Exciting News!!

Hip Hip Hooray! Chris was offered a job the Friday before Memorial weekend. We are so excited! His new job title is IT Administrator. He is working for Jacobson Construction. I think that this is great for him. I am very happy and relieved. I will miss having him home all the time, but I am excited for him to have found a new job. He actually started last Wednesday. He is excited to learn and grow with this company. I am so grateful for his hard work in trying to find this new job. I love you Chris!

Grandpa Swenson's Funeral

What a very long day and sad day. We started out going to my Grandpa Swenson's viewing at about 11 am then the funeral at about 12 pm. Except that some of my cousins were extremely late and the whole funeral was put on hold for about 20 minutes. I was so upset that they couldn't get to the funeral on time. I thought that it was very disrespectful to not just Grandpa, but to all those that came to his funeral.

My Dad gave the family prayer and my Brother Sam read his obituary and a poem. When the Bishop was announcing the program it was to my surprise that I was on the program. I was so post to direct a musical number for the grandchildren and great grandchildren to sing the song "Families Can Be Together Forever," except no one even told me that I was on the program and there was no practicing of this song with anyone in the family. Luckily I ended up getting out of it, my Aunt Pam announce that there was a change the program and we wanted the congregation to sing the song. I was so relieved, after I almost peed my pants! The funeral went really well, everyones talks were really good.

At the dedication of the grave site my grandpa had a Military honor ceremony,
which consisted of;

Folding of the flag

Presenting of the Flag to my Grandma

the military gun solute

the playing of the trumpet solo "Taps."

We also had the placing of roses on the casket in rememberence. It was a very touching and memerable funeral. I am glad that I have such a close family to help support each other in this time of need. I love them all so much. I also want to let my Grandma know how much I love her.

Passing of my Grandpa Swenson

My Grandpa Swenson (My Dads Dad) passed away on Monday, May 18th from a long battle of heart failure. He was a wonderful grandpa. I miss him so much. He was a very spiritual man. I loved sharing my most spiritual moment with him and my grandma as they went with us to take our endowments out and they were there to witness our sealing of our family. I was very close to my grandparents and I have many memories with both of them. I remember the many parades that my grandpa marched in with the post office band and how I use to twirl baton with them. My grandpa was so dedicated to them that he went to all the concerts and parades even when his health declined and he couldn't march any more. I can't remember a time when we didn't go up to East Canyon. We always had so much fun when we were up there. The funnest times were playing rummy with Grandma and Grandpa for hours. I love my Grandpa! I will miss him.

Here is his obituary

Robert Andrew Swenson
Robert Andrew Swenson 1928 ~ 2009 Robert Andrew Swenson passed away May 18, 2009. He was born February 28, 1928 in Magna, Utah to Ruth Alice Thomsen and Emil F. Swenson. He attended South High School in Salt Lake City, the University of Utah and BYU Salt Lake Center. He joined the Air Force in 1946, and was assigned to the 5th Air Force Headquarters Band at Nagoya, Japan, serving as drum major. He married Fumie Suzuki on September 4, 1948. In 1949 he was called by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to serve as a missionary in Japan, establishing the branch in Fukuoka and serving as president of the Nagoya Branch. He completed his mission in April 1952 and took his family home to Utah where Bob and Fumie were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. Bob and Fumie helped organize the Japanese-language Dai-ichi Ward. He served as Stake Sunday School President, Stake Clerk, High Priest Group Leader, and High Council member. He served as an ordinance worker in the Jordan River Temple for 14 years. Bob worked 20 years as a Letter Carrier, and 12 years as a security officer at LDS Hospital. He served 58 years with the Salt Lake City Letter Carrier Band, as drum major in the Days of 47 Parade and numerous other parades in Utah and at conventions of the National Association of Letter Carriers across the USA. He was a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, serving 25 years, and a colonel in the Utah State Guard with 26 years service. He served on the board of the national Japanese American Citizens League Credit Union. Robert is survived by his wife of 60 years, Fumie; his sons Raymond (Constance), David (Pam), Michael (Kathy), Cory (Terri), and daughter Pamela; 16 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren; his sister Joan McDonald; his aunt Mary Nacaratto; and many cousins, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother Kenneth, sister-in-law Rosemary, brother-in-law Ray McDonald, niece Kimberly McDonald, daughter-in-law Kathy, grand daughters Karen and Julia, and great-grandson Reilly Burton. Funeral services will be held Tuesday May 26, 2009, at 12 noon at the Kearns 14th Ward, 4232 West 5015 South. Friends may call Monday evening at Jenkins-Soffe Mortuary in Murray, 4760 So. State Street from 6-8 p.m., or one hour prior to services, at the church. Interment at Valley View Memorial. Online condolences at www.jenkins-soffe.com

Finally Family Pictures

So I finally went to look at our pictures. Some of them worked and some of

them didn't work well. Here are the ones that I bought. I also bought the

one picture on my title heading. I ended up spending a over $300. But

it doesn't matter, because these pictures are priceless.

Our Family

Chris, Triston, and Penny

My dad and the kids!

Katelyn, Alex, Dad, Sam and Penny.



Our Family
Dad, Sam, Mindy, Brooks, Taeler, Daxon, Cash, Penny,
Chris, Triston, Alex, Amie, Gavin, Katelyn and Shara.

Family Pics

So I have been trying to get my extended family together to get a family picture. It has been tough working with everyone schedule, but we finally were successful. We picked out our color scheme and showed up to get some snapshots of our happy little family. It took a lot of work to get 3 kids under 2 to smile at the same time and to have 2- 6&7 year old boys not beat each other up, but all in all our family picture turn out OK. I think that it would have worked out better if Triston took a nap earlier in the day. He did OK for 10 seconds. He was not having it! He wanted to get up and play because everyone else was running around. We were able to get a few good pictures, but not as much as I would have liked. I am sorry but I am unable to post the pictures, but the photographer doesn't put them online and he charges an arm and a leg to get any of them. Next time I am going to find someone cheaper who does a quality job.

I also really need to have Triston's 2 year old pictures done, but I don't know who to go with. I have been going to Kiddie Kandids, but I didn't want to spend to much money, but they actually sound really reasonable compared to this other photographer. Anyways as soon as I get these pictures I will post them.