Matt and Lindy Denny update

The above picture is from Matt's Marine Corps ball, celebrating the Marine Corps Birthday, which sharesw its glorious day with Mark and Edgar. Great day!!!

It has been a while since we have posted anything on here, so i thought it was time for an update.

Matt- I am currently at Navy Medical Center San Diego undergoing treatment for my complex migraines and black outs. The doctors are coming closer to pin pointing an actual diagnosis. But sadly, since I cannot perform my Marine duties, I am in the process of being medically retired from the military. It is a long and complicated process. I will be doing a truckload of appointments trying to get all information down. I was able to go home for Thanksgiving. Sorry if i didnt see ya, it was a short 4 days...But i will be home for christmas so i should be able to see more of you. There is not a lot of details i can share at this time about how long i will be active or when the process will be done. But we are getting closer so thats great news.

LINDY- Recently she was promoted to store Manager at Aldo Shoes in the Gateway, so she is super stressed managing a retail store during holidays. So all you ladies and fancy dressin guys, head down to her store and say hi, she can find ya some good shoes...She is happy that Matt is closer so we get to see each other every few weeks. Alot better than a year apart. She is really sick right now and is sleeping to get better(so if you in the area, take her some soup and fever medicine)  In good news, we just bought a new car...it is sweet. a hyundai accent, 12'. i will put a picture below. Other than that things are swell between us. now that we can see eachother alot is good. Those of you who live with your spouse, dont take it fr advantage. And ask me or lindy how bad it sucks wwhen you cant control how much your together. Love and cherish all the time you have together.

Love you all and hope to see some of you this holiday season...

WHAT A DAY-WIND, WIND, WIND, WRECK!!

 Thursday afternoon: Kelly driving home from work and a guy ran into him.....going 70+ mph.
The interesting part, Kelly had just slowed to 60 mph because of traffic so the hit was bad, but not as bad as it could have been if he was stopped...
I am so thankful he is ok....a little sore, but not too bad.

Hopefully they total the Honda........

Tree down at Jeff and Erin's Bountiful house.
Crazy 80-90 mph Wind....scary. Bountiful estimated there were 1000 trees lost in the city.

Jeff's house has 4 huge pine trees to the east of it. They were lucky that the only one to fall was the one landing between the homes. Any of the other 3 would have landed on the house. Thankful that the renters were not injured.






                                                      another shot of Jeff's tree.

 So many affected....this was Shane's Dad's shed at the farm. They also lost 4 or 5 very large trees in their yard.

 Recognize Grandpa's shed.....it now lays on the far west grow box area. The corner of cement that you can see is where it used to be.
It is history.....

Across the street neighbors sycamore....a shambles. Missed their cars, but I don't know how.


We had about 6 or 7 very large trees on our street fall down...Sad, many were originals to the street and 60-80 feet tall.
Our street looks bare in places.

Everyone is safe...so that is GREAT!

Draper Thanksgiving

Here's to you Aly! :) The Draper family ALL got to be together on Thanksgiving this year. It really was neat to have everyone gathered around the table(s) and it's fun to watch the cousins play like we all did when we were little. We had amazing food and lots of fun! This is the only picture I have to post since I didn't use my camera- but I know there are more Draper Thanksgiving photos out there- so maybe you'll see them. :) This picture was courtesy of either of our photographers, Aunt Kalyn or Brandon.

Thanksgiving Pictures

I feel like people should post pictures of their Thanksgivings so we can all see.  I would post some of ours, but apparently we didn't take any.  The Willey kids (except Jeff, Erin, and the girls) all went over to my parents house and enjoyed a fabulous dinner.  We missed having Jeff, Erin, Morgan, Lauren, Paige, and Reagan with us!

Denny Family Christmas Party? (December 27 or December 28?)

We're going to have the Denny Family Christmas Party on either December 27 or December 28 at Sandee's house.  If you have a preference on the date leave a comment here to let us know.  We will announce the decision in a week or so.

McClelland Gang Update

We've had a lot of sick days around these parts and I mean A LOT!  So, we've been getting creative at home with things to do.

We made pasta necklaces which Jonathan wore everyday until all the pasta was broken (at least 2 weeks).

We had robot day where we dressed up as robots and even watched the movie Robots.

Henry is just cute and getting so big.  He's already starting to outgrow his 12 month clothes - he isn't even 5 months yet!

Sick time = a lot of pillow time.  

There's no shortage of cuteness around here - thank goodness.  Sometimes those smiles are my saving grace.

We also just recently had our family pictures taken - I think it was a miracle that we're all smiling in this one.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I miss those Denny Thanksgivings at Grandma's house with so many people and so much food you couldn't even move!  Love you!  Those of you who are getting together for Thanksgiving - I want to see pictures of the festivities!  I'll post mine if you post yours! 

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