Week of July 16 - July 22, 2023

Spiritual

We enjoyed a wonderful missionary farewell for a dear young man in our ward who will be serving in the Philippines. He is ready to go. Primary went well and we had a good Sunday. 

Dad was able to attend the temple this week. 

My daily morning foundation of General Conference talk(s), prayer, scripture study and Come Follow Me study continues each day. 

I have indexed 11,534 records and reviewed 18,167 records so far this year. There are fewer and fewer records available to index so I try to do ten a day, if available. 

Family

The Wilkins Family

Allison has been preparing for the upcoming year by copying and copying and then this week she laminated and laminated. Josh is cutting things apart...for Jack Taco payment. Sounds like a good deal to me. 

The Ethan Rice Family

It has been fun group face-timing a few times this week with Kaylee, Wade, and Annie. Kaylee is such a good help and demonstrates how she cooks her lunch. She also shared some books she is reading. Wade has also popped on and shared some of his special cars. 

The Doran Rice Family

Amber traveled to Vegas for work again this week. Doran has interviewed for and been hired at a new job with Amber's firm. He has greater opportunity for advancement in this situation and he is looking forward to starting in two weeks. 

Morgan

Morgan and Cassie stopped by on Sunday. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good week, though the a/c went out at work on Tuesday so she worked from home Wednesday. She had Friday off and got some extra things done. 

The Nathan Rice Family

The girls called on Monday and shared the new clothes Kaylee had shared with them. Emma especially loved her witch costume. They had a good trip home from Georgia and even stopped at a beach. Annie now can text and she shared that homeschool has been in the prestart phase this week and will begin next week in full. Annie and Ellie are so excited. They had a fun family adventure on Friday. They so enjoy Nathan's four-day work week. 

Dad's Garden

The heat has been above normal this year. The basil is struggling at this point. I did get some harvested for pesto. We did lose our beloved hen, Gilly, on Sunday. Red Robin still has no tolerance at all for the young hens but they are peacefully coexisting under separate shrubbery. 

 

Other highlights

Made six batches of pesto which meant 15 meals of pesto frozen for future use. 

Christmas In July

I completed all 60 ornaments this week. They are sealed, drilled, strung, labeled, and wrapped. I also selected the ornaments for next year and printed up the patterns. 

Christmas Movies this week included The Santa Clause 2 and 3.