Family Members
Mel and Justin talked on December 26, 2004 at Justin's
missionary farewell. You can read Mel's talk
and Justin's talk if you want.
Janell addressed the ward on January 23, 2005. Just
click here to read her talk. For
more on Janell and Mel's Hawaii snorkeling, see the
bottom of this page.
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Web site |
Who they are |
| Budge (32) |
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www.jana.myctmh.com |
Budge, Jana, Xander and Rohan live in Bakersfield,
CA. He works for an engineering firm. Jana's web site will
tell you what she does in her spare time. |
| Lori (27) |
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Lori, Jorge and Dea live with in
Morgan Hill, California, not far from us. She finished her masters at San Jose
State, and now works for Mervyns. Jorge
works for Marriott, and Dea gets all the love she can from her parents,
grandparents and great grandparent. |
| Collin (25) |
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dwp.bigplanet.com/jackhopper |
Collin lives and works in Provo
/ Orem. He was the valedictorian at San
Benito High School in 1997, and was all conference in soccer in 1997.
He broke his shoulder in October, and now has a plate and seven screws
holding it together. |
| Tamra (23) |
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Tamra, Rob, Miciah and Elijah live in
Cincinnati.
Rob goes to the University of Cincinnati, working on his doctorate. Tamra
and Rob have two children. She was valedictorian at San
Benito High School in 1999, and was all conference in soccer in 1998 ( do you see a
pattern here? ). |
| Keith (21) |
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Keith graduated from San
Benito High School and was the league MVP in volleyball his senior
year ( as a 5' 8" outside hitter ! ). He recently completed a mission
for his church speaking Cambodian in Tacoma Washington. He now
is assistant girls varsity volleyball coach at San Benito High School. |
| Justin (19) |
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www.tungate.com/justin.htm |
Justin graduated from San
Benito High School, and was ranked in the top three or so in northern
California for the 300 m intermediate hurdles in high school. His page at the left
gives his accomplishments, both in the classroom and on the track.
He is serving on a mission in the Alaska Anchorage mission. |
| Chad (17) |
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www.tungate.com/chad.htm |
Chad is a senior at San
Benito High School, and was the league frosh / soph champion at 400 m
dash his freshman year, winning in 53.96 seconds. He did not go out for
track as a sophomore, but ran last year. |
| Janell |
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www.tungate.com |
Janell is a stay-at-home mother, and has been
since Budge was born. She is now also a stay-at-home grandmother
three days a week ( for Dea ),
and a stay-at-home daughter. She sews, gardens, loves on grandkids,
and makes our home hum. She is
pictured here with Xander and Dea when they were small. She just got
back from a two week vacation in Hawaii. |
| Mel |
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www.tungate.com
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Mel works for Hitachi
Data Systems as a director of storage marketing, and does these pages.
If you want to see some recent funnies, go to the Bush links from this
page. |
| Grandpa O |
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Grandpa Ogzewalla ( Janell's father ) lives
with us, and gardens and builds like crazy. He is pictured here with
Dea when she was a baby. |
Hawaii
At the end of September 2005, we went to Hawaii for two
weeks. We had never been before. We were in Oahu the first week, and
Maui the second.
We learned to snorkel during the second week, and we loved
it. It was wonderful. Neither Janell
nor I are swimmers, but snorkeling was easy. And seeing living fish within
a few feet of us was awesome - we listed the ones we saw in the table below, and
found pictures for some of them. If we had it to do all over again, we would
learn to snorkel the first day, and then do more snorkeling ( say, in Haunama
Bay on Oahu ). We learned to snorkel from Ann Fielding, and she is
wonderful ( you can see her site at http://www.maui.net/~annf/
). She is a scientist, so you get science and snorkeling at the same
time. She teaches you to snorkel, and she introduces the fish to you on a
first name basis. She will tell you what fish you will see, and then take
you to see them, in just about the order she tells you that you will see
them. For her to be able to do this for Janell and I is awesome ( can you
tell that we loved how she helped us ? ).
Since we have returned, I have taken a swimming class, and can
now swim 25 meters. With fins and snorkel, I can do 50 meters before I am
totally exhausted. That translates to a much longer distance in the ocean
where a person is much more boyant ( I can float in the ocean with ease, but not
at all in a pool ), but not
enough to let me snorkel in the intermediate or advanced snorkeling areas.
Janell will take learn to swim classes this coming spring when the pools open
again.
| Moorish Idol - this fish is very striking, particularly when
there are several together. |
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Milletseed Butterfly Fish |
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| White Goatfish - they were resting on the bottom, probably
sleeping, in a nice sized school. |
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Threadfin Butterfly Fish - this fish was at my feet |
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| Yellowfin Goatfish - Again, we saw this on in a school. |
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Ornate Butterfly Fish |
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| Green Sea Turtle We saw a juvenile who came very
close to us ( we had to move to avoid him ) and a mature one resting on
the bottom |
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Four Spot Butterfly Fish |
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| © 2001 California Academy of Sciences Dr. Antonio J. Ferreira |
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| Eel ( not sure of the variety, but we think it might have
been a Whitemouth Morai eel ) |
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Teardrop Butterfly Fish |
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| Cornetfish |
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Yellow Tang |
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| Octopus - the one we saw was just lazying around on a
rock. It looked like a lump of gray nothing, but when it moved, it took
an entirely different shape, then back to its clump status |
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Jack |
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| Damselfish |
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Convict Tang |
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| Red pencil urchin - these were all over the place -
usually in or near a crevice. |
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Black and White Urchin |
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| Unicornfish ( Orange? ). It has barbs on the tail. |
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Pinktail Triggerfish - The one we saw had larger fins, and
the tail was not quite as pink. The fins are very striking. |
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| Wrasse and cleaner wrasse |
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Lagoon Triggerfish - no picture can do justice to this
gorgeous fish. The ones we saw were the most gorgeous fish in the
ocean. |
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| Spotted boxfish |
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Reef Triggerfish - this is the unofficial state
fish. These were in abundance. |
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| Parrotfish |
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Grouper |
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Hollister
We love it here in our little piece of heaven. Hollister
is in San Benito County, which has about 60,000 residents.
| Hollister Web sites |
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| High School |
San
Benito High School Chad goes here. Tamra was
the valedictorian in 1999, Collin in 1998. |
| Our subdivision |
Ridgemark,
a golf community. A gorgeous course. Come play - I'm free some
days. |
| Weather |
Weather
forecast or here
( there are two schools with full time weather observation online ).
We wear shorts year around. We also don't sweat
in the summer. Eat your heart out - but come visit whenever you
want. I have not worn a jacket during the day in over a year.
The ocean is 20 miles away ( Monterey, California ). The link here
is a live feed from two of our middle schools in town. |
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