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November? You're Kidding....

Well here I am in a beautiful winter wonderland. We have about 2 feet on the ground and the trees are all flocked and shimmering! My very favorite time of the year on the mountain...Hope all is well in your households. We were able to see Mary Kathryn on her 41st Birthday....did I say 41...can't be. It was fun to see how her family had decorated the house with balloons and streamers...I understand they woke her up before 6:30 to present the traditional breakfast in bed! Anyway she's a wonderful daughter and we love her a whole bunch! We were able to tend Zach and Jackson for a night and see Zach's musical production of Cinderella...it was great and Zach looked very handsome in his tux! Jackson played the piano for us and he's really coming along. Zach was to play in Church today and I'm sure it went very well. We were also able to see the Bingham-Alta playoff game where Shelby marched and then Nathan's championship game which his team won too!!!!how exciting a week-end was that... By the way we also saw Beau and Cheryle and they weren't doing too well. Both of them feeling pretty miserable with the flu...hope they are feeling better today. Granny was doing pretty well last week. I'm going down tomorrow to spend the day so I will keep you all posted. Dad/PaPa Joe is very, very busy in the ward. We have two missionaries coming home and two going out this month as well as Ward Council Christmas Party at our house and "Walk to Bethlehem" activity for the ward. We also have a ward temple day on the 19th and delivering baskets to the needy on the 20th...But he is being blessed...we drove home in a raging snow storm last night and then he shoveled the driveway and road for about 2 1/2 hours after we got home and left at 5:30 for his bishopric meetings! He certainly is in good shape!! Did I mention that Jennifer's choir, Mountain Aire, performed a great concert in October. We really enjoyed their beautiful music that Jen had taught them. I understand that Joseph has his first official date this month...a formal dance I believe! (and it was girl's choice) Pretty nice to turn 16 and have the girls ask you out! Samuel and PaPa Joe and Joseph had a great deer hunt! They didn't get anything but I think they really had fun together! We have several world travelers in our family; Jamon and Laura have been in Miami this past week for Jamie's work. I saw an e-mail picture with Laura and the Miami Heat mascot..they must have been at the game...Beau and Cheryle have been in Chicago recently and had a great time...(maybe that's where they got this flu) Mary is working several shifts at the hospital each week and she's so busy it makes me dizzy!
Shelby is getting ready for Drill Team competitions every Saturday in December and Kirsi is in a dance production at BYU this month. Nathan is in a school play which will be presented in January and Dawson just won third place in his first Chess Tournament! Ryan will be trying out for the school basketball team soon. We wish him well! He's quite the athelete.. Joseph, Sam, Ben and David are working on their string performances which they will share at the Care Center during the Christmas season. Update on our darling little Jacob. Jen was able to secure a treadmill and they are going to teach Jacob to walk..check out her facebook for the details..Wow Jacob is a lucky little guy to have such a great family! I love you guys...thanks for being such a great family!

I'm hoping we can all be together for Thanksgiving. Love, Mom, Kathy Grandmother

"And When October Comes......"

Well, I seem to be the slowest and most unproductive of this Jarvis clan! I have good intentions of blogging but....well here goes. I can't believe we've just had our first snowfall of the season and I haven't even brought in my plants....Well the deer and raccoons have been enjoying the blossoms anyway...so all is not lost. This has been quite a month already and it's only half over. One of our very dearest friends died suddenly of a heart attack and it really shocked me into thinking about my parents, my children and grandchildren and my husband. I must not let the days come and go without telling each of them how very much I love them and how they have blessed my life. The past few weeks have been especially hard ones and my family had rallied to support and help us so much. I'm sure is questionable to each of you just who is the parent and who is the child right now....It has been a rather humbling experience and I'm sure I don't get any awards for how I've handled things but please know this the Lord has watched over us and blessed us through each of you.

A special Birthday wish to Joseph, David, Nicholas, Grandmother and Kirsi. You are all so dear to me and I love you more than words can say. Joseph...our very first grandson...so handsome and smart and talented...David ...my 60th birthday gift who I know loves me...because he tells me so everytime I see him. Nicholas...our adorable 4 year old so innocent and beautiful, Great Grandmother who has loved us all so much and has been a great example of patience and longsuffering through some very difficult years and of course our oldest grandchild....Kirsi Elizabeth who will be 19 on Halloween, a bright shining star! What wonderful memories we have of each one and how blessed I am with this beautiful family.

We have been blessed with a wonderful harvest on the farm,. Thanks to all of you who helped weed, pick, protect, sell and harvest the crops. Some of you even cooked them up for us! The Lord has provided lots of great tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, eggplant and even sunflowers!

I'm really looking forward to the rest of this month....David's baptism on Halloween, Shelby's Junior Miss Pageant and hopefully seeing some football games now that the harvest is over! I love you guys...you're the BEST!

Fall in the Air....and I Love it!

How I love this time of year! I'm looking out my window from the loft and see splashes of red maples and yellow aspen...It has begun..the magic of September on Cedar Mountain. I feel so blessed to live in such a beautiful place...in fact today I feel so blessed with so many things. Yesterday was our first Farmers' Market in Salt Lake. The Lord has blessed us with such an abundant crop to sell. Farmer Joe did work awfully hard to get it in the ground and the grandsons certainly helped with the weeding and watering, etc. but Heavenly Father truly blessed us this first year of farming! Joe, Beau and Cheryle were able to sell most everything and even on a Labor Day week-end. You notice my name is not there...I went up to the Farm on Thursday and we picked beans and corn all day Friday but somewhere between 11:00 p.m., Friday and 2:00 a.m. Saturday I caught the gumboo and couldn't raise my head off the bed. To make matters worse the power went off and Joe was trying to pack the truck, take care of a moaning wife and get ready to be at market by 7:00 a.m. (2+ hours away) But you know what? He did it. He left the house by 5:00 a.m. called Jen to come and take care of me and called Beau to help him at market....and everyone came to our rescue..,.,Thank you dear family for again bailing us out...you are the best. Jennifer drove me to Brigham City and Joe drove back up after market to meet me. I do believe I am married to a super hero...how did he accomplish all of that; packing and loading the produce, driving to SLC from Idaho, setting up his booth, driving back to Brigham City and driving us home to the mountain... and up at 5:00 again to get to Bishop's meeting..wow...would you believe we've been married for 49 years! Amazing I'd say. He's never failed me yet. anyway my heart is full with admiration and love for this amazing "PaPa Joe". Sounds like all the football and soccer players are really doing well and our college gal and high school senior are already in the midst of a very exciting year. We sure hope we can see some of their games and performances with our many trips to the north country! I love you all so much...thanks for being such a great family...Have a wonderful Fall!

AUGUST ALREADY?

How could two months have possibly gone by since I've posted anything....Well I just wanted to tell you all how much I've enjoyed the kids this summer. It seems like everytime I wanted to take a picture PaPa Joe had the camera in Idaho..Oh well here are some of my very favorite snap shots: Dawson and Jackson finding the "perfect" rocks at Cedar Breaks. We didn't have our guide, PaPa Joe, but we found the mysterious white rock and the boys were so thrilled....Ryan and Sam trying to figure our which candy to buy at the dollar store ($10.00 worth) to take to the movie...Shelby and Kirsi looking so beautiful Sunday in our ward. Shelby and Kirsi singing all their broadway songs at midnight in the car ride back from Tuachan! Zach sitting out on the deck looking at the sunset. Ryan and Sam playing horseshoes with Joe and I at sunset on the mountain....Benjamin catching grasshoppers to go fishing....Ben swimming all alone in the pool in St. George...and loving it! Dawson and Jackson at Pizza Factory trying to decide between suckers or cookie dough! Sam and Ryan all curled up in bed, exhausted after a day in the pool in HOT Dixie...Zach taking Great Grandfather to the movie "UP"....Shelby and Kirsi doing "water ballet" in the pool. Ben telling me about the new Harry Potter movie and insisting that we go see it....even though he had already... Benjamin shyly hugging the great grandparents Jackson, Dawson and I at "UP"...(if you're counting yes, I've seen it 3 times).Anyway still looking forward to David, Joseph, Nathan and of course parents are always welcome....Lots of other wonderful memories...I'll try to share more later....Thanks to all of you for raising such darling grandchildren!

WHAT A FAMILY!

JUNE IS ALMOST DONE AND I'M STILL THINKING IT'S SPRING...BUT HERE COMES SUMMER...WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR OUR WONDERFUL FAMILY. YOU GUYS ARE REALLY AWESOME! DAD HAS BEEN SO STRESSED ABOUT NOT GETTING THINGS DONE AT THE FARM HOUSED AND WHEN WE ARRIVE THERE LAST SUNDAY NIGHT WE WALK IN AND FIND NOT ONLY A BEAUTIFUL PINE LOG BED, DRESSER AND NIGHT STANDS, BUT SOMEONE HAS PUT DOWN THE LAMINATE FLOOR!!! AT FIRST WE THOUGHT WHO, HOW, WHEN BUT THEN DAD SAID, "I'LL BET LEON'S BEEN HERE". WE DIDN'T KNOW MARY WAS THE MASTERMIND BEHIND IT...LEON TOLD US..."I WORKED FOR HER". ANYWAY IT WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL SURPRISE. WE DIDN'T REALIZE WE ONLY MISSED WALKING IN ON THEM BY A FEW MINUTES...WE ARRIVED ABOUT MIDNIGHT AND THEY LEFT AFTER 11:00 PM! The next morning we found the lawns all mowed and trimmed and a beautiful pot of flowers by the front gate! You guys are really the Best! We love you so very much. Thank you! Thank you!

Spring on the Mountain

Wow! I can't believe I haven't posted anything since March...and that seems like yesterday. Anyway it has been a busy and very eventful two months. I should probably begin with the most recent events since my memory is not the best lately. Anyway we have had Bob and Elizabeth and Carver and Alice visiting with us since the 11th. I think they all had a pretty good time. Dad was very busy with ward business and couldn't spend as much time as he wanted to but he tried. We took them to Zion for a day and then to Kolob on another day. We also went to a movie..."Earth" fabulous! and out to dinner to Rusty's. We played games one night and mostly did lots of visiting. Elizabeth loves to shop in 2nd hand stores and asked if we had any GoodWill stores here so I took her to DI and guess what? She found two knockout dresses for $5.00 each! She was very excited and is planning on wearing one of them to Bob's and my 50th High School Reunion in October...yes you heard right...it is 50 years since I graduated from East Bakersfield High. Bob and Elizabeth want us to go with them but we will have to see what the schedule is for the ward and the farm at that time. I went to St. George last Thursday while the company was here to take Grandmother to the hairdresser and another appointment and it was 105! Grandfather didn't have the air conditioner on and the house was like an oven! I was not very nice and said if he expected me to come to St. George in this heat we needed a cooler! Poor man..I came on a little strong but voila...on Monday when I went down the house was nice and cool and it was only 101. Anyway I'm going down again tomorrow and take Mom to get her hair colored and then bring her up here for overnight! I hope she can handle it. Grandfather definitely needs a little break so I will try. Sounds like the family is all so busy right now....lacrosses, baseball, orchestra concerts, races, track meets, end of school activities. Our oldest granddaughter, Kirsi, is almost ready to graduate. Sounds like she will be attending BYU. We are planning on being to her graduation and hopefully seminary graduation too. Please send us a list of your activities and we will do the best we can. Dad's schedule is pretty crazy.
Sunday morning he had a meeting with the Stake Pres. at 6:00 a.m. and then Bishopric Meeting and then Welfare Meeting and then the block. He had interviews afterwards and at 6:00 that night he had Seminary Graduation. He finally got home about 8:00 that night. Yesterday he was gone from 4:00 until 9:30 and today he left for the farm! Anyway it's definitely a new life but we have been blessed so very much...how can we complain. The mountain is absolutely beautiful right now...wish you could all come down and see it. The meadow is so green and the trees have all leafed out. We have so many birds on the feeders and the hummers are keeping the feeders drained every day! We even had a pair of blue birds here this week-end....beautiful! Harley has decided he's the big hunter on the mountain. Yesterday morning he brought a jackrabbit to the front door...I couldn't believe how he killed it....I was so mad at him because I feed him a lot...but he proceeded to eat the whole thing! disgusting! It was so wonderful for you all to be here when Dad was ordained as Bishop. I know it was a great sacrifice for all the family but it meant so much to us. We loved being at Ryan's ordination on Mother's Day. It was great seeing how much fun the cousins all had together. Are we going on the Bear River for the Fourth? I hope so. Will someone please tell me again how to post things on the Family Blog Site. I can't remember and I tried this morning and couldn't make it work. I truly love reading each of your entries. Keep it up...Come and see us when you can....Love, Mom