The Family Bible

I have inherited Grandma and Grandpa's old family Bible. It is a beautiful large book that has lots of commentary and other information in addition to the Old and New Testaments. I learned last Saturday that it also has some family information, so I thought I would post pictures to share with all of you this special find. The first page, shown above, details the marriage of William Alexander Bee and Mary Haddock on November 20, 1883.

The next page, shown below, gives the birth dates and names, and blessing years and baptism years, for those who were baptized, for their children, William Richard Bee, Margaret Georgina Bee, Jesse Clarence Bee, Archie Earl Bee, John George Bee, and Phylis Pearl Bee.

The last page shows the deaths in the family. William Alexander Bee, Jesse Clarence Bee, John George Bee, Phylis Pearl Bee, and Marry Haddock Bee. The death dates are also given.

I know this is not a complete record, and that this information is probably available elsewhere, but it is special to me to have it in a family Bible. The handwriting is beautiful and the story it tells is sad as three of the six children died before their parents, two at less than a year old and one at just under three years old. What a tough life this family lived! I wanted to share this wonderful find with everybody. I hope it means something to you also.

My Missionaries

Now that my little sis is back from her mission, I have been missing writing to a missionary. Now I'll have TWO. My parents were just called to the Des Moines, Iowa mission. They report to the MTC on August 3rd. I'm so proud of my missionaries!!

Trip to Texas

We sure visited a lot of family. It was great!! Thank you all for being such nice folks. We stopped first in Denver, CO and visited Meagan and her daughters, Gretchen (youngest), Lindsey (in pink) and Kerrianne.








We spent a couple of nights in Amarillo with Brent and Carol Ann.









We got to know Roger's wife Karyn and their boys Zack, Tristan and Carson. James and Christine also stopped by to visit.
We next spent a couple of nights with Max and Jan in Gladewater.









Also there were Mardee and Chris and their Mikayla, Briona and Brock.






Bo and Julie and their Kaley and Cooper.










Tai and Miranda and their cat Buster.

Cody and her Ian, Jax and Rylie.

KaCee and her Emi, Chance and Dane.

On our way to San Antonio we stopped and saw Eli, Kate and Sadie. Then on to San Antonio and Nicole and Timothy, and their Mary and Bradley.

Bradley "Scooter" Jennings

Mary "Little Teacup" Jennings


After staying with Nicole for about a week, and having lots of fun, we returned through Midland, TX, stopping to see Holly and Chuck and their Ashley (w/dog), and Cedar, Emory and Sidney

Phillip and Devrie, and their Carter and Preston, dropped by to visit, also.

We stayed with Brent and Carol Ann again and on the way home stopped at Capulin volcano.



The cactus on the high prairie were blooming.

Family Vacation in Moab

Here are just a few pictures to show you our wonderful family vacation in Moab. Everyone except Drew and Jeanine and Nicole and Timothy and kids was there. It was great!

This is part of the group standing under Delicate Arch in Arches National Park ( from left to right are: Matthew, Austin, Grace, Tara, Marcus, Amber, Cate, Adrienne, Dad (David)

Two cute little girls and an adoring aunt running around in Goblin Valley (Ava and Claire and Adrienne) . . .

and the youngest of the bunch, little Marcus who is only five months old (he smiled for me!) Amber is carrying him . . .

And finally, the one who remembered to bring her camera and who is terrified of heights, but made it up there anyway (that's me, Heather) . . .

New shed

We put the shed up with some great help from Trevor, Tara and Grandpa on Saturday, and Adrienne, Tara and Howard on Monday, to finish. Thank you all!!!

Family home gone.

It is sad to see, but we are thankful that no one was hurt.

Family pictures

Yesterday morning we were able to get our family pictures taken at a park. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of good pictures we were able to get because the kids did not want to cooperate. Anyway, here are a few of my favorites. It feels so good to have new family pictures. Now all I have to do is get them printed and in frames.