Wednesday, February 6, 2008

#58 - NOBLE FAMILY - Marvelle Reporter

We are all fine. Brad is coming down to see us on the l5th of February. We hope the rest of you are making your plans to come down too. What was Gaylene getting an operation for? Hope she is okay now.

We had to go to the stake house to see the Hinckley funeral. My is was big. I'll bet alot of people went to it. We also saw a tribute given to him later.

Leona is home again now and doing okay. Boy have they ever been having the weather elsewhere. It has been cold here but not bad. We miss you all terribly. Hope all is well withe each of you.

love
Marvelle

Sunday, February 3, 2008

This Week at the Jensen House

It has been kind of a whacky week here at the Jensen house. To start the week off we had Gaylene and Duane here on Monday so they could take her to the hospital first thing Tuesday morning for surgery. We were worried they wouldn't make it they closed the road to Sparwood on Sunday. A good blizzard came through and things were shut down. But they opened it again on Monday. Gaylene said the drive in was terrible but they made it. We were worried about them. That can be such a scarry road. But all turned out well for getting them here. Then at 4:30 a.m. Duane took Gaylene to the hospital to get ready for her surgery. She was supposed to go to the O.R. at 9:30 but her doctor was called away to do an emergency c-section. They finally got back to her and she went in about an hour and a half later. By 3:00 she was out of the recovery room and back to her room. She was supposed to come home on Wednesday but they kept her an extra day. (Thank goodness) I think that is just too fast for major surgery. She looked way better on Wed. than she did on Tuesday. (night and day better). Then she came home on Thursday. As soon as she got here she took her pain management pills and went to sleep for four hours. As soon as she woke up, they packed her in the car and headed for home. The kids had been staying with Jean and they were happy to get home with their mom. She is doing pretty well. She is still resting a lot. I hope she continues to do that so she can get a good start on getting better. I am going out there today as soon as I get home from church and will stay until Wednesday. She says she should be OK by then.

Gayle has gone to London, Ontario for manager's meetings. He left here yesterday at 2:00. We were worried about him getting there as the flights were not leaving Calgary for Toronto on Friday (There were bad storms in the Toronto area.) but by Saturday they had that under control. He didn't make it all the way to London last night though as they were an hour and a half getting out of Calgary after they boarded the flight. There was some water problem with the plane and they had to solve that before they left. So Air Canada put the passengers up in Toronto last night. Gayle called me at 7:30 this morning saying he had finally made it to London. So now he can settle in and watch the Super Bowl today all by himself. He likes it better that way. They have some meetings tonight then they get into it in earnest tomorrow. He will be home on Wednesday night. (That is if all goes well and the creek don't rise or we don't have a blizzard on one end of the trip for him.)

Our neighbors went away to Cancun last week. They asked us if we knew of someone who might shovel their walk for them. The kids who did ours last year moved so we didn't know of anyone. We said, "there probably won't be much snow. We can do it." Famous last words. They got home last night so we will probably have good weather now.

It was momentous week with President Hinckley passing away. What a giant of a man he was. It is comforting to know he is once again united with his beloved wife. Dawn made an interesting observation. She said I wonder who he will greet after he greets his wife and the Lord? Will it be Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, or Pres Benson or any of the modern day prophets. Or will he say hello to Nephi and compare dispensations, or Alma or Moroni, or Moses, or Adam, or Abraham or any of the prophets from the book of Mormon or Bible. It could be any or all of them. Makes for interesting conjectures, doesn't it. We watched the funeral most of yesterday afternoon. There were lots of shows about him on the BYU channel all day yesterday. It was great to review the history of his tenure as Prophet and President of the church. It certainly is the end of an era.

Last night was a big night for Ryan and his family. They honored him at the basketball game as it was their last game of the season and it will be Ryan's last year playing for them. They gave him a nice photo of him in action and some roses for Beth. I took lots of pictures and will post them later. After the game we all went over to Ryan and Beth's new house. They finally got into it. It is a beautiful home. It is great to see those young kids do so well.

Gotta run for now. I have to get ready for church now.
Everybody stay safe and keep warm. We love each and evry one of you.
Love
LA

Saturday, February 2, 2008

#57 NOBLE NEWS - Marvelle Reporter

Dear All, A whole week has past since I last wrote. Adam is still in Argentina and Dustyn is home. We are having a wonderful time. Today is Helen's Birthday and then we have Dawn and Paula and then we have Dawn's wedding aniversary. Happ birthday you two and HappyAnniversary, Dawn. Time flies when you are having fun I guess. Anyway we have been swimming almost daily although temperatures haven't been what they usually are. We go to LA Fitness Monday and Tuesday and then on Wed we go to the temple and then to LA Fitness on Thurs and Fri. We swim in the afternoons. Today is Pres Hinckley's funeral and so we are going to that. On Sunday we go to Don's for a Super Bowl Party. Last year Helen and Brad were here and went with us. Helen won one of the Superbowl things. I can't remember how much she won but it was around $100.00. Then on Monday we are going to to Arizona Opry. Bonnie and Harlan are going with us and the group from Valley Del Or'. Bonnie has gone to the temple with us two times. Dustyn, Shelbi and their father are supposed to be coming to see us some time this winter. Jessey is working. He is a working man now. Dustyn phoned the other night on Clifford's birthday to tell us that he has a job with Cardinal Bus lines, driving bus for 2 hours daily. He gets $20. an hour so we are happy for him. We can hardly wait for all them to come and then Gayle and LA are coming. Gayle is coming is see the baseball starts and get a hearing aide from Mexico. Glad we have something that brings them as we sure miss you all. Shirley and Ardell are getting married. Glad to have Ardell in our family. We love Shirley and anyone who loves her, we love also.

David wants to have a little get together at Scott's 1 year anniversary. We have ordered a tombstone. Brad's friend got us a deal at Southern Monument. We will let you know more about it when we have more information.

Thanks for all those who wrote Birthday Greeting to Clifford. It is so satsify to know that you are loved too.

Well will scoot.

Love Marvelle

Sunday, January 27, 2008

#56 NOBLE NEWS - Marvelle Reporter

Hi everyone! I'm glad I finally got one the family blog.

I will publish my blog before trying to put it into my 'favourites'.

Well we are on the eve of Clifford's 70th birthday. Can you imagine? I can't! Oh well he is still mylover dover and I love him very much. He takes good care of me. As you know we stayed with Art and Meryl Hough during our stay home. It is close to our place when we finally get to live there. We were talking about Jean Hough and her having two husbands. One she is sealed to and then one she lives with now, although she is married to him. Meryl said "It isn't fair that one should have 'two good husbands' and some don't even get one. I thought to myself that Meryl meant herself. When I told Clifford he said that is probably what she meant.

Clifford said he sure wouldn't want to go thru that what he did when he was 30 years old. I'm glad he said that because that was just what I was thinking. We appreciate our children and their children so. They are such good people. I hope my children will realize we loe them so much and always will. Along with their children they are our prime and special jewels.

Be happy where you are now and revel in who you are! Because you are so special and special children of your father in Heaven. Your early father and your HF love you so much. Be good! Be tall and be that special person. You just don't know how special you are.

love Marvelle

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

22 years of marital bliss


Can you all believe it? It's been 22 years of bliss for us. Well at least it's been for me. Notice I don't have any gray hair but if you look close at Cameron you'll see that there is quite a bit there.

We're so happy

Can you jump this high and smile too?

Big Brothers

Dillon 13, Jordan 16, Preston 5