Grandma and Grandpa wanted to say "hi!" I tried to explain to them what we are doing, but it was rather difficult to understand, having never seen one. As you can see their garden is now short a few veggies, and they were delicious!!!

Proposed RULE for Blogging/Comments

Seeing as we all sign in with the same user name, I propose we sign each blog or comment we make. There are a few "anonymous" (accidental, Im sure) comments on here, and I would really like to know who's participating!

I'm really excited about this new site, and Dusty, I think you're wonderful for setting it up. Welcome to Sunday dinner! I hope the rest of the family joins us soon!

-Jammie
(note the perfect example of a signature)

Pictures of my Wedding... at last!

Finally! The long awaited pictures proving the long awaited nuptials of the New Mr and Mrs Brooks! I thought I'd post a few pics for all you jackasses that couldnt make it! ha ha.. I'm only kidding. Congrats to those of you who had new babies keeping you home... it's a good excuse! To the rest of you - I'm pretty sure I gave you plenty of notice! :)

Anyways, here they are! I seem to be a little more excited than the groom.. but oh well! :)


This one with me and Grandpa is one of my favorites!

I like this one with Dad alot too!

Here are just a few more.. it takes forever to upload on this site! I could put so many more on, but the time!

I really liked my Cake!

The Candy Buffet was a hit! It kept all the kids (and some of the adults) occupied for most of the reception!

This is a good pic of the Simper family!

Like I said, It would take all day to put all my favorites up! But it was a beautiful day, and I was a beautiful bride! he he. kidding. (but really, I was!)

We newlyweds are extremely happy, living in Lehi - here's our address: 1371 N. 600 East, Lehi, UT 84043 801-766-1269. I think we should be added to the family phone book now!

We have Jesse's 16 year old son, Kerric, living with us. It's been a challenge for all three of us (mostly for me though.. ) but things are going well. I've never lived with boys before. They're mostly icky, but i'm learning to cope. I'm sure I'll have continual stories on this topic to share with everyone!

Thanks again to everyone who was able to make it to the wedding, and I forgive all of you who couldnt! And thanks to all of you for all the gifts (shower, wedding, etc). I suck at sending Thank You notes, so lets consider this it! I love you all!

Jammie

Okay, here are the photos (I hope). Obviously technology is not my forte.

back to school

Hello! If we are going to post cute pics of our kids I will add mine.
Taylor is in 5th grade, Torey in 3rd, and Jake just started kindergarten
and you can tell from the pic he is very excited.

Reed will be done in December - hallelujah - with his bachelor's.

Magnusson First Day of School

FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! I AM FINALLY FREE AT LAST! WOOOHOOO! All three of my children are in school all day. Colton started at the Junior High. He is a mighty 7th grader. He is loving it "all those hot girls." You remember how it was. Kinzie is now in 4th grade and as a side note she in now in level 6 gymnastics. Jaycie is now going ALL DAY as a 1st grader. I was asked if I was sad. I had to think about it for......a second hmmm. nope. Actually I am kind of sad that my kids are growing up so fast, but it sure is nice to have some time to do what I want or need to get done. I am once again PTA Pres.(shoot me now). But this is my last year and I have done my duty to the public school system. My wonderful, sexy, handsome husband is still protecting the fine citizens of Lehi, Utah. In other news.... our dog died. I know sad, but, he was getting old. I know many of you didn't know him but we got him when Colton was just one. He has been a member of this family for quit some time. We are thinking of getting a pot belly pig. If we do I will name him Carl. Jeff wants a boxer. We will see who wins. Also, my birthday is coming in a few days. Just a friendly reminder for those of you who want to send gifts.

First Day of School(Brinkworth)

Hip Hip Hooray, school finally started. This year I got to put three in school, Braxton in third grade Carsten in first and a very excited Ardynn started kindergarten, poor little Kalli has to stay home with Dawson and me. We started back on the 11 of August, so we have a pretty short summer so they punish us with 3 weeks at Christmas and alot of little made up holidays. So far we have had no big problems with school other than getting up early, the bus leaves at 7:30 sharp, and Ardynn is too cute, the boys keep pulling her hair ribbons.

Mike left us on Friday the 19 of August for Montana to fight fires. We miss him but are so excited that he is back to flying and doing what he loves(we really like him better when he is happy). His helitack crew has worked on two fires rescued 7 dirt bikers and learned to herd cattle in the helicopter. The best part for us was that Mike was able to land in Driggs and deliver brownies to Grandpa Ron(the government paid $12,000.00 for that delivery). Now those are good brownies. Mike has had a few job offers while up there so we are going up for Thanksgiving to look around.

Dusty

Mag Family Vacation

While we were enjoying our "family" outing, others were enjoying this. Jeff spotted this funny on our way back to camp. Notice the small sign above the yellow one. It says 1st Anal Lava Olympics. teehee

Hello, Y'all. We are just returning from our fun filled family vacation at Lava Hot Springs, in the great state of Idaho. We had a very good time. We floated down the river and after a few bumps and bruises, the kids decided they had had enough. Kinzie fell off the tube twice. Once scraping her elbow and the other hitting her knee. I also took a tumble only to hit and scrape the small of my back on a HUGE #$% rock. We were told later that the water was really low, thus the scraping and bumping of body parts all down the river. On Sunday we went to the Olympic size pool. It had several diving boards, and two water slides. Also, they had 3 platforms for our enjoyment. The first level was only a foot or 5 higher than the high dive. My lovely children talked me into jumping off of this. Me being all cool, proceeded to the edge, only to look down to my death. The kids in line behind me started to call me chicken, well I could not stand for that so holding on to my bikini top, so as not to frighten anyone, I proceeded to jump. It really wasn't that long of a drop, but dang it sure felt like I was falling for ever. And just so you know the highest platform was over 30 feet high. None of us went off this one. Although, Jeff did go on the middle one. He said it was fun, but he would stick with the lowest one. After about 8 hours of fun in the sun, we decided to go to these cool gardens they had. They were so awesome we decided to play chinese tourist and take us some pictures. Here are a few. Well there it is up top. I'm not sure how to use this pic and blog thing but I will figure it out. Okay let's see if I can do another one. Nope they are both up top. Anyway on with the vacation story. After our little outing we went to the "hot pools." and oh my goodness were they hot. After about 3 minutes I had about all I could handle. We removed ourselves from the heat and every body part we had in the water was now bright red. It was hot. We are recommending this fun place for a family reunion one year. You can rent houses, hotel/motel rooms or campsites. It was great fun. Hopefully my next blog pictures will be better. Maybe I will do 1st day of school pics. Oh what fun for you. Until later.

Look what we started!!

Okay all just because we all live so far apart doesn't mean we can't still see each other after all we all have digital cameras. Natalie and I have had so much fun with family history stories we thought we should have our own family blog. so here it is, it's titled Greetings from Grove Creek, please use it to keep us all up to date on family happenings: cute stories of the kids, new babies, new jobs, and all that other stuff you want to brag about. Please include pictures! Don't forget you can also create your own family blog that we can all see also.

Best wishes and good luck,
Dusty