shirts are required

For my families olympic game I will need the pre planning help of all. I am requesting that You bring one t-shirt per person that you will easily recognize as belonging to you and yours even when tightly folded up. Rest assured your t-shirt will in no way be damaged and will be returned to you as soon as our olympic game is done. Upon our arrival at the lake I will be shortly requesting your T-shirt(s). Do not ask for details of my game I will not give any secrets out for those who would be trying to train for my event. You cheaters! ( P.S. I don't need shirts for those children who cannot yet dress themselves They will be listed in the hanycap bracket for my game.)

What's in a name?

What Cindy Means

You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily. You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind. A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row. You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace. People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality. You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in. You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising. You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care.

What's" Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Bee stings and pennies

O.K. so I have received this e-mail saying if you get a bee sting grab a penny and place it on the area stung for 15 min. and it will take away the pain and swelling plus the next day it will look like a little prick. So today one of the little girls got stung on her heel and luckily the stinger was sticking out so I pulled it out and proceeded to get a penny I placed it on her ankle for 15+min. and even before the 15 min. was up I touched the penny and was surprised that the penny was warm to touch. I don't know for sure if this works but the girl didn't complain or itch it didn't swell and I will know tomorrow if there is some truth to this myth.

Jon and Monica are finally here

So this is my first blogger experience. Wahoo. I think I am doing it right. Maybe not. We are planning on bringing our ATV's but only if the resort dosn't have a rule against us using them on the beach. Otherwise they will stay home.

OK I thought about it and I think we will do mailboxes. I will mail the name of your family to you. But I thought it would be best if we only did it on Tuesday, Wednsday and Thursday. So you will need to bring a box of some sort for your mail to be delivered to and 3 days worth of small items for the person/s you have.

I am going to draw names from a hat and put them straight in an envelope without looking at them and mail them to you. I will have McKinley look at the names to make sure I am not mailing you your own name but she won't Know what I am doing so she won't think to even try to remember.

I will try to get them in the mail today so you should get them in a couple of days.

I think I will mail Julie's and Shawna's to Katherines house to save me a couple of stamps.

Here is the letter I sent out a while ago in case any of you lost yours.


Blue Water Resort
Family Reunion
August 11 – 15, 2008



The time is soon approaching for our Family reunion. I hope you are all as excited as I am! Here are a few details you may need to know.


The Cost: $ 175.67 ($87.84 for Ed) (nothing for Kirk and Becky)
Due to me by the 8th of August. Or if you need to I will accept payments over a long or short period of time starting whenever you wish.

Where: Blue water resort, Yellow Beach house. 2126 South Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City, UT.

Sleeping Arrangements: Fred and Katherine will be in the cabin out back with Sam and Cindy and Ed and Andrew and maybe another child. Kirk and Becky will be in their own condo. Jon and Monica will be bringing Their Camper. Shawna and Marshall will be in one of the 2 bedrooms and Jim and Julie will be the other. Jason and Nanette will be in the living room on the couch and the Bed. And all other Children not listed will be in the living/ dining room where we can fit them on the floor. You will need to bring bedding/padding for the children sleeping on the floor.

Check in / check out: Monday @ 3:00 – Friday @ 11:00 (12:00 for RV sites)

What to Bring: *Yourselves,* bedding for those sleeping on the floor
*There are basic cooking utinsels there and a grill outside with furnished propane but there are no big pots or griddles so if you think you may need something that they don’t have for your meals you will want to bring it.
*The Mosquitos are supposed to be bad this yeay so bring plenty of bug spray.
*Beach stuff * a few camp chairs *bikes if you want them
*any games you might want to play, bocce, croquet, settlers, cards, candyland, twister whatever.



Meals: I think We will try and do What we did last year with the Meals. We will Make lunch and Dinner Stiles Friendly but they are on their own for Breakfast.
Monday: Dinner – Fred and Katherine
Tuesday: Breakfast – Ed
Lunch – Sam and Cindy
Dinner – Nanette and Jason
Wednesday: Breakfast – Jim and Julie
Lunch – Jon and Monica
Dinner – Shawna and Marshall
Thursday: Breakfast – Sam and Cindy
Lunch – Nanette and Jason
Dinner – Kirk and Becky
Friday: Breakfast – Jon and Monica
Lunch – on your own

More things to bring:
Fred And Katherine – 50 plastic spoons, 50 plastic forks, 50 plastic knives, roll of paper towels, roll of tin foil, dish clothes dish towels

Kirk and Becky – 50 plastic spoons, 50 plastic forks, 50 plastic knives, roll of paper towels, roll of saran wrap

Ed – 100 spoons, 100 paper plates roll of paper towels,

Sam and cindy – 100 spoons, 100 paper plates,roll of paper towels, 100 paper bowls, air pump, dish soap

Jason and Nanette – 100 forks, 100 paper plates,roll of paper towels, 100 paper bowls, bike pump, sharp knives,scrub brush

Jon and Monica – 100 forks, 100 paper plates, package og sandwich size zip lock bags, clothes line,

Jim and Julie – 100 forks 100 paper plates, package of quart size zip lock bags, package of large garbage bags (about 20)

Marshall and Shawna – 100 forks, 100 paper plates, package of gallon size zip lock bags, package of large garbage bags (about 20)


This Year there are not enough days to give each family 1 day to plan so if there is something you would like to do specifically, let me know so we can schedule it in. I expect you to tell me something you would like to do or else we will do nothing.

If there is something I left out (which I’m sure there is) let me know. And if you have any questions call me. If you would like to visit the website and see where it is that we are going the website is bluewaterresort.net.

Yesterday I woke up to little water pressure. I saw standing water in the back yard. I checked the basement but it was dry. There was no water near the house. When Fred got home I told him and he turned off the water to the sprinkler system. Jim came down and they found the break in the main sprinkler line. Then Julie and Jim went to the movie. Edward went downstairs to get a sleeping bag for Wesley and found three to five inches of water in the basement. We started taking things out with Lori's family and Terry's help. Fred was wet vacuuming the water and Terry told us to call the insurance company. I called them about ten p.m. and they called a restoration service who came out about midnight and was here until two a.m. They got most of the water out but this morning the carpets are still wet. The people said they would be back today some time. I hope this makes your day seem better than mine was yesterday. The basement has several tables we put up and put the dry boxes on them. It is a big mess.

Sorry, I meant to give out assignments for Family Home evening. I need you to volunteer for something. there is an assignment for each Family and If you don't volunteer for something within a couple of days I will assign things out. here are the jobs:

Opening song:
Opening Prayer:
scripture:
Short Lesson:
Closing Song:
Closing Prayer:
refreshments:

Hey I finally made it here this is a great idea Shawna.

First of all I am bringing my 5 quart crock pot to the reunion and a large bowl. I also thought if people know what they are doing for thier meals to post it so we don't have spaghetti 3 nights in a row. I think I am having french dip sandwiches for dinner and chillie frito salad for lunch.

We are bringing Jason's fishing boat. Is anyone Bringing motorbikes, atv's I don't think we will have room for Jason's but maybe we will figure something out if anyone else is bringing thiers.

We don't have any kind of schedule for the reunion but this is what I was thinking so far. Monday night after we all get settled in and have dinner we will have family home evening and I thought it would be fun if each Family came up with a skit or a song or a talent of some sort. Then I thought Tuesday would be a great day to spend at the beach and in the water with Julie's water trampoline (I am so excited!!) and have a sand castle contest. There will be a prize. Then I thought Wednesday Morning could be free time till lunch. time to go biking, fishing, for a walk. to town, whatever. then after lunch I thought I would go off Shawnas Idea and have a woodin Olympic afternoon - evening. I would like each family to come up with a game, relay race or obstacle course or something or both. I do not have any Ideas for Friday yet so if you can think of something, let me know I am open to renting a boat, going through the caves again, or bloomington lake, or anything.

Here you go Cindy this is a little more tasteful. I wanted to show Shawna the reason we need her to bring a suture (sp?) kit.

If your kids ask to ride a bike with aunt Julie say no way. Just ask Wesley. I removed the cut leg picture because Cindy couldn't quit looking at it. I think she uses it as a screen saver now.
Be careful Jon its steep. Fun times at Snoquomie tunnel.
Lots of food and fun. Timmy thought it was nap time instead of lunch time. Ed didn't know what to think in the midst of great confusion with the numberless concourses of children.

Kyle's goal is to become just like Jim. Good goal Kyle...

Reunion

What should we bring to the Reunion? We have the camp stove, Ice Cream Maker, 30ft x 30ft screen tent, bicycles, dutch ovens, hammock these are just a few of the items we could bring please let us know.

Pioneer Days

Yeah for the pioneers!!! If for nothing else, at least they gave us a great day to celebrate. The Jon Woodins, Fred Woodins, Willfords, and Reynolds (minus Marshall and Jim) started the day out with a great parade. After that we headed up to the fairgrounds to chow down on corn on the cob, hot dogs, watermelon, cotton candy, snow cones, BBQ, and indian tacos. We then enjoyed the petting zoo, wagon rides, authentic indian drum, and Ryan even rode the mechanical bull (what a waste of five bucks). What a FUN day!!!

Tasha's Poem

Tasha is at Girls camp. I hope she dosen't mind. Tasha has a great mind and is very creative with her words she has written poems, songs and short stories sometimes just for fun. I am very proud to be her mother.

You and your crew,
hang around you
But there are just a few,
Friends who don't like you
I'm sorry to say,
your going the wrong way
Don't do drugs or alcohol
walking down the hall
smoking some wheat
strutting down the street
drinking some beer
while looking in the mirror
And like I said
somethings wrong with your head
Good bye for now
but see you later!

Grandmas are just polished stones (diamonds)

You are our Diamond!! A sweet possession!

I just wanted to say how much fun we had with Grandma last month she was such a joy to have around. How ever the picture taking in the car was a bit bizzar. But to each there own...Brandon likes biting his toe nails. We visited the zoo like three times, went to a new park and had a hot dog roast. By the way I think Saturday we are having a yard Sale can you come up Mom?LOL! Tasha is at girls camp this week and I sure miss her!!!! This is all for now and I hope none of you get sick of hearing from me.

Welcome to the Jungle

Calling all Woodin's... and those who used to be Woodins. I thought we could start a family blog and keep each other up to date on what's going on in the world of Woodin's. I also thought we could use it to post events like reunion dates, birthday parties, and the such. Since we all have high speed internet there is no reason not to participate- you got that Jason. And I'm sure we can all enjoy the ramblings of Cindy since she is a proven bonafide blogger with a lot of blogs under her belt. Just post your email address under the comments and I'll try to figure out how to add us all as users to the blog.
Have a Great Day,
Shawna