Gayleen and Mike

We are still in Mesquite and the weather is still awesome! Mike, Missy and I are enjoying our daily 2 mile walks soaking up the vitamin D. Yesterday I got a text message from Nikki which said that Sidney had a gymnastics competition in Evanston wy and that she took 1st on all events and 1st in all around!! Good job Sid! This weekend Mesquite is hosting a chili cook off and a car show. Mike and I went to the carshow and saw some awesome cars. We went to the chili cook off but got there too late to try the chili. Most of the competitors ran out of chili about one hour after it started. That's one thing I have to say about Mesquite residents, they really support the various activities that come to town. We are planning on going home to Corinne on Thursday so we can bundle up and go to Jackson Hole on Saturday to attend Mike's brother, Rex's wedding. What a change,huh? Nikki is going with us. It will be fun to spend time with her and we are looking forward to it. No other news to report, so I'll say bye for now. Love to you all!

WOW!

I must say, I am so impressed with you all!!! I thought I had better just check the blog to see if any posts had been made and was shocked to find so many! I absolutely love it. It is so much fun to read everyone's updates. Hilary, I don't know where to go camping, but I vote Kim makes her famous enchiladas because I have heard a lot about them and I think I need to try them. I don't really have much to update, but I was so proud of the family for all of the posts that I had to say something.

School just started for Keric and I, last semester for our Bachelors! We are so busy and barely see each other but it will be worth it! Keric has not really told many people yet, but he just got hired on at the Sports Radio station here in town as a board opp. He will get to do updates during the local sports games and host the post game shows! He is so great at it and this is a foot in the door for sure. We are thrilled. Of course that will be his second job on top of going to school full time so we will be strangers for a bit, but that is okay.

As my mom mentioned....Boston is a crazy kid and I struggle to keep up with him. He just started daycare yesterday while I go to school and he plays hard when he is there. It is so nice to have him tired and cuddly every now and then ;)

That is the Seegmiller update. I hope you all are doing well and I can't wait to see more updates!

I am adding some pictures from our trip. We didn't take many, but here are a few.

Shirley

Hello there..
As you all know - I am quite the computer genius - so hopefully this will work.  Birthday dinner for Grandma Grape was great on Sunday.  What a fun day.  We did have a household of Denver fans so we had to eat dinner with the game playing on the TV's (family room TV and kitchen TV).  What an exciting game..  It was good to see everyone that was here - Julies Tyler wasn't here (he was hunting) and Lisa was working.  But other than that - everyone else was here.  I am loving retirement.  I still feel like I am sluffing work - but hopefully I will get over that soon.  Thanks Maggie for creating this blog - I sure appreciate it.  Love you all - Shirley

Hello from South Dakota

I just checked my email for the first time in forever and joined this sweet blog. I thought I would make a short post to say hello to everyone. I am typing with one hand because little Berk is in my other hand. Berk has been spoiled by grandma Braegger so she likes to be held a lot. :) I would just like to make it known to everyone that the weather is beautiful here right now. I just got home from the library and it is currently 65 degrees outside. Everyone always thinks the weather is crap here but right now i am pretending we live in St. George or Mesquite :) Everyone have a great week!!

Melissa

- Little Mike : Can you tell me your address....I need to send you a Christmas card :)

-also side note to Hilary's camping comment....how about we have cousin campout in South Dakota.....any takers???? :) I have rented my house out for the Sturgis Motorcylcle Rally so I will be camping for one week. Everyone is welcome to join the Nore clan :)

Whoops!

Sorry for just the title on the last Blog entry. . My fat fingers hit the wrong buttons again and I published it before I finished the entry. .
We had a great weekend at the Braegger House too! Keric, Maggie & Boston (alias; The Octopus!) came up North. Boston would run from one thing to another with all of us chasing him as he grabbed and pulled anything within reach. He is the busiest 1 year old that I have ever seen. Like I said, he seemed to have 8 hands and I can see why Maggie and Keric have lost so much weight as he is non-stop go. . go.. go!
We started with a Pizza Bash on Thursday night with Jami & kids, Riley & Jess and kids, Keric, Maggie & kid (+ baby in the making) and Mike and I. Lots of laughs as always when we get together.
Maggie and I were able to go to the Salt Lake Temple on Friday for Sarah Stangers wedding (Maggies BFF from school) while Keric and Boston hung out at home. Later on Mike and I went to Penochle Club and all of the others went to Olive Garden for dinner. We had given them all gift cards for Christmas so they were thinking that it would be a cheap date for them. Everything was fine until the Seegmillers went to pay with their gift card and it had not been activated so they had to dig up money to pay for theirs. If that wasn't enough of a wrench in the works, Keric was pulled over by the Harrisville cops as he had a headlight out on his car. After a hectic evening everyone went to bed and Keric woke up at about 4:00 not feeling very well. He said it was not a good 12 hours of his life. . .
I was supposed to go and get a haircut on Saturday and could not get my car up the driveway due to the one and only snow storm that we have had since November. So the day did not start out too well for me either. Luckily things got better for all of us and we had a great after- Thanksgiving dinner that night. I was with the Nore's for Thanksgiving so this was my chance to celebrate with the rest of the family too. (who cares that it was 6 weeks later?) We missed the Nore's but are looking forward to seeing them when Landon graduates in June!! Mom came down to eat with us and was also looking forward to dinner at Rudy & Shirleys the next day!
Sunday was a pretty quiet day around our house after the Seegmillers left and it was nice to have a quick nap before the Big Game!! I loved it!
I had better get busy because the painter is coming on Wednesday to paint the kitchen and then we are going to try and get the floors finished on Saturday so the I can get everything back together before I leave for the Nore's on the 22nd. Life just keeps getting busier and busier.

Love you all and look forward to the posts and updates on the Blog! Be good and remember who you are!!
Jackie

Another weekend come and gone!

Thanks Maggie

Good Afternoon Everyone!!!

This is going to be really cool. Thanks Maggie for putting all of the effort into this. We all really appreciate it. I am excited to start using this however it is all new to me.

A quick update - The holidays were wonderful this year and we are now back in the swing of things. School for Emery, schedules, dance etc. Boy it sure was nice NOT having to be at a certain places at certain times however I guess that schedules and routines are good.

Yesterday we had our monthly lunch with the family at Shirley & Rudy's. It was great to see everyone and Thank you Marilyn for requesting Chicken Enchilada's!!!! They were delicious thanks to Shirley and Kim :) We were quite a rowdy bunch of folks due to all of the Broncos Fans in the house !!!! At least we all agree on one thing - "GO BRONCOS"

We always have a great time getting together with everyone and look forward to next time.

Until Then - Hilary

P.S. - Braegger Kids

You are in charge of the Cousin Camping trip this year. We had previously talked about going south just wondering if there are any plans in the works yet?

Thanks

Thanks Maggie for setting this up. I just started Mike and my blog and it really is fun!! Now that we are down South, I am looking forward to having a good way to keep up on what everyone is doing since I don't get to go to coffee with my Mom and Sisters, so I don't get any news. We've been in Mesquite for a little more than a week and have been enjoying awesome weather in the mid 60's. We even went golfing in shorts and short sleeved shirts. Hope everybody posts soon. Love to you all!!

BUZZ IT WORKED

It was nice meeting you at Christmas also. Now give my sister some laminate floors in her kitchen. Please....Mike W

Is this thing working???/

I have been encouraged to try this blog out, sooooo, IS THIS THING WORKING!!!!???? If anyone can read this, please respond, and i will try to figure out how i got to this blog in the 1st place, & maybe read your response. I know there is a lot of you Wrights out there because I met you all at Christmas!!! Happy New Year!! Mike. The Buzz.

Woo Hoo. . I love this!

I am, so excited to be able to hear from everyone! Sometimes I think that I have shared all of the news in my family and someone in the Wright family will say, "You didn't tell me that!" So all of you that are wondering what is going on with us just look on the Blog! Maggie is great to keep us all in line!
Mike and I went snowmobiling last week up to Bear lake (not much snow but fun just the same)
The weather was really warm so it was not such a big deal to get all of the warm gear on and we were limited to the trails mostly but it was nice just to get away from it all.
Our friends the Holmes Family were there with all of their kids and grandkids so if we lacked for conversation or lots of noise we just wandered over to their condo and then went back to our condo when we needed some peace and quiet. .
We are still trying to get all of the house put back together after the Great Flood of 2011. . Just when I think we are put away I find another box of stuff to go thru and have made numerous trips to the D.I. and pawned alot of stuff off on to Jami. . .
I have it in my mind that we need to paint and lay wood floors in the kitchen now so been talkin it up to Buzz and hope that he will do it while I am at Melissa's the end of January. (If I bug Riley enough about it he will convince Buzz that they need to do it just to make me happy. . . You know the saying "When Mom is Happy everyone is Happy! " and that really pertains at my house!
It was so good to see everyone at Christmas and I know that Mom was the most excited of all of us. She seemed to be pretty emotional and said that this is the best Christmas that she has had since Dad passed away! Thanks everyone for taking time out of your busy schedules to take time and celebrate with us! Those of you that were not there you were missed and we hope to see you next year!
I had better get busy and get the rest of my laundry done and hope to see lots of post's o the Blog from you all!

Love you all tons!
Jackie

Welcome!

Hello everyone! I am excited to start this blog to get our family a little closer. It is always so much fun to get together in person when we can, but with our family so big we can't always do that. So this is a great way to stay caught up on what everyone is up to! So for those of you that are new to the blogging world, welcome! It is pretty simple to learn. The best posts are the ones with pictures, but sometimes it is easier to just write, which is also great. I am a total HOUND about my family posting on the Braegger blog so if this blog seems dead, don't be surprised when you get an email strongly encouraging you to 'git er dunn' and update! I will also be putting links to individual family blogs that you can all go visit, so if you have one and want me to link it, let me know! I am so excited for this and I really hope it doesn't end up just being me, posting lame updates on my life every week (I have my own blog for that). Love you all and hope you are doing well!

PS-spread the word to everyone in the family!