Joe's wedding and our Utah Family Reunion

Emily, Tyler and kids, Elle, Maddie, and Will outside the Park City rental. Beautiful Fall colors.
Joe, Allie and their 8 children!!

Will having survived the wait while Mom and Dad were inside.
This is how you can tell it was a second marriage for both-tying shoes not 3 steps outside the temple.
Cousins Elle, Maddie, and Kaylee. So darling!
Emily and Paige after a yummy dinner at the rental.
Joe being strangled by Ian after Allie read the gang of kids a story.
Little Cottonwood Canyon. I couldn't get enough! Wish I could have spent hours up in the canyon walking around. Fall colors were breath-taking.
The look on Jim's face when he realized what the whole fun time had cost him. Thanks, Dear!!

PS. Sorry, Scott, Kyle and others for not including your pictures. : ( You were blurry because I didn't have my dumb flash on. My bad. Guess we'll just have to repeat the whole thing!!!

Steven Jobs-Almost aborted?

This is an except from some article somewhere. Wish I could say where I got it but it's an amazing story.

"Her name is Joanne Schiebel. In 1954, she was a young unmarried college student who discovered that she was pregnant. In the 1950s, her options were limited. She could have had an abortion – but the procedure was both dangerous and illegal. She could have gotten married, but she wasn’t ready and didn’t want to interrupt her education. Joanne opted, instead, to give birth to the baby and put it up for adoption.

And so it was that in 1955, a California couple named Paul and Clara Jobs adopted a baby boy, born out of wedlock, that they named Steven.

We know him today…as Steve Jobs.

It would not be overstating things to say that Steve Jobs is my generation’s Thomas Edison. As one observer put it, he knew what the world wanted before the world knew that it wanted it.

If you have an iPhone or an iPad or an iPod, or anything remotely resembling them, you can thank Steve Jobs.

If your world has been transformed by the ability to hear a symphony, send a letter, pay a bill, deposit a check, read a book and then buy theater tickets on something roughly the size of a credit card…you can thank Steve Jobs.

And: you can thank Joanne Schiebel.

If you want to know how much one life can matter, there is just one example.

But: imagine if that life had never happened.

Imagine if an unmarried pregnant college student 56 years ago had made a different choice.

Now, imagine all the unmarried pregnant college students who make that different choice today."