Grandma’s Surgery

I’m sure most of you know that Grandma went in for surgery Wednesday due to a blockage in her intestine.  According to the emails I’ve been getting from my dad, she wasn’t keeping anything down and was severly dehydrated when Trish took her to the hospital.  They tried various things, but she still wasn’t getting any better so they took her in for surgery.  The surgery went great and they cleared the blockage and now she’s in the hospital under their watchful eyes.  My dad said that she might have to be there for up to a week-geez, Grandma’s going to love that.  Anyway, the information we have is limited and if anyone else knows more than that, or has a recent update of how she’s doing, that would be most appreciated.  Thanks!

Brandee

Just in case any of you didn’t get the message from Karen, Brandee Patterson is getting married this coming Tuesday (29th).  I don’t know where or to whom.  All right, so I don’t really have any details at all… If anybody else knows something more please post it!

I’m sure many of you already know the details, but I thought I’d update you on our baby. Sarah already put on here that we’re pregnant but that was all she knew, so here’s the rest of it. We’re due January 18, which is perfect because it’s right after my mom moves back from England for good. And we found out the first part of August that we’re having a boy. We didn’t have a preference either way on gender, so we’re way excited that it’s a boy. This will be the fifth grandson on my mom’s side (my step-dad’s two daughters have four boys between them), so he completes our basketball team

However, Bryson and I are having some troubles picking a name. The middle name is going to be Grant. If any of you have some good suggestions for first names, we’re open. Preferably no obscure scriptural names–Trish suggested that we name him Jedidiah so that we can call him Jedi for short. Hmmm…probably not. Any other ideas?

Nauvoo is a Go!

     I was just thinking last night that I needed to find something to blog about on here, and then this morning I got a text from Karen (I’m assuming) about Nauvoo. The Karl G. Hutchinson reunion is on! Our dates have been confirmed next year (2010) as checking in on July 21st and checking out on the 25th.  I for one am excited about the reunion, although I’m not sure how much I will enjoy the long trip to get there with a 4 year old and a one year old. I’m not driving all that way for nothing.  I expect to see everyone there including cousins I haven’t seen in forever, and their children, many of whom I have never seen!  So I am curious, as of now, who is planning on attending?

Nauvoo reunion- attendance count

Email from Karen:

Hi, Everyone!
 
Would you please take a head count and let me know how many from your family are going to Nauvoo?
 
I’m going to send Brother Olerud (?) a note reminding him we should be top on the list and the number who will be attending.  If for some reason we don’t get the exact dates we want, we’re going to take the next closest weekend we can get sometime in June or July so that we can see the Nauvoo Pageant (or whatever it’s called).
 
If you don’t see someone’s email address on this who might want to be included in future emailings, please forward this to that person and have him/her email me back so that I can add him/her.
 
Thanks, Everyone!
 
Karen

I’m back!

So I stopped doing anything with this blog for awhile because things got a little crazy and busy around my house with me being pregnant and all of Jake’s end of the year stuff at school I was just too tired to do much of anything. Also, it seems that most of the postings on here are from people who have their own blogs that we can read anyway. But since there are some new additions to our big family and some news that some may not know, I thought I would do a quick post.

Introducing the newest Hutchinson family members:

Jana gave birth to beautiful little Macie Eva Hair on June 5th (two days early, lucky girl). Be sure to check out her blog for lots of pictures and updates.

I finally had my baby girl ten days after she was supposed to come. Olivia Elizabeth Lester was born on June 16th and we couldn’t be happier to have her here. Check out our blog for tons of pictures.

Upcoming additions to the Hutchinson family:

Angela is pregnant with #5! She is due December 17th and just found out they are having another girl. So that will be 3 boys and 2 girls for them. For more info and future updates, check out their blog. (Interesting side note, Angela’s twins were born 6 months and a day after my Ethan, and her new baby is due 6 months and a day after my Olivia was born. She probably won’t make it until the due date but we still thought it was a funny coincidence)

As far as I know, this next one is public knowledge so I hope I am not overstepping any bounds by posting this, but Nicole is also pregnant! She is due in January, but I am not certain of the actual date. So congratulations to her and Bryson!

As far as I know those are the only recent babies, and current pregnancies, and I don’t know of anyone who has gotten engaged/married. If you have anymore information please feel free to post it!

Also, for those of you who didn’t know, Trish has finally left California (I believe she has been saying she would for years now) and moved back to Utah. She is currently living with Grandma and Grandpa but we will see how long that lasts. There has also been a new addition to our blogging family so be sure to check out Deena’s blog. It is listed on the side with all of the other links. I saw the grandparents and Trish this weekend and I am hearing that the big Nauvoo reunion is scheduled for the week of July 24th, 2010. As more information comes up (probably from Karen) I will try to post it. That is all for now, thanks for checking back in!

Time for March Birthdays!

I am trying to be on top of things this month so I thought I would hurry and get this posted before anyone had a birthday! I noticed that there were quite a few February birthdays (as Shirley pointed out) and there are also a lot coming in April but we don’t have a lot of March birthdays. Just something odd that I noticed, anyway… Happy Birthday to Rick on the 12th, Jimmy on the 16th, Eric (Kari’s husband) on the 19th, and Mylie (Amy’s baby) on the 25th! I also noticed that we have a couple of wedding anniversaries this month so congratulations to Kim (Courreges) and Mike on the 31st and also to Bill and Shirley who have been married 32 years (if I counted right) on the 4th! Happy celebrating to everyone! 

February Birthdays

I thought you might be interested in who all have birthdays this month, so here is the list.  Hillary – 6th, Merrit – 8th, Charlie – 11th, Bill – 14th, Alexis – 15th, Sue – 16th, Jaxson – 18th, Kyle – 26th, and Phillip – 28th.  Happy Birthday to all of you

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Hello family! I haven’t written in a while, nor have I seen most of you in ages, so I thought I’d just say hi. We’re still up in Rexburg. Bryson’s graduating in April, though, so we’ll be moving out of here April 10. Yay! Not that I’m anxious Well ok, I am. Five years is long enough to be here. We’re not sure yet where we’re going, but it’s hopefully going to be somewhere in Utah. Salt Lake and Provo are apparently HUGE for Computer Science so we’re thinking that’s our best bet. He doesn’t have a job yet but we’re really hoping he’ll find one soon. It’s kind of a scary place to be in the meantime. We know we’re moving out in less than two months, but we don’t know where we’re going.

Then, four days after he graduates, we’re heading to the Czech Republic as Bryson’s graduation gift. That’s where he served his mission so I’m taking him back. It’s a lot of money for two recently graduated college students who as of right now don’t have a job, but we’ve been saving pretty much since we got married, so I think it will be ok. I’m very excited. Not only do I get to visit the most beautiful city in the world (Prague), I get to see all these sites that Bryson’s been telling me about for three years. We’re staying for two weeks, which isn’t nearly enough time to see everything we want to, but we’ll still have a great time.

Oh yeah, so the place I work is a non-profit organization that sends volunteers to Ecuador to take care of orphans for ten weeks. We’re really struggling right now with the shoddy economy, so if anyone knows anyone over the age of 18 who you think would be really great at that, please send them to our website: www.orphanagesupport.org. We could really use the help. We’re a great program!

So anyway, that’s my status. Like I said, I just wanted to check in and say hi to everyone. Hope everything’s going well for everyone else too!

Happy February Birthdays!

I know there are a ton and I know the month is half over, but being pregnant I am a little airheaded these days. So, Happy Birthday to Hillary on the 6th, Kyle on the 20th, Phillip on the 28th, and Charlie but I don’t know what day. Also, I know that some of the Hick’s children have February birthdays but I don’t know for sure which ones and what days. If anyone has a list of birthdays for theis entire family I would love to have it emailed to me. Anyway, Happy Birthday to anyone who has one this month and if I don’t have you on here then let me know when your birthday is!