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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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Merry Christmas from The Sweater

Jason had another excuse to wear his beautiful Christmas sweater last night. That thing has well earned every penny spent to buy it, I'll tell you that much.
I have so many friends in Texas that are incredibly musically talented. So it only makes sense one of our friends would throw a SINGING Christmas party. Where we all sat around the piano and sang for 3 hours. Well, I didn't sing the whole time, but that's besides the point. And there were many stunning solos prepared and performed. It was a great time, if not a little more up-ity than Jason and I are used to. Lots of people were dressed up all fancy. (I guess including Jason...new to the outfit this year was a sweeeet, horribly clashing tie.)


I also learned the easiest and MOST DELICIOUS peanut butter cookie recipe last night. You ready for this? You're going to be blown away if you make them. They were soo good!! I'm not kidding, my favorite peanut butter cookie ever.

2 cups of peanut butter
2 eggs
2 cups of sugar
350ยบ for ~8 min

That's it. She also put in milk chocolate chips and peanut butter chips. I ate about 10. Well, maybe not that many, but I had to restrain myself. She dumped them off her plate before leaving and I took almost all that was left home for me, and me alone.

5 comments:

rebeccaV said...

I LOVE IT!! That is beyond awesome.

David and Debby said...

I had to super-size the photo to see the tie, but you're right, it's a clasher, but with a sweater like that, it doesn't matter - good job Jason.

Wow! 3 hours of caroling around the piano?... I'm Arvilla's boy, and not even I could tolerate that.
Dad

Leslie said...

The hair is what makes the outfit perfect. Way to go, Jason.

David and Debby said...

love that sweater. made those cookies. uuggggggggggggg. must have done something wrong. any suggestions?

Jason and Dana said...

Umm...no idea mom. I haven't tried to make them yet......I'm going to the grocery store and am going to buy some peanut butter chips, so I'll let you know how mine turn out.