Week of September 9-15, 2018

Highlights:

Spiritual

We had a great Sunday! Our Sacrament Meeting was wonderful. Great talks from a new family, plus the Young Men and Young Women sang. I had my seat saved for Sunday School when I noticed the nursery had no one there, so I offered to help and they accepted. We had no keys to the closet, so a brother ran home to get some fruit snacks. No water. No fish crackers. We didn't even know all their names until I grabbed a few people out of the hallway and asked. We played with toys and then sang songs. No harm was done and all went home with smiles on their faces. Dad taught a lesson in the Deacon's Quorum on Why we want to keep the Sabbath Day holy.

I had a long Cub Committee Meeting on Sunday. Our fourth Cub Master was sustained, and we have an idea for what will happen for pack meetings for the next months. Scouts went well for me, after Dad and my other leader arrived. Lots accomplished. Dad did not attend the YM/YW joint activity.

I attended a session at the Phoenix Temple on Tuesday morning. Dad attended a session Thursday evening.

I am in Alma 49 in the Book of Mormon.

I have indexed 14422 records and reviewed 44701 records so far this year.

I had

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins family had a good week. Adam and Mike went on a hike on Saturday morning. Grace had a good week and spent Saturday preparing her lesson for Young Women on Sunday. Josh spent his Saturday with a sick tummy, poor guy!  It was a shorter Mommy School week for Sam. After x-ray and xbox, there were not many other things to do. He continues to enjoy his weekly art class at the library and one of his works was put on display. Sam also received his four-year-old shots this week.

He had a bad reaction to the tetanus shot, making his thigh very red and hot. Everyone else is doing well.

The Ethan Rice Family

Ethan and family had a good week and had originally planned on spending part of their Fall Break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Hurricane Florence changed their plans, though. 

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, Kelsie, and Kooper are well this week. Doran and Amber are busy at work. Doran is still up in the air as to which employer he wants to stay with, but he continues to work hard. We saw Doran on Saturday as he stopped by after taking Kelsie to spend the night with a friend nearby. Kooper and Doran had spent the morning shopping at Sportsmans where Kooper selected many handguns he wanted for Christmas.

Morgan

Morgan had a good week and is excited to start a new job on Monday working at a prosthetics company. He will get to spend three nights away in a hotel while the days are filled with training.

Kayty

Kayty had a good week at work, though she was told on Friday by another supervisor that she and a few of her coworkers will need to move to another cubicle. She began removing her cubicle decor Friday.

Three minor saves this week.

The Nathan Rice Family

We got to speak with this sweet family on Sunday evening. This is their last week of preparation before school begins next week, and they have lots to get done. Anna had a great nursery class and showed me all her new dresses they purchased at Deseret Industries. Our visit was sweet and they were set to enjoy a dinner of French Toast after we got off the phone. Anna called on Tuesday to let me see her open her birthday card. She loved the Princess Sophia card and hung it on the refrigerator. She and I then visited and played in her room via FaceTime. Made my morning pretty awesome! Nathan has been 3d printing like crazy. He made a pumpkin for Anna, and he says the case feeder he printed works amazingly well. I got to see the gift purchased with the girls birthday money on Friday...a beautiful pink rug for the girls' bedroom. Anna says its so soft! (Soft enough that Jessica found her sleeping on it Thursday night. Jessica had been having a lot of radiating pain, which was diagnosed with a pretty serious neck problem. She will try chiropractic care first, and if that doesn't solve her issues, she will need surgery. Nathan has almost everything ready to begin his final semester next week.

Saturday was the day for celebrating Annalee's third birthday. She woke up to a room filled with pink balloons. She wore a "Birthday Girl" crown as she opened her gifts, and then they enjoyed a yummy homemade pancake breakfast.

Nathan and Jessica worked the night before on her birthday cake: ice cream between two layers of brownie, between two layers of strawberry cake, with a whipped cream frosting.

Dad's Garden

Seedlings continue to grow. He had to replant lettuce since the first seeds were probably too old. 

Other highlights

Good runs this week, especially Wednesday morning. It was nearly 76 degrees outside, which is amazing!

Took what I figure to be my final pool swim on Tuesday. Water is cooler and I am pretty much a wimp.

Got my annual blood draw on Friday morning. To celebrate, I went to Hobby Lobby and Target and added a few more pumpkins to my ever-growing collection. I also went to a nearby Costco but didn't like it. It's more geared to elderly people, winter visitor types.

Saturday morning, on my jog, I found a couple of base cabinets by the road someone was getting rid of. That turned into a morning project creating a pretty awesome back patio woodworking area for dad. The toolbox that Ethan gave him before they moved will soon be filled with woodworking stuff.

Dorrie visited on Saturday and we discussed some extended family issues.