Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Halloween
Here is my Claire-bear as a ballerina (love the ballet slipper socks!) In the other picture, Matt as a power ranger, Kirsten as Snow White, Hannah as a pirate, Claire as a ballerina and Jannika as a witch. Fun times!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Fawn here. I finally got the pictures of the "lime" cake so here it is. This is the 4th cake I did that weekend of August 8-9, 2008. Kota helped me cut the blue and green fondant strips. He held the straight edge while I cut with a pizza roller. They are stuck to the cake with piping gel. The limes were already at the reception so I cut them and placed them on there. I wished they had been darker green but the cake turned out great anyway. The bride and groom loved it.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Mom and Dad's 45th Anniversary
Montell and Kathryn Seely - 45 Years Together.
Look at this gorgeous couple. This is where it all began.
Mom and Dad met at a dance at BYU. I guess you could say they swept each other off their feet. They square danced throughout their years together and shared a special waltz every year in the Castle Valley Pageant.
They were married 27 August 1963 in the Idaho Falls Temple. Seven children have blessed their home. We all share special memories of growing up on the family farm in Castle Dale and Orangeville. At this time there are 19 grand children . . .
. . . all because two people fell in love.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Wedding Cakes
Trek and Bees
Friday, August 8, 2008
Pageant
Friday, July 25, 2008
News from LeAnne
Fawn, you asked about the author I mentioned, Dick Francis. I don't know that much about him, really, except that he is a former steeplechase jockey who got injured and then tried his hand at writing fiction. He has written over 40 mystery novels, and they all center around the horse-racing world and various things connected to it. His protagonist is always a guy in his mid-thirties, but they are not all the same character. Sometimes the protagonist is a steeplechase jockey and sometimes a veterinarian or a horse-trainer or even a photographer or painter of horse portraits or caterer at the racetrack. The mystery is always interesting, and the romance is very low-key. The protagonist usually becomes a hero by saving the day or getting out of a tight jam or something like that. I really recommend his books as a light read that engages the mind and makes your brain work. I'm not even that much of a horse person, let alone a racing person, but I've really enjoyed the 15 or so of his books that I've read so far.
Heading to pageant practice for now. When is everyone planning to attend?
Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Beagley's Summer So Far...
This picture, of course, is at the blessing luncheon. Thanks to those of you who were able to attend. It was a very nice day.
This is a cake that I did last weekend for Kyle's step-sister's wedding.
Sorry these are out of order. This is Jannika's birthday cake from her luau party. I can't believe my little girl is 5 and getting ready to go to Kindergarten next month. She is very excited. She had some dental surgery on Tuesday in Provo. They put her out and even had to pull one of her teeth. She is playing Bessie in the pageant with Hannah as Cora (and we are Joe and Tilda again). Thanks to LeAnne for all her help with my kids during the surgery, at the pageant site and just in general. We love you!
Friday, July 18, 2008
MILLER NEWS OF JULY 2008
I hope this is going to work. It's such an excellent idea. I hope the kids will all put things on too. This time I wanted to just choose a few pics to share from the past few months.
Dakota is a sophomore in this picture. He's 4th from the right counting Coach Hugentobler. He was on the Manti High School basketball team. This year they won the 2A state championship so this was an assembly to recognize the team. It was so great watching Kota and the other boys play and work as a team. Hunter and Cassidy also played on BB teams. They love it.
The next shot is little Brooke. This is how she learned all her colors. She would play with the play doh and match objects to each color. She turned 2 in April.
Next we have a photo of Tim and Brooke in the sky ride at Lagoon. We had a great day there with some cousins and friends.
The next pic is Hunter's winning baseball team. He's 3rd from the right on the front row. They took first at Ephraim Lions Tournament. Then they went on to take third place in the state tournament in Spanish Fork just this past week. They were an excellent team and very fun to watch. Hunter plays 2nd base and pitches and sometimes outfield. Koty also played baseball for the Manti Templars. He plays shortstop. Cassidy played for an accelerated team and a city team. She pitches and plays 2nd base. Ridge played coach pitch this year. He mostly played shortstop.
Next we have Cassidy and Brooke on the 4-wheeler. We went camping a couple weeks ago and the main camping activities were 4-wheeling and motorcycle riding (not to mention fishing, shooting guns, drinking pop, and eating junk food). We actually camped at the spot where Tim proposed to me in 1991. There's also a tree with our names carved on it from the year we met at snow college in 1987. Anyway, it was fun to get away for a couple days.
This last picture was taken in February for Ridge's baptism. We had a fun day with lots of Seely and Miller cousins helping us celebrate. We all clean up pretty well, don't you think?
Love, Fawn
Checking in
Hello. This is LeAnne. This is my first blog post. How hip am I? Today I'm visiting at Janell's house, and we have spent the morning setting up this blog. What a great benefit it will be to have our family updates all in one place and easy to access together! So here's a little update on me. I'm helping Dad and Mom get ready for the pageant. I won't be playing Millie this year, but I'll be helping Janell and Brenda with their kids behind the scenes. Also, a friend of mine from Orem is bringing her ward's youth group to see the pageant and camp overnight and have a little tour of the Castle Dale Cemetery to see the graves of the REAL people in the pageant. No news in the social column, but the work area is going fine. I occasionally temp at Joane's office in Price and also for Carolyn Jorgensen at Castle Dale City. And the typing at home is going along as per normal. My friend Ellen Smith Hadfield is living in Castle Dale, as you may know, and her family got asked to play Wink and Anna in the pageant! She was very excited and attributes it to the fact that they are living in the red brick house where Wink and Anna lived. More likely it's because they are an energetic young couple with four little boys the right ages for the parts! Ellen and I go yard saling together occasionally. And we trade Jane Austen movies. Here's a little movie review . . . "Finding Jane" was very good but not exactly realistic. "Miss Austen Regrets" was also very good and a lot more likely to have been what really happened. And here's a book review . . . "Straight" is my favorite Dick Francis novel so far. I've read about 15 of his 30 + novels. The others are also good to greater and lesser degrees. I'd like to read ALL of his books eventually. Okay, that's enough yammering for today. I'm looking forward to reading what you all have to say!