Snow, Snow, Stay Away...

The weather report says that we're gonna have a snow storm early next week...just in time for the Presidential Election. We've been blessed with very good weather for the past couple of weeks. I've usally packed away the golf clubs for the season by now. Last night I took advantage of the mild weather and got in 9 holes. I tried to get all sorts of people to go with me, but to no avail. Janet volunteered to go with me but Sarah wanted to go pick out pumpkins for carving last night. I went by myself and it was a beautiful afternoon. 78 degrees and very little wind. Oh to live in a warmer climate, on a beach or a tropical island for that matter.

We carved pumpkins last night. 3 nights before Halloween is kinda late, but had we put them out a couple of weeks ago they would be rotting in the warm weather anyway. Janet and Sarah picked out some of the biggest we've had in a long time. I'll try to get Janet to publish her pictures of the festivities. First I'll have to teach her how.

Janet and the girls have had a blast decorating for Halloween this year. They've gone all out with lights and "Caution" tape. Now they're thinking of building ghosts. Again, I'll try to get photos of the decorations on line in the near future.

Father/Daughter Activity

So, about a week ago the Young Women in our ward hosted a Father/Daughter acitivity. We played a couple of games. One was the matching game. We had two bulletin boards filled with fathers on one board and daughters on the other with the names on the backs of brightly colored cards. We were broken up into two teams and had to pick one card from each side. We took turns until we figured out where the matches were. It's the same game we played as kids, but I don't remember a name, other than the Matching Game.

Next we played a version of the Newlywed Game. I guess our version would be called How Well Do You Know Your Father/Daughter Game. Mandy and I know each other pretty well, but Sarah and I tied for the number of most correct answers.

Me and My Girls

Me and Sarah

Me and Moo

Remember I said that I'd blog some photo's from Eric's ordination weekend? Here they are!

The Family
Wish I'd put my arm around Eric too.
Janet and Me
Eric and his Mommy
The four sibs
The whole gang
Eric loves this one
The three Amigos
This one's just cute
Looking forward

Cousins

I really like this one

Thanksgiving Point

So everyone met at our house during the third weekend of September. It started out as the annual scrapbooking affair for Janet, Gail and Donna. They spend the weekend in Sandy, Utah at the South Town Conference Center and create scrapbook pages and buy lots and lots of stuff. You can see some of the pictures from their weekend at Donna's blog.

That was the start of it all. I don't know who convinced Mom to come out that weekend, but Donna paid for her ticket and now Mom was coming. Linda and I spent this weekend last year visiting Bob Sorensen and perusing the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum. This year Linda offered to spend the weekend up here vistiting with Mom and taking her around SLC to see the sites and any family history stuff. What a nice daughter.

Next we realized that Eric would be ordained some time just before that weekend. We asked Eric if he wanted to wait a few weeks and do it while his Aunts and Grandma were here? He really wanted to be ordained right then, but then thought about it and decided that I would be cool to have more family there for the occasion.

That's when Janet and I really started thinking hard about Dad coming out for his grandson's ordination. Dad was a little reluctant at first, but we were able to convince him to come out for a long weekend and Eric's ordination.

Then, about a couple of weeks later I hear that David is thinking of coming out too. Now that was really cool. David hadn't ever been to see us in Provo. I shouldn't complain, we've only been to his house once. But he drove all the way. He did say that he probably never do that again. That it's a little lonely on the road without his lovely wife. Not very good for a trucker, eh? But we're very glad that he decided to come.

So for Eric's ordination we had both sets of grandparents, Janet's sister DeAnn and her family, all my siblings, three of Linda's kids and one of her grandkids, and some of Eric's good friends. It was a very cool Sunday afternoon that we were able to capture in photo's by a photography friend. I'll put those on a later blog. But now...

I call this "Throw Daddy Off the Pier." We were looking at the cool Koi in the ponds at the Thanksgiving Point gardens.

Gail's daughter, Caroline.

Linda and I rented a golfcarts and we were glad we did after a couple of hours touring the 50 acres of gardens.

Sarah loved taking pictures of all the flowers and bugs and frogs and...you get the idea.

Sarah's pic of a pergola at the gardens, very cool huh?

Sarah's rose picture.

Me, Dad, Carolinea and David checking out the Koi.

Grandma wasn't interested in the fish so we sat and talked for a while.

After the gardens we headed over to the working farm. Can you believe that Sarah had never milked a cow before? I don't think she actually got any milk out?
Sarah and Caroline bought tickets and used them to ride the ponies.
Doesn't she look natural up there?
Caroline made fast friend with this little pony.
These are supposed to be the tallest man-made falls in the western hemisphere....