First we spent a few days in Bend with the Dodges. Sheryl and I went to the finish line of the X-Terra half marathon and watched Jessica come in. She was the youngest runner and took second in her age group.
Sheryl and I went to the women's conference. I was especially impressed with President Uchtdorf's talk to those who are discouraged. Sheryl takes notes at meetings like that in order to stay awake. I should follow her example. They had a nice dinner afterwards of soups and cobblers.
It was fun to go to church with them and see Trevor pass the sacrament, an assignment he took very seriously. Jonathan played the organ.
Sunday afternoon we went on a walk to the Benham Falls.
We celebrated Eldon's birthday there. They took us out to lunch at a Thai restaurant. For his birthday dinner Sheryl made a yummy three layered lemon cake from scratch with lemon curd filling and a cream cheese frosting.
We drove from there to Carl's in a day. Grace has started Kindergarten. She's modelling a new nightgown (and my hat.)
It was fun to see that Kate is talking quite a bit now. She likes to imitate the other girls and thinks she's as big as they are.
We went to Carl's work for lunch one day and then to the zoo. They have a rare white alligator.
We watched conference with them and Dad and Carl went to the Priest-hood meeting. Grace thought we should dress up on Sunday.
We drove up to Heber Valley one day to see Lois and Don where they're serving their mission at a large girls camp. It's a beautiful camp and we're hoping to have a family reunion there in August of 2010. Utah is beautiful in the fall!
We stopped to see Uncle Cliff and Aunt Peggy Pyne and he gave us some genealogy on the Rawlins line which Carl was able to digitize.
The reunion came off at the last minute by piggybacking with the next mission president's. We were in the RS room and not too many came. It was sure good to see those who did. Two of the sister missionaries brought babies. Our two Elder Heatons got to meet each other and found out they are related.
Gail came up on Sunday and it was great to see her. She brought the girls pumpkins. It was fun to watch conference together.
We drove to Neil's in one LONG day. We helped Pam do applesauce. We went over to see Neil's brand new office building. It's impressive, from his photograph in the lobby to the nice office he shares with Dr. Hull on the second floor. We babysat the two youngest while everyone went their ways in the evening. Gideon is in kindergarten and is excited each morning to get on the bus to Jacksonville. Eldon and Eric played Scramble, as he calls it. Eldon dug some potatoes.
It was great to get home. Emily had the house clean, the plants watered, and the lawn mowed.!
8 comments:
Thanks for coming to see us. It was a lot of fun. I'm amazed you were able to see three kids' families in one trip.
Glad you're back safe. Sounds like a great trip. I hope you can get rested up for the party tomorrow!!!
You beat me to the punch. I was going to blog about your visit. It's ok, I will come up with something else! It was fun having you here, thanks to Eldon for taking Carl to the Priest-hood session. We will now be expecting a visit from each of your children and their families as I am sure you have talked up being in beautiful Utah:)
Sheryl wants to come. Utah is beautiful this time of year.
And yes, we're ready for Sydney's birthday party!
It was just great to have you visit us here at camp and we are looking into the reunion possibilities. Thanks for including the neat pictures. They turned out great.
Love ya, Don and Lois
Glad you got to see so many families on your trip, I wish you could come more often. I got the front entrance primed and I'm waiting for warmer weather to paint.
Was the alligator albino? Did I even spell that right?
I guess so. They said there's only about 10 in the world and that they can't be out in the sun. So that sounds like an albino.
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