27 December 2009 We spent Christmas with Flint’s family in Highland. I’ve never seen kids get so many toys. I remember when I was little that RaeOla and I would get one toy each and a few clothes along with a orange in our stocking. Flint stated it about right when he said that Santa's sleigh tipped over at their house and spilled all the toys. We had a very enjoyable time and thank God for the fine children, grandchildren and great-grand children we have been given. Sam came home with us for a few days
I don't know how many of you may remember David Swapp but I will always remember him. After getting home from Flints we were watching the ten o’clock news and they had a picture of David Swapp, from the Newark Ward, on the news. He was being tried for smothering his own 3 month old baby. Seeing his pictured brought back so many memories to me. After I was released from the Stake presidency my first calling was to sit with David in Primary and try to control him so that he didn’t interrupt the primary. The next year I taught the Blazer B Scouts and David was then an 11 year old Scout. He was a constant headache. He couldn’t or wouldn’t learn the simplest scouting skills and was always getting lost or in some kind of trouble. I just wonder if there was something more that I could have done to help him. I know that his parents must be devastated by he actions
David Grant Swapp Jr. murder 5/30/2007 Ogden, UT *Father, David Grant Swapp confesses to suffocating his son*
460 East 23rd St. Ogden, Utah Father accused of suffocating 3-month-old Father Admits To Suffocating 3-month-old Baby Man arrested in death of 3-month-old boy Father confesses to suffocating 3-month
Thank all of you for being such good children
Dad
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Christmas!
A picture taken by Mariana with her new camera of Isaac playing with his new remote control helicopter. Thanks everyone for all the presents-- we will enjoy them all. Mariana really loves the butterfly picture Grandpa made.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Giant Jenga
Mariana and her Friend Abby made a really tall tower with scraps from the wheelchair ramp. We also finished ramp construction today - Hooray!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Creed at the DR MTC
From all we hear Creed is doing well at the MTC in the Dominican Republic. His Spnish is coming along and they get opportunities to practice teaching. They have taken some excursions to a university where they can talk to people and place Book of Mormons.
The MTC is on the temple grounds and also serves as a hotel for people visiting the temple.
He complains about the heat, but we are not very sympathetic.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Eagle Project making progress
We've spent a couple more saturdays working on Isaac's eagle project. It is almost finished now -- we just need to finish up the railings.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Stephens homested
Family,
Nancy Lincoln posted a picture on her blog of a picture Hyrum Grant Stephens painted during the early 1960's of the cabin and homestead of the Stephens family on the banks of the Snake River i Star Valley. I will also include the comments posted in her blog.
Nancy Lincoln posted a picture on her blog of a picture Hyrum Grant Stephens painted during the early 1960's of the cabin and homestead of the Stephens family on the banks of the Snake River i Star Valley. I will also include the comments posted in her blog.
On 5 November 1908, Grant and Myrtle Stephens were married and settled into their first home near the town of Alpine, Wyoming, the following spring. It was a homestead on the banks of the Snake River. The homestead included land on each side of the river. The nearest post office was about 14 miles and the nearest store about 20 miles either way, at Freedom, Wyoming, or at Irwin, Idaho.
Grant says, "Before summer was through we had moved into our new house which we thought pretty nice. We lined it with lumber and covered with shingles. I got the logs out and took them to the mill and had them sawed for $9 a thousand for the lumber and $5 for the shingles. We put in about 20 acres of oats. On our place there was many springs and several acres of high quaking aspens and of course along the springs were willows and the ground along the bottom was a heavy dark soil covered with big thick brush and was very fertile."
By 1910 enough people had moved nearby that the Alpine area got a post office. Grant got the contract for carrying the mail for the first 5 years. He got $20.22 per month for making the 16 mile trip twice a week. In summer he rode a horse and buggy and sleigh or skis in winter. Grants says, "I had a lot of tough times while carrying the mail. Nearly every winter I would have to carry it on skis for several months. I remember one time I started out on the 2nd of January with a team and bob-sleigh. The snow was over 4 feet deep and snowing and blowing until I could hardly see the team so they could hardly follow the road at all." He eventually had to leave behind his sleigh and start off with just the horses. "I tied one horse to the other one's tail and started them for home. I was holding to the last horse's tail. It took me all that day to get home."
Many years later, when Grant was in his 70s, he took an interest in painting. They came to visit our family for a few weeks. My mother, after watching him paint on art paper, cardboard, or whatever he could find, purchased some canvas boards for him to paint on. One day, my father asked him what the old homestead had looked like. Grant's response was this painting which now hangs in my parents' house.
It will be the only visual memory we have of the setting for their early married life as the site of the homestead is now covered by the waters of the Palisades Reservoir.
Grant says, "Before summer was through we had moved into our new house which we thought pretty nice. We lined it with lumber and covered with shingles. I got the logs out and took them to the mill and had them sawed for $9 a thousand for the lumber and $5 for the shingles. We put in about 20 acres of oats. On our place there was many springs and several acres of high quaking aspens and of course along the springs were willows and the ground along the bottom was a heavy dark soil covered with big thick brush and was very fertile."
By 1910 enough people had moved nearby that the Alpine area got a post office. Grant got the contract for carrying the mail for the first 5 years. He got $20.22 per month for making the 16 mile trip twice a week. In summer he rode a horse and buggy and sleigh or skis in winter. Grants says, "I had a lot of tough times while carrying the mail. Nearly every winter I would have to carry it on skis for several months. I remember one time I started out on the 2nd of January with a team and bob-sleigh. The snow was over 4 feet deep and snowing and blowing until I could hardly see the team so they could hardly follow the road at all." He eventually had to leave behind his sleigh and start off with just the horses. "I tied one horse to the other one's tail and started them for home. I was holding to the last horse's tail. It took me all that day to get home."
Many years later, when Grant was in his 70s, he took an interest in painting. They came to visit our family for a few weeks. My mother, after watching him paint on art paper, cardboard, or whatever he could find, purchased some canvas boards for him to paint on. One day, my father asked him what the old homestead had looked like. Grant's response was this painting which now hangs in my parents' house.
It will be the only visual memory we have of the setting for their early married life as the site of the homestead is now covered by the waters of the Palisades Reservoir.
1 comments:
- Jack N Stephens said...
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Nancy,
I appreciate the picture of the Stephens home stead.
Jack - December 5, 2009 9:36 AM
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Update from Flint, Anette and Creed
The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind for us. At Thanksgiving we were fortunate to have Mom and Dad with us, as well as Sam. The downside was that Anette had gall bladder surgery the day before so she did not get full enjoyment out of the holiday. She is doing much better and was back in school yesterday.
Thanksgiving was also Creed's first day in the Dominican Republic. We got an email from him today and it sounds like he is enjoying his time. The MTC there is on the temple property. I'll forward his email to anyone who wants to read it.
Friday Mom and Dad left and I started getting an ear infection. Sunday morning I went to the emergency room because it kept getting worse. My left ear was much bigger than the right one and the pain extended into my neck and back. It is getting a lot better now, but they told me it will take a couple of weeks to get back to normal.
Brandon has been accepted to his two top choices for dental school. We hope they will pick UNLV. Either way, we are very happy for him and Jenine.
Thanksgiving was also Creed's first day in the Dominican Republic. We got an email from him today and it sounds like he is enjoying his time. The MTC there is on the temple property. I'll forward his email to anyone who wants to read it.
Friday Mom and Dad left and I started getting an ear infection. Sunday morning I went to the emergency room because it kept getting worse. My left ear was much bigger than the right one and the pain extended into my neck and back. It is getting a lot better now, but they told me it will take a couple of weeks to get back to normal.
Brandon has been accepted to his two top choices for dental school. We hope they will pick UNLV. Either way, we are very happy for him and Jenine.
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