Allen Family Update

Hi Grandma and Carter clan! It's Frank and Courtney here together to give you a little update. (We wish we were there to give it to you in person.)

Howdy! It's nice to keep in touch this way. Thank you for starting this blog. I recently started working at a physical therapist clinic doing massage on injured clients. I am taking a bit of a breather from my busy last four years. It's nice to be home more and spend time with my family. I have been enjoying helping kids with homework, playing ball and wrestling with my boys and taking my little "tiger cub" to scouts every week. I got to meet Karen and Dan's baby Gus this past week and I'm very proud of all three of them. He is a sweetie. I am looking forward to seeing you all at the reunion next year or hopefully sooner if it works out. Frank

It's a beautiful season and thankfully the Lord is blessing us with some time to regroup and strengthen. This is the first year with our kiddos off to public school. It's been an adjustment, but has already proved to be the right step. I spend my days teaching classes, studying and keeping little brother out of trouble. I love the older kids daily return from school where I get plenty of hugs and all the "oh so big" updates on the day. The kids are all well and growing too fast. - Here is a fun picture after a yoga session with Susan, Karen, Katie, Carli and I. We thought it would be fun to fan out like flower petals, but had no idea how off we were. The camera man thought we "looked great" in our asymmetrical pattern. (We won't mention who that camera man was.) Courtney

Here is Frank at a party with the boys. They really know how to have a good time together.

We hope that this harvest season has been fruitful for you all. Hugs to you Grandma Beth!

Wishing you all peace in the love of our beautiful Saviour,

Frank and Courtney

P.S. Have a wonderful Halloween with all your kiddos!

Rylee kissing new baby sister, Sydnee!

Sydnee Lynn Smith

Blessing of Pratt Cole Smith March 29/09

After a long day- a few pictures of the handsome baby boy.

Darren and Candice with brand new baby daughter, Bentley Ava Christensen, born 10 March 2009 weighing 5 lbs. 10 oz., 16 1/2 inches.

Last Friday Laurel, Elizabeth, Holly, and Pam cross-country skiied up Cub River 4 miles to the Boy Scout Lodge where we spent the night and then skiied out the next morning. Greg and their 4 children loaded up our packs and brought them in by snowmobile for us. The accommodations at the lodge were not quite like a hotel, but we had a great adventure. The cabin you see in the background was built by George Dominicus Carter and his brother, Warren, when they homesteaded this ranch and then lived there for several years. They sold the ranch to the Boy Scouts in 1916.

Baby Hayden D. Reutzel

Hayden D. Reutzel was born to Jeremy and Christy on February 23, 2009, weighing 7 lbs. 9 oz. in American Fork, Utah.