Happy Birthday Cooper!

 

Bach ByLines

Dear Family:

Can you tell we watched the BYU Law Convocation last night, I only saw it twice, but Sis. B. was doing her Legal Research all night and I think has captured every time a Schenewark was mentioned, or appeared on the screen.  She made a great montage picture of everyone we knew.

To quote a most famous American Lawyer; “Cool, Cool, Cool……….”

We look forward to the next BYU Graduation in 2022 (Porter) and the next BYU Law Graduation in 2023 (Hunter L3, Porter L1) when we get to see 2 more Schenewark brothers in the crowd.  2024 (Cooper) but be careful not to have it at the same time as the Full Eclipse in Texas (April 8th), we’ve got reservations for a tent in the backyard at Darby Dan for that date.  And Porter again from BYU Law in 2025.  But mostly we just look forward to seeing everyone a couple of times this summer and enjoying our time with you.  Elder Cooper, maybe late in the year we come up to San Jose and take you to a nice dinner appointment.

Hunter, feedback for 2023 Graduation photos.  We loved the family photos’ of couples (Tanner & AnneMarie in Sydney were the best), but the one’s with the little children were ever so cute.  1 would be good, we’ll give you extra credit for 2 in the photo, or follow Mimi’s good example, twins not once, but twice.

It was so good to see Mom and Breyer, but we do so miss everyone else, Zoom has been our lifeline.

Love to all,

Bro. B.

 

Montana Memories

 

Montana, Memories, Mom and Men

Gingerbread Houses

One of our favorite traditions Thanksgiving weekend is to make gingerbread houses.

All the Halloween candy we saved was put to good use, plus a few extras, like Christmas M&Ms. There was a lot of candy sampling and frosting tasting.

We shared our tradition three years ago with Ann, she's hooked. This year we shared with two more, Hannah and Julia. Thank you for opening your home to us!

Works in progress!

Miller's mansion!

Sawyer's shack

Cooper's castle

Porter's pad

Hunter's homestead

Tanner's turf

Ann's amazing, artistic abode

Gingerbread Houses

Inspired by the beautiful creations we saw we embarked on the grand adventure of making our own gingerbread houses!

Somehow it was always easier when Mom was helping! My "glue" never comes out quite sticky enough.

I KNOW that there is more candy consumed than used for decorating. I KNOW that for sure.

We saved our Halloween candy, and our friends brought theirs, and everything needed to create anything was available.

Proof: Candy sampling in progress.

More proof.

Some finished creations...

other creations...

The grand prize winner!

Monday Morning Messages

Give a BIG shout out to this man - he's out of isolation today. He may still be glowing a bit, but we're glad he's done! You can see before and after pictures HERE!

Give a BIG shout out to Cooper for being chosen as responsibility classmate of the month for the Character Counts program - job well done!

And finally, give a HUGE shout out to this fine gal on her birthday - you can find her HERE! "She's had a birthday, shout hurray!"