My Friend...

My good friend from High School, Kara Tanner, passed away on Saturday January 26 at her home in Idaho Falls. I had recently been back in contact with her after she moved back here from Alabama. I will miss her. This is the obituary that was in the Post Register yesterday:



Kara Ann Tanner (May 2, 1980 - January 26, 2008)

Kara Ann Tanner, 27, was born May 2, 1980 in Rexburg, Idaho to Karen Jean Passey and David Owen Tanner. Kara passed away peacefully at her home on January 26, 2008.
Kara attended high school at Austin High School in Decatur AL. She graduated in 1998 from Rigby High School in Rigby Idaho. She moved back to Decatur and lived there until 2006 when she moved back to Idaho Falls. She was employed at Chili's Restaurant and had many friends there.
Kara was preceded in death by her beloved grandparents Wallace and Laura Passey of Ucon, Idaho. She is loved and will be missed by her mother Karen Passey Steele of Idaho Falls, step-dad Patrick Steele of Decatur, Alabama, her father David Tanner and his wife Tammie of Longmont, Colorado; her sister and best friend Jill and brothers Weston, Brian, Brad and Sean and Grandparents Owen and Bonnie Tanner of Washington, Utah. Numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends will also miss her dearly.
Kara was loving and generous and loved by many, especially her family. She was a wonderful big sister and always took care of her younger sister and brothers. She was a true friend and many are lucky to have called her their friend. She brought happiness to many in her short time on this earth.
There are no words to describe our sorrow. Our loss is immense and she will be mourned for the rest of our lives.
Kara: For your strength of character and perseverance, resilience, and joi de vive I admire you, because you are my daughter, I love you, Mom.
Funeral Services will be held at 12 Noon on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at the LDS Church on 9th and South Boulevard in Idaho Falls.
The family will receive friends from 6:30-8p.m. on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at Coltrin Mortuary, 2100 First St. Idaho Falls and one hour prior to the services at the church. Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.coltrinmortuary.com.

I've Been Tagged! I tag Amanda & Britnee!

1. Your Rock Star Name-- Odie Camry (first pet and current car)

2. Your Gangsta Name-- Neapolitan Butterscotch (fav. ice cream flavor, fav. cookie)

3. Your Detective Name: Yellow Zebra (favorite color, fav. animal)

4. Your Soap opera Name: Lu Rexburg (middle name, city where you were born)

5. Your Star Wars Name: Bennme (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)

Where's 6? he,he!!

7. SUPERHERO NAME: The Orange Pepsi (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) -

8. NASCAR NAME: Wendell Ned (the first names of your grandfathers) -

9. STRIPPER NAME: Lucky Caramel ( the name of your favorite scent/perfume/cologne, favorite candy) -

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: Jo H. (mother’s & father’s middle names ) -

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: Chergosky Chicago (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) -

12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: Fall Lilac (your favorite season/holiday, flower) -

13. CARTOON NAME: Appley Cami (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) -

14. HIPPY NAME: Yogurt Orange Linden (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) -

15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: The Reading Rain Tour (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) -

Matthew Wayne

We got a new nephew last night, Matthew Wayne Bennett, who was 8lb 2oz and 20 1/2" long. He was born by Caesarian Section about 5:30 last night 01/10/08. He sure is a cute baby. He has tons of black hair and it is really curly!

Happy New Year

I am going to try and do much better this year at keeping this updated!

Here goes:

Our Christmas was really nice this year. We gave Brady's dad a book for him to fill out answers to questions about him and his childhood. We started right in on it and seemed to enjoy it. I will be so glad to have it for our family.

We are still in the same callings we have had. Brady teaches the priests and I teach the 10-year olds. I have a new group next week, and they are much more well-behaved than my last group! That last group could be pretty rotten sometimes!

We have tons of snow this year. I think it will make the winter seem longer than it has in the past. We couldn't even get our car down the road and have been driving our pickup. They finally plowed the road on Monday (a full week after the storm!) and we drove the car finally. That pickup was getting expensive.

We got a crib ordered last night. We are excited to get it put together. We have been putting it off and finally decided we had better get it coming so it was here and ready before I was too big to do anything about it!

We are now done with the holidays and eagerly awaiting our new addition!

It's a Boy!...and other news.

Jake and Bonny had their baby this morning about 6am. He was only 5lb 6oz. Tiny! They named him Isaac Aaron. He is such a doll!






Corey & Gloria were sealed on Saturday in the Idaho Falls Temple. The ceremony was in Spanish, but it was awesome to hear it and to feel the spirit there.




We are excited for Christmas and really excited for our week and a half off of work! Yeah!

We had our family party on the 11th. That is always a loud affair, but lots of fun.

It's a Girl!

We are very excited to let everyone know that we are having a girl! She will be here in mid-April and we are very excited to meet her. Her name will be Katie Rae. She is named after her Grandma Dixie. She is healthy and growing just perfectly, only she is a little lazy...we couldn't get her to wake up during the ultrasound!

Family Update

Brady's dad isn't doing very well now. He has been having a few bad days in a row and Brady's mom is pretty worried about it. Please keep him in your prayers. We really want to keep him around, but since we know he won't be here long, we mostly don't want him to suffer. We are having Thanksgiving with just Brady's family this year, instead of the big extended family affair. It should be nice to have just our family around for this last Thanksgiving.

We are very excited for the Radford Reunion. Amanda and I have found a place that would be awesome for our next reunion (summer 2009) and we thought we could take the next turn and plan it. We will have to talk more about it, but I think it would be a really awesome spot for everyone to come to. I will try to come up with more details before the reunion.

We had a baby shower for Brady's brother's wife last Saturday. It was sure fun and she got lots of stuff she needed. We are having a surprise shower for Bonny this weekend at Amanda's, so that should be fun also.