Not just another Court of Honor

The Haupt family celebrated their fifth and last Eagle Scout Court of Honor on December 27.
Jordan’s young men president, also a close family friend, presented Jordan with his award and Eagle neckerchief, which is a tradition within the Haupt family.
Isaac presented Jordan with his eagle challenge. Isaac spoke about the symbolism in the eagle award and explained how Jordan had each of the qualities within himself. Isaac also challenged Jordan to remember those qualities and to make them a part of his everyday life.
This occasion was very important to David and Nancy as well. David has now watched all of his sons become Eagle scouts. Nancy is glad to finally be finished with the long and perhaps slow road that is required to become and Eagle Scout.
Isaac, Levi, Adam, and Reuben presented Jordan with a pocket knife, which had the words “Honor” and “Welcome to the Nest” on it. They told Jordan that they considered him to be one of them, and that he had grown up to be a great person, and brother. They were proud to welcome him into the nest.
Perhaps the most emotional moment of the evening was not when Jordan was awarded with his medal and joined the Eagle’s Nest, but when Adam presented David with a neckerchief. This neckerchief matched the ones all of the Haupt boys have received upon the completion of their scouting experience. David’s had an eagle on it and said “Proud father of five Eagles”, Adam then proceeded to invite David to join his sons in the Eagle’s Nest.
“I don’t think that is allowed” David said, and Adam replied with “We don’t care, you deserve it”.
It was an emotional and happy moment when David sat with his five sons in the Eagles Nest. This is a day that the Haupt family will never forget.
By Rebekah Haupt

College Life thus far.

I thought that since I am now not living at home and therefore allowed to have my own accound I would let the family know what I've been up too for the last few months. I am going to BYU-I and actually loving it. I have learned that I can cook, and actaully enjoy doing so.
My roommates and I have made dinner for my good friends from home a few times now. And we are all good cooks! (here we made mashed potatoes and fried chicken!) However it's not all fun and games! I have been swamped with homework from day 1! Most recently my roommate Paige and I had the privilage to travel to Las Vegas and help with the final 5 days of the presidential campaign. We spent over 33 hours on the phones, 4 hours going door to door, all in the pursuit of helping John McCain become the next president. Unfourtunatly our efforts were not very successful seeing as not only did Obama win, but he also won in Nevada. We did have a lot of fun despite the facts! We got to go to a rally were John McCain spoke and we went to the strip twice. My favorite part was seeing the Bellagio Fountains...and then getting lost in the hotel! However since I decided to take 3 days off from school I am falling behind, so I will go for now but I hope everyone is having a good school year so far!

Love, Bekah

Monthly Update

For some time now Torrie's extended family has been blogging monthly. At the beginning of each month every family post a little tid bit about what they have been doing that month. We have found this to be quite enjoyable to read. With this in mind we thought we would post our post here as well in hopes it would catch on. If you feel inclined please let us know what you have been up to.

October 2008
This past month has settled down only slightly…. We made it safely here to New York. We had a great time with my mom for the first part of the month. By the tenth Grandma Woodward (Torrie's mom Tammy) had gone home and I was on my own in a new apartment, with two kids, and a husband with an actual work schedule. I am trying not to get overwhelmed and to take it a little at a time. We have enjoyed going to our new ward and getting to know the area. It’s been beautiful, there is nothing like a East Coast autumn, however, the leaves are fading and winter is on its way.

We also celebrated Levi’s 27th birthday, the girls and I made a dinner and cake and the girls helped Levi blow out the candles. After the candles were blown out they posed with Emma’s patented "smile". Emma had a blast being “Captain Hook” for Halloween, she scored big time bringing home a completely full pumpkin of candy. Levi has enjoyed the job thus far, although it’s been an adjustment for both of us since he can’t tell me anything about what he is doing, for all I know he leaves for work and meets up with other engineers to play video games all day… Charlotte has been growing and changes by the day.She is over 6 weeks old now and has an opinion all her own. It’s been so fun to see the sisters interact, Emma is quite the one woman show and charlotte is her captive audience. We should be able to report more fun stuff next month, since we have double the source of entertainment. We hope the holidays treat you all well and can’t wait to read your reports.

Love,Levi and the girls

The Killpack's

Hello fellow family members!

Just to let everyone know that McKay and I have our own blog, but we promise to contribute to the Cornilles Clan blog! www.courtneyandmckay.blogspot.com. It was good to Rob and Allison, Torrie and Levi, Brad and Misty at our picnic two weeks ago! We love you all and when are we going to have another family reunion? Hopefully it will before the next century!

Rebekah's Graduation Announcements

Hello Family,

I sent out my graduation announcements last month and I have heard that people have not received them! If you could let me know if you didn't get one i can re-send you one! Sorry for all the confusion!
Love
Rebekah

Hello Family,

We have had some trouble staying caught up on the family blog, so we are going to try to get you caught up on our year thus far. First of all in December Isaac moved home due to unsuccessful attempts at getting people to quit using drugs. (And he has been camped on the couch ever since.)
Shortly thereafter, Christmas came and Levi sent the family a beautiful puzzle, little did we know it turned out to the puzzle from... well this is a family blog so we will let you imagine. Those edge pieces that are usually the easiest would not go together, and once together, you could tell they weren't right, eventually, like any good family, we gave up and called it good enough. The puzzle floated around the dining room table for about 4 months, before being removed to the dining room floor.

Then the weather started to get nice for about a week, and the family decided it was time to get in shape for the upcoming Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic. All the boys intend to ride this year! That's right, all of them, Levi is training in Utah, Reuben is training in the Domican Republic, and even Adam has take up riding with the family. You know what they say... the family that rides together stays together. Well... sometimes the boys get a little anxious to get ahead, but we are learning to stay together as a group.

Once again the weather turned cold, but that is okay because we had Jordan's and Hannah's birthdays to celebrate. Hannah likes yellow a lot this year and was excited for her polka dot shoes. Jordan is excited about other things... All in all it was a good week of birthdays, and especially exciting because both Jordan and Hannah got their permits to drive this year. Yes, you heard right, we have two drivers in training so everytime someone walks out the door the first words you hear in Chorus are "Can I drive?"

After the birthday's we had a little more sunshine, and you know what that means... That's right... house cleaning and yard work. Mom finished the work on her curtains... Dad worked in the yard, and Jordan, well... you guessed it.... Just kidding he worked really hard too.

After the yard work things got busy... Rebekah and Hannah danced. Although due to the astounding expertise of their coach, both girls ended up quitting the team in order to pursue more valuable endeavors, such as seminary.

Jordan Pole Vaulted... As you can see he did well and had fun!






Rebekah turned 18! I surprised her at school by filling her car with balloons. She was pretty excited although the drive home may have been slightly dangerous. The most exciting part of her turning 18 was that she was able to vote for the first time. After her verbal onslaughts in her political science class, we think this was the high point of her entire year.
I also took Rebekah and her friends to the Beach for her big birthday, it sure must be rough to be 18.

After Rebekah's birthday things got really crazy for me as I put final touches on the Stake's Gold and Green Ball. It was a lot of fun, and Dave even came to show his support and dance.

Soon thereafter Rebekah Graduated! She was very excited to finally be done with all of her term papers, math homework, and Senior Projects. Rebekah was ecstatic that the forecast called for rain and that the ceremonies were being held outside. Dawning her rain boots, she prepared for the onslaught and the yellow ponchos to match.

Luckily it didn't rain and the whole family turned out for the festivities.

Most importantly or excitedly, at Grad night Rebekah won a very monumental raffle. She has been begging, stressing and working towards earning a laptop for college. That's right, Rebekah won a new laptop, and printer at Grad night, she woke us up at 6 in the morning upon arriving home with glee.

Finally, Dave and I have been training to ride 100 miles together and the day has come at last. We registered for the Strawberry ride in Lebanon, Oregon. We rode it with some of our friends from the ward, it was a lot of fun to spend the time with them, Jordan and Isaac even came. It was a beautiful, the hills about killed us in the beginning but Dave wouldn't let us walk... But an occasional nap in the grass wasn't off limits... Look closely, we are both there covering our eyes and trying to recover, this was only the half way point.
We were glad to be done after though, and enjoyed the Strawberry Shortcake at the finish line.

As you can see it has been a busy year so far, and we only have more fun and excitement to look forward to; Levi, Torrie, and Emma will be coming to visit in July just in time to see Reuben return from his mission, also in that same week the boys will be riding the Seattle to Portland, 200 miles in one day, I will let you know how many bodies we pick up along the road. We will also be going to the beach as a family that week, and then it's girls camps, EFY, Scout camps, Adventure Camps, and hopefully a week to myself if I can get Isaac and Reuben out of the house.

We have really enjoyed reading everyone's posts and hope to hear from everyone again soon.

Update:

Hey Everyone,
Recently we decided to create our own blog (mostly since it is the new hip thing to do, and we were feeling old). Anywho the address is http://indianspit.blogspot.com/. So to catchup with everything we have been up to check it out!

We Love You!

Love,
Levi, Torrie and Emma