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Click above to get videos of the Tabernacle Choir Christmas specials and other Church related broadcasts. Merry Christmas to ALL! Jeri

Happy Birthday, Bruce!

Here are a couple of pictures of Bruce and his brothers and sisters when he was young. Can you pick him out? I hope you had a good birthday, Bruce. It has been nice spending time with you over the Thanksgiving days off. Love you, Jeri

Candace Tagged Me

Tagged!
Here are the Rules Once Tagged:
1) Link to the person who tagged you.
2) Post the rules on your blog (copy and paste 1-6).
3) Write 6 random things about yourself (see below).
4) Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
5) Let them know they are tagged and leave a comment so they know when your post is up

Well, I really don't think I know enough people who blog that haven't already been tagged to tag. I don't mean to be a bad sport, but I will at least answer the questions. The ones that I have read have all been different, but Lora Knight at least posted the rules, so I will go by it.

Six random things about myself are:

1. I surprise myself every day at how fast I am getting old and cranky.
2. I can hardly wait to own a home again. Renting stinks.
3. I voted for John McCain but I really do like Barrack Obama too. I just hope he doesn't mess up our country more than it is.
4. I have a degenerating "stick neck" which gave me headaches so I go to a chiropractor twice a week to get adjusted.
5. I wish I would have kept taking violin lessons when I was younger.
6. I cry almost every day over my children, missing them or wishing I had been a better mother.

Fun At Home for Halloween

Randie hit the mall trick or treating with the cutest Frankenstein I've ever seen.

Figaro, Figaro, Figaro!!!

I made sweatshirts for Clark and Gucci while Diane and Bruce answered the door.

This was a couple days before Halloween, but Raidon was adorable as he played on my floor!

Diane's Birthday Party

Well, our baby turned 21! Diane chose a night out at P.F. Chang's Restaurant Downtown SLC. We went on the Friday before her birthday (10-27) because of Diane's work schedule.

P.F. Chang's has great Chinese food. Bruce's first time there and probably a first for valet parking.

We're glad Candance and Jared could join us. Andy had to work that night.

After dinner we went to Jared and Candace's house for cake. Diane requested pumpkin squares instead.
She blew the candles out so fast that I couldn't catch it in the picture. We had fun. Happy Birthday to Diane!!!

Soon To Be 21!!!!

Yes, Mother had to sneak a snap shot of our darling, Diane. Always busy and going, going, gone. Off to work or off to play. Never a dull moment. We love you, Diane, our last baby to turn into an adult (October 27th)! Mom and Dad

October General Conference

This was taken right after the last session of Sunday Conference by the ladies I sat by, Nkoyo and Jane.

Before the Saturday session of Conference with my roommate, Silvia Hunt.

Happy Birthday, Spencer

Hope you had a great day, Spencer. Wyatt looks like he is enjoying your music. Love you both!

Introducing our new blog page

Hi Family and Friends! This stuff is all new, so I'm just trying to see how this blogging thing will work for us. Got to keep up somewhat on technology. If you're reading this you will hopefully be our family or friend, so please comment and tell us how to get to your blog page if you have one. We would love to hear from you often and please add pictures. Maybe the old e-mailing thing is getting old fashioned.

This is Bruce and I with the dogs at Nehema? Beach in Oregon. It was windy and chilly but really beautiful. The dogs enjoyed running along the edge of the water. There were many kite surfers out on the waves. We drove along the coast with Spencer and Jane and their one-month old, Wyatt that day. We also stopped at Tillamook Cheese Factory and got some cheese and icecream. Yum! We even drove into an apple farm and bought a bag of apples. Another day we took a drive to the Bonneville Dam and saw the huge salmon and stergeon fish through windows under water. We picked up "steamers", clams in their shells, on the way home and had them for dinner. I had a couple as I'm not that big of a fan of eating whole bodies. Ooh! It was ok.

Bruce and I also drove to Shelton, WA where Lee and Karyn live with their 3 kids, Whitney, Zachary (in the picture with Bruce), and Emily. We enjoyed taking a tour of their home as it is being remodled. It will really add a lot more room to what they have now, AND, they are even adding a guest room so we can really have a bedroom when we come to visit. Thank you to Beth, (my niece) and her three darling girls who drove all the way to Shelton from Renton to see us. Here's a cute picture of them that day.
Today, Sept. 10th, is Andy's 29th birthday, so I want to wish him a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Tonight he and Randie and their 5-month old, Raidon, will come over as well as Jared and Candace for dinner. Raidon is our closest (in location) grandchild, which we love to see at least once a week.
So, if you are a friend that needs catching up on where the Howard gang is: Bruce and I are renting a home in Draper, UT for another year. Bruce is finishing up his bachelors degree on-line and we can hardly wait. He works still at ATK in SLC. Jeri, that's me, is working at Dr. Liddle's dentist office and singing in the Mo-Tab Choir still. Lee and Karyn and their three kids live in Shelton, WA, as mentioned. Spencer and Jane and Wyatt live in Vancouver, WA. Jared and Candace are closer in Taylorsville, UT. Andy, Randie, and Raidon live in Ogden, and our two girls, Sarah and Diane live at home, except that Sarah is in Donetsk, Ukraine on a mission for another year. We hear from her in an e-mail once a week, so if you want to say anything to her, you can do it here and I will forward it on to her. She is doing just great and loves the people there. Here she is with Anya, whom she made friends with and taught the Gospel to. Anya recently was baptized on the day this picture was taken.

Well, I don't want to make this too long the first day I made our blog, so I will end with a last picture of our whole family taken before the last 2 grandsons were born just before Sarah left on her mission. Jared is making a family blog page for the Garrard Family to use and will let us know when that is ready to use and how to get on to write and add pictures. Thank you, Jared. I didn't think I knew how to do this, but it's not that hard. You can go into http://www.candacepants.com/ to see them. It's pretty funny. Love, Jeri