Jeff turns the big 30

Jeff finally turned 30 after being 25 for the last 5 years now.

The day that we left someone decorated Jeff's bike for his birthday. Thank you mystery people:)

We spent the night at the Snow Bird resort and then spent the day at the resort on all of the rides.

We started off his birthday morning with a fabulous buffet breakfast in the Atrium of the hotel.

Jeffrey riding the zip rider

Jeff getting ready to go down the alpine slide. This was Jeff's favorite ride he beat me both times racing down the slope.
Riding on the lift
The tunnel to the backside of the mountain. It was freezing. We decided that we would ride the lift up the mountain and then do a short hike to the tram and ride it back down. On our way up the lift it started to sprinkle and then half way up our hike to the tram we got caught in a down poor and were soaked from head to toe in the freezing cold.

Just before it started to rain. All of that white in the background was rain traveling our way. Once we reached the top we had to wait in the warming hut for 30 min because they had stopped the tram due to thunder. Then I threw a surprise birthday party with some of our friends and family at Nunn's park in the Provo canyon. I had to trick Jeff into getting off the free way and to the park by telling him that I left the cord to our camera up there last weekend when we went camping. I demanded that we go up and check to see if it was still there. Once we arrived he saw some of our friends having a little BBQ and decided to walk over and see why they were not watching the BYU football game. On the way over I recorded the following video.




He received mula from my family, a coupon for a new suit and star wars trilogy. I also made him his favorite strawberry rhubarb pie. Also Jeff had to answer 30 facts about himself before opening his presents and he only got 15 of them correct.
Max and Diana gave him ..... undies??

HA Ha just kidding it was this nice shirt. Thanks so much guys!


Thanks to everyone who came to the party, gave gifts and b-day wishes and those who supplied me with the following facts about Jeff. It is very long so don't feel obligated to read it. I put in on mainly for posterity sake.

Celeste said:

*Jeff and I tried to walk home From Grandpa and Grandma Browns home in Huntington, IN all the way to Markle by ourselves when we were like 8,6 years old. (I could be off on the ages but we were young) We thought Mom and Dad had forgotten us, not knowing they had made arrangements for us to stay. Grandpa Brown got a call from someone that saw us and he came and picked us up. We had probably walked several miles anyway. (We felt like a car that slowed down by us and called to us was trying to kidnap us - I think we had busy imaginations!)

*Jeff and I were playing by the dam in Markle catching crawdads and just messing around and hiking. When some guys with long coats showed up and we thought we saw that they had knives and wanted to get us. (Could have been true or just our wild imaginations) but we took off around the lake and it seemed like they were following us. We ran and hide in some bushes until we felt safe enough to make it home.

*Brent says Jeff plays with his eye lashes and has to groom his eye brows non stop

Justin said:

*The thing that Justin remembers about Jeff is that he used to always get into Justin's ice cream that he had bought himself.

*Justin also says that he liked to give Jeff a hard time about the fact that he had really thick hair that was like a mop and Justin says the ironic thing is that he(Justin) is losing hair. Justin said that Grandma Bastow used to get mad at him for teasing Jeff about his hair and would tell him that he had nice hair.

From Jeff's mother
Jeffrey Darrell Brown was born at 9:57 a.m. on September 5, 1979, in the new Mountain View Hospital in Payson, Utah. (I think that he weighed 8 lb. 2 or 6 oz. It wasn't on his birth certificate.) He was coming posterior and Dr. Brian Wolsey didn't allow me to get up and walk or more to help him shift positions, as a midwife would have. Dad, Darrell DeWayne, got a little faint with the difficult birth and had to sit down and put his feet between his legs. It was partially as a result of this experience that Mamacita became more interested in holistic health and had her next two babies at home with a midwife.

Jeffrey was blessed on September 30, 1979 in Payson, Utah, by his father. He was baptized on October 24, 1987 and confirmed on October 25, 1987, also by his father, Darrell DeWayne Brown, in Huntington, Indiana.

Jeff was a very happy, contented little boy and would play with a car or toy airplane by himself frequently. Of course he enjoyed playing with Melissa, Darren, Quentin, and older siblings, too. Celeste and Melissa would dress him up as a "cute" girl, on occasions. . .

In later years, Jeff loved sports and skate boarding. He wore out his shoes and pant knees faster than any of his brothers. He was self motivated to practice pitching a baseball at our front step, which brought a compliment from neighbor, Bob Thurston, on Jeff's ambition and initiative.

He was rather ruthless, though, with younger brother, Darren, who was required to turn around in the dryer briefly and jump off the roof (he ended up falling) in order to join Jeff's club. . .

Jeff had a horrible skate boarding accident at Fred Meyer's parking lot on the evening of July 3rd the year he graduated, 1998. Jeremy Orton and other friends came by the house to commiserate with him on the evening of July 4th.

Elder Jeff Brown was miraculously healed from a serious intestinal infection while he was serving as a missionary in El Salvador.

Jeffrey was almost elected as CSI student body president, with virtually no campaigning. . .

Jeffrey adores his vivacious, gorgeous wife, Shelley Dawn, and all of us Browns are grateful for the vital role that she plays in Jeff's life now and into the eternities.