Week of October 20 - 26, 2019

Highlights:

Spiritual

We had a good Sunday. We were blessed to partake of the Sacrament again this week and learned from the talks given there. Sunday afternoon I enjoyed choir practice.

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

Dad had a Stake Sunday School presidency meeting on Sunday. I had a Relief Society extra meeting board meeting on Tuesday night. I am not so sure about my new calling yet. Long meeting and still much left undiscussed. I am not going to be able to attend the activity too, so that is proving difficult. I did complete my assignments plus came up with an idea for a cute topper for the dessert.

I continue reading the Book of Mormon, listening to and reading General Conference talks daily.

I have indexed 19, 513 records and reviewed 52,006 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins family started their week with the traditional painting of mini pumpkins. There were some pretty nice ones being created. I saw rainbow ones, one called a ladybug pumpkin, one that began black and many other beautiful creations. I love this tradition of theirs. It was a week full of dental appointments and filling prescriptions, preparing for insurance to end. Mike is not able to receive unemployment benefits due to a Nevada statute. Both Mike and Allison are searching many for new employment. In such an awful time, they did find a bright side. Mike was not permitted to have any facial hair for 12 years, but now he can.

They attended their ward Trunk or Treat dressed up as Hawkeye Pierce (MASH), Rosie the Riveter, and Thing 1 and Thing 2.

The Ethan Rice Family
Mike and Marina were near and stopped by for a visit.

Ethan began the week sick with the stomach bug. They ended up all finally feeling better and enjoying Fall Festivities with the local police department offering a great event. 

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, and family had sickness in their house this week that kept Amber home since Doran's employer thinks caring for sick kids is "women's work". They are anxious to get into their home so he can move on to another job.
Some pics from Kelsie and Doran's trip to 13th Floor last week.

Morgan

Morgan spent Monday in the hospital and eventually was diagnosed with kidney stones. He also has scoliosis and a mass in a lung that he needs to have monitored. He was pretty sick when he called Monday.

Kayty

Kayty had a good week at work and used her half day time off gift to come home and help me prepare Halloween treats. 

The Nathan Rice Family

A busy and good week was had by this family. Nathan and Jessica worked hard to get the girls' Halloween costumes completed. Their ward Trunk or Treat was Friday evening. They took some delicious chili and brownies and had such a good time. They came by after to show their costumes: Anna was True, complete with felt backpack and blue hair, and Ellie was a Yetti. Emma wore the traditional Snow White costume. 

Dad's Garden

Dad lost more plants early in the week, so Tuesday, he applied more bird netting and planted more spinach seeds. The creatures are, as usual, driving him nuts!

Other highlights

Dad got some tile put down on the front porch to replace the broken ones. He also worked on fixing the trailer tire, which led to the rim repair, and now the hub needs new bolts, which are only in South Phoenix. He also worked on fixing broken sprinklers and cleaning up all the cement tools.

My annual physical and bloodwork came out well!!! Hooray. I celebrated by Dad bringing me a half a Subway Sub on Friday.

I took Mom to pick up prescriptions and get some money from the bank on Thursday.

I wanted to have some sort of Halloween Party last year, and I spent way too much time on Pinterest and then created all the fun things I found for treats. We painted a little decoration, decorated sugar cookies, ate pizza and had fun.

They seemed to have a good time and it did tire them out.

Dad did the music for our ward Trunk or Treat. It had been two years since he used the equipment, so he had much preparation to do. Kayty got him some newer music off CD and he ended up doing a great job.

Week of October 13 - 19, 2019

Highlights:

Spiritual

It was nice to be back meeting as a ward on Sunday. We were introduced to the new program for youth and children and the talks in Sacrament Meeting led into the second meeting. I attended choir practice on Sunday and enjoyed that.

Dad attended sessions at the temple on Wednesday and Thursday nights. I attended Pack Meeting on Thursday night where all our cubs received their Wolf Badge. Mission Accomplished! I went out with my new ministering companion on Friday and we had a great, but long, two hour visit with dear sweet Jody.

I continue to listen to a General Conference Talk every morning, read the General Conference talks, and read my Book of Mormon daily.

I have indexed 18790 records and reviewed 50577 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

It was a challenging week for the Wilkins Family. Grace got braces on her teeth. Mike will now have to see other employment. Everyone seems healthy now. Dad attended an extra temple session on Thursday to add their names to the temple prayer roll. We are fervently praying that they will be guided to where and what they need to do.

The Ethan Rice Family

Ethan's family attended another Home Depot Kids Create day and they later attended the Perry Fair. They had such a good time!!
Cameo shared...
"Last Saturday (October 5th), we went to the Home Depot Kids Workshop and the Georgia National Fair in Perry, GA. This fair was wonderful!! We all had a great time. It was the best fair we have ever gone to. They had a baby chick hatchery where you could view the chicks pecking their way 🐣 out of their shells, there were kids showing their goats 🐐 and sheep 🐑 (in a show), Ethan spun wool, there was a momma cow giving birth (you could watch if you wanted), momma pigs 🐖 nursing their piglets, there was a lake right in the middle of this fair (they had free shows with people doing tricks on skis and such), tons of rides, lots of food vendors, lots to see and do."

Kaylee dressed up to celebrate the 50th day of school in 50's attire. She also brought the pumpkin she planned, created and painted to school.

They remembered Breast Cancer Sufferers/Survivors on Friday by dressing PINK!

A stomach bug has hit this family all week, but even on Saturday, the kids sat on their front porch bundled up in coats to watch the rain fall in 50 degree weather.

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, Kelsie, and Kooper had a good week. It was back to school for the kids and Kooper liked returning to his teacher. Their house progresses and mistakes are being corrected. Saturday, Doran and Kooper helped Dad with the final berm pour. Kooper helped move wheelbarrows, bang the sides of the forms to remove air pockets, and even helped dump the mixer. On Saturday night, Doran took Kelsie to 13th Floor Haunted House and Amber and Kooper spent the evening here.

Morgan

Morgan is busy working and doing well.

Kayty

Kayty had a good week at work that included early and late overtime. She also worked on her Tangled Halloween costume to wear to work. 

The Nathan Rice Family

This family had a good week. He came by one evening and helped with the second portion of the cement berm pour. I got to play with the girls inside the house and we had fun (until Emma got a little hungry and I made a bottle. She does not like me giving her one of those!) The girls came by to play for a bit on Thursday morning while Jessica went to an appointment. We played outdoors, built with Legos, and enjoyed some yogurt and other fun snacks. 

Dad's Garden

Other than theivery that continues to plague his seedlings, snow peas and others are doing well. His date palms we worked to remove from the tree are looking much better after our hot dry summer. 

Other highlights

We saw this on FaceBook on Monday from Aunt Kay Judson and Uncle Tamas Judson:

Mission accomplished. We delivered great grandmother Nancy Hammond Marshall’s grave marker to Douglas Park Cemetery in Douglas, WY. Tamas L Judson made the concrete base and embedded a crystal from her ranch and other mementos from the Marshall home-place in the concrete and left a place for flowers. The brass memorial plate has her name, dates, and pioneer designation. It has been a very rewarding experience to commemorate her legacy.

Grandma Dorrie contributed to create the lovely nameplate. (This is Grandma Dorrie's mom's mom's mom.)

New carpet in the playroom on Monday.

Pics from Saturdays pour

After they were finished, Doran had located a refrigerator at a yard sale so they headed out with the trailer to pick it up. A tire came off the trailer, bounced ahead of them, across the street, and then into a palm tree. We figure that Dad just didn't check the lug nuts after the trailer was reassembled after repair. Anyway, there were so many blessings involved: the tire didn't come off while any moving of furniture was going on in the past months, or even while it was filled with citrus wood, no other person or vehicle was hurt, and other than having to pay for a new rim and tire installation, all is well.

My village took all week, every single day, to get put up. It got to the point on Saturday that I was just sick of the mess! My living room was a shambles, and working in there for many hours each day neglected the rest of the house. I finished what I could do late and the rest away. In that process, I located two buildings I neglected to put up. It would have been so difficult to adjust the building lighting to add them, so I just put them away with the rest of the empty boxes. Village is not perfect but it is done.