“If we keep no diary [journal], the path crumbles away behind us as our feet leave it; and days gone by are but little more than a blank, broken by a few distorted shadows. Life is all confined within the limits of to-day….”
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| Brightyn does gymnastics TOO ! Or maybe it's tumbling.......... Is there a difference? I think there is. |
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| She traveled with her Mom and Grandma Carol (and Bexlee) to Cedar City a couple weekends ago, and competed with her Northern Star Bounder team in the Summer Olympics. |
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| Watching the opening night FIREWORKS |
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| Car is ALL DECORATED - ready to REPRESENT !! |
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| Think she's excited for HER MEDAL !?!?! |
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| Way to go BRIGHTYN !! |
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| This is one of her coaches, Delana Nelson (from Morgan) Good Job !! |
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| Thatch's gymnastics wrapped up for the year, and they took pics. Imagine our surprise when they chose his picture to REPRESENT USA GYMNASTICS WORLD on the cover of their website. |
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| The year end banquet with Mom and Dad and coaches was a success. He will continue with Gymnastics. At this time he goes 4 days a week, and loves it! He is developing his upper body strength, and new routines are being introduced. Go Thatcher ! |
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| This is our group, just before we went into The Garden Restaurant at the top of the Joseph Smith Building. |
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| Sherrie just LOVES me to take her picture :) |
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| The food was WONDERFUL !! |
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| Sister Julia Fisher who serves with President Fisher over the Temple Square Mission gave us a guided tour of the mission headquarters in the basement of the South Visitor's Center |
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| Then over to the tabernacle |
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| Sage was able to meet with a sister from Lousiana, where Sage is going to be serving in October. |
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| We toured under the tabernacle, and saw the "back stage" of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square's "digs" |
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| We also saw where the sister missionaries who serve in the Temple Square Mission, talk with investigators. |
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| It was a wonderful time spent together. |
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| I should have had a BEFORE BEFORE picture. The dirt was bad, full of clay, and debris from the building of the house 11 years ago. Mom wanted to get a fresh start, so we took about 5 tractor scoops of "junk" out, and added a couple of scoops of good dirt, mixed with some soil pep, and other good things. |
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| Then she replanted most of the perennials she had saved. It was a GOOD JOB DONE :) |
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| Love this two ! Mom takes such good care of Dad His worsening eyesight is hard for him. |
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| Watering later in the evening. See the first POOR POOR row of corn? The next row isn't much better, but we are hopeful for the last 3 rows (fingers crossed). The peas and onions are doing well, after a slow start. |
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| We still have wells of water around the tomatoes. Carrots and beets are planted in the "box" in the forefront. |
