Dear Family,
I received the phone call from Newell last night as I'm sure many more of you did. It is time to get our news letters in.
I'm not sure what I'm going to write this year. Maybe just a few line of gratitude to you all for the good things we have in life.
It is 5:30 am as I sit here writing this letter and listening to the sounds outside: the roosters crowing and the minny donkeys braying. It gives me a very thankful feeling for the things we have around us. I have learned a lot from animals in my life time like the sounds they make when you are coming to feed them. It is very satisfying as we do our petting zoos and see the expressions on the faces of kids and adults alike as they interact with the animals.
We learn from all the bridal parties as we participate in the weddings with our horse and carriage business. This has been very good to us. We will have participated in over 50 weddings in 2011 and countless wagon rides with our wagons at fall festivals, Christmas corralling and a few parades. We have added a covered wagon to our arsenal and do historic tours around Florence. I need to tell you about this wagon. I have installed a sound system stereo no less to play while we go around and look at all the old historic buildings. I have a CD that gives the history of each of them. If I'm not doing a tour, I listen to my favorite country artists with Uncle Johnny being at the top of the list.
We want you all to know how much fun we had last summer at the reunion. How grateful we are to each of you for your love and friendship. To be up Greys River where so many good memories have been made with all the family hunting and camping trips brings back many good memories that I will always cherish.
The time that was spent with our grandkids was very rewarding. We enjoyed watching and helping each of them grow in their cowboy and cowgirl skills. It was a lot of fun. They went from very cautious, slow rides as the summer started to having races as the summer came to a close. These were the things that warmed our hearts to see the confidence that they all had. That is how I grew up riding horses doing everything on a horse, like going after the cows up in the big pasture early in the morning, irrigating, hunting, riding to school on the last day of the school with my friends, then going down to salt river and playing tag and hide and seek in the willows. I know I am rambling , but these are some of the good memories that I have of horses and growing up. Horses have always meant a lot to me and still do. The last few years they have helped supplement our income so it has made my hobby less painful.
We are very thankful to all of our children and grandchildren and great-grand child. We will have two greats by the time you read this. You all mean a lot to us as we grow older and see that we all have some kind of issues as we go through life and hopefully learn from them and improve our lives. That is all we can expect.
We are also thankful for all of our brothers and sisters and your children as the family grows and we get spread out more even though it becomes more difficult to get to know you. Our door is always open and hope that if you get in our neck of the woods that you will stop and stay a few days. We feel it has been a special blessing when Nathan stops and stays when he is working in our area. Since Mom's 90th birthday party, Ray and Becky, Robert and Marcela, Gerald and Tina, Bob and Sharon, and Larry and Florence have all come to see us. It has been such a treat also when Kelly, Sandra, Barry and Alisa, DeAna and Sherrie and all their families have made the effort to spend time on our "wanta be ranch".
We want to say how thankful we are for the values we were taught by our parents. These are the lasting impressions that should mean a lot to each of us. I am also grateful for my grandparents. I think about Grandpa Humpherys and Grandpa Clark with fondness because I lived with both of them at different time during my college days at Logan.
But the person I am most thankful for is My Dear wife, Myrna. She is so much fun, so supportive, such a good cook and my waist line proves it. Our son, Aaron, is getting married on Friday, March 4th. We are thankful for him and Lisa to be able to go through the Temple with them.
No one knows what the future holds for any of us. The world is getting hectic to say the least. We feel that we may not be able to enjoy the freedoms that we have all had during our life time. We just hope and pray that we can all stay on the side of right and stave off the ills of what the Politicians are trying to impose on us which is not good for the freedoms that we all hold dear.
Love you all until next year, Ken and Myrna
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