HISTORY

A Little History:
Our story begins in Pocatello, Idaho, circa 1972, when the lovely Debby Christensen agreed to a first, though fateful date with admirer, David Croshaw. Long story-short, he bade her follow him, and they went arm-in-arm to the Logan, Utah temple for establishment of an eternal family unit, Generation 1, on May 23 1973.

From their first blissful summer in Salt Lake City, educational pursuits took them to Provo/Orem, Utah, birthplace of Leslie and Rebecca, and to San Francisco/Oakland California, birthplace of Colin and Matt. Then, for establishment of livelihood, expansion of the tribe with Abby and Dana, and for raising/unifying of Generation 2, it was back to the roots in Pocatello for a rewarding sojourn.

In time, driven by a raging, but commonly shared sense of adventure and independence, one-by-one, Generation 2 escaped the homeland to distant regions of the country and the world, each ultimately developing their own tribal expansions by pairing with worthy mates and initiating Generation 3.

Now sensing fulfillment of their purpose in Pocatello, Generation 1 has also left those roots and transplanted to Cascade Idaho, from which base, they anticipate more abundant contact with The Posterity, Generations 2 and 3, in the future. That contact however, awaits fulfillment of a call to LDS missionary service in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, wherein they hope to help the state of the world by sharing the love of Jesus Christ.

So now, including Generation 0 (Grandma and Grandpa Christensen) home base includes Yuma, Arizona, Pocatello, Idaho, Cascade, Idaho, Vancouver, BC, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Spokane, Washington, Boise, Idaho, Los Angeles, California, back to Boise, Idaho, and on and on (Generation 3+) to infinity.

Our Mission Statement:
This is the blog of our eternal family unit. Initiated years ago, it served well as a journal, but even more so, as an archive of our personal interaction. It was a gathering place, a confabulation instrument, a unifying force for four generations of widely dispersed and progressively prolific posterity, and their valued associates. Though it served these purposes well for many years, it eventually took a back seat to new-kids-on-the-block, Facebook, and Instagram, and was sadly forgotten.

We now move to resurrect this blog with an added functional purpose of archiving the missionary experiences of Generation 1, of their movements and activities as they participate with The Gathering of Israel in the land northward. In so doing, we hope that via their own comments and posts, this blog will again serve to gather and unify the posterity and their friends.

As in the past, that the young and vibrant may know the old and tired, that enduring bonds may be fostered and maintained, that experience and encouragement may be openly shared, that posterity may embrace truth, and that hearts may be knit together, we must resist detachment despite our geographic divergence. We shall do so here.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Do You Think it Will SNOW?!

On our recent trip to Cascade with old friends,
Bernts and Riveras...

we ran into a little snow.









Quite the cornice on the new
back deck...








... until Rafael shoveled it off.



And Jason thought he was the only on who had to
use a shovel at the cabin.







Over in McCall,
we ran into some new friends...








... but some of them were not very sociable.









This one robbed the bank...





... and then he tried to get away on
the local rails, but the train had frozen
up.

All Aboarrrrd!








This was the U.S. Forest Service's entry in the annual McCall ice sculpture contest.

Yes, that's right, your tax dollars at work.






Me & Julio
down by the school yard










Wish you had been there,
Mom and Dad

2 comments:

Leslie said...

Wow! I wish I could have been there too! It's been decades since I've seen that much snow. Lucky dogs!

Jason and Dana said...

Hey, not fair. Now i loose all my momentum about being the grunt worker at the cabin. Now you have indisputable evedience that you put your friends to work while at the cabin......But I am also a gluten for punishment by manual labor with a shovel. The fence in the back yard is my proof.
I'm just glad that we have that awesome place to get away from the world.
Jason