A Harvest of Memories

Another week of a beautiful life.

Eddie's shiner is healing.  That's a good thing.

Our primary hosted an activity where our children were called on missions kearned all about countries all over the world.

Austin was the Italy mission presenter.  He made a flag and brought in his best props and pictures.  He even made them gelato.

Monday was Veteran's Day! We are grateful for the veterans in our family.  Uncle Mike and Grandpa B. both served in the Vietnam War.  Grandpas Guymon and Goodell served in WWII.  Currently, the war we wage is the fight to maintain our obligations.  We have rights, but we have to fight for our eternal roles.  

The family was home together, so I wanted to hike a mountain.  We decided that Bear Mountain was the perfect choice.  Molly was practically dragged up, but she skipped and chatted all the way down.  Nick's long legs sent up cruising along so fast.  Ryan was pleasant and was the water hog.  Maddie was a bush wacker, she didn't notice the white painted hexgons that mapped the route.  Eddie whined all the way up, but ran down.  Austin stayed with Molly and held her hand.  Me, I was in the middle of the pack up and the last down.  

The view is amazing.

Afterwards we cleaned the office.  I accused Molly of taking candy home in her pockets, she pulled out flossers, toothpaste and tooth picks.

The next day Molly was scheduled for her upper centrals extraction.  

Boom.  We're hoping that her underbite changes with space while her teeth grow in. 

Big bucks from the tooth fairy.

Thursday night was my stake YW auxiliary meeting.  We were blessed to be guided and directed.

Friday night Austin, Nick and Ed went backpacking with the YM.  Fossil Creek was their destination.

Very nice teen.

The Armstrongs are here!  We are a transition space while they finalize employment in Utah.  We are so happy.

Handy at the gym.  He called me on their way to the temple.  "I put my name on the prayer roll -- you know I need that."

Sister Babcock sends the best emails.

Here are her details:

• She found some sunless tanner which resulted only in an orange elbow.
• There is often a school-yard pick on p-day, and she gets chosen and is labeled as an assest in volleyball, 
• They found three potential people, three of whom approached them. 

This is a gem we found this week."Jingle Bells" 2019

The babies are 1! What a miraculous year of growth and joy.  We think they are pretty special.

A huge shout out to their parents who survived this year.  More than survived, they managed to create a happy home where these children are loved and nutured with every ounce of hope and love.