Lowell and Kelly's Update

We have spent a lot of time enjoying boating at Bear Lake and staying at our cabin. Tyler has been bear hunting a couple of times over the summer with his friends. Derek and Kristen enjoyed a week in Hawaii. Emily and Kelly have enjoyed their summer off and are mentally preparing to go back to work...boo! Lowell and the kids did well at the Weber County Fair this year. It has been a good summer.

The family spent a couple of days replacing Gerald and Jeannine's roof.

Kelly, Alex, Kristen, and Emily spent a weekend in St. George and went to see The Little Mermaid at Tuacahn.

Thompson Called to Serve

We've had a few missionaries in our family since the last Thompson Missionary video was made. This is dedicated to them. Sorry the quality is grainy on the blog. I'll have a DVD to show at Camp Beaver that will be more clear.

Some of you may think you have seen this before. It's a bit different and if you watch to the end some of your questions will be answered.

LT

Vearl's family

I emailed Vearl and Josie to put up some news and photos. Since they haven't yet, I put up a few but we're lacking lots of stuff from their recent week with everyone (except BJ) in Minn. So if anyone has a pipeline to Vearl or Michelle tell them to put up some photos.

Above was at Okla State. Below in St George

Colty came to visit Chicago this summer

Played pretty well

And brought a friend.... Nicole

Kael Bingham Thompson

Erik and Skye Thompson welcomed their 3rd boy yesterday morning.

Kael Bingham was born at 11:08 am and weighed 8 pounds even.

He's 20 1/2 inches long and has tons of dark hair.

His brothers Kire and Jack already love him!

Layne and Marilyn's news

Babuh and I just finished a great month of having our family in Illinois. We had all of our kids and grandkids together for the Illimpics, late night games, early morning fun, afternoon activities (in other words, fun 24/7).

Mother's Day dinner

All 6 grandkids

Five darling granddaughters

Illimpic competitors running the 880

Flags and pageantry

Chicago Temple

Front porch

Illimpic Torch

Hope all of your are doing well.

LT

Sara T got married!

Hello wonderful family! I just got married to Frederik Kleiner, and we are loving it! He is German, but has lived in the States and his family is currently living in Alberta. He served his mission in Argentina (because 2 languages apparently wasn't enough ;) )

We are both in our last year of school at BYU and things are going great! I'm finishing up my degree in Early Childhood Education and he in Linguistics. He's been doing some work translating for the Church and he loves it. Life is great and we hope all is going well with all of you!

Love and Light,
Sara (Forsyth) and Frederik Kleiner

Mary Brave; Family Grateful

Hello dear family, I'm happy to write-up an entry for my Mom, Mary, per her request.

Things are well in Logan. Mom finished-up Chemo the week before last and we surprised her with a party when she got out of the treatment. Today would have been another great day for a party! the Tuesday she didn't have to go in for another treatment. She did, however, meet with the Radiologist. In a couple of weeks, Mom will begin 6 1/2 weeks of radiation, 5 days per week.

In other Logan news: we are all grateful to have had no flooding this year. We were prepared for quite a lot of water, which we had, but the weather kept it from coming all at once.

This past week we had an Anderson cousin reunion. Grandma Mary and Grandpa Runar took the oldest grandkids to the Lion House for an un birthday party and we had all sorts of other great love and fun building activities over a few days. Below a couple pictures from that reunion:

The big kids: Vanessa, Tanner, Johnny, Caroline, Jack, Rosemary at temple square after the Lion House party

The two front-toothless kids.

Mary and Runar's grandkids minus Dotty, Ally and Julia