Grandpa and Grandma Bedtime Stories

Send us Fan Mail For tonight’s bedtime story we will be listening to Aunt Hannah Ray Hill Kuhn’s memories of how her Mom, Grandma Juanita Ray Hill, and Dad, Edward Jeffrey Hill, helped their children learn the joy of service.  In other words, "Service Rocks!"  Being of service is an important purpose of life.  As the Book of Mormon states in Mosiah 2:17, “If you are in the service of you...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Bishop Edward Jeffrey Hill has an unusual encounter with a garage door of one of his ward members. He learns what "When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade" means. 

Send us Fan Mail Grandpa tells about his very first job to earn money outside of the home. He was a paperboy for the San Francisco "News-Call Bulletin."  The route skirted West Cliff Drive overlooking the beach in Santa Cruz, California. Though he didn't know why he enjoyed it, he liked to pause on the route to look at the girls on the beach.  On this job he learned that if he stopp...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill shares important lessons that he learned on Valentines Day when he was in third grade in Santa Cruz, California.  It has something to do with "No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed!"  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Aunt Abigail LaDean Hill Boone shares delightful memories of when the Jeff and Juanita Hill family lived in Logan, Utah in the 1990s.  Among these stories is the tale of a hilarious pigsty dinner when Grandma Juanita Ray Hill revealed her sometimes hidden sense of humor!  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Uncle Aaron Thomas Hill tells an entertaining story about two backpacking trips into the beautiful Wind Rivers mountain range in Wyoming. In the first story there are adventures with a group of young men from Church. In the second story we meet Grandma Tamara Snell Mulford Hill before she married Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill.  What brings the stories together is a...

Send us Fan Mail Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill relates his incredible adventures playing on the Tacoma Seventh Ward church basketball team as they played in the stake, regional, and divisional tournaments  of the ALL-CHURCH basketball tournament sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Grandpa Hill  will share the value of friendship, and how important it is to be a GOOD friend....

Send us Fan Mail Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill continues his incredible adventures playing on the Tacoma Seventh Ward church basketball team.  This was in the epoch when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had an ALL-CHURCH basketball tournament. Grandpa Hill  will share the value of friendship, and how important it is to be a GOOD friend. A good friend will be with you when you are happ...

Send us Fan Mail Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill relates his incredible adventures playing on the Tacoma Seventh Ward church basketball team.  This was in the epoch when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had an ALL-CHURCH basketball tournament. Grandpa Hill  will share the value of friendship, and how important it is to be a GOOD friend. A good friend will be with you when you are happy,...

Send us Fan Mail We begin Season 3 with an episode about New Years' Eve in  Ecuador.  In 2002 Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill, Grandma Juanita Ray Hill, and five children (Abby, Hannah, Emily, Amanda, and Seth) were working in orphanages in Cuenca.  In keeping with Ecuadorian customs we made an effigy out of straw and old clothes. We had a lot of excitement on New Years as we kicked and kissed an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Great-Grandpa Irving J Ray remembers his childhood growing up in Arizona without air conditioning, without fans, without even electricity.  It was hotter than blazes. This is a transcript of what he recorded when Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill took him to San Francisco on a business trip and they became friends. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill prays to have a better relationship with Great-Grandpa Irving J Ray.  Grandpa follows an impression to take Great-Grandpa Ray on a business trip to San Francisco.  Great-Grandpa Ray records his life history.  They become close friends. Grandpa learns it's OK to be friends with people who are different from you. In fact, that differe...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandpa (Edward Jeffrey Hill) meets his future father-in-law (Great-Grandpa Irving J. Ray), for the first time.  Their relationship gets off to a rocky start when Grandpa is asked to disc a field and has an interesting experience on a tractor!  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandpa tells about how he loved to sing as a child. And then someone made an unkind comment about his singing and so he stopped singing. Then how he started to sing a lot when Sarah was born.  He then sings some fun songs.  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandma Tamara Snell Mulford Hill describes her love of paper dolls and a valuable lesson that she learned one afternoon. When you are not true to yourself, and you don't listen to you mom, you can miss out on some really good things. Grandma learned this lesson well when she was a little girl.  

Send us Fan Mail One of Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill's unique accomplishments is that he has not thrown up in 60 years!  Can you imagine that?  This Podcast explores the stories behind this amazing feat.  Please remember:  "You get what you get, and you don't throw a fit!" And especially remember: "You get what you get, and you don't throw up!"  Since Grandpa is p...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill does a few more crazy things. I mean really crazy. At least the hippies at the International Fountain in the Seattle Center were entertained. However, Grandpa has another interaction with a policeman!  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill learns valuable lessons in friendship with animal crackers, poetry, and The Little Prince.  "It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. The essential is invisible to the eye."  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill realizes that pride in doing better than others can cause you to fall, literally. He also learns how compassionate his wife, Grandma Tamara Snell Mulford Hill, is.  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandpa tells the story of his great-great grandpa, George Washington Hill, and how he found his wife in the woods, found the gospel, and moved West with the pioneers. 

Send us Fan Mail In this story Grandpa and Grandma Hill decide to keep their promise to stay out of debt, but are still able to get the car of their dreams - a shiny red Lexus!  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandpa shares a story that he wrote for a magazine about the importance of spending quality time with people you love, especially your children. 

Send us Fan Mail Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill and Grandma Tamara Snell Mulford Hill will celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary this week, on October 3, 2023.  In honor of that occasion, we will share how Grandpa met Grandma in her bubblebath as our bedtime story.  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill tells about a crazy thing he did while editor of the Washington High School "Patriot" school newspaper. At this time, unsurprisingly he was going to Washington High School and living in Tacoma, Washington.  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill tells about crazy things he did while in elementary school living in Santa Cruz, California in the early 1960s.