Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Christmas 2011
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Dear Friends and Family,
We hope this Christmas Season finds you all happy and enjoying the magic of the Holidays.
This year has just flown by at the Wagstaff house and we can’t believe it’s almost over.
Dave is still working at HD Fowler. His position has changed and he is now an Estimator. He is still serving as a Scout Leader and took the Scouts (including Trevor and Logan) on a 100 mile bike ride on the Coeur d’Alene trail in Northern Idaho this summer for their High Adventure. They had a great time and they even got to go to The Silverwood Amusement Park on the last day.
Ginger has been working part time for a company that does school based Medicaid billing. She’s still working with the 10 and 11 year old Activity Day girls and loves the excuse to find fun craft projects for the girls.
Trevor got to experience College life for one semester. He attended the College of Western Idaho. It’s a local Community College in Nampa. He did great. Right now we’re getting things in order to submit his paperwork to find out where he will serve as an LDS Missionary this next year.
Megan is a Junior and has been busy keeping a 4.0 grade point average. She worked over Halloween at the local Pumpkin Patch and her Employers can’t wait to have her back. She’s still excelling in art and just recently was chosen to have a piece of her art displayed in a gallery.
Logan is a Freshman and discovered he really likes the FFA program at his school. It’s a great program and we look forward to seeing what he does in it. He got to experience a bit of farm life this summer while he worked for a neighbor. He learned that goats are very gassy and that Goat head weeds are very annoying.
Emma is in Sixth grade and doing great! She is turning 12 on the 19th. We’re trying really hard to accept that fact. She’s taking a Hip Hop dance class and likes it a lot. She still likes to draw but lately her subject matter has changed from Dragon’s to Wolves.
We want to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring you much joy and happiness.
The Wagstaff Family
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Christmas Letter
This year has been an interesting and exciting one for us. And it started like this . . . .
Last year our family went to Utah to have New Years with my parents and celebrate Ginger’s Birthday. We had a wonderful time. When we got back home the New Year started with me finding out that my company had gone up for sale and that we could be purchased as early as month end. The future at this company became uncertain. As things turned out, a competitive company wanted to move into Southern Idaho, so all my co-workers and I left our old company and moved to the new one. We moved to a new building and had to build our branch back from scratch. It made the first part of the year very unsettling. However, on the upside, I am still employed, we didn’t have to move, and all the kids are doing great.
Trevor turned 18 this year and is just about ready to graduate High School. (I think I just got more grey hair writing that) We think he will be going to a local college until his mission, and then off to a bigger university after that. He wants to be an engineer. This year he buckled down and completed his requirements (at the stroke of midnight on his birthday) for Eagle Scout. We will probably do his Court of Honor the first part of next year, after the Holidays.
Megan has been busy doing Art and French in school and getting the best grades of the family. It seems like she is always off doing an art project or heading to a school club activity. She has finished her drivers training and is excited about turning 16 soon and getting her license. (more hairs turning grey and hair-line just receded another inch)
Logan has been the Deacon’s Quorum President this year and has done a great job. He loves scouting and is way ahead of his brother at this age. He will be a Life Scout in January. He is taller than his Mom is now and has almost caught up to his brother. At this rate will be the tallest person in the family. His favorite phrase is, “What’s there to eat”.
Emma is doing dance and really enjoys it. She did here first recital the other day and it was a solo. She did very well and we are proud of her courage to get up alone and dance in front of everyone for her first time. She also has just begun choir in school. Emma is taking after her sister with the grades. The teachers really have to dig to find anything to talk about during parent teacher conferences. Emma is also into art and draws pictures all the time.
This year we took a vacation at the Oregon Coast. We met up with my sister Ann and her family. Where we stayed, we could walk right onto the beach each day. We all had a great time discovering starfish, mussels, sand shrimp, and sand fleas (which bite) we built sand castles and flew kites. We also went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, the Tillamook Cheese Factory, and had seafood in Newport.
Trevor and I went on High Adventure camping trip up in the White Cloud Wilderness. Where we saw some of the most beautiful wilderness in the country and hiked to Lonesome Lake that is over 10,000 feet in elevation. The trip was a big adventure to some because camp was 7 miles from the cars, all up hill. We had to pack in all our food and tents for the four days we were there. On the final day, we went White Water Rafting down the Payette River.
Ginger has a full time job keeping all us on track and on schedule. She’s enjoying being the Activity Day Leader of the 10, 11 year old girls. Her 40th Birthday was a surprise trip to Utah where she got to spend 4 days in Salt Lake City with Dave. We spent an entire day at IKEA and spent time at Temple Square. We had dinner on New Years Eve at The Roof Restaurant. We also drove up to Park City and spent lots of time shopping of course. It was a great surprise.
We have so much to be thankful for especially for all of our friends and family. We wish you a Very Merry Christmas and may the New Year be full of Joy.
Love,
Dave, Ginger, Trevor, Megan, Logan and Emma Wagstaff
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Back to School
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Lazy Blogger
Our first real harvest from our Cherry Tree |
Multnomah Falls |
Tumalo Falls in Bend, OR |
The Daines and the Wagstaff Kids |
The Wilcock's and The Wagstaff's at the Oregon Coast Aquarium |
The whole gang at Rockaway Beach |
Playing in Rockaway Beach at the Twin Rocks |
Rachel and Emma not getting wet |
Kendra and Megan exfoliating their feet. |
Logan's discoveries at low tide |
Trevor and Megan checking out the sea life at low tide |
The awesome view from our Hotel room in Lincoln City |
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
March and April Happenings
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Catch Up
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Right after the earthquake in Haiti, my Achievement Day Girls were talking about it and so we decided to have an activity assembling Hygiene Kits to send to the Humanitarian Center. We asked for donations from the ward and were able to assemble 30 kits. I think the Girls really felt like they contributed to the relief efforts .
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I have been lazy with the Blogging lately so here's a quick update on what's been going on.
January was an interesting month as far as Dave's work was concerned. His Company was in negotiations to be sold but it fell through. The uncertainty of the future for this company caused him to take a job with another company, doing the same work. It was a sad time because Dave has worked for 15 years with United Pipe. We have high hopes for this new company. Now comes the hard work of setting up a new Branch in Meridian.
Dave lost his company vehicle with the job change so we bought a little Ford Ranger. It's not a pretty sight but it runs. It's a stick shift so Trevor will have to learn how to drive a stick. Hopefully once Dave's work is up and running, he will get another company vehicle. Trevor officially got his drivers license so I'm still trying to get used to the fact that he is legal to drive on his own now. The really scary thing for me is, Megan just signed up for Drivers Ed this summer. I'm just barely getting used to one driver and now this? Oh well. Dave's Aunt and Uncle from Texas sold us their Toyota Camry last week. They were even nice enough to drive it here. Dave will be using that car for work so as soon as Trevor learns to drive the stick shift, he'll get to take the truck to school and Young Men's and hopefully a job.
We've been keeping busy with Church activities. Dave was in charge of a combined YM and YW etiquette dinner. That meant LOTS of cooking for me. He did have someone bring the appetizer and the soup so it wasn't too bad. It was a four course meal. They tried to give instructions on proper etiquette between each course. The Menu was Stuffed Mushrooms for the appetizer, Wild Rice Soup, Baked Ham with Scalloped Potatoes and Roasted Asparagus for the main course and Creme Brulee for dessert. I put the hams in a Roaster oven and the potatoes in Crock Pots and cooked the Asparagus at the church so it wasn't too much stress. I made the 30 Creme Brulees the day before the dinner and then torched the sugar on the tops just before we served them. We had some adults doing the waiting on the tables. I think it all went pretty well. We should've collected all the cell phones before the dinner though because there was some texting going on.
Now we're just trying to get through the end of the school year. I've been busy registering Trevor for SAT's and ACT tests. It really shocked me when I found out he needed them done this year and not his Senior Year. I'm kinda frustrated with all the things I don't know. It's hard to get it done the right way with the oldest because I don't know anything yet.
Hopefully that's got you up to date with what's been going on for the past couple months.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Birthday Surprise!
Wow, what a blur the past couple weeks have been. We celebrated Christmas and immediately packed up the family and drove to Utah. We dropped the kids off at Grandma and Grandpa's in Logan and drove to Salt Lake City. Dave had planned a 4 night getaway to celebrate my 40Th birthday. We stayed at the Plaza Hotel, which is right across the street from Temple Square.
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