Ben, thank you so much for all the great photos! You are quite the photographer. I enjoyed looking at them here on the blogger, revisiting the middle fork! And I really appreciate the ones sent to me. It was truly an incredible trip. Great company, beautiful scenery and so many fun memories. I need to rty and write it all down before time fades the trip. It will be a few years before I can scrapbook that week. My new calling seems to keep me pretty busy. I am also getting swamped with candles now as Christmas draws near.

I really want to come down for the "Return of Jake." I have a few conflicts I will try to work out. Kip will not be able to tear away, that is the final cutting of Hay and fumigating is full on. I dread the long trip on my own but the kids are getting big enough to be helpful. Kip prides himself on the trip to Salmon in 7 hours flat. My Triips to Salmon take 14 hours!

Any way it is nice to hear from all of you. I am not the tard that can't be a part of this party!
love Gigi

We will be there Friday morning. We took Friday off and are planning on staying at the Fairfeild Inn in Draper in case anyone is looking for a hotel. It was $59.00 a night. Hope to see you all soon.

Hey all would not miss comming to Utah. I am not looking forward to the drive though. Well everything is going well. We had Andy's parents come to visit this last weekend. It was fun. They sure love our kids. That is great news Julie. That is great. (expecting and comming in 10th!) So when are all of you going to show up? I was thinking of comming on thurs. I hope to see you all soon.

New pictures of the Middle Fork are up at my home page middle fork.

Geez Julie, you make the rest of us look bad, running a 5k 2 months pregnant??? Congratulations on doing so well, AND the new baby! When is your due date? We are definitely planning on coming to Jake's "homecoming" conference weekend, I can't believe it's been 2 years already! Things are good here, school is speeding up, and we are trying to keep afloat...I recieved a 97% on my first Spanish test! It wasn't too difficult at all, and I am glad I have a prof. that moves fairly slowly for us ignorant white folk. We have Conner in soccer, his first game was Saturday and he scored 3 out of 5 goals on his team! He is a quick little bugger and enjoys it, I wasn't sure if he would or not- he is actually the youngest kid on his team too- they are all 4 year olds, and he won't be 4 till next month. I am such a proud mommy...:)

Congratulations to Jarom for passing that test thingy. Truly incredible. Good job. Everything else here is going fine. Work is good, and biking is still fun. I have yet to actually pay money to enter a sanctioned race where the winner actually gets money. Julie ran in the LSI Logic Colorado run. First prize was $1000, 2nd $500, and so on. Then in each age group there were similar prizes. We took Lacey and Alan and watched Julie run. She got 10th in her age group, but she ran a 25:15 5k, which is really good. Libby Hickman was first for the women, she's an Olympian and world class runner. Her time? 16:20. That's right, unbelievable. The fastest man on our team ran a 17:55, and he is fast. Here are some pictures, you can see Libby giving Alan and Lacey autographed pictures. Colorado Run Julie was on the LSI team, and did great for her personal time. She's also two months pregnant, so she felt a little drained.

Looks like everyone is sort of planning on being at Tyler's house for Conference weekend. I've heard Jacob gets home 10/2 and conference is 10/4-10/6. Plan on stopping by if you can. Tyler assures me everyone is invited.

Sorry I wrote a nice bit about my trip and it was erased so I guess I will jsut say it was nice to get home! It was great seeing Lesti and Tim and I had fun remembering hanging around with them. I realized how much I miss my family. I hope to see you all in Oct. when Jacob gets home and Ben You should send a new invite to blogger to tim and lesti. timk@polson.net that is their new address. Well if you want anymore details just call me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!!!

Congratulations Jarom, I was really happy to hear the news from juliette. What a relief that must be! Sorry we couldn't make it to the little "get-to-gether". see ya soon. Chris

FYI y'all (Hint: scroll down to the "W's):

Successful Applicants - July 2002 Bar Examination

Daniel Roland Anderson
Tyler James Anderson
Kelly Arthur Anthon
Joel Andrew Beck
Nancy Faye Berger-Schneider
Jennifer Nannette Bivens Douglas
Jessica Marie Borup
Judith Miriam Brawer
*Jeremy Dean Brown
David Patrick Claiborne
Daniel Robert Clark
Chris D. Comstock
Michael David Dean
Jason Gill Dykstra
Scot Michael Elder
Erin Michelle Farrell
Robert Gregory Ferney
Kelley Kathleen Fleming
Eric Don Fredericksen
Judy Lea Geier
Brad Anthony Goergen
Brannon Stevens Hancock Jr.
David Benson Hargraves
Alan Rexford Harrison
Matthew Earl Hedberg
David Fermin Hensley
Ryan Patrick Henson
Jill Suzette Holinka
Dari Matthews Huskey
Teri Ann Kaptein
Sheli Fulcher Koontz
Joseph Scott Kozlowski
Jared Michael LeFevre
Jerrold Arthur Long
Jessica Michele Long
Wendi Ann Malone
Andrew Charles Marsh
David E. Merrell
Tanya Eileen Milligan
Joshua Dillon Mills
Michele Kay Morin
Tobi J. Mott
Sean Roy Moulton
Joseph Lowell Mrstik
Marcus R. Mumford
Randolph Brian Neal
Jed Keller Nixon
Shawn Christopher Nunley
Valerie Anne Parr
Kira Dale Pfisterer
Jason Curtis Pintler
Jennifer Marie Pitino
Jason Steven Risch
Joseph R. Rockstahl
Dana Hoffelt Rose
Matthew Joseph Ryden
*Peter Joseph Salmon
*David Paul Schack
Gary Lawrence Schreiner
Benjamin Hugh Schwartz
Ronald Robert Shepherd
Billie Jean Siddoway
Jared William Sommer
Robert Preston Tilley
Aaron John Tolson
Andrew Joseph Waldera
Matthew Lloyd Walters
Suzanne West
Jarom Anthony Whitehead
Brent L. Whiting
Kelly Ray Whiting
Herbert Brent Williams
Brent Thomas Wilson

Wow Ben! Have you ever entered any races that had prizes or anything? Can you send some of your energy and stamina over here? I have none... Any big plans for your big birthday? Chris' is on the 11th too, and we both have school, all day long. They have a big fireworks show and stuff planned here, but I have a night class and will miss it.

Can you believe I was the first one up the mountain? This ride suffered from a serious lack of competition, but I beat my personal best by almost 40 minutes.

Too much to post. Must sleep. Had a great time on the river. I have a big bike race tomorrow that I've been looking forward to all year. Bike is all ready, I'm a little anxious. It's only a 30 mile race, but the first nine miles climb 6000 feet. It should be fun.

Everyone must be having fun...it's been slow around here! How did the big float trip go? Sounds like fun! Chris and I just started back into school on Monday- and it is going ok so far...I can introduce myself and say good day in Spanish. :0) Conner is enjoying learning how to count to ten in Spanish also. I am getting very fat and it feels about 10 degrees hotter than it should...I am so glad it is starting to get cooler outside, cause I cannot stand being hot anymore! Polly, hope your trip to Lestie's is fun! Maybe I should come up, then we could truly drive Tim even more insane than he probably already is! LOL

dad i need to know my email password. :> >:[

Polly, when are you going to Lestie's house? Let us know how it goes over there and all that.

Ben they do not let Andy play with explosives either he just gets the pleasure of watching them from afar. I am getting ready to go help Lesti for a couple of weeks. I hope I am help even though I am bringing two more kids into the equation. Not much else is happening I hope all of you enjoyed our virtual tour of Round Mountain. A couple of my friends that have lived here quite a few years said that we made Round Mountain look really bad! I guess you get used to it after a few years. I hope we never live here that long.

Congrats on finishing Jarom! Hopefully you won't be ignored on the list...

Ben, good luck with your masters! You don't have much left to do though, so it should be a breeze for you! That will make 4 of us in our family "graduating"- Lisa with her masters, Chris with his bachelors, me with my associates, and you!

We just got back from camping to a place called lake Cleaveland. It is right above Pomerelle ski resort, outside of Rupert Idaho. It is by far the most beautiful camping spot we have been to yet. It was for a reunion for Chris' moms family. They are the nicest people you will ever meet- literally would give you the shirt off your back if you needed it. The problem is most of them are alcoholics, and smoke. Most of my mil's brothers have been in rehab for drugs-some more than once. It is really sad to see the problems they have had, divorces, lost rights to children, lost jobs etc. It was fun camping, till the wind picked up and about froze us all to death! Our poor tent about blew over several times too. The lake is at about 9,000 ft elevation, and Conner had 2 nosebleeds. Jackson didn't sleep well- he ended up having an ear infection and strep. So every time he rolled over and cried, I had to go to the bathroom! It was pretty miserable the last night there...I am so glad I don't have to live in a tent, and use an outhouse permanently!

Hello everyone.

Well, the bar is finally over and studying (I hope) is a thing of the past. I will find out in September if I passed or failed miserably in shame and humiliation. To make it worse, they don't actually tell you if you failed. The bar examiners list only the names of those who passed. If you failed, you just don't find your name on the list. I guess its sort of like being ignored -- like the loser you are. While I'm sure the thought is that it protects the loser's anonimity, I suppose it could make a great analogy for life in general. You know, "almost good enough" and all that. It should be depressing, but its not. After weeks of torture studying and all of the anxiety that is part and parcel to taking the exam in the first place, just being done is enough to make me feel great -- regardless of the outcome. If I don't pass, I've been thinking of alternative careers in cosmotology, food preperation services ( that's a "cook" for those of you uninitiated out there), or just simply holding out for a management position (ala cousin Eddy).

Jen, Ethan and I had fun visiting Tyler and Ruth last weekend. Mom was there Thursday night with aunt Corrie but left on Friday morning so we did not see much of her. Tyler and Ruth were great hosts and Ethan had a ball following Olivia and Corbin around. I hope to see you all soon. You're all in our prayers -- Jarom

That is very cool, Polly. I loved the video of the explosions. Way cool. They don't let me play with explosives at my job. I really liked your web-site. Very nice. Now, you just have to keep it going with new pictures every once in awhile. Juliette, Jango Fett is Boba Fett's father. Did you even see Star Wars? You're going to have another boy, congratulations!

The new school year is almost upon us. The Bishop set me apart as a ward missionary today and in the blessing he mentioned how important it is that I am furthering my education right now. It also came up in elder's quorum about education and how if the Saints were to abide by correct principles, we would be the most educated people in the world. I guess I need to finish it up. All the red tape they make you go through for your masters is just enough to make you want to bag it, but I know it'll be worth it when I'm done. I will be graduating (yet again) in the Spring. Of course this is no Law degree, but hey, it's taken a lot longer so it should be worth more, and maybe that will be next. Hmmm, what will my next degree be?

Julie is so amazing. When she was set apart the Spirit was so strong and the words were so delightful, I felt once again like every blessing I have has been given to Julie and I'm just along for the ride. All of my sisters are the same way. Your missions here as mothers and teachers are so important, and eternal in their consequences. It's easy to forget that in the midst of the daily grind.

I hope everyone has found some sort of physical activity that they enjoy. We were not brought up to appreciate exercise, as if we were above it and would stay Whitehead thin forever. Ah, but life has caught up with our inability to do simple math (eat 2500 calories a day, burn 127), and it would be well that we teach our kids a little more active lifestyle. It doesn't take a lot, a long walk here, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, every little bit counts. Just find something and do it. Your life will be far more enjoyable along the way if you do. That's how I started riding my bike, just using it for little errands here and there. Well take care, have a good week everyone.