The Beckstead Family

Hello, How is everyone doing? Not much is going on here in the big city of West Valley. We took Sesha to see the movie WALL-E. It was a different show. It was cute but Sesha lost interest in the movie about 1/2 was through and was running through the theater. So I don't know that we will take her to another movie for a while. They played the preview for Madagascar 2. We can't wait until 11.07.08. (we are going to see it on opening day hopefully)
So you all saw that Shelby and Jake are moving. Hopefully they will keep posting to our blog. Shelby has her own blog now. It is pretty cool.
Well not much else is going on. Keep smiling and Keep in touch.
~Amber

Well Jake and I are going to be moving on Sunday and our Internet and phone will be disconnected. We will keep in touch over the blog when we moved. I should have a computer when I get there. I am also getting a laptop for Christmas so when I get that I will be able to do more with my blog and put more pictures. I have glasses now they are so cute. Life here has been very hectic, with the packing and all. In case some of you don't know my e-mail is sportygirl70@yahoo.com and Jake's is jake4horses@yahoo.com We really miss all of you. When we get more pictures I will try to post them to the blogs mine and this one. I hope that you all have fun camping for Grandpa's birthday, I wish we could be there you guys will have to take lots of pictures and put them on here. Well I have to go pack some more. We love you all
Love Jake & Shelby

Hello Family,
It was good to see so many of you at Brooky's party. I took some time on Saturday to go see my sister Dauna, and to get some plants for my yard. She has a nice yard with alot of plants, and her and Richard enjoy the garden. She even has a milk weed in her yard. They are supposed to draw a certain kind of butterfly to the yard. I haven't seen a milk weed for a lot of years. It reminded me of Benson.
We are getting ready for the camp out and so I just wanted to know who is coming and when you are coming. Dad got the trailors water pump fixed and he is trying to fix the door tonight so hopefully we can get it to the camp spot by thursday. Sarah and Nick are coming friday night, and Matt and Em are coming up on Saturday. Nick is going to hall our 4 wheelers up to the camp. Thanks Nick!!!!!
Our grass is looking better in our back yard and our fence does look good. We haven't finished it yet but what else is new. Time just seems to get away from us! Well, let us know when or if you are coming. We love you all and hope to see you all there.

Okay.. so I ended up getting some help from my friend Trisha.. she is actually our cousin! Small world! But I now know how to do a little more!! YAY!
Yesterday Dylan started his new sitter! I was nervous how he would do.. or rather how I would do! It went real well!! I feel so good about where he is and how Merinda is with him. She said how much fun he is.. and asked like every one else if he is really this happy ALL the time!! It made me so proud and YES he really is!! We have been blessed with such a good little guy! He is getting so big and enjoying eating! HE is a PIGGY (just like his Mom)
I hope you are all enjoying these cooler nights!! I know I sure am.. cooler weather means FOOTBALL. Matt has his first game this Thursday! Good luck to him. He thinks they should be pretty good this year. I'm not sure if I have mentioned it or not but Matt was named the Preston J.V. Head Football coach! Congratulations to him!!
We love you all and are so excited for the camp out this weekend! My boss Paul Davis just got back from Alaska and yes he brought all of us back some fresh halibut so I will be bringing some for us to try out!! Love you all
the Shumway family

hey guys

Hey if you dont kno already Jake and i are moving to sandpoint on saturday. we will miss you all. we love you guys
love Jake and Shelby

Okay, So maybe we all need to get together and figure out this blog thing. I am working on trying to figure it out and if I figure it out I will let you all know. Hopefully with all of us working on it we can get it figured out.

Later~Amber

GRRRR

Okay so I need help!! On my blog.. I totally messed it up! I don't have a clue what I'm doing.. I just pretend, well today I wanted to change my template.. and now I am pretty much having to start over!!! Does anyone have some suggestions for me?? PLEASE?!?! Oh and I am trying to get MUSIC on my blog as well.. as you can tell I'm super unsuccessful. But I found the cutes blog templates at thecutestblogontheblock.com I just don't know how to get them to work. GRRRRR I can from PYZAM.COM What am I doing?? Please help!
In desperate need~Emily

WE JUST WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT FOR BROOKLYN!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE!!!! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU SATURDAY! WE HOPE YOU HAVE THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!
Matt is busy as ever coaching! He is loving the heck out of Football this year! The boys he gets to coach this year are some fun and fast kids! Matt thinks they should be pretty good he guesses the season will end 6-2 I guess we will see how that turns out!!! I hope he goes 8-0 :) okay okay but lets get real! Poci. has a mini college and they are dang good! We love and do miss all of you!
...Amy you should post pictures of your lawn and all the hard work you put into it!! It looks FAB!!!

hunting

hey all nick did not get an elk yet he is up there almost every night i hope he gets one soon. because i am sick of him going through what it will be like while he is asleep you can always tell what nick is thinking he never shuts up in his sleep urg! but i also finished breaking dawn. so good could not put it down. mom and dad's fence looks so good dad is a hard worker. and everyone needs to come camping we will have fun and we well i am working on something like a craft for the kids to do and the grown ups can to if they want. mom really wants us all there and to have us as a family so please come and the christmas party too we owe it to mom it is 2 weekends out of the whole year. i think we owe her that just think how many of our poopy dipers did she change ya that makes it even. so come she loves every one so much and you are all in her prayers i spent the last weekend up there with maddy and brooklyn and she did bless you all. so come if you need a bathroom nick and i have a toilet type thing you can use and i would even be the one to change the bag if that is what it takes to get you up there k. i will let me know. also we saw pictures of kevin and amy's lawn it looks so good they do a good job and to hear amy talk about how sore she is well lets all skip the gym and start laying sod for a business. ha ha i love amy. well we will talk to you later and i promise about the camping we will have fun with who comes but it feels a lot better when we are all there we have a good time and all the kids get along and love eachother just come it will be fun. i am talking mom into letting me do it next year and if i do it we will camp where it is free and you can get trailers and it is in logan canyon and we will go to bear lake one day so be ready for next year k. love you all. love the thompsons.

LIFE IS GOOD!

Well I hope you are all doing well. This past weekend was a killer for me, or should I just say my thighs. We have worked so hard in the yard all summer(I like to include myself in all that hard work because I had to work hard at being patient.) Finally the day has come. We layed our sod on Friday and Sat. What a beautiful sight to be seen. And Briggs is in doggie heaven now. The girls went and spent some time at Sarah's house, then they wondered up to Nana's. We missed them but got so much done with them on vacation. Brooky has a birthday wednesday. I think it is to hard to get together during the week. We are planning a B-day cook out on Saturday evening if you could all make it. Please just let me know. Thank you so much Sarah for offering to take my kids and help out. It was also our 9th anniversary, so we were able to go on a hot date to some steakhouse... after 9 years, he still doesn't know that I detest steak. So I had a beer instead. Hope thats ok. HA HA!! Well love you all and I look so forward to opening up our blog. keep them coming. See you soon!!!

Amy

The Beckstead Family

Hello
Just wanted to update everyone on what is going on in our family. I just got news that Shelby and Jake are moving to Bonners Ferry, Idaho. They will be leaving in 2 weeks. They are really excited about it. Jake is the most excited because he loves the outdoors and there is more room to roam there. Shelby is excited because she has a lot of friends there.

Yesterday, Sesha and I went and got our hair cut. Shesha held really still and they did a great job. Then she laughed at me getting mine cut. It was fun. Then after that we went and watched Kung Fu Panda. That was a cute show... And guess what! Madagascar 2 is coming out this Winter. We are excited about that.

Well, I would post more but Sesha is getting demanding and she wants to play.

I will post more later.

~aMBER

So normally on a Friday I would be so excited it is Friday.. but today it makes me a little sad. I have LOVED being home with Dylan all week! He is so much fun!! He has started to really talk. I guess that is what he is doing I'm glad he has moved on from his squealing (if that is even how you spell it???) days and now just rambles. His squeals really hurt our ears! Just so all of you know I am feeling great my surgery went real well and now life will be much better!! I hope! I go back to the dr. on Monday so we will see what he has to say!

We have been enjoying life of laziness. Dylan and I have taken many long naps together on the couch.. I think my pain med. must make him sleepy too!! We LOVE watching Phelps clean house in the swimming too!! He is a freak of nature we think..

Last night I talked Mom in to doing some coupon shopping with me in logan.. while we were there we ran into Sarah, Nick, Maddy, and Brookie!! It was so nice to see them all! I do miss them! Good luck hunting Nick! Bring home a BIG one!

We can't wait to see you all at the family camp out!! We will soon find out how fun camping is with a baby.. good thing he is a good boy! We love you all, the Shumways!

Hello Again,
Thought I would try this from my computer. It seems to be working.
Thanks to those who set this up and are keeping it going. We love you all.
We are watching the olympics too. THey are exciting. I will ad more later.
Love Mom

WOW!

Well all be. Mom does know how to use her computer... Just kidding. You did a great job. That is a great picture of you and dad. Sesha says you are pretty! Even you dad. She is going through her stage of everyone is pretty.

We are enjoying the Olympics in between episodes of Flapjack and Spongebob. It has been tricky but I think that we have a schedule worked out now. We just got done watching Phelps win and she was cheering. "Go guy. You can do it. Get the good. Go guy Go" and she was waving her hands in the air. It was classic. Poor Shane is trying to sleep. Oh well.

Well I am going to close for now because they are doing the ceremony and I want Sesha to see it.
Love Ya All,
~The Beckstead Family

Hello from Nana and Papa

hello everyone,

we have had a hot sunday, and a preview of what the afterlife could be. Hot and sweaty!

Dad and I worked on putting up some of our fence today, and it was very hot. it will sure look good though when it is done. We did not go to stake conference so all our blessings will be canceled for this week.

The camp out we hope will be fun and I am working on getting a map out to everyone. I am so slow so i thought I better get the letter out first. There is a small stream we are hoping to be by so the kids can get wet and maybe catch cold.

Dad went to scout camp this last week and thought he was camping with a bunch of yw and not ym. One kid got mad and started walking home. Dad gave him a half hour and then went after him. It was just enough time for the kid to start walking back to camp. Then the kids were making a torch with their bug repellent and a match. Dad says he is too old to go camping with the scouts anymore.

we did get out back lawn planted and it is turning a nice hint of green. by this time next week we should see a big hint of green, and not just weeds.

We love you all and hope you will all be to our camp out! Love Nana and Papa

Birthdays and Anniversaries

Hello All,

I know I should be more organized and all but life happens while you are making other plans. I have lost all my birthday and anniversary information for everyone. I was wondering if everyone (or if any one knows everyones bdays and anniversaries) could post the birthdays and anniversaries of our family. I am trying to get my calandar marked for next year and the rest of this year. I am going to get better at sendin out cards and such.

So is everyone getting excited for the family campout? I don't know about this. No potties. This is going to be interesting but I am sure it will be fun.

Well I need to get some work done. It seems like it never ends around here. I will post more later when I have more to report.

~Amber

This is the Thompson's again and we have made it a year on sunday wow and we had our first struggle yesterday. our car broke down on the freeway on nick's way to work. ya it pretty much sucks 700 dollars wow bend over but now we are selling it. and we are staying home for our 1st anniversary and having a picknick in our living room and probably watching hunting movies YAY! ha ha life goes on. then i had to talk to mom last night and she told me about her anniversary's and wedding wedding the starter in the car goes out and then the next two she was 9 months pregnant then the next one the starter goes out again so maybe i have mom's luck minus the pregnant part (knock on wood). Amy your girls are getting so big. and they are beautiful. so are you. i miss you guys and you have it good. i would have stayed down there if i lived where you do. i love you guys. we will have to keep you posted and keep us posted. o also chester was adopted by my father in law. he is doing very good and is getting fat and enjoyiing it. he will come see us still. i love that dog and so does scott. well must go love you all love the Thompson's.

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I heard about a new coupon website.

www.couponsuzy.com

It is pretty cool.
~Amber

The Beckstead Family

Hope all is going well and everyone is surviving RODEO weekend in the big city. I have to admit. I would have liked to been there for about 10 minutes, just long enough to get me a lions burger. We are looking forward to camping over Labor Day. Is everyone going to meet somewhere and go camping or are we just going to meet at the camp ground? Please let us know. I am not sure where we are going. Do we need to bring anything special for food or are we all just going to be responsible for our own meals? Please let us know. ~Amber, Shane & Gang