Gosh I don’t even know the last time I wrote! A lot has gone on.
Concerning our weather, we’ve had beautiful weather which all of us enjoy, but we are starting to need rain for our crops. We can irrigate our garden, but we aren’t set up to irrigate the fields. We have had some fairly low temperatures at night, which is a concern when we’ve been thinking of planting our transplants. I heard we want to put them in next Wednesday. We shall see. Maymay has been diligently working out in the garden until late at night, now that we have an extended daylight season...she is such a good, hard working girl...God bless her sweet heart!
Comunity life in general has been quite eventful last couple of weeks due to the graduation and weddings. Now, we’re gearing up for Kevin and Kelly’s wedding on June 21st. Since both weddings include some of the same relatives (2 Jepsen boys who are cousins) makes for quite a crowd which will be added to.
Bradie Cox and Jonnie Squires graduated. They have been in class together since they were born. The graduation was very nice. The guests for the graduation were all Grado relatives and Cami Zoebell.
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So far May has been hectic....did I say that already :0
We also had a Seth/Amaris wedding dinner at The Land, and Whitestone sent a whole bunch of folks to it as well, much of it included the wedding party and her folks. It was very nice and they were presented with some lovely quilts. One by our farm (Jenny Nerbonne and ladies) and one made by Emily Nerbonne, grandmother of the groom.
The Ramirez sisters and brother infront of Jenny's N gift quilt to the couple
wedding shower for Ami
Ami's shower cake, a work of art. Kathryn N made the flowers!
May & Ami dressed in TP bridal gowns, a fun game
The wedding was hectic because we had a lot of traveling back and forth to Whitestone to do. The boat trip is always an adventure for me, since I don’t do it very often. Rob enjoyed it and so did the younger kids. The day was lovely to be on the river.
But despite all the back and forth, everything went very well, when one considers there were about 400 folks millling about. Whitestone was gracious to us. Seth and Amaris are married, and I guess they are honeymooning in Jamaica. The guests for the wedding are too many to number, we had Jepsen/Nerbonne/Ramirez parents, relatives and immediate family from near and far. All of Amaris’ immediate family was here (5) plus some aunts and friends and cousins. All of Amaris’ family stayed at Whitestone. Some of my Spanish students enjoyed practicing their skills with the Mexican folk.
Another event that has just passed is the DRY CREEK/WHITESTONE BARN DANCE this was held earlier in May. A total success. It always amazes me how many young people live in WF, they seem to increase in numbers each time they come over. For some reason or other we have had more encounters with them and this is a good thing since our numbers are dwindling for various reasons. They was easily about 100 people I should think down at the Hangar building. The kids did a great job at decorating it to look like a barn, hay bales, saddles, lights, cowboy hats, boots, etc. The line dancing or whatever it’s called is a lot of fun and easy to pick up. You can see this at this link
Here’s a link to WF “Song Of Degrees” by Virginia Buerge and Jeremy Austin and the music group. Look closely and you will see our daughter Alexandra May Buongiorne singing.
Bill and Kathy Casey have gone to the states for a visit to Kathy’s folks.
Katie Crossin is visiting with her family down south.
Katie Crossin is visiting with her family down south.
Rachel and Mike Sowers from Evergreen Farms are here visiting. Nice to see my friend Gwen Meyers kids all grown up...good memories of when she and I sang at the Madrid convention oh...so many years ago!
Hope Margraf is back and is staying with Garth and Kim Milliron. Chris and Hope started their year this week.
Craig Milliron is up working with his brother for the summer. Craig will be marrying Sarah Horender (Jennifer’s sister) in New York in the middle of August (maybe the 16th).
Allyson and Jon have taken their family on a road trip and to attend Austin’s graduation. Michael told me that he’d be happy going anywhere except Texas. I’m not exactly sure of his reasons, but he must’ve gotten tired of Texas from that one summer they stayed down there while Jon was finishing up his schooling.
Tony and his boys and the young boys are busily planting the fields. We’ve really enjoyed Joe Brandes being here. He came up for school and will return for his senior year. He’s going home soon. But, in the meantime, we’re squeezing all the work out of him that we can. He happily does it. Rob has been included the ATR planting, he comes home looking like a chimney sweep, but feeling pretty grown up and proud of himself. Thanks to Chris and the rest of the guys over there for taking him.
Here’s a link to a clip of Rob and the guys planting
I think most of you know, but just in case you don’t…. Bro Ernest Watkins passed away suddenly the week before the wedding. His memorial was held on the wedding day. If you’d like to contact his wife, you can write to her at:
Bag 6408 Stn. Main, Fort St. John, BC V1J 4H8 or email her at:
ernest_watkins@yahoo.ca Bro Ernest will certainly be missed.
Our Ani is still in Jefferson TX with her aunt (my siser Karenza Hanson) and Tim and Mary Tesi. She is enjoying her new life and facing new challenges which are all part of growing up. She and her aunt are planning an Argentine trip in July. It will be a great opportunity for Ani to meet our extended Anglo/Italo?Anglo side of the famoly, many cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. Then when she returns she will stop in Dallas and I will meet her there for a week end, on my way to Alaska - back from a special needs summer camp in that area, where I am taking Rob.
This is it for the time being. Hope you all have a wonderful and productive summer.
Bless you!
Our Ani is still in Jefferson TX with her aunt (my siser Karenza Hanson) and Tim and Mary Tesi. She is enjoying her new life and facing new challenges which are all part of growing up. She and her aunt are planning an Argentine trip in July. It will be a great opportunity for Ani to meet our extended Anglo/Italo?Anglo side of the famoly, many cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. Then when she returns she will stop in Dallas and I will meet her there for a week end, on my way to Alaska - back from a special needs summer camp in that area, where I am taking Rob.
This is it for the time being. Hope you all have a wonderful and productive summer.
Bless you!
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