"Very Good, Jodi"

We happend to like spiders around our house. The kids have never been scared of them. Brent found this one yesteday. She is huge. She has an enormous web. She and her guy were doing the mating dance. Quite interesting... but I didn't stand around to watch. (you know... they need their privacy also) anyway... I went back out about 10 minutes later and this is what I saw. Ya. She killed him and was eating him. And this morning. There was another male doing the mating dance..... He's not going to make it either.

See that little girl in the middle? That's my sister. I only have one. Her name is Jodi. It's her birthday tomorrow. I won't tell you how old she is...cuz if I did, she'd tackle me down to the floor and lick my face...she's done it before, she'd do it again. She's a sweetie and I love her. She and her family only live a few miles from me. I'm so glad they do. I'd miss her if she lived far away and I couldn't see her whenever I wanted. For her birthday I'm taking her to see 'The Celtic Woman' tomorrow evening. You've heard them sing... haven't you? Well, they're very good. Anyway...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JODI! LOVE YOU!

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My Great-Grandmother. I do not know the date of this photo. I scanned it from the album. If I had to guess a date, I would say 1891 or there abouts. Mary was born in Kappendrup, Fyen, Denmark on Jan. 28. 1859. She came across the Atlantic on a steamer when she was about 12... but don't quote me on that. I've got to look that up again. She was the 4th child of Rasmus Hansen and Anna Catrine Christensen. Mary Halsted Fridal died on Oct. 30 1925 in Tremonton, UT and is buried in the Bear River Cemetery, UT.

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I know. Could I have found a more boring picture? Things at work have been very busy. VERY BUSY. We were the low bidder for a big road job. Had we not gotten the job, it most likely would have been a very lean summer and leaner winter. So, thank you ODOT and our estimators for making it all work.

Okay. The picture. The machine is a rotomill. It chews up and spits out the asphalt that was on your road. Then some other contractor will come in and repave the road. The engine in this machine needs work. Lots and lots of work. I have not idea what's wrong with it, but at least $60,000 worth of work to get it back up and running.

I don't work on them. Sheesh. I wouldn't want to. It's messy and noisy.

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Aunt May with a couple of her brothers. Knud (who was called Knue) and Walter. Aunt May was born on Feb 15, 1885 in Bear River City, Box Elder County, Utah. She died on May 10, 1974. Knue is on the right. He was born on May 11, 1881 and died on July 27, 1961. Walter is on the left. He was born on Jan. 28, 1883 and died on May 21, 1962. Aunt May was the 3rd child of 8. She had two sisters. One was my grandmother, Hazel Sarah.

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My Grandfather is sitting under the numbers. I don't know when this was taken or where. I do know that he was home from WWI, but I don't know if he was married yet at this time. He died in 1980. One month later, my oldest son was born.

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The youngest child in this photo is now 23. Where did all that time go.......

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Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm

Nuff said.Photo taken in 2007.

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For as long as I can remember, my dad has had a motorcycle. He still has one and he still rides it from time to time. He rode it this past weekend with my sister on the back. Dad is 75. He has a Goldwing. I don't know what kind of motorcycle dad had in this picture. I was 3 1/2 years old. My dad was 28 years old. My dad also had/has a nickname. Black Bart. You can see how he could get such a nickname. Black hair, dark eyes.

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My mom is the baby...in the middle. Her brother, my uncle, is on the left, my aunt is on the right. They are still alive (my mom was born in 1933...for a reference point) and I am very lucky to know them. They are some of my most phavorite people.

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Like last week's Phavorite Phriday Photo, I'm still featuring my brother. Since last weeks photo was of 1975, I thought I'd flip the numbers and show you one from 1957. Mom had put me in curlers. Ya. I came with a lot of hair. Doug... not so much. And to this day... he still doesn't have much hair, but he still makes that face.

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Doug & Brenda
Brother & Sister

For my Phavorite Phriday Photo, I chose my graduation picture from high school. I don't know what the goofy look on our faces are all about. I don't know who either of us was looking at. And I can't tell you if this was before the graduation ceremony or after. I do remember that there was a graduation party at Kelly's Canyon, a favorite ski place, but it was almost summer and all the snow was gone.... and that a high school boyfriend drove me home.... but we weren't dating at that time....and that I got home at the crack of dawn. As for Doug... I don't know what he did that evening. He is my brother, but I don't keep track of him....I mean, I do know where he lives.. and all that good stuff, but in high school.....he went his way, and I went mine. Our classes were in different halls, except for our German class... that we had to do together.

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This is my nephew Jesse. I was taking this picture of him, while he was trying to take a picture of me with a cell phone at the beach on December 31, 2007. This is one of the most well rounded, energetic, coordinated and politest kid you will ever meet. I feel lucky to be his aunt.

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I took this photo on Oct. 4, 2008. I don't know the couple getting married. But it's become one of my favorite photo's. It was a rather coolish day. I saw them walk past the beach house and my first thought was that they were all going to a wedding on the beach. Not that they were the couple to be married. So, I grabbed my camera and went to see where they went. It didn't take me long to find them. They were only a few yards off the boardwalk, out in the sea grass. A storm had just passed through and one was brewing out on the ocean. They were oblivious to me. I wish I could give them this picture, but like I said. I don't know who they are.

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