An update?

Hello, Brandy here!
I have added some links on the right hand side for a few more family members I have stumbled upon. :) Check it out!

I wanna know what's going on with everyone!

I know Nicole and Rick had their first baby boy in Jan. Sarah and Brian had their first little girl in Jan... *their 3 child* I know that I am due in Sep with our second child. *no gender yet* I have seen on TJ's facebook that he is engaged...

Anyway I wish you were all posting these exciting updates here on this blog for everyone to see!!!

I am going to email all on facebook to make sure you all know about this blog! AND POST FOR HEAVENS SAKE!!!!

XOXO
Brandy King

Ok so you leave us hanging by your post on Oct. 1st... it is now the 11th and we are still hanging on to hear about all the adventures you alluded to.

Max, Braxton, Brandy, Chris and I are going Friday Nov. 14 on a 9 day trip to Jamaica. We will post info on our adventures once we return.

Here we go!

Okay, so now the older set has started to blog. Our kids all have them and we enjoy visiting them to keep in the know with their happenings, but we have never felt a need to do the same. But here we go. This does seem to be the best way to keep those who are interested posted on our life's little burps and hiccups, and of course our triumphs and accomplishments. We will have to really sit down and decide how to approach this and what to post. Right now, we have a lot going on and would like to share it all, but we don't want to leave anything out. So stay tuned and we will try and do this the correct way with all the intrigue and excitement that we can make believable! :) Thank you to the brain behind this project for letting it be easy for us old folks to figure it out and participate. Love to all!

Terry and Kris

Our baby boy

Here is the latest ultrasound!

We also have a new website for our business! We can do everything from TV shows and movies to corporate videos. Yay!

www.questimation.com

That's the new neato stuff from the Dowlearns.

Love,

Nikki

Wood Badge

Cindy and I have completed Wood Badge Training and we are now working on our "Tickets" (Goals/tasks). It was a trying and busy 6 days. The training was on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday two weeks in a row. It was packed with information and requirements. We even had to sleep on the ground in tent the last two nights. At 45 the body was very upset, and let me know about it.

There are companys that send their employees to the Scouting Wood Badge Course because it is such great Leadership training. We went because we wanted to do Scouting better. Cindy has been a great Den Leader. She has earned her Adult On My Honor Award and thoroughly enjoyed helping the Boys. I'm still working on my award. Don't tell my wife but I plan on submitting her name in for the Silver Beaver award.

We sang a song up there I remember the family singing at family reunions and camping. It was called the "Quartermaster store" song.
The chorus was "My eyes are dim I cannot see, I have not got my specks with me." How many of you remember the family singing it. It is an old Scout song That Grandma and Grandpa modified for our reunions and camping. All the scouting they did that must be where they got it from. If you would like a copy of the scout song I can send it to you. E-mail me at sbchristensen@utah.gov and I will send it.

Should you wonder, I'm with the Owl Patrol and Cindy is with the Eagles Patrol. All Wood Badge courses use the same 8 animals for their patrols. It would be fun to find out how many of the family have completed a Wod Badge Course and what Patrol you are with. Amazingly there are website dedicated to each of these patrols and there is a Wood Badge Association which participants can join. It is very much like a faternal order. If you want to know more let me know and I would love to help you go to Wood Badge training.

It was great and we love ya. Scott and Cindy Christensen SLC, Ut.

Christmas is at our door step

Does anyone know if the family is drawing names for Christmas or if anyone is getting together?
The Ross Family

Who's all peeking in?

So I am wondering, I thought this blog would be a good idea since the newsletters stopped and the cost of doing the newsletter was so high. However ... not much is happening here....? Who is peeking in? and what is happening with your family??? Please let me know if you're looking in from time to time, so I know that this blog is worth keeping up and not just deleting...

(leave a comment!)

family reunions

> A vote was taken at the brother and sister dinner in April to decide if we were going to continue the reunions. The vote was a tie. If you want to continue with the reunion call Judy and let her know. Thanks Ruthann

Family Reunion

Anyone know when the family reunion is going to be? We are planning weekends in Aug. and want to see if we can pencil it in.

The joys of Shopping!

The joys of shopping!

The Chili........

I went grocery shopping recently while not being altogether sure that
course of action was a wise one. You see, the previous evening I had
prepared and consumed a massive quantity of my patented 'You're definitely
going to $h!t yourself' chili. Tasty stuff, albeit hot to the point of being
painful, which comes with a written guarantee from me that if you eat the next day
both of your ***** cheeks WILL fall off.

Here's the thing. I had awakened that morning, and even after two cups of
coffee (and all of you know what I mean) nothing happened. No 'Watson's
Movement 2'. Despite habanera peppers swimming their way through my
intestinal tract, I appeared to be unable to create the usual morning
symphony referred to by my next door neighbors as thunder and lightning.

Knowing that a time of reckoning had to come, yet not sure of just when, I
bravely set off for the market; a local Wal-Mart grocery store that I often
haunt in search of tasty tidbits.

Upon entering the store at first all seemed normal. I selected a cart and
began pushing it about dropping items in for purchase. It wasn't until I was
at the opposite end of the store from the restrooms that the pain hit me.
Oh, don't look at me like you don't know what I'm talking about. I'm
referring to that 'Uh oh, gotta go' pain that always seems to hit us at the
wrong time. The thing is, this pain was different.

The habaneras in the chili from the night before were staging a revolt. In a
mad rush for freedom they bullied their way through the small intestines,
forcing their way into the large intestines, and before I could take one
step in the direction of the restrooms which would bring sweet relief, it
happened. The peppers fired a warning shot.

There I stood, alone in the spice and baking aisle, suddenly enveloped in a
noxious cloud the likes of which has never before been recorded. I was
afraid to move for fear that more of this vile odor might escape me. Slowly,
oh so slowly, the pressure seemed to leave the lower part of my body, and I
began to move up the aisle and out of it, just as an elderly woman turned
into it.

I don't know what made me do it, but I stopped to see what her reaction
would be to the malodorous effluvium that refused to dissipate, as she
walked into it unsuspecting. Have you ever been torn in two different
directions emotionally? Here's what I mean, and I'm sure some of you at
least will be able to relate.

I could've warned that poor woman but didn't. I simply watched as she walked
into an invisible, and apparently indestructible, wall of odor so terrible
that all she could do before gathering her senses and running, was to stand
there blinking and waving her arms about her head as though trying to ward
off angry bees. This, of course, made me feel terrible, but then made me
laugh. Mistake.

Here's the thing. When you laugh, it's hard to keep things 'clamped down', if you know what I mean. With each new guffaw an explosive issue burst forth from my nether region. Some were so loud and echoing that I was later told a
few folks in other aisles had ducked, fearing that someone was robbing the
store and firing off a shotgun.

Suddenly things were no longer funny. IT was coming, and I raced off through
the store towards the restrooms, laying down a cloud the whole way, praying
that I'd make it before the grand mal explosion took place..

Luck was on my side. Just in the nick of time I got to the john, began the
inevitable 'Oh my Goodness', floating above the toilet seat because my but is
burning SO BAD, purging. One poor fellow walked in while I was in the middle
of what is the true meaning of 'Shock and Awe'. He made a gagging sound, and
disgustedly said, 'Sonofagun!', then quickly left.

Once finished I left the restroom, reacquired my partially filled cart
intending to carry on with my shopping when a store employee approached me
and said, 'Sir, you might want to step outside for a few minutes. It appears
some prankster set off a stink bomb in the store. The manager is going to
run the vent fans on high for a minute or two which ought to take care of
the problem.'

That of course set me off again, causing residual gases to escape me. The
employee took one sniff, jumped back pulling his shirt up to cover his nose
and, pointing at me in an accusing manner shouted, 'IT'S YOU!', then ran off
returning moments later with the manager. I was unceremoniously escorted
from the premises and asked none too kindly not to return.

Home again without having shopped, I realized that there was nothing to eat
but leftover chili, so I consumed two more bowls. The next day I went to
shop at Albertson's. I can't say anymore about that because we are in court
over the whole matter. Jerks claim they're going to have to repaint the
store..