Saturday, October 25, 2008
Jaden Apart of Beauty And The Beast Cast
On Oct 24th Grandpa Lindman attended a performance at Taylorsvilles High School. It was the musical Beauty and the Beast presented my the Taylorsville High performing arts department.
The special part about this musical was knowing that his 7 year old great grandson Jaden was playing the starring roll of chip, the tea cup. Jaden has been going over to the High School that past 4 or 5 weeks and practicing with the cast after having been chosen for the part. Plus a fun bonus that night was the fact that Eric his father was filling in as the drummer for the school orchestra at the request of his father, who is the conductor.
This was fun for Grandpa because he to was apart of school plays while attending South High School is senior year. He and Grandma would talked about that experience on occasion, when Grandma purshased a record of the musical play on Broadway.
He commented that this play was how ever much for completed than anything that was preformed in those days. Grandpa took a front row seat by Jaycee and the production began. It became a magical world filled with talking furniture, not to mention horrible beast and wolfs that climbed up the sides of the walls near the stage. The stage sets where moved of an on the stage transforming the stage from a village to forest to castle in wonderful creative way.
All ends well... you know one of those happily ever after fairly tales. The beast becomes a prince again, falls in love with Bell, the castle and everyone transforms back,including Jaden who transforms from a tea cup to a real boy once again. It was a wonderful event! And we all loved it ! Great job Jaden!
If Grandpa knows how to do something he will do a great job but on the other hand if he doesn’t he will figure it out, or invent a way to do it. And this is one of his most amazing talents. This month the basement toilet started to leak, and so Grandpa was on the task. Slow at time but sure he says. He removed the toilet to fix the uneven flooring that seemed to be cause the problem. He rigged up some kind of skate board like to help move the toilet to another location, then went to the store to get some type of cement floor filler.
It's mixed with Kamber helps. She is a good sport when it comes to helping out. This time she became the transport system to the basement, by hauling the buckets downstairs to the bathroom. Then and Grandpa got down and smoothed out the surface, let it dry then reinstated the toilet. Well as of today the toilet is reinstalled and seems to be working great. Last I heard anyway! Sounds like Kamber is having a great time attending school and during here free time she is learning about the the home improvement business as well.
Way to go Kamber!
Jared Birthday Party
Julie and Eric Jensen had their third child September 26th and they named him Jared William Jensen he weighed 7lbs 31/2 oz and was 20 inches long. Jared was Grandpa Lindman’s 60th grandchild at the time, and now the family is still growing even faster. His birth was pretty special in that he was invited to the birthing center just moments after Jared was born, and he got to hold him.
There was a wonderful and special spirit in that room the day that he was born… and all who were there felt blessed to be there.
Heaven just seems to be close at those kinds of moments, and we could all tell that heaven felt special about little Jared. From that day until now Jared knows who Grandpa Lindman is,and isn’t shy at all about greeting him when he comes for Sunday dinner.
Well it’s hard to believe that all the great grands are growing so fast and Jared is no exception. He is now Jared turned 2 years old and family gathered to celebrate his day and of course Grandpa Lindman and his dogs came as well.
It was great fun with hats and funny glasses to boot as well as a fun train birthday cake.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Update on Carolyn Eva Hanosek
Felicia shared the details of Carolyns birth...
she was named after her grandmother Carol because of the events that took place.
"She decided to make her appearance very quickly so I didn't get to have the relaxing water-birth I was planning.
After 3 (mammoth) contractions she was born. Grandma (who had just arrived
from out of town that afternoon) caught her before she hit the bathroom
floor. Dad got home from work 10 minutes after she was born. Then we opened the emergency birth kit and tried to have everybody find the cord-cutting kit.
What we learned.
1. Keep emergency birth kit in the house, not in detached garage.
2. Do not have lids sealed on emergency birth kit. Gamma lid would have
worked better.
3. Make sure that Dad (or other helper) reads through instructions before
the birth.
4. The cord cutting kit is small and easily hidden.
5. Firemen gag when they see afterbirth.
Carolyn is beautiful and we are happy she is here."
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The Lindman Family Just Keeps Growing
Three new great granddaughters were born this month and share something in common with their great grandfather, September birthdays. The news of their safe arrives was wonderful and you could tell that it was one of those sunshiny moments of life. Grandpa was smiled from ear to ear, and you could tell that his heart was filled with joy, wonder, and gratitude.
"Mothers in this family are wonderful , and appreciate their willingness to teach good values, and gospel principles to their families." Grandpa says often.
The first news of a birth this month came from his daughter Carol when she called on September 9th to share the exciting news about the birth of her newest granddaughter. She had gone to Felicia’s to help out with the family and had no idea when she arrived that she would be helping with the birth of a baby as well. Carol was asleep in the early morning hours when she was wakened by a couple of her grand children who had heard Felicia calling her. Carol was sleeping on the couch with ear phones on to help her sleep. And boy did they help her sleep great. Once awakened Carol dashed to Felicia side… and a beautiful baby girl was born moments later. More to come on this adventure.
Later he was told by Kamber that Kristine and Michael Ballard had another sweet little girl born Sept. 19, 2008 at 1:49 pm 8 lbs. 4 ozs 19 1/2 inches. She was named Olivia Kaye Ballard and all the kids love her. And Kristine is really lucky to have a great husband who is willing to taking a few weeks leave from work to help our around the house when mother and baby adjust. Michael e-mailed photos to Aunt Suzanne who shared them with a very anxious Great grandpa.
On September 22, at 7:57 pm. another girl was born weighing 6 lbs. 8 oz and was 19 inches long. Lauren and Joseph Brown had a sweet little bundle joy join their family and they named her, Norah Mae Brown. Norah is the 74th great grandchild to join the Lindman family.When Grandpa learned of the news he called to share it with Aunt Suzanne. Knowing that they had a blog, she went to see if information or photo had been posted. Sure enough one photo was there of Norah so she printed it off for Grandpa Lindman.
When he came for Sunday dinner she gave it to him. When he looked at her sweet photo all he could do was laugh with delight as he admired the sweet little face on the paper. I
n celebration of these new births Grand Lindman said, “Congratulations to you all! I pray the lords blessing to be with you. I love you all.”