Reunion Pictures from Ramona and Blake

I missed Becca's call for pics, but here's a link to the reunion photos taken by Blake and me.

http://gallery.me.com/bookwoman98#100318

Just cut and paste the address and it should take you to the reunion album. Options at the bottom allow you to view the pictures in a grid, mosaic, carousel, or slideshow format. Also, note that there are three pages to the album.

I hope this works. It would have been better if I had met Becca's deadline, but things are a bit crazy here.

Mona

Scifres Reunion

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Post Reunion

Does anyone use this anymore. I'm thinking no since no one has posted about our reunion. Well, regardless our family had a wonderful time and enjoyed seeing everyone there. I know we are sold on AmericInn. Hopefully our kids weren't too disruptive.

Everything was great, thank you Karl and Kathy for all your hard work in putting things together for us. One quick note about our availability for the next reunion. I was mistaken, our kids will no longer be on a year 'round schedule. This year, for example, they start around Aug. 13th. That gives us a bigger time window to use.

I'm grateful that my 3 children were able to meet and spend time with their cousins and other family. To this day I cherish the memories I have when I was younger of time spent with family. It was a great anchor for me and motivated me to be a better person. (Picture of kids was taken at Epcot this past June.)

Update on the Texas Johansons

Hi everyone! I hope all is well for everyone! Congratulations Sara on your engagement! We wish that we could come for your wedding, but being in grad school we do not have the time off. We hope you have a beautiful day and we will be thinking of you!
We have had a lot of fun things happening this past month, but I don't really have time to write them all down again so please visit our blog at http://beccamikey2002.blogspot.com for lots of fun pictures and an update on us.
WE love you all!
Love,
Becca, Michael, Aaron, Nathan and Rachelle

It's official!!

As I'm sure most of you already know, I'm getting married this summer! But it became official this Saturday when Will asked me to marry him. We went up to Kaysville to spend conference weekend with his family. After the afternoon session on Saturday we went for a walk - he took me to a beautiful area near his house that is part of the Utah botanical gardens. We sat and talked for quite awhile and then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I said yes! (suprise suprise) He's pretty sneaky - I guess he showed my mom the ring on Friday night while she was visiting - I had no idea. He's an amazing man and I'm excited for all of you to meet him. Save the date - we're getting married in the Seattle temple on August 8th! This is a picture of the two of us in his parent's backyard. I know I'm squinting - we were facing the sun. Oh well.

Ramona with Kirby Larson, author of Hattie Big Sky

On Saturday March 7, Lance and I attended Literary Lions, a gala for the King County Library System. They have Northwest authors who rotate among the tables for the salad, main course and dessert portions of the meal. When I saw the list of authors, I wanted to have the author of Hattie Big Sky (2007 Newbery Honor book) visit our table. Since there were approximately 30 authors, I knew there was a slim chance that she would visit our table. Imagine my surprise when I looked across the table and saw that she was our visiting author for the first course of the evening! It was fun to visit with her and talk about historical fiction, genre focus for the 2nd trimester in my classroom.

We Grow 'Em Big in Oklahoma . . .

Last weekend, James was home for the weekend. Shawnee went to Memphis with her Mom to see her sister. So, James said he wanted to come home for the weekend, so we could spoil him like we do Kara (It sounds like Kara's been talking). Anyway, we had a great weekend with him and enjoyed getting to "spoil" him -- although he's not nearly as easy to spoil as Kara. When we tried to buy him things, unlike his Sister, he'd say no he didn't need it or whatever.

So for lunch on Saturday we took him to Roseanna's Italian Restaurant. After a little coaxing from his Mom and I, he ordered Lamb Fries. This one was so big that he took a picture of it with his cell phone. So, I thought I'd share the photo with you.

Yep, we grow our bulls really big in Oklahoma!!!