Gene 11/30/07

Hi Family, We had a great Turkey Day! My wife's Mother and Father ( Lori & Wayne Hubbard) came to Casper to have Turkey Day with us.We also went out to see what "Black Friday" was all about and it was crazy. I think we will try it again. Carissa and Lori had fun they went crazy I never have seen them get up at 4am. It was quite a scene. To top off the day the Mighty HuSkerS... had some BUFFALO for Turkey Day! YUM. I enjoyed it....was a little scared for a min...but the 57 yard Field goal made everything A..OK! I love the feeling I get when I watch the Huskers win. I truly bleed RED blood....Husker RED blood. Now for some other business. I have decided to leave my place of employment and go to work for a place called Halliburton's. I did work at Stewart & Stevenson LLC in the Parts Department. I will be doing something a lot different but excited for the change. We'll that's all I have for now. Love you all Geno,Carissa, Marissa, & Tristan

Wyl Colgrove 11/30

Dear Family;

The Pictures Below are from Shelley.

Welcome Shelly I'm thankful to hear from you, you have beautiful children and grandchildren, thanks for the pictures, now how about one of you. Please invite your sisters to join us.
I hope we will keep reaching out to our other family members so they will join us also.

Hope you all had a good thanksgiving, we did. Our week went something like this, Sunday we attended church, Annette played the organ for Sacrament meeting, interpreted for the deaf and helped with young woman's organization, I teach gospel doctrine class and attended Sacrament and priesthood meeting.
I like to Position myself near the entrance to the chapel so I can welcome as many people as possible by shaking their hands as they come into the chapel, I especially enjoy shaking hands with the children and teenagers, many of them now make it a point to come shake my hand every Sunday and are disappointed if I'm not there.
Monday we served at the library for 10 hours scanning family history books and preparing them to be put online for genealogy research.
Tuesday we were at home, I caught up on some things on the Internet and Annette baked pies, cake, fudge, and bread in preparation for thanksgiving. Wednesday, 8 hours at the library.
Thanksgiving day we spent at Annette's mothers home here in Fort Wayne with her sister , Beth, friend , Nena, brother John, and his two children Rose and Ben. Had a wonderful turkey dinner with all the trimmings, and good company.

Friday Annette, Heidi, our daughter, and granddaughters Katrina and Izzy went shopping on what they were calling "Black Friday" and upon coming home said, "That was fun but we"re not doing that again"
Saturday was Annette's Aunt Bearny's 70 birthday, her kids, all grown, had a party for her so we spent part of that day with more family. Wonderful week.

What did you all do for Thanksgiving? We all need to open up and communicate more freely, that what I'm encouraging each of you to do!

I have a wonderful screensaver program, free, called second nature that I can add my own pictures to so I want to do a family one with all your pictures so I'm collecting.

Well that's all folks
Love to all,
Wyl

Dick & Dena Colgrove 11/25/08

Dear Family,

As I was sitting here pondering Thanksgiving and what I am personally thankful for, I came across this video http://www.blessyoumovie.com/ ... and I realized how thankful I truly am for my family. Not only those who I see every day but all of my family back through my ancestors.. and of course, all of you. I thought about family that has past before us, who tried to lead us in many different ways... some more profound than others. I thought about opportunities that have come and gone and also about opportunities in the future.
I don't want to let this opportunity pass without telling you all how much I love and appreciate you. Thank you for enduring through your trials and for being the examples that you are. Thank you for never giving up.
It is my hope that you all are blessed with love, health, and happiness this Thanksgiving.

With Love,
Dena

Wyl Colgrove 11/23

Dear Family; Let's start by saying I enjoyed Annette's introduction last week even thou she took advantage of my falling asleep as I was writting the family e-mail, but there is one part I would like to tell differently, that is she sit on my lap to get my attention , ha, ha, no really we probably both saw an empty chair and headed for it only I was faster because I got there first as she sit on my lap by her own admission. This is fun! Anyway the end results are the same and we're both happy with that. Dena We enjoyed the Halloween pictures, what great Halloween art, don't know that I've have recognized Dick if I seen him on the street. Looks like you had a fun Halloween. This is a photograph of my oldest son Frank and his wife Kristi in their natural habitat in Idaho where they run a rental business renting snow mobiles in the winter and jet skies, four wheelers and the likes in the summer. They have a son Kasey 12 years old and a daughter Ashley who graduated from high school two years ago. I was hoping he would introduce himself, maybe he will after this poor job I did not having any recent photos. I've got a reloader I would like to give him if we can find a way to get it to him. We also have a Cousin Max who lives in Arizona, he is Larry's age if I remember correctly. That's All Folks Love To All, Wyl

Wyl Colgrove 11/16

Dear Family;

This first photo is of my beautiful Annette doing one of her favorite things! We could title it Annette and her piano. This is what she looked like when she wrote the introduction today.

This is of my hand with my wedding and family rings isn't that neat, cool, or maybe awesome is the word.

When I look at the rings on my hand I think of my family, all of you, even those we are not reaching yet.

You all are in my thoughts and prayers.

Thanks to all on the introductions now let's keep writing on a regular bases.

Linda that must have been quite an experience moving to Arizona after living all that time in Texas.

Geno do you know June Landess there in C? She is you cousin, your Grandpa Colgrove's niece. She is in need of some help getting to the web site I sent a couple of weeks ago, could you help her do that?

Jim and or Vaunda maybe Dad / Grandpa would like to tell all of us some things about his life, such as the car that run on water, or the time he come face to face with a bear, maybe about his time in the navy.

Well as they usta say at the end of a bugs bunny cartoon "That's all folks".

Love to all,

Wyl

Annette Colgrove Introduction Continued

There are so many of you I haven't met yet, so I thought I'd take advantage of Bill napping to tell a little about me/us. We met at a singles' conference June 1991. He was living in Heppner, OR at that time, and I was living in Moscow, ID with my four children then. My children are: Heather (married to Chris R, and they have 2 boys with a girl due in January, and in the process of moving to Hawaii), Holly (married to Robert G, has 2 boys, 2 girls, and they live happily in California), Heidi (married to Mike A, with one girl, Izabella, but we call her Izzy, lives here in, IN about 10 miles from us), and Philip (married to Heather, they are both students at BYU-Idaho and twitter-pated as can be). So, at this singles' conference, the first night was table games and active games. We played one that involved rotating to other chairs in a circle, and as I sat on one, he slid under me faster than a whipped whip. He may have been faster than me physically, but I left him speechless a time or two with my unique perspectives. The second day of the conference, we triple-dated into the nearby town to do the tourist thing, and he had the nerve to hold my hand. It made me nervous, but it felt good, too. The third day was testimony-sacrament meeting, followed by a brunch, then the drive back home. I rode with him part way until our roads split into two different directions, and my friends followed in my car to that same point. We talked for quite a while longer. Then I felt a pair of hands literally push me toward him. I turned around to see who that was, and no one was there! but I sure found myself wrapped in hug that felt like home. I was stunned. Once we parted, I prayed while I was driving my friends and myself home, and asked Heavenly Father if "Bill" was my eternal mate. The answer was the strongest "YES" I'd ever received. The Spirit was so strong, I started crying and could hardly see the road. The Spirit was so strong, my friends started crying and didn't know why. The Spirit was so strong, one friend asked, "Is THAT the Holy Spirit?" She had never felt anything like that before!

When we got home, I told my kids I had met my eternal companion over the weekend, and I didn't even know his last name! The next day, Monday, he called me in the evening. I learned his last name, and when I asked how to spell that -- you know him -- he said "T-H-A-T." We talked for 3 hours, and it never showed up on his phone bill. We made plans of when we'd get together again, made arrangements for a date to the temple, and to make a long story short, that ended up being the day we were sealed to each other in the Seattle Temple, 6 weeks after we met. And the rest is history, and it's been the happiest 17+ years of my life.

I loving being his wife, love being a mother and grandmother, and love that we share a testimony of our Savior, not necessarily in that order. I also love to do art work. I have a small collection of canvases I've done, and quite a few rooms in several homes with my murals, and stacks of sketches and pencil drawings. I also love playing and teaching violin and piano. At church I play organ 4th and 5th Sundays, interpret for the deaf the other Sundays, am the second counselor in Young Women, am serving a mission with Bill digitizing Family History Books and Local History Books to put online (I believe he's already given you'all the site). In my spare time, I like to... I'll have to let you know when I have spare time. Just kidding. I enjoy sewing, needlework, reading, baking, and yard work if it's not too cold outside.

I've also enjoyed reading all the emails that have come in from some of you. Yes, my son Philip, I read yours, but that doesn't count as a call home! Glad you're happy, though.

Now, Bill is napping in his chair at his computer. He has this cute little butler that comes out with his nose in the air when an email comes and says in his supersilious tone, "Sir, you've got mail." He should make his appearance as soon as I hit the "send" button. Maybe I better turn his volume up before hitting "send." I wonder if it will wake him up. Nice to meet you'all!

Love, Annette

Gene 11/12/07

Hello,

How is everyone doing, I hope Great! I have attached some pictures of me and the kids. These are from earlier in the year. (I love to hunt.) I have found out that Wyoming is an awesome state to hunt in. I never hunted big game until I moved here. I was a bird hunter. NOT anymore....hehehe.
I took a week vacation and went to Omaha, NE. to visit Shelly and her kids and Grand kids. I had a good time. I took Shelly and her second oldest Son (Johnny) to there very 1st HUSKER game, we had an awesome good time. The HUSKERS beat the Jayhawks 45 to 35 although it was not as close as the score show. We still had a great time together. I have been to many husker football games and that one was my favorite one by far! Thanks Marjie for bailing us out! (she knows). Don't worry we didn't get into to much trouble. I just had a hard time reading and parked in a bad spot. It is all good now!
We are getting ready for WINTER here, it is not the most pleasant place to live in the winter time the WIND drives you crazy it never stops blowing...No REALLY it never stops!
But I guess the nice summers make up for it. I don't think it even got over 100 degrees one day last summer, that is nice. Well enough of my rambling. I'll drop a line or two again soon. I think the rings are a great Idea, I look a little bit on line. I know I would wear one for sure!!
Love ya all,
GENO COLGROVE