Jeremy Michael's birth

Jeremy Michael Ahlstrom

Shane and Kim had their baby yesterday morning, Feb. 8, 2011 at 5:55 a.m.  His name is Jeremy Michael Ahlstrom.  He was 7 lbs.7 ozs and 19 1/2 ins.   Kim had a quick delivery.  They drove to Timpanogos Hospital at 3:30 a.m. and she was dialated to almost 8.  The nurses hurried around to get everything ready.   She only had to push for about 40 minutes.  Jeremy is a beautiful baby!

Family Togetherness

The Ahlstrom Family Jan 2011

Afton and Hallie

We have enjoyed having Ryan and Mary Ann here for four weeks while Ryan is auditing Questar here in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He has been super busy though and works many long hours.  We did get together for a Sunday dinner with the whole family including the two newest granddaughers on Jan16, 2011.  What fun it is to have the whole family together.  The three grandsons have the most fun.  They just loves playing with their grandpa.  We are missing Dave because he was taking the picture.  Thanks Dave!  Carly is holding the newest little one, Hallie.  Jackson, Grant and Dayton are enjoying the new quilt Shane and Kim made for their baby.

New baby girl Hallie

Does Hallie look more like her Mom or her Dad ?

 The proud grandparents, Doug and Julie.  Hallie in a four generation picture with Louine Shields, great grandma, Julie, grandma and mother Jamie Harper, mother.

Jamie and Dave had their baby! Hallie Ann Harper was born Jan. 6, 2011 at 2:55 p.m.   She was 8 lbs. 12 ozs and 20 inches long.  She has lots of dark hair and a just a darling baby.  Jamie invited Melinda and I to be there for the birth.  It was very special to involved in the wonderful process of birth. Jamie did so well and I was amazed at how nice the labor was with an epidural.  Melinda's nursing instincts kicked in and she was interested in the whole process.

Robbery Mystery Dinner

Melinda, Shane Doug Doug Sharp and Tyler (standing)  Marcie, Julie, Kim, Carly, Jamie, and Kacey  (sitting)

In November 2010 Jamie organized a fun Mystery Dinner for our family.  She got the script and adapted it to our family so that we could have 12 parts.  Then Jamie gave assignments about our parts and recommended ideas for our costumes to help us come in character.  We had a fondue dinner with even an oil pot to cook shrimp, chicken, and beef.  We also had cheese and chocolate fondue.  It was delicious.

The mystery turned out fun.  Doug Sharp turned out to be the thief with Carly as an accomplice.  They really got in to it and made it more exciting. 

Finally got the Hot tub working

Thanks to Dave's help we finally got the hot tub that Doug's parents gave us about six years ago ready to use.  It's been a LONG process!  One day in the summer we decided to use the hot tub as a swimming pool  and that's when we discovered that it had a broken pipe.  Doug cut out the old pipe and got a new pipe from Lynn Remund, (he accidentally cut the pipe behind the broken pipe and had to fix that one also).  Dave spent much time leveling the dirt and laying the paving stones to support the tub, then we painted the tub, ordered a new cover, hired a person to hook up the electrical (which took several visits to get that worked out), cleaned out the tub several times, laid more decorative stones to enter the tub and finally filled it up with water.  Now we can enjoy it.  Marcie especially enjoys having a hot tub.

Tyler re-takes the Law School Entrance Test.

Tyler has been taking a class to prepare him for the LSAT exam.  He took it in October and just got his results back.  He improved his score by quite a bit!  He is now in the process of applying for Law Schools for the Fall.  Good luck Tyler.

Carly in Seattle

Carly got 100% on her Dental Hygiene Boards test!  Way to go Carly!  We feel very blessed that she was able to find a patient that had enough calculous on his teeth.  Especially since she found him the very day that they had to leave.  They drove all Wed. night, prepared on Thursday had the test on Friday then flew her patient home  so that Doug and Carly could enjoy a couple of days in Seattle before they drove home.  She is searching for a Dental Hygiene job now, so if anyone has any leads let us know.