Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

This picture is part of a typical day in the Bevan household. (I could add pictures of Bryan riding round and round our kitchen on his ripstick while Bekah practices the piano and Abbie sings at the top of her lungs,"Tomowow, Tomowow, I love ya, Tomowow... Yow only a day away...", while I'm trying to get dinner on the table so Gary won't be late for a meeting and so Nate can get his project done for his class... But, I think I'll just leave it at this...)

Nathan's Future City Competition #2

This year the Emmett Jr. High had 3 teams involved in the Idaho Future City Competition. Months of research, thought, planning, and building go into the cities that are sent to the competition. They spend all day presenting and being interviewed by many different teams of judges at the Boise State Engineering Dept. Schools from all over the state compete against each other. Nate's team was chosen as one of 5 finalists this year and awarded Best Team. This is the 2nd Year that Emmett has had a team in the top 5. Last year he was on the team that came in 3rd! This is such a neat program. Amazing what these kids come up with.

Summertime

Today is Aug. 4th. Our 14th Anniversary. Yes. It's midnight and I'm home alone (okay, I guess I shouldn't say that. Alone with six kids...) Gary has had some long weekend call shifts lately, so he can have time off for all the family stuff this summer. I can't believe it's been 14 years. We have been very blessed and are very happy.
I don't think I've ever had a summer quite like this one. I think we've had 2 days on the calendar without something big scheduled. Can you say CRAZY? Yes. We are. We've been to three big family reunions (one of which was at our house), girls camps (pleural because the bishopric goes), scout camp, priesthood camp, backpacking trips, swim team practices and meets, 4-H contests, piano lessons (with no time to practice), County fair, Youth activities, rafting trips... Next week Nate and Bryan are going backpacking again in Utah, Gary is taking the priests backpacking for their "High adventure", We are going to Manti for Dawn's wedding, and then to Heber for family reunion #4, and are returning the day school starts. What ever happened to those slow, boring days in summer? They are no more.





















Today I spent the day at the church tying quilts. I was just released as the Enrichment Leader, and in June we set a goal to make 100 quilts for the Humanitarian project by September 1st. Today we finished 13, which brings us to 90 quilts done!!! Wahoo! (We set up the gym with fun stuff for the kids and then we just quilt all day. ) It's been a great experience.
I just got called to be the 1st Counselor in Young Women. It's the first time I've been in YW since I was one. I'm scared to death but excited too. We have a really good group of girls. We are going to have to have Bryan be our babysitter every Wednesday. Gary has bishopric meetings along with the youth stuff. It's a good thing we have great kids.


I've not had the time to sit down and figure out how to be a cool blogger. So, you get no music, no flowers, no videos, and all the pictures are stuck together like a big glob of kindergarten glue ... but hey it's something, right? Hopefully someday we'll be able to look back and see where all our time went!

Angie and Gary Bevan Spotlight

1. Name
2. Birthplace
3. Name Origin (meaning, or why your parents chose it)
4. Places you have lived
5. Places you have worked/What do you want to be when you grow up?
6. Hobbies & interests
7. Tell us what you have been up to since the last reunion, and any future plans you have between now and the next reunion

If you have children or siblings that may not have visited this site, pass the address along to them and encourage them to participate. I'll post spotlights as long as there are spotlights to post....I don't want to have to pull teeth to get them on here! Please send your info to daizymae@hotmail.com


Names:
Angie Ashby Bevan: I was named after my mom's missionary companion in Switzerland. Mom told me she wanted to name me Angelica (pronounced On gail eek a). Yikes. Thanks Dad.

Gary Don Bevan: His dad went to England on his mission and wanted to have a kid with the initials GB (Great Britian)... (Where would we be without those missions?!) Don is his Dad's middle name.

Angie was born in Salt Lake City and Gary was born in Rexburg, Idaho.

Places we've lived: Angie: Salt Lake, Tuba City, AZ, Duchesne, Provo, Tooele
Gary: Rexburg, Texas, Tooele, Louisianna, Brazil
Married: Rexburg, Murray, Salt Lake, Tooele, Rochester MN, Emmett ID

Places We've Worked:
Angie: Economy Cleaners (Dry cleaning), Ricks College Fine Art Dept. (HEAD usher...wahoo!), Various hospitals and clinics during my training, Home Health of Utah, Walmart, Rexburg Nursing Center, IHC Hospitals in the SLC valley (float nurse), and Mayo Clinic in Rochester (cardiac)... and currently...the bathroom, the laundry room the kitchen, the yard,... well, you get the idea.

Gary: Albertsons, Walmart, Tooele Army Depot, Tooele Transcript Bullitin, Ricks College Printing Office, LDS Hospital, Tooele Valley Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, and now St. Alphonsus Hospital and West Valley Medical in Boise and Caldwell.

Hobbies and interests:
Angie: I love to quilt. This is the first time in 13 years that I haven't had a new baby or been pregnant at this time. So...I haven't done a lot of quilting, but I have big plans. I love to read,work in the garden, backpack and camp, and spend time with my family.

Gary: woodworking, farming, yard work, poetry, biking, hiking, and any kind of work!


I think the last reunion we were able to attend was ATOKA. We have a little "farm" which Gary and the kids raise cows, pigs, and chickens.

School is out!!

It's so easy to fill my day with stuff other than writing in this blog. I want do better at keeping up with writing so that I have some record of what our lives are like, but life keeps getting in the way!
Today was the last day of school. We had 3 piano recitals, 4 end of year picnic parties, field days, and awards assemblies... Done! Today is the day the kids come home and dump their backpacks full of the years odds and ends all over the house. All treasures, of course.
Now come the questions... "Mom, can we invite..." "Mom, can we have a sleepover?" "Mom, what can we eat?" "Mom, can I get out the games?" ... I just keep waiting for that day when I hear, "Mom, I'll do the dishes, why don't you go have a nap?" or "Mom, lets have a healthy snack. Don't we have any carrots?" or "Gee mom, this laundry is stacked 16 baskets high, do you want me to do it for you?" Okay. IN MY DREAMS!!! I guess I better not hold my breath!

We've had another crazy month. Last weekend the bishopric and their wives went to a really beautiful cabin up on Cascade Lake. We left all the kids overnight with a babysitter and just had a ball. It was really fun to get to know everyone a little better.

Monday (Kid's Day) we spent here in Emmett with just our family. It was kind of nice to just spend a holiday with our own family. We slept in and took the kids to McDonald's play land for breakfast. Then we let them all pick something at the dollar store (definitely a highlight of the day). Then we picked a family in our ward and helped them get some yard work done. (It's kind of nice having 2 older boys that can really work!) Then Gary took all the kids to pick up this years piglets... We even had a runt thrown in for free. They are pretty cute at this stage! Then he took the kids fishing while Abbie had a nap and I tried to create some order. Then we all went swimming at the hot springs (a pool that I reserved) with a couple of families we invited. It was a nice day. We even had a flag ceremony! I love that tradition!

Abbie broke her leg last week. She was riding down the slide at the park on Bryan's lap. I think her foot got caught between the slide and him. I took her to the ER that night and they sent me home. She wouldn't even x-ray it. So I took her back in the next night and insisted on an x-ray. They did her foot and sent me home again. Finally, four days later I took her in to a surgeon that Gary works with in Caldwell and he x-rayed her leg. She has a fracture in her growth plate (by her ankle). He put a cast on her and now she's walking all over the place (just not really fast). Boo Boo.

What does it mean when your two year old starts calling you SISTER BEVAN on a regular basis? Or... what if you overhear your kindergartner bragging to his friend... "Well, my mom weighs more than your mom!" What about this one... Your 6 year old asks you, "Mom, do parent's still love their kids even when they get mad at them?" Parenthood is quite the experience!