Posted on Wednesday, 18th August 2010 by chrisjones

Eighteen and a half years ago Jeanette brought a little boy into our home.  We knew his name was Alexander from well before he was born, even though, because we are just that way, we never found out if the baby was a boy or a girl until the moment he arrived. He made our [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 1st July 2010 by chrisjones

Are birthdays magic?  Well, if you ask a four-year-old, they are.  My little son Nathaniel (“Thanner”) talks about his birthday pretty much all the time, despite the fact that it won’t come ’round until next May.  He tells you how old he is.  Tells you he’s almost five.  Tells you what he wants to do.  [...]

Tags: birthdays, Independence Day, Jeanette, Jesus Christ, lending Utah, mortgage Utah, Thanner
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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 by chrisjones

This is my Mother’s house.  The one she grew up in, the one she shared with her brother and sisters, the one her parents lived in for 50 years. As of today, it’s not theirs any more. Mom has been gone from that place for 45 years, and her parents essentially died there a few [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 5th May 2009 by chrisjones

I added Shawnie Romney Tull as a friend on Facebook today. She died last Friday night. I grew up about 2 minutes from her house in Springfield, Virginia. Barry and Alita, her parents, were good friends of my parents – there was an extremely good group of adults in that area, and many of them [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 5th April 2009 by chrisjones

I love General Conference.  I didn’t when I was a kid, because really, who is excited as a 5-year-old, or even a 15-year-old, to have their normal 3 hours of church expanded to 10 hours stretching across an entire weekend? But I love it now.  I love it for several reasons.  It makes me better.  [...]

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