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Hooray, Rexburg Medical Center is open!

What a week it has been. Make that what a year. We had a wonderful experience with Charles funeral. It was one of the nicest ones we have been to.

We were pretty stressed having the funeral and Open House all in one week. We were not able to be at the office the two most important days of getting ready for the Open House. The employees pulled together and did a fantastic job of getting everything ready. Look at Kay above. She climbed into the fish tank and shined it up. We even hung little toy fish in it for decor. It is pretty cute.

First we had a luncheon for everyone in the building and everyone who has ever worked there. We did not know what to expect for turnout. We ran out of food at the end and the caterer thinks we fed about 120 people. We think about 400 came to the Open House. WOW!

Then we went upstairs for the 5 ribbon cuttings. I was stunned when I went up and saw how many were there. Hundreds of people. It was wall to wall. It was fun to cut all of those ribbons. We then gave guided tours of the building until 7 at night. It was a steady stream of people. Such a huge success. All the TV stations came and the papers. Today is open house again. I do not expect as many but who knows. I did not expect yesterday to be so big either.

Rexburg Medical Center ribbon and employees.

DermaChic ribbon cutting. Here is a link to Susan Jeppesens post and pictures of DermaChic. http://gsuze.blogspot.com/

Below is the Wellness Center ribbon cutting.

A Veterans Day

Today is Veterans Day. As we drove thru the streets of Rexburg on the way to the cemetery for Charles Zollinger's burial, I noticed that the streets were lined with flags. I looked ahead at the hearse and saw the flag draped coffin in the back window. What a nice site to see all of the flags lining the route. Charles served in the Military during World War ll. It was a sad day but there were so many nice things that happened. It was an extra special Veterans Day for all that attended the services. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making it a special day.

Thanks to all who have served our country.

A weekend for the memory books

It has been a very big weekend for us. Early Saturday morning Jeff's Dad, Charles passed away unexpectedly. So that has been hard. All of the kids came home with a few stragglers still coming today. It is a houseful of grand kids, adults and all the insanity that comes with it. However everyone has been well behaved and having a good time together. Usually when that many kids come home you have time to mentally and physically prepare for it. This time prep time did not happen but I think all is well.

Two summers ago we did a family trip to Island Park and Charles and Nell joined us. We are glad that we took the opportunity to do some fun pictures with them.

Grandpa always does the "mouth full of whipped cream" trick with the Grand kids. He starts them out young and they never forget to ask. Here he is giving Grace a big shot of whipped cream. Oh and he also pierced her ears today. She looks pretty cute. I did not get a picture of it.

Yesterday Nichole (niece) blessed her new baby so we went to that en masse. We create a scene when we travel as a group as you can imagine.

It was also Isaac's birthday yesterday. So we partied with him. Speaking of birthdays we had an announcement made this weekend about the next "birthday" coming up. Matt & Chalene are expecting again probably in June.

How much more can you fit into one weekend? I hope not much.

Here is the funeral info for anyone interested.

Viewing tonight (Monday the 10th) from 7-9 at Flamm's

The Funeral will be tomorrow (Tuesday) at the North Stake Center at 11. There will be a viewing from 10-10:45 prior to it.