Wednesday, February 25, 2009

LYDIA! It's your birthday today!

Hey! Today is your birthday! Happy birthday to you! (for the younger crowd, there's an old Beatles' song that starts that way)

Anyway, I hope your day is great and that you gets lots and lots and lots of presents and go out to dinner and have something great and fishy - cause today is also Ash Wednesday! Or - wait til Saturday and have a great date night.

Remember how much you're loved.

Michele and Bob

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Happy Birthday Mom.
Eighty years and still gowing strong. I'm glad that you are having a wonderful birthday. Wish I was there to celebrate with you.
We love you so much and miss you every day.

Your family in Pocatello,
Jim, Lydia, Jimmy, Matt, Brian, McKel, Emma,Taelor,
Libby, Michael, Avery and Rylee

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

HELP FIGHT THE FIGHT!

Please help fight the fight against ovarian cancer and receive a really nice addition to your collection of jewelry at the same time:

http://www.lorealcolorofhope.com/?redirect=jewelry You'll probably have to "refresh" the page to make it work. If that doesn't work just go to http://www.lorealcolorofhope.com/ and at the bottom of the page, click on the bit about the jewelry collection.

I ordered mine and it's really lovely!

Love to all,
Michele

How important is it to you to keep your own money?

If it's important to you to keep more of your own money and spend less, but still have the things you want - especially from the grocery store, then you need to take a look at this website:

www.becentsable.net

Try it now. There is so much to read - be sure you have time to spend looking and educating yourself.

Love to you all,
Michele

Saturday, February 7, 2009

February birthday celebrations

Here are the members of our family who will be celebrating birthdays in February. Please take a moment to wish them happiness and many more years.

Trevor Sweet - 02/05
Tim Gray - 02/07
Garrett Fordmeir - 02/08
Madelyn Johnson - 02/08
Just her 3rd one ever!
Daniel Lee Johnson - 02/10 + Bless you, Danny +
Autumn (Stetzner) French - 02/11
Carol (Cloeter) Stetzner - 02/11
Sara (Ronan) Bonner - 02/17
Brynn Bonner - 02/19
Happy 10th, Honey!
Mary Ellen (Sims) Stetzner - 02/20
A very special 80th Blessing! Love you, Mom!
Laura (Lee) Johnson - 02/20
Kaden Katz - 02/24
A big 5 year old now!
Lydia (Stetzner) McInelly - 02/25
Brienna Daly - 02/25

Pam Fordmeir - 02/27
Jocelyn (Fordmeir) Peterman - 02/27
She and Pam are sisters-in-law!
Matthew Hardman - 02/27
William F. Stetzner. Jr. - 02/28
Our Elder Statesman is 89 on this day! Happy Day, Uncle Bill!

These people are part of the most fabulous family on earth - and aren't we glad!
If I have missed anyone, please let me know so that I can add them to our list.
With Love to all,
Michele

Sunday, February 1, 2009

We've lost a loved one. . . .


Late on the evening of Thursday, January 29, 2009, the sweet, loving heart of Mary Sara (Stetzner) Ronan stopped beating and her soul started the final journey back to the arms of her loving God and her parents.

We will grieve the loss of the Mary Sara we all knew, but we are also grateful to God that her suffering has ended and we will also celebrate the wonderful woman that she was.

Mary Sara was so much to all of us. She was the baby sister of the family. She was a daughter, cousin, beloved aunt, a loving wife and mother and grandmother. She was talented in great measure and gifted in many areas. Some will remember her as a teacher, some will remember her as a the fun loving happy person; some will remember her as the hard working entrepeneuer; still others will remember her as the fighter she became.

I think she would most like to be remembered as the wife of Bob Ronan, the love of her life, and even more importantly as the mother of Bobby Ronan and his wife Rhonda, Sara Ronan Bonner and her husband Marcus Bonner, and the extraordinarily loving grandmother to Anaka, Luc, Brynn, Brooke and Blaine.

To those of us left behind I'm sure she would say that this was not her plan, but God's plan for her and that she wants us to remember how very much she loved us and will continue to love us because love never dies and that she'll wait for us in heaven.

She is home with God now. She is home with her mother and father and those who have gone before, resting in the love of all of them. Her painful wait is over, her suffering is ended. We should be happy for her now, but our tears will fall for today. She will understand our grief for our loss because of the love she also had for us.

She waits for all of us, now.