Honoring Ivan and Judy Keller on their 40 years of marriage

On December 29, 1969 Ivan and Judy Keller were married in the Logan, Utah Temple. 40 years, 10 children and 24 grandchildren later, they are still an amazing team. We love you and honor you for all you have sacrificed for us over the years.

Congratulations from your posterity, may you have many more wonderful years together:

The John and Stacey Thompson family (Preston not pictured here)
Nathan Keller

The Robert and Alison Williams family

The Jon and Tanya Keller family (Will and Leo pictured below)

The Derek and Sara Jensen family

Adam and Brittani Keller

The Andrew and Kim Ning Family (baby Tyler not pictured)Becky Keller

Dave and Micahleen Keller

and Christina Keller (on the right) serving a mission in Ft. Lauderdale, FL

What We Love about Christmas

We hope you had a very merry Season!

Here are some reasons we love Christmas time:

making homemade gifts
(even if they are not perfect!)

my friend taught me how to make these gifts for Adam...so fun!

The music
(the Sacred as well as the fun Christmas music, hearing the choir singing so beautifully [especially when you are the director and you know they had heavenly help]).

we went to this concert this month...even though we didn't know any of his music, it was so fun-what a sweet little guy he is! Now we love his Christmas Album.

Hearing from family and Friends

Sending off care packages to missionaries
and other loved ones... (I actually only love this when it's done,
I always stress about getting it there on time etc....:)


Nativities

Making paper snowflakes

Seeing your kids turn their hearts to each other
(making or buying gifts for each other with their own money).
this is a "blanket" made by David for Adam


Decorating

see the link (above)to my decorating blog for the complete Christmas home tour:)

Bundling up the babies to go outside

Making Christmas cards and crafts

kits for the craft I was in charge of for Wesley's class party




Seeing the magic of the faces on Christmas morning,(hearing things like wow thanks Mom and Dad...I can't choose a favorite, they are all my favorite...)

The mayhem

Having opportunities to serve others and think about
and remember the Savior all month long He is the reason we celebrate.

Happy Thanksgiving!

"And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious:
and the things of this earth shall be added unto him,
even an hundredfold, yea, more."
Here are some of the things we are grateful for:
our faith
our families
good health
our heritage
kind neighbors
dear friends
our boys:

Wesley Samuel age 7

David Logan age 5

Keller Lukas age 3

Adam William age 1

Wedding Bliss

Adam and Brittani were married in the Salt Lake Temple (on September 19....I'm really late posting this one!). The ceremony was so amazing, I cried so many tears of joy! Adam and Brittani are so well matched and are so happy together. I look forward to getting to know Brittani better and to seeing the great things the two of them will accomplish together!

This picture is with Jon and Will at the reception. Because I was in charge of decorating the lunchoeon, I was too worried about everything to take pictures. I'm sad I don't have photos of my family at the luncheon where we were all together. My kids didn't go to the reception; Wesley and David went to the BYU game and the two little ones only made it past the family photos, I then took them back to Grandma's.

Everyone looked so beautiful in their black and white attire!

The luncheon was held at UVU. Here is (a poor) picture of a sign I made for the luncheon I also decorated 16 tables and made a display table for the entrance. I was so thankful to have Tanya's help setting everything up; she's such a decorating genius! I began working on the decorations in June-it was so fun to see it all come together. They used many of the decorations at the reception, which was at the White Willow reception center. What a beautiful day it was!!!



One week later I was able to fly to St. Loius to be at the wedding of my cousin Joe Wittwer and his beautiful bride Katy. I traveled from Rexburg to Orem, slept at my parents, then went with them to Salt Late, flew to St. Louis, stayed there for about 15 hours and flew back...It was a very long journey and well worth the effort! It was great to be with the Wittwer and Keller families and to see Joe so happy. Katy, a darling girl and wonderful addition to the family, was beaming through the whole ceremony(which was held at a lovely old Unitarian church in downtown St. Loius). Unfortunately, my camera was lost so I was not able to take my own photos!

What a wonderful month for marriages!!!!