New Happenings... the best things in life

Introducing Claire Lee Bawden Practically Perfect in Every Way.

Graham and his new baby Sister Claire Lee

In January we celebrated Graham's birthday he is 2 years old, and now a big brother we welcomed our Precious Claire Lee 3 days after Graham's birthday, he is in love with her as we all are she is pretty pink, loves to sleep, and stick out her tounge. Yum they are both so delicious,& sweet. Dave and I have found there is nothing better on earth then grand babies

1-29-11 Beautiful Weather so we decide a picnic was the order of the day. Claire's first outing, she loves the sun a true Az. girl. Graham loves the park, he has no fear of jumping off things or climbing to the highest point of the play ground equipment, 100% boy. He loves to play football with his daddy and uncles.
Busy boy stopping for break.
Papa's and our SWEET New Claire
this Boy LOL he picked up the Oreo opened it right up and licked the frosting like he knew what he was doing, and then dipped it in his root beer.

Chelsea had a much easier time with her labor and delivery and is just a little super mom, she is loving not working and being home with her babes. although an adjustment with two she and Isaac are just great parents.
Isaac graduated from ASU in Dec. with his bach in Phys Ed. and is anxiously waiting to hear if he is going to be hired by CES to teach seminary he has two years of student teaching under his belt so we are hopeful for them. Lots of life ahead:)
Meg and Jared have had a busy few months with there move to Cali and then Jared being layed off there, and moving back to Az where he was hired by the town of Gilberts water treatment plant, he plans on school after he gets past his 6 mth. probation period. Meg is going to school full time at MCC Red. Mtn.startin her shcooling for Nursing. We are so excited to have them back home and feel so blessed that Jared was able to get a job.
Colin is wrapping up his Sr yr. with a few months left, he has been accepted to BYUI and will go for the fall session. He and his cousin Hunter are going to work in Cali. selling pest controp for the summer. he is working on his Eagle project in the last hours of time before he turns 18 and he knows aolt rests on his success with it, mostly his parents peace of mind.
GREG - Bubba, is serving in Ammon Idaho a sub. of Idaho Falls he love his mission, learning, serving and patience with companions, he is learning that his littel brother wasn't so bad to live with after all. He has grown up so much and has taken on teh responsiblity of a trainer sr. companion. I will post some of his lastest letters. He is doing so well it is amazing to see what an awesome man he is becoming. We were able to SKYPE with him at Christmas , so fun to have him right here with us, and to see his sweet fun face and hear his voice, we miss him so much but we know he is where he is supposed to be, there is no doubt about that.

Dave and Tam doing well loving life with our kids and grandbabies, they are the best part of life:)

Oh Such Sweet News

Chelsea and Isaac are giving us new grand baby in January. IT'S A GIRL we are so excited. Grahambo is gonna be a big brother :)

Family Vacation _Newport Beach

My Sweet Dreamer

Grandpa & Grahambo the last walk on the beach, so hard to leave.

Meg, Graham, and Chelsea the last walk, Chels stepped on a bee and was stung,darn.

Uncle Col & Graham what great buddy's

Star fish "Patrick"

A long day at the beach.

Jones's and Smith's

Cheryl and some good lookin surfer dude

Cuzzies/ Surfer Dudes Dan and Colin

Kim and Neal

The Whole Gang with last Morning Blues


The Cuzzies building Sand Castles

Classic Uncle Rick "I do go no where with out my Hat,LOL"

What a group

Auntie Meg and Grammy

Grandpapa and Grammy

They love the ocean

G,I,C Bawden

Man this is a big pool.

Newport fun filled week Montgomery's,Bawdens(Isaac for the week end),Brown's(for a couple of days) Jones's, Smith's,and Tarwater's (for the week end).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is in La Jolla at the cove, we drove from Newport to San diego to Meg and Jared's new place and they took us to this spot. there are Sea lions and beautuful views. We took these family shots, we are so missing Greg. He loves Cali, he sent us an email that week that said "I hope you enjoy Cali, but there is no where I'd rather be then here serving the Lord". that was a big ah ha moment for Colin and his cousins, becasue they all know how much Greg loves the beach











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Making a Difference in Rigby

Elder Montgomery & Fife with W. Judd
Zone Conf. 6-25-10
Elder Fife and M visiting the Lord's in Ammon on p-day

The Rigby Experience...

Hey Mom, 5-24-10
I’m doing really good, sorry about last week, we showed up at the vet. office where we usually do emails and there were already elders here, and so we got jewed out of it , so we did have a baptism last Monday, well actually 2 it was a mom and her daughter, they are way cool , it went really good...........that little house across the street from the vet is the one we live in.......the work is going awesome, we are having so much success and I’m loving every minute of it...............we have like 4 more baptismal dates for the next 3 weeks it’s pretty exciting, Rex who lives next door, we been working a lot on his farm, I’ve learned the last couple weeks that cows are the stupidest animals in the world, we had to help him with some calves, branding and rubber banding of the bull calves, they are so dang ononry and did I mention stupid.............it took us all day just to get like 4 of them done it makes me think twice about having any cattle , horses are still fine but cattle are retarded........by the way burnt cow hair from branding really aren’t that bad.......... rex passed out and so we called an ambulance for him , but by the time they got there, he was up and on his quad ready to work some more he’s the most stubborn old man in the world....................the people here are awesome they help us so much and hook us up with so much free stuff we get all the free eggs and bread we can handle here its awesome.....me and Elder F. are doing great and Elder Q has changed quite a bit, as I look back though now I realize how much of a stubborn guy , I was so stupid , all he wanted to do is work hard and have success as a missionary, and I was to set in my ways and prideful to see it.............but I think we are on pretty good terms now...........Its gonna be so awesome when I get home because the new baby is going to be the same age as Graham was when I left so I can somewhat pick up where I left off , haha ha, that sounds kind of bad but it makes sense to me.....sounds like you all had a blast going to Cali, I’m glad grandma had fun.......
I’ve been feeling pretty good, nothing to out of the ordinary........alright I love you so much and I love this gospel so much it brings me so much comfort and joy into my life......I know without a doubt that this is Christ true church and that we will be together forever as an eternal family.
Love bubba

THE MOTHERS DAY PHONE CALL ,,,THE BEST!!!

May 9th , today was Mothers day, we had a fun phone call from Elder M. aka Bubba it was so good to hear his voice. He has been transferred to Rigby and loves it, his new Comp is Elder Fife from N.J. He has already had an interesting week helping Dr a horse and getting Acquainted with the farming town of Rigby, he loves it.
Here are some recent pics, from his area in Pocatello.
4TH companion Elder "Why Shuttle" served in Pocatello Chubbuck Area

SNOW again

Fav Family from Ammon Weller's

Investigators

Cami's baptism first Baptism, many prayers answered, for this to take place.

Transfers to who knows where???

Elder Montgomery is getting transferred today but we don't know where to, so I guess we'll find out when we TALK TO HIM Sunday :) Can't wait.
5-3-10
hey mom,
I'm doin pretty good, it was a better week , had a couple new investigators, and a couple baptismal dates set, on top of the few that we already had, and then what happens, just like in Ammon, we start pickin up and get some dates and then I get booted to a new area, but I'm trying to stay as positive as possible about it, by the end of my mission I'll be a master sower, just leaving behind investigators for whoever to reap, I dont mind too much , I still count some of them as mine if I've taught them 3 or more lessons, cause there are only 4 lessons.............but I know that it's all for my experience, just like what it says in D&C 122 , by the way did you put that on my plack, and you should send me a picture of my plack, in my email next week, I love planting seeds, that's my job.............So don't send anything else to the my Poky address, and I'll let ya know asap what my new address is so that you can tell everybody to send stuff there...........................I'm hoping that I go to like west Yellowstone or something that would be sick, I still remember watching those missionaries there when we went on vacation up there...I'm glad y'all had a good time at women's Conf. sounds like ya had a blast .
Anyways, so it was a good last week, I don't really know what else to say, other than I'll be calling you this week and its gonna be epic, I do have a calling card, so I'm good, and I'll tell ya all the cool details of where I'm at and everything like that., sorry this is shorter, but we get to talk for a while later on, I love you so much , have a good one, mucho take it easy ,
love bubba