Baby Conway #3

Well here we are, Asher just turned one and tada! We have one coming on the way! We are amazed by this blessing! Just adding to the Garrard family. The due date is May 5th. We are doing fine just having a little morning sickness and very very tired. More tired than with Alisha or Asher. Shane is tired too. It is draining for him at work lately and very stressful with watching the market and listening to all the political debates. He is so sweet and takes care of Asher, plays with him and gives him baths, he also helps Alisha with her homework and we try to read our scriptures in the evenings together. We hope you all are well, we love and miss you. We would love to hear any suggestions for names that you have! Love, Shila, Shane, Alisha, Asher and baby.

We got a few more

Looks like we've been able to set up Grandpa and Beth. Welcome to the site. I've linked your blogs to the list at the bottom of the page. Grandpa, feel free to ask me (or I'm sure any of us) for any pointers if needed. Anyway, just wanted to make a quick note of welcome.

From Jeri - Sept.22, 2008

Hi, Family,

I like this blogging stuff. I can even get into them at work when I have some free time, like now. I didn't hear back what everyone thinks about using this to write and post pictures. Or would you rather use the MyFamily.com? This is free.

I am happy for Sarah to get her new companion, Sister Dubrovina, and to get transferred to Gorlivka. You will get her letter about it also. She has been very patient with her last companion, but probably helped her to grow. She can read our letters on this site also.

Happy 4th birthday to our little Emily!!! I hope you had a great day. We want to hear what you did. You are such a big girl. I love you.

Whitney and Zack, I love you too.

We had Jared, Candace, Andy, Randie, and Raidon over yesterday for dinner.

I can't believe how fast Raidon is growing. He's learning to sit up very well too. I love his big smile. It reminds me of Andy's.

Bruce and I had such a nice time with Spencer and Jane a few weeks ago. Your garden is so beautiful. I miss seeing how Wyatt grows and changes like I can Raidon. So Spencer, please post pictures. Hope all is going well for you.

This past week the Tab Choir sang with the Utah Symphony for our annual Tanner Gift of Music Concerts. This time Eric Kunzel, who leads the Cincinnati Pops, directed us and we had 2 guest soloists, Dunyce Graves and Brian Stokes Mitchell. The theme of the concerts was "An American Songbook" and it featured many songs from the 30's and 40's as well as patriotic ones. I especially liked Brian's voice that reminded me of Johnny Mathis (remember him?), but better. He is a famous Broadway stage actor. It was an enjoyable week, but I'm always glad to have more time at home again.

I would love to hear how all of you are doing.

Love to you all! Jeri

Welcome

Welcome to the Garrard Family Blog. It is our family's desire to stay in touch with each other and keep up with the happenings of all our families. With all the craziness that we all have in our lives, this site will help organize all of our thoughts and comments. Blogs are a great tool of the internet and with all the communication that we do with each other anyway, this allows us to have a central place. Please use this and visit frequently. This blog will only survive if we all participate. It will get better as we continue to post new blogs.

I, Jared, will act as the administrator of the site. I will try to maintain the site's design and add/edit/delete any items that we, as a family, feel necessary. Every other member of the family can be an author. As an author, you will be able to post new blogs and comment on other ones. Those of us unfamiliar with blogging will have a great opportunity to participate in this family blog. To be able to be an author, you will first need to have an account from Blogspot. Please go to blogger.com and create one if you don't already. (Note: you don't have to have your own blog to be in this one, but it's not a bad idea.) This is the same as a Google account for those that have Gmail accounts. I dislike having a zillion accounts everywhere but ... sorry, this can't be helped. Then let me know what your account is and I will add you.

We should try to be respectful of a few general rules:

• Always be considerate of each other and keep in mind of others feelings when posting and commenting.
• This blog will currently be open to the public to read (if someone should so happen to stumble across it). Keep this in mind in case you may want to post something that is too personal.
  
• Please only post your own comments. Blogging could potentially be used like emailing and be bombarded with forwards and chain letters. Let's not use this site for that.
  

Some of us already have our own blogs. This is great. Please let me know of it and I will link your blog to this site in our blog list. If you don't already have one, you may choose to do so so you can have one specifically for yourself. When having your own blog, you can have the option of adding this blog to the list of outgoing emails when posting. You may choose to do that and it will automatically post a copy of your blog from your site here. Or you may choose to just add a small note here letting us know of your new blog. Or you may choose to use the GFL email address. Any of these options are great and you can do whatever you are comfortable with.

For the time being I will have this site automatically post to the GFL email. So anytime you post on this site, the GFL will receive a copy. This should help everyone receive all the updates to this blog.

And that's about all that I can think of right now. So go ahead and now consider yourselves all bloggers. Let's have fun with this site. Happy blogging.