What happens if your birthday...?

Is the same day as your sister's?

You might get a gift that is the same...

Ruth's gets a Disneyland pass

You might get a party just for you...

Abbit the Average headlining at Ruth's party

Ruth wants to do cross country in high school.
Have you every heard of the "ipad academy"?  All classes are taught using an ipad - no textbooks. Ruth has applied for that as well.

One sad thing...Ruth had her bike stolen--for the 2nd time.  Ouchiters!

Julia and ASB

Julia's birthday - A pass to Disneyland

Julia had some big news.  she made it for ASB.  she ran for marketing commissioner.  She was very happy she made it.  There were 60 kids that ran for positions, and she was one of 20 kids that made it, so that is pretty awesome for her. She is excited to be involved in ASB and go to part of ASB camp this summer. ASB camp conflicts for a couple of days with girls camp.  Julia is one of the LITs (leaders in training) at girls camp, which means she and a coupleof other girls are running the show.  she has had lots of planning meetings this past year already.  Her sewing camps are almost full.  Report by: Cathy



Allen IV's team won a student Emmy for their senior film.  He attended the presentation in California to help accept the award.  He has taken an internship with Blue Sky Animation Studio in Greenwich, Connecticu (very close to NYC).
Blue Sky is owned by 20th Century Fox and produced the films: Ice Age and Rio.  Right now they are working on a "Peanuts" animated film for the big screen. Allen was also being considered by Disney and Pixar for an internship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c

Cynthia has taken a year-long internship in Palo Alto with the Bosch Company with their Human Resources.
They might do both!  Cynthia will be a June graduate of BYU...Wahoo!

Allen at the student Emmy's with his Mom

The Ostergar Weather Report

Bright, Sunny, and Golden Rae days in Logan

Aunt Darci graduated this week with her Master's degree. This is a wonderful accomplishment and it took her some time and she never gave up.  The whole family is taking a vacation this month to Disneyland.  It will be a celebration of everyone's accomplishments this year.

Bright is waiting for her mission call.  She had to re-submit a medical form...all is well!  She survived her freshman year at USU- Eastern and met a very nice boy.  She performed in a recital at the end of the year for her piano class.

Sunny is busy with end of school things like prom and she was a *star* in her part of the school musical, Hairspray. She is planning to work at Bear Lake this summer like Bright did last year. Raspberry milkshakes are yummers!  The lines are always loooong.

Rae is busy with piano and flute.  She is looking for a new flute teacher.  Rae and Clara will attend EFY this summer at USU and live on campus.  They are very excited for that.  She has a steady babysitting job and will probably do more this summer.  If anyone needs to borrow money, it's usually from Rae!

Golden is now 5' 11" and taller than all the other boys in his ward.  He is especially excited about their trip to Legoland when they go to California in a few weeks.  He still loves to draw and will do Scout camp this summer.

We love you guys.

Adam is WOTH it!!!

Now I am in Como! So my companion and I are the zone leaders of the Milano Ovest Zone. We have half of Milano, Varese, Busto Arsizio, Como, and Lugano (Switzerland). We are one of the smallest zones in size, but the second biggest in amount of missionaries. 

Como is great. It is beautiful and the people are wonderful. We are having a baptism soon! An Italian GANS (YSA) is getting baptized on the 18th. We are hoping to start working with his family soon. We have a lot of cool new converts that we visit with as well. One had a miracle recently. He had work frequently on sundays as a cook. He decided to talk to his boss and tell him he would have to quite. Instead of letting him off the boss gave him a new contract (he hadn't been working with one before) with a raise and no work sunday morning. Yay!!

I love you all! The gospel is always true whether you are sharing it with someone on the street, in a train, on a bus, or at their door! and we do it all. Especially on buses :) I love it all.

James David...Si, Senhor!

Everyone in the world gathered to watch James David open his missionary call on April 8, 2014.
It was a noisy, happy, bunch.
He read his call with great emotion and joy.
He is going to the North Carolina, Raleigh Mission.  He will go to the Mexico MTC to learn Spanish and preach the gospel in the Spanish language.

His Aunt Sara, who lives in the Raleigh, NC mission texted me back and said, "Seriously"?  They are very excited as well.

James will do a wonderful job hastening the work!  I apologize for not being able to make the video work.  So here is a photo! : ).  He leaves for his mission on July 30.  He told me that care boxes are easy to mail in the U.S.

Called to Serve

Daisy is Sweet Sixteen

There was a lovely aunt and cousin luncheon to celebrate Daisy's 16th birthday in March.

Everyone had fun memories of Daisy and a few mementos for her too.

She received a large boy swatter and some lip moisturizer in case the boy swatter didn't work. Her mom made a video of Daisy's life that was wonderful.  Cousin's are AWESOME!!!

Daisy, Sunny, Darci, Bright, Clara 

Someone new joins Teen Talk

Guess who is the latest member of Teen Talk?

Three Months Old

Most people can't recognize Lily in her baby pictures because she had so much dark hair and a super chubby face.  She was born near Easter in 2002 and we had the hardest time naming her.  The nurses kept hounding us and said we had to pick a name before we left the hospital.  Kelly and Lily stayed at the hospital for 5 days so Kelly could recover from her c-section and Lily could recover from an infection.  The other kids came to the hospital for an Easter picnic on the hospital room floor and someone brought a beautiful Easter lily flower for Kelly.  The more we thought about it, the more we liked the name Lily Gwenyth.

A neighbor recently said, "Lily is the best connected 12 year old I have ever met."  From an early age she has always loved being around people, visiting and making friends.  From about age 2 she would make her "rounds" before church started.  She would visit everyone and routinely sit with a different family or even sit on the stand with the bishop occasionally.  At first we tried to stop her but soon realized that it was a strength we didn't want to limit too much.  She still makes her "rounds" today, but doesn't sit on the stand anymore.  She has now networked her way into multiple steady babysitting jobs and recently used her babysitting money to buy a 3 day pass to Disneyland and buy souvenirs for the whole family.

Lily will try just about anything, as long as there is someone to do it with.  She loves to be outside, play golf, ride her bike, build a snowman, etc.  Lily has recently been reading The Hunger Games trilogy, The Egypt Game, and has enjoyed some of Shannon Hale's books and the Harry Potter series.  Now that she is 12, she is looking forward to doing baptism work in the temple.  For spring break this year Lily is driving to Portland with her great aunt Barbara.  Barbara wanted some company and Lily will be helping babysit Barbara's grand kids.  Lily might even go back up over the summer to babysit some more, if she can fit it in between golf lessons, girl's camp, and youth conference.

Lily is a joy to her family!

Lily is a joy to her grandparents as well!

Lily Gwenyth - 12