Gavin enters the MTC December 2, 2009

He is so ready to go! We are thrilled for him, he says he loves the MTC. He will leave for the MTC in Lima on December 23.

Bo's Court of Honor

Bo got his Eagle on the day that Gavin had his farewell. Val is so proud of her brothers! The boys all stood and sang, "As Zion's Youth in Latter-Days" I loved it, and my chest puffed and I my eyes watered and proud is how I felt! I love these people.

Our family at the 50th wedding anniversary party

Shum & Kathy's 50th Wedding Anniversary party

We are only missing 4 people in this picture.
From Kim's family we are missing Chad, from Kristi's family we are missing Spencer. From Monte's family we are missing Logan (mission). From Yvonne's family we are missing Justin.

Gavin's temple day September 8, 2009

We hosted the PSR in August 2009

End of year report

Where do I begin to sum up a year packed full of special family events and busy community projects? In July we were thrilled to greet Trevor, home from his 2 yr. mission in Russia. This is a picture we took at that time, we are missing Val's husband, Spencer. A week later thrilled for Gavin to open his call to Peru. We hosted the PSR (Paul Shumway Rogers) reunion in August at Sherwood Forest where we celebrated 50 years of our family, we had a sock hop and a bowling game and had a grand time. In September Gavin went through the temple, we knew we had a while to get him ready, he wouldn't report until December 2. He worked nights at Wal-mart and didn't like it really at all but even though it was hard he stayed with it until October 31st. Then he went on a traveling vacation. He went to Eastern Arizona College to spend some time with his friends, James, Dustin and Terel. I'm not sure what they did, but he had a good time. When he got back he flew to Oklahoma to spend some time with Valerie and to drive her back to Arizona to be here for G & G Rogers' 50th wedding Anniversary on Nov. 20. Meanwhile we were following Bo and the Snowflake Lobos Football team as they traveled to Chino Valley and then to Gilbert where they played two play-off games but where beaten by Fountain Hills. I have been sewing costumes nearly non-stop for the Christmas Spectacular that I volunteered to be a part of that just showed on Dec. 11 & 12. It was a fun show and everything went very well! I'll post some pictures from that when I get some back. Gavin had his farewell on Nov. 22 and Bo had his Eagle Court of Honor on that same Sunday. I'm so proud of Bo for finishing and getting his award. All 5 boys are Eagles, yeah! All of my family was together in one place and so we took pictures, the ones you see here. It's been about 4 1/2 years since we've all been together for a picture. We celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas all in one day, Spencer and Val had to go back to OKC and Chauncy and Shar back to Sauhrita. Gavin leaves for his mission and Jay and Brittany will be with her family for Christmas as well as the other married kids. So we have had a really busy fall.
My Dad wasn't feeling well that Sunday evening and by Monday just didn't feel well at all. On Tuesday morning we took him to the ER where they did tests and finally at 5 pm they took him to surgery to remove his Gall Bladder. He got to come home on Friday and has been doing really well ever since. All of his tests were better than they had been for a year, he lost 13 pounds and he looks great! What a blessing! I just wish he would have felt this good for his anniversary party. Now we are taking a big sigh of relief as we look forward to Christmas.