Dad and Christy kept up the tradition this year after last year's charity contest was so succesful.  They send us $100, ask us to make it "grow" and then give it to a charity of our choice.  This year we all put our heads together and decided to ALL contribute to the American Heart Association…

Today was the first official day of the holiday vacation – no school.  It started out good – a trip to the UPS store and then the park where we shot hoops and visited with neighbors.  Then it went bad with Jacob beating Caleb up and Jacob being sent to his room for the rest…

We took the big boys to see the musical version of Dr Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas".  What fun!  We headed downtown for dinner at Cowboy Chow (I fell in love with the Navajo Indian bread dipped in honey).  And then we went to the Winspear Opera House for the performance.  We sat WAY up…

As the 1st counselor in Relief Society I was assigned to be over all Relief Society meetings (during the week).  With the new direction from the top, there was a lot of leeway for each ward to determine how often, when, and what these meetings would be about.  As a presidency we decided that in…

Last night Derek and the boys were all at my Relief Society Dinner – helping and playing roles in the program (more on that later).  After staying to help clean up, Derek drove the boys home (about 9:45 pm).  While headed north towards our home both Derek and Jacob saw what they describe as a…

The view from where I sit at the dinner table – cute men and pretty tree.

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These sweet friends all met me for breakfast at my favorite spot – 5th Street Patio Cafe – on my birthday.    And these sweet friends met me for lunch the next day…  Derek was called to be a bishop on the night of my birthday – President Alleman and President Dotter came to our…

Jacob and Derek attended the Stake 11-year old campout on 10/15.  Jacob will have TONS of campouts before Scouts is over, but since is the first I thought it worthy of documentation!  Courtesy of Derek's Iphone:

Pops (Steve) is such a cool grandpa – always wanting to find cool treasures and take the boys on fun outings.  In October, Pops took Caleb and two of his friends (Luke and Ashton) to Main Event – put cash on their game cards, let them play laser tag and took them out for pizza.…