Our Children (Christmas cards)

Michelle's family

Janelle's family

Shauna's family (kids)

Ryan's family

Zach's Family

Brooke Gets Baptized.

We were able to be in Pocatello over the weekend to witness another grandchild's baptism.  Janelle's youngest, Brooke was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and received the Holy Ghost.  It was great to be together with a few of our kids.   Shauna and Brian came up from Logan and Zach was there with his family.  This makes a total of three (granddaughters) baptisms for the year.  Ashlyn (Shauna's oldest was baptized in February) and Makayla (Zach's oldest) was baptized in July.  It was great to see our kids, but had to head back through some bad storms.  We wish our kids didn't live so far away.  We teased that we were Santa's sleigh bringing gifts, we ended up taking home as many gifts as we came with. We also visited Bob's parents for a few days and spent some good time with them.

Brooke

Makayla

Ashlyn

We are grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives.  

A Little Teacher Humor

A little teacher humor for the beginning of the school year. Hopefully you get it. It was funny for us.
(click on it to enlarge it)

Labor Day Trip

Since it was a 3-day weekend and we had a little free time, we decided we would do something we haven't normally done. We went for a road trip. So on Saturday we headed up to Couer d'Alene and took a boat ride around the lake.  We spent the night there and enjoyed the scenery and relaxation being away from home.

Sadly, about 30 minutes into the trip we realized we had forgotten the camera. That seems to happen every good trip we take. So we didn't get any pictures of the things we saw, but you can just imagine.

An interesting part of our trip was visiting Hayden, Idaho. There are definitely some interesting people in that part of the country. Bob also got to see where Silverwood was and a few other things he hasn't seen since we never seem to get out much.

We came back home through the Palouse, the bustling metropolitan areas of Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Idaho. By Sunday afternoon we were back home and back to the daily grind of everything. It was great to get away.

News

Okay, this is really Zach updating for Bob and Audrey, but with a little help, hopefully they will begin blogging soon.

Shauna has recently come into the blogging world with her new site (a link to that is on the right) and she also had the 18th grandbaby in our growing family. She had a little boy that they named Casen Lee Hansen. Things went well and Audrey was able to spend a week with Shauna in the Logan area taking care of her 4 kids now. It was lots of fun for her and a little too peaceful for Bob at home, so he spent some free time with Michelle and ShaRae's family. All in all, spring has been fairly nice to everybody.

And only 24 more days of school says school teacher Audrey. As a student I never thought the teachers counted down days and got as excited as we did for school to be over for the summer. But now I'm seeing that this is more and more true.

Another grandchild in the family

We added grandchild number 17 to the family early Sunday morning. ShaRae had a baby boy around 1:30 in the morning. They named him Blake Howard McShane. He was a little bit early, but seems to be a healthy boy. He weighed around 8 lbs (they weighed him twice and had a difference of 2 oz, so we'll stick with 8 lbs) and was 21" long.

Family Reunion

Here we are in Pocatello. Taryn (Janelle's third) was baptized Saturday July 12th on her birthday. Jaret (Zach's third) was blessed Sunday July 13th. There are 30 of us now and one more on the way (ShaRae's). We're all here except Derek (Michelle's) husband and having a great time together. Here are some pictures to prove it.

Audrey
(That's right it's me Connie, with Zachary's help.)

And it all started here 37 years ago.


The Maughans (Michelle's family)


The McShanes (ShaRae's family)


The McMinns (Janelle's family)


The Howards (Ryan and Amber)


The Hansens (Shauna's family)


The Howards (Zachary's family)


Here's the original eight. What a scary lot.