Marquardson Family

Paris May 2005- yeah a little old, but we like this picture - since then it has been family trips to northern Europe and Alaska. Here are some references and information about our family.

We attend the Newport Ward of the LDS church. We have done a lot of genealogy (here are our family genealogy test pages for our McPherson ancestors), and have discovered that our 29th great grandfather was Edward II, King of England, our 59th grandfather was Heinrich, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. So why aren't we famous, too? Life is unfair.  Use this link to send family email to all of us at the same time (the server will track us all down wherever we are).

Jeanie works in admitting at Overlake Hospital.  She previously taught aerobics for years at the Newport Hills YMCA, has volunteered at Newport High School, worked all the PTA's, runs the household, recycles, quilts, knits, mulches, bakes pies, makes jam, cans fruit, and grows the sweat peas and roses in the garden. Try her email - jeanie-at-marquardson.com.  Jeanie is past president of the women's organization of our church, and now she runs the church's area genealogy family history center.  When the kids got straight A's, they were just copying their mom.  The sign in our kitchen says Martha Stewart doesn't live here...but sometimes we are not so sure.  She had fun the other summer when she, Carrie, and Katie traveled through England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Last Spring it was back to Europe, and another quick trip to Germany in December 2005

we think Jeanie knit this sweater she is wearing in front of her high school in Moraga, California, where she was a cheerleader a couple of years ago. (photo by Carrie).   right, Jeanie at her sister, Diane's wedding, November, 2000.

..........Warren..........Jim                    

......Jim...Jeanie....Katie....Shannon...Carrie..Evan

Carrie and Evan Gilstrap's son, Dallin, was born March 20, 2006, and son Thad in 2009. - check out evanandcarrie.com.  Carrie works for Hewlett Packard as an internal systems auditor in Palo Alto, California, after having spent several enjoyable years with Ernst & Young.  Carrie earned her MBA at Santa Clara University in June 2007.  She has traveled to Singapore, London, Houston, Germany, Paris, India, Cape Town, many trips to Europe ... you get the idea.   Summer of 2003 it was hiking in the Peruvian Andes with her brother, Jim.  She graduated April, 1999, from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah with a degree in business management, information systems emphasis.  At BYU she won an academic scholarship, and helped run the computer lab at the business school, and spent many weekends rock climbing and mountain biking in southern Utah.  Her college intramural volleyball team won the school championship.  She toured Europe with Jeanie and Katie during the summer of 1999, and studied two months in Israel during summer, 1998.  At Newport High School she won letters in volleyball (all league first team setter), fast-pitch softball, and was the captain of the State Champion drill team (which also was first in state for academics). She also played basketball, and played clarinet in the marching band.  You can send her email at carrie.gilstrap-at-hp.com.    left in Egypt; upper right, Carrie and Evan's wedding day; lower right - welcome Dallin!

Jim graduated April 28, 2006 with a master's degree, cum laude, in information systems management from the Marriott Business School at BYU, on full scholarship.  Jim and Marissa (check out her blog) were married April 29, 2006, then off to Europe and back to Texas, where Jim works at Exxon-Mobil's computer division in Houston (where he interned after a 2005 trip to Europe).  Cambry was born in 2008!  Jim worked the prior summer with the computer services division of Zion's Bancorp in Salt lake City,  Jim tutored for the business school, and was a TA for one of his professors.  Check out his a web site and lost pf pictures at marqorp.com.  He returned in April, 2002 from his 24 month church missionary service in the Guatemala City Central Mission.  Here is a map.  He worked in the mountain highlands, Guatemala City, on the hot tropical coast - Tiquisate (tiki-saw'-tay), in the capital suburb of San Clemente, and back to the coast to Siquinala. He says missionaries in outlying areas are lucky to have a stove and refrigerator, and a tile floor, which many people don't.  Send him an email at jim.marquardson-at-gmail.com.  As a senior at Newport High School, he played offensive tackle on the football team. He has also played baseball, and threw javelin on the track team (3rd in Bellevue in 1998, competed in districts in 1999).  He was a straight A student in high school, the recipient of Newport's Scholar-Athlete Award and Eagle Scout.  Summer of 1999, he and his buddies enjoyed a Lake Powell post high-school graduation party. He likes playing guitar.     left, Jim and Carrie hiked the Inca trail to Machu Pichu in 2003.  top right, Jim and Marissa on their wedding day (photo by katie); lower right, Jim's Eagle Scout project 1998 (photo by Mom),