ARIA'S VISIT TO DISNEYLAND

Aria and her college pal Bree,took few days this summer to visit Disneyland.  Dad Ken had some miles she could use for her airplane ticket.  As you can see, they had a fun time.

I see a little face painting was evident.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATHAN PAYAN, AKA "NATE", "NATER"

Loves music.

Loves sports.

Fierce competitor.

Loves hiking.

Loves water.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDSEY JANE

A very happy birthday to our 7 year old Lindsey.

When this pictures was taken she was ALMOST 7.

BIG NEWS!!!!

It's official. Elizabeth Cadwallader, know to all as Liz, has been asked by Mark to marry him and she has accepted. It was a very romantic proposal involving a limo to surprise pick her up at work (minus Mark) and in the limo was a basket with memorbilia from their first date. She was then driven up the canyon to a lake where there was another basket of things (something about their dates) and then someone drove her by seadoo across the lake to an island where Mark was waiting with a proposal and a beautiful ring. That's the abridged version, but I'm sure we'll hear more about it as time goes on.

We all got meet Liz at the family reunion. We could all tell that she was special. They enjoy each other's company and have many things in common. The wedding is tentatively set for November 12, 2011 to be performed in the Oakland Temple. Liz is also from Northern California and they plan to make their home somewhere in that area following the wedding.

She plays cards too.  In our family that's important!

THAT'S HOW THE FIGHT STARTS . . .

 How Fights Start........ 

One year, a husband decided to buy his mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift...
The next year, he didn't buy her a gift.
When she asked him why, he replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"

And that's how the fight started..... 

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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first..'I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.'
He said, 'Aren't you worried about the mad cow?'
'Nah, she can order for herself.'

And that's when the fight started...... 

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My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping
the channels.She asked, 'What's on TV?'
I said, 'Dust.'

And then the fight started... 

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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to
200 in about 3 seconds.'
I bought her a scale.

And then the fight started.. 

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My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school
reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.
I asked her, 'Do you know him?'
'Yes,' she sighed, ' He's my old boyfriend...
I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn't been sober since.'
'My Goodess!' I said, 'who would think a
person could go on celebrating that long?'

And then the fight started... 

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I rear-ended a car this morning.. So, there we were
alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car. You know how sometimes you just get soooo stressed and little things just seem funny?
Yeah, well I couldn't believe it... he was a DWARF!!!
He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted,
'I AM NOT HAPPY!'
So, I looked down at him and said, 'Well, then which one are you?'

And then the fight started..... 

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  I SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST.....
THE BROKEN LAWN MOWER

When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife
kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed.
But, somehow I always had something else to take care of
first, the truck, the car, playing golf,
Always something more important to me.

Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. When
I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass,
busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors.
I watched silently for a short time and then went into the
house.. I was gone only a minute, and when I came out again I handed her a toothbrush. I said, 'When you finish cutting the grass, you might as well sweep the driveway.'

The doctors say I will walk again, but will always have a limp. 

C-O-U-S-I-N-S

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