The Birds "A Family In Flight"

John and Jo's family has all flown the coop. The proud grandparents of 23 grandchildren still reside in Stockton, but often migrate across North America tending their flock.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Brigg's Baptism






July 5th, 2008
Is a special memory for Brigham. Thanks to a family who went out of their way to make his baptism special. Uncle Jackson, thanks for filling in for Grandpa at the last minute. It was a great talk. Thank you Aunt Rachel and Aunt Amy for the music. Thanks Grandma for the stories and testimony. Thanks to everyone who came to support him. We love you!

Thursday, July 3, 2008











Hi Family,
Okay so sorry for all the pictures but i finally found my cord that hooks from my computer to camra so i was finally able to upload all are pics! So this was are fun and exciting trip to california! The first 3 pictures are in disneyland! It was so much fun that day we got to ride all the rides cuz it rained out and everyone cleared the park! We didnt have to stop and wait in any lines at all! So we took a picture on every ride we went on cuz it was not busy! The only line we stood and waited for was the finding nemo ride and it was a 30min wait.(and since matt is always hungry he had to buy pizza while we stood in line) It was nice in the moarning and in the evening so the only time we got rained on was mid day. The next pics are in sea world obviously. We had so much fun in sea world and decided that was the place to take are kids. It was so interactive and we fed the sea otters, sting ray, played with the dolphins, and ate with shamu! We hit every animal attraction that they had! It was nice we went on a monday and nobody was thear! We walked all around the park and only saw a small handful of people so it was like we had a privet tour of the park! We went and saw all the shows they wear so cool! The shamu show seemed so fake it was like a dream. Matts favorite part was the sharks he loved it and thought it was cool to stand under them as we walked. We had such a fun time and it was the perfeact time to go! The best part was getting all are stuff out of storage! It was like christmas i forgot how much stuff i had! Well that was are fun vacation in a nut shell!
Love,
matt and melissa

























Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Matt&Melissa

Hey everyone!

Well this is melissa and im not sure how to work this thing? I am only good with myspace i know lame! what can i say im not on the internet much. Well nothing to exciting is going on in montana. we have just been hanging out enjoying the beautiful weather and one anothers company! For some exciting news now we are trying to start a family but its been a little hard we have been to the drs a lot over the past year and they have found 12 cysts on my overies so we have finally got rid of them!! So we got the go ahead to start trying again next month from are doctors!! Other then that matt is working hard and i am off for the summer! well i hope all is well with everyone!
lots of love,
matt and melissa

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Mike's Fam





We are off to a great summer!! Brendan is done with track and just hanging out until he gets to go to Washington DC with the 8th grade in July. We are running Brice around to his baseball games - he is playing catcher, 2nd base, and center field - where ever he is needed. Bowen is just being a very cute 2 year old. He is spoiling or terrorizing our 3 cats (depends on which side of the 'hey cat, see me' you are on) The boys have named them Oreo, Snickers, and Licorice. They go nicely with our dog Milk Dud. I included a picture of Mike playing donkey basketball back a couple of monthes ago just so you all could get a good laugh out of it!

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Birthday Boys







Brigham and Carsten had a lot of fun opening presents and blowing out candles. They really like having their birthdays together. I hope they enjoy it this way for years and years, it makes the party planning easy. They wanted to have a monster cake and ate a lot of candy helping me decorate it. We pretty much partied for 3 straight days. The first, Sat. the 24th -Brigg's Day-started with a suprise decorated dinning room and a special birthday boys breakfast. Followed immediately with presents. A pretty good incentive to hurry and finish your eggs. We tried to get all our playing in that day, but it started raining. So, we couldn't fill the blow up pool and swim it was too cold. Carsten insisted on wearing his new swim suit the entire day though. Sun. the 25th -Carsten's Day- we sang happy birthday and had the cake and ice cream with the neighbors. Monday was warm enough for the pool, so we partied that day too.


Hansens




We had a fun Memorial Weekend. We went to southern Kentucky on Sunday to visit Peter's Aunt and Grandma on their farm. Lily had lots of fun running around and chasing all the animals. She may have given a few chickens a heart attack. Then Monday we made our way north stopping at all the Lincoln sights on the way. We learned some history, saw some very cool historical homes, lots of horse farm and just had a great time. Peter and I have decided this is a fun place to live. We will be making up some brochures to send out to you all to choose your adventure on your get-away to Kentucky (because your all coming at some point right?). We forgot the camera for all this action, but here are some recent shots.

Monday, May 19, 2008

ready to use

This is a great place to share all of our goings on. Feel free to ramble and please overdo it on pictures! You can also add videos very easily. If you have questions e.mail me or call. I'd like to put each families picture in the profile, but don't have everyone's. Please send me yours, I'll post them when I have them all so no one feels left out. Have fun, Katie