7 June 2012

Today we celebrated our 66th wedding anniversary by going to the Ogden Chuck-A-Rama with Fred and Debra's family. They asked how we got together and ended up getting married. Ione had answers
about our dating  and our short courtship but I didn't tell my part of the story.

We were both born and raised in the Hyrum First Ward. Ione's father, Rulon Wright, was my Deacon advisor so we occasionly had Deacon parties  at their house. He had two little daughters who were
usually sent to bed while the boys whooped it up. Since I was almost 4 years older than Ione we
didn't pay any attention to each other.

Then one day while I was home on leave from the Army, I noticed the cutest girl in town. She was prettier than anyone who I had dated so I begain to make plans to take her out. After getting discharged from the army in October 1945, we started going steady and were engaged at christmas time that year.
Her mother wanted time to prepare for the wedding so we sat a date between spring and summer quarter at USAC. After getting married in the Logan temple, we had dinner at the Bluebird, then had a reception that night at Ione's grand parents home. We were both dead tired that night but took off for a long weekend honeymoon.

Now 66 years later we have had 4 children, 20 grand childen and 50 great grand children. What a wonderful life and we are still able to go to work each day and enjoy the fruits of our labor. We think that we have the best family in the world and know that our parents would be very proud of them.

  

4 wheel flip

On monday 12 Sept. I borrowed Garth's 4-wheeler to check out the feed in the South pasture. I found 12 head of  Summer's dry cows but the feed is gone. I open the gate to let them into the new pasture and new pond. While opening  the gate by the road the 4-wheeler flipped me on the steep hill. I got a bloody nose , cut on my face and a very brused right hip. No broken bones and I could manuver very good that day. Now I have just one week to recover and fly to Nebraska.

We think we have sold Becky's house and will close on the 22th. Then we will travel with them to Denver and try to buy them a new house. Houses are much higher in the Denver area , so will have to dig up some extra money

every thing is good here right now. Grandpa feels better after surgery and Dennis has been a big help in getting the hay bailed and hauled.

Eastern Europe

Sunday, August 7, 2011

trip to eastern europe

Instead of leaving for Eastern Europe on the12th of July, I ended up recovering at home from another bladder cancer operation performed by Dr Ryan Larsen. We cancelled our trip with Grand Circle and hope that our insurance will reimburse for most of the cost. Things are back to normal again, with the first crop hay in the stack yard, thanks to lots of help by son-in-law Dennis Lee. He enjoyed using my new round bailer.
After two weeks of down time I am now back to normal and doing my own chores. We attended the Martin Harris pagent in Clarkston and the new show is a great musical.

trip to eastern euorpe

on the twelth of July we were scheduled to begin a 16 day tour of eastern euorpe with the grand circle tour group. On the 5th of July we  planned a short trip to Jackson hole and Yellowstone Park with Helen, Dennis, Tori, Dawson, Debra, Vanessa and her children.
On the way we stopped in Logan to have Dr Ryan Larsen check me over. He found another blatter cancer and cut it out the same day. We cancelled our trip to eastern europe and now hope our trip insurance will reimburse us.
After two weeks of rest I am now back to normal and hope to last a few more years.

New Blog Website

http://aldenbx.blogspot.com/

more grand children

December 5 was a special day for us. We welcomed 2 new babies into our family at a naming and blessing cermony at the Pleasant View first ward. Lance Barker named their baby boy Joshua Alexander Barker and Jeremy Jensen named their baby girl Taylee Dawn Jensen.Later this month Brian Hansen will name their baby girl Ella V Hansen while down in  Houston, Texas. This will make a total of 67 grand children and great grand children. It would make our parents very happy to see such a large posterity and we are blessed to have such a beautiful and righteous family.

We are anxously watching the construction of the new Brigham city temple and hope that will be the place for our family to meet when each of our grand children are endowed in preparation for an eternal marriage. In the meantime we hope to complete our 14th year as ordinance workers before they close the Ogden temple.