Humphries Family History

Dear Everybody!    First off...happy birthday to Joseph on the 26th!  11 years old; oh my goodness, how the time has flown by!  We sure enjoyed having you here this summer and look forward to next year too!    Last night I went to the broadcast of the General Women's Conference. I can't wait to receive the magazine or to be able to download the talks online. Four very powerful talks; strong and sometimes blunt as well. I especially liked Sister Bonnie Oscarson's talk.  I am eager to use them in future RS meetings and talks. Often some of my favorite talks come from the General Priesthood Conference; so I hope that you guys will take the opportunity to read or listen to these talks from the Women's Conference. They are not just for us girls!     Dad has been on a LONG trip and should be home by next weekend. I'm so glad that he was able to spend time with Ben, Lynsey and Joseph; that he got to take Brad and Andi to breakfast and...

Hi everybody,    It seems like everyone is talking about, "Where were you 15 years ago?" I have really enjoyed reading some moving remembrances. Steve, Anne and Ellen, you were either too young to remember, or not here yet, but it was such an amazing time for those of us who do remember.     At the time, I was working as a CNA and going to LPN school. Tuesdays were the only day I had at home. It seems like by the time I turned on the TV that day, I was the only one home. I was folding laundry and watching the Today Show. I called Aimee to be sure she knew what was going on. I did go to class that night, but for the most part, wherever you went that day and for many, many days to come, everyone was glued to the news. It was difficult to believe what was happening. It was like the Oklahoma bombing...times 50! And that was another day that we just couldn't believe what had happened. We watched and cried for the people who had been affected. Columbine hit c...

The topic I was asked to speak on was the sacredness of marriage and family.  I'm not sure this will be what they had in mind.  Thank you!  Love you!  Mama Our Ward bishopric shows us by example how important their marriages and families are to them. On at least three different occasions recently, one or another of them will be conducting our Sacrament meeting and say something like, "We want to excuse" Brother Johnson, or Brother Cardon, or Bishop Hunter, "he is spending time with his family." or "he and his wife are having a much needed weekend alone." I appreciate their example and I am grateful that they support each other in this way. I have also often heard them make comments about how much they love "noisy sacrament meetings." And they mean it, sincerely! To them, the "sounds of family," as Brother Burke Hanks puts it, are wonderful. Sometimes families are noisy; sometimes families are contentious; sometimes famili...