Stewardship Report

Well, I'm here to report my progress. It is now just after 12:30 a.m. on Monday, March 31, 2008. I just finished page #41 (double sided) and am about half way through 1950 in scrapbooking the pictures. That, of course, includes a few pages that only have ONE picture on them - maybe 6 or so. Do they count? This is a time consuming project but enjoyable.

I love all the family updates on the blog. Please keep them coming.

Time for bed for this old lady,

Love to you all,
Mom

ACE HUDKINS

Ace Hudkins was born in Nebraska in 1905 and began boxing at 12. He began fighting professionally at 16 and boxed until he was 27 and was never knocked out. His nicknames were “The Wildcat” and “The Nebraska Wildcat”. In the years around 1925-1926, Hudkins and Clever Sencio were the top drawing cards at Los Angeles’ Olympic Auditorium. One of his most famous fights was a 1927 fight in New York, a knockout of hot prospect Ruby Goldstein. One writer wrote of Hudkins’ win over Goldstein as “the fight that broke the Jewish banks.” It was Hudkins’ toughness that most impressed his faithful fans; his fight against Sammy Baker was described as “the bloodiest fight ever seen…even the referee was drenched in ruby red…” Fighting from lightweight to light-heavyweight, he won several California State Heavyweight Titles and was Southern California’s biggest boxing drawing card in the 1920s.

In 1930 he lived with his extended family at 2302 Observatory Avenue in L.A.; his brothers Clyde and Art served as his managers. As his boxing career wound down in the early 1930’s his personal life fell apart as he battled alcoholism and went on extended “benders.” On January 10, 1932 he was charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon in Los Angeles for punching T. Leonard Park, 38, in the head with his bare fist and fracturing his skull. Hudkins claimed that he and a friend, Ellen Dorsey, were standing at an intersection when Park and a companion, Edward B. Martin, approached and insulted the woman. The charges were later dropped but Park sued Hudkins for $50,000 and was awarded $1.

That March, his pretty live-in girlfriend Rhea Hill sued for $160,000; $100,000 for breach of a promise to marry, and $60,000 for beating her. After winning the lawsuit on April 2^nd, Ace went out, got drunk, and was arrested for public drunkenness and fighting with the police. The following July 16^th he was arrested for drunk driving and speeding near Fresno. Released from jail the next morning he went to a nearby bar and when he left, drove his car directly into a service station building, destroying both car and building and landing back in jail charged with drunk driving again. In December he was arrested and convicted twice more in Fresno on the same charges.In March, 1933, Hudkins spent a month in Hawaii and was arrested twice for disorderly conduct following fights in hotel bars and spent a week in jail.

On August 7, 1933, a drunk Hudkins started a brawl in a Hollywood café and pulled a gun (which turned out to be unloaded) on the bar’s owner Richard Harris, who pulled his own (loaded) gun and shot Hudkins twice in the chest. Ace lingered near death for two weeks at a Glendale hospital while receiving two blood transfusions, but somehow survived.On November 9^th Hudkins was arrested after a drunken early-morning brawl when his friend David Chalmers’ father-in-law – a huge San Pedro longshoreman – took the gun he was still carrying and knocked him unconscious with it. Leaving the fight, he and Chalmers tried to drive away without paying for 8 gallons of gas and were arrested for petty theft. Just two weeks later on November 21^st he was arrested when police found both he and Chalmers passed out drunk and asleep in his car at a stoplight at Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. By the time of his December 2^nd arrest a drunken rampage at his 416 South Burlington Avenue apartment building, headlines read ACE HUDKINS SOJOURNING IN CELL AGAIN. The judge, seeing him for the third time in three weeks, sent him to the county jail for five days.

In the late 1930’s, Hudkins settled down and married, and after operating a bar in Hollywood moved to Toluca Lake and bought a stable where he and his brother Art ran a string of race-horses. He lived there with his wife Mildred and their adopted son Robert Herron and rented horses, wagons, and cowboy gear to studios for westerns and the land for filming. Hudkins Brothers Movie Ranch was a favorite of dozens of cowboy stars who boarded horses (the property is now part of Forest Lawn Glendale) and among Ace’s friends were Smiley Burnette, Guinn Wilson, Fred Kennedy, Gene Autry, and John Wayne. Ace was soon doing stunt work in their movies and his horses appearing in dozens of Republic Studio films.

In 1938, Republic rented one of his horses – whom Ace had named ‘Hi Yo Silver’ – for a movie version of The Lone Ranger. The horse’s name became The Lone Ranger’s trademark. Ace’s favorite horse was Olivia de Havilland’s mount in the 1938 classic The Adventures of Robin Hood. When filming was completed, Roy Rogers came looking for a horse for his first starring vehicle, Under the Western Sky, and took de Havilland’s horse for a ride around the ranch. After the lengthy ride Rogers and the horse had become instantly attached, and although he was only making $75 a week at the time agreed to pay Ace $2,500 for the horse. It took him several years to pay for his new partner, whom Ace had named Trigger. Ace’s horse Trigger co-starred in all 82 movies made by Rogers between 1938 and 1952 and also appeared in all 100 TV episodes of ‘The Roy Rogers Show.’In the 1954-57 television series ‘Annie Oakley,’ both horses used to play the role of Oakley’s horse Target were Ace’s horses.

Ace was still doing stunt work in films as late as the mid-1960’s. In his final film, 1966’s Batman, the 61 year-old almost broke his neck when he dove off the side of a prop submarine hull into Sorenson’s Lake at the 20th Century Fox Malibu Ranch. The “lake” was only 4′ deep and Ace hit the bottom and spent three weeks in the hospital recovering. Ace Hudkins died on April 8, 1973 in Los Angeles and was posthumously inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995. His adopted son Robert D. Herron had a long career as a stuntman, stunt director, and actor and was one of the founding members of the Stuntmen’s Association of Motion Pictures and served on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild.

A young boxing fan posted the following story on an internet site dedicated to boxers of that era; “I was a security guard back in 1971 when I was college…we did all the apartment complexes is Foster City, Calif…got a call over patrol car radio from a complex manager about an attempted robbery…I arrived to be met by a short old man with a shuffling step & a flat nose…he was the new apartment manager, Craig Exley…I asked him if he was hit in the nose during robbery, and he laughed & said that happened years ago when he was a boxer…I asked him if he could describe the 3 robbers, and he said he could, but why don’t I just look at them myself?…I entered his office to find 3 (African Americans) between 6 to 8 inches taller than him all laying on the floor knocked out..he said he only hit them once each after they threatened him…they thought this old man would be an easy mark…we talked about the framed boxing pictures on his wall while we waited for police to come, and he said with a smile, “Yeah, I used to be Ace Hudkins..” .I was just an 18 year old kid, but my dad was a boxer in the 1930s…Ace (Craig) revelled (sic) me with stories about Mickey Walker fights til the cops got there…”

Ace Hudkins, member of my Forgotten Hollywood Hall of Fame.

This is cool, Troy

More ACE pics

Here are some more pics I found of ACE HUDKINS

Troy

Ace Hudkins

Mom in the second pic with Ace Hudkins the guy taping his knuckles is Clyde Hudkins.

Love ya, Troy

Guess what I found

This is soooo coolll.... Here are 2 pictures of ACE HUDKINS bare knuckle boxer from the 1920's.

Isn't it awesome that we can see the history of our family name....
If I find more interesting stuff, I will put more on here.

Oh by the way the house is coming along great. I should be running the tubing on the top floor this weekend.

Love you all, Troy

From The Rockies

We just received another e-mail from Arland, it is kind of long but here it goes, in Arlands own words...

today we went to a little market and we had 20 min to do some shopping... first time barderin I did really bad I think..... I probably could have gotten alot less... but it was copper that that is usally a little more expencive... I got it to half the price he was asking for it.... my second time I think I did better we bartered it down and I didn't have enough lefft in my wallet and he was like ohhh okkk that fine very goo and he took the money and left me with my bag... so I might have got a bad deal... but there are always other tries.... we went for lunch and I ate jelly fish... It was really slimy and looked like buggers and mucus... it had a sweeter taste and slid right down your throte.... then we went to the pearl market ...they had tones of pearls down ther at all kinds of prices one necalace was over 1 500 000 yaun (I almost bought it for you mom.. jk) It was crazy ..... there are soo many beautiful pearls... and the expencive were gold fresh water pearls from a place in china and it is only where those kind of pearls can be gotten... we had our first performance... we played with the best HS band in the best high school in bejing... I was relly surprised that the best High school was soo grubby inside.. our school looks way better inside and people pay thousands to put their kids into that school.... we sounded really bad compared to them.. they were as good as the u of l band we listened to... we ate supper in the school cafeteria with the schools band .. the people that I sat with only talked with each other in chinese and I tried to make small talk and it was really difficult..... driving places in the city takes a really long time and it is fun cuz in the bus people outside always stare at you and so you wave at them and they and a bunch of other people wave back to you... It is so funny... people are really friendly and they like to practice their english by talking to you... today was not as clear as yesterday but it was still nice...I could see the sun and sky...and then I am going to bed soon.. I have been keeping everything that I get like coupons and receipts.. in the stores it is kinda weird when you buy things.. there is someone at the place that is on you right away once you look at something and when you buy it they give you a recaipt that you bring to the till and pay and then the till stamps it and you bring the receipt back to the place you bought it and they give it to you packaged... but that is only in the big stores.. in the market you give the money to the person and then you don't get a recaipt back or even a bag for it... it is weird... I am going to try to barder way way lower than I did today... I only bardered twice though so I know what it is like...good night to every one and tell them I love them...

It sounds like he is really enjoying himself. Well we will keep you all posted as more comes in.

Love from garth/janene/emmmmmma

a bit of easter...

This is a letter that i recieved from arland this morning:

Hi emma... i don't know much chinese... today we went for breakfast at our beautiful***** hotel... am am on floor 9 out of 31 floors... everything is really tall.... we visited the temple of heaven which is really beautiful.. the paintings and symbols and archatecture are amazing.. it was soooo cool there.... when we came out of the temple there were literally 30 street vendors that swarmed aroud us to try to get us to buy stuff.. they kept on changing their offers and prices.... then we went for lunch at the wa ha ha resteraunt... it was a beautiful resteraunt..... then we went to the forbidden city.... my camera ran out of batteries at the end of the tour... the forbidden city is really beautiful and the detail is amazing... some of the main parets of it were being re painted because of the olympics.. they have been working on repainting certain parts for over a year.... because may camera died I didn't havfe battery for tienamin square.. but I got jessica ringness to take some pictures for me.... It is just a huge open space outside the forbidden city.. It is able eo hold 100 000 people in it during the parades that they have there every 5 or so years.... I only have 418 pictures left so I hope that I can go the whole trip on one card... I have taken soo many cool pictures... the smog is still horrible and I can't see a speck of blue sky and only a faint round orangish greyish circle for the sun.... china is really neat... whenever we stoppped we had lik 20 people surrounding us trying to sell us the same type of cheap stuff like watches that fall apart and are sooo fake... some people bought them for fun... the places we visited are really cool with neat archatecture and on a very big plot of land... very ancient chinese..... telll everyone that I love them and get addie to read the e-mail that I sent her
yesterday... good night love you lots...

But anyways, tomorrow will be easter. Yesterday Addie, Mike (george) and his brother Andrew were here. We went quading and it was lots of fun. Then we came home and played rock band. Its like guitar hero but it can have 2 guitars, a drummer, and a singer. It was alot of fun too. We had a delicious supper and then we dipped eggs for easter. We made marshmallow chocolate easter eggs. After watching a movie we champed the eggs andAndrew ended up winning.


<-- this is the back of one of addies eggs. It looked like it had a boombox on its butt.



That is one of my eggs --> i call it mini me playing rock band. Below it is the rest of the band. Looks like they are breaking up! ha ha! (because they were champed)

<-- and this one was Andrews champ egg.

Mikes (george) eggs were nice too. Mom and dad both got 1 egg. They looked cool because of their color. (dad complained about getting only one egg) lol but he was just joking im sure. It was all really fun! Today we pruned some of our trees. Dad used my help. (even tho im not a 'tree expert' like arland) Then i went to town and took a very evil hamster to the pet store to use as snake food..it was..sad but not. And i also helped my mom start a quilt. Basically she did all the measuring and cutting and i held a ruler in place. but it still counts as helping! Dad is wrong about me being the only child at home with them...they are not old! haha..and its not THAT boring. it is different though. But i should be going to sleep anytime soon. So talk to you later family!
Love you all. HAPPY EASTER!
~emma

Happy Easter from Gramma & Grampa

Hi Everyone,
We've enjoyed reading the blog. I didn't get on it for quite a while. Grampa is sitting beside me and says I should say "I couldn't get at the computer for quite a while because IT was busy with SOLITAIR! - (darn computer)" The truth being, I was busy doing other stuff.

Our retreat was very fruitful. I have all the pictures from 1900 to 1950 scrapbooked. Now I have to get busy and put names on them. I keep telling Grampa that's his job but he doesn't seem to agree with me. We went out this afternoon to get some more scrapbooking supplies. (I went into the stores. Grampa sat in the car and snoozed.) I love the Dollar Stores! Dad calls me the DOLLAR STORE QUEEN! I think that's a good thing, at least I'm the queen of something.

The retreat was fun because we had 3 generations at our table in a large room with lots of space to work. Well, at least I had lots of space. The others said I took up more than any of the rest! The tasty and nutritious meals were all prepared and the rooms were wonderful. Camp He Ho Ha is made for handicapped people, so the rooms are all wheelchair accessible. It is absolutely modern. Just like a hotel room, in a beautiful setting on Lake Isle. It was a great weekend.

Yesterday Alyson, Leslie and Betty came over and we made cabbage rolls. Tomorrow Charlene, Louis and ALL their family together with Gramma Gail and Graham's Mom & Sister will be here for Easter dinner. I'm not sure where everyone will sit but we'll manage somehow.

I love all the pictures posted on the blog. Emma is really hard to recognize! It's good to hear about what Arland is doing in China and to see how the great grandkids are growing. I love seeing how the house is coming along. It gives me goosepimples.

I just read this to Grampa. He says I'm pretty hard on him. That's just because I love him and love to tease him. He's a great support and goes along with whatever my little old heart desires.

We want you all to know how much we love each one of you and are delighted with our family. Thanks to Troy & Nancy for this blog.

Love,
Gramma

EASTER

Well, here we are it's Easter time again, and we had a little person from another church members family at our house helping Jana dye eggs.

They had a lot of fun with the variety of colors, some with stripes and even some with sparkles. MacKenzy used a felt marker to make designs on a couple of eggs, I think she did a pretty good job with it.

But, she is not the only one with artistic ability, as you can see by the very stylish and debonair egg that Patrick designed, after many hours of tedious color watching and the task of making the fine lines around the egg fall with perfection just above the glasses and slightly below the bald spot..... he was so impressed with the classy and handsome design he had made..... we wanted all to see the outstanding work of art!!!!!!!!!!

OH, by the way.... Out of my own basket there will be a prize of one colored, hard boiled egg for anyone who guesses who the egg is a representation of (Patrick was VERY proud of this).

Happy Easter to everyone and hopes that all the young ones enjoy the hunt for the GOLDEN EGG.

Love you all, Uncle Troy

From CHINA

Hey guys!
We just heard from Arland...thought I'd post what he wrote to us! so here goes...in the words of Arland...

"I am in my hotel room in bejing.. I just woke up to smog and more smog this saturday morning..... the smog here makes it hard to see any scenery..... the hotel that I am staying at is beautiful... the room is awsome.. it even has a comp with internet....I had to take 3 air planes to get here... they are really neat... we had to wait like 12 hours in vancouver and like 5 in hongkong.... and flying here we skipped all of thursday exept like the 3 hours in vancouver.....we couldn't see anything below while flying to bejing cuz it is so smoggy... I am on the 9th floor of the hotel which is closer to the bottom than the top... it is really pretty in bejing.. if they didn't have the smog it would look alot better... today we get to tour... I think that we are going to a temple then to the forbidden city.. it will be really cool..... I am really exited to see the rest of the city..... the city has 16 million people living here so it has alot of sky scrapers everywhere.... It is soo cool... it isn't too much different than canada though... well Ill keep you posted... love you lots..."

We'll keep ya guys updated!!
Love,
Addie

From The Rockies

Hello everyone, it sure is neat to go through the blog and catch up on all the news. Congrats to Leslie and Alyson! Great job on the chefing Cal and Nani! Troy and Nancy, your house is looking really good. I'm sure that you are all very excited. You know Gramma, you have become a real good blogger. (Is it ok if I call you for help if I get stuck on a blogging issue?)

I am not sure if everyone knows this, but Arland is currently in Bejing, China. This trip has to do with his band at school, they had 140 kids (grade 8 to 12) go on this trip and 40 adult chaperones. Arland left on Wednesday, March 19, and will be back home Monday, March 31. So as I write this blog it is currently Friday 1:30 pm here, that means it would be Saturday 3:30am in Bejing. They are 14 hours ahead of us.

I am sure that Arland will be tired after the trip as they will be busy with many sight tours, some of which include the following:
Saturday they will spend 8 hours touring the Great Wall of China.
Sunday they will have 4 hours at Tian Anmen Square and the Forbidden City.
Monday they will view the Olympic Games facilities and visit the Temple of Heaven.
Tuesday is all band concert practice and performances at the Forbidden City Concert Hall.
Wednesday is a touring and shopping day.
Thursday they leave Bejing and fly to Shanghai.
Friday they attend a Shanghai Acrobatic Show.
Saturday they perform a couple concerts in Shanghai, including a mass performance of all bands visiting from Canada and the U.S.
Sunday they start boarding planes and make their way back to Canada.
We are all excited for Arland!

With Arland in China and Addie in Red Deer, Emma is finding it pretty boring with the two old people that are left in the house with her. Emma received her report card from school and is doing excellent! We are very pleased with her grades! All in our family are doing fine. We sure enjoy the blog, this was a great idea Troy and Nancy!

Love you all! Garth and family.

yes its true, arland is on his way to china on this very day. Spring break is starting on friday and i will probably miss him. But addie will be out tomorrow so i won't be too lonely. So i said the snow was almost melted last time, but then it snowed again and so now it is almost melted...well hopefully. I haven't done too much lately. I lost my voice for a whole week. My cat is really grown and is catching mice like crazy. Not much is new at all. Just looking forward to summer basically. Easter will be here again in a couple days too. oh yes the pictures..from my picture last time everyone was wondering what it was from. Well i had a major flu called cavemen pocks. You actually think you are a cavemen and you start seeing spots all over your face! No actually we just dressed up like cavemen. haha and i bet you think the other picture is my brother and his friend!! actually no. That is me on the left and my friend, carla on the right. We look like cowboys! I had alot of fun that day. Glad to hear from you all! This is a good way to keep in touch with everyone. But i should go. Love you lots!!
Congratulations Alyson and Jon!
Keep up the good work on the house!
YAY to Cal and everyone else, i love hearing from you all!
and a special HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MY MOM AND DAD!! (20 years!)

Helicopter AKA Baby Bump

Hey guys, I can't believe how often people get onto the blog and post. It is really quite awesome to think of where all our families live and where were posting from and yet, how often we chat. Jon thinks our family is just one of the best and I have to agree!

People have been asking me to post some fat belly shots and so I am. We went for our first ultrasound on Friday and got a couple shots of little Helicopter and some news that it is a little lady. Jon said that Bird's make boys, but I told him Hinko's make girls soooo we'd see. I guess I win! Although it is still early and alot can change...or grow! Anyways glad to hear from everyone and keep writing. We love reading all the blogs. Love you all: Jon, Alyson and Helicopter

Auntie Charlene is representing...finally!!!

So, don't faint everybody, but here are some family pictures, finally! Jenny is much smarter than me and figured out how to post them. They were taken just after Christmas at Fort Saskachewan. Hope you like them!
Thought I should let everyone know that the growth removed with my right ovary before Christmas was benign. That was such a relief, I can't begin to tell you. It is a very humbling exerience to face the possibility of cancer and causes you to really ponder your mortality and what you really believe!
We also have some very exciting news as we will soon be adding to our little extended family. The next pictures will have two new babies in it! Alyson and Jon are expecting the end of August and not to be outdone, Leslie and Mike are expecting the end of October. So, I guess I need to put on the rush to finish the last wedding quilt so that I can start on a couple of baby quilts!
We just spent a very enjoyable weekend last at a U.F.O.(un-finished objects) retreat. Mom and the girls and Sylvia were there. Sylvia and I were sewing but everyone else was scrapbooking.
It was very productive for everyone. The girls were working on wedding and honeymoon albums. Mom finished a whopping 48 pages! She is morphing into a scrapbooking machine!
The next one is in November. If anyone is interested, they should contact me and I will give them the phone number of the lady who organizes and books things.
You may have heard that Louis just finished with an absess tooth. He was on antibiotics for a whopping three weeks including two full days (48) hours of intravenous at the hospital every eight hours. I don't have to tell you it was not pleasant, but he has been back to work for six days now without a problem. He missed a total of nine days! I'm sure he hasn't missed that much in total in the last twenty years!
Should sign off now. Don't hold your breath for the next installment!

More House

Here are a few more!!!!! Some times we have visitor big and small.
Nancy

More House

Well we have started to move along fast now. Cassidy and Patrick are out there everyday working with our new framer and they really like him. We have walls on the first floor and they started the sheeting for the second floor today. For those of you that don't know I am terrified of heights so when they finally got me to climb up between the floor joist so I could see the view I had them take pictures so I could say I did it. It is a beautiful view when you get to the top. At the end of the day we all like a little nerts to wind down. We should have more pictures in a few days.
Keep writing everyone we love hearing from everyone it makes us feel connected to you all.
Love Ya
Nancy

wahoo!

Hi everyone,

Thanks all who are posting pics and a little blurb about whats going on. It sure is nice to hear from you.
I was looking after Keisha and Austin last night and had a good chuckle when Kristina showed me a short video of Keisha explaining how moms get pregnant and how babies are born. I hope she can get it on the blog. It's really cute. Also it was funny watching Austin cheer on the Wild and the Avs, it really gets his attention for quite a while (he's not quite 2). We were throwing our fist in the air and shouting WAHOO! whenever they shot on net and quite often when they weren't. He was really cute too. What can I say, I've got really cute grandkids!
This morning I wrote the Pleasure Craft Operators test and passed. Anyone operating a personal watercraft or a boat needs to be certified by 2009, so I thought I would get it. I don't know if they will want some type of certification when we go houseboating on the Shuswap in August but I'm sure it will help.
I'm getting some walls ready for painting. Roxanne is wanting to repaint the upstairs in a 2 tone blue in the bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen. Then a beige in the livingroom and entry with a wall in a shade of blue also. It should look really nice.
Well gotta go.

Love you all,

Brent

Life in Red Deer!

Hey Family!
Its so great hearing from everyone! I love all the pics that have been posted! Sounds like everyone is doing great!

Not too much is new here, but I have some funny pics I thought I would share. Mike and I were at a YSA dance for valentines and it was a blast! He's the best at dipping! lol And he's also great at Hockey! He's taught me a few things on my skates, so its been a lot of fun!

Winter is almost over here, all of the outdoor rinks are melted and there's brown grass everywhere! But it's about time in my opinion!! haha Mike and I finished making all of our invitations this week which is really exciting! We need some addresses so we can send them out soon...so if you guys could facebook me or e-mail me (peachykeen_27@hotmail.com) your addresses that would be awesome!!

I just got all my courses figured out for next year and have been trying to register for them all morning. It's a lot of fun! We're just staying here next year, which is nice because school is a lot cheaper and so is living! We're going to look at some apartments this week...Friends of ours found some decent places for $675.00 /month which is way good....for Red Deer....So it's exciting!
I hope everyone is good!! Keep up the blogging, I love reading them!!
Love always,
Addie

GOOD NEWS FROM THE YOUNGEST BOY!

THIS IS JESSICA SHE LIKES TO BE CALLED NANI

I STILL GET PICKED ON BY THE OLDER FEW BUT IM SURVIVIN IM SIX ONE AND 180 LBS GAINING SOME WEIGHT IM BIGGER THAN CAS AND PAT ME AND PAT WRESTLE ALL THE TIME IM WORKING A LITTLE BIT WITH A OLDER GUY I KNOW NAMED CURTIS HE IS IN THE CONSTRUCTION REMODEL BUSINESS AND IM GETTING 10 DOLLARS AND HOUR ITS PRETTY GOOD FOR KIDS MY AGE I DO MANY DIFFRENT JOBS RANGING FROM HALL OUTS TO DOING SHEET ROCK AND PAINTING ECT. MY GIRLFRIEND JESSICA AND I OF 6 MONTHS JUST CURRENTLY WENT TO COOKING COMPETITIONS AND I MADE THIRD OUT OF ABOUT 30 DIFFRENT SCHOOLS IN CULINARY ARTS AND SHE MADE THIRD IN BAKEING OUT OF ABOUT 28 SCHOOLSAND CREED. THE COMPETITION ONLY SEATS THE FIRST SECOND AND THIRD PLACES SO WE WERE LUCKY. WE GET TO MOVE ON TO STATE FINALS TO SEE IF WE CAN WIN ANYTHING FOR OUR SHCOOLS. GRADUATION IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FOR ME AND IM DOIN WONDERFUL AT SCHOOL MADE SO MANY FRIENDS SOME OF MY FRIENDS JOSH AND TYLER WE HAVE MADE A FEW VIDEOS WE WANT TO GET INTO THE DIRECTING JOBS HOPEFULLY LAND A FEW MOVIES WE MADE TWO VIDEOS WERE TRYING TO START A TV SHOW CALLED WHATS NORMAL WE HAD TWO OF OUR EPISODES ON TV A FEW WEEKS AGO THERES A STATION YOU SEND YOUR VIDEOS TO AND THEY WILL PLAY THEM SO I WAS ON TV FOR A LITTLE BIT ALOT OF KIDS AT SCHOOL LOVED OUR FILMS WERE PLANING MORE EPISODES AND WE START FILMING SOON. I AM CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE AT HOCKEY FINALS WE PLAY OUR LAST TWO GAMES THIS WEEKEND TO SEE IF WE GET A BANNER IN OUR RINK I HAVE 15 GOALS AND 20 ASSISTS THIS SEASON AND IM A DEFENSMEN IM HAVING ALOT OF FUN WITH HOCKEY I AM ALSO LEARNING LOTS AT THE NEW HOUSE I AM WORKING HARD OUT THERE I GET TO GO TOMORROW FROM 7 TO 7 ROUGH DAY I KNOW AND FRIDAY I GET TO DO THE SAME THING BUT ITS TOTLLY WORTH IT :) HOPE ALL IS GOOD WITH YOU GUYS CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL AND HOW MUCH YOU HAVE GROWN. LOVE YOU ALL AND HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY MY LETTER LOVE YOU :)

Framing

Framing on the main floor started on Monday, with Cassidy going out to help the two guys framing the house. Tuesday Cass and Pat both went to work on the house. Tomorrow Cass, Pat, and Calorado will all be going. Should see some more good progress in the next few days.

Luv Ya All,

Uncle Troy

The blue thing Auntie Nancy says is Uncle Troys OFFICE......

Concrete

O K so here is the update on the house, They poured the floor in the basement and garage last Tuesday, they poured the main floor on Friday, and Nancy and I met the lumber delivery truck out there Saturday morning at 8:00 am.

So here are some pics of that.

Troy

Oh yeah here is a pic of Nancy and MacKenzy after a day of hard work laying tubing.