Humphries Family History

Dear everybody,    First of all...Happy birthday, Ellen!  Grandpa and I were camping in Island Park, and didn't get you called!  We hope you had a wonderful day.  12 years old!  Oh, my goodness, that's hard to believe!    It seems that many of you are away from home right now, or just were, or are about to be... :) I haven't kept track of everyones plans, but I look forward to hearing all about this weeks activities!     Dad and I had planned to leave for our camping trip on Thursday afternoon, but a couple of other things made us put it off until Friday morning. Dad went to the debriefing meeting for the Emergency Communications drill we were involved in last Saturday. It was at the Stake Center about a mile east of the Rexburg Temple.  And I went to a viewing for Imelda Vargas. Below is a picture of her and her mother, Rosa, which was taken several years ago. Imelda was 40, and had an aneurysm in her brain, quite unexpecte...

Hi all,    Well, Ben and Sam completed the Denver Century Ride yesterday, and to quote Sam, "it was brutal."  100 miles in 96 degree heat, after a late night, and a long day the day before.  I'm glad you did it, but I'm also glad it's over!  Very proud of you both!    On Thursday night, we had the first meeting of Madison Memorial's Patient Family Advisory Council.  Almost all who were invited, attended. And those who did were very engaged, and seemed to really catch the gist of what we are hoping to accomplish.  My bosses were really pleased with how it all turned out; I was too, but mostly just relieved to have it over!     Yesterday, Dad and I participated in the Regional emergency communications exercise.  Dad was in charge of it for our Stake, and he did an amazing job. It went from 9am til noon, but Dad was up late the night before, and up early that morning, to make sure he was ready with all the equipment he mig...

Hi everyone,    Well this week flew by... Dad is home!  He got home yesterday and it's wonderful to have him back. This afternoon he went to the office for a while, having not been there in 10 days; and then he has a Stake Priesthood meeting at 6 this evening.    Tuesday evening Teresa Anderson and I made the birthday visits for June; they were wonderful as always. Our first year as a presidency we took each sister a cupcake. This year we are taking small bottles of spice mix that we mixed together. We made 120 of them last month in Peggy's kitchen, and have them all ready in the RS closet. We just add a small card with the sisters name on it, and visit them at home. We usually have 8-10 visits each month, so it takes about 2-3 hours the first Tuesday evening. One other member of the presidency goes with me each month.    It's been really hot here all week, until yesterday during the Relay for Life, when of course it turned off cold, windy and rainy...

Hi everybody!    It's been a super busy week, but now that I sit down to write, I can't remember much about it... Hopefully it will come to me as I ramble.    First, the picture below. I was taking Moose for a walk the other evening, first we had gone south from our road, and had just turned east toward Dan Weaver's house, when way off in the distance I could see someone coming toward us, also walking their dog, and I could see it was a pretty big dog...much bigger than Moose. But as they came nearer, I thought to myself, that dog walks pretty funny!  Then finally I could see that it was McKay Cardon WALKING HIS SHEEP!  They were half a mile from home. I suspect this sheep is his 4H project this summer. Ellen, McKay is almost 13...just thought you might want to know for future reference ;).     I'm learning to do Indexing on Family Search. I really enjoy it too. Bradley, I think it could be as addictive as Angry Birds!  And you know h...

Hi everyone!    I hope you are all having a nice Memorial Day weekend.  I agree with Ben, that June has come way too fast!  We shouldn’t be almost half way through this year already!  Speaking of Ben…I sure wish we could have heard you speak in your Sacrament meeting today. Did you have enough time to give the message you wanted to? If you have the talk written out, I’d love to have a copy of it…if you don’t mind.    I really enjoyed seeing pictures of downtown Indianapolis. It is pretty!  And thank you for sharing your visit with the Farmers. I’ll bet they were so pleased to see you. I think Sariah was born after they move to Eastlake Ward, and even her older brothers wouldn’t likely remember us.  It makes me happy that they have an Elmwood Lane Ward scrapbook! And neat picture of Mario Andretti!  Very cool! And Joseph, please keep us informed about how your soccer games are going!    I need to explain the attachme...

Hey everybody,    It's been a cool, rainy week here. Now today it's warmer, and the sun is shining, but the wind is really something.  Moose and I just got back from a walk, which was quite nice until we turned around to come home, and faced a headwind. Dad finished the fenced in area outside the back door for Moose, and he's tolerating it pretty well.    Ben, I am looking forward to hearing about your trip to Indiana. I saw one video, and a comment from Jason Dalton that made me think you might have gone to see the Farmers while you were there.    Dad is at Aimee's and James' house today, before going to Coeur d'Alene for meetings, then on to Jackson Hole a few days after that. I'm looking forward to having him home again next Friday.    The picture below is from just before lunch today. Gran and Grandma looking at some family history together.    Work has been pretty crazy this past week. Of the six of us who work most closel...