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Another Reunion

Yesterday I drove up to Marysville, (east of Ashton) to my grandpa's farm for the Marvin and Laura Hillam reunion, my grandparents. My heart just gets full of warm and fuzzy feelings when I'm around my mother and her sisters and brother. They are good people. I'm so proud of my heritage. It was great to see so many of my cousins. But I can't figure out

HOW
DID
WE
ALL
GET
SO

OLD???

Still marvelous looking, but old.

A Great Story by Amy

In October 1993, when Amy was 7, she wrote this story for me. It is on paper about 5x7 in size and she put 5 staples down the left side. On the front is, I have to say, (sorry Amy), one of the funniest looking trees I've ever seen. :)

A Leaf and A Boy

One day a boy's mother told him to go rake up leafs. So he did he didn't realy want to but he still did. And he found lots of pretty leafs. And he found a realy pretty leaf and ran inside as fast as he could. And he showed his mom. He kept it and one night when he was going to bed. It started to talk. And the boy said who's there. And the leaf said me. Who's me. The leaf. A leaf is talking to me. I can't believe it. You better boy. And he ran up stairs. to his moms room as fast as he could. Mom you know the leaf I found. Yah. It was talking. Now don't tell lies. I'm not mom.
Now go back to bed now. But mom. Don't but me. Now go to bed now. Ok ma!
In the morning. He said are you still there leaf. My name is Bart. What's yours? Peter. That's a nice name. So is yours. Thanks. Do you want to go for a walk. Sure. That was fun swinging. I'm an airplane flying in the air.

The End

Andy

Yesterday Andy and Sarah came up to visit and to get some things out of the storage shed. It was fun to have them. Andy was looking through his baby box and it brought back some of the most tender moments. He was such a cute little boy and always had such deep thoughts. Like this one when he was 4 years old, on Mar. 25, 1992:

Andy: Mom, if a bull stepped on me, would I be dead?
Mom: It depends on where it stepped on you.
Andy: Yea. If it stepped on my blood vessel, I'd be dead meat, huh?

He used to love to lay on the bed by me and just talk. After his dad died, he seemed to have such an understanding of where his dad was and was so matter-of-fact about it all. He's such a sweetheart. Love ya, Andy.

Myers Family Reunion

July 17-18, 2009. We had the Myers Reunion in Soda Springs at Ron and Lorraine's house. Paul and Elaine were the hosts this year and we all had a great time. From my own family, Anneke and Tom and their girls, Anna, Abbie, and Kate came, and also Andrea and Brad. It was fun to visit and play. This is who was there:

Grandma and Grandpa Myers
Paul and Elaine Myers
Michael Myers
Brent and Linda Myers
Nathan and Heidi Myers, Porter and Sophie (Friday evening)
Marie and Doug Hadley
Doug and Heather Weber, Justin, Ryan, Hannah, Emma, Jacob
Kathy and Mark Sanders
Brian and Debbie Sanders, Hailey and Nicole
Nick and Laura Johnson, Cali, Paige, Cade, Brock
Joyce Bayles
Anneke and Tom Lindhardt, Anna, Abbie, Kate
Brad and Andrea Frandsen
Don and Darla Romrell
Dustin and Danie Romrell
Danae Romrell
Ron and Lorraine Myers, Lisa, Telford
Dustin and Tauna Carney, Jaxon
Rachael Huntsman

Not as many as last year, but it was still lots of fun. I don't enjoy anything more than being with family.

Glad we did it...

I've always been thankful that there was at least ONE thing I've done right and that was to make sure that we had Home Evening when the kids were growing up. I have so many fond memories of Monday nights. Reading in the Book of Mormon together, all the treats, singing, sharing stories and lessons and playing games. My favorite game was when the kids would take turns going out of the room and then come back in acting like some kind of animal. One time Ammon came slinking into the room and we guessed every kind of slimy, crawly thing we could think of. He finally told us he was a lightbulb. Huh? Another time we had kind of a spur of the moment talent show and Andy spent several minutes doing tricks on a kitchen chair. That was just the funniest thing ever. My kids all remember that and how funny he was. We kept a minute book of our home evenings and they are fun to read and they are proof that we actually had some good lessons and discussions. Sometimes we had a lot of contention and one or two or more of us would end up crying and wondering if it was all worth it, but yes, it was. Definately worth it. It never crossed my mind to stop having Home Evening when Hans died. In fact, it seemed to be even more important than ever. Over the years we had different kinds of charts that we used to rotate the responsibilites - conducting, opening prayer, song, lesson, activity, closing song and prayer, and our favorite: treat. There is so much going on in the world these days that we need to shield our families from and spending one evening a week together really is an inspired program. Strengthening our families - there's nothing more important. Nothing.

I LOVE MY FAMILY

I just spent two fun days with the family. Sam and Amy had come up for a couple of days, so we all got together at Tom and Anneke's house for a combined birthday party for Andy - June 13, Andrea - July 8th, Aaron - July 10th, and Sam - July 25th. We had a washer toss tournament too. The little girls did some swimming and we all did some eating and we all did a lot of laughing and enjoying being together. Ammon had a rodeo in Nevada, but Natalie came anyway and we're glad she did. Ammon and Paige and Makenna and Natalie's boys were the only ones not there. Fun time had by all. For some reason half of the pictures I took didn't even record on my memory card. Maybe it's too full. But here are a few that actually showed up. Just know that there were lots more. Ok then. I guess there won't be pictures after all because I'm losing patience with not being able to make it work. So just imagine a bunch of wonderful, handsome, beautiful, cute, fun people.