Another New Arrival

Mike and LeeAnn welcomed another new little boy into our family last week. He was born on October 15 at 10:27 a.m. He was 7 lb 11 oz. LeeAnn had a smooth delivery and is recovering well. He is one handsome boy! His name is Korver Ryan Craythorne.

Our own blog

So Heidi has finally created our own growing family blog! I have added the link to the right side of the blog and would invite anyone with interest to come read it and get more familiar with our lives. :)

http://sceidiandhott.blogspot.com/

We love you all and hope everyone's life is going amazing,

Congrats on the Baby Boy James and Kristina!

New Arrival

James and Kristina welcomed a new baby boy into our family last night. He was born at 8:48 p.m. He weighs 6 lb 11 oz and is 19 inches long. As you have come to expect from the Steve Hillstroms, he is quite hansome.

Arbor for Emily and Gary's wedding reception

I wanted to show some of the pictures of the arbor that I built for Emily and Gary's wedding reception. It turned out very nice. We had a lot of great comments about it.

Hillstrom Christmas Party

Check out some of the pictures from the Hillstrom Christmas party in Huntsville. The hay ride was great!! Thanks, Mike and Cindy.

Wow, there hasn't been much activity here on this blog. There has been a ton of things happening in the family too. As you all know this has been a very busy year for the Orem Hillstrom's. Just to recap, Emily got home after a year in Hong Kong a week before Scott's wedding. Scott married Heidi on Dec. 20, 2008, Jeff's 60th was on April 2nd and thanks for the party. Lori married Geoff Hack on May 30, 2009. Rebecca added twins to our clan two days after Loris' wedding on June 1st. Emily married Gary Fullmer on Oct. 17, 2009. It has been busy but so very rewarding. Thanks for all of your love and support. Let's keep up the postings. We would love to hear about you. We look forward to the Christmas party at Mike's on Dec. 19th.

Elder Jacob Hillstrom' contact info.

If anyone happens to look at this blog and perchance would want to have Jacob's address to write to him, here it is:

Misio'n Panama'
Elder Jacob Hillstrom
Carrasquilla
Entrega Genereal 0834
Panama', Rep.de PANAMA'

Happy Graduation!

Congratulations to our brother and cousin James, who graduated from The Ohio State University's Dental School in June and became a full-fledged Dentist in July. Some of us have mixed feelings about letting James anywhere near our mouths with a drill, but a wonderful accomplishment none the less.

Happy Retirement!

After many years of prioritizing his life (1) family, (2) work, and (3) golf, Steve has decided to rearrange his priorities to (1) golf, and (2) family, eliminating work altogether. Our Dad, Brother and Uncle Steve retired earlier this month. Congratulations and best wishes for a happy retirement!

Happy Birthday!

June 18 Birthday: 1942 Paul McCartney rocker, Beatles (for Dan)
June 25 Birthday: 1963 Mike Myers Canada, comedian (for Anna)
June 27 events: 1844 Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, and his brother Hyrum were lynched by a mob in Carthage, Illinois (for Lindsay, sorry Linds...)
June 28 Birthday: 1966 John Cusack actor (For Stacie - we all know how much you love John Cusack :)
July 5 Event: 1989 Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out (For Leslie)
July 12 birthday: 1937 Bill Cosby (for Steve H.)
July 15 birthday: 1973 Brian Austin Green N Hollywood Cal, actor (David-Beverly Hills 90210) (for Mitch - do you even know what Beverly Hills 90210 is? :)
July 19 birthday: 1954 Kathleen Turner actress (Romancing the Stone, Jewel of Nile) (for Scott S.)
July 21 birthday: 1952 Robin Williams (for Leeann)

Trayden James Hillstrom

James & Kristina have lots of cute pictures of little Tray on their blog. What a lady killer already!

New Baby Craythorne

Mike and LeeAnn had their little baby girl yesterday afternoon just before 5:00 p.m. LeeAnn had a smooth delivery without any complications. We are all greatful for that. Here is the little hottie. She is adorable!

Happy Birthday Scott

Birthdays: 1907 Lord Laurence Olivier actor, 1970 Naomi Campbell model
Events: 1906 Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane, 1930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive homeruns, 1933 Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay, 1956 "Bob Hope Show" last airs on NBC-TV, 1961 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Space Needle in Seattle), opens, 1990 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0, 1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show

View from 85th floor restaurant of the Taipei 101 tower. A very nice member took us there for lunch.

A fantastic shoreline view from a mountain town above Keelong.









"The Queens head " rock formation at a Goblin Valley like area along the Taiwan coast.









May 25, 2008
The Chang Kia Chek Memorial

The J Hillstrom's in Hong Kong

May 16 2008

Jeff, Leslie, Lori and Scott on their way to Hong Kong to visit Emily there. Afterward,the 5 of us will go to Taipei, Taiwan and then into Beijing, China. Scott was on his mission in Taiwan.



It was a 14 hour trip from San Francisco.


We arrived in time to cleanup and go to Emily's branch meetings. They were held in the 11 story church office building here in Hong Kong where there are 4 wards and 5 or 6 branches. The building also hosts the Asia Area authority offices.

The area authority leaders, Pres. Hallstrom, and Pres. Garns families live there also. Pres Perkins could live there but has a private codo on the south side of the island. Pres. Perkins was Scotts mission president so Scott loved to see him again. He is a very influencial man in China economic circles.
The public transportation systems is incredible. They have every means of moving people. On the street they have an older system called the Ding Ding. It is an electric double decker trolley car, where there are hundreds of them full of people. Their name comes from the bell they would ring to warn pedestrians. There is not much head room for us taller Hillstrom's.

After church we went to a zoological and botanical open park.

Then in the evening went across the bay and watched a laser light show from the warf. We could see the beautiful Hong Kong skyline.

Suffering from jet lag we all slept very well at Emily's apartment.

May 19 2008 -The next day in the morning we went out to a "wet" market (also known as an open market) right by Emily's house. It was cool to see all the fresh fruit, fish, meat and veggies. We bought a bunch of exotic fruit to eat for breakfast, mangos, mangosteens, grapes, dragonfruit, dragoneyes, jackfruit, and kiwi. It is so cool to be able to get all this fresh fruit that you can't get in the states. Afterwards we went to three other markets. We went to a jade market with rows upon rows of jade shops with so many beautiful things to look at. We bought a few touristy things, but mainly treated it like a museum. Anything you thought was cool and looked at with some interest or touched then the people at the stands would try to sell it to you. It was kind of fun haggling with all the people even if you didn't want it. Scott was happy that he got someone to drop 30 or so US dollars off the price of something he bought :). He still thinks it was a great deal but who knows. Then we went to a flower market and a bird market, with many many flowers and birds everywhere. Some things were suprises we have never seen before.
In the evening, Emily's boss with her husband and daughter took us out to eat at a seafood restaurant. We ate some things new, like abalone, ostrich, squid patties (deep fried breaded squid, which was good). We also had fresh shrimp. They are proud of fresh food and when we say fresh we mean really fresh. Her husband ordered the meal. On the menu was a fish called groupa. You can see live fish swiming in the tanks and that is what we got. They cook it whole and serve the whole fish with head and all to you. No, we didn't eat the head and bones.

We rode a couple of ferrys across the harbor to see a big floating restaurant. Went back to crash at Emily's. Still suffering from jet lag. We have a full agenda of things that we want to cram to our agenda this week and we hope we can keep up with Emily