Day 58: We Love Ruth Ann (Gail & Jim Christensen Family)

Christensen and Shumway Families



From left: Brandon, Aubrey, Jim, Gail, Dave, Jodi, Kaden

We love MANY things about Ruth Ann, our wonderful sister-in-law and aunt. Here are just a FEW of them:

KADEN and AUBREY say:
We love how you're always nice to everyone.
We like your cooking -- pizza, rolls, desserts, everything.
We love coming to family parties at your house.

JODI says:
I love how you are always smiling and happy. :-D
I love your "mad cooking skills" -- you make the best rolls ever!!
I love the great example you have set in patiently and lovingly raising eight wonderful children. :-)

DAVE says:
I like Ruth Ann's rolls.
She has a great sense of humor.
She is a wonderful grandmother.

BRANDON says:
Ruth Ann always let us stay up really late as kids, and let us have lots of fun together as cousins.
She always cooked us good food, and still does. I love her lasagna and her orange rolls.
She always makes me feel welcome.

JIM says:
Ruth Ann sees the good in other people.
She is always thinking of others and what she can do to make them happy.
Ruth Ann is powerfully righteous -- a living example of the gospel.

GAIL says:
Ruth Ann is fiercely loyal -- to her family, her friends, and to the Lord.
She is brilliant -- amazingly creative and talented -- and she's the best multi-tasker I've ever known. One day when I was visiting at her home, she was sewing pajamas, making grape juice, and catering someone's wedding, all at the same time!!

Ruth Ann is the very best kind of person to have in your family -- caring, honest, dependable, enthusiastic, always willing to do more than her share, and filled with charity, or Christlike love.

We thought you might enjoy seeing these old photos, taken by Neil in 1979, at a family outing to Ventura Beach, CA, while the family was visiting Nanny and Grandpa in Oxnard. Not sure why Jodi isn't in the picture, but John, Mary, Maggie, Tom, Bob, and Elisa were definitely too young in 1979 to be at the beach!!

Fun at the Beach



From left: Brandon, our dog Konian, Flori, Tonna (our Navajo Indian Student), Jared, Jim



Ventura Beach, 1979



Back Row from left: Kirk, Eldon, Jim Front Row: Joseph (being held by Ruth Ann), Brandon, Gail, Genie