Charlotte Haupt is 2 !!!!
Friday, October 8, 2010
October 2010 - Executive Office of Ken Woodward
Dear Family,
The executive office is still open, but barely. September was a slow month. The most reportable happening was what didn’t happen. Zachari and Joshua had been scheduled since last spring to have braces placed on their teeth the first week of September. But on the fateful day the orthodontist said he had 2nd thoughts and recommended that the installations be delayed for at least another year. I guess he was current with his mortgage payments. The boys were about as disappointed as California malefactor, Albert Greenwood Brown, was last week when a federal judge cancelled his scheduled event at San Quentin.
I attended a memorial service earlier in the month for our long-time friend Barbara Walker. It was actually a family reunion with a captive audience, and about as long as a session of general conference. Barbara was living in a care facility in Bountiful, Utah at the time of her passing. The institution was just around the corner from the one Winston Langlois occupied when he received his call from above. I’m adding an addendum to my living will. Never consign me to a care facility in Bountiful. Those places are dangerous.
To all you attendees and fans of BYU, I feel your pain. It was unforgiveable for my alma mater, USU, to treat the BYU football team so unkindly. It just wasn’t suppose to happen that way
Love,
Dad
The executive office is still open, but barely. September was a slow month. The most reportable happening was what didn’t happen. Zachari and Joshua had been scheduled since last spring to have braces placed on their teeth the first week of September. But on the fateful day the orthodontist said he had 2nd thoughts and recommended that the installations be delayed for at least another year. I guess he was current with his mortgage payments. The boys were about as disappointed as California malefactor, Albert Greenwood Brown, was last week when a federal judge cancelled his scheduled event at San Quentin.
I attended a memorial service earlier in the month for our long-time friend Barbara Walker. It was actually a family reunion with a captive audience, and about as long as a session of general conference. Barbara was living in a care facility in Bountiful, Utah at the time of her passing. The institution was just around the corner from the one Winston Langlois occupied when he received his call from above. I’m adding an addendum to my living will. Never consign me to a care facility in Bountiful. Those places are dangerous.
To all you attendees and fans of BYU, I feel your pain. It was unforgiveable for my alma mater, USU, to treat the BYU football team so unkindly. It just wasn’t suppose to happen that way
Love,
Dad
October 2010 - Haupt, Levi & Torrie & Family
September was a fun filled month! First we had Nana and Papa (Levi’s parents) come over the Labor-day weekend. We had fun in pool for the last time this season. We also had fun going mini-golfing and spent a day at the near-by zoo. Levi and his dad also took in the scenery on a tandem bike ride. We’re so grateful that they came to visit; we all had a great time. Plus we got pics and video of the girls, Levi and Nana on the zoo’s resident Elephant! We hope they had fun and we promise to do similar stuff for any of you that want to visit….
P.S. We promise to take the golf club AWAY from Charlotte.
A little later in the month “Grandma Word” came to visit. Grandpa Word had to stay and work and attend to his stake presidency stuff, however Grandma was a blast. We saw the movie,“Despicable Me”, went mini-golfing, celebrated Charlotte’s 2nd birthday,
and went to a decorate-your-own-pottery store . While at the pottery store, we learned of Charlotte’s love for painting everything, including Grandma’s hand. The girls and Grandma also made some yummy Rice Krispie treats. Thanks for coming Grandma, we miss and love you!
Cooking with Grandma
Enjoying the cake
Riding with Nana and Dad
It was sad to see all of our visitors leave, however we haven’t been any less busy…. We started Preschool for Emma the beginning of October so we’ll save those adventures for the next post.
Hope you all enjoy the start of the Holidays
Until next month
Love,
Charlotte, Emma, Torrie & Levi
October 2010 - McClintock, Robert & Susan
Dear family,
A couple of months ago our very own Grandma Anna created a new dietary delicacy. It is simply called the Corky English Muffin. That's right, an English Muffin made out of cork. Whomever suggested that when one enters into the sunset of life clever and innovative ideas flee, simply did not run across some like Anna.
One morning Aunt Susan went to the kitchen to prepare Anna's breakfast. A trail of suspicious material led from the dining table toward the nearby kitchen. On the table were the remains of a cork coaster. The coaster appeared to have been broken in half and one of the halves was broken in to smaller pieces. There appeared to be teeth marks on one of the coaster halves while the other smaller bits and pieces appeared to have been chewed and then discarded. The trail leading to the kitchen was more mysterious. The pieces on the floor were definitely cork but did not appear to fit with the pieces on the table. Counting all the remaining cork coasters revealed that the original number of coasters remained - but one. Where did the extra cork pieces come from? Why was Anna dining in the dead of night on a cork coaster. And, even more mysterious, do nightmares accompany cork consumption?
As of this moment none of the other residents of the McClintock household have the courage to try the Corky English Muffin creation. However, a visit to Ikea uncovered a Cork Trivet that is twice the size of the McClintock Cork Coaster. Might over-dosing on the Cork Trivet be the answer to discouraging a Cork fetish? (On second thought a huge Cork Trivet not be such a good idea since there has been no reliable data regarding the effect of the cork coaster on the digestive tract.)
Life can have lots of interesting and humorous moments. Let it be known that odd dietary pursuits come from the paternal side of the McClintock-Woodward bloodline. McClintock-Woodward off-spring can be assured that the Woodward side can be counted on to consume garden variety nutrition...especially when it comes time for the off-spring's mother and father to be considered "advanced in age."
Love to All,
The McClintocks
A couple of months ago our very own Grandma Anna created a new dietary delicacy. It is simply called the Corky English Muffin. That's right, an English Muffin made out of cork. Whomever suggested that when one enters into the sunset of life clever and innovative ideas flee, simply did not run across some like Anna.
One morning Aunt Susan went to the kitchen to prepare Anna's breakfast. A trail of suspicious material led from the dining table toward the nearby kitchen. On the table were the remains of a cork coaster. The coaster appeared to have been broken in half and one of the halves was broken in to smaller pieces. There appeared to be teeth marks on one of the coaster halves while the other smaller bits and pieces appeared to have been chewed and then discarded. The trail leading to the kitchen was more mysterious. The pieces on the floor were definitely cork but did not appear to fit with the pieces on the table. Counting all the remaining cork coasters revealed that the original number of coasters remained - but one. Where did the extra cork pieces come from? Why was Anna dining in the dead of night on a cork coaster. And, even more mysterious, do nightmares accompany cork consumption?
As of this moment none of the other residents of the McClintock household have the courage to try the Corky English Muffin creation. However, a visit to Ikea uncovered a Cork Trivet that is twice the size of the McClintock Cork Coaster. Might over-dosing on the Cork Trivet be the answer to discouraging a Cork fetish? (On second thought a huge Cork Trivet not be such a good idea since there has been no reliable data regarding the effect of the cork coaster on the digestive tract.)
Life can have lots of interesting and humorous moments. Let it be known that odd dietary pursuits come from the paternal side of the McClintock-Woodward bloodline. McClintock-Woodward off-spring can be assured that the Woodward side can be counted on to consume garden variety nutrition...especially when it comes time for the off-spring's mother and father to be considered "advanced in age."
Love to All,
The McClintocks
October 2010 - Woodward, Kevin & Tammy & Family
My how the weeks clip by. September marks the end of summer, and it has historically been the one month out of the year in which the stock market performs least favorably. Yet the notable events for this September were Tammy's trip to Virginia to visit the Haupt family, stake conference, a relatively quick trip in which I accompanied Tammy to southern California to visit her mother and step-father, and the implosion of the BYU football team.
Altogether, Tammy was home for about 11 days during the month. Since moving to Colorado Springs, it seems that her travel schedule has been more intense than mine. This is evident from the robust balance of her frequent flyer miles account. She had a wonderful time with Torrie, Levi, Emma and Charlotte experiencing day to day activities with them in the Commonwealth. Since she was in Virginia during our stake conference, and since we typically webcast our conference out to three other buildings in our stake, we made arrangements for her to view stake conference from the comfort of Levi and Torrie's apartment on their home computer. Yet all too soon her scheduled stay came to an end. She was home long enough to barely wash a few articles of clothing before heading west to California.
I won't say too much about our beloved Cougars. Yet I will mention that I watched them play Air Force at the Academy. It wasn't pretty... in the least. The highlight, however, was attending a Friday night fireside at the Academy chapel at which Bronco Mendenhall and his wife spoke. Their messages were very inspiring. Although BYU has gone independent, Bronco indicated that he looks forward to regularly scheduled play with the Air Force. That just means we will have to continue to exercise some creativity in scheduling the priesthood leadership session of stake conference when it falls on the same day BYU is in town to toss the pigskin.
Hugs and kisses to all,
The Woodwards
Altogether, Tammy was home for about 11 days during the month. Since moving to Colorado Springs, it seems that her travel schedule has been more intense than mine. This is evident from the robust balance of her frequent flyer miles account. She had a wonderful time with Torrie, Levi, Emma and Charlotte experiencing day to day activities with them in the Commonwealth. Since she was in Virginia during our stake conference, and since we typically webcast our conference out to three other buildings in our stake, we made arrangements for her to view stake conference from the comfort of Levi and Torrie's apartment on their home computer. Yet all too soon her scheduled stay came to an end. She was home long enough to barely wash a few articles of clothing before heading west to California.
I won't say too much about our beloved Cougars. Yet I will mention that I watched them play Air Force at the Academy. It wasn't pretty... in the least. The highlight, however, was attending a Friday night fireside at the Academy chapel at which Bronco Mendenhall and his wife spoke. Their messages were very inspiring. Although BYU has gone independent, Bronco indicated that he looks forward to regularly scheduled play with the Air Force. That just means we will have to continue to exercise some creativity in scheduling the priesthood leadership session of stake conference when it falls on the same day BYU is in town to toss the pigskin.
Hugs and kisses to all,
The Woodwards
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