Wes Nelson update...

Wes Nelson & Debbie Martin "Most Spirited"
Remember this from our year book, 1972?

Now if I get thrown in jail for copyright violations, please, someone take care of this 5 year old I'm raising... sounds like a threat, huh?

It was great hearing from you Wes! You still sound like the most spirited and I love hearing that you are keeping up on the teams. SR did have some awesome athletes in the good old days. I hear they still do; so country air, spuds and good water must have something going for them.

Anyway folks, here's what Wes wrote to us all:

Hello everyone in Panther Land. I just watched the Snake River Ladies Basketball team take third at State and I couldn't help remember with fond memories those great teams of the 70's. This is fun to read about our classmates and remember the great couples from school. ReNea and I are waiting for our 10th Grandchild in July. Our youngest is returning from a mission in two weeks and needless to say we are very excited. We are busy here in Boise and are really glad to have jobs. Life has not slowed down and I wouldn't want it any other way. I want to thank Becky for keeping all of us together. Her kindness just continues as it always has. She was always such a bright star and peacemaker. I hope this finds you all well and I can't wait to keep in touch through this blog. I am not very good at this computer stuff and face bookscares me to death. But Dalin our second to the youngest is great at it and he keeps old dad on track. And yes I have to brag he is the Captain of the male cheerleaders and defending National Champions at BOISE STATE!!!! Go Broncos. We are heading to LA for Nationals at the end of March. He and his wife Jenni are expecting their first child and our 10th grandchild July 22nd.
I don't know how all of us got to this age? I really thought we would be young forever. But my body tells me different. I hope this finds all of you well and may God Bless you all.
Wes

It was nice to see Wes and ReNea at Karen's funeral. We had a wonderful but short visit and I have to tell you, Wes looks pretty darn good for an old guy :) I think you're older than me Wes so I can say that. (wink) Oh, and his wife is beautiful.

Okay, it's 12:30 in the AM here so I'll sign off now...
Apologies to follow in another post, whew... missed out again :)

becki

Candy hearts...

Just had to add this fun link I found today!

http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/

1972 what a year!

A tribute to Valentines...

Happy Valentine's Day Panthers!

Do you like statistics? Are you ever curious about such things? Well, me neither, but you're going to get one today...

Did you know that 12% of our class married each other?...

Yes, 16 classmates make 8 couples and that's how many I would like to show special acknowledgement to today. The day for Sweethearts, ahhh...

Let's give a hoot, a holler and a shout out to our married couples!

Jane Baldwin & Rick Tew

Bryce Peterson & Vicky Myler

Kim Poole & Kathryn Robertson

Mark Adams & Carol Young

Jeff Randall & Debbie Martin

Bradly Hale & Julie Saxton

Clinton Wheeler & Taunia Burgon

Kim Daw & Lynette Goodwin

(I know Kim graduated from another school, but he's still one of us!)

Hope you have a wonderful Valentines Day and just forget the statistic, you're so much more than just a statistic in our eyes...

Now if ever there was a way to figure out the # of children and then grandchildren born to all of our classmates, I would have a blast figuring those stats. But those grandchildren are an elusive number, increasing monthly I'll bet.

Can you see what I 'm leading into? The classmate that I know just had their 13th grandchild with 2 on the way... I promised I would tell you in the next post. Well, I lied...

Just kidding, Jane would probably kill me. She had a great guess and she might be right, but I haven't heard from Wesley Nelson so I don't know for sure.

Wesley, are you out there? I tried to reach you through classmates.com but that's a joke. I don't think they send emails for us. They just store them!!! Don't pay for so called GOLD membership, I have several times and it's a waste.

Okay, losing my concentration here, get off the soapbox bec.

Well, I won't leave you in suspense anymore...

The grandparent who I know for sure has all of these grand kids is Kristie Bingham Whiting!

Her daughter Stacey delivered a daughter on Feb.11.

Little Lucy Kay Hall

Love is in the air...Happy Valentines day to all of you!

The apologies will just have to wait until next time, wink-wink.

Well, wouldn't you know it...

Someone in our class just had their 13th grandchild yesterday, with 2 more on the way this year. I am certainly excited for them -- green with envy, but excited too.

There is something about grandkids that makes us appreciate the little things in life, like the peace and quiet when they go back home – grin, grin. No, actually, I have learned a lot since “grandparenthood”.

1. Spoil them

2. Take tons of pictures

3. Know when it’s time for them to go home (I’m revisiting this one)

4. Afternoon naps are great for all of us

Searching the internet has helped me find some pretty cool grand parenting tips and ideas. I like this site: grandparents.com

Sometimes I need to find something for the kids to do (like pronto) so I download and print out all kinds of projects here: papertoys.com or thetoymaker.com or Disney.com color pages.

Now here are the real questions, how many grandchildren do you have?

What fun things do you like to do with them?

What have you learned?

Who has the 13 with 2 on the way? Can you guess?

I’ll tell you next post, so be watching.

Oh, I haven’t forgotten the apology or two that I owe…they’re on the way too .

Have a great day Panthers!

becki merrill woodward

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Here's the scoop...

It's spring cleaning time at our house and guess what I found. Several Seventeen magazines from 1971 -72 and good old Snake River High School yearbooks 1970-72. Oh the memories...

Annette Larsen (Little) was our yearbook editor and as I'm looking back at our 1972 yearbook, I'm really impressed by the graphics, layout and content. Way to go Annette!

Now look closer at the magazines...can you believe they were a mere 50 cents!!! And to think I had to save up to purchase one from the small wages at my part-time Saturday - answer the phones at Cook Real Estate job. The best thing about that job though was the lunch hour trip to the drugstore.

I think there were two family drugstores in Downtown Blackfoot at the time. Does anyone remember what they were called?

I had a nice visit with Beth Smith yesterday and she has a fantastic memory! She blew me away when she remembered who all of the 7th grade Home Room teachers were. Can you name them? I remember who I had, here's a clue...Rhett Butler...

Okay all of you Snake River class of 72 people, and you know who you are...

Leave a comment, (just click on comments at the end of the post) tell us what you're up to and if you have some photos to post, don't be shy...

let me know and I'll get them on here for you somehow.

I see a few of us are on facebook and several of us have found classmates.com

Chime in please so I'll know you are out there in web land and have found us. If you know of a classmate (parent, friend, etc.) from SR 1972 or there about...please let them know about this blog so they can join in.

more to come...and an apology or two... (you won't want to miss that!)

becki merrill woodward

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