Little odds and ends - trying to play catch up.

Left over picture from Thanksgiving I think.  Here is Cam with her Arizona family.  All (or many) of the cousins on her dad's side.  Love that cute girl front and center :)

Christmas Gifts for the ward from the Relief Society (TP and hand sanitizer)
As 2020 comes to a close, we may wish to FLUSH all trials of these past few months away.
Hopefully we can remember the lessons we have learned, and most importantly,
that we can rely on the Lord's protection as we strive to HEAR HIM daily. 

We had a visitor at our place

I love to capture memes from the internet and share them. 

Thatcher got braces !!

So many people participated in the Prophets call to flood social media with thankfulness #givethanks, and now we are Lighting the World for the month of December.  Loved to see this post !!!

Roger would say this is TOTALLY TRUE

Special post by CJ that took Morgan Moms Facebook by storm !! 

Love my beautiful Poinsettia that we got through Brightyn's fundraiser for tumbling.  It was used extensively in our Ward's Christmas Devotional which was filmed last Sunday, and will be broadcast on the ward's YOUTUBE channel NEXT Sunday, the 20th. 

I bought The Forgotten Carols, and have been passing it around to anyone who would like to see it.  It is wonderful :) 

Love my little CHRISTmas tree.  Krista Adams built me the box to put it on.  So happy !

Our Relief Society Presidency - Me, Vicki, Jody, & Sara
This is what is looks like in the year 2020

We have sure seen alot of changes in the 3 years we have served.

Councils in Relief Society (once a month, in a circle)
Ministering instead of Visiting Teaching
2 hour block change - Relief Society only 2 times a month
COVID - No Church (March-July)
Social Distancing - get together at the Property
COVID - Sacrament only (July-Oct)
COVID - Zoom RS meetings 2 times a month
What is next !?!?!?

We were able to get together last Sunday (Roger, Gwen, Mark, Carrie, Erika, Aaron and Tiana) with mom and dad and present them with our Christmas present.  It turned out so well. 

Bright finally got her tooth out with a little help from her dad !
She is a BRAVE GIRL !!

After putting it off for weeks (of warm weather), we braved the 19 degree temperature yesterday and got the Christmas decorations up to the cemetery. 

 

Last but not least - Manda texted me this picture.
Apparently the story I told the kids years ago, about Stephen King's story of THE MIST is still freaking her out (haha) - Love you Manda !!! 

Forgotten Carols

Last Monday evening we went to The Forgotten Carols at the Dee Events Center in Ogden.
I had won 4 tickets, just by commenting on @smallyspice's Instagram account.

Landon and Kacey, and Grandma Ben went with me.

If you can believe it, our seats were RIGHT NEXT TO Megan, and Debi, and Tara, and Dani.  What are the chances of that?    It was a long 2 hours and 45 minutes (7:30 pm to 10:15 pm), but it was great, and I LOVE the songs.

I'm so grateful that my friend Theresa Hyde introduced me to The Forgotten Carols a few years ago.

Things that make me happy :)

Well, I shouldn't say that a downed tree at the property makes me happy ;0), but it was a great day last Monday when I put on my boots during my lunch hour and walked down to the property to snap some pics.  I got quite the work out.  It was SO COLD, and nerve wracking, walking out on the bridge, but I got a GREAT SHOT for our Christmas card :)

Can you say BLINGY SKORTS?!   I picked these up off of Morgan's Classifieds.  Hoping a certain 9 year old will like the sparkle :)

We had a wonderful County Christmas party on Tuesday.  The girls from the Clerk's office work hard to make it fun for everyone.  Here is one of my favorite Santa's elves - Stacy Lou :)   Sorry I didn't get a picture of Mrs. Claus.  Shirlee you were wonderful as usual.

Last night - we had FRONT ROW seats to Forgotten Carols at the Dee Events Center.  I took mom, and we both LOVED it.   Here are some pics below to give you an idea of the cast.   Now I just need to find my Forgotten Carols CD!

And last but not least, I wake up this morning, and see this !  Landon received the L.A. Porter CEO award for all of his hard work at Focus in the Philippines this past year.  We are so proud of him.  I can hardly wait to hear all about it.

He Facebook messaged me later and said, "I was surprised, I had no idea.  This award is given to one employee (company wide) a year.  There have only been two other individuals who have received it." 

I'm assuming it is named after President Porter's father, L. Alden Porter    If you look at the video I shared on my Facebook page, you can see that Landon was pretty emotional.