Happy Thanksgiving Week!

I had a stomach bug for the first part of the week which isn't how you want to feel for Thanksgiving.  It changed our plans a bit as I decided we shouldn't go spend the night with Jessica and Elessia's family the night before Thanksgiving.  Fortunately, I felt better on Thursday so we cooked the turkey and headed up to Syracuse for the afternoon.

Here are the kids eating some extra marshmallows while dinner was being finished in the other room.

The only other picture I ended up taking that day was of Liam as he started on his pumpkin pie after dinner.

Friday afternoon, we headed to Eden to Vonette and Gary's to play games and enjoy some yummy tomato soup in bread bowls for dinner.  It was fun to be with them, to play some games, and to enjoy some conversation.

Saturday, we headed down to Provo to take Ben some Thanksgiving leftovers for his lunch and a visit.  On the way back out of town, we spied this Santa riding a bike next to us.

Certainly is the season for food, fun, family, friends, and games!  And looking ahead to next week--there is much more of all of it to come!
 

Happy Saturday, Grandchildren!

I made heart shaped pancakes for Jena and Gary, but sent a picture of one to our kids to share with our grandkids.  They love fun shaped pancakes!  (However, Tosha is really the master of pancake art!) but they like mine anyway! 

FUN DAY TO BE A BYU FAN!

 

I really don't have any "history" to match this with, but the announcers at the BYU basketball game last night kept mentioning it so I thought I would put it here as well:

BYU women's soccer beat the first seeded Virginia team to advance to the Elite 8.

BYU women's basketball won their game.

BYU women's volleyball won their game to end up first place in their conference.

A BYU woman and a BYU man came in first place in the National NCAA cross country races today.

BYU football won their game against Georgia Southern.

and to finish the day BYU won their basketball game.

Go, Cougars!!

Brigham City Temple

When we got our call and learned a bit about our mission, one of our plans was to take our monthly temple day and attend all of the temples within the 60 mile radius (plus Logan) which are considered in our mission.  With Covid, that has limited that plan somewhat but this month we scheduled two of those visits--Brigham City Temple last Friday and then Payson on this upcoming Tuesday.

Jena and I went to the Brigham City Open House years ago, but we haven't been there for a session.  We met with Vonette and Gary and did sealings.  This was Jena's first time to do sealings and she did great--serving as a daughter for many sealings of daughters to parents.  When the session first started, the sealer asked Jena to serve as a witness.  It caught me off guard and made me cry from the very beginning!  What a powerful moment of acknowledgement of worth.

After finishing our names, I talked to Jena about her sealing in the Dallas Temple and how she had sat on the alter (she was 10 months old) with her hand on ours as she was sealed to us.  We then looked in the mirrors and talked about standing there with everyone and talking about eternity.

Gary was not being cooperative for a photo---

Vonette took this photo.  We tried to get one in front of the temple but the doors kept opening up.

It was a sweet day.....followed by dinner with the Kerrs and conversation.