Photo updates

I recently took the boys into have their pictures updated on the family room wall. If I don't label and date them, I am going to be in BIG trouble. I always said that I have "cookie cutter" kids. They continue to look like each other. I think the photographer captured their character though.

Time keeps rolling on...

Well, we are still unemployed at the moment, so no new news on that front. With Conference Weekend coming up Ed, as Bishop, is taking the priests and laurels down to Salt Lake City. I am supposed to go along, but since Grandma and Grandpa Greenfield are in Hawaii there is no one to be with the boys, thus I may stay home. Ed challenged all of us to read the Book of Mormon prior to conference, and I am happy to report that Jennifer and I just finished, while Ed has also finished it and the Doctrine and Convenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and everything else in the Pearl of Great Price. I guess it was a blessing to not have to have work get in his way.

The Union Titans basketball team won the State Championship this season. Jennifer got to cheer at several of the final games in the Tacoma Dome. We made the trip up there every day for about a week so the kids could cheer them on.

Still no news

Actually we do have news...Jennifer was accepted into BYU-Idaho!!!! Yeah!!! We are so proud of her. Now we just have to figure out financing.

Well, Ed has been off work for over a month now. We are still waiting to hear about a job offer. In the meantime, I have been busy working on getting rid of a lot of the fabric I have in my craft room. The kids and I made 12 baby quilts and 4 bigger quilts to donate to Project Linus. In return we will receive a voucher from Disney for 6 one-day passes to a Disney resort. (The kids all want to go to Disney World.) We need to use them by December 15th, so we have some time for Ed to get a job so we can afford to go. It was a fun way for them to see that it takes effort to get to go do something fun. Right now I am in the process of making a new flannel quilt for Ed. I made him one for Christmas, but he decided it was too small (it was a lap quilt) and so now we will have one for our bed. It will keep us really cozy and warm.

This year has really flown by, and during most of it I have been hiding a secret. Ed's job asked him to move to Denver early this year. He told him that we would, but asked if it could wait until our oldest graduated from high school this coming June. They agreed. Well, then back in October they informed Ed that the position was no longer available. (Gads, I'm glad we didn't rush into moving there.) They instead offered him a position in Oregon which he was unwilling to take. We were expecting his final day to be right before Thanksgiving, but then the bosses wanted to look at alternatives. December 18th was Ed's final day with the company. Ed had worked at this job for the last 25-26 years. The company had changed hands around him, but he had always managed to remain. Now, not many of the original folks are left.


Keep us in your prayers as we seek out new employment.

The past months in Review

September: The start of a new school year. Both Jennifer and Edward are at Union this year and loving it. Andrew started playing football for Pacific Middle School. Aaron is back to homeschooling at River Home Link.
October: Halloween. The kids all dressed up this year. Jennifer went to a party the week before as Cleopatra and a college student on Halloween. Edward was a very convencing doctor. Andrew recycled his wolfman costume. Aaron went as a Nija, and Dapple went as "Sherlock Bones."

November: It's hot and heavy into Union Titan Football. Jennifer cheered a lot of the varsity games and all of the JV games, but really got into being the Varsity team's "manager" (she taped up the boys prior to practice and games, went to all their practices, handed out penalities for tardiness, and was "water girl" during the games she didn't cheer). She loved it! She even got to ride the bus up to Tacoma with the boys when they won 3rd place in State!

Andrew started wrestling for Pacific this fall/winter. So far he is 3 for 3! Way to go Andrew!

She's Growing Up

It is hard to realize that it was just 12 short years ago that I sent Jennifer off on her first day of kindergarten. This morning she drove off on her first day of her senior year. My time flies...! Now that she has her license she is able to drive herself and Edward to school and to seminary (which starts next Monday). In the last couple of weeks she has been getting ready for this moment by going out with Ingela and taking her senior photos. Here are a few samples. Ingela does a great job.

R & R - or - ME Time

I had a chance to fly to Chicago to spend the weekend with my hubby back on the 14th of August. It was a great time to just be together. Now that Jennifer has her driver's license she was able to run the boys where they needed to be while we were both gone. The weekend of the 21st the boys all went to a Boy Scout Jamboree up at Fort Lewis. Jennifer and I spent the weekend at my sister's house in Puyallup. She and her daughter joined us on a drive to Forks, WA (the sight where the movie "Twilight" was filmed). We barely made it home before I was packing my suitcase again for a trip down to Utah to visit my good friend Wendy. It has been a very relaxing, fun-filled couple of weeks.