A Day to Remember...

Take a moment today to call/ email/ or write Grandma Lil. Long ago today was her wedding anniversary. I wonder what it was like...obviously cold! I am sure glad it happened though! Where would we have been if she married, say, Bob Hope! We'd all have funny looking noses that is for sure. I am sure you miss your best friend, Grandma. Please know that we love you with all our hearts and I know that Grandpa Holly is thinking of you today and sends helping, loving hands to always be with you. Cheers to you!

поздравляю! Congratulations!

S dnem rozhdeniya! or Happy Birthday to Nick in Russian! Is there as much snow in Wisconsin as there might be in Russia on your birthday? We are glad to have a guy like you in the DeMeester Family. Those Ramptons are good people! Enjoy your day and have Angela make you your favorite meal... maybe something with a Russian flare?! We thank you for your infectious smile and your willingness to always serve.

Queen for the day...

Happy Birthday Dawna! Spoil yourself today and wear earplugs at Walmart so it will be like you aren't even there! Thanks for being a great cousin and always hanging with us all when we breeze into town. We love you Dawna!

Birthday Wishes...

A truckload of birthday wishes are heading to Sammamish, WA. for it is Jacqueline's Birthday today! I'm sure her little clan will be making her breakfast in bed, and a yummy dessert too! Or, maybe that is up to Shawn...

Here's to you Cuz... my partner in crime and a many parade planner (even when you didn't want to at first...thanks for coming out!) Have a great day with all your loving family!

23 Cheers!

Raise a glass to Ellesse today as we all celebrate her birthday. Maybe watch the movie 'Clue', or 'Kite Runner', 'Amelie' or 'Everything is illuminated' and think of her... Listen to Coldplay, or something else from her 'bizarro music playlist'. Go see the play 'Light in the Piazza' and relax.

We love her and I can't imagine life without her. I know she has saved my life especially when I was really sick. I am thankful Heavenly Father sent her to us.

Happy Birthday, Ellessie!

Go, Go Elder T. DeMeester!

Yahoo for Elder Talmage DeMeester! He is headed to the Belgium Brussels mission Dutch Speaking (IF YA AIN'T DUTCH, YA AIN'T MUCH!) The DEMEESTERS are comin' home! (Well pretty darn close...) We are all proud of you Talmage for holding on and staying strong. Keep it up and we will all come over for a DeMeester Reunion old school in 2 years... I'm sure Grandpa Holly is smiling...

Now behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of men.
Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.
Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work;
For behold the afield is white already to harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul;
And faith, hope, charity and love, with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify him for the work.
Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence.
Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Amen.
Doctrine and Covenants 4

“The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done” (History of the Church, 4:540)

Birthday Shout Out!

Cheers to Candace another year older! I hope all your wildest dreams come true!... to quote Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite. I hope your friends toilet paper your dorm room...