Sam

Two years ago today Chases brother Sam died of Cancer. He was a great man,Son,husband,father,brother,and uncle. He is deeply missed. I am thankful to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and know the plan of salvation. I am thankful for my Saviour, that he died for us so that we can live again and be with our loved ones again. I know that my redeemer lives and loves us.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

I decorated for Christmas a couple of weeks ago. I figured if I did not get it up before all of our family came for Thanksgiving, it wouldn't get done. We come home in two and a half weeks. Santa is going to come here sometime before we leave to drop off the big gifts. Then he will bring the kids the small presents on Christmas in Arizona. We are soooooooooooooo excited to come. It is going to be a lot of work and a very long,loud,cramped,cold,fun drive. Merry Christmas. Could everyone send me there addresses so I could get my Christmas cards out.

Cousin's and Grandparent's

After Sim's baptism the rest of the visit was taking our family around and showing them the sites. WE took them to all of the ones we had been to and to some new ones. WE went to Snoqualmie Falls. It was really cool and only about 15 min. away. The kids loved it! When we went to the space needle there was so much fog you couldn't see 3ft. in front of you. It was a great time and had a lot of fun with our company.

Simeon's Baptism

Simeon Scott Hawkins Was Baptised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, on Saturday November 29,2008 in Bellevue Washington at 8:30 in the morning.It was a great experience. We had both of our parents there and three of his cousins, Hunter,Collin and Jake.My dad gave the Baptism talk and Chase's dad gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. It was very sweet.Sim is a quite boy. He keeps his feelings to himself, he is a little man of few words. He has a strong powerful spirit. He was so excited to get baptized.He will some day be a great missionary! I love my Sim. Everyone who meets Sim loves him. I really missed all of his uncles, when he was being confirmed, especially Sam. He always loved Sim they were always joined at the hip and had a special place in each others hearts. It was a great day and I am thankful for all of those that could make it.

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year my parents came up to visit. We had a really nice time. I made the whole dinner. It was a lot of fun. It was not as hard as I thought it just takes a lot of organizing so you can have it all done at the same time.Thanksgiving morning my mom made pies with all of the kids. They each had a job and got to help. It was a successful Thanksgiving, and we where thankful we had some family here with us.