Tribute to Dad for his Birthday

Dad in the back yard with his favorite flowers

At this time of year we think back to all the birthdays we got to celebrate with Dad.
This picture reminds us of his love of flowers and working in his yard.
This Jan. 30th, he would have been 88 years old.

Happy Birthday Dad.

• cold drink with ice
• vegetables with every meal
• baseball hats
• root beer floats
• leading the music, while listening to the choir
• working in the yard
• holding the youngest grandchild
• watching all sports
• making his special coleslaw
• coughing
• loved his family name and all it stood for
• carried out his church callings more than 100 %
  

Leave your favorite memory of Dad/Grandpa in the comments

The two brothers

Dad and Uncle Jerry were always together, they even followed each other to the other side of the veil. Happy Birthday to Uncle Jerry on the 28th.

FAMILY REUNION!

I would like to have another reunion! We have had so much fun at previous reunions and the last one i didn't get to go to since i was on my honeymoon. SO...I realize no one really wants to plan it or organize it, so I am willing to, but I still need help on where you want it (i would love to go camping again, maybe tahoe?) and when is the best time for everyone? I am serious about trying to put this together so please respond with any suggestions you have so we can try and arrange it at a good time for everyone! Thanks guys :)


THIS IS ALSO AN EVENT ON FACEBOOK, IF YOU HAVE IT, PLEASE RESPOND ON THERE BECAUSE I CHECK IT MORE OFTEN!

Love, Rach

Happy Birthday Ron

We hope your birthday is particularly enjoyable day for you. When Ron was born we thought he would be the "caboose" but he was such a fun little guy that Mom and Dad followed up with two more. I remember when I was 12 and Ron was 2 that I carried him on my back as we were on a hike on a family camping trip to Lake Tahoe area. Not going to try that these days as Ron turns 52.

Here are some things we think of about Ron:

• Ron knows how to tell great stories
• He has a hearty laugh
• He is resourceful - especially when something needs to be fixed
• He loves sports
• He works hard with youth
  
• He loves to coach
• He has a tender heart
  
• He has the gift of gab
• He invests himself in his family
• He married a great wife
• He loves his children and shows it
• He loves the Lord and works hard in the church wherever he is called
• He is a good friend
• He is a pretty good cook
• He stays involved with his community
• And many more unmentioned

Ron we are glad that you were not hurt in your car accident. Next time be sure that you are in the car that you want to get rid of. Seriously, we are happy that your injuries were not worse - even though you are probably pretty sore today.

Well, family that is the tribute for this year of all the siblings - we have a great family and I am happy to a part of it.

Lyla's Blessing Day!

Lyla was blessed in church yesterday and she looked beautiful! Josh did a great job, and she was awake during the blessing, but very content just looking around at all the men holding her. We had lots of family there and feel very blessed to have such a wonderful supportive family.

Here she is in her dress, which was bought by Grandma R

Our new little family of three!

Here is all of the family that came! Since we don't have any family in town all of them had to travel to be there. A big thank you to everyone for making the sacrifice to be with us on Lyla's important day.

This is all the men that were in the circle.
Uncle Todd, Rhett, Daren, Grandpa, Dad, Great Grandpa, Ty, Davis, Derek

This is my cousin Lydia just beaming as Lyla gave her huge smiles! She has been smiling more and more this week and we are loving it.

And proud first-time Uncle Derek

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JJ

JJ is our baby brother - and he just turned 39 on the 5th of March. This baby brother loved by all just loves to be called the "baby brother". He has 4 older sisters that have mothered him his whole life and 2 older brothers that have teased him his whole life. Here are some qualities that we admire in JJ:

• Hardest worker you will ever know
• First to help when he sees a need
• Loves his family
• Very involved father
• Chooses to do the right thing
• Loves the Lord
• Studies the scriptures
• Takes such good care of Mother
• Loves the outdoors
• Loves physical activity
• Good friend
• Fun Uncle to his many nieces and nephews
• Generous
• Happy guy to be around
• Loves his wife
• All around great guy

...and so much more. Happy, happy birthday JJ - we all love you and are so happy to have a youngest brother just like you.

Happy Birthday Randy

Here is our brother Randall Wayne - and he is now 60!! What a wonderful decade to enjoy. Randy is the oldest brother and though he has an older sister - he so loves to be called the "older brother".

Here are some of the traits of Randy:

• Speaks only when he has something to say
• Loves his family - a lot
• Fixes his vehicles - and they actually work
• Fixes other things - a fix it up kind of guy
• Loves to play golf
• Teases until you want to deck him
• Has been working on the railroad - a long time
• Lived in California his whole life until he moved to Colorado
• Witty
• Likes baseball games
• Observant
• Likes kids - especially two granddaughters that belong to him
• Keeps his yard looking good
• Looks a lot like his dad
• Can follow instructions
• Dry humor
• Loves to camp
• Truman Taylor always called him George

And of course many more - have a wonderful birthday - George - oh I mean Randy - born on George Washington's birthday - We hope you have a great 60th year...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA

I would like to first say I'm sorry for :
A. The timing, this was supposed to be done last week and I got bogged down by new grand daughter, grand child birthday...... yeah, just fill in the rest!
B. The picture, I couldn't find a better one and this needed to be done NOW!

So to say Linda is a big part of our lives is a total understatement. She is the oldest and has always been there for all of us!

Linda's best qualities are :

Generous

Organized

Always working to better herself

Her hands are never idle

Plays the piano beautifully

Helps us to remember our ancestors

Feeds the masses -- Family dinners!

Loves to read

Strong testimony of the Gospel

Always see what others would need.. then helps!!

The "go to" person when you need any helpful hints for, lessons, most any calling.

Great Mom/Grandmother

Her door is always open..(how many of you know the code to the garage???)

When Linda was sent to earth first I am sure we all said, OK, I can go down now, she will be there to help me!

I hope you had a fabulous birthday!!

Love,

Carna

Happy Birthday Cookie

Here is our pretty, newly svelte (as Dad would say) sister. I guess most of us remember the Christmas Day that Cookie came home wrapped in a soft white blanket with a big red bow around her. It is one of my most memorable Christmases. No matter how old she gets she continues to be our baby sister.

Here are some of the qualities of this little sister:

• Generous
• Laughs easily
• Great story teller
• Happy mother
• Encouraging to others
• Plays the piano well
• Loyal to family
• Strong testimony of the Gospel
• Can drive long distances
• Gives of herself
• Such discipline!!
• Great smile
• Sews well
• Likes to read
• Amazing scrapbooker

And so many more....Happy, Happy Birthday to our sister, Cookie - we love you and hope you have a wonderful day/year.

Happy Birthday Carolyn

Happy Birthday to our sister,Carolyn. This is not an accurate picture of her as she is getting smaller each week. We will need to update a picture soon.
Here are some of the qualities of Carolyn:

• Helping others - she is always there if you need her
• Mother of six
  
• Friend of many
• Hard worker
• So creative
• Spontaneous
• and Plans things out to the last detail
• Opens her home to others
• Gathers family together
• Scrapbooker extraordinaire
  
• Crafter
• Planner of parties
• Executer of parties
• Always improving herself
• Testimony of the Gospel
• Loves her family
• Sacrifices for the good of those she loves
• Excellent shopper
• Accepting of others
• See the needs of others
• Resouceful for meeting needs
• And so much, much more...

Happy, Happy Birthday Carolyn. You are loved by your family and so many others. Thanks for your good example and love that you share so freely.

Happy Birthday Cindy

Here is our cute sister, aunt, sister-in-law, etc. etc or however you may be related to her.




Sorry this picture is so dark - but you all know how hard it is to get a picture of this girl! This is an untypical sight - Cindy lounging around. We would usually see her busily working on something.

Cindy has so many talents and abilities:

• Self made successful business woman
• Master quilter
• Teaches others to quilt
• Excellent hand seamstress
• Tiler
• Furniture finisher
• Loves to read
• Great at home decor
• Great cook
• Organized - every area at home and most likely at work also
• Hard worker
• Supportive sister
• Helpful aunt
• Intuitive daughter
• Wraps a beautiful package
• Good listener
• Resourceful at learning what she doesn't know
• Exercises and eats right
• Yes, she has self discipline
• And so much more...

Happy Birthday - don't forget how much you are loved by all your family!!

Thanksgiving at the Rowleys

Thanksgiving 2009 - with all the foods that the family likes. This year we had Hershey candy bars covered with light orange paper and a label that said Give Thanks. I am happy to buy Hershey candy bars now since my girls and I visited Hershey, PA and found out that the money from Hershey's candy goes to support a school in Hershey for at risk children. It makes me feel good that we are contributing to such a worthy cause.

Happy Thanksgiving Family!!

Tribute to Mom

Happy Birthday Mom

Mom and Linda, her first child on Mom's 80th birthday - two years ago.
Mom has lived in Roseville for the majority of her life.
Here is one of the many places Mom lived as she was growing up in Roseville.
Here are some fun facts about Mom:

• Born in Los Angeles, California
• Two sisters and two brothers
• Moved to Roseville around age 5
• Best friend: Norma
• Married at 19 in Logan Temple
• Seven Children
• Lived in present house for 59 years so far
• Loves holidays and decorates for each of them
  
• Loves to read
• Loves music - Warsaw Concerto and Clair de Lune - some her favorites
  
• Loves the Scriptures
• Attended Education Week (Leadership Week) for many years
• Attended Know Your Religion for many years
• Every grandchild feels her special love for them
• Every great grandchild feels her special love for them
  
• Loves the color blue
• Crochets to relax
• Enjoys meeting new people
• She and Dad served a Stake Mission together
• Has traveled to Eastern part of the United States and to Hawaii
• Served as PTA President
• Worked on Election Board since her early married years
• Has always had a calling in her ward
• Has lived in the same ward since she was 5.
• Knows the Gospel and loves the Lord
• Loves her family
  
• And so, so much more -

Mom and most of her kids.
Happy, happy Birthday Mom, Grandma, GeeGee
We hope you have a wonderful birthday and remember how much we all love you...

shut up and HAVE FUN!!! Our weekend in San Francisco

We had SOOOO much fun on our weekend trip to SF to see Wicked!! First thing we checked into our beautiful hotel

While Annaleesa and Carolyn checked us in, we hung out starting the relaxing weekend.


Then we were off to Union Square to check out the shopping. WOW that mall goes and goes up. The top 4 floors are Aunt Bonnie's special place!! (Nordstroms)


We loved the curving escalators, they wound upward for so many floors!!


Colleen found "her" chair and had her loyal subject come sit with her.

Allie thought she was special like Aunt Colleen and found that her loyal subject weren't so loyal.

The next morning we were up and out the door to go play!


We went and found the trolly cars to ride to Fisherman's Wharf!
Aunt Bonnie had to sit on Grandma's lap, there was standing room only!




We made it to Fisherman's Wharf and we were off to find the CHOCOLATE!!

AWWWW, we were in heaven!! They gave out samples!! YUMMY!

On our way to the chocolate we saw a trolley car with Wicked on it so, of course, we had to stop and take our picture with it!

Katie and Annaleesa found the chocolate first!!
Aunt Colleen liked the chocolate, but found her first love on a giant poster!!







To get up to the top level we found an elevator, it wasn't too hard to find. On our way down that we had the problem! We got on and couldn't remember which level was the street level. So we kept pushing the buttons and then peeking out to see if we had finally picked the right level. We went up and down several time before got it right!!




After we finally got out of the elevator, we went to find Aunt Bonnie some crab! Joe's Crab Shack was down the street!




All the waitresses stop and dance when certain songs come on the speakers! This is our waitress and she was such fun!!
there will be more later when we can get the blog to work!

She is blessed

Ava is surrounded by her family that loves her and each other. Yes, Russ is holding a BYU cap over my head - He is in so much trouble!

The Hokansons joined us for the special day.

The Sanders Family - a family of five now with the
addition of Ava.

Ava is wearing the same dress that her mother, Alexis
wore almost 28 years ago when she was sealed and blessed.

Special day - special baby girl. We are so happy that Ava is blessed!

Big News from the Andersons!

Elder Garrett Todd Anderson has recieved his mission call!

He will be serving in the Argentina Rosario Mission! He will report to the Provo MTC November 4th. He will speak Spanish like his father.

We are so proud of Garrett and so excited for him! You may woot.

New Family Member

Here she is Ava Christine Sanders

This is our activity with the boys while we are waiting for the phone call from the hospital.

Here she is Ava Christine - surrounded by her family. They are now a family of five.

She weighed in at 8 pounds 6 ounces. She doesn't look much like her brothers but she is a cutie with a look all her own. She was born Friday, July 17th at 2:36 pm. Alexis says this was her hardest birth but she was bigger than the brothers before her. Alexis is doing fine now as is Ava.

Graduation Barbeque

Allie's Graduation party!

Since this will be a fun day already, we wanted to add to the fun!

Come and enjoy a barbeque at Mom's house after the graduation, or during if you get really hungry. We will have burgers and hotdogs and salads galore! Everyone coming for Sara and Gary's wedding will be tired after a trip to the temple and ready to relax. (come even if you didn't go to the wedding!!) So come sit in Mom's nice back yard and enjoy dinner and family fun!

This is June 12th at about 7:30 ish

Come enjoy!!

Let us know if you are going to stop by so we can have plenty of food!

We can't wait to see everyone!

Family Recipes

Hi,

Petra and I thought "oh what fun we will do a recipe book for all the girls in the family" (sorry guys!!) We gathered receipes and took pictures or found pictures. (we have one of Grandpa picking the berries in the back yard for the berry cobbler recipe!) Then we started putting it together, about 100 hours later we decided this was WAY more work than we thought. Soooo having said that, we have decided that we could do the pages and maybe color copy them for people that want them. So Rachel your job is to find some pictures of your Dad cooking. We have several Uncle Randy recipes that need better pictures.
And to all of you out there, if there is a recipe you can think of that we might not have, let us know. We have sat with Grandma several times picking her brain for things like her vegtable soup that always seems to be cooking on the stove when someone has driven a long distance to visit and of course her macaroni salad and sweet and sour pork, cheese cake, this list goes on and on. So hopefully we can get started again and create some more books

P.S.

I am so way jealous Sara-Rae got a family recipe book!! I know my parents make a lot of grandmas recipes, but I don't have them all for sure. Is there a way I can get a copy of that book somehow?! If I need to pay you I will, those are priceless recipes that I love!

New Blogger in Town

Caution, the fogeys have entered into the blogging world. Their blog address is: http://coloradoroskelleys.blogspot.com I can't add it to the side, only Linda can, but check it out from here for now. Hope you are all doing well!