tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54113812024-03-23T11:44:39.963-06:00Life in a Northern TownLike my bluechair journal, but shorter cuz I have 5 kids--just my ramblings, photos, and occasional deep thoughts. Enjoy.Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.comBlogger2263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-85645629808372394702019-07-28T23:38:00.000-06:002019-07-29T20:07:20.832-06:00FAMILY LETTER 07.28.19
Dear Loved Ones,
We have just Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-49687511244688949222019-05-22T12:29:00.001-06:002019-05-22T12:30:14.523-06:00FAMILY LETTER SPECIAL EDITION 05.20.19
Grandpa’s Miraculous Recovery
As shared during Family Home Evening on 5/20/2019
Recorded by Jamie Melin
We gathered Monday 5/20/19 at the ranch for a simple soup dinner and a visit with Grandpa after his harrowing 10 days away. Aunt Marti Mayberry and Grandma Lyn joined us as they were in town until Tuesday for Niles’ baptism.
Grandpa Tom suggested we sing “I Am A Child of God,” Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-24977758017221428562019-04-29T13:02:00.004-06:002019-04-29T21:18:47.827-06:00FAMILY LETTER 04.28.19
Dear Loved
Ones,
If you
thought we were busy the first half of April, OH EM GEEEE! It has been a crazy
and awesome two weeks at Casa Melin Ranch for Free-Range Children. When last we
wrote, Niles and Ammon were just starting their baseball/tee ball games and Adeline
and Kristina were knee-deep in almost nightly rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast. All of that is
still happening and it’s Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-33394668986457247572019-04-29T12:30:00.000-06:002019-04-29T16:37:26.060-06:00FAMILY LETTER 04.16.19Dear Loved Ones,
My goodness, time flies. I’m still struggling to get my brain
around 2019 and it’s already APRIL! And April is half over! We have done a lot
since our last letter and Spring Break. On Monday, April 1st, we were all back in the saddle again after 11
days off school. I got tons of house work and laundry done and watched some BYU
devotionals. I was glad to be back into my routineJamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-78022895120113820252019-04-28T18:38:00.004-06:002019-04-29T16:14:41.432-06:00FAMILY LETTER 03.31.19
Dear Loved
Ones,
We are
savoring our last day of Spring Break today, thankful for lots of fun memories
made this week! Today was 5th Sunday at church, so the presidency
wrangled the kids so the teachers could go listen to the Bishop. It was quite
the rodeo, but it ended on a sweet note, when the kids all wrote little letters
and pictures on big rolls of paper for our 4 ward Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-87933308415565080472019-03-18T13:46:00.000-06:002019-03-21T06:30:15.505-06:00FAMILY LETTER 03.17.19
Dear Loved Ones,
Top o’ the morning to ya! We are doing home church all day
today because Niles and Ammon have ridiculous coughs. These boys bark all night
long and I wake up in a panic cuz it sounds like they can’t breathe, so I lose
sleep, but they wake up at 7 or 8am like nothing happened and run me ragged.
Every. Time. Today we are taking it easy while Daddy Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-18749207897365623582019-03-03T09:38:00.005-07:002019-03-04T20:17:37.296-07:00FAMILY LETTER 03.02.19
Dear Loved Ones,
We are
writing to you from our snow cave under 3 feet of snow, from which we dare not
emerge into the below-zero temperatures which blew in right after the blizzard,
thanks to an “arctic blast.” We have burned through most of our wood, but we
have been cozy and mostly unscathed (except for getting stuck repeatedly at the
end of our own driveway in the mountain of snow left Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-5917049068450330942019-02-21T12:26:00.002-07:002019-02-21T13:37:56.071-07:00FAMILY LETTER 02.12.19Dear Loved Ones,
Another
month of winter has come and gone. With Home Church now on Sunday evenings it’s
hard for me to carve out letter writing time. I will figure it out at some
point, but for now, I will limp along relying on social media posts and texts
to reconstruct our doings when eve I can make time.
We were only
a week into the new year when I last wrote and now we are Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-49498245875881294992019-01-07T22:21:00.000-07:002019-01-11T13:42:44.781-07:00FAMILY LETTER 01.07.19
Dear Loved Ones,
The New Year is off to a fantastic start. We
rang in 2019 last Monday night with our Melin Cousins and the Jones Family. We
had planned to go out the ranch but changed our minds and hosted everyone here
at the house. We started out with games and chatting and lots of food (!)—at
one point the kids were watching Blue Planet, then there was some dancing, some
sparklers Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-59344721081918709532018-12-30T21:38:00.000-07:002019-01-11T13:43:26.151-07:00FAMILY LETTER 12.30.18
Dear Loved Ones,
Well, there are about 30 hours left in 2018.
It has been a marvelous year! Our holiday season has been busy but so sweet.
Next year we won’t host EVERYTHING, but it was fun to just stay home this year.
Since I last wrote TWO weeks ago there have
been major events, like Christmas Eve and Day, and ADELINE GOT HER DRIVERS
LICENSE! I had no idea what a Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-27696303522635251152018-12-16T22:30:00.000-07:002019-01-11T14:13:01.670-07:00FAMILY LETTER 12.16.18
Dear Loved
Ones,
Okay, it has been a long busy Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-31372430990696599182018-11-18T23:16:00.000-07:002018-11-18T23:16:06.167-07:00FAMILY LETTER 11.18.18
Dear Loved Ones,
Another wintry week in Livingston! We had
ourselves a (hopefully once in a lifetime) big adventure in the snow this week,
we spent time with lots of people we Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-65855059950323225222018-11-12T00:07:00.001-07:002018-11-12T00:07:02.655-07:00FAMILY LETTER 11.11.18
Dear Loved
Ones,
Things slowed down a little bit Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-49867875762014396502018-11-04T18:48:00.004-07:002018-11-04T20:14:55.529-07:00FAMILY LETTER 11.04.18
Dear Loved Ones,
Today was
another kind of favorite fall day, when it is windy and cold and a little bit
rainy, but I can be inside at church or by the fire enjoying the blustery day
from inside my happy place, with my people, enjoying veggie beef stew and fresh
bread maker bread and pumpkin cookies and count all the blessings October
brought us.
Many
exciting things have happened Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-65191791127664634882018-10-14T21:01:00.002-06:002018-10-14T21:01:26.359-06:00FAMILY LETTER 10.14.18
Dear Loved Ones,
This week has been a lot of work. Kids have been home sick with
colds, Heidi was home on grieving leave, we had two snowy days, and I did a
bunch of food prep. I taught myself how to use my Instapot and made 4lbs each
of shredded pork and shredded chicken and made them into enchiladas and tamales
to Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-13783645687306141502018-10-08T15:24:00.001-06:002018-10-08T19:07:23.638-06:00FAMILY LETTER 10.08.18
Dear Loved Ones,
This week felt like a year, but in a good way—because
so many good things happened. On Monday
10/1, I hunkered down and worked on our Mission Memories slideshow video
for about 12 hours. I knew if I stopped or tried to get back to it later I
would lose my mojo, so I got it done between school drop offs and picks ups and
a free-for-all dinner. I was completely Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-63566501614785011292018-09-30T15:33:00.001-06:002018-09-30T17:01:26.020-06:00FAMILY LETTER 09.30.18
Notes
on an Epic September
Dear Loved
Ones,
You can tell by the fact that this
letter is a monthly one, not a weekly one, that this month has been EPIC! It
has been a true test of our abilities to coordinate schedules, organize
supplies and meals, eat super-fast or subsist on trail mix and Gatorade, and love
one another in the process. Way back on September 3rd, we Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-23154451149742830282018-09-03T10:27:00.000-06:002018-09-03T10:27:39.927-06:00FAMILY LETTER 09.02.18
Dear Loved Ones,
The past two weeks have been a whirlwind for us…and now we are 8! We got a new German daughter, Kristina, on August 23! School has started and everyone has had at least two full days of school. I am mostly just driving around doing what my phone tells me to do—between calendared events, emergencies, schedule changes, and papers Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-55994566304510424412018-08-19T14:21:00.001-06:002018-08-19T14:21:12.922-06:00FAMILY LETTER 08.19.18
Dear Loved Ones, &Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-91529360714873341782018-08-12T21:30:00.000-06:002018-08-19T14:25:52.559-06:00FAMILY LETTER 08.12.18
Dear Loved Ones,
This week, our lush Montana paradise dried up
like so many raisins in the California sun, with 100-degree temperatures and no
moisture. I’m not complaining because
the summer has been mild and we’ve had plenty of rain and we aren’t on fire
like much of the west. But the sky is tan and the air feels like a hairdryer
and smells like a Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-61424940414065601862018-08-05T20:50:00.003-06:002018-08-05T20:50:59.308-06:00FAMILY LETTER 08.05.18
Dear Loved Ones,
We sure are grateful for Montana weather this weekend--it was way
too hot for us in Utah! But we love the people we went to visit and we made
some great memories so all the sweating was worth it.
On Monday 7/23, I was in kind of a funk I really couldn’t get
going. But I do remember reading missionary Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-18851013049634135022018-07-23T12:57:00.000-06:002018-07-23T12:57:04.855-06:00FAMILY LETTER 07.22.18
Dear Loved Ones,
It’s been a
quiet, hot summer week at our house. Rich and James left for Scout Camp at K-M
Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-11107589567680179532018-07-15T23:13:00.001-06:002018-07-15T23:49:45.671-06:00FAMILY LETTER 07.15.18
Dear Loved Ones, &Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-73981368643976402222018-07-14T13:03:00.000-06:002018-07-16T00:27:23.034-06:00FAMILY LETTER 07.01.18
Dear Loved
Ones,
It has been
a long and busy three weeks and we have had so much fun! We have traveled over
3,000 miles and enjoyed lots of sunshine and lots of fantastic thunderstorms,
too. We have visited many loved ones and made great memories…and it’s only July
first! As I type this, it’s a perfect sunny 75-degree Sunday with bright Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5411381.post-48758448037551387822018-06-11T17:01:00.002-06:002018-06-11T17:19:11.530-06:00FAMILY LETTER 06.10.18
Dear Loved Ones,
We've enjoyed a great first week of summer with beautiful weather a few rain showers and many trips Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981388823737554845noreply@blogger.com0