We traveled down to Newberg to arrive the night before Sarah's 16th birthday. JJ and Brittany got to have their own little "cottage" out in the camper and Dad and I took up the office.We enjoyed visiting and on Friday John JJ and Brittany went to the Temple while Hope and I did some errands to get ready for Sarah's party. We snagged a few burgers and shakes at Burgerville (yummy Peppermint chocolate!) since it is a restaurant we truly miss. Seth and the girls came over for the celebration withan ice cream cake from Baskin Robins!
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| Sarah opening a gift with Mercedes | | | | | | | | | |
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| Sweet Sixteen |
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I can't seem to get the video of her blowing out the candles to load so I will suffice it to say that she did an excellent job with only two poofs! After we had the yummy ice cream cake we went outside for pictures:
On Saturday we went over to the farm and took JJ and Brittanys official "door" picture. Papa and I decided we should have one too and so we waved goodbye to the property.
Saturday night we had our Christmas Eve time and Sarah "played" Papa's night before Christmas.
On Christmas morning Sarah awakened us all at 6 AM and we watched as she rejoiced over her CELL PHONE!! It was great to see her so excited...she had gotten and IPOD Touch the day before so she had a great two days. After the present festivities we went to church and were able to see many old friends and listen to a nice Christmas program.
After Church we ate a bite of lunch and then headed for Lincoln City!!! Here is the view from our house that we rented "The Victorian":
We had a wonderful time doing the nativity play:
Just talking, playing the family card game and enjoying each others company:
We had great meals, wonderful conversation, fun times and some even actually went on the beach! Through Hope's magic with her tripod we got wonderful family pictures!
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| Tara and her Fiance Mike |
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| The Whole Clan |
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| All the Grandchildren |
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| Emilie and Logan's Family |
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| Christy and Ryan's family |
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| Seth and the girls |
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| JJ & Brittany |
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| Hope & John and Sarah |
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| All the children |
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| Children and Spouses | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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We had such a marvelous time...it is a mothers dream come true to have all of her children and grandchildren around her. This is our little slice of Heaven to last us for awhile.....sigh
I love my family and am so grateful to Heavenly Father that he made all of this possible!
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Etta, i wish i had known you were going to be in the area, it would have been good to see you all! I am glad you had a fun visit with your kids. it's hard when you are in the East and some are in the west. great pictures
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