Kevin and the earthquake

There was an 8.0 earthquake in Chile last night/this morning. Kevin (my nephew on a mission there) is in Santiago-200 miles away from the epicenter by Concepcion. It was about 7.5 in Santiago. His misssion president's wife blogged this morning and said that all of her missionaries were safe and accounted for. The tsunami caused by the quake is heading to Hawaii. I hope all our friends there will be okay. They have no power, internet, or land line phones right now in Santiago, but I saw some twitters from MSNBC this morning from Santiago. Hopefully the aftershocks won't be too bad. He emailed me this week saying they were waiting for this earthquake-the mission president also brought them bottled water and they had to have their back packs ready with essentials. Their area was pretty new and built to earthquake code from what I could tell from the newer construction (Chile has been building to earthquake code since the 1920's.)

I loved the movie Julie and Julia. I can't wait to get my hands on Julia Child's cookbooks. I really need to know how to make real chocolate mousse. I wonder if I can make Beef Borg. without alcohol? Any substitutions-hmmm.

BYU Game

BYU barely won against New Mexico. It was kind of a ho hum experience. No one taunted us, approached us, breathed the deathly tailgate breath on us...nothing. I think with the girls soccer incident and the head football coach punching his assistant coach, they(NM fans) were trying to redeem themselves. The only real excitement is when the NM football players ran on the field and David yelled, "Bring on the girls soccer team!" We came home to see if we were filmed in any way and we were and my son Devin gave me a lovely compliment on my appearance. He said with my coat on, I looked like a Sith Lord. thanks Devin love ya.

This is how we feel here in New Mexico among
all these Lobo and Arizona fans, but we're holding
on to our love of BYU sports. Join us if you
can to the UNm-BYU FOOTBALL GAME,
NOVEMBER 14TH IN new mexico. You
can get tickets for the BYU section from:
keith@myjiffy.com (Keith Mortensen-
505-259-1767) If you can stand jeering and
the overwhelming smell of liquor in the parking
lot, you'll be so wanted in the sober section.

My Groovy sister had a birthday! Check out our dog

Tina (Mother of Chaquita.)

Farnsworth cousins - I'm guessing- Alan, Scott, and
Lane- probably on a Sunday.

Super cool pictures from my past

Cliff despises me for this encroachment I made on the "boys of the family" picture - as you can see below-I had already been pictured in the girl photo, why his too?(He still has a prob with this) The bottom right pic is a classic of the Snyders. Check out Brant's tum tum-Marc is sporting Grandpa's Sunday suit coat.