Aug 09

Tanner home from his 3 week mini mission and the boys like each other! yay
Devin gets braces

Nathan 1st day of 8th grade

Devin 1st day of school as a sophmore

Ah...now here's a favorite site...Mt Graham!

Jul 09

One of my favorite views! cotton fields in Pima with purple mts in background
Elder Cathcart off to his mini mission with Elder Wesche!

Yummy fudge icecream bar says my niece!

Singing with some of my favorites!

Girls Camp...need I say more?

Wonderful entertaining and talented cooks!
Catch Ginny catch!

"I cant reach AM"

Oh the wonderful Wasabi/Soy Almond contest

Whose that awesome stake staff?

June events 09

Crawdad fest!
Met friends at Temple Visitor's Center

Not bad pic for sticking camera out window as we drove past

First Aid Pre-certification night for Girls Camp

On their way to Scout Camp!

Catching up from May 09

Tennis Team Seniors
Devin at baseball game

Our awesome youth at Lynn's baptism

Devin doing "yard work" and pinching Nates head off with his giant mitts!

Devin's awesome yard work design

The "Nerd" dance at Adam's Grad Luau
Adam, Tanner, & David

the Fam!

Hip Hip Horray...he did it!

SO FAR BEHIND

Well, Im pretty far behind on my blogging skills! I mostly just like posting pictures and letting whoever looks figure it all out, so I think thats what I'll do. I love other people's blogs, so I thought I really need to update mine as well. Here goes...

Grease...Beauty School Dropout starring Tanner! Saturday performance

Grease...Beauty School Dropout starring Tanner! Friday night performance

Tanner singing in Grease, what a good lookin "Teen Angel"!

Broken Windows-Youth Olympics

Youth Olympics 09

Dennis getting the boys ready for bike race
Tanner singing his "gold medal" song at performing arts

Tanner and Devin had to face off nearly at the beginning

Hard to believe in mid Jan. it was this warm at racquetball

Tanner what are you wearing!!!! dress up helps promote spirit!

More family events

Tanner and Dennis while taking down Christmas lights!Adalyn wearing jammies that Tanner sewed for Youth Olympics
Dennis in Mt Graham in the snow

Mom and Dad Jarvis opening their family "poster"from their 50th wedding anniversary reunion

Me and my fav. cousin Nan Ü and her hubby Allan

Cathcart family volleyball

This is part of what we did over Christmas break!

Tanner's Eagle Project

Tanner organized a team to remove bleachers, clear out areas, pour concrete under bleachers for better safety and return bleachers to concrete slabs

on the 1st work day the clouds rolled in as it had rained the entire week almost so we were hoping to not work in the pouring rain...After a little faith and prayer...out poked the Suns beautiful face and we had a sunny dry work day on day 1 of the project!The "muscle men" moved the bleachers off to the side so we could clear out the weeds, and level the dirt.

Then in went the forms, with more dirt leveling.Had to remove old 2x4's from bottom of bleachers and replace with new unweathered ones.
Shouldn't there always be a time out for some R&RHere comes the cement truck with the mud
Everyone finds their place and begins working like a well oiled machine
Tanner learns some finishing tips as he "finishes" one of the slabs

December Updates and this is only part of it!

We had the best of intentions as far as mailing out Christmas photo cards this year, still haven't YET, but this is one of the pics from the collage I made...what a joke to think the boys would be serious at all for any picture, this is the only one out of many!Devin and Dennis worked on his science project one Sunday night till 3am cuz it was due the following day, but it was pretty doggone cool, he got an A+++ if there is such a thing. Its called a "rube-goldberg"project.

Tanner was selected to be in Honor band in the High School District, they performed in December and he loved it, what a treat to get to play with so many good performers!

Nathan got to perform in December in his piano recital; we were so proud of him that he was the only one that memorized both of his piano pieces!

This is the Christmas postcard we sent from our office this year with the

2 best Chiropractic Assistants and the awesome Chiropractor!

Alma 26:5 ...yea, all the day long did ye labor...

Preston is working hard in Iowa, doesn't this picture just tell the story of 2 worn out, hard working, somewhat rejected Elders? But then they'll sleep, wake up, and do it all over again filled with hope and faith of finding the One!

Many Faces on Thanksgiving Day

The Cathcarts and their spread of yummy food! Nathan waiting for his turn to eat.
Adalyn wanting more "po'corn" out of Darla's pantry.

For Mom C's 50th wedding anniversary Diana made her this beautiful placque.

Aralynne Jo-Lee Cathcart with her beautiful big browns

Tanner ACTS like he doesnt like our affection or maybe its the butcher knife in his dads hand.

The Great Turkey Carver!

Swim Banquet

Here is one of the many "lasts" for Tanner this year as a senior at his swim banquet with his pals

Tanner on Senior Night at Football game

It was Tanner's last night to perform at a football game in high school as he is a senior! Yikes! He was section leader for the last 2 years on the drum line.

Devin in "Down & Back Boys"

Devin was "Walter" in the Down and Back Boys Production in November. It was his first time preforming in a Musical and did fantastic!

Tanner Marching

The high-lights of our trip to Seattle, Washington!

Tanner's Swim Meet

Tanner swam his first 500 meter race today. He has never done it, but did a good job for the team. He even had a little kick left at the end.

Navajo Lake 40ft cliff jumping

All my boys went cliff jumping from 40-60ft cliffs...not me, I was photographer

Elder Cathcart at Nauvoo Pageant

Preston got to go to the Nauvoo Pageant with other missionaries and investigators.

Our family -minus our missionary Preston!

Well here we all are last Sunday...we took a picture to send to Preston in Iowa and thought I'd post it here too. They are growing up WAY TOO FAST!

Mangey ole dogs

For dogs that NEVER go for rides in the car or rarely leave the yard, they sure felt "right at home" in the suburban after picking them up at Dianas while we were having Mom C's birthday party.

Happy Birthday Momma C

We celebrated Mom C's 70th birthday...arent her and 2 of her sisters beautiful!

Oh what do YOU do in the summertime...

Dennis has still "got it"! Tanner is our "hot dog" on skis, he loves doing tricks, we need to move into trick skis next.
Devin is following in his big bros footsteps, his feet might even get bigger! lol
Nathan skiing like a Jr. Pro! You go my little man!

Flooding in Cedar Rapids Iowa

Here is a picture of downtown Cedar Rapids. Notice there are buildings half underwater and no streets...just water! Take note of the Dairy Queen-no more blizzards I guess. Also the next pic with building half submerged...sad times!

May Island and the dissappearing bridge

I think the big building is on "May Island" and the bridge in the front of the building is almost underwater. Preston and his comp went walking on this Island to take pictures. Looks like cars are trying to evacuate.















This is Preston's comp on the bridge checking out the rising water. This is the Cedar River.




















This is another glimpse at the Cedar River and May Island.

May Island and bridge underwater, the same bridge you saw in previous pic with cars on it.

May Island immersed underwater. You can barely see the top of the bridge in front of the building with debris stuck to it, this is the same bridge as pictures above where you can see cars on bridge and grass around the building. Crazy!!!

I suppose I should be journaling each picture.

Mercy is the hospital in Cedar Rapids that got flooded. They formed a line in the flood waters to assembly line the sandbags in to try to save the rest of the hospital. Preston was on the inside and could see the water pressing against the windows.

This is the Sonic Prest spent his 1st P-day at, now they are boating down the street???hmmm

Here is the same crew after the waters receded at a WWII vet that lost all his memorabilia in the floods as well as love letters and albums from his sweetheart. Prest said there are piles of stinky garbage in front of everyone's homes. Its smelling like a city dump.

The Sand-bagger crashes!

Our exhausted boy couldnt stay awake another minute.

Sand bagging in Palo Iowa and the flooded alley ways.

Here is one of the "gangs" sandbagging fast and furious. Then the group of missionaries in the area. After the flood came and rolled right over the top of the sandbags, the Elders went thru a neighborhood to check on some people they knew and found the alley-way thigh high in flood water as you see Preston here.

They sandbagged till they were sunburnt and exhausted.

Here is Elder Cathcart in Cedar Rapids the day before the levies broke, sandbagging with all the other missionaries. They had quite the incredible and devastating weekend and still recovering from the flooding.

Our photo shoot

We were taking pictures to send to Preston and the boys are not very professional photographers, hard to believe, so we had a long photo shoot with no good photos and we got to laughing our heads off.

Devin's 8th Grade Promotion

Our little Devin gradutated from 8th grade! Soon to be a High School Freshman! (brotherly love)

Mothers Day Phone call from Elder Cathcart

This was Mother's Day, awaiting a phone call from Elder Cathcart, what kooks! Of course the empty phone in the middle is mine, but I was taking the picture!

Start em along with a Dollar and a half, bid em at two...

My handsome hubby all dressed up for a Charity Auction he worked with Heidi Folgelsong and Tex Earnhardt. He's the best Auctioneer 'round these parts!

Preston's 1st companion in his 1st area & 1st Pday

Preston with his first companion in the field. Go get em in Iowa boys! Also here is his first P-day in Cedar Rapids, nice to see some things never change, hangin' at Sonic!

Who's on first? What's on 2nd? and I Don't Know's on 3rd.

Nathan is playing on the "Dodgers" this season for baseball. He's had a couple years off from this sport and decided he wanted to play again. He may be a couple of heads smaller than everyone, but no one his size has his determination. The boy next to him in this pic is an opposing player, notice the size difference. Nathan has not even mentioned being nervous or anything. Good Job little Man!

Devin's 1st Stake Dance, Grandma drove him.

Grandma drove Devin up to his 1st dance. Thought we'd better get a picture of that for bloggin sake! He's growing up pretty fast! (as Im posting the song "Don't Blink" by Kenny Chesney came on...sigh)

Looks like he's ready for Dancing

Devin lookin' all snazzy for his 1st Multi-Stake Dance. He had so much fun, when we picked him up he asked if he could go again next week!

Tanner Letters in Tennis (as a rookie!)

Tanner received his Varsity Letter this year during tennis. He also received 2 other awards at his tennis banquet: MVP and Rookie of the Year. It was his first year to play tennis! Good Job my boy!

Weekend in Pima jam packed with events!

1- Jacob's Eagle Court of Honor
2-Niece's car accident that NObody was badly hurt in right outside the Court of Honor
3-My mom and dad were honorees at Heritage Days for their community service
4-"I'll get a line, you get a pole, we'll go fishin in a crawfish hole"
5-"Anything you can do I can do better" my sister's ward talent show
6-Dennis getting reacquainted with his Seminary teacher

Pima Heritage Days...ah Mt. Graham..love it!

Our Pima weekend was packed with events. I LOVE looking at Mt Graham. Its one of my favorite things!

Pat's Run 2008

Dennis, Tanner, & Devin ran in Pat's Run this year in Tempe. Its a 4.2 mile run in honor of Pat Tillman, an Army Ranger who gave up a Pro football contract to join the Army and become a Ranger.My boys all did so well. Tanner came in 212 out of 7448 overall. Devin and Dennis did well too, but boy were they sore!

Elder Cathcart with Pres. & Sis. Talbot

Meet our Guest of Honor at our Pig Roast

We got to house Lucy/Babe the pig for a couple of weeks awaiting our Ward's Pig Roast Fund Raiser for Young Men and Young Women for camp this summer. She weighed over 300lbs. Everyone said she tasted delicious, pork roast slowly cooked for 12 or more hours. Myself, I couldnt hardly down the delicious tender pork roast. Bummer, not that I got attached or anything, she smelled horrible and drew a lot of flies, why would I be attached. But just couldnt eat it. Dennis, Tanner, and Devin said it was great, Nathan was with me on this, not really able to enjoy the roast pig. Our fund raiser party was a big success though.

Tanner & Adam doubles partners at tennis regionals

They won their first match but lost 2nd cuz they were so tired from the sun and only had a short break before their 2nd match. Their opposing team was well rested cuz they had a bye while these 2 were playing 1st match. It was the hottest day we've had all year long and they could not get hydrated enough. They did great as a doubles team, and only played together 3 matches. Watch out for this doubles team next year!

Preston with Sis. Montierth in MTC same District

Sis. Montierth is a great friend of my sister Karen in Safford, and Karen is the one who scanned and emailed this picture to me, that Sis. M sent her in the mail...whew, that was a long explanation.

Preston is now is Cedar Rapids Iowa. He said it is beautiful there and he is already feeling at home. They've tracted, taught, and met some members in their area. His comp is Elder Butterfield. He's doing great!

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

Preston MTC pictures

I hope they call me on a mission, when I have grown a foot or 2!

Preston's Mission

I have attached a video (hopefully) of Preston opening his mission call. He left on March 19,2008. Dennis, Tanner and I (Carolyn) drove him to the MTC. We had lots of laughs. (and then lots of tears, but happy ones) He leaves for Iowa on April 9th. Yippee he gets to phone home that day from the airport...can't wait. He's doing great. LOVES the MTC, LOVES the Gospel!

First Post

Well, here I am starting a blog and have no clue what I'm doing. I love the idea of it though. Once I get the hang of it, I'm afraid I'll be a blogger junkie. Ü