Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Grandpa and Grandma Hulse want to thank alll our wonderful family members for the highly successful family party! The food was good and the company was spectacular. The entertainment was soooo great. My, we have such a talented family and we just keep adding more members. The neighbors were delighted. We will have a backyard party in August and one in September, then we will just hit the highlights of cold weather dates when we have to jam inside. However, anyone is welcome to visit us old folks anytime! We will feed you and show you a family video! Love you all!
Monday, July 14, 2008
You may want to check out beckysbriefs.blogspot.com
I am trying to expand my horizons. It looks like I could use some help! Is anyone willing to help make invitations for Lacey's shower one day this week?
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Hey, Gang, We are getting together on Sunday at 6:00. Please bring either a salad or dessert. I have assigned rolls. We are hoping some will show up on Saturday to wipe off chairs, blow off the patio, (Hayden and Carter are experts at this)or if you are so inclined, just sit and visit with the 'old folks'. We want to show off Marinda's and Jamey's and Grandma's painting talents ie: the back porch, the front and back doors and the swing. We are all anxious to see Chuck, Shawna , and our sweet Charli. Love, Grandma H.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
We need help....
Jeremiah has a work party on july 12th and like always it is at Lagoon.
And this year we decided to take Cory but we need a Sitter for Isabelle....
if anyone is free please let Jeremiah or I know if not we will just have to take her
with us....
Thanks everyone..
and we will be at grandmas that sunday to see unlce Chuck
XOXO
The Johnson's
Monday, July 7, 2008
We are going to have another awesome family shindig at Grandma and Grandpa Hulses house this Sunday, July 13th. I think we are meeting around 6:00. I will try to bring my chalk and jump ropes for the kids. Grandma, can you give us some more details?
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Lava Hot Springs is canceled. We are meeting at Daron and Julie's Clubhouse on Saturday the 19th, from 10:00 -4:00 for all you that can make it. The family would love to see you. They have asked our family to supply 2 Desserts, a Salad and a dozen hamburger buns. If anyone is willing to go and could help out, please let me know. Daron and Julie's address is 4047 West Pinegrove Way, South Jordan. Dad knows the way. Because of Lacey's many opportunities this past spring, Grandma Johnson was hoping for a talent show......Nancy decided not to do that, but there may be Karaoke. I am hoping our family will once again be the ones that support everyone. I appreciate Aunt Nancy and the rest of the family for trying to accommodate us. Let us know if you can join us!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
I've been feeling really patriotic lately, more than I ever have in my life. I think I am old enough and mature enough to understand the importance of the freedom and the rights and privileges I enjoy as a United States citizen. Sometimes as I read the news and hear about the sad things happening around the world, it makes me cry. I am so glad that I live in a peaceful place, that I could get an education and earn a career, that my husband is home with me and that we are a family. I am grateful for freedom of speech, for the right to vote, for the right to bear arms, for the right to practice my religion. I found the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key. He wrote this song in 1814 ( that is 194 years ago for the historically challenged). I thought I would include them for you to read. I didn't know there was a 4th verse.
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved it a nation.
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!