelchair. In it of itself, the object looks innocent enough. But lurking just below the surface is a cacaphony of noise-making, baby-waking potential. This, I feel, is one of the Quickie Titanium's fatal flaws. Every adjustment of weight, every turn of the wheel, every push extracts a veritable symphony of cracks, squeaks and mettalic pops. And the overature to all this is the wheeze and snap of the air cushion. I manage to get in without too much noise, although the baby does stir a bit. Turning the chair around (crack, crack, pop) and then heading to the door to get out (push - squeak, push - squeak, door open, turn - pop, crack) and I'm out. Success! Baby is asleep.

I sigh as I survey my house for the day. The good idea I had last night of tuning out the 2 1/2 year old while I tried to work on my online store doesn't seem like such a good idea this morning. Clothes, toys and food are scattered all over. I don't think any obstical course at the Para-lympics can match the gauntlet created by a 2 year old. I already know what her bedroom looks like. When I went in to check on her before I went to bed last night, my off-roading over her bedroom floor resulted in a decapitated doll from McDonalds (not a huge loss), a page being torn out of her Clifford book and a near-beaning as I roll over a Mr. Pototo Head body part. It is so tempting right now to spend the rest of the day on the computer but I know that if I let Madeline run amok again today that my house will look worse, I won't be able to get to her fast enough if she tries to break something, and I will feel worse. My grandma-grippers are for some reason in the kid's bathroom and as I'm retrieving them from under a pile of laundry, I hear Isaac screaming for me in the bedroom.

Next time - The Cleansing

Jack's Mom

2007-09-15T19:23:00.000-07:00

Kenny, Manee and Jack in Thailand

As most of you know, Jack's mom, Manee Sivill, passed away on Thursday, September 6th at around 10:45pm in Las Vegas.

I don't have many memories of Manee. We didn't see her much, but I do remember the first time I met her. It was a few months after Jack and I were married and I remember that she came up to me and gave me a huge hug. She always called me 'honey' and was always so concerned if I was doing ok. She and Jack hugged and hugged during that time because it had been a long time since Jack had seen her. The next time and I believe the last was right after Madeline was born. She was so excited to meet Maddy. I remember she laid Maddy in her lap with her hands cradling Maddy's head and talked to her softly in Thai. She kept saying how beautiful she was. I could tell that she loved her grandchildren very much.

Manee had been sick with kidney failure for a while but at the beginning of August, she collapsed and had been comatose. On Thursday afternoon, we had gotten a call from Laura, Jack's sister, saying the doctor's were saying it would be best that she be taken off life support the next day, on Friday night. Thursday evening Jack and I were hurrying to get things ready to go to down to Las Vegas first thing the next morning to be with her. I guess she decided she'd rather go her own way because she passed away at the hospital with Laura at her side that night.

The funeral was on September 11th in LV. It was a Buddhist ceremony. Buddhists (as far as my limited knowledge gathered) believe that the spirit hangs around the body for seven days, not really knowing its passed on. The monks, along with help from the immediate family members, say (or rather chant) prayers letting the spirit know that it is time to go to the next life, whether that be heaven or to their next reincarnation.

When the monks arrived at the funeral home they set up a table near Manee's casket with a statue of Buddha. They attached a piece of string from the Buddha to Manee, representing her ties to life. Then the head monk got up and explained about the ceremony and the prayers they were going to chant. After the prayers had been said they brought with them special straw like flowers. I missed what they represented (as I was wrangling a screaming, exhausted Madeline in and out of the chapel through the whole thing) but everyone in the chapel was invited to come and receive three of these from Laura and place in them over Manee. Then you could wish her a final goodbye.

After that was complete, the men in the family including Jack's brothers Kenny and Willy, step-brother Jim and brother-in-law Juan escorted the casket out of the chapel and down to the crematorium at the far end of the mortuary parking lot, while Laura carried the string. Once inside, another prayer was chanted and the lead monk cut the string with some scissors, representing Manee's ties to life being severed now. With the help of the mortuary staff, they placed her casket in the kiln and then together, Kenny, Jack, Laura and Willy all pressed the firing button together, which is the custom.

Being christian, it was interesting to see a different religion's perspective on death and I appreciated the simple beauty and symbolism of the ceremony. Manee looked very peaceful in her casket and the staff at the mortuary did an excellent job of making her look so. They had even painted her nails red like she used to like them. Her spirit was strongly felt there, especially at the end when all her children had to commit her body to fire. They grieved the most strongly then, and I think she was trying her best to comfort them.

In remembrance - Manee Sivill - 1944 to 2007

HAPPY B-DAY FRHITNEY!!!!

2007-08-24T20:21:00.000-07:00

hey dude- i love you. i love your babies. i love that you are my cripply.

please go HERE to see a more in-depth coverage on your birthday wishes.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDEE!!!!

Happy Birthday, Whitney!

2007-08-24T18:29:00.000-07:00

We want you to know we love you and your little goombas. Even your big Goomba, Jack! We are so glad he joined our family. You are an absolutely amazing mother and I don't think there is one person in our family who is not in awe of you and all that you are able to accomplish. Rock on, Girlfriend!
So make sure you take a minute to enjoy this the 31st year of your life. You're awesome!

The past re-invented

2007-08-22T11:42:00.000-07:00

Today I was organizing my closet when I came across the box I keep my wedding dress in. Out of curiosity to see how well it had been preserved, I pulled it out. It has yellowed some, that was to be expected, but amazingly it was still in pretty good condition.
Emily tried it on and it fit perfectly. I have to tell you, it sure was something to see. She kept saying, "Oh my gosh, Mom, You must have been a stick!". Yes, yes, I did have a figure once. LOL.
Of course, Emily would never consider wearing my wedding dress when she got married. It was, after all, yellow. But also because she said it was "way girlie". She wants to wear something a little more sophisticated. And that is just fine.
This whole adventure got me to thinking about how fast time flies by, and also, how it will not be too long before she will be leaving our home and moving on to her new life and family. She graduates in four years. Holy Crud!
So, we will enjoy the now, not worry about the fast approaching future and have a lot of fun reminiscing, telling old stories of when Mom and Dad were young, skinny, and bright eyed and bushy tailed. Even that old story about the whiplash kiss (Don's first kiss to me) was retold. For the 50th time.

Happy Late Birthday, Peggy!

2007-08-22T08:29:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh....we have no excuse. But we love you Peggy! You are the awesome-est, coolest, goofiest, dramtic-est, funnest, adventure-est, hippest sister/aunt that we know. Long live the Pegster!

Love,

Don, Susan, Ben, Jared, Sam and Emily.
(Your adoring fans)

Happy Birthday!

2007-08-21T18:25:00.000-07:00

Hey Peggy!! Glad Whit said something! That way I have a chance to say HAPPY HAPPY Birthday!!!! You and Whitney have been really great to me and I have come to really love you both! All the happiness in the world to you on this, your birthday!
LOVE and HUGS!
Beth

Happy Birthday Peggy!

2007-08-21T07:18:00.000-07:00

Since the move, I have packed away all my stuff and so don't have any cute photos of Peggy to share but I wanted to say:

Happy Birthday!!!!

I still love you even though you tried to kick me in the leg when you mad at me when we were little. Well, actually, you did kick me in the leg but you sort of missed and it didn't hurt that much.

Happy 20th Birthday, Ben!

2007-08-02T06:24:00.000-07:00

This is what he looked like then

Hiking is his favorite!

The Gay Prince from "Braveheart"

Gettin' snuggly with Aunt Peggy at Walden Pond

If you get a chance to give Ben a hard time today, please do! He is no longer a teenager!!

Ben was thrilled to receive his birthday present this morning, which consisted of 6 tickets to Brian Regan at Thanksgiving Point on Aug 18th (if anyone else is going, let's hook up!), the "I walked on the Moon" dvd, the original "Brian Regan Live" CD and a black "Take Luck" t-shirt. I think that does it on all things Brian Regan. But he loved it all.

So if you get a minute to wish him a happy b-day, please do. His cell phone is 386-2356.

Have a great day all and Take Luck!

A little help...?

2007-07-31T09:21:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

If you can view this post from you blog window, would you please email me and let me know. I am having trouble with my blog site updating and can't figure out how to fix it. I'm not sure if it's the computer or the blog site itself. So if you could email me and let me know, I can try to figure it out. Or if you have any ideas on why it is doing this, please let me know that as well.

oh and BTW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHELLY!

The Bradshaw's visit Springfield

2007-07-27T16:32:00.001-07:00

HOGWARTS SQUARE

2007-07-21T12:41:00.000-07:00

so last night i joined the ranks of several thousand other people in harvard square- turned into harry-ville as the world waited in eager anticipation for THE FINAL BOOK!!!

it turned into a game of trying to capture as many character-impostors as we could.

then it was off to a fancy-schmancy restaurant for HARRY THEMED DINNER! i even had a taste of the lip-smacking butter beer!

then the sorting hat got passed around and guess which house i'm in??? RAVENCLAW!! Whoot!

then it was back out to the middle of the square while we waited outside the doors of THE COOP at Harvard for midnight to strike so that everyone could claim their long-awaited prize!

i however did not get a book. i haven't even finished book 4! i know, i know don't get on my case about it!

all in all it was fun to join the mayhem of the night! mom you would have loved it but been severely disappointed as there weren't as many harry-potter things to do as would have been acceptable for you!

JUST SAW IT!

2007-07-19T20:58:00.000-07:00

dearest family: i know i am probably several days behind all of you on the viewing of our latest mr. potter movie... but i just went tonight to see it and

HOLY FREAK!!! it's my favorite one so far!

mom, i know you are waiting to go see it with dad when you get back home... but why don't you just bag that idea and go anyway- you are going to love it so much.

Some More Isaac Pics

2007-07-16T11:50:00.001-07:00

So far he has been a really good baby. He wakes up about 1 to 2 times a night and always to eat. He likes to sleep a lot during the day and loves to be held. He's had some problems with jaundice but according to his blood test on Sunday, his levels are still high but within normal range for his age. Maddy still loves to love on him, give him kisses and hold him. We're still working on the being gentle part but I think she's getting it slowly but surely.

P.S. There are more pictures on his website - check it out! http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/b/babybean2/

Dad is in Business - the theater business that is...

2007-07-14T07:26:00.000-07:00

My dream has come true. The SunRiver St. George, Inc has accepted my proposal to create my own "Senior" theater here in SunRiver St. George. For those of you who don't know where SunRiver St. George is, it is located just south of St. George, Utah and is an over 55 Senior Golf Course retirement community. Patti and I moved here after we got home from our mission. It have been my dream to open my own theater so I can select the best theater works out there. You see, when Patti and I were at the St. George Musical Theater we could only do musicals. With this new theater we can do it all.

Let me tell you about our new theater. Its name is SunRiver St. George Senior Theater Company and is housed in the SunRiver St. George Recreation Facility. We have a beautiful stage, and a hardwood floor ballroom which will be the seating area. My title is Artistic Director and will be the chairman of the Artistic Board for the next two years. My initial responsibility will be to establish a Board of Directors whose responsibilities will be to finance the theater through gifts, grants, and income. They will be the watchdog over the growth of the theater which will, hopefully, outgrow our current facilities and lead to a new theater complex. The Artistic Board will be made up of professional, semi-professional actors, directors, music directors, choreographers, costume designers, etc. Their job will be to select the productions the theater will perform, select the production staff (directors, choreographers, music directors, etc.) and oversee the professional quality of the productions being presented.
The senior theater concept in the United States is relatively new. There are only about 700 nation-wide. The actors have to be over 55 years old and all the scripts are written for senior actors. Many of the scripts are written in for short vignettes in the 15 to 20 minute duration. Using the same subject matter, multiple of these can be put together to form a show.
This theater will allow people like me who are too old for leading rolls in a standard theater format to find new and exciting rolls as a senior.

I have purchased many senior scripts. I have identified many more to include musicals, reader’s theaters, comedies, murder mysteries, dramas, you name it. This field is exploding. If you want to see what kind of theater is available go to seniortheater.com and you will see just some that are available.

Well that should give you some idea what is in store for me for the next couple of years and then who knows.
Love DAD

Presenting the NEWEST family addition!!!

2007-07-10T21:56:00.000-07:00

Isaac Douglas Sivill

Born: July 10, 2007

7 lbs. 10 oz.

and really long (according to Jack!)

Red hair and fair skin! Wow, very cool and so very Deming!

Maddy & Issac
(Maddy's new playmate and sparring partner!)

A proud Granny -- Grandchild #11!!!

Congrats to Whitney and Jack

GET SOME REST & SOME GOOD DRUGS, BEANS!

YESTERDAY...

2007-07-10T05:19:00.000-07:00

i told the kids that i was leaving. they cried, then i cried and we proceeded to do that for a half hour. we held each other, they asked a few questions indicating that they didn't quite understand why i had to go... and then i went and got a dustpan and cleaned up my heart that had shattered into 800 million pieces.

these kids are my best friends out here. we have good times... no correction... GREAT TIMES... there are times i wanted to strangle them... times they probably wanted to strangle me. we laughed every single day. we had serious talks sometimes. and at the end of the day we snuggled up to a good book.

it's not like i will NEVER see them again. i told them i still wanted to be a part of their lives, have sleepovers with them, take them to movies, come to their games and such... and all of this is true. but leaving is still very very hard and this conversation was just the beginning of the ache.

Happy Late 4th of July....

2007-07-07T09:51:00.000-07:00

It looks like everyone had a great 4th of July. Our family had a sort of screwball one. Don had a huge deadline looming over him at work, and we had nothing planned for the 4th, so on Monday, July 2nd, the kids and I (minus Ben) took a mini vacation down to St. George to visit Mom and Dad. And we had a great time!

Mom and Dad were the perfect host and hostess as usual. Even being willing to go to Zion Park in the 115 degree weather, but we did spare them at the last minute. We played the Wii. Dad really loved the golf and bowling. We had hamburgers and hotdogs and we even celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary with Dinner and cake.

Dad told some great stories of when he was in the military. And the boys loved spending some one on one time with grandpa. Grandpa even showed us Eragon which we had never seen before and liked. Grandma showed us "Song of the South", a present that Doug had given Mom for her birthday. Seems like every time we started to watch a movie, something would interupt it. So, Dad, you still owe Jared a viewing of "The Hunt for Red October" sometime at your convenience.

Man was it hot, tho. I will pray every night that the power never goes off there during the summer. That would be some misery!

It was way too hot to sit outside and watch fireworks, so when we left Mom and Dad's house that night, we watched the fireworks in the comfort of our car with air conditioning blasting in a vacant lot by our hotel.

The last day of our vacation we spent at 7 peaks water park. I actually went in the water (i ususally don't like to display my rotund bod)! I've never seen the park so crowded. The wave pool was so crowded that you couldn't move without bumping into someone. It was a little scary seeing all these little kids bobbing up and down in the water. A couple of em looked like they were drowning, but it all turned out fine. We really enjoyed our time together and had a lot of fun dumping each other over. Bad news was we did get sunburned even while using SPF 50 baby strength sunscreen. But we are feeling ok now.

It was nice to relax for a few days and just enjoy being together, although we did miss Ben and Don a great deal.

2007-07-05T16:02:00.000-07:00

Hey Uncle Doug and Aunt Patty! Happy Anniversary! I didnt know when yours was so I will have to mark it on my calendar for next year. :)
love ya!

The Coolest Fireworks Show in the USA

2007-07-05T09:40:00.000-07:00

seriously, believe me or not, but bean-town is a cut above the rest when it comes to their fireworks show.

being in a canoe, on the charles river, listening to the boston pops play, getting rained on, 2 hour round trip canoe adventure and some really great friends were only the precursors for the amazing fireworks show that i watched last night. and i couldn't have asked for better seats... the barge that carries the fireworks was about 200 yards away from us... no other boats blocking the view, no trees, no weird people trying to cram next to us. perfection!

it was even okay that it completely rained on our parade-- i was soaked through to the bone... and wearing white pants (that was quite a view)... it was freezing. but really and truly i would do it all again in the same conditions. and the people i was with made it all worth it.

next year i really would love to have some of my most favorite people here with me on the that canoe-- yes, i mean all of you.

2007-07-04T17:56:00.000-07:00

One Week From Today

2007-07-03T22:43:00.000-07:00

One week from today little Isaac will be here. Weird!!!! I'm pretty sure of this because Dad gave me a blessing that said that he will come at his appointed time and not before then so one week it is.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!

2007-07-03T12:12:00.000-07:00

to mom and dad on their 46th wedding anniversary

you are a mom and dad
to more than just one lad (and lass)
you've changed diapers and such
and heard whining way too much
you fought through it all
it took much gall
and now you look back on this great deming fam
and see how it's grown you old grandpa and gram
thanks for giving birth to all us weirdos
some of us have caused a lot of woes
but we love you nonetheless
and we'll try to do our best
to show how much we love you
for it is quite true
that we are who we are all because of you!

how's that for hallmark, huh?

You Have To See These

2007-07-02T19:00:00.000-07:00

so i went a little crazy with the camera the last couple of days. i am actually working on a special (secret) project for the thorndikes as a going away gift. check out some of the photos i got of anna and russ today... aren't they amazingly beautiful?

IF You Haven't Already...

2007-06-30T06:31:00.000-07:00

... go to the bradshaw bunch website and check out the amazing things susan is doing with the family history stuff. i love hearing stories and seeing pictures of people that are part of our family but i never got to know. pretty powerful stuff.

THANKS Sue for all of your hard work and dedication to the family.

Update on SunRiver St. George Senior Theater

2007-06-29T16:51:00.000-07:00

Well, the last two weeks have been, shall we say, interesting? I have been to two meetings to date and both times came out feeling the person I was talking to not only understood what I was proposing, but was excited to get started.....However...... I was passed up the chain of command to the next approval body and had to make technical changes to my Proposal Document and the SunRiver St. George Senior Theater Company BY-LAWS. So now it is up to the next level of approval body, the SunRiver St. George Community Association Board of Trustees. I am hoping they will find it just as exciting and clear the path for me to get started. Keep you fingers crossed for me.

Mom and I love our new house, it was made for us. Please come see us some time and let mom show you her new "creation". I know gasoline is expensive, so I will make you a deal. You pay for the gas coming down, I will pay for it going back.

Just got off the phone with Peggy. She was at a Red Sox game and didn't have time to talk, so I told her to give me a cheer. She yelled, Go Sox and all the people around her let out a yell too. So cute, those folks in Boston.

Happy Birthday to Sammy from grandma and grandpa. The gift is in the mail.

See you all on the 9th of July. Won't be able to come up for the 4th. We both have annual physicals and mom is still in rehab for her back. (It's getting better all the time.)

Love Mom and DAD

I Never Know....

2007-06-29T16:38:00.000-07:00

Ok people, I never know what to write on these stupid blog things, so, I have to write boring things.

So, Brad and I have booked three weddings that we are doing, this summer, which is way cool. If you would like to check out some of our work, you're always welcome to check out our website- bradovardphotography.com. Just so you know, we haven't had the chance to update too many of the photos; so, if you've already seen it, it might not look that much different.

Uhm.... some exciting news (not so exciting news for anyone else, really) is that Brad and I have ordered our "portable" lighting system! This includes another flash and two light stands with umbrellas.... hurray! So, yeah. That's what's going on thus far with us.

Hey, will some one explain to me how to upload a video from youtube.com? I've got a couple of fabulous videos that I would like to share with everyone!

Anyway, I believe.. I believe.... I believe.. THAT'S ALL FOLKS!!!!

LATER!

Sam-Then and Now

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Click on the Pic to see closer (if you dare....)

Sam Bradshaw turns Sweet 16!

2007-06-28T14:21:00.000-07:00

16 years ago an amazing person came to this Earth. Samuel K Bradshaw. One of the most loveable people that ever lived. Sam is truly a peace maker (except with Emily....hey, they're siblings after all!) and shows love and acceptance to every one he meets. Our family has truly been blessed because of him.

No one will ever forget his contagious laugh and enthusiam for all things comical. Brian Regan is his idol. Invader Zim is his bud and Sponge Bob, although fading from his favorites, is still heard every once in while.

Sam is truly the Pied Piper. Every kid that meets Sam automatically is drawn to him. It doesn't matter where we go, there is always a little kid wanting to be around Sam.

For his birthday today, Sam went on a shopping spree and got a whole new wardrobe! He wanted to show it off for all of you. Hope you enjoy!
BTW, Sam will be having a family b-day party in July along with Chelly and Ben. We will get you more info as time gets sooner. I'm thinking the weekend of the 15th. So i'll keep you posted.

Happy Birthday, Sam! You're one in a trillion!

Birthdays

2007-06-28T11:46:00.001-07:00

I am a March birthday too. :)

ALL ABOUT SAM!

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in honor of the birthday boy, i will now share a few of the following things i remember about sam.

+ when susan brought sam home for the first time, i was there... arms open and ready to make him mine. she put him in my arms and he smiled. i knew then that he was mine and sue could have visitation rights every now and then!

+ as sam grew up, like 2 years old, he started to notice a small little thing hanging from his nether regions... no it's not what you are thinking... it was actually his OUTY belly button. the best part about it was he would stand over the toilet and hang on to it, as if he were trying to go the bathroom. freak dude you are awesome!

+ sam is really good for a snuggle. i know this because of the many hours we did this watching movies

+ one time i was babysitting the kids, sam must have been no more than 3 years old, i was calling everyone to dinner and we couldn't find sam anywhere. i started to panic. where could he have gone? i had checked in all of the usual places... but no sign. then i decided to check his room one last time. there he was, fast asleep in his bed. jammies and all. he used to do that, if he got tired he would put himself to bed... loved you for that man!

+ sam IS spongebob! have you ever heard his impersonation of his laugh... SPOT ON!

+ about 2 or 3 years ago, sam had to get this spacer thing put in his mouth to correct the size of his mouth or something. anyway, it turns out they cranked it too much and sam ended up with one of the biggest mouths on the planet. ROCK AWESOME and freaky all at the same time.

+ sam is one of the kindest dudes i have met. you know the expression "heart of gold" well they based it off of him... true story.

+sam brings light to this world in the most unique way... I LOVE IT!

i love you sam. i hope you have a great b-day. you rock my world!

Happy Birthday, Sambob!

2007-06-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday, Sammy!!

If I Kept My Hair Natural Like Yours, I'd Be Bald!

2007-06-27T21:09:00.000-07:00

New Post on Mostly Madeline

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So I finally got around to remembering my name and password for my Mostly Madeline blog, so everyone has to go and check it out.

Also, can you believe MY SON will be here in 13 FREAKING DAYS!!!!!! Not only that but we will be hopefully moving into actual house not too long there after. I'll make sure to post pics of both child and house as I can get them. My digital camera went kaput not too long ago and so I have no insta-pics to share.

I am, however, posting our little family's Easter pic so that y'all have at least something.

all because of Peggy

2007-06-27T17:32:00.000-07:00

http://beth-eaton.blogspot.com

see what you did? (love ya!)

oops

2007-06-27T16:25:00.000-07:00

That was supposed to say "Congradulations!" forgot the "s" (Doh!)

Congradulation!

2007-06-27T16:24:00.000-07:00

Happy Anniversary! :)
hugs,
Beth

2007-06-27T15:59:00.000-07:00

Oh! and one more thing....Today is my 21st Wedding anniversary!
Yeah, Thanks!
Oh my goodness, I'm old and getting older. Seems like we got married just yesterday. Where did the time go, for heaven's sake?? We're still on our honeymoon!
(hmm...should I tell everyone that Don is working late to make him look like a jerk...hmmm... Nah..He's taking me to SnowBird on Friday...ok... its all good...I'm not mad...I'm not mad....I'm not mad...yeah, you keep telling yourself that...).
So here's to 21 more years!
Thanks everybody! Have yourself a great day!

And to Don....I love you, Don. I hate that your working late, but we can deal with that....again. You're the best.

2007-06-27T15:44:00.000-07:00

Ok....I went about it all the long and hard way. I was trying to use the old noodle to figure this out and now I see I made it much harder for myself than need be! I started my OWN BLOG site!!! I swear I would never do it...kicking and screaming....and then I realized what a great resourse it would be to let everyone know about our family history stuff....ok quit snoring. But, no, really! so I will be adding stories and schtuff about peeps in our family tree and hopefully people will think its cool and want to know more and...well you get my drift.

So just to try out the pic thing....here is a pic of the Bradshaw Fam. Enjoy. And I have no idea how to tell you what my blog is so....treat me nice and explain already.

Alright! I did it!

2007-06-27T14:41:00.000-07:00

Hi Hi Hi!

This is Beth in Tacoma/Spanaway in case you guys had no idea who this weird person was! LOL I think this is going to be so cool! I really want to get to know my cousins better so I hope you all will post on this thing!

Ok so lets try this picture thing..... I dont know if some of you are aware but my husband, Ryan, and I adopted a 3 legged dog from a Georgia Rescue Society (Old Fella Rescue Society). She came cross country in about 5 or 6 RV's, being handed off by people who we didnt even know who volunteered to transport her to us.

Here is the link to a news clip about her: http://www.king5.com/video/animal-index.html?nvid=147341 If you want to go straight to the sight for King 5, its http://www.king5.com/ go to animal/pet video and the title is "Cross-country effort brings lucky dog to her new Washington home May 27th, 2007" you can see her and us camping. We did change her name from Anna to Tia. Now lets see if I can download some pictures of my babies. We have 3 dogs now. Tia, Misty, and DJ (Misty and DJ are Golden Retreivers and Tia is a Lab)

Ok so my images went to the top thats ok! DJ is the first one, then Misty, then Tia - me- and Misty and then Tia.

Hope to hear from you all soon!

So You Wanna Post But Don't Know How

2007-06-27T14:18:00.000-07:00

Okay, fair enough. Some of you have never been on Blogger before and don't know what you are doing. Here are some step by step directions to posting your very own blog!

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Step 1: If you are looking at this post then you are already at the half-way point, CONGRATS!

Step 2: If you look at the top right-hand corner of this screen you will see either, create blog or sign in. You should select SIGN IN. Not to be confused with SINGING IN which i almost typed. SINGING will not help you here!

Step 3: If you have a Google Account, you should be able to sign in using your google email address. If not, shame on you and get one already and then use said account to sign in.

Step 4: Once in, you should be looking at a screen titled DASHBOARD which will allow you to see all of the blogs (in most cases you only have one at this point) to which you are tied to.

Step 5: Look for the title of our Blog Deming Do Do's and just below that you should see the words NEW POST with a green + next to it. Click this!

Step 6: Now you are on the Posting page. At the top you should see all the tabs to which you shouldn't try to go to... I AM THE ADMIN and am the only one that has rights to change anything nanny nanny boo boo!

Step 7: Look at the Posting Page. You should see a place for you to add a TITLE at the top. Then below, Click into the main body of the page and begin typing. You should have the functionality to change fonts, colors, size and such. You will also notice the spell-checker and right next to that it looks like a really cheesy picture of some mountains or something. This is the link to adding pictures.

TO ADD A PICTURE:

Step 1: Click on Picture Link (if confused, see Step 7 above).

Step 2: At the top you should see the BROWSE button which should connect you to your computers list of pictures.

Step 3: Choose a photo

Step 4: Look below the browse button to see how you can choose where in the post to put it and how big or small.

Step 5: Select the UPLOAD IMAGE and wait until the box appears telling you that it was successful!

DONE!!

Well, we are off and running

2007-06-27T13:59:00.000-07:00

Hi from St. George, Utah. Momma and me is great. we's been workin hard putten dis stuff toget her. Lookin forword to Ice-Lick bein borned.

Alfie

Mr. Bobstah, You Alright Sir???

2007-06-27T12:56:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Blog-Land my dearest family! YAY for modern technology, now we get to love each other a little more each day, by keeping one another posted with pics and stories and such in our every day lives! oh what fun!!!

Now it's your turn-- post something-- a favorite story, a picture-- something wicked!