HAPPY 86th!!!

Grandma you are the greatest! Thanks so much for being the strength of our family. Without you (and grandpa, of course!) this precious family wouldn't be. So thank you for creating this beautiful family.

For grandma's 86th birthday we had a little family dinner with those in the Orem area. We were thrilled to have Glenna and Madelyn join us (and put the whole thing together!)

Grandma's home teachers came by to sing "happy birthday" to her...we were a little intimidated since they can actually sing. Not sure if you know this, "happy Birthday" is not one of our best songs

The kids were more than willing to lend some extra air to help grandma blow out all the candles

All in all it was a great night of family and fun! Grandma we love you so very much and are always so thrilled to help you celebrate another year.

Tribute to an amazing family (from Anderson blog)

Melissa posted this about a week ago. She did such an amazing job and expressed how im sure, we all feel. In case someone missed it I copied it to have on here. Thanks Melissa for your beautiful words

Tribute to an amazing family
You know when something tragic happens to people you love and you feel so helpless? I have been feeling that all this week as my cousin Hutch Henrie returned to our Heavenly Father leaving behind his wife and unborn child. He is the third in his family to leave this life and the Henrie Family has had to endure more heart ache than anyone should have to. I feel there is nothing I can do, so I write a tribute to a beautiful family that I love.

Hutch-you and Mitch with your long hair, you were two of a kind. You held out a bit longer than Mitch did with keeping it long. It was your signature and I loved it. You always had a huge smile and a deep lovable laugh. Thanks for always teasing with me as a kid, I am sure that I was annoying, but you always let us stick around anyways. You will be greatly missed by all of us.

Tell your Mom hi for us and that we love her and miss her deeply. I know that the “sisters” feel a great hole when they get together and miss their beloved sister. She was always so fun and cute in her overalls with her long hair. I guess that runs in the family. Aunt Verna is one of those that had a great love of nature and animals and passed that love on to her children. Your family is beautiful because of her and Steven of course who is the gentlest most kind and loving man I have ever met. He gives the greatest hugs and we are praying for him and the rest of your family.

And Ashley-give her a big hug for us too. She was the first to leave this beautiful family. Always so happy and fun to be around. She could make anyone laugh and was great to talk to. I know our Heavenly Father loves this family and is watching over those who are left on this earth to finish their work here. He has a plan and is in charge- I can’t imagine the grief of this family that I love, but I know that they will be able to be together again in the next life. We love and miss you Hutch.

Welcome!

With everything that has been happening in our lives I thought it would be a good idea to set up this family blog. We will all have access to post whatever we care to share. I know some of us already have blogs but this one will be for our family to share with one another. We are all so spread out and I feel that we need something to bring us together. This is my contribution! If you have a blog already but want to bring our attention to a particular post, just create a post on this blog with a link to the post you want us all to read. This really is just a way to keep in touch a little better. Somehow we will even have to get grandma to see this, maybe even have her type a post every once in awhile! Now that would really be fun!!!