WHAT is she THINKING?

We had a really amazing Christmas in our home this year. Ashli got engaged to Mackenzie Brown of Moroni, originally from Grantsville. I actually went to high school with his Dad, and then we all ended up in this area eventually. Kenz is really good to Ashli and we're thrilled to welcome him into our family. As of today, the wedding is set for September 12, but we'll see what the summer brings.
And I've decided to feature this lovely picture of my husband, Kurt, as my first blog post. This is him wearing his Dad's hat and reading glasses on Christmas Day. His dad, Ken, always wears a red shirt, too, so looking at this picture of Kurt is like looking into my future as he gets more and more like his Dad!
We're all praying daily and sending positive thoughts to Kurt's brother, Mark, as he battles multiple myeloma at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. I've known Strapper longer than I've known Kurt even, so I consider him a friend as well as my brother-in-law. I never could tell him and Wes apart when Teri ( my sister Tami's best friend) was dating Wes, but they both just answered to whatever I called them as we roamed the hills above Grantsville either in Mark's old Bronco or on the snowmobiles or four-wheelers. Little did I know then that there were even more boys to choose from in their family! Once I met their little brother, Kurt, I was hooked. We got married four months after we met, and here we are twenty years later.
Teri married Wes and she used to ask us every year to go on the family campout the end of July. We were always just too busy, with sports or work or something, or Kurt was out fighting fires, and we never did make it. When we lost Teri two years ago, my biggest regret was missing those camping trips. I'm so grateful for my memories of Teri's amazing Christmas parties, though. Somehow Santa always knew exactly what the kids wanted, and he'd bring the perfect gift to Aunt Teri's Christmas party.