GET'CHA A HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Dallin, we hope your birthday is nothin' but net!

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Reesa's Graduation

Mom and Dad traveled to Provo for Reesa's graduation from BYU.  We are so proud of her.  Mom and Dad left Thursday morning in time to get to Commencement that afternoon.  On Friday morning, Reesa's Convocation with her college was also in the Marriott Center.

Jeff will certainly do a full photo spread of all the events.  The video is to share a few special moments.  Please note that the background music to the video is the audio track of the musical number from Reesa's Convocation. 
Future posts will document some of the other events of the trip.

Prom Night

Well MB was asked to be THE Photographer for a multi-stake prom in our area and I was her handsome assistant.

MB did a great job and had this fun backdrop with props and we took advantage of a lull and took multiple pictures. Boy did we have fun

Visit to Fire Department

So with the kids went to the Fire Department with their Co-op. it was fun the kids learned a lot and tried on some fire equipment.

Happy Anniversary

Can't believe it has been year.  SO GLAD IT HAPPENED!!

Flashback Family History Friday

The picture for this week's Flashback Family History Friday is of Martha Hermine Rasicot (Groberg).  She married Charles August Groberg, the brother of John Enoch Groberg, the father of Maude Elizabeth Groberg Neeley.    Martha was Maude's Aunt Mattie who had seven children and was having babies into the mid 1920s.   When Maude was 14 or 15, she visited her aunt in Ogden to help her care for her little ones.  Maude bathed Aunt Mattie's new baby and two younger children, loving and caring for them.  During this visit, Maude went to bed one night and prayed earnestly that she could one day have babies like her Aunt Mattie.  It was during this prayer that Maude heard a voice tell her that she would have eight children, if she desired.  Here are Maude's own words as recorded and transcribed by Lenore Neeley Cornwall:

"I went to bed and I said my payers and I said to bless Momma, help her not to be lonesome, bless everything to be alright and not let anything happen to her and to bless Aunt Mattie with her babies and everything.  I thought how wonderful it was and I said "Heavenly Father, I want to, when I grow up, have some babies just like Aunt Mattie and I want to pray for them right now, I want to ask you to help me be prepared to be able to have a family and to have little babies like that."  I was so sincere and I wanted it so much and I was kneeling there and I felt someone come into the room and stand right over me, but I didn't see them, but I heard the voice say, like you hear the still small voice, "There are eight children if you will" and it was so strong and so clear and I knew and I promised the Lord right there that I would not do anything that I knew of that would keep me from having the children that I would keep well and I would do everything I knew so that I would be able to have those children and I did.  I got married and I just knew that I would have eight if I could.  Before that night, you see, my mother had died when her third child was born and before that night I thought I was only going to have two children and I'm not going to take a chance on a third child.   I'm going to only have two children and this is what I had said all during my growing up years, until that night."

This was sent to Sue by Matthew Neeley.  He added the following insight.

I wonder how the Lord must have felt to hear Maude's plea to be a mother, especially knowing that her own mother died in childbirth.  It must have moved Him with compassion to see such faith.  Her prayer brought a blessing and promise of the Lord - one that Maude lived for and eventually obtained in due time through faith.   What a wonderful example!  

  

Aunt Mattie, or Martha Hermine Rasicot, was born 23 January 1883 and died 22 April 1962.   Her last baby died in 2012.

Throwback Thursday

Easter 1987!!  I am enjoying a few things.  Jeffers as a baby - I can see a little curly hair - LOVE THE SADDLE SHOES.  Katie just out of sponge curlers - and a smocked dress.  Robb - great smile - rocking the sweater vest.  Jason wearing the knit tie - pleated pants - WOW.  Kent - you are so handsome.  I think I am rocking the perm.  I made my outfit.  It was a Vogue pattern.  I loved that outfit.  I was happy when Rachel wore the skirt as a teenager.  It warranted another generation wear. 

Timber!!!!

As many of you know we took a couple of trees down during the fall

It was a entertaining process to see those trees taken down

We were impressed with some of their techniques.

Then came the fun part. It was extra to take the trees so we wanted to do it ourselves. Very big job. 

We borrowed MBs Dads wood splitter and spent many days almost all day splitting and stacking wood

We all helped to clear all the branches and brush. We even had a fire in our yard to burn it all (which is allowed around here)

After many months we eventually got it all cleaned up and stacked. We wanted to rent a stump grinder but we decided to hold off for now. We then hauled 5-6 loads of dirt to the back yard to try and level out the yard and put down grass seed. Now we just waiting for grass to grow.

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Happy Easter from the Andersons

 Ready for an Easter Egg hunt before soccer games.

 

 Everyone was a great egg finder, especially Hannah.  She loved picking up eggs putting into her basket then going after another egg.  Thanks to Dallin for filling and hiding over 70 eggs.

 

 Grandma and Grandpa Anderson joined us for the hunt.

 

He is RISEN!!!

HAPPY EASTER 

Happy Easter

The Unexpected Family Reunion