Saturday, September 23, 2017

Week of September 17 - 23, 2017

Highlights:

Spiritual
Sunday was our Primary Children's Program in Sacrament meeting. Lots of music and wise words from young children. We all learned a lot! I attended choir practice before church and we even started a Christmas song: a lovely lullaby by Sally DeFord. The rest of our church meetings went well. We were told that two wards in the stake were being realigned next week, and wards meeting in other stake's buildings will relocate to the two buildings in our stake. Thus, our already small two ward building that became a stake center a year ago will become a three ward building on October 8th with two of the largest wards in the stake meeting in our building. Parking will be challenging and I am not sure where I will have room to have cub scouts. All will work out in due time.

Dad home taught two of his three families Sunday evening.

Dad and I attended a session at the temple on Wednesday evening, since scouts was cancelled for Fall Break.

I enjoyed the Saturday evening Womens General Conference Broadcast. I took lots of notes and cannot wait for the talks to be available to print later next week.

I am in Helaman 14 in the Book of Mormon.

I have indexed 28821 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family
Kayty visited this family on Sunday and had a great time! They had a great week of school and work, and Allison and Grace enjoyed the Women's General Conference Broadcast on Saturday night.

The Ethan Rice Family
Ethan, Cameo and Family took a weekend camping trip to High Falls State Park.











The Doran Rice Family
Poor little Kooper. Seems he came down with Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease on Sunday. He seems to have healed up and was ready to start preschool on Thursday.

We had planned to watch the kids on Friday night so Doran and Amber could grab a bite to eat, but Kooper started running a fever again. Poor guy! He felt better on Saturday, but just took it easy for the day.

Morgan
Morgan is working a temporary job and fishing when he gets a chance. Doing well.

Kayty
Kayty started her week in Vegas. She had a great time and added to her insulin supply. She had a good week at work, though her hours were odd. She got a reasonable ticket to a Niall Horan singing event next year in San Diego, and decided she would let us come camp at the KOA and help her get to and from the concert. At least we will get some time out of town together and that will be fun. She also sold an old concert ticket so all was even.

Kayty seemed low a couple of mornings, but all was well and, even with getting up all night, she made it without any saves.

The Nathan Rice Family
Happy Second Birthday, Annalee on Monday. She woke to a room full of balloons, opened gifts, and later spent the day at their local zoo.










Nathan is kept very busy with school, work, labs, and rushing home to get a few minutes with "his girls" before he returns to school. Jessica is keeping on top of things with a two year old and a newborn. Nathan just missed some elk on Saturday, and wanted to go back out for an evening hunt, but had homework and a test to complete. They invested in Styrofoam to place in the windows to keep the girls nice and warm in their rooms. Jessica and the girls spent the evening watching the Womens Session of General Conference and may have started a new tradition.

Dad's Garden
Dad's seedlings are doing well.


Year of the House Part 2
This was a great Year of the House 2 Week! We ordered our stone from a stone finisher who will create our countertop, and give us the extra to perhaps make a countertop for the other bathroom sometime. Wade Wallin came over Thursday and helped Dad install the drain and get the drywall taped up. He was a great inspiration. Dad, meanwhile, took evenings to sand the bathroom cabinet and stain it a much darker color. I didn't want black, but as dark a brown as I could...Verathane Kona was the choice.


Dee had been working on the cabinet, sanding and staining the doors. We got a call from the stone guy on Saturday morning and he will deliver on Monday morning, so Dee devoted the entire day to sanding, staining, varnishing and putting a cabinet back together.

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Other highlights
Running this week was heaven! I got to take the longer Temple run on Monday since I didn't need to check Kayty (I never am more than 15 minutes away from home now when I run unless she is out of town.) Mornings in the 70s, and in the 60s on Saturday. Heaven!

I had my annual check up...all went well! Thank goodness for another year.

Took Nano shopping and for bloodwork on Thursday.

Not so highlights
Friday night, when we were putting the hens in their pen, we noticed two were missing: Nipper and Brownie. We looked everywhere and could find not a spot or feather of evidence as to where they were. Maybe a hawk, but we are not sure...

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