Humphries Family History

Hello everybody,    Grandpa and I got to talk with the birthday girl this evening. Happy 2nd birthday, Alida! Brad got to face time with the family when she got her cake and presents. Sounds like it's been a great birthday. :)    The picture I included is of one of the old apple trees which blew down in a recent wind storm. Not too surprising...those trees seemed old when we bought the house in 1977!  I'm going to replace the long branch in my flower bed with this old tree; it has lots of history here. I think it will be nice to have it there, all knotty looking.     Yesterday, Dad and I cleaned the church...it took us 2 1/2 hours. The other family who was supposed to help was out of town for a funeral.     This morning I taught the Relief Society lesson at the Homestead Assisted Living center in St. Anthony. That's the 3rd time I've done that. It's always a neat experience. None of the rest of my presidency was able to come...

Hey everybody,   We've had a couple of beautiful fall days here...I could live in this kind of season all the time. For a few days before that, it was rainy and cold; some areas not far from us have had snow.    Several weeks ago I ordered some chicken breasts from a company called Zacon Fresh. The cost was about $1.40/lb I picked up the 40 lb box on Tuesday, from a truck at the Catholic church in St. Anthony. I cooked and froze some of it; the rest we bottled in pint jars. About 9 pints per 10 lb bag. It'll be nice to have in the pantry and it really wasn't hard to do. When Dad and I went home teaching last week, a family gave us two bags of carrots and now we have 10 pints of bottled carrots.     Thursday I had to be at work at 7am like usual, but had a dinner meeting that night from 6-8. So I took 3 hours off in the afternoon and did a session at the Temple. Sam, I was so glad that you, Brad, Ben, Lynsey and Joseph got to go to the Fort Collins Te...

Hello everybody!    We're all thinking of our Aimee today, and wishing you a happy birthday!  But seriously...38!  You know what that does to your Dad and me?! Oh dear.    Friday evening, Dad and I drove to Salmon for the retirement party of Sheriff Lynn Bowerman, the Sheriff of Lemhi County. He and Dad have been friends for quite a while. We had a nice time and they had a really good turnout of family and community people. Two other Sheriff's and their wives came too: Sheriff Wilde, from Bonneville County and Sheriff Anderson, from Jefferson County.    Tonight I have Stake Auxiliary training meeting at 6pm. I hope I'm ready!  My talk is pretty ready...and the peanut butter cookies smell really good; so I should be okay.     I've known for quite a while what I wanted my talk to be about...but I couldn't seem to make it come together. Also for quite a while, Gran has been trying to get me to read a story that Lois Hanks...

Happy Sunday everybody!    Dad and I got to go watch Emma in the State of Idaho Distinguished Young Women program, the Friday evening part anyway. They had another program on Saturday morning, then the final last night. She wasn't chosen for the top 10, but seemed to have a wonderful experience anyway. This morning, early, she drove to Boise with some friends to go to the Maroon 5 concert. Jake is spending his birthday driving over to pick her up...but he doesn't mind a bit. He planned to take the long way; he'll probably get to take lots of beautiful pictures and do some hiking.     I am on call this weekend, but it hasn't been too busy. One small need made me go in yesterday morning. After I took care of that I was able to focus on a project my boss (Mikel) has asked me to do. It's been all spread out on a table I brought into my office. Yesterday morning I was able to work on it for about 3 hours, without interruption and I think I really made some progre...

Hi everybody,    About the time I was thinking about writing to you all last evening we ended up having company...next thing I knew it was past my bedtime!  So here goes, on my lunch half hour.    Happy birthday dear Shelby!  I hope to be able to talk with you this evening and hope that you're having a wonderful birthday! 9 years old today!  I heard you got to have an early birthday party last week while Grandpa was there. That's wonderful!    General Conference was as wonderful as usual...hard for me to say if I have a favorite talk; there were several that I will be looking forward to reading when the Ensign comes. I hope you all got to hear a lot of it. Dad and I watched the last session with Grandma, at her house. Gran spent the weekend at Jocie's and Janie's to watch it with them.    Then last night, Miles came to visit about the time that the girls brought Gran home. Then Uncle Jim came over and we all had supper...