It's Sunday

What a great thing to do on a Sunday, check in on your family. I hope everyone had a great week. Don and Rhea has spent the last 2 days with us, so we have been having fun and eating alot of ice cream! It is windy and cold today. We went to the tulip festival at Thanksgiving Gardens yesterday. Rhea doesn't want to go back to snow, so send Carl to her house to remove it before Tuesday.

Love ya all!

Dancing with the Stars 11yr old version- Davis with Emily

This is Davis and his dance partner Emily practicing the cha cha

Even Ballroom is a talent some Laytons can do like the stars.

Here is a clip of Desiree Layton and her partner Matt(100) doing the Cha Cha at their last competition. They are not bad for their very first time competing. Hope you enjoy this clip...... Rod

Hand bells in Spring Concert- Janessa Leigh Layton

This a clip of Janessa playingWhistle while you work in the Spring concert last night. We can't be proud but we are very thankful that Janessa takes her music talents seriously. Enjoy.... Rod

Talents on the hand bells- Janessa Leigh

Janessa played in a Spring Concert last night and we wanted to share her talents with you all.

She is in the Blue Dress playing Canon- Johann Pachebel

made you look!

This was actually Desirée's Laurel class activity. There's a lady in St. Albert that sells only modest wedding gowns from her home so the girls got to go and try them on.

With Travis and Brittany's wedding photo and Linda getting married I had to put one in too. Thank goodness for me this is not real (yet).

Hi All! Nice to have access to everybody all on one website!
Just an update on our family...California was awesome and Ayvri can't stop talking about Disneyland, the princesses and Seaworld! It was great to spend quality time with everybody. Ayvri is 3 1/2 now and just had her 1st dance / singing recital with the Sunshine Generation. She spends most of her time playing with Barbie's or in front of her vanity doing her hair and lip gloss, or dressing herself - she is definitely a "Pippi Longstockings" when it comes to picking outfits (but who am I to stifle her creativity - as long as she's staying at home :0). Leslie is still with UPS (going on 15 years now) and just changed positions to a Strategic Account Manager (basically the same job as before, just less stress). Brent is happy golf season is finally here and I plan on letting him go often - at least until the baby arrives in August...then - it's payback time! We are all excited about our pending arrival and Ayvri can't wait to be a big sister! We have another ultrasound next Monday, so hopefully we'll have confirmation on the gender and can start planning...
Linda - Congratulations on your upcoming marriage - we wish you all the best and please know that our thoughts are with Danny and his family.
We love you all and will look forward to hearing from everyone more often.
Leslie
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Don't know what I'm doing but this is a great idea!

Dear Family,

Good to see the pictures of Travis and Brittney on their wedding day and all the other cute kids in the family. Good to hear from Linda. We are excited for her on her big May 8th day. Our love and prayers are with Dan.
Does everyone know that Karyn and Chad added a boy to their family March 3rd. Benjamin Ryan Butler. Weighed in at 7-14. Cute little boy but is giving his mom a rough time. She is like most moms of newborns-sleep deprived. If I knew how to attach a picture I would. It will come as I get more experience with this.
We are preparing for Wendy and Elder Nelson and Ginny and Sheri Dew to come visit us this weekend. They will be doing meetings everyday while they are here but we'll have family time, a temple session, family photo, dinner etc. with them. It will be fun but not our usual family visit because we are sharing them with 4 Stakes. Nice to have some incentive to get my Spring cleaning done NOW.
We have just received the news today that DAn and Becky will be moving back to Edmonton in the next month. YEah!!! Bryce and I have to hurry and finish what we started a couple of weeks ago in their home. We are finishing the basement and putting hardwood and tile on the main floor. Just in time to sell it. Should help with the selling part but they will not be able to enjoy any of it. Becky had emergency appendectomy 2 Sundays ago. They operated on her at about 2am Sunday morning and she was discharged at 2 pm that same day. I went down to Calgary for 4 days to help her in her recovery. They are off to San Diego next week for 5 days. It was going to be a work related course but since he isn't going to be working for them anymore it will just be for pleasure. He was enticed by another company to come to Edmonton and offered him a job he couldn't refuse.
Mandy and Troy are in Ontario for the weekend. He had a workshop down there so she went with him so they could see Niagra Falls and other sites down there. They have had quite a trip. Lost luggage, fog so they couldn't take off, snow storm in Calgary so they couldn't land, missed flights and rain when they got to Ontario. I hope they make it back tomorrow night. We had Natalie and Logan since Wednesday night and we have enjoyed it .
We have a few more babysitting requests coming up in May. Cyndi and Ron are going to Hawaii for 10 days so their 3 children, Gabrielle, Alison and Nicole are coming to stay with us. Brad and Cindy are going to SAn Diego end of May for 5 days for their anniversary so Stephanie and Tyler will come and sleep over. The kids all love to have sleepover at G&G place.
Bryce still hasn't retired yet from renovating and now that one of his friends is retiring he may have him come work with him. He is doing alot of good for lots of people. Mainly his family but others too along the way. It has been a full month and we aren't even half way there yet.
This is more than you probably wanted to know but it is what we have been living and loving. Hope everyone else joins in and keeps up to date on the family news.
Love the BD Cards

AnDrew, Autumn, & Angel Biggest smiles

First family picture: Travis, Jaxon and Brittany Card

San Diego, California.  Cameron just e-mailed me this pic, so I wanted to include it.  click on the pic to see it better.  Linda wanted me to forward that last message to everyone.  Luv ya!

Hi Terrie         I  LOVE  THE  SONG !!       The words are perfect for Sebon and I.     I would be honoured to have you sing it at the Wedding if you can make it.    I haven't heard it yet, but then I don't often have time to listen to music.    Dan has had a very rough time of it this year.   In January he had a new stent put in.   It worked pretty good for a while but the last month and 1/2  he has not been good.   He went real jauntised again about 5 weeks ago.  We had the stent  "stented" with a plastic stent inside of it and a balloon pulled through it to clear it out.    It took longer for his jauntise to go away this time.  He spent about 2 weeks or more  in hosp again.    The past 6 weeks we have spent more time in hosp than out it seems.    Lately we have had two butterfly needles put into his stomach  (sub-cue) (for my nurse friends out there)  above the belt line.  One is for morphine and it has a bag and pump hooked to it.   This is to control the pain at an even level.  His pain has been unbelievable   --   I feel so much for him.    The other is so we can put maxaran (sp??) in it by needle to control the nausea.   This will help us out by not having to go to Hosp any more every 4 - 6 hours for a shot.   He got down to 160 again and could be lower now?   He is eating now and keeping it down, so that is a good sign.    I have been helping out a lot since Cheryl has been day caring for 5 children.   Also I have to get him better so he can walk me down the isle.   
Dan had X-rays and Cat Scans on Tuesday and we talked with the Doc on Thurs.   NOT GOOD     There are two spots now on his liver about the size of a quarter.  The Doc said that the chemo is not helping any more at this time so we are stopping the treatments.   This will give Dan a better quality of life and will be much more at ease with not being sick for 2 to 3 days every time he had chemo.    Hopefully  he will be able to put a little weight back on.   At this point our concern is to keep him as comfortable as we can.     

In the meantime  I am trying to make it through Income Tax time,  and get ready to get Married.     
 
I am sending this letter to you  and others cause I don't have time to write to everyone.   ( that is, if I can figure out how to send to more than one person.   We love and appreciate you all and will TRY to keep better in contact with you.   
 
Sebon will be here on May 2 and we will be going to Kalispell, Montana to get married on May 8, at 1:00 PM and   On May 9 we are having a dinner here in Raymond at 5:00 PM.    Hope to have all the invitations mailed out by Monday.   I am also trying to get my house de-junked before Sebon gets here.    HA!  HA!   Any of you really believe that will happen.!!    I guess he will see the Real Me.    Oh well he has committed to me now and I am making him stick to it.  
 
 
Going to try to get some sleep now, have to be up in 4 hours.     LOVE  YOU ALL     LINDA 

Lets have a "Biggest Smile Contest"

post your biggest smiles on here and vote under the comments.  This is Cashe (Kaleigh and Kips baby)

My three little sweethearts, Autumn, Angel and Ayvri.

Bretts family on left.  Melonie, Brett, Angel, Brayden (nephew), AnDrew, Autumn

thats not an Easter Egg, Kim!
This is part of our family on the beach getting ready for the Easter egg hunt.  We did one for the kids, and after blindfolded the adults (12 and older) for another one.  It was pretty funny.file:///Users/terrie/Pictures/iPhoto%20Library/Originals/2008/Travis%20and%20Brittany%20Wedding%202nd%20disc/_BJP1556.JPG

March 22, 2008 Travis married Brittany Kruger in the San Diego Temple.  Everyone in the family (except Ryan and Kiana) went.  We stayed all together in a condo for a week, went to Disneyland, and Seaworld.

The wedding was beautiful.  Brittany in from California.  She joined the church 3 years ago, and is the only member in her family (so far).  She had 50 people witness her sealing.  Even her Bishop and his wife flew to California to be there.  Brittany and Travis met at work.  She is also a UPS driver.  They have been dating for a little over a year.  They are a perfect match, and we are so very happy to have her in our family.  She is very athletic and gives Travis a run for his money when they play ping pong, golf, tennis and bowling.  She also loves softball and scrapbooking.  They are living in a home her mom purchased 2 years ago, when she moved to Utah.  It is in Orem, and is furnished so cute.  

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Welcome to the LeRoy and Myrtle Card Family Newletter

Family!  It just keeps getting bigger and bigger.  I don't want this family to drift apart.  This site is set up to keep each other current on what's going on in our lives.  I have posted all my kids emails, and invited them to be co-authors (which means they can post news, or pictures of their family).  I have also invited Linda, Bryce, Mel, Sharon, and Cheryl to be co-authors.  That is all the e-mail addresses I have.  If you send me the e-mails of your children (all the grandchildren of Myrtle) I will add them also. If we can get Don and Lorna to get e-mails (they might have them already), I will add them, along with their children.

This can be an amazing way to keep in touch with each other, to plan reunions, Card parties, or whatever.  

Please be a participant in this.  Post at least once a month, even if it is just a small comment, or a new picture.  I thought this would be complicated to set up, but it has been a piece of cake.  Anyone can do it.  If you have questions, just e-mail me.  Love Terrie

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