Allan and Teresa Tipton

2011-11-21T20:39:00.006-07:00

Halloween at the Tipton's 2011
We have a fun tradition that we do for Halloween every year. I don't know how many years we have done this, but the kids were young when we started it. Now they still come in their costumes along with their children. We have ham chowder, home made bread and spiced cider. It's a fun way to spend time with our family!

Garrett and Noah

Anjali

Aubrey

Brandon and Michelle

Logan and Kai

Jaxon

Andie and Logan

Alli

Garett and Landen

Lisa and Charly

Brian

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October 10 - Evan's Birthday Party

October 3 - Charly's Birthday Party

September 11 - Andie's Birthday Party

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August 2011 - Allan and Kai working on the new gazebo in the back yard. Kai is Papa's busy helper!

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August 13, 2011 - We went to see my most favorite singer in the world, Josh Groban! We had great seats so we could see him really well. I love his voice, his music and he just oozes musical talent. He is amazing! I was in heaven for two hours.

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July 27, 2011 - Allan retired from the Springville Police Department after 22 years of service. He is enjoying working on projects at home and being "Mr. Mom". In April he was called to be the bishop of the Spring Creek YSA Ward here in Springville. We are both enjoying our involvement with these outstanding young adults. They enrich our lives with their enthusiasm, their hope, their service and their strong testimonies. We are so grateful for this opportunity!

2011-09-26T18:30:00.002-06:00

It's taken me awhile to update my blog because life has been so busy, poor excuse I know. The following pictures were taken at a family reunion at my brother's home in Salmon, Idaho on July 23rd. Allan and I took our granddaughters, Aubrey and Alli Tipton there to enjoy some time with Frank and to ride some horses. The girls were in cowgirl heaven! We all had so much fun and it was very relaxing for us also. I think Frank even enjoyed himself and the girls just loved him. He loves to tease and he was so kind to help the girls saddle the horses and he rode with them also. None of our children were able to come, but we enjoyed visiting with Frank's children and grandchildren. We want to go up there again in a year or two and hopefully our kids will be able to go. We ate good food, had fun, went to church with Frank, but most importantly we were able to renew relationships and enjoy time together. Thanks Frank, you are an awesome brother and I love you dearly!

After our stay in Salmon, we went to spend the evening with Allan's sister and brother-in-law, Judy and Leon Bleggi. They live in Rexburg, Idaho. We had dinner with them on Sunday and we spent the night there. Thanks Judy and Leon! Monday, we went to Bear World and then headed home. It was great to spend time with Aubrey and Alli and really have some fun with them. I will post some more pictures soon.

2011-08-09T20:36:00.010-06:00

Frank Dalrymple - A Real Cowboy

Alli riding Blue

Aubrey showing off her new spurs handmade by Uncle Frank.

Aubrey feeding the horses!

Uncle Frank with the happy girls!

BEAR WORLD near Rexburg Idaho

MOURNING THE LOSS OF A BEAUTIFUL SISTER
My heart is hurting and I am missing my sister, Margie. She passed away on July 3, 2011 at the age of 59. She is a great example of love, charity, faith, strength, and enduring to the end with enormous health challenges. She continued to serve and bless the lives of others, even though it was very difficult for her because of her health. She had Parkinson's Disease and Crohn's Disease. How grateful I am for my Eternal Family and take great comfort in knowing that this separation is temporary and I will be with her again. I am grateful for the Plan of Happiness provided by our Savior Jesus Christ. We are so blessed!

Margery Jane Dalrymple Smith Obrey, 59 of Clinton, Utah passed away Sunday, July 3, 2011 at Davis North Hospital. She was born July 27, 1951 in Montpelier, Idaho, daughter of Leslie and Edith Dalrymple. She married Karl Joseph Smith on August 10, 1974 in Manti, Utah. They had four children together, and shared sixteen wonderful years until Karl passed away on August 1, 1990. She married Richard Marlow Obrey on April 9, 1993 in Salt Lake City, Utah and they enjoyed eighteen years together.

Margery loved her family very much. She enjoyed spending time with them, especially on outings and camping trips. She was a wonderful mother and wife, her family was her life. She was a devoted member of the L.D.S. Church and loved being involved in all of the church callings and activities she had throughout her life. She also enjoyed sewing, and collecting Native American dolls.

Surviving are her husband Richard Obrey; sons, Nathan (Cheri) Smith and Jacob (Sara) Smith; daughters, Abbi (Jeremy) Robb and Heidi (Ryan) Misrasi; Grandchildren: Kiley, Mykenzie, and Haydenn Robb, Keetun, Karter, and Averee Tucker, and Reagan Misrasi. Also surviving are her brother, Frank Dalrymple, and sisters, Nancy Martin, Teresa Tipton, and Janice Wallace.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 10 a.m. at the Clinton 6th Ward, 2223 North 1000 West, Clinton.

2011-08-09T20:09:00.002-06:00

Irrigation Day

Charly Jo

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Family Dinner at the Tipton's

Papa and Grandma

Garrett

Anjali

Aubrey

Alli

Kai

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Jaxon and Noah

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May 1, 2011 - Noah's Blessing Day

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GRANDCHILDREN

Jaxon

April 2011 - Evan at Easter

Evan

Charly

Logan

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It has been a long time since I have updated my blog. I felt a huge pressure to get the photo cross-stitch done for Allan's retirement, so all of my spare time was spent working on it. I finished it enough to display at his retirement and I just completely finished it. Now the pressure is off so I felt like I needed to update the blog.

We had the joy of having another grandson born! Noah Gray Boden was born on March 10, 2011. He looks so much like his brother, Malakai (Kai).

How we love our children and grandchildren, they are the joy of our lives.

COUSINS

Sweet Mama

Proud Daddy in background

Noah Gray Boden

Grandchildren

2011-02-19T15:39:00.004-07:00

Grandchildren are such a joy to us. Here are some recent pictures

Two random pictures

2011-01-31T21:20:00.002-07:00

I don't know when these pictures were taken but I thought they were cute.

Jaxon Landen Garner

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Jaxon Landen Garner was born January 25, 1011. He weighed in a 8 lbs 2 oz. He was 20 1/2 inches long. He is a beautiful addition to our family (nine grandchildren and counting). We love our precious little grandchildren.

Beautiful little spirit straight from our Heavenly Father.

Look how big Charly is now next to Jaxon!

Christmas 2010

2011-01-31T20:12:00.006-07:00

Christmas Eve we have a big family dinner, visit from Santa, spiritual program and nativity scene with the grandkids. It was wonderful as usual. We love being with our family at Christmastime. Our children and our grandchildren are the joy of our lives and make this life very sweet. We love the music, lights, decorations and the outpouring of the Spirit of Christ and giving at this season. May we always have this Spirit of Christ and giving in our hearts.

Santa was too good to Grandma and Papa this year! Thanks Santa!

Aubrey's Christmas Concert

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Aubrey sings in a children's choir. We went to her concert at the Springville Museum of Art in December. The choir was awesome and grandma is so excited that Aubrey is learning to sing! She already has a beautiful voice. They sounded like angels!

Halloween at the Tipton's

2011-01-31T19:47:00.010-07:00

Halloween is always fun at the Tipton household. All the children come home with their children to eat ham chowder, bread and spiced cider. We started this tradition several years ago. Our children, grandchildren, and even the dog (Sheba) dress up in costumes. It is lots of fun.

New pics of Charly

2010-10-12T17:42:00.002-06:00

Garett's sister, Stephanie, came to take some photos of Charly. Of course, the two grandmothers had to take pictures also. Here are some of the photos that I took of Charly with our new camera.

Evan's Birthday Party

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Brett and Tara had a fun birthday party for Evan on Saturday, the 9th. His birthday was on the 10th.

Charly Jo Caldwell

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Charly Jo Caldwell was born Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 8:05 p.m. She weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces and was 21 inches long. Both Lisa and Charly are doing well. Both are adjusting to their new lives. We are so happy to have another precious granddaughter!

Happy Mom and Charly

Proud Daddy

Eternal Family

2010-03-23T14:22:00.000-06:00

Brett & Tara

On February 27, 2010 Brett, Tara and Evan Tipton were sealed as an eternal family in the Las Vegas Temple. What a joyous occasion this was for our family. All of our children, except our son-in-law Garett, were able to be there for the wonderful event.

Tara - Brett - Evan

The Tipton Family

The Parents with the happy couple

Sassy Siblings

2009-10-20T17:42:00.000-06:00

Allan in his graduation ball-cap and tassle. RCOG does a graduation once a week.

Allan won the football picks from last weekend.

The saga continues - we are on the home stretch!

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Allan with Doctor Mark Merlin- He has been a great doctor!

Allan sitting by the radiation treatment machine.

Our journey continues. James, the driver and tour guide that takes us on the tours sponsored by the RCOG tells us that we are on a 'Radiation Vacation'. We are so excited that we are going home this Friday! Even though this has been an incredible journey, filled with many blessings along the way, we are so ready to go home. We miss our family and friends so much. We hope we will always appreciate what they mean to us.

When Allan is finished with the cancer treatments, he will have received 35 radiation treatments over a seven week period of time (Monday-Friday, 10:15 a.m.) We are usually in the clinic for 30 minutes every time he has a treatment. The doctors and staff are great and they treat us like family here. They have so many outside activities for us that really helps us pass the time and gives us things to look forward to during the week. They always have a physicians lecture and dinner on Tuesday nights, excursion every Wednesday at 2 p.m., Ladies luncheon or Dinner at the Frisbee's every Thursday.

The Brockett Ward has been helpful and pulled together when we went to the temple (the Atlanta Temple is closed for renovations so we didn't bring our own temple clothing). We had a chance to go to the Birmingham Temple and the ward came up with some temple clothing for us. We really needed to recharge our spiritual batteries and the temple trip really helped us to do that. We had been very homesick and looking forward to the temple trip and doing a session in the temple really helped. Allan rescheduled his treatment for a later time that day to accommodate the trip.

Three or four nights a week, dinner is brought into the Hope Lodge by local churches, businesses and the American Cancer Society. I will always be grateful for this wonderful place to stay, free of charge, while Allan receives the best treatment possible for the cancer within his body. So I will put in my plug for the American Cancer Society. They do much more than research. They help cancer patients with so many resources and helps that most of us don't realize what they do. Please contribute if you can. WE certainly will!

My words are inadequate to express our gratitude to everyone who helped make this possible for us. You know who you are and we love and appreciate what you have done so much. This journey has been very difficult, but in the midst of the difficulty we realized the tender mercies of the Lord in our lives and the bounteous blessings that he bestowed upon us. We look forward to many years ahead with Allan in our earthly lives because of being able to be here and being treated at the RCOG. Life is good!

This is the machine that delivers the radiation to the cancer cells.

Jennifer making sure Allan is in the right position for the radiation treatment.

Jennifer-Radiation Therapist

Greg-Radiation Therapist

Kelly-Patient Resource Coordinator

Baljeet Kaur-Oncology Nurse

Tybee Island

Tybee Lighthouse

Riverboat on Savannah River

Carriage Tour in Savannah

Phyllis Tippetts-Relief Society President-Brockett Ward-Atlanta Stake

Permecia-Hope Lodge Assistant Manager

Allan & Chris Fronczek

James Smith-Shuttle Driver/Tour Guide for RCOG

We had an opportunity to go to the Birmingham Alabama Temple

Pond in park of Emory University, where the Hope Lodge is located

Fox Theater where we saw RAIN-A Tribute to the Beatles.
The Hope Lodge receives many complimentary tickets to many events.

Georgia Aquarium

Windows of Heaven - We are blessed in our adversity!

2009-10-07T19:48:00.000-06:00

This has been an incredible journey so far. We finally got into the Winn-Dixie Hope Lodge last Thursday. This is a facility that is supported by the American Cancer Society. It provides free lodging for cancer patients and their caregivers. We have made some wonderful friends and have been the recipients of so much generosity and compassion from total strangers. This afternoon the Hope Lodge along with a local business hosted a recognition dinner for the survivors and caregivers who are staying here. The local business provided the dinner (most of it was funded by donations from the employees) and gave the lodge a Wii for the guests to enjoy. We feel very grateful to be here. We have been overwhelmed by the kindness of the people here. Southern Hospitality is alive and well.

Allan & Teresa with Terrance (volunteer at Hope Lodge)

Sylvia (mother) & Eugene (son) from Maryland

Chris (Pennsylvania) and Steve (New Mexico)

Renata & Gene from North Carolina

Beverly & Johnny

Flowers that Teresa's Co-workers sent
When life gives you lemons make lemonade!

Chris in the Computer Room at Hope Lodge

Carol & Russ from California
Hope Lodge Dining Room

Craft Room at Hope Lodge

Living Room at Hope Lodge

Allan helping with dinner.

Stone Mountain

Larry, Delta, Allan, Teresa at CNN Studios
Larry & Delta are from Kansas

Teresa in front of the Atlanta Temple (it is being renovated)

Allan in front of RCOG

Fun in the Appalachians

2009-09-26T20:25:00.000-06:00

Today we had such a fun day! This morning we went to the Kangaroo Conservation Center in Dawsonville, Georgia. It is about an hour north of Atlanta. They have over 300 kangaroos there, along with birds, lizards, and other wildlife native to Australia. This is the largest concentration of kangaroos in one place outside of Australia. I haven't see a kangaroo since I served my mission in Australia so I really wanted to go. It didn't disappoint me. It was awesome.

After the kangaroo center, we entered "tourist attractions" on the GPS and we found the Cabbage Patch BabyLand General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia. It was about 35 minutes further north. So we thought it would be fun to go there. This is where the Cabbage Patch babies are "born". It was one of the cutest things I have ever seen in my life (except for my own babies and grand-babies). We even saw a delivery there and they put the baby in the nursery. The people there watching got to name the baby. Someone yelled out Chloe and I yelled out Andie. So the new baby's name is Chloe Andie. It was really a cute place to see.

We were in the North Georgia Mountains which are in the Appalachians. It was a beautiful drive. It was too bad that it was raining hard again. We stopped in Dahlonega, Georgia which is a tourist town much like Jackson, Wyoming . We looked in some of the shops and had dinner there. Allan has been a little stir crazy because he gets so bored and feels cooped up in the apartment, so it was great to have a fun day.

Cabbage Patch BabyLand General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia

Chloe Andie being born

The cabbage patch

Cabbage Patch nursery

Kangaroo Conservation Center in Dawsonville, Georgia

White Kangaroo

This pigeon kept putting its beak between my fingers and it tried to take my ring.

Kookaburra

Hindu Temple in Atlanta

2009-09-26T19:09:00.000-06:00

A couple from our ward here, Claudia and Spencer Johnson, took us to lunch at a Bangladeshi restaurant and then to see the Hindu Temple in Atlanta. The food was good and the temple was spectacular. The hand carved detail on the outside and the inside was amazing. We couldn't take pictures of the outside from a certain point and we couldn't take any at all inside.

BLESSINGS IN OUR TRIBULATIONS

2009-09-19T18:22:00.000-06:00

We have had several days of rain here and the backyard has been flooded several times. There has been flooding in the Atlanta area because of all the rain. I have been busy working from here and Allan does what he can to keep himself busy. He used to go for walks often, but the pouring rain has put a damper on that. We have been here nearly three week and we have five more to go. The treatments are going well, they make Allan tired and drain him of his energy, but other than that he is feeling okay.

The people here have been very nice and friendly, except for the man that jumped in the backseat of our car in a parking lot. He said he needed a ride and I was praying the whole time that he was in the car that we would be protected. He smelled of alcohol and BO. I don't know what he had planned to do, but he probably changed his mind when he found out that Allan was a police officer. We were incredibly blessed that we weren't hurt. We found out from a church member here that carjackings are very common. This church member had to shoot someone once that tried to carjack him.

The ward that we are going to is very friendly, a nice mix of old and young, black and white. They are very strong in the gospel and very humble. They have to be strong to deal with the persecution that they get here. But they say that having the restored gospel is worth it. They know that it is true!

We feel very blessed to be here, receiving the cancer treatments at the best place we could get them. We are blessed to have such wonderful children, friends, family, neighbors and ward family who all worked together to help get us here. Thanks to all of you for your love and continued support. Even though this is a scary and difficult thing to deal with (cancer), we feel that the windows of heaven have been opened and the blessings have been poured upon our heads. Our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ are with us every step of the way! Love to all of you!