Happy Wedding Day Nick and Sara

The big day is almost here...we are all excited about the event. Safe journey to all and a wonderful week-end for Nick and Sara.

Wow where have all the years gone? Congratulations, hope you had a wonderful day and treated each other with special moments and thoughts about the years gone by and the years to come!. Congratulation to Aaron and Emily for having such devoted parents to be there for them also! Can't wait to see your all next week-end...............

Happy Birthday Danny, Alyssa, and Hannah! My how you are all growing, I can hardly wait to see you in another 10 days....you better brace yourselves because if you are at cousin Sara's wedding expect your great aunt Debbie to chase you around and steal some hugs from you.....and of course there may be dancing, Danny! I may need a dance partner! Anyway hope your birthdays were and are full of fun! I will bring your birthday cards to the wedding.

It has been a busy past month. My Maid of Honor Bev's daughter was married last Saturday. It was such a fun wedding. My niece Sara is getting married next Saturday and we are all excited about it. It will be such a great time to see family we don't get to see very often. Mac will be home next Friday and I can't even tell you how excited we all are about seeing her. She will be here for about 10 days only and then back to Boston. She finishes her summer school classes next Thursday and then has a break to just cruise, work and earn some money for her last year! Yea for her. Joe hurt his back recently lifting something way too heavy for him and is finally starting to show some recovery after doctor visits and numerous medications. Our good friend Marian came to visit from Washington and with the exception of Joe being checked out on drugs we had a good visit with her. We had a little party on the patio for her before she left and all the parents came including Elise's Mom. James brought a couple of friends...always hungry boys around, Eamonn and Nate. We also celebrated Elise's birthday that evening with a cake I baked in McCall.....hope to share wedding/family photos on my next post. Safe journey's to all!

Happy Birthday Aadam! Where have the years gone? Before you know it you will be the big 40! You are the oldest of this generation of family.....and Mac is the baby! Hope you had a great day.....Love Aunt Deb

It has been a busy month! Since my last post and James birthday, the Adams girls were home briefly from San Fransisco for a wedding of one of their high school friends so we were able to have a Welch Adams birthday dinner for James in keeping with tradition. Dad and James cleaned the oysters and Elise downed her first oyster on the half shell, and actually didn't think it was too bad.

Her mother Garnette also joined us. James is off on his road adventure, called last night from New Orleans. They headed out this morning for Dallas, then on to Denver. Mac completed her Junior year, start her summer school session in the morning to finish up her language requirement for graduation!. Can't believe she has only about eight more months of study left...it has gone by too fast. She is living in Jamaican Plain MA this summer in a large house with two guys and another gal. One guy is a bike mechanic, which should come in handy since this is her main mode of transportation, and the gal is a farmer who farms in Dover...Mmmmm fresh produce. Good for a Vegan. She has a couple of jobs on campus to help with the finances.

Mom, Stomie, Alison, the girls and I traveled to SLC for Sara's wedding shower. We had a lot of fun and it was great to see Michelle, Hannah, Cathy and Dan and meet Sara's friends and her new mother in law to be. We were treated royally by the SLC clan.

Just prior to us leaving we received word that Uncle Yes from Rexburg has passed on. So after we returned home, had a day to work and catch up and then off to Rexburg for Uncle Yes's services. It was good to see the Hanami/Ishino family and friends and meet some of the Miyata family of Aunt Fumi's. It was poignant to see Aunt Fumi standing at Uncle Yes's casket saying goodbye to the man she was married to for almost fifty years.

Joe and I went to McCall this week-end and got the water turned on. Next week we are going to frame in our four upper windows in the living room....which should be interesting work for the two of us, since they are 16-20 feet high! Pray for us that we are still married after the week-end!

We are anxiously awaiting the wedding of Sara and Nick and the safe return of James and Mac traveling home. I would like to wish Nick and Kim a Happy Birthday also. Adam I am searching for a good picture of you.....sure I will find one soon. Just attended Susan's kindergarten program so will include a clip for you...so cute.

Happy Birthday James!
Tomorrow is my first born's birthday. The big 24. I am not sure where all the years went...they sure went fast. I have many many great memories of those years, and can't believe his next birthday will be a quarter of a century. I have selected a few photos of him as a child, one of Dad and Uncle Fred as children reflecting where James gets some of his good looks, the rest of his looks are from me! Also included my favorite picture of Elise and James...and Mac's favorite of them in the bunk beds....his face says it all. We have had such a fun life so far with many more years to come. Happy Birthday James I hope you have a wonderful day....can't wait to meet you and Elise for Oysters tomorrow night. Stay good. Mom

Well this just about says it all about our snow this year. Went to the cabin on April 13th only to find about five feet of snow. We got Bailee in her coat and said "Let's go to the lake!" She loves to run on the sandy beach.....needless to say when she got there the lake is frozen over and all there was between her and no beach...was another snow berm! Oh well couple of more weeks and it will all melt, well maybe four weeks. We have had a crazy past five weeks, the highlight of which was our visit to Boston to see our Mac for her 21st birthday. She is doing great, busier than ever with classes, friends, and her volunteer work. I think she is putting Stonewall Jackson down and she has moved on to Kumquat lord of all bikes....I think that is what she is calling him. James and Elise are doing well, starting to enjoy Spring. James is taking a road trip for his birthday present from Mom and Dad. He will fly to Seattle, meet up with Eamonn and they will fly to New Orleans on 5/14/08 and help friend Nate move/drive back to Boise to be closer to family. They will stop in Denver to wish Trevor Happy Birthday! I miss the days when Trevor and James would both have their birthdays so close together. Then there was tax day....oh woe is us, but it is over for awhile. Now we are planning for the weddings in the family this summer, Cousin Sara June 28th and Marian's son Lou on July 26th. I will be taking my parents to visit Aunt Fumi and Uncle Yes in Idaho Falls May 9th and then a quick trip down to SLC for Sara's Wedding Shower. My Maid of Honor's daughter Lacey is getting married in Meridian on June 14th. Mac will be flying in from Boston for Sara's wedding then home for at least a week and then back to Boston for the summer......Here are a couple of more photo's from Boston and the Cabin. James' birthday is up next. I will have to find a special picture of him. Stay posted.