Sunday

We decided to go up to David's after church. It had been a little snowy, but it looked ok. We had beautiful drive up and had such a wonderful visit with them. We visited, had dinner, spent time with them and stayed overnight. We then came home the next morning. I got to meet Robert's teacher when we dropped him off  to school.

Robert was a pumpkin. He would pull inside the costume so he really did look like a pumpkin! 

Grandpa with the kids.

Monday

Breakfast with a bull of oatmeal. There was several inches of snow in their yard still, so 'hot mush' is the best. Growing up, we always called it mush, not hot cereal.

Robert and Alaina

Grandpa and Matthew

We did some shopping coming home and had good luck at the DI. I have wanted a black blazer to go with some of my skits that Sis. Meyer had given me and Dad found one. 

Mike and Emily came over for dinner and Family Home Evening. We shared some favorite stories from the Grandparent's book and had such a good visit. It is wonderful to get to know her. 

Me, Emily, and Mike

She is learning everyone's names incredibly fast. Notice Mike's happy face? 

Tuesday

OK, so this is something one would usually take a picture of, but we keep working here and there on getting the house ready. We cleaned out both freezers and shut off the one downstairs and moved the rest of the food upstairs. No reason to keep them both going. We have to have one freezer keeping the the beets and carrots frozen so Mike and Ellen can come and get them!

Wednesday - Thursday

Rusty Cornwall said he would be happy to unlock his dad's house so I could go in and see if there is any genealogy I need to see before we go on our mission. Red is in the nursing home. We both felt it was something we should make time for, so we went in the afternoon. There was a lot of neat things, but nothing that helped with research that I could take with me. However we did find this. It was a little book of poems given to my grandmother, Ella Smith Capener, when she was serving on the general board of primary. Notice it is from Heber J. Grant. It was mixed in with a bunch of papers and things. I told Rusty to watch for the 'jewels' among the 'stuff.' But we did find the original of the Riverside History book that Joyce did. That was what we were supposed to find. Dad spent the evening scanning it and then we have taken on the project of adding some more pictures, putting in captions on many of the pictures that were there, etc., etc. It has taken over what we are doing, but we will be done tomorrow and submit the book on Create Space that Marion told us about. Hopefully the book will be under $5. 

Going through Joyce's books

Friday

Big day. We had a very busy day at the Family History Library and then left a few minutes early to have the tour of the Idle Isle Candy Factory from when Dad won the golden ticket. Then we stopped off in town and signed our will. A lot of things have changed since our last will just before we went to England to pick up Peter from his mission. It's basically everything we have is to be divided evenly among the 11 children, so nothing to fight over. If I have promised someone 75 cents instead of 25 cents, it won't hold up in a court of law. We love you all equally in spite of what you think:) 

Making phone calls to collect pictures.

Saturday

We took off the afternoon and went to the temple with Mike. It was great. We also stopped and got Dad his new mission suit. We'll take a picture when we pick it up after it gets hemmed. He looks so handsome in it and it is the first suit since our marriage that has not come from the DI. 

Thank you everyone.

Me and Mike in the parking lot. 

I love you all very much. I'm going to finish so I can continue work on the Riverside History. 

Our farewell is 24th of November at 9:00. We get set apart for our mission on 1 December at 5:30, Thanksgiving is at noon on Thanksgiving Day, The pie fest is Friday about 2:00 in the afternoon until as late as we want it. We have the church house all day. Bring soup or bread and a pie or two:) Saturday morning the temple for anyone who wants. The rest of Saturday and most of Sunday we have nothing.

Final vote: Do you want to exchange family gifts or skip it? $20 per family (love DI things) and it is for 6 below. Since there are 12 exchanging, you will be giving to each other. (Chris gives to Ryan and Ryan to Chris, etc.)