Family Flashbacks

Knudson's and Thier Crazy Wonderful Life

Hi family, we have had a fun start to school. Life is VERY BUSY but we still love you all and love to hear from you!

Our day starts at 5am when Cameron and I get up and go run/walk for 30 min. then we come home get ready I run off to seminary with Braden & Trevor while Cameron gets the other 4 kids ready for school. After seminary Cameron meets me at the church and we trade cars. He takes the 8 kids to high school on his way to work then I go back home and finish getting the others ready, do a quick change, then we head to school. I drop Dallin off first at Middle school; Then Adam and Macie off at ell. School. Then back home again with Daniel I go to finish getting ready for my work and to relax I have a whole hour and a half to me and Daniel. From 8am to 9:30 is the best time to reach me in the mornings. We head to drop Daniel off at 9:50 then I go to work as a PE teacher at the ell school my kids go to. I work from 10 till 2. it has worked out very nicely! I am outside all that time!

Then I wait 20 min for school to get out and start the pick up! I get Macie Daniel and Adam then we wait 30 min at the park across the street for Dallin to get out. Then we head home to start homework and dinner. Braden and Trevor are doing football and they finish about 6 pm. So Cameron picks them up on his way back home from work. Dinner is at 6:30 then on some nights we can relax a bit. Well not really a lot. Tuesday is youth nights so the boys all head to scouts at 7. Then everyone heads to bed between 8 and 9 pm. That is when I finish studying my seminary lesson for the next day. (If I didn’t get it all done during homework time). Usually not. Anyway I work on that till 10 pm and that is the ultimate latest I can stay up and still be able to get up in the morning the next day to do it all again!!!

Now that I have tortured you with all that craziness here is a few highlights for the month. Braden and Trevor’s football has been SO fun! They are doing so well this year! For Labor Day we went to Sacramento to Old Town Sacramento it is a definite must see! Then we headed to the state capitol and then to Sutters fort. All of this was in the name of SCOUTING! Braden and Trevor both had to visit these places for merit badges so we made it a family day. It was great! I will add a few pictures if I can.

Cameron and I are going to get away thanks to his work on the 10-13 of OCT we are flying to San Diego for the weekend we are so excited for the much needed break. We will tell you all about it next month! Adam will be 10 in a few weeks also! That means we have been here 10 years now! Wow time is sure flying by to fast!

We love you all so very much!

Rebecca, And family

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Mom and her Beautiful Yard

Hi Kids, It really has been a while since we wrote. I'm enjoying my work at the Sr Center. We are getting lots of compliments on our meals. Hope we can get our count up for meals on wheels. I'm taking care of my yard and making it look really nice. I just don't want the leaves to start falling on my beautiful lawn. Right now my lawn mower is giving me trouble but I think Trent Taylor will come figure it out. My grass is getting really long. It starts every time then stops. Any one know what to do??? Let me know if you have an idea. It was spewing grass out the sides. It's a mulching mower. Self Propelled.

I put new base boards in the bathroom and they look great. I was going to buy new white vinyl lattice for the grape arbor but I need a double pane window in my living room more. It's 48 x52 I think. A friend is having Home Depot put all of theirs in, I'm hoping they can do one for me too at that time and not charge me a big delivery fee..

I had an Usborne book party for Sally last Saturday. Not too many people came but I still had a good sale afterwards. For you kids who could, thank you for ordering some. I hope you could handle it. They are such great books. When you come down I'll have new books for you to read. I even have some for baby showers.

Chris is planning to come to visit around the 18th of Oct. for a week. He has to take some vacation time before the end of the year. I'm looking forward to his visit. Maybe he can helpme with the lattice.

Robin may write bit if she doesn't she is in the process of moving this week. Her new address will be 10854 N 60gh Ave #3084, Glendale, AZ. 85304

She is planning to enrole in school in socialogy. Pray LOTS for her. It's a struggle losing a child and trying to put her life back together again.

I just picked up a box at the PO that is to be used for our military men and women. It is 12'x12'x 6' deep. It costs $10 to send to Dan. So if you want to send him dvd's or other stuff do so. Sharon can tell us what he can use.

I am so blessed to have such a great family and a home I love. I pray for all of you, and put your names on the prayer roll when I go to the Manti Temple. Take care of your families, and give them all a HUG. It will make tons of stress go away for you and them. MOM

Dan Sharon and the Wild Weather

The Dan Eves family is doing great. We have been busy here with Hurricanes and now the big cleanup is extensive. We have been to Alexandria one weekend and help with the flooding areas to get wet things out of their houses and prepare to put dry sheetrock and cabnets and whatever else that needs to be replaced in their homes. They had no warning and there was 2 to 4 Feet of water that went into their homes. There were people who laost about everything in their homes. The weekend after that Nick and TJ went with our Stake for the weekend to Baton Rouge and helped with the cleanup there. They Did lots of tree cutting to remove trees from homes and that had fallen over. The helped at one place that the two owners had a tree fall on their house carport and car. one of the men got away when it fell but one got knocked out.. He then had a heart attack and that is what killed him. This last Sat we went to Houma a 4 hr drive and helped with the clean up there. Martin Luthur King the III called the Church and asked for assistance in these hard hit areas. There were over 1300 LDS members from all over who came to help out. That area had as much as 6 Ft of water. Lots of trees fell and wind blew parts of roofs off. We helped put tarps on roofs and cut trees down to haul away. After the water recided ther was a layer of sludge left. We also delivered ready meals and cleanup kits and water to the people we went to. We were able to hear their stories of the loss they have gone through. Several cemeteries were flooded and one of the ladies said that a casket had floated to her yard and landed there. We left our ward at 4 in the morning and drove 4 hrs. It was hard to not be able to have that time that we needed for travel in helping the people. There was so much more to be done. We will have many more weekends that we will be going to different areas and helping. I will attach some pictures that we took in Houma. Scott is training a new missionary that just got out. I received an e-mail from the missionaries mother. Pictured is attached also.He is loving his mission and it will be not too long that he will be home. Mid Jan he will return. Aubrie is working on getting her license back the month of Oct. Yea!! It has been 5 years now. Hopefully she will drive within the speed limit now. Charity will be coming to Louisiana for almost 2 weeks sometime at the end of Oct or first of Nov. She will help me out while I go through Surgery. We are excited she will be coming. TJ is doing great in football. They are undefeated. School is great too. Getting good grades. Nick is my helper here. He takes care of the cars. Keep them up and is doing some repairs on the green car. He is becoming quite a young man. I am very pleased with his taking the lead as priesthood holder here while Dan and Scott are gone. He has been working at the pool still and is helping a lot with the cleanups we are having. Sacrificing pay from work to help others. Dan is well and thanks to modern tech. we get to talk and see each other lots. We try to keep it down to a couple times a week. He will try to come the first part of Feb for a couple of weeks. The girls will try to fly out and Scott will be home so we are excited to be together again.
the picture of me and the boys is a picture that will be put on a large sheet with other families to be sent to Buccas for our family members serving there.
-Sharon

The Morrills on the Move!

Hi All,

I am at the library, where I have to come to check e mail and do anything online!! kind of a pain!

We are all doing really geat. The boys are all thriving in school! Micah, Mark and Ammon at Snohomish High.

Peder and Shane at Dutch HIll EL.

We are living in a beautiful fully furinished apartment, which is under a wonderful older couple's home, who

are so sweet, it has been a totol blessing!

We have been literally watching out pennies and going without! It has been a good experience for all, although

very stressful!

We found out on Friday that we have some great renters moving in on Wed. to our Camano home, and we just found out today that we

most likely have our house sold in Geneseo, after having it on the market for 14 days!!! If you want to take a look at it, you can

probably find it by searching Geneseo, IL real estate. It is priced at 269.500. (adress is 14 Woodcrest Dr.) We sold it for 2,000 below asking price!!

It is hard to leave it! it really looks great!! I wish there were pictures of all the rooms and everything! Rob said he would take some more pics of it, so we can let you see them someday!

Rob has been in Geneseo working on the house and keeping it looking great! Everyone that goes through it can't believe that we

have 7 kids!! (and it helps that we are all not there either!)

We have been working on buying a house here in Snohomish also, but it 's hard to find one that fits ALL of our needs.

The Lord has really led us in this whole prosses. We have been so blessed! we feel so humble and greatful!

We have a great ward that we are in also. We have been invited for dinner each sunday since we have been here.

Thank you for keeping us in your prayers, he have truly felt it!

WE love you all and look forward to hearing what everyone has been up to.

love, Liz