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Happy New Year's Eve 2017

12/31/2017

Happy New Years Eve

Just a quiet day here at home in Utah this weekend...thinking about all of you Holler young men, and the New Year 2018 ahead.
*May you all make it a generous, fantastic and a successful year.

Love, and best wishes, from the bottom of my heart, to all of the Holler boys,
(my prides and JOYS, even the ones I have no contact with)

mom ♥

Hey guys!

Your little brother Alex is on his two year Mission to Argentina. We got to talk to him on Skype for Christmas, and it reminded me of his brothers.
In a nut shell, I would say that we all belong together.
Lisa, Alex, and I, with all of you, once in a while, visiting, would be nice.
Maybe we could let love soften our hearts.
Love you guys always, happy new years 2018
Rudy

Having a quiet night at home with my hunky hubby, for New Years Eve 2017.

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Photo Album Series #7 (Page 1)

12/30/2017

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This is the first page of Album #7.
As you see, it is New Years Eve 1998!
~I have to laugh that I am posting this photo page at the same time... only 19 years later. Weird.
On the front of this album page you see that our Manti friends, the Everett's had come to visit us in St. George, Utah (about 3 hours from Manti)
Karen was my mid-wife for Michael, Jacob and Andrew. She was a bit 'bossy' but very friendly. Her husband Glen was more the quiet type but very kind also.
You also see Bernd and I in our master bathroom hugging for the camera. Even if I was not deeply in 'Love' with Bernd Holler, I really did love him and liked him very much. I appreciated how he treated me well most of the time. He knew how to be a good person when he wanted something, but there was something Spiritual missing between us. ( I can't really explain it) It was a feeling...
So, with what we could comprehend with what maturity we had, we tried our best to make it a happy and fun marriage and family.

On the back side of this first album page you see that it was New Years Eve 1998.
Our neighbors, a few blocks away, were having a fun family New Years Eve party so we dressed up and had someone take pics of Bernd and I before we headed out for a little fun. I think we both looked very good. We were both Vegan and eating healthy and felt good at this age. There was only 4 years difference between us. Here I was 30 years old and Bernd was 34. Here we were making funny poses for the camera (being goofy)
It appears that Opa and Oma were over that night to celebrate with us. They lived only 2 hours away in Vegas so they came over often. They watched the boys for the couple hours that night while we were only a few streets away. I always made sure the boys had fun New Years Eve toys every year too.
The neighborhood party was fun, a bit boring and I didn't not have too much fun because there were a few women there that were coming on to Bernd, and being a bit TOO flirtatious, so I was a bit mifted. (irritated, Mucho Mistrust)
I see in the last photo that we must have gone down to Vegas the next day. I remember seeing this big Full moon while driving to Oma and Opa's apartment that evening. It was beautiful
Funny thing...tonight on New years eve there is a Big Full moon too!! It's said that it is this 2018 years brightest and biggest SuperMoon!! (Super cool)

Close ups below...

Glen Everitt, Karen Everitt (my midwife for 3 of my babies) with Lisa and Bernd Holler. They came to visit for New Years to St. George, Utah from Manti Utah (where we used to live)

Austin takes a picture of his mom and dad being love birds. Upstairs master bathroom, St. George Utah house on Jasmine Place.

The day before New Years Eve, Jordan is running around being WILD and somehow bumped his head and needed to go get stitches. Here he is with Mom and baby Andrew in our master bathroom, showing off his Stitches!! We were glad it was only a few stitches! He must have really liked the Dr.s because now he wants to be one! hahaha 1998

Bernd and Lisa Holler get all dressed up to go to the neighbors New Years Eve small party. We make faces for the camera and act goofy. Dec 31st 1998.

Acting goofy for the camera on New Years Eve, right before heading out to a small party. (Mucho Mistrust) ~ ~ I assume Austin is taking the photo since he was getting good at it. Dec 31st 1998 - St. George Utah

Opa Holler and our three big boys show off their New Years Eve party paraphernalia mommy got them. looks like fun my adorable boys ♥ Happy New Year 1999 tomorrow! You are the LOVES of my life♥ and everyone knows it!

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That in-between time

12/28/2017

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Gift cards make great gifts.

12/27/2017

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4 cards for 4 young men! Mom loves you ♥

Gift Cards make nice gifts for children that you just do not know what to buy for them.
When it comes to the Holler boys, I never know what to send them for their birthdays or Christmas. So, gift cards are a good and no brainer gift, if you know what stores they like to go to.
I know their dad loved taking them to Starbucks cafe when they were little, so I figured that 'Starbucks gift cards' would be a winner with all of them.
So, as you see above, here are the 4 Starbucks gift cards all tucked away into personal Christmas greeting cards for each one of my sons.
(Alex had all his gifts with him once he got to Argentina)
I sent these to Colorado last week, and I understand that each of my 4 sons got their card, and gift inside.
I hope they liked it.
I wish I could give them more, but maybe I just have to wait until they all come home and we can celebrate the Holidays together.
Until next year, I pray that they will enjoy their little treat from Mom and family.
☕

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My niece Amber is a model ♥

12/26/2017

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My sisters daughter (my son's cousin) Amber is a model. She is very pretty so there is no surprise there.
Here are some photos and a video. She is the one with slightly red hair color. She's naturally dark blonde hair color, but she loves to add a bit of brown and red to her hair these days.
Can you spot her in the video. So beautiful ♥ Good job Amber!

Bitsy Wedding Dress Fun / Forevermore Films from Forevermore Films on Vimeo.

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A published story of my great great grandfather Orin Hatch, and his older brother Meltiar Hatch (from Navuoo Illinois) *updated

12/26/2017

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Orin Hatch - son of Ira Sterns Hatch (early member of the LDS faith) 1830-1906

The LDS Church puts out a magazine for children, called "The Friend". It has been published since 1971 and a favorite around the world. It was my favorite magazine when I was little and growing up. I often had it in my home for my children also, when they were small.
In 1994 (when Austin was 5 and Jordan was 2) they published a touching story about Austin's, Jordan's, Jacob's, Andrew's and Alexander's Great Great Great Grandfather Orin Hatch and his brother Meltiar, from Nauvoo, Illinois.
Enjoy the reading.
Click here for the online story

Orin Hatch (my great great grandfather, marched in the Mormon Battalion to CA.)

Meltiar Hatch (my great great grandfather's older brother)

Short LIFE SKETCH of Orin Hatch
Third of seven children born to Ira and Wealthea Hatch, Orin was raised in wooded western New York, where he and his brothers made friends with the Indians and even learned some of their language. The Hatches were early LDS converts and joined the Saints in Nauvoo. At age ten, Orin and his two older brothers lived east of the city on Eton Farm and cared for sheep and cattle while the rest of the family was twenty miles away in Nauvoo. At one point they were trying to get a skunk out from under a granary. Orin looked under it as his brother Meltiah shot the animal, and Orin got some shot in his face and lost the sight in one eye (note left eye in photo above). Not long after, his mother died when Orin was eleven years old.

Orin wanted his own personal witness before being baptized and resisted his father’s encouragement to do so until just after his fourteenth birthday. He was standing on the bank of Crooked Creek, Illinois, watching the elders perform the ordinance of baptism. As he watched, some power seized hold and shook him so violently that he was about to fall to the ground. Orin said that he felt as though somebody was thoroughly out of patience with him for his obstinacy, so he crossed the creek and asked to be baptized, fully convinced that he was doing the right thing. “Having put his hand to the plow, he never turned back. The next sixty-two years were dedicated in service to the Lord and His great work.”

Only a month after his baptism, Orin was near Carthage (his father and brother were there with the Nauvoo Legion) and heard the shots ring out when the mob killed the prophet Joseph Smith. At age sixteen, Orin enlisted in the Mormon Battalion as its next-to-youngest member to take the place of his sick elder brother. Another older brother, Meltiah, was solemnly charged by their father to take care of young Orin. He was in Company C, and one source said that Orin was a bugle boy with the Battalion.

As the Battalion marched to California, Orin fell deathly ill with scurvy. For three days, he was left behind on the trail to die, and at the end of each day’s march, Meltiah retraced his steps to bring his brother back to camp. Finally, an officer allowed Orin to ride on a horse; he was so weak he had to be tied in place. The Battalion raised the American flag in San Diego and Orin was one of the five men selected to secure the pole. The Hatch boys stayed in California through the winter and were there when gold was discovered. Family legend says that as they walked back east, Meltiah’s shoes wore out and Orin let him wear his, walking barefoot into the Salt Lake Valley.

They returned to Missouri and then helped their families cross the plains to Utah. Orin married Elizabeth Melissa Perry, and gave her a ring made from a California gold nugget. When he was called to colonize Carson Valley, Nevada, she was pregnant and refused to go. He took a second wife, Maria, who accompanied him. After two years in Nevada, Orin and Maria returned to Utah. He settled in Bountiful, and lived primarily with his first wife, although the two families were friendly and gathered for holiday celebrations. Orin farmed, raised sheep, formed the Deseret Live Stock Company, and was ordained a patriarch in 1899.

Despite his lost vision, Orin spent much time reading and studying and was well-acquainted with the scriptures. He was remembered for being gentle and kind, and a testimony to his parenting is the fact that all of his living children were married in the temple. At the time of his death of parenchymatous nephritis (a kidney inflammation), Orin had 111 grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren, and may have been the last surviving member of the Mormon Battalion. http://www.familytreerings.org/2011/05/happy-181st-birthday-orin-hatch-1830.html

For a more detailed account click on this link

or go to
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hatch/OH.html

My great great grandmother Elizabeth Melissa (Perry) Hatch

Elizabeth Melissa Perry ~ First wife of my Great Great Grandfather Orin Hatch. (I have her same mouth and jaw for sure)

Brief Overview of Elizabeth Melissa Perry (Hatch) Life... 1836-1908

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My great great great gradfather Ira Sterns Hatch married Wealtha Bradford. This photo is of their first 4 children with their spouses. My ancestor is their 3rd child Orin Hatch with wife, Elizabeth Melissa Perry Hatch. Orin and Elzabeth's first child was my great great grandfather Orin Hatch who had Spencer Hatch, who had Howard Hatch, who had me! ♥

LIFE SKETCH OF Wealtha Bradford Hatch

On January 26, 1825 Ira Stearns married Wealtha Bradford, a daughter of Simeon Bradford and Martha True, who was born at Turner, Oxford, Maine in 1803. Wealtha was a direct descendant of William Bradford, the second Governor of the Plymouth Colony. This couple resided on the Hatch Farmstead at Farmersville, where the following seven children were born: Meltiah, July 15, 1825, Ransom, November 13, 1826, Orin, May 9, 1830, Rhoana, May 19, 1832, Ira, August 5, 1835, Ephraim, November 30, 1837, and Ancel, June 9, 1840.

Being averse to the intolerance of the religious leaders of the day and satisfied to live peaceful, honest, industrious lives, these people did not affiliate themselves with any religious sect. When the early missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were preaching the gospel to the Cattaraugus Indians, the Ira Stearns Hatch family had the privilege of hearing the gospel message and readily accepted it. Wealtha, who was the first to read the Book of Mormon and recognize it as truth, wished to join the Church immediately, but her husband advised waiting on the account of the persecutions. Ira and Wealtha were baptized in 1832, and were the only members of the Hatch family in those parts to join the unpopular faith.

Soon after this time the construction of the Kirtland Temple was commenced and they soon decided to make a contribution to it. Ira was also very eager to visit the Prophet Joseph and feel the spirit of the man, so they prepared to make the trip to Kirtland, taking their contribution of $200.00 with them. Three days were required to make the trip and upon arriving at Kirtland Ira inquired for the Prophet. After being informed that he could be found in the grove where they were cutting timber for the Temple, Ira Stearns made his way to that place. As he approached the workmen, one of them stuck his axe into a tree and came toward him. When close enough he shook the hand of Ira Stearns Hatch and said "Brother Hatch, I have been expecting you for three days; the money you have brought will be used to build the pulpit in the Temple." Thus, left with no chance for doubt, Ira Stearns Hatch was convinced that Joseph Smith was indeed a true Prophet, and his testimony was steadfast for the remainder of his life. No one in Kirtland was acquainted with Ira nor knew of his visit with the Prophet.

Ira returned to his home and in 1836 with his wife was given a blessing by Joseph Smith Sr. Later he returned to Kirtland to assist in the building of the Temple and on July 4, 1838 was ordained a Teacher in the Priesthood. In 1840 the family joined the Saints at a place near which the beautiful city of Nauvoo was to be founded. They lived at Eaton Farm on Job's Creek, Hancock, Illinois, at which place Wealtha was stricken and died on November 3, 1841, of a fever that was epidemic among the Saints. Thus leaving Ira with the responsibility of a family of young children.

By Edith Folsom Hatch (1937)
(not to be confused with my grandmother Edith Fearnley Hatch - although these two were good friends!)

Edited by Jason Hatch (2001)

The Life of Ira Stearns Hatch

1802-1869

Here, below, is a Brief Life Sketch of Orin Hatch (my Pioneer great great grandfather) from the memories of my Uncle Spencer (my dad Howard's older brother). *There might me a few more details in this account, so I add it.

I am in awe and have great respect for my AMAZING and righteous ancestors ♥♥♥

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Missionaries L♥ve mail

12/22/2017

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Would you like to write your friend, your brother, our son Elder Alexander Holler on his Mission?
His Argentina Mission accepts 'Pouch Mail' which is delivered through the LDS Church Headquarters, because many countries are very particular about things coming into their Country.
You can either email him directly at;
alexander.holler@myldsmail.net (there is a period between his name)
*Please keep in mind these following rules;
https://www.lds.org/new-era/2007/03/missionary-mail?lang=eng

or send a letter through
Pouch Mail to;
Elder Alexander Holler
Argentina Posadas
P.O. Box 30150
Salt Lake City, Utah 84130-0150
(follow the 'pouch mail' rules - see photo attachment)
♥ Missionaries love mail! Thank you ♥

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Real meaning of Christmas

12/20/2017

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As you gather for parties, gift giving, and family memories, please remember the Real meaning of Christmas.
Even if you do not know much about this... or even if you do not believe, pray for the desire to believe...
then listen to this beautiful video, told by a little girl, for a heart warming message. ♥ ♥ ♥

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It's no fun being sick. *updated

12/20/2017

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Its no fun being sick during the Holidays. Especially when there is lots to do and fun places to go.
I don't know why I caught a cold, (or is it the Flu?) other than LOTS of people I know are sick this week, so a bug is going around, for sure.
Maybe I am just cleansing? (wishful thinking?) It wouldn't be from all the junk and Christmas goodies I am eating lately? (HA)
(OK people, STOP giving me Christmas brownies, pies, caramel popcorn, chocolates, cheesecakes, cookies, cakes etc.
Sugar is my weakness ...Uuuugggg!)

Anyway, here are some of my favorite tips to help me, and you, get better fast once you have a cold or flu coming on.
Once you realize you're doing a bit of sneezing that day and you feel a sore throat coming on...quickly take 1-2 (500mg) Vitamin C and maybe some garlic capsules (if you have them) right away!!
You can continue to take Vitamin C often throughout the day and days following. This REALLY helps knock it out quick. (I didn't do it quick enough this time...but I started immediately when I remembered)
Then, if you feel any congestion in your head or nose, it is important to flush this out. When I was first married, my husband Bernd knew how to blow his nose REALLY well in the shower...I could NEVER do it.
Then my husband Rudy is REALLY good at washing out his sinuses right at the sink and does it almost daily. I've always been envious of how well he does it and what a wonderful habit to have.
I couldn't do it.
So recently, one day before I realized I was coming down with a cold, my father, (parents are so wonderful) was showing me a 'Neti Pot' he had at his home. I didn't know why he was showing me this. I told him that I had one too at my home, that I had found at the Dollar Tree for one dollar but that I had never used it before. I think it kinda intimidated me.
Then, low and behold, the next day I was feeling miserable and had a very stuffed nose and sinuses. I remembered the Neti Pot my dad talked to me about and the one I had in my bathroom and decided to give it a try. It is best used with clean filtered warm water with Saline solution, or salts, in the water.
My dad gave me a few packages of Saline and I used it in MY Neti pot. In the shower, it cleaned out my sinuses so easily that I was amazed that I had NOT tried this home remedy thus far!
Anyway, over the past few days I have been using it first thing in the morning and it has been a life saver!!
I am still taking my Vitamin C and this is making me feel better FAST.
More Tips;
- Take hot showers to ease congestion.
- Have plenty of SOFT Tissues around the house. For blowing your nose often.
- Use triple antibiotic cream or chap-stick around or under your red, sore nose, to help dry chapping from happening there.
- I love having a Eucalyptus humidifier running in the house around this time. Just clean water with a few drops of natural Eucalyptus essential oil drops in the water.
- Use Tylenol for aches and pains and to help you sleep better at night.
- Stay warm! (especially your chest and neck)
- Drink plenty of WATER!!! (no Orange Juice because of the LOADS of sugar it has in it.) Take vitamin c on its own.
- Having a little cough attack or bit of mucus in the back of your throat or esophagus? Try stirring a tablespoon of Lemon juice (always keep a bottle of it in your fridge for cooking and baking soda mixed antacid mixtures) with a tablespoon of Honey, (not the fake kind from KFC, but real honey) Mix and then take a spoonful to clear the cough. Boil a cup of water, then stir in 2 tbsp. of honey. Squeeze a small amount of lemon juice in the mixture to taste. If you don't have fresh lemon juice, use store-bought lemon juice. Drink the mixture as needed throughout the day to cut mucus and suppress the cough.
- I've heard that Pineapple juice is 500% better than cough medicines in relieving coughs. (haven't tried this one yet but would like to) Just always have a can of pineapple with juice (no sugar added) around the kitchen for such needs.
click on... Pineapple Juice and your Cough.
- click on... Golden Turmeric milk
-I notice that when sick, it is hard to go #2 as often, when this is very necessary to move the toxins out quickly. I sometimes have to take a Cascara Sagrada or herbal laxative to get things moving. Otherwise I will feel sick longer than needed.
- NO Dairy, Sugar or Meat during the duration of your cold or flu, or at least until ALL congestion is OUT of the body!!

** A friend of mine told me of their special go to remedies, how they mix;
1 spoon of garlic
1 spoon of ginger
1 spoon of cayanne pepper
1 spoon of jalapeno
1 spoon of onion
and mix it with a few ounces of water or juice and take one Tablespoon of this whenever they feel something coming on.
They claim it has kept them from being sick for over 20 years!

I tried some of it today and it really is not that bad tasting.
Hope it works!

So that's it for now. I pray that none of you are sick ever, but if you are, please try some of these simple tips or healing tricks to fight it off and get well FAST!

Love, Dr. Mom (p.s. my Dr. just confirmed today that it IS the Flu) 🤒😷🤧

P.S. Here is a GOOD one too...
www.facebook.com/HealthRanger/videos/10154976401446316/

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Christmas 2017

12/18/2017

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I want you. ♥

12/15/2017

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Although we were apart for many years of your life and to this day I am still praying we'll be a bigger part of each others lives more...I feel the same way as this man does.
I want for you Austin Spencer
I want for you Jordan Taylor
I want for you Christian Jacob
I want for you Andrew Sterling
I want for you Alexander Gabriel
I want for you Michael Aaron

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Photo Album Series #6(Page 49 & 50)

12/1/2017

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Christmas 1998
These are the last two pages in this family album #6, and they are full of more of our Christmas family parties we had with Oma and Opa, our little family, and our friends this year of 1998!
A special and adorable family photo was taken of us on one of these fun nights, in front of our gas fireplace, there in our home in St. George Utah. It appears that Oma or Opa took the picture.
I love this photo of us. One of my favorites!! ♥ ♥ ♥
We were happy at this time. We thought our Doctor had told us the truth about Bernds vas, and that 5 active young boys (one in Heaven) would be the end of adding more in this big family of ours.
It was perfect in my mind.
(who knows what Bernd really thought as I later found out that he was NOT always honest with me the entire time I had known him)
Quiet, and happy Andrew made a perfect last child in our family of all amazing energetic boys. Although our marriage was slipping through the cracks, ever since we let go of the righteous and guiding LDS faith and anchor, ...I turned my focus entirely to raising the one true eternal love I had at the time...my precious gifts from God, my children!
**God had another plan, unbeknownst to us! (Ha) Since neither Bernd or I had the courage or strength to stand up for what was right, God would soon send our warrior Angel Alexander to divide that which was NOT spiritually meant to be together! Oh boy!! ;) we were in for it....lol. (I say this in a funny and loving way, because in my heart, ALL children were gifts from God and I personally trusted that God knew better than I did. Now I see why Alex had to come and I am Eternally grateful for him and am SO happy he came to our family and to Earth. He is so awesome!!)
Bernds company was doing very well, and St. George was a perfect place to raise children. We loved it there!!
(it really IS a great place to live, overall)
I was doing my best to keep our family together and wholesome, in spite of my husband starting to do things that were opposite of being a righteous family. (more worldly choices which he had seen his parents make and was raised with, but swore to me he would never do when we met.) Maybe he just did not know better I would tell myself? I know he did, though. Sadly, I did, but did not have the courage to stand up to what was right...or didn't have the will when seeing how spoiled I was becoming. I was so torn because of my security with 5 boys.
(Deep down things were not so perfect, but outwardly it was a great time in our lives this Christmas and over the next year or two. Outwardly we were a very happy family.
My main focus was on raising my children successfully. I gave it my all. They were my world and PRIDE and JOY. We did have some fun times together, around this time in our lives. VERY fun times! However, life is so much deeper than what you see on the outside or surface.)
Below this first page, you see a few more pictures of my young children opening up their gifts this night, from Oma and Opa Holler during our pre-Christmas party. Fun evening for sure!!

On the next page, you see us Christmas morning opening our gifts we gave our children and each other. December 25th 1998.
That evening we invited our friends, the Demarquessa's, and their daughter, over to our house for a small Christmas get together.

Holler family Christmas photo - Christmas 1998 (St. George, Utah)

I LOVE THIS FAMILY PHOTO!!!! ~ I love how all of us look, I love that we were happy, I love the colors we were wearing, I love each and everyone of our personalities, I loved how we were trying to be a perfect family. I see SO much potential in all of us in this photo! One of my favorites ♥

Jordan is happy about a big gift he is about to open. Dec 1998

Cute Jacob is super excited. Look at that excited face. Christmas 1998 I love his little velcro tennis shoes.

Jacob sneaking a peak into his Christmas Stocking hung off the stairway. St. George utah. Christmas 1998

That evening I must have given in and let my children open their stockings full of treats on this Pre-Christmas party with Oma and Opa! I see one Sock on the floor in this photo. My three boys in this pic. are getting lots of candy, and are so excited and having a blast!! ♥

Jacob loves his train set he gets for Christmas.

NOW, Christmas morning in the Holler household 1998. Austin was 9, Jordan was 6, Jacob was 3, and Andrew was 1 1/2 years old. You see that I bought Jacob a Tool workstation because I always felt that he would LOVE to be into construction. He is also wearing his new Elmo slippers - How cute!!

Baby Andrew gets a big rocking horse with springs for hours of riding Christmas fun, from mom and dad. The whole family LOVES it. I had gotten it because when I was growing up, my 7 siblings and I had one and we LOVED it. So I knew that all my boys would love it!! ♥

Look how happy Andrew AND Austin look about this cool toy! Awesome ;)

Just for fun, Santa (me) found and gave my four boys musical toys this Christmas. That way they could all make kid music together. Austin is clapping, Jordan is using the clapping toy, while Andrew is shaking the cymbal bells on a stick. Looks like Jacob is using his Cymbals. So funny to watch them play. I love my children eternally ♥

That morning they all got to open the 'family gift' together. We had bought them a Play Station. It was new on the market and it would give them hours of fun! * I see Jordan wearing his new slippers from Old Navy. Austin is such a caring and awesome Big Brother!! ♥

Look what Andrew got. The boys have fun with the Jumping Bouncing Crazy Ball with Flashing Lights. A self-rolling and self-bouncing Toy that makes Silly Sounds and comes to life! Jordan looks most excited! Haha (Austin wants a try or to show Jordan how it works) so cute!

Looks like December was such a warm month in St. George Utah, that Jacob takes little Andrew for a ride in our driveway, on Jacob's tykes Big Wheel bike for Christmas! So cute. Baby Andrew is showing us his famous 'Cheese' salute. SO ADORABLE!! (such a good brother you are Jacob) I love this photo ♥

We lived on a cult-de-sac so the kids could go out into the circle to ride their bikes. My two handsome babies. I love their little denim outfits. I love you with ALL my heart ♥ ♥ ♥

So Christmas night we invited a few local friends from around town to come eat a Vegan Christmas dinner with us! Jacque and Donelle and their daughter Angel are there, with a few other people I don't remember. We LOVE to buy Organic, Wholesome, fun foods and make amazing dishes for us and our friends. The company was awesome too! **Donelle, eating her food on the right was studying to be a licensed Massage therapist in Hawaiian lomilomi massage. It is one part of traditional Native Hawaiian medicine. The massage is best known for its long, flowing strokes to promote harmony. It was a 3-4 hour massage!! She would practice her skills on us for free. I got one and was in Heaven for 3 hours!!!!!! Thank you Donelle for your kindess and love. ♥

Here you see Angel on the left (Donelle and Jacques daughter) all dressed up in a beautiful Christmas dress. You see Austin and Jordan playing with their new blow up punching blow up bag, being boys! They could take their frustrations out on this Donald Duck punching bag! Jordan loved it. Hahaha (my boys were my world ♥) I also see their Lego table in the corner of this room. It had a bag in the center where the blocks would stay in this net bag so they could grab pieces and build things. They loved it. I also put our Christmas tree in this play room this year which was next to the living and dining room. I LOVED the dark green carpet that ran throughout this big house. It was easy to clean and hid all the dirt a family of boys could make. (HA)

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I'm alive! (haha)

12/1/2017

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Wednesday morning I get an email...

Email Subject; I am alive.
Alex; "Hey mom,"

Me: "hey mom I'm alive"...Thats it??
At least I know that much...LOL
WHERE ARE YOU????"

Alex: (one minute later)
"I made it. Do not worry. My P-Day is on Monday, so I will write then.
Bye, Love you"

Me: "OK thanks!!! Can't wait for Monday!!! 😘😘😘"

(KIDS!! 😣😣😫😫🤣🤣)

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Happy New Year's Eve 2017

Photo Album Series #7 (Page 1)

That in-between time

Gift cards make great gifts.

My niece Amber is a model ♥

A published story of my great great grandfather Orin Hatch, and his older brother Meltiar Hatch (from Navuoo Illinois) *updated

Missionaries L♥ve mail

Real meaning of Christmas

It's no fun being sick. *updated

Christmas 2017

I want you. ♥

Photo Album Series #6(Page 49 & 50)

I'm alive! (haha)

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