Sunday, November 18, 2012
Year in Review 2012
Where to seriously begin???? This past year has been a year full of blessings for our family. We were blessed with little Kache Paisley Cook, Karlie and Chris' daughter.. She is Grandma and Grandpas pride and joy!!!! She is now 7 months old! Karlie is an incredible mother, I am so proud of her, Ally and Kaleb sure lucked out to have such a wonderful step mom, she does the cutest things with and for them... Karlie and Chris live in the house that Shawn and I lived in when we were newly married just down the road from us here in Warren, I love having them so close to home! Karlie is still working at West Weber Elementary and Chris is at Professional Plastics where he is the manager.
KayCee has started working at Rocky Mountain Jr High for the Speech therepy department and also watches kache for Karlie while she works. She bought herself a horse this year called "Vegas" she puts so much effort into her horses and it is starting to pay off. She won West Haven Days Rodeo this year in Barrel Racing which paid her quite a nice chunk of money. She recently got her Professional card and is barrel racing at alot of Pro Rodeos now. This weekend she took 5th place with a 15.04 run.
Shandee is now a big 10th grader and is looking forward to getting her drivers liscense in January!! She drives like a champ, you would think shes been driving for years!! :) She is High School Rodeoing and is doing really well, she competes in Pole Bending and Barrels. Shandee broke her foot this year and had a to wear a cast for six weeks, she broke it jumping off a play ground! Shandee has been working really hard on accidemics this year and it is really showing, Im really proud of her grades!!!
Kynedee is a 9th grader and has up until August playing competition Soccer for Rampage, that keeps her and me quite busy.. She is an incredible soccer player. She plays Defender and has a heck of a foot on her. In September we went to Kynedees yearly Cardiac appointment and got the bad news that Kynedees pulmonary valve was not doing its job, and that we would need to go and meet with a Cardiothorasic Surgeon quickly and get things taken care of. On September 17, 2012 Kynedee under went open heart surgery where she was given a new Valve. While they were in there they also found she had a hole in her heart that would have to be repaired as well. Kynedee spent two days in the ICU and then 3 days in a regular room at Primary Childrens Hospital. Kynedee will have to have her valve replaced depending on the valve at least every 9 years. The staff at the hospital were incredible and I am ever so grateful to them and what they did for her. She was not allowed to go back to school for 6 weeks so we had a lady that came out to our home and taught her. She returned back to school on October 30th. She is healing nicely but is still having to take medicine to keep her heart beating in a regular rythem, the Dr is hoping that with in 6 months she will not have to take the medicine any more, if at that time it is still beating incorrectly they will put in a pace maker. Now she is looking forward to returning to soccer when she gets the ok from her Doctor and trying out next fall for Fremont Highs soccer team..
Hadley is now a 4th grader and at the top of his class. At the begining of the year the did a dibbles test with all the children to see what level they were on. Average level for a 4th grader was a score of 90, Hadley scored a 143. His teacher tells us that he is Brilliant! He is also an incredible artist. It amazes me the talent that he has. His teacher told me that I need to find an after school art program for gifted students to enroll him in, so we are looking... He also loves to play basket ball and is excited to start playing next month.
As for Shawn and me, we are just enjoying the ride. We feel very blessed to have the wonderful family that we have, and we enjoy the little things in life that come our way each day. We are grateful this year especially for medical technology and those who perform life saving events each and every day, how lucky we are to live in this day and age!!! LIFE IS GOOD!!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Summer Time!
Well apparently I did not do any better keeping this updated, the last blog update was at Christmas. Lots to catch up on. Shawn did finally finish all of his surgries and he looks as handsome as ever. We sold the horse that did the damage.. Karlie has been busy working. She is starting school soon. She also has been spending alot of her free time at Barel Racing Jackpots. KayCee has just finished the season up of High School Rodeo and is heading to the state finals next week in Heber City. She cannot wait! She has been working for a Guy that lives in Plain City cleaning stalls and feeding for them. Shandee has just graduated from the sixth grade and is moving on up to Junior High! She has also been busy with Rodeo and is doing really well. She and her roping partner are setting in second place for the year and is in second place as well in Pole Bending. She has also discoverd boys! haha! Kynedee has been busy with Comp Soccer her team won the championship this year for indoor. Their team is headed next week for the Summer Games held in Cedar City. That should be fun! Hadley is officially a first grader he is very excited to get to eat lunch at school. He is also now playing T ball. Very Funny to watch. He is such a good little player, and a Ball Hog, haha. It does not matter where the ball is hit he always ends up with it. As for me, well, Lets just say I am writing this blog from my hospital bed at the University of Utah. I have definatley felt better. The Doctors have told me that I have three holes in my heart that need to be closed and on top of that all of the dizzy spells that I have been having over the past year are apparently seizures. Like the old saying "This to shall pass." Hopefully all of you are doing well and are healthy, We love you all! Life is Good!
PS THIS IS FOR YOU MINDY!:)
PS THIS IS FOR YOU MINDY!:)
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Merry Christmas!
Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!
This is definitely my favorite time of the year, I love the giving spirit and happiness that seems to surround us during the holidays. Well I guess it is time to play catch up once again, I seem to be having a hard time updating this blog, hopefully I can be better at it. Anyways, Shawn has had yet another surgery which was the day before Thanksgiving, they cut the bottom eyelid off and took a skin graft from his upper eyelid and then sewed it closed, which will stay that way for three weeks he is on the final week now, which he cant wait to be able to open his eye again. They also ended up taking out a titanium plate that was under his eye, it had came loose apparently and was poking outwards, they also had to file down one of the implants that was holding the eyeball out. When his three weeks are up they will go in and do a minor surgery and make a new slit in the eye and then he will have to keep going back for a while to get steroid shots into the new eye tissue, OUCH! Hopefully this will be the end of this long journey, but only time will tell! He was also ordained a High Priest last Sunday at our Stake conference. Karlie is enjoying her job working with "Tucker" at West Weber School, she really does a great job. She is getting ready as well to start school up at Weber State in January. KayCee is doing great in school and loves the social life as well, I swear I have never heard a phone ring so many times! She also spoke last week in our Stake Conference at the tabernacle and did a wonderful job. Shandee still keeps winning the competition at the youth rodeos in the Pole bending, the girl wins more money than you could believe. She also has started roping, her partners is a kid named A.C. he is from Wyoming and is Deaf, they do a great job together. Kynedee is still keeping me running with soccer, her comp team took 2nd place for the entire spring and summer league their team has really started playing great together and are now playing indoor for the winter to keep in shape at the 12th street indoor complex, the funny thing is they play against boys that are 2 years older than them and it has really made them step up their game and play tuff, the team calls Kynedee "Crusher" because she has no fear of the boys and loves the ruff play that comes with playing boys. (Hard to believe little shy Kyn has turned into Miss Ruff and Tuff.haha) We also went to PMC hospital for her check up and seems everything is about where it was last year but we have to go down next week and have the big MRI done which will give us exacts, so we will see. Hadley is loving kindergarten and can read up a storm. His teacher told us that he is Brilliant. And that their is probably nothing that she could put in front of him that he could not do. He has made a lot of new friends. He is very excited for Santa to come, he informed me that all he wants is a laptop, Nintendo ds and a touch phone. I asked him if he thought Santa was made of money! Hope he wont be to disappointed on Christmas morning, haha! I am still working for Utah Custody doing supervised visits and exchanges between parents, they have asked me to start working for Cragun Lawfirm as well now so I will be starting in January. Shawn and I were also lucky enough to get to spend 9 fun filled days in the Western Carribean in October, with our friends the Craguns, we had a BLAST! It was just what the Dr. ordered. Well that's about it for now, I hope you all have a magical Christmas full of family, friends and loved ones.
This is definitely my favorite time of the year, I love the giving spirit and happiness that seems to surround us during the holidays. Well I guess it is time to play catch up once again, I seem to be having a hard time updating this blog, hopefully I can be better at it. Anyways, Shawn has had yet another surgery which was the day before Thanksgiving, they cut the bottom eyelid off and took a skin graft from his upper eyelid and then sewed it closed, which will stay that way for three weeks he is on the final week now, which he cant wait to be able to open his eye again. They also ended up taking out a titanium plate that was under his eye, it had came loose apparently and was poking outwards, they also had to file down one of the implants that was holding the eyeball out. When his three weeks are up they will go in and do a minor surgery and make a new slit in the eye and then he will have to keep going back for a while to get steroid shots into the new eye tissue, OUCH! Hopefully this will be the end of this long journey, but only time will tell! He was also ordained a High Priest last Sunday at our Stake conference. Karlie is enjoying her job working with "Tucker" at West Weber School, she really does a great job. She is getting ready as well to start school up at Weber State in January. KayCee is doing great in school and loves the social life as well, I swear I have never heard a phone ring so many times! She also spoke last week in our Stake Conference at the tabernacle and did a wonderful job. Shandee still keeps winning the competition at the youth rodeos in the Pole bending, the girl wins more money than you could believe. She also has started roping, her partners is a kid named A.C. he is from Wyoming and is Deaf, they do a great job together. Kynedee is still keeping me running with soccer, her comp team took 2nd place for the entire spring and summer league their team has really started playing great together and are now playing indoor for the winter to keep in shape at the 12th street indoor complex, the funny thing is they play against boys that are 2 years older than them and it has really made them step up their game and play tuff, the team calls Kynedee "Crusher" because she has no fear of the boys and loves the ruff play that comes with playing boys. (Hard to believe little shy Kyn has turned into Miss Ruff and Tuff.haha) We also went to PMC hospital for her check up and seems everything is about where it was last year but we have to go down next week and have the big MRI done which will give us exacts, so we will see. Hadley is loving kindergarten and can read up a storm. His teacher told us that he is Brilliant. And that their is probably nothing that she could put in front of him that he could not do. He has made a lot of new friends. He is very excited for Santa to come, he informed me that all he wants is a laptop, Nintendo ds and a touch phone. I asked him if he thought Santa was made of money! Hope he wont be to disappointed on Christmas morning, haha! I am still working for Utah Custody doing supervised visits and exchanges between parents, they have asked me to start working for Cragun Lawfirm as well now so I will be starting in January. Shawn and I were also lucky enough to get to spend 9 fun filled days in the Western Carribean in October, with our friends the Craguns, we had a BLAST! It was just what the Dr. ordered. Well that's about it for now, I hope you all have a magical Christmas full of family, friends and loved ones.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Ferrin Farm
Well Hello All!
Time has certainly gotten away from me and I need to catch up for 5 months of time. This has been quite a crazy and at the same time blessed 5 months of the Ferrin family. On May13th Shawn was in a horrible accident which involved his new colt up in Wyoming. He had went up for the day with his Father, brother Chad and his uncle Boyd to help a friend move cattle, he decided to take his new colt which he had been riding for a while to give him a little experience with the cattle. Long story short The horse started to buck and Shawn stayed on for about 5 or 6 bucks and then fell off while still holding the split reigns, after hitting the ground the horse lunged forward pulling Shawn to a sitting position and then bucked with all his might and kicked Shawn right in the face, Shawn remembers nothing past the point of thinking he was going to fall off of the horse. His father stated he was knocked out cold and was bleeding pretty heavily, they called an ambulance which took him to a hospital in Kemmer WY. where they did test and after getting the results were told they did not have the facility capabilities that he needed therefore sent him to Ogden Regional. Shawn was diagnosed with a crushed cheek bone crushed nose broken jaw and crushed orbital socket and alot of other little bones in the sinus cavity and around the face. He was admitted into the hospital for 7 days where he had his first of many surgeries. During the first one Shawn had alot of titanium and implants to try and get a more natural look. After finally getting to come home the very next day he noticed a hernia that was also a result of the accident, so he went in for his second surgery for that. Shawns eye was not looking so well and in fact was sinking deep into the orbital structure and had dropped much lower than his other eye, and could not see very well out of it, so his Dr sent him to various other Dr to see what could be done, most of them did not feel they had the expertise for his injuries, finally we found a Dr in SLC who specialized in these type of injuries, he met with Shawn and decided that his eye was extremely damaged and needed surgery quickly before things got worse. They did his third the very next day where they took a skin graph from the roof of his mouth to try and fix the bottom eye lid and then had to take out titanium plates from the previous surgery and put in multiple implants in the orbital socket. Things looked pretty good after this surgery and now we are almost two months post surgery and his eye is starting to sink again a little, and his bottom eye lid is turned under, so they are planning his next surgery which will be in November where they will take off the bottom eye lid and take a skin graft from his nose and they will create a new eyelid with it and then sew it closed for 4 weeks then after the four weeks are over they will go back in and create a new slit for the eye opening. Hopefully that will work. He has been through alot and we are so grateful to all of the prayers and kind words that are family has received.
Karlie graduated from High School the end of May and qualified for the High School National Finals rodeo that was held in Fallon Nevada, where she competed against kids from every state in the US and Canada and British Columbia. She did AWESOME! She ended up 7th in the nation in Pole Bending, we were so proud of her.
KayCee had her 16th birthday, and has the boys lined up for dates, she was just asked to go to the Home Coming Dance, she is very excited. She has started the new season of Rodeo and has already qualified for state in poles, she is doing well.
Shandee is off to another great start with Utah Youth Rodeo and is in the top three in poles and took third place last month with her roping partner A.C. who is from WY. and is Deaf. They have a real fun time.
Kynedee is busy with soccer as usual and her comp team won the Strikers cup a month ago and is currently undefeated with only four games remaining. She has really turned into an awesome little soccer player.
Hadley has started kindergarten and absolutely loves it!! I ask him every day how school was and his answer is always the same, "GREAT!" Hadley did a money chase at the Utah Youth Rodeo Finals in August where he ran very fast and ripped money of of a lamb, He thought he was the richest kid around!
As for me I am kept busy running kids here and there and working at Cragun Law firm doing court ordered supervised visitations and exchanges. I really enjoy it. And Shawn and I are getting ready to take a much needed vacation with are great friends Dan and Colleen Cragun, we are going on a Cruise to the Western Caribbean in October for 9 days.
Hope all of you are doing well and are healthy, God bless you all.
The Ferrin's
PS: scroll down to see pic of Karlie competing at nationals!
Time has certainly gotten away from me and I need to catch up for 5 months of time. This has been quite a crazy and at the same time blessed 5 months of the Ferrin family. On May13th Shawn was in a horrible accident which involved his new colt up in Wyoming. He had went up for the day with his Father, brother Chad and his uncle Boyd to help a friend move cattle, he decided to take his new colt which he had been riding for a while to give him a little experience with the cattle. Long story short The horse started to buck and Shawn stayed on for about 5 or 6 bucks and then fell off while still holding the split reigns, after hitting the ground the horse lunged forward pulling Shawn to a sitting position and then bucked with all his might and kicked Shawn right in the face, Shawn remembers nothing past the point of thinking he was going to fall off of the horse. His father stated he was knocked out cold and was bleeding pretty heavily, they called an ambulance which took him to a hospital in Kemmer WY. where they did test and after getting the results were told they did not have the facility capabilities that he needed therefore sent him to Ogden Regional. Shawn was diagnosed with a crushed cheek bone crushed nose broken jaw and crushed orbital socket and alot of other little bones in the sinus cavity and around the face. He was admitted into the hospital for 7 days where he had his first of many surgeries. During the first one Shawn had alot of titanium and implants to try and get a more natural look. After finally getting to come home the very next day he noticed a hernia that was also a result of the accident, so he went in for his second surgery for that. Shawns eye was not looking so well and in fact was sinking deep into the orbital structure and had dropped much lower than his other eye, and could not see very well out of it, so his Dr sent him to various other Dr to see what could be done, most of them did not feel they had the expertise for his injuries, finally we found a Dr in SLC who specialized in these type of injuries, he met with Shawn and decided that his eye was extremely damaged and needed surgery quickly before things got worse. They did his third the very next day where they took a skin graph from the roof of his mouth to try and fix the bottom eye lid and then had to take out titanium plates from the previous surgery and put in multiple implants in the orbital socket. Things looked pretty good after this surgery and now we are almost two months post surgery and his eye is starting to sink again a little, and his bottom eye lid is turned under, so they are planning his next surgery which will be in November where they will take off the bottom eye lid and take a skin graft from his nose and they will create a new eyelid with it and then sew it closed for 4 weeks then after the four weeks are over they will go back in and create a new slit for the eye opening. Hopefully that will work. He has been through alot and we are so grateful to all of the prayers and kind words that are family has received.
Karlie graduated from High School the end of May and qualified for the High School National Finals rodeo that was held in Fallon Nevada, where she competed against kids from every state in the US and Canada and British Columbia. She did AWESOME! She ended up 7th in the nation in Pole Bending, we were so proud of her.
KayCee had her 16th birthday, and has the boys lined up for dates, she was just asked to go to the Home Coming Dance, she is very excited. She has started the new season of Rodeo and has already qualified for state in poles, she is doing well.
Shandee is off to another great start with Utah Youth Rodeo and is in the top three in poles and took third place last month with her roping partner A.C. who is from WY. and is Deaf. They have a real fun time.
Kynedee is busy with soccer as usual and her comp team won the Strikers cup a month ago and is currently undefeated with only four games remaining. She has really turned into an awesome little soccer player.
Hadley has started kindergarten and absolutely loves it!! I ask him every day how school was and his answer is always the same, "GREAT!" Hadley did a money chase at the Utah Youth Rodeo Finals in August where he ran very fast and ripped money of of a lamb, He thought he was the richest kid around!
As for me I am kept busy running kids here and there and working at Cragun Law firm doing court ordered supervised visitations and exchanges. I really enjoy it. And Shawn and I are getting ready to take a much needed vacation with are great friends Dan and Colleen Cragun, we are going on a Cruise to the Western Caribbean in October for 9 days.
Hope all of you are doing well and are healthy, God bless you all.
The Ferrin's
PS: scroll down to see pic of Karlie competing at nationals!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Catching Up
Well Hello everyone,
I have gotten a little busy lately and haven't been so good at keeping up with the Blog. I can't believe that school is almost out. Karlie graduates next week, I really am old!!! sigh... She is so ready, She has big plans for after graduation, and is ready to start that new chapter in her life. She is still doing great in Rodeo and is 11th in the state. Last weekend she won the Double D rodeo in Farmington and took 5th in Lehi. KayCee is counting down the days until her 16th birthday. She can not wait to drive and more importantly DATE! She is also trying to find a job to keep her busy during the summer! Shandee entered a contest for the Weber School District on Cowboy poetry, they picked three out of each school to compete at the district level, she was chosen, so we went to district and she ended up winning 2nd over all. She won a Plaque, a rope and some $ for her school! They asked her to give her poem this Friday at the Eccles Center in Ogden for some Cowboy poetry show. She is pretty excited. My soccer girl Kynedee, is still playing her little heart out. She made a goal a couple of weeks ago and there team is doing great. She practices 2 times a week plus two games a week. So she keeps very busy with that.. Hadley has been very busy helping mommy paint the exterior of our home. He is a great help, minus the little spill on the front porch, haha! He went to Kindergarten round up last month and met his new teacher for next year. He is so excited to ride the school bus with his big sissy's. Shawn is Karlie and KayCee's chauffeur. Each weekend he devotes to his girls, hauling them to their rodeo's, what a good Dad! Well that's about it for now, we are all doing great and are healthy! We miss Grandma Sue and Grandpa Gary but are so proud of them... Hope you all are doing great and are enjoying this warm weather!
I have gotten a little busy lately and haven't been so good at keeping up with the Blog. I can't believe that school is almost out. Karlie graduates next week, I really am old!!! sigh... She is so ready, She has big plans for after graduation, and is ready to start that new chapter in her life. She is still doing great in Rodeo and is 11th in the state. Last weekend she won the Double D rodeo in Farmington and took 5th in Lehi. KayCee is counting down the days until her 16th birthday. She can not wait to drive and more importantly DATE! She is also trying to find a job to keep her busy during the summer! Shandee entered a contest for the Weber School District on Cowboy poetry, they picked three out of each school to compete at the district level, she was chosen, so we went to district and she ended up winning 2nd over all. She won a Plaque, a rope and some $ for her school! They asked her to give her poem this Friday at the Eccles Center in Ogden for some Cowboy poetry show. She is pretty excited. My soccer girl Kynedee, is still playing her little heart out. She made a goal a couple of weeks ago and there team is doing great. She practices 2 times a week plus two games a week. So she keeps very busy with that.. Hadley has been very busy helping mommy paint the exterior of our home. He is a great help, minus the little spill on the front porch, haha! He went to Kindergarten round up last month and met his new teacher for next year. He is so excited to ride the school bus with his big sissy's. Shawn is Karlie and KayCee's chauffeur. Each weekend he devotes to his girls, hauling them to their rodeo's, what a good Dad! Well that's about it for now, we are all doing great and are healthy! We miss Grandma Sue and Grandpa Gary but are so proud of them... Hope you all are doing great and are enjoying this warm weather!
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Ferrin Farm Happenings!
Well Hi everyone! This is our families first official Blog, We thought it might be a fun way to keep family and friends up to date on whats going on in our busy life. Well back in November, we took the family up to Mount Ogden Park and had some family pictures taken. I was so excited because it is a rare moment in this house to get everyone together for pics. When we arrived, Hadley decided he was going to cry the entire time because he was "afraid" of the camera, not to mention the playground looked much funner to him. So all of the pics came back with him crying and closing his eyes, so he didn't have to look at the photographer. I guess we will have to try again another time!
We had a great time this past summer at Mom and Dad Felter's property up in Smith Canyon by Lava Hotsprings. Grams and Gramps, like always provided a great time for all, and it was really fun to get together as a family and spend time together. Everyone was there but Shawn, who has a hard time getting away from his 50 jobs.. The theme chosen was Indian Ancestry, so all activities were centered around that. The kids made UGH-HUGS necklaces, Indian Head dresses and Shirts. They heard stories and even went on a Buffalo Hunt with a Bow and Arrow. We also went to the Lake and did some swimming and jumping off the rope, and floated the river. It was a blast. And of course we Had great food!! We are planning to spend alot more time up at the property this summer.
Of course we can not forget about the Rodeo!! We are constantly going to one. Shandee had a great year, She competes monthly for money and points. At the end of the season, which ends at the Weber County Fair, they take the top ten in each event through out the state of utah and they compete. Shandee ended up winning the whole state of Utah in Poles. We figured she won over the year, about $1000. and won a buckle to boot.. This year, she is well on her way to do it again...
Karlie and KayCee started in August, the HS Rodeo season again. Karlie competes in Pole Bending and Barrel's. She is two spots out of the top ten, So she plans on hitting it hard this spring to make it to Nationals. She is a senior this year, if you can believe it! KayCee competes in Barrels, Team roping and Breakaway. She is an awsome roper! Takes after her Dad . She is a sophmore at Fremont.
Kynedee is my little Soccer girl #99! She plays full back and is Awsome!! She competed to play on a comp team called the Strikers, and made the team. There team won the Strikers Cup this year. Her best friend Mac, also plays on the team, which makes for even more fun. She is playing indoor soccer with the team right now, until they start regular season again here in a month.
My sweet little Hadley loves his horse "Junior" and likes to go riding with Dad. He loves to draw and is amazing at it! He turned 5 in September, so he missed the cut off for Kindergarten by six days. Oh well he will be the oldest in his class. He is already reading if you can believe that, he is so smart! He says when he gets older, he is going to be a Paleantoligist. (I do not even know if thats spelled right) He can tell you the name of any dinosaur there is, I can't even say half the words he tells me about.... He is looking forward to riding the bus next year...
Shawn is busy as always, he was promoted at his work and is now working in the office. As you all probablly know he really isn't the "office type" but is starting to like it a little better. He has alot more responsibilities. He has purchased his own plumbing business as well, so between work and Rodeos he does not have alot of free time. This last fall he was breaking a horse, or should I say the horse was breaking him, haha, and he ended up getting hurt. He hurt his back and broke his foot not to mention a nice concussion. He is such a little stinker when it comes to going to the Dr., So I just call Mom and Dad Ferrin and they always take him.Thankyou, mom and dad for doing that... He only minds them! haha
I have been pretty busy myself, with running kids here and there and I also work for Cragun Lawfirm. I helped with putting together there web page for Utah Custody and also doing supervised visitation. Most of the time, I am just being Mom.. Which is the best job there is. Lately Karlie and I, have been feeling out Scholarship applications and trying to get her ready for College. She is planning on being a teacher in the Special Education Department, she will be great at that.
On a side note, my parents are leaving on a mission on April 21st. They will be going to the Heber Valley Camp up in Heber city. They are really looking forward to serving. We are going to miss them so much, but we are so proud of their decision to go and serve the Lord. What an example they are to the grandkids.
Well we are all ready for the snow to melt and the spring time to arrive, it's my favorite time of the year, It's when all the tulips and daffodils and new life starts all over again. We hope all of you are doing great and that you are healthy and happy.
Love,
The Ferrins
We had a great time this past summer at Mom and Dad Felter's property up in Smith Canyon by Lava Hotsprings. Grams and Gramps, like always provided a great time for all, and it was really fun to get together as a family and spend time together. Everyone was there but Shawn, who has a hard time getting away from his 50 jobs.. The theme chosen was Indian Ancestry, so all activities were centered around that. The kids made UGH-HUGS necklaces, Indian Head dresses and Shirts. They heard stories and even went on a Buffalo Hunt with a Bow and Arrow. We also went to the Lake and did some swimming and jumping off the rope, and floated the river. It was a blast. And of course we Had great food!! We are planning to spend alot more time up at the property this summer.
Of course we can not forget about the Rodeo!! We are constantly going to one. Shandee had a great year, She competes monthly for money and points. At the end of the season, which ends at the Weber County Fair, they take the top ten in each event through out the state of utah and they compete. Shandee ended up winning the whole state of Utah in Poles. We figured she won over the year, about $1000. and won a buckle to boot.. This year, she is well on her way to do it again...
Karlie and KayCee started in August, the HS Rodeo season again. Karlie competes in Pole Bending and Barrel's. She is two spots out of the top ten, So she plans on hitting it hard this spring to make it to Nationals. She is a senior this year, if you can believe it! KayCee competes in Barrels, Team roping and Breakaway. She is an awsome roper! Takes after her Dad . She is a sophmore at Fremont.
Kynedee is my little Soccer girl #99! She plays full back and is Awsome!! She competed to play on a comp team called the Strikers, and made the team. There team won the Strikers Cup this year. Her best friend Mac, also plays on the team, which makes for even more fun. She is playing indoor soccer with the team right now, until they start regular season again here in a month.
My sweet little Hadley loves his horse "Junior" and likes to go riding with Dad. He loves to draw and is amazing at it! He turned 5 in September, so he missed the cut off for Kindergarten by six days. Oh well he will be the oldest in his class. He is already reading if you can believe that, he is so smart! He says when he gets older, he is going to be a Paleantoligist. (I do not even know if thats spelled right) He can tell you the name of any dinosaur there is, I can't even say half the words he tells me about.... He is looking forward to riding the bus next year...
Shawn is busy as always, he was promoted at his work and is now working in the office. As you all probablly know he really isn't the "office type" but is starting to like it a little better. He has alot more responsibilities. He has purchased his own plumbing business as well, so between work and Rodeos he does not have alot of free time. This last fall he was breaking a horse, or should I say the horse was breaking him, haha, and he ended up getting hurt. He hurt his back and broke his foot not to mention a nice concussion. He is such a little stinker when it comes to going to the Dr., So I just call Mom and Dad Ferrin and they always take him.Thankyou, mom and dad for doing that... He only minds them! haha
I have been pretty busy myself, with running kids here and there and I also work for Cragun Lawfirm. I helped with putting together there web page for Utah Custody and also doing supervised visitation. Most of the time, I am just being Mom.. Which is the best job there is. Lately Karlie and I, have been feeling out Scholarship applications and trying to get her ready for College. She is planning on being a teacher in the Special Education Department, she will be great at that.
On a side note, my parents are leaving on a mission on April 21st. They will be going to the Heber Valley Camp up in Heber city. They are really looking forward to serving. We are going to miss them so much, but we are so proud of their decision to go and serve the Lord. What an example they are to the grandkids.
Well we are all ready for the snow to melt and the spring time to arrive, it's my favorite time of the year, It's when all the tulips and daffodils and new life starts all over again. We hope all of you are doing great and that you are healthy and happy.
Love,
The Ferrins
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