2002 Annual Recap

Family gatherings for Easter, Kaden's baptism, Janelle's baby blessing and of course Christmas Eve!

LaMar turned 65 on May 28, 2002. Margie turned 60 on Nov. 7, 2002

Scott turned 39 on Dec. 16, 2002.   Amy: 34.  McKenna 9, Alyssa 7, Kellen 6, Kemery 4.

Chris turned 36 on Sept. 5, 2002.   Sandy: 35.  Conner: 10, Kadan 8, Corin 5, Camden 0.

Wendy turned 34 on April 29, 2002.  Rick 35.  Janika 7, Jase 5, Jared 3, Janelle 0.

Jeni turned 32 on Nov. 10, 2002.  Grayson: 33.  Landon 7, Callahan 3, Keaton 2.

Shane turned 26 years old on May 3, 2002.   Alicia 22.

Derek turned 20 years old on May 5, 2002.

 LaMar at Ruby River, big hat, 65th Birthday

LaMar retired from Unisys, 1 Jan 2002. He started as a Church Service Missionary at the Family History Library in downtown SLC 12  August 2002.  He worked on Mondays until 5 p.m., then when the Library closed, he walked over to the Joseph Smith Building and worked in the FamilySearch Center there until 9 p.m.  He did this for 8 years until the end of 2010.

14th grandchild was born: to Chris and Sandy: Camden Jacob Westra, 27 Apr 2002.

15th grandchild born to Wendy and Rick: Janelle Marjorie Jensen, 14 Oct 2002.

Scott's family living in Draper: Rosewood Park Lane

Chris's family living in Gunnison. A baptism, baby and Kuikido.

Wendy's family living in Ivins, 582 North 300 West, 84738. 

The Jensen's had a family trip to California.
Read more about their year on Wendy's blog.

Jen's family living in West Jordan, 3692 W 8070 S, 84088.

Jen&Gray had a Florida getaway with Hamlet Homes and a family trip to Oregon.

Shane and Alicia were living at 1764 East 4620 South. Not many pictures in the family Dropbox,
I'm sure they have some more. There were these photos from Shane's work.

Derek was on his mission. A folder of pictures in 2001 ... but nothing for 2002.

Check out more pictures from EASTER and CHRISTMAS ...

Father’s Day Flee – 16-19 June 2002 -- past Pineview Reservoir to Powder Mountain.  Dad wrote: It was a steep drive, and our car had a difficult time getting up the mountain.  The Powder Mountain condos were clear up at the top of the ski area, over 8000 ft in elevation.  We had Wendy’s, Scott’s and Shane’s families. I'm sure Wendy has many more memories in her journal!

 A birthday party for Grandpa. Got many of the Norman cousins to come too. Merrill and Lorrie were gone (left 20 Jun 2002) as mission presidents for three years in the Morristown, New Jersey mission. 

A look at the house and yard in 2002.

Here's a link to the 2002 folder in Dropbox

2002 Christmas Letter

Looks like the letter went out a little late this year ... New Years rather than Christmas.

So this is technically the 2002 Christmas Letter *Ü*

Shift in format - addition of photos!

Original PDF is in Dropbox

Merry Christmas from the Blackhams (2002)

In 2002, the Blackham Bunch consisted of Gray and Jen and three little boys. Like Shane & Alicia, Blackhams sent out some handmade cards with a write up of the family info and activities. Cute pictures of the boys in front of the Christmas tree, paired with an earlier photo of them in some classic costumes (made for the original Blackham Boys: Grayson, Kolby and Clayton back in the 1970s).

The cover of the card was a drawing by little Callahan ...

... and the back

The home address would stay the same for the next 20+ years, but the email address and phone number shifted as technology switched things up. 

... and one more look at those cute Blackham Boys!

Merry Christmas From Shane & Alicia (2002)

(this will be backdated to Dec 2002)

Shane and Alicia got married in 2001, so 2002 was Christmas #2. They mailed out cute handmade cards for the holiday season. Also included was an annual recap, which is shown below ...

Easter 2002

Easter was on March 31 this year ... looks like we were missing Wendy's family, and Derek was gone on his mission. But with Scott, Chris and Jen's kids, it was a pretty big group of cousins. There was the traditional "Grandpa and a few other adults take all the kids on a walk, while the others hide the eggs."  Jen was ready with buckets and baskets and away the kids went ...

... after the eggs were gathered, it was time to open them up and see what was inside.

While candy is always appreciated, little toys are a hit too. One of the fun items this year were the little tubes of "b'loonies" ... squeeze a little goop from the tube to the tip of the small straw, blow, and you get a little balloon ... for a few moments anyway, until it pops and collapses.

If you want more Easter ... there is more on the Blackham Blog (Blackham Easter 2002).