Response to Alan's email

Sorry to tell you but when I go to the Everson blog it say "New Post" in the top right hand corner.

Kendall & Mallory

Yes...it's true!

Kendall Green and Mallory Lee are engaged. They will be married on August 2nd at 4pm in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. There will be a reception that night at the Grape Arbor at Thanksgiving Point.

(Sorry this took so long, but none of the Green's were allowed to post on the Everson Doings Blog. I had to get a special temporary dispensation from Jefra.)

a Utah Goodbye to the Glausers

On Sunday Syd put together a dealio for Rhett and Adrianne in celebration (and mourning) of their leaving us here in Utah for the sunny coast of CA.

Just one picture right now of all the grands and great grands that were there.

Are they not SO beautiful?




I'll post more super-cute photos later.

sorry - i forgot to spread the news....

Word from the ultrasound is that we're having a BOY.

October 8th.

We're pretty sure we're naming him "Asher".

Sorry so late in the announcing....

<3

Happy Father's Day!!

ANNOUNCE: Blessing of Baby Luke Smith

Bryn and Joel are blessing Luke in Las Vegas in the chapel down the street from their house at 9:00 am. You are WELCOME to come if you can. Party afterwards, naturally. OH - blessing date - June 8th.

NEXT!

Didn't an Everson do something this past week that needs to be announced/blogged? First name starts with a Ken and ends with a dall...let me know.

Amazing Eddie

Eddie did a wonderful thing. We showed this video he made at the wedding, but if you didn't see it, you might want to. He did so very good making this video. Its really good. I had to put it online for something else, but I thought I'd share it while I was at it!

Here are parts 1 & 2



And part 3...

In a giggling mood!

It has been a while since we have updated anything on our little one. She is now 5 months. Lydia for some reason thought that a little can shaking was hilarious. You never know what will make em laugh.

Do You Know Him???

I would post this our family blog but google is not allowing me access to it for 5 days.  They say I have the wrong password.  So you all can enjoy.  David is in NYC on a trip and I knew he and Karli would want to see this photo ASAP. Not sure what inspired this new look but I love it!!!  I was on the phone with Laurie when Clay come upstairs with his hair all cut off.  Laurie asked "What is he going to do with his hands?"  Clay's answer, "Not sure." I have not seen this much of this cute boy's face in quite some time. 

Speaking of the Big Apple

Is anyone going to be in Manhattan with a little time to kill any weekday between 9 and 5?

I need help making a motion for a sealed divorce record to be opened. Apparently someone has to appear in person and as much as I'd LOVE to do it myself, I won't be going there in the next few months.

If it works for anyone out there, let me know.

A.

A New York State of Mind

This is our dear Uncle Al.  The last two nights the Mammens have been staying at our place.  Bill took the futon and snored like it was his job, Kay slept up by the girls to avoid her hubby.  God bless them both.  Last night Jordan rolled in with her "friend" at 2 am, we booted Kay to the futon, Hill and I pushed our beds together to put Jordan on the crack and the friend took Jordan's soon-to-be-discarded air mattress.  This brings us to Alan.  Despite the the musical mattresses we've been playing with our visitors, we managed to get the Mammens out AND have fresh clean sheets for Alan!!  This is a Christmas miracle.  Look out how cozy he is in all that pink!!  As I type, he is watching Paris J' Taime with his headphones and I don't even think he knows I snapped this photo from the loft.  Now, I'm getting pretty darn good at this game, so if anyone else feels the need to come stay in our palatial pad, hurry quick now before I get out of my groove.  Or you could stay in Queens at Lindsay's place. 

Lots of Love,

4B

Last week at a lovely ceremony on campus, Pam was honored to be given the Paul Frizler Award for Outstanding MA Student by the Chapman University English Department. This is the most prestigious award given to a student. Here’s a brief synopsis written by the Associate Dean of Humanities at Chapman. We’re all so proud of you, Pam!

The award given to Pam was named in memory of Paul Frizler, a beloved professor in the English department, who joined the Chapman faculty in the late 1960s, and continued to teach there until his death in June 2002. In addition to his literary interests, he was a filmmaker and a scholar of film and after his death published a two volume, annotated filmography with Chapman Professor of Psychology, John Flowers.

The awardee is nominated by a professor, who then submits to the entire department a rationale for the award. The department votes on the nominees, and the award goes to the highest vote-getter! The Frizler Award is certainly the highest grad student award the English department gives, and it is always closely contested. In Pam’s case, the English faculty felt that she deserved the award on the basis of her outstanding performance in her classes. Her literary insight, contributions to class discussions, and the high quality of her writing merited this recognition. Personally, I remember that what she said raised the level of intellectual inquiry in the class and took with me to a higher level than it had ever been before. Those of us who were fortunate enough to have Pam in our classes unanimously agreed that she brought out the best in everyone, fellow students and faculty alike!

Matthew T. Schneider, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Humanities
Wilkinson College of Letters and Sciences
Professor of English
Chapman University
Orange, CA 92866

Gabe's Baby Blessing

I gave Marshall the responsibility to let the Eversons know that we are blessing Gabe this Sunday, May 4th. Of course it is the day before and he still hasn't called anyone. I think Sydney let most people know, but just in case I am sending out this message.

We are having the blessing at my parent's house. (2103 south 100 west, orem) I'll let you all Google Map it instead of trying to give directions. The blessing will be at 5:30 pm and dinner around 6:00. We hope you all can make it, but given that it is such short notice we understand.

Marshall and Melissa

Congrats to Heidi (little Heidi)

Last week Heidi took her last final at UVSC to complete her Associates Degree.  You can imagine that we are very proud of her because she finished one month before graduating from high school!!  The other really great benifit to all her hard work is that she will recieve a scholarship from the state of Utah that will pay 75% of her college tuition for the next two years!!!  Way to go Heidi!

Email from Jon (April '07)

Per Grandma's request, I have pasted an email that I sent to my mom a week back.

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I was thinking about Dad as a trigger when I heard the song "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel (Jefra hit that song dead on in a video a while back as a good fit for Dad and I could not agree more . . I feel like he is around when I hear it). Anyway, I started looking through old emails to see when the last email correspondence from Dad was via email and it just happened to be a year ago from this last Monday. I will insert the email here and comment after:

From: jonstarr@aol.com
To: jonstarr@aol.com

Sent: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Any luck with BYU

Shane I guess Mom told you about the bone cancer on my back and in the brain. Bummer. Well, I will continue to pray and trust in God. If it goes the other way,I will have had the best wife, children,sons and daughters in law and grandkids one could have. We some how believe we are entitled to 85 years plus on this earth. Not so. It's what the lord gives us as the time for us.

Did you resolve the BYU inspection?

Ashton will need to know not to freez the pipes in winter at vivian or Provo over christmas break. where all the tools and supplies are in the basement and back of the garage

Mom just said you got a washing machine.

Did you tape up the Provo business license visable from the street?

Did you go through the keys for Provo, Vivian (the boys have 3 sets could you arrange to check them out -with Ashton) as well as Park City? We need to have exact knowledge where the keys are ALWAYS. Also the leases.

We should try and lease to the 7 students next fall now should we not? Anyone coming back for another year and do they have the BYU 07-08 leases yet?

Anything I forgot? No seniors?

sorry for the cancer relaps when there are so many important things to see it your s and LULUS life.

love

Dad

This was after he had the serious blow of information that he was not progressing but digressing rapidly. Who apologizes that their deathly cancer has relapsed!!!! This was a hard email for me to reread (as well as read the first time). I thought it was very timely to look up this email seeing that it was just one year ago that he really started to dive and to think how much has happened since then. It was this time last year that was the turning point for near inevitability. I thought it a tender mercy to hear the song and almost feel his presence and reread this message almost as if it were being read to me for the first time. What a sweet spirit he became!

I also realize that I can never really understand the gravity of Mom's situation. I am TRULY sorry for your loss, Mom. I think if Lydia (and the others to come) were out of the house and all the sudden Lauren is taken form me!

We love you Mom/Mockie!

Shane, Lauren, lil lyddie lu
Bryn, Joel, Abby, JJ, Lukey-baby
Jefra, David, Evey, Bootchie and newskie (???)

My Lucky Day!!!

We are taking a trip to Newport tomorrow and a needed to find a book for the airplane.  So I went to my favorite bookstore, DI. Yes, it was my lucky day because sitting right there on the shelf of books that needed to be put out was a very nice addition of the Charles Harper Biology book!   The one I told you all to be looking for. There is one listed on ebay for over $1,100.00 at a "buy in now" price.  I will be surprised if it sells for that but I am feeling like my $1.00 was well spent today.  Dad would be proud.

Why Isn't Fashion Fun Anymore??

Start them Young

If you want your kids to be really good at Dummy Rummy you have to start them out at around one month!!!

What is it you do exactly??

The name of this blog is "Everson Doings" and it looks like the only thing we do is youtube (sorry Trey) and make babies. Jordan and I are going to a Yankees game tonight; box seats courtesy of the Children's Health Fund via J.Lo and Marc. We'll be sure to have a great time and post about it later.