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Kristin

Erik

Ryan's team uses wrist playbands. How cool is that?

Ryan's team won, BIG!

SPRING 2011 GAMES

Miss Aria not only playing good, but looking soooo cool.

PRETTY AS A PICTURE

Today for lunch I made a stir fry. Dad thought it looked quite pretty and wanted to take a picture. You know what? It is kind of pretty so I thought I'd share it. I served it on a Eugene Savage plate. I have two of them. He's the artist that did all those art deco pictures of Hawaii for the Luraline ships. Love his work.

CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVIS AGLE

We have just learned that Davis is the recipient of the Energy Solutions Foundation Scholarship.
Ken said he did a great job putting in the info for the scholarship, which he believes is $2,000 and puts him in the running for a $10,000 scholarship.

Looks like he won't have any trouble figuring out how to run the telescope.

Congratulations, Davis and good luck on the next one.

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

Smile for Mama.

Drive carefully.

Is there room for the telescope?

They're off and they made it home ahead of the storm.

THE TELESCOPE

What's a Saturday morning without checking out at least one garage sale.
On their way to MacDonalds for an egg McMuffin Dad and Ken saw a garage sale sign and spotted this bad baby!
For less than $100, (way less), he got a $1,000 telescope with several doo-dahs and lens!

WHAT'S THAT I SEE????

LOOK! LOOK! (A bunch of clouds). Sadly, this was the weekend we had a HUGE storm.


Loading it in the car to return to Mapleton where they have dark nights and real stars.
Davis has a big assignment to figure out how to use this.
We'll all get a chance to check it out at the 2011 Agle Family Reunion. Yipee!

INTERNATIONAL FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL

The International Family Film Festival is in its 18th year and is held at the Raleigh Studios, right in Hollywood. The studio was started by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the MEGA stars of their day. It was a wonderful studio lot. Just like you would expect. Lots of TV shows are filmed there including a couple of my favorites, Castle and The Closer.

They have 3 screening rooms and "Chloe" was held in the Pickford room.

It was especially fun for Dad and I to be invited to this very special event.

Visiting with some young people who were interested in their movie.

Checking their watches to see if it's time to head up to the theater.

The movie was held in the Mary Pickford Screening Room.

Three great pictures. Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Chloe & the Great Fish.

Afterwards, a short intro by a founder of the festival, and then Q & A from the audience.

Agle Family Reunion
Mapleton/Springville, Utah
July2 – 5, 2011

Between the houses of Ken & Coppelia and Dennis and Suzanne they feel we can all be accommodated with the exception of January who will be staying at Mark’s place. Both of their houses have 4 bathrooms and 3 showers. It will be fun and cozy and great for bonding, and the price is right.

Here are the proposed accommodations:
· Mom & Dad – Agle jr basement
· January & Mark – Mark’s apartment
· Carol & Quinton – K & C’s ((Davis’ bedroom queen size bed)
· Ruth – K & C’s (Nathan’s bedroom – queen size bed)
· Julie & Scott - K & C’s (Mayra’s bedroom – queen size bed)
· Erik & Kristin - Ken’s (Steven’s room –queen size bed)
· Rhiannon & Eddy – K & C’s (Home Teaching room/Living room- queen sofa bed)
· Older girls – Danielle, Katie, Aria, Sashy, Mayra, Agle jr. (upstairs girl’s rooms)
· Younger girls – Lindsey, Sophie – K & C’s (Sophie’s bedroom- twin beds)
· All boys – K & C’s (backyard – tent (sleeps 8), trampoline, playhouse)

We plan on some family members arriving Saturday and some Sunday

Saturday afternoon, July 2:
For those arriving Saturday afternoon, there is the option of attending the Stadium of Fire program at the BYU stadium. This is a spectacular event that everyone should see at least once in their lifetime. It is a fantastic fireworks show along with performances by headliners Brad Paisley and David Archuleta. Tickets are a little pricey (range from $30 to $120). Ken plans on going and taking a couple of his kids. They plan to buy tickets around the $40-50 price. For those who want to go, it would be best to all try and go together because drop off car pooling could be available. Here’s a link to check it out, http://www.freedomfestival.org/sof/
If you haven’t arrived or do not plan on going, it will be a good time to relax from the journey and get unpacked and settled.

Sunday afternoon July 3 (official start of reunion)
Kick off BBQ in K &C’s backyard. Visit and get reacquainted.

Monday, July 4
Morning:
Provo 4th of July Parade. Largest of its kind in the State and begins at 9a. http://www.freedomfestival.org/events/grand-parade/
We will ask several of the older girls to go early (5a) to reserve place for us.

Afternoon:
America’s Freedom Festival (fun and games at city similar to Cedar City’s park events) http://www.freedomfestival.org/events/freedom-days/

Evening:
Firework extravaganza at Ken’s house. Pizza dinner. BYOFireworks.

Tuesday, July 5
Morning:
Timpanogos Cave Hike, 1.5 miles, 11,000 elevation. http://www.nps.gov/tica/planyourvisit/hours.htm
Check brochure for costs. The hike is challenging but well worth it
(Lunch on your own)

Afternoon:
Swimming at the Provo Veteran’s Pool. http://www.provo.org/rec_center.vets_pool.html
This pool has 2 water slides, a play structure, etc.
You will be responsible for your admission tickets but they are reasonable and we can also get a group rate

Evening:
BBQ and TALENT SHOW
Hope you are all planning to participate

Wednesday, July 6.
Morning:
For those who aren’t leaving to return home, a trip to Park City is planned. They have wonderful art galleries, lots of fun shopping, a summer toboggan slide run.,etc.

Other information: Simple breakfasts will be provided. All lunches will be on your own. The evening BBQ’s will be provided but we’ll all chip in for the sides, desserts, etc.

It would be nice if you could bring your own pillow and towels. Ken has plenty of sleeping bags for the boys.

Some of you may not want to participate in some of the activities, (for instance the Timp hike), but I encourage you go to the events and visit with others and support the activity. There are still things you can do at the base of the mountain, etc, or sit at the pool and visit if you don’t want to swim..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB SANDERS

His birthday is today, but the party started on Friday for out to dinner with friends and continues through the weekend. We all send our best wishes to B-O-B (as his family often calls him) for a great celebration on Sunday with the family and for a successful coming year.

UPDATE ON OUR KIWI, ASHLEE

I asked Rhiannon to give me an update on Ashlee and send a picture.
The picture is taken from Facebook, hence the small size. I think Ashlee is on the right.

Here's what Rhiannon wrote:
She finally purchased a bed. She had a mattress but not a headboard frame. I guess over there they pay rent by the week and also get the apartment regularly inspected and her lack of a bed frame bothered the owner. She enjoys running outdoors and tries to go every day. In New Zealand they are not as friendly, one runner to another, and don't acknowledge fellow runners with a wave etc. New Zealand is very into dressing up year round for a variety of events and they have costume shops everywhere. Ashlee went to a rugby match dressed up as an Indian which I believe she wore a very similar costume when she was four.

The office places she has worked are much more laid back than in America. She likes her current job and has a contract to work until July, after which she plans on traveling and visiting many Lord of the Ring sites and also hiking a lot and enjoying nature.

Her most recent post on facebook.
"I am going to stalk Russel Crowe this Sunday. Even though I will have to watch a cricket game (nothing like baseball) I am not going to miss this chance to tell him how far off his movie "A Good Year" was to my vineyard experience, and that he should make more movies with gladiators in them."

UPDATE ON ERIK'S COMPANY

A few years ago Erik formed a company, Advance Utility Design with his partner, John Voris. They grew rapidly eventually adding 22 employees. Things were good for quite awhile until the recession hit. Anything affecting construction eventually effects them. Gradually they had to let their employees go until it was down to Erik and John and working out of their homes, but they hung on. Slowly, things have been getting better and Erik and John are now back in offices in Orange County and Riverside County. They are up to 4 employees and things are finally looking like they will be kept very busy. Here's a picture of them at a luncheon together.

UPDATE ON JULIE & SCOTT'S KITCHEN

The dishwasher is in place but not hooked up yet. The upper cabinets will be in soon as will the 5"baseboards. That's subway tiles on the backsplash and the wall on the right. All put in by Julie.

Did you see that beautiful light fixture. Here's a closeup.

A couple of shelves for the salt & pepper collection.

A specially built cabinet to hold the favorites. Really cute.

THE NEWLY PAINTED DINING ROOM

Here the new "double" fan. Should make those summer meals very pleasant.

Here's the newly painted dining room waiting for the floors to be redone.

That doorway leads to the stairs going up but they also have
another set of stairs. Ooh la la.

It's a beautiful room.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COPPELIA

A happy birthday to a daughter, wife and very busy mother
juggling a family with kids in college, high school, middle school,
grade school and pre-school. That takes talent!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT HARRISON LANCASTER

Looks pretty happy and content, doesn't he.
Best wishes Scott from all of us.

CHLOE AND THE GREAT FISH

The movie that Dennis and Ken have been working on for many months is now completed (with the exception of a few more tweaks here and there). Since it is the length of a short movie they are entering it in several film festivals with the hope that they can get wider distribution. It has already been in one and was very well received. I asked Dennis to write me a paragraph that I could include to let you know more about this wonderful venture.

From Dennis:

"We were excited to find out that "Chloe & the Great Fish" (a possible alternate title for "Jonah & the Great Fish") was an "Official Selection" of the International Family Film Festival. The festival will be held at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, which was founded in the very early days of Hollywood (back in 1912). Even the commissary is a Hollywood original: the historic Studio Café was originally built as a set for the Frank Sinatra Western Johnny Concho. "Chloe" will screen on Friday, March 18, at 3:15. Our hope is that some distributor will see the movie, be charmed and want to unleash it on the world in a big way (gotta dream, right?). Ken and I will be heading down to participate in the festival (attempting to do that schmoozing thing that we're so good at) tucked around some banking business. We're also looking forward to seeing the folks, so should be a good trip."

The Festival runs Thursday through Sunday (March 17-20). They will drive down Wednesday and return Monday. We might get them down here for a night or two, but most of their time and efforts will be in the LA area doing the Festival thing and some banking (gotta pay the bills)

It's been a lot of blood, sweat and tears for them so let's all send our very best positive thoughts for wonderful success.