Family picture from Genie's wedding!
Finally got a picture of all 3 kids....Brayden does not like to be next to baby Austin. So i tricked Brayden by putting him next to Hannah and it worked; he smiled and didn't realize Austin was in the picture also.
Genie and Grant with the grandkids. Caleb and Luke are Kent and Becca's kids on the right of Genie. Brayden had a long day and had fallen asleep.
David just got back from his mission so i had to send a picture of him...he's on the far left, Jason in the middle and then Genie and Kent on the right.
Lisa and Hannah
Picture from Austin's baby blessing.

So I finally am trying to figure this out. By the way that was my previous posting right below this I just didn't want to type anything until I figured out how to put pictures on with my letter. So you can all laugh at my blank posting...ha ha ha!!! Hopefully when I publish this post it will all look how it is supposed to and if not I will have taylor help me tonight. So from the pictures lots of fun things have happened in the "wagner" household. David got home from his mission serving in Jamaica the week before Genie ....yes our little 9 year old Genie that we know and love... Genie married. Dave got home one week and then the next week Genie got married. Most of the pix are from genie's wedding.

Now on to my family. We are now a family of 5!!! Austin was born on Oct 17th....Taylor's b-day so that was exciting. Austin was actually due on my b-day Nov. 3rd but came 2 1/2 weeks early to share his b-day with his dad instead. That same day we found out that Taylor passed the Nevada bar! So we have felt very blessed to have a new healthy baby boy and to have passed the bar and Taylor has a job. Austin is adorable and it is so fun to have a baby in the house again. What a peace he brings to our home. Straight from heaven and perfect.

Hannah LOVES Austin...a little too much at times. She always wants to hold him and take care of him. She loves to play with Brayden as well. Hannah is in preschool and will be starting Kindergarten in the Fall. I remember going to Kindergarten and half of you I have been friends with since that age so now that I have my own little girl about to start grade school...it is crazy to me! Where does the time go?

Brayden is 2 and is at a cute age. Opposite Hannah he has no CARES for Austin. If anything he does not like to be around him very much. He will give Austin a kiss on the cheek or a hug if we ask him to but otherwise I try to stick Austin next to Brayden to get pictures and Brayden will say "no" and turn his back on the baby. Brayden loves to play and he will go off and play on his own. I do not have to worry about him too much.

Taylor loves his job and is enjoying being out of the studying and tests stage of college. He enjoys being an Attorney and loves where he works.

As for me I am busy with the kids and I am rather excited for this Christmas season. We moved back to Las vegas in may for those of you that did not know and I am excited to be near family for the first time since we got married during, all these holiday's that are coming around. Life is really good and all is well with us. I am excited to see all of you who will make it for the Christmas party this year. I will see you all soon!!!
Lisa

The gangs all together

The gangs all together

Lanie, 3 yrs. old

Heather and Savannah

Our 18 mo. old, Autumn

Hi Everyone! I have had so much fun reading everyone's blogs and hearing about what you're all doing! I thought I would add a little update- although as I write this, I realize I don't have near as much exciting news to report as most of you guys. Lately I have been dividing my time between teaching my daughter Lanie (Melanie) the Christmas songs she has to learn for our family's "Cousin Christmas Program", and learning to make pies so I don't emberass myself this Thanksgiving. I did get to take in an awesome show of Disney on Ice this weekend.
Dean and I got to take a trip to Orlando last month for a few days and we went to Sea World, which was my first time there. We were excited our girls were old enough to leave them with our families, it was a rare treat.

So I don't really know how to organize pictures with the text on this site, but I tried. I put up a picture of Heather with her new baby girl, Savannah...so adorable!
I am so excited to get together at Christmas. I was looking through my High School pictures to send some to Liz that she wanted for the big evening, and it brought back a lot of fun memories.

hope everyone is wonderful!

Adrienne

Merry Christmas to US!

Word is we're gonna have a lil' reunion on the Friday before Christmas in Las Vegas. Come one, come all!!! Contact Lizbuff if you have questions (used to be VanDyke, now is Mortensen). =)

Soweto, a slum of Nairobi, Kenya

Leave some comments, will ya? I think we should write back and forth more often. My lil Jerusalem group created a hotmail account and we write each other back and forth. That's what this thing is, right? Write up! lafsalott@hotmail.com

Kayz was here

Well, I decided it was about time I posted somethin' on here. A quick update....I'll try to keep it as condensed as possible. Since I graduated from high school, I attended Snow College and graduated with my Associates. Ran out of money, went back to UNLV, then used the last of my bonds I'd saved and went to Jerusalem in 2000. I visited Jordan, Egypt (only the Siani peninsula, we couldn't go to Cairo because they were burning American Flags), and obviously all over Israel. I lead teams to the nearby Palestinian hospital, was invited by several muslims to visit with their families and jumped all the way into their culture. After 5 weeks, though, we were in lock down because of all the fighting, always had to have our bags packed, had a charter plane arranged daily, and had the first presidency checking up on us each day. We went to Galilee for 17 days, begged President Faust to let us go to Egypt and climb mount Siani. We then had to flee in 3 groups in the middle of the night. We were the last group to go to the Jerusalem Center and left a month early (believe me, I could go on with stories, but I loved it). Then I finished at UNLV with my bachelor degree in Psychology. Came to Utah to work (did it a bit backwards--school in LV, work in Utah). I work with abused and neglected children in the Wasatch county (3 school districts)as a Case Manager/ Social Service Worker (teaching social skills, working with them educationally and lots o' fun things). In 2004 I went to the slums of Kenya and donated 140 pounds of medical and school supplies and built a school. Most had never seen a white person before, so we were quite the celebrities. For sure none had seen a white girl who could pick and mix cement with the boys. The local Kenyans stopped, watched and clapped---not really what I was going for, but the school was built and that's all that matters. I also hung out with the Massai tribe, did a safari, kissed a giraffe, helped 5 orphanages, worked on a secondary school, painted a home for severely abused or neglected children, chilled on the coast of Mombasa and saw poverty most people never witness.AMAZING! I'd highly recommend it.

Yep, think that's about it for me. Good times. My next goals are to help orphans in India and visit my second cousin (and other family) in Greece. It should be possible now that I'm taking the educational route and will have my summers open for humanitarian work. I'll let you know how that goes. =) Thanks everyone for writing. I love reading everything. I don't have any kids of my own, but the kids I work with sort of count---their parents don't want them and I have about 30 at a time, all of which I adore. They want to come home with me. I've also been called 'Mom' by several kids over the years of the learning center, residential treatment center and case management. That counts as sort of being a mom, right? =)

Hope to hear from you all later. I can't wait for our little reunion in December.
Cya lata,
Kali