Merry Christmas!



Thanksgiving 2009

Update

During the late summer we had visits from Becky’s family, Phyllis, Joan, and Steve’s parents. Becky gave Marianne vinyl lettering for her laundry room as a birthday gift and we had our first pool party. Thanks Becky.
In October we attended missionary reunions and visited Marianne’s family. On the way home we toured a bronze foundry in Alpine Utah owned by a friend. A lot of work and skill goes into each statue.
Marianne’s parents came to visit Kathy and Roy’s family for Lincoln’s baptism. It was also Halloween so we had a lot of fun. Kathryn and Ken followed us to southern California and stayed a couple of days.
Hunter is 17 months now and about ready to begin walking. Last Sunday I was released from my ward clerk job and now Marianne and I are nursery leaders. We are now looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Good Times and Bad Times

We celebrated Steven’s 51st birthday and Marianne decorated the cake. Amy’s sister Ande and her friend Hillary were our first visitors in our new home and they recommended to us Mideval Times and we enjoyed their company in our home. While they were here, Hunter developed a bad rash on his legs and arms that lasted 6 days. Marianne took him to urgent care and was told the rash was due to a virus.

A couple days after the first rash was gone, Hunter got a second worse rash over his entire body. Another urgent care physician said that Hunter’s second rash was probably due to an allergic reaction to amoxicillin, which the first urgent care physician had prescribed for a coating on Hunter’s throat. The next day the second rash was still getting worse with a fever, so Marianne took Hunter to his pediatrician who recommended that Hunter go to the ER to rule out worse reasons for a rash (Kawasaki). ER drew blood for the lab and put in an IV, but gave no other treatment while the rash began to get better. Hunter is doing much better after a stressful two weeks for his parents.

Hunter had eye surgery on August 19th. He was a good patient and slept most the first day after the surgery. The picture of Hunter with the bottle was the day of the surgery. The pictures show Steven’s nephew Wesley, sisters Joan and Diane, and Hunter’s second cousins Analise, Tyler and Colin.

Steven's brother Charles' children came to visit this weekend.

Lillywhite Reunion July 2009

On our way through Utah we visited Steven's sister Joan and Marianne's college friend Penny. In Bear Lake, we saw another friend Barbara. During our reunion we enjoyed golfing, fishing, camping in the backyard, hiking in Minnetonka cave, boating and digging for coins at the lake, great food and time with each other. My Dad made a great shade for the beach. On the 4th of July we had a Mexican fiesta which included fajitas, a pinata and fireworks after dark.