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Updated 04/25/2011

Kevin, Diane, Elisa, Devin & Brainna Penner

12805 Brianna Ln., Red Bluff, CA 96080

Dad's 1969 CSU Thesis: Mexican Land Grants in Tehama County (C.W. Penner)

Dev graduated from Marine Bootcamp in October 2010 and is finishing his Marine Music school in Virginia. He'll be stationed with a Marine Band in Quantico Virginia in May 2011. Check Out Devin's January 2010 Piano Videos Below These Pictures!

Elisa spent part of summer working with the Weisners in Malaysia, and Fall 2010 in Lyon, France on a UC Exchange. She's finishing her Junior year at UCSD and beginning an internship assisting refugees. Congratulations Elisa! . Here's a look at her RBHS Senior pictures. >>>>>

Brianna has started RBHS! Volleyball, piano, singing, childrens ministries, school plays....

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2010

Diane took this picture of the kids in 2008 .............................................................. Devin & his piano teacher John (we love John Jazz!)

Devin Penner January 2010


	Older Stuff: Check out the MySpace link to see YouTube& Google videos of Devin & Elisa performing...or you can view the embedded videos on this page. Open a window to listen to anMP3 of Dev's Sentimental piano favorites or an older MP3 playlist of Elisa & Devin. Devin: Tribute to John Gonsalves (Night Train & Just In Time with a professional band!) Devin: Rain (Dev wrote all of these songs) Devin: For You (Dev wrote a few of these) Devin & Gabe: Brentwood Devin: Christine (Dev plays a piano tribute to his grandma)

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Devin Turned 18 this year and now fits in those underwear ....... RBHS Play 'Matchmaker' 2008........................................................RBHS Play 'Harvey' 2009

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Elisa Singing Jazz 2009 .................................................Brianna 2009

Kevin & Diane in Rome 2009

Elisa (16), Devin (15), Brianna (11)

Update July 2007

This picture is taken in Devin's car (recently given to him by his Opa. Our wonderful Grandma Betty passed away this year, but we were able to spend some good time with relatives we rarely see before and after her memorial service. Brianna is now out of her cast...she had an adventure involving the trampoline and the tree-fort. Elisa will be a senior this coming year. She works several jobs in town and managed to swing 3 AP classes and a Shasta College class t his last year. Elisa passed ALL of her AP tests! I'm very proud of her. Devin is becoming quite the pianist. He's focusing on jazz piano and is wowing all who come into his hearing. Diane is teaching more than ever...both private art lessons and contracted teaching in our local schools. Kevin is (still...20 years!) teaching math at Red Bluff High School (now with his brother Daniel there also) & often leads worship at church. Please send us an e-mail at kev-di@penner.net . You can also see Kevin's website at RBUHS & see the RBUHS Math Department website.

Elisa: Luck Be a Lady (2007)	Kevin & Diane @ Lake Helen (Lassen Park)2007
Devin: Our Love is Here to Stay (2007)	Elisa in Italy with friends 2007
Elisa: Looking for A Boy (2007) ....Devin on the Piano	Dev @ Summit Lake (Lassen Park) 2007
Devin: Gus the Cat (2007) with Sundial Sax's in Redding	Devin takes 2nd @ Wrestling Tourney 2007
Elisa: Embraceable You (2007) with Devin on Piano & RBUHS Jazz Band	Diane & Brianna 2007
Elisa: Beauty from Pain (2007) with Devin on the Piano	Devin: Night Train (May 2008) with John Golsalves Quartet
Devin: Piano Solo with Jazz Band (2007)...So.Cal. competition	Devin: Just In Time (May 2008) with John Gonsalves Quartet
Devin: Another Piano Solo with Jazz Band (2007)...So.Cal. competition	Devin & Elisa @ 2008 Chemistry Affair: My Heart Belongs to 'Freddy'
Elisa sings with Devin & the RBHS Jazz Band: Spring 2008, You Can't Take That Away From Me

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Elisa (12), Devin (11), Brianna (6)

Update February 2003

This year Diane has been home schooling Elisa for 7th grade. Diane's MS remains 'under control' & she takes Avonex shots once a week. Devin is in public school for 5th grade. Brianna is at the Christian School for 1st grade. Kevin continues to teach mathematics at Red Bluff High & is now the department chair. Elisa enjoys the Jr. High group at church. Diane continues in women's Bible studies & occasionally teaching art to small groups of children at home. Kevin helps lead worship at church & is helping his brother Daniel (& family) build a house next door! Of course, life includes much more than this but this is getting lengthy. If you're one of our 'long lost' friends, please send us an e-mail at kev-di@penner.net so that we can get back in touch. We'd love to hear from you !

August 2000, Patricks Point, CA

Ps. 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.

See the House Building Page

See an OLD page that chronicles our experience with brain surgery & MS (sorry, broken web link)

Most Recent Update (10/22/2000)

The family is doing well. Diane continues to get a weekly Interferon-Beta-1a shot & has had no MS ‘exacerbations’ for over a year now. Dev & Elisa are in public school & Brianna is in the Christian pre-school. Thanks for your prayers.

The "New Year" Report - 1999

Praise God! This has truly been a year of His abundant provision on our behalf. We started out in January of 1998 in the Neurologist's office being shown MRI pictures of my wife's (Diane) brain tumor. She told us to put our building plans to a halt and begin preparing for surgery and whatever might follow. God has provided spiritually, phyiscally, emotionally, and financially in ways that are nothing short of miraculous.

In February, 1998 , she had the surgery to remove the tumor. Countless people from our church and the larger body of Christ surrounded us in support. Our children were cared for, our meals cooked, our house kept clean, our bills paid...on and on! Diane and I went in to the neurologist for a follow-up visit in April 1998, and she said, "You ought to start building your house"! We figured that God had stopped us in the nick of time so that we'd have money from the sale of our house to pay our medical bills... instead, He provided for ALL of the bills, and now, having learned Who really provides, allowed us to continue.

We started the "paper" part of building in April and broke ground in June 1998. God provided people every step of the way: A contractor friend in our church who set us up with all of our "contractors price" purchasing, a construction teacher from our church that worked with me all summer, a 'retired' builder from our church who helped me finish the housed once school started again for me (I'm a teacher), and countless volunteers who painted, cleaned, pounded and cut.... I have never built anything bigger than a children's playset before! But on November 30, 1998 our house was COMPLETED, and we moved in on December 2nd. See the House Building Page.

Isa. 43:18-21 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. ...I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.

Praise God!

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Some recent family pics