Happy Valentine's Day!

Last Sunday

1. We had Tammy & Olivia here and Chris's family to eat enchiladas and

celebrate Chris's birthday. We had a good visit, but no pictures.

Monday

We went with Chris's family and Steven & Isaac to the Provo City

Center Temple. It was so beautiful.

We talked to the older cousins with us and decided it would be fun to

do baptisms for the dead in that temple and then hike up

to Timpanogas Caves after. Keep it in mind:)  

2. Ahhhh the memories. Our old house at 409 East 200 North in Provo.

Chris told his kids he remembered playing an adventure game and

drinking water from the gutter. That must be why he is so healthy. 

3. Most of Chris's family had to go home, but we stayed with

Noelle, Steven and Mallory and went to BYU art museum to see

the Norman Rockwell display. It was amazing.

4. We grew up looking at his art work on the Saturday Evening Post

and Boys Life.

5. The frost this week has been incredible. It's so beautiful.

6. We went to the temple Wednesday with U. Marc and Ellen. Dad's

brothers and sisters go once a month. It was so good.

7. We got back in time for Scouts. They took a part a computer

and Dad explained it all. They all packed home their favorite pieces

from the computer. They really had a good time.

8. Then we went to Maddox for a Sons of Utah Pioneers meeting.

They are trying to get one up north in Tremonton area, so that

will be good for Dad.

9. We talked with Joe & Tesha tonight and it was so good

to see them all. Ellen and Daniel were here, so we had a nice visit.

10.  Ellen is showing. The baby sure kicked a lot tonight.

He knew he was at Grandma's and wanted to know where all the cousins were.

11. I made raisin filled cookies for Dad for Valentine's Day.

It's been way too long since I've made him some.

It's been a good busy week. In between all our comings and goings,

we have done a lot of cleaning. We still have about 7 boxes

of books in the Family Room ready to go to the DI.

You can actually walk into the Genealogy room and then walk around it.

We are getting rid of a lot of stuff. It feels good.

I hope you all had a happy Valentine's Day. 

This is a time we think about love - love for spouses, family,

and all people. 

"Charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found 

possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him." (Moroni 7:47.)

 I think the word 'of'' is interesting in this scripture.

It's the love of Christ (love we have for Him), and the love of Christ

(love He has for us). That is why it endures forever.

And as we "Pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, 

that ye may be filled with this love . . .vs. 48 (needs the rest of it)

This kind of love is a something to continually strive for, because then

we can truly love others.

Daddy's Book, Rob & Chris Family, Pens, Evanston, Feb. 2016

I'm Done!

1. More or less. I have finished Daddy's history, or at least have it to the 

point of getting it ready to send off to the printer.

It's such a huge file, so Emily is combining my PDF files and 

then it's ready. I went to Dick Capener's to get a picture, and he had it on

a CD along with this picture, which I think is my favorite picture

in the whole book:

It is of my Grandfather and Grandmother Capener taken at my

Uncle Jex's home on their 60th wedding anniversary.

Grandpa is 85 and Grandma is 83. 

I would love to reenact that picture when Dad and I are that age!

2. We've had a lot of fun making pens this month. I've made them

with quite a few of you, and I have more clay to do it some more!

 3. A few Saturday's ago we ended up with quite the party.

We had Mar and his boys along with Marri & Sophie and then

Ellen and Daniel & Mike and Emily. And a lot of Chris's family.

What a party! So we decided to have a pizza party.

4. It's been too long. Your guess is as good as mine.

5. Game time

6. Noelle and Marri are both ready for Trek.

7. Someone felt bad they didn't get a trek costume.

8. We went up to Evanston on a Tuesday until Wednesday. Alaina

is taking gymnastics, so it was fun to watch her.

It was so good to see how much the twins have grown

and help out a little with bedroom changes.

9. Tom came on a Saturday and the kids a ball sledding.

I couldn't believe how far they went going down the little hill

in the back yard. Caleb was the camera man:)

10. Cambria and I were making cookies.

11. Taylor's pens

12. I'm babysitting tonight while Chris and Colleen are cleaning

the temple. Guess who is walking! Mia is so cute.

13. Zander was the camera man for the rest of these pictures.

14. Mallory practicing her song for Saturday

15. Noelle is practicing her song also

16. I don't think you can see it very well, but this is the cover for

the history of Daddy.

Thank you for all the help and consideration you have given me 

while I've been working on Daddy's history of him, his parents, and his grandparents.

The whole book is about 250 pages, with about 100 pages about Daddy.

It has been one of the biggest projects I've ever done.

It was hard, yet very rewarding in so many ways. I have

had some very special spiritual experiences while working on it.

I love you all very much. It is so important to remember those who

have gone before us. They have lived their lives. They know the

difficulties and problems we face. There are so many

lessons to learn from them.

They seem to be able to give us stability because we know how

they lived and what brought them joy. We are in the middle

of discovering that.