Callen James Wood

Callen joined our family on July 6th at 10:36 am. He was 7lb 11oz and 20 inches long. He has been such a blessing to us!

Baby!!

Wow it worked! I have tried a couple of times to sign in and for some reason I could not. I have exciting news to post. Most of you know that we are expecting!! We are going to have a little boy in July. July 12th is the due date but I don't think thoes are really accurate. Chris would like to have a birthday buddy on the 7th. We will see. We are excited and feel so blessed to be inviting this little baby in to our family. Grandma Kathy is very very excited as she has wanted to be a grandma for such a long time. She said she watched Grandma Adah with her grand-kids (rachel mandy wendy) and it looked like so much fun. Needless to say our baby will be spoiled. He moves a lot now and it is fun to feel him kick. We are still working on names but some of the ones we like are Ryan Patrick Wood, Evan Jacob Wood, Jack Allen Wood... it is hard to decide. All is going well so far and we pray that it continues that way!
Stephanie

Service

I just wanted to share something I learned at church. In relief society we had a lesson on Pres. Monson's recent conference talk which is about service. We talked about how doing service is a cure for depression. To loose your life for the Lord's sake can mean that you become less selfish/less focused on your wants and needs and that in helping others your needs are met as well. Not to be hard on ourselves by thinking we need to go out and serve the world but that serving your family counts. The 1st counselor in the relief society is the Stake presidents wife and she tearfully conveyed her feelings that she doesn't think her kids get to spend enough time with their dad. Then she testified that when we serve in our calling we are magnified and the sacrifices that we make while serving(like time with family) will be compensated for. but the thin I liked the most and, the whole lesson was great, was this: a sister said sometimes it may feel like we are too far spread with all the church meetings, visiting, activities not to mention all the other things you have going on in you life but if we just take the time to follow the programs of the church we will be blessed in our efforts. She told of one day it seemed like they had a hundred things going on and her daughter had a young women's volleyball game. She went to the game and the spirit was there. Heavenly father has prearranged so that if we go to the activities the spirit will be there to bless us. I thought that was a great message! Stephanie

Grandma Adah

There is a man Harold (Hal) Hawkins, a relative of Grandma's. I can't remember how they (we) are related. I'll have to find out. He lives in my stake he has a whole bunch of pictures of Grandma and her family. He emailed these pic. of Grandma and I thought I would shared them with you. Does anyone know who she is holding the one picture? maybe Susan? I'll share more pictures as I get them.

Rachel

In Memory of Grandpa

I recently got this AWESOME digital pressure cooker and have been thinking of what I can cook in it!!! I finally had this great idea to cook Grandpa's Traditional Potatoes, Spinach and Carrots! It was delish! And Dusty and Brackon enjoyed it too!!! I want to make it a tradition in our family! I don't know how often, but to at least cook it! :)

As I was eating it, I thought it would be the perfect post for our blog!!!
~linzy

Welcome the newest addition

Hey everyone Steph and I just had a beautiful baby girl. Isabela Mae Forster, she weighed a mere 6lbs 3 oz. She was born on Papa Dave's and Sean's B-day the 23rd of may. Just like her grandfather she was also born in Logan and again like her grandpapi will be blessed in a Spanish branch. Pretty neat stuff huh. Oh yeah we finally hopped aboard the blogger ban, so linds or rachel if you could add us to the link our blog is ForsterFamilyFunnies.blogspot.com. We love you all and thank you for you support

California

Brady and I took a vacation to California Huntington Beach. We went out there for a wedding and then stayed with Brady's aunt for a week. I Love Vacation! It was so nice to sit in the sun, play in the ocean, ect. These are some photos from the trip We went to Sea World for a day. The dolphins were amazing. They can jump so high! They swim so fast that it was hard for us to take pictures of them.

This is a beluga whale. It was so cool to see the animals up close.

And of course Shamu! Killer whales are so big. It was so exciting to see them.

This is the peir at Huntington Beach

Sunset on the beach!