Will Miracles Cease?

So if anyone knows Teri, she is the biggest BYU football fan on the planet. So naturally, when BYU came to Logan to play the Aggies, she wanted to come. First of all, if you know anything about football (which I do) you know how well BYU is doing this year, and how our sweet Aggies are trying...without much success. I love my Aggies, but we knew this was going to be a blow-out. I was just hoping for us to score... or at least not completely embarass ourselves.

So I got Brad, Teri and Grandpa Coy tickets to go to the game with Lara. Rules of the tickets... you have to wear Aggie. Grandpa came all decked out... shirt, sweatshirt and his Aggie hat.

After the first quarter, it looked like it was going to be a miserable game, but our little Aggies fought back and actually did a great job... didn't win... but held their own.

Teri, you've never looked better!

Congrats Abbey & Matt

Matt and Abbey are getting Married!!!

Congrats you two...

read missabbeygal.blogspot.com for more info on the big news

REUUUUUUUNION

Once again the Green Family descended on the mountains of central Utah at the Annual Green Reunion. Although it rained the second half it was a great weekend to be had by all. There was representation from 4 generations there. Grandpa Joe and Grandma Carrie would be proud. Here's Brody, Erin and their littlest one, Hailee.


Most of the time was spent eating and catching up, with intermittent bouts of activity. Activities included skeet shoot, swimming and fishing in the pond, games, 4-wheeling, dutch oven cookoff and a late night movie in the rain.....

As our kids get older we find ourselves aligning ourselves with different institutions of higher ed. Because there were opening football games at the U and BYU, which are huge rivals, many were wearing their school colors which caused a bit of contention.

Little did the "Y" and "U" fans know, there was a third contender. As the rain started out came all of the USU sweatshirts. Go Aggies!

We are so lucky to have such a great family with Dad as the head and patriarch. Katie did make Grandpa take of his BYU hat for the picture.

It's a great time and usually the only time that we are able to gather together each year. It's nice for cousins to have some fun and get to know each other better. We're hoping they'll continue on with the traditions they've grown up with.

Little one's keep us all young. They are the life of the party. What could be better than walking the plank around the firepit.

It's also amazing how comfortable they are with "new" playmates. They just jump in and have a great time. Maybe we should learn from them.

Not only do we get to renew old acquaintances but we just get to make stronger bonds with our own. Jeannette and Jolene and kids.


One of the highlights of the whole reunion was Julie and Paul's dutch oven dinner on Sunday afternoon. I have to say it was some of the best I've had. How many pieces of chicken can one person eat?

Julie tackled the prepartation and cooking with expertise. Julie and Paul cook professionally throughout the year and we got to reap the reward.

The reunion wouldn't be tradition without Cloyd and Laurel's scones and honeybutter. Ya know what I'm talking about.

Kerri and her girls just hanging out. They're all growing up. Life is good.

What better way to end than with a picture of two of our best supporters and examples, Van and Dad. Cheers to the family. Unitl next year.

Desi

Way To Go Lara!!!

Grand Champion Showman- Round Robin

(have to show sheep, pig & steer- competes against grand champion in each species)

Grand Champion Showman-Pig

(judged on how you show your pig)

3rd place- Market

(based on quality of pig)

All-Around Swine Exhibitor for Salt Lake County Fair

(based on market, showmanship, test and judging competition)

Wardle Reunion 2008

The Wardles headed up Ephraim Canyon for the annual reunion. Grandpa Coy brouth the "Fun Finder" and with about 50 more people we had ourselves a small city on the mountain. There was 4 wheeling, shooting, and a lot of eating (we always eat a little to well) to keep us busy!

Here is granpa on one of the 4 wheeling rides. We were gone for about an hour... grandpa bungeed on enough gas for all.





Lara Lou and Hope. We went on a ride out to Wagon Ridge, everyone was a bit nervous because apparently there are massive dogs that gaurd the sheep that chase you.







Tom looking hot in his child-size helmet and orange shades... Jess, you're a lucky girl. Abbey in the back, never misses a photo shoot, whether she is welcome or not.





We had about 14 little ones with us, who loved to ride the 4 wheelers. In fact, they would sit on the wheelers all hours of the day, with their helmets on, hoping that someone might give in and take them. They really liked taking keys out of the machines... nothing like a 3 year old with the only set of keys loose on a mountain.




Grandpa had a great idea to go sledding by Snow Lake. It's not every day you get to play in thesnow on the 24th of July... so out came the garbage bags... but they didn't really work so well. Grandpa managed to peg Jesse with a snowball in the back of the head though.


Bishop Wardle hauled us in the back of the truck to look for deer.










Abbey's boyfriend Matt had never been camping before, so my mom and Aunt Kerri were trying to show him how to look for deer... Abbey is just being a smart alec.







Abbey was supposed to be looking for deer... instead she was doing this.






















We took a ride out to Woodtick Point and found our family names. There is a tree there that has my Grandpa Pete when he was 16, Cliffy at 16 and Curt at 16.

VIVA EUROPE!!!

After months of planning and waiting, the time had actually come and we found ourselves at the Gatwick Airport in South London. We were excited and looked forward to our once in a lifetime whirlwind trip of England, Denmark, Germany and Norway. Our intentions were to visit the areas that our ancestors lived. We rented two vans and headed out to the countryside to find Ravenstone, where Isaac John Wardle, made the decision to join the church, come across the ocean and give us a better life. (Nice purse Cliff).


One of the highlights of the trip was visiting the church in Ravenstone where Great-grandpa Isaac was baptized as an infant and where his parents were married. The church was originally built in the 1700's and is absolutely beautiful. Kerri, Dad, Brad and myself standing outside on the grounds, which was also a cemetery. It was amazing to actually view the book where the records were kept, and their "X's" were scratched, because they couldn't write their names.


England was absolutely beautiful. We stayed in a wonderful little B&B in Ravenstone. We loved the elderly couple, John and Ann, who ran the house and helped us find our way around the area. They were a great resource to help us locate information about Isaac and his life there. They actually helped us find the house he lived in during the early 1800's. There is much to be said about the beautiful English gardens. Here is dad and the kids in the garden at the B&B.


Okay, when we said we wanted to rent "vans" we were thinking American sized vans. This is actually one of the largest vehicles we saw the whole time we were there. Ask Brad and Cliff about driving on the "wrong" side of the road, and the steering wheel being on the "wrong" side of the car. I knew we were in trouble when they we laughing uncontrollably as we pulled out of the parking lot at the airport. Brad had a hard time with that outside curb.


One of the most interesting days was our visit to Warwick Castle in London. Amazing. I think it was Craig's turn to keep track of Grandpa. How did he do?

There was so much to see in London that we opted for the double-decker bus tour. Great call other than we looked like typical tourists. So much to see, so little time to see it. Nice hat Eileen.
One of the funnest things was watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. It was wonderfully ceremonial and was a great day to visit. They Queens birthday was coming up so they were practicing for her celebration. Cliff is still annoyed that the Queen wouldn't "receive" him. Here we are resting on the steps of the Palace Gardens. One of my favorite pictures, hanging with the fam!
Then it was off to Denmark. Thank heavens Teri needed a coke and we had to go their version of the Maverick. While we were scoping the danish pastries we met and became friends with Niels Larsen, a member of the church in Aalborg, Denmark. Absolutely one of the highlights of the trip. Niels invited us to his home to meet his wife Lottie, and hear his testimony of being a member in Denmark. What a great connection to a great family. Hopefully next year he will be visiting our homes here.
Another highlight in Denmark was visiting the Church of the Lady where the original statue of the Christis stands. It was absolutely beautiful. This is the church President Packer spoke of in the last conference session. Amazing and humbling.

Welcome to Copenhagen where nobody drives and everybody rides an old beater bike. I'm talking 1000's of bikes. Cliff came home with a new commitment to ride, aired up the tires, and I haven't moved mine since.

After we ran ourselves ragged around England and Denmark we set sail on an amazing Norwegian Cruise. We visited Germany (where Cliff and Raymond got to have sauerkraut) and then cruised the Norwegian Fjords. They were really quite breathtaking. Not a bad looking bunch, do ya think? We clean up pretty good. Ask Cliff about the white shirt sometime....

Here we are at the top of the Garrienger Fjord. The snow was 18 feet deep in May. The ride up the canyon was one of the scariest things I've done. We were on a tour bus, on hair pin turns, with a grade of 18%. Cliff, trying to ease my anxiety, suggested I just close my eyes and take a nap. Like I could fall asleep!!! We did engage in a little snowball fight. As you can see I'm loosing.

Here's a picture looking down the fjord to our ship. It was one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. It helps that you are with people you love too.

After the cruise we had one more day in Copenhagen before we flew home. We choose as a group to stay at the Church Guest House and do baptisms in the Copenhagen Temple. It was a wonderful way to end an amazing adventure for our family. We'll always be grateful to dad for the opportunity and the memories. We love you dad! Viva Europe!!! (Desi)

.::Mesquite Vacation::.

Hey Fam... Finally someone to do an update.
The Brad Wardle family, well some(the rest were party poopers)... took a vaca this last weekend, here are some pictures of it for you to enjoy!

Hope to hear from the rest of you slackers soon!