"Our Father in Heaven has given us, His children, much more than any mortal mind can comprehend. Under His direction the Great Jehovah created this wonderous world we live in . God the Father watches over us, fills our hearts with breathtaking joy, brightens our darkest hours with blessed peace, distills upon our minds precious truths, shepherds us through times of distress, rejoices when we rejoice, and answers our righteous petitions." Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "The Love of God," Ensign, Nov. 2009



Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Whitehead Family Reunion

This past Saturday we had a family reunion with the Whitehead side of the family. Most of them I haven’t seen in about 2-3 years and some that came I haven’t seen in about 10 years. I got to see cousins that I grew up with that I missed. We got to catch up on each others lives. What a fun day it was with lots of great food. Here are a few pictures that I took. I didn’t get as many as I wanted because I was watching the girls some of the time.

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Happy Grandparents day!

I just wanted to start off with how wonderful I think my grandparents are. I’ve always looked up to them. And though I know they have made mistakes in their lives. I still idolize them. My maternal grandparents are 75 and my paternal grandparents are 72 and 75. Both grandfathers have served in the navy.  One for a short period of time and the other retired from the navy.  Both have worked very hard to achieve the things in life they have.  Both have raised wonderful families, and are willing to assist those around them in need. They have been great examples for me in my life. I enjoy their stories and hope to have them around for several more years to hear more stories.  They are also great examples for my children too. Who love to go and see them!

Julia and Haley also have wonderful grandparents for examples in their lives, and I know they idolize them too.  Grandparents are wonderful! We all feel their love when we are around them wither it is grandparents or great grandparents, we know we have them to love us and we love them very much.  I’ve also got to meet most of Paul’s grandparents and think they are just as wonderful as mine, and can’t wait to meet the ones that passed away before I met Paul.  Here are some pictures of them.

Don’t they all look so happy. grammy and pop-pop

Kid’s Grammy and Pop-Pop Chapman

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Paul’s Grand daddy and Grandmother Chapman

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Paul’s Grandmother Thompson

 

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Paul’s Birdie-Mae and Grand daddy Thompson

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Kid’s Pop-Pop Erwin

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Ilene’s Grandpa Erwin

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Ilene’s Grandma Erwin

nana and grandpa

Ilene’s Nana and Grandpa Mitchellmom and denny

Kid’s Grammy and Pop-pop Whitehead.

I also have a great grandmother Crone still alive but can not find any pictures of her right now. I defiantly need to get updated pictures of everyone together! These took hours to find and most were taken 2005! I can’t believe I’ve slacked so much in picture taking!

Atudie tot

Ok I tried to email this to Grammy and Pop-Pop but the file was too big. So no one tell Paul I put it on my blog to send to them! Yea right I'm sure everyone will tell him right :)It was way to funny. This is a song Julia learned in VPK that I thought was very funny. And I thought it would be fun to share with grammy and pop-pop. Maybe you can teach it to the kids in Barbosa!