Sunday, August 25, 2024

Week of August 18 - August 24, 2024

Spiritual
Sunday was good. Sacrament Meeting went pretty well and so did Primary. We completed our temple recommend interviews by seeing members of our stake presidency. Another quiet Sunday visiting with family on the phone. 

We were not 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 45,104 records and reviewed 18,501 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family
This family is doing pretty well and adjusting to Back to School. Grace is nearly ready to begin college online and is looking forward to starting her daycare job. Josh had a great open house at school this week.


Sam is auditioning for the school musical: Shrek! He is very excited! He likes his teacher and is having a good year. Mike, Allison, and Adam are all busy too.

The Ethan Rice Family
Kaylee had her first cross country meet last week and had a great time. 





The Doran Rice Family
It was back to school and starting new jobs this week. Survived! They are so enjoying their new home and new life!!

Morgan
Morgan and Cassie are doing well and enjoying their cool weather and their jobs.

Kayty
Kayty's week started with a new light on in her car. Turns out she needed a new motor mount, a knock sensor, and they had to repair the tape that keeps rabbits from eating her wires. Cost: over $950. She spent part of her day off on Friday seeking a new repair shop for her future car troubles. 

The Nathan Rice Family
Busy week at work for Nathan and homeschool for Jessica and the big girls. Ellie got her braces put on her teeth this week. 
Weekends are for birthday celebrations. Nathan baked a seven layer chocolate cake and it was decorated in a Harry Potter theme. 


Dad's Garden
Dad has been working on preparing garden beds for future plantings. He also is trying to save some of our failing citrus trees. He and I bagged up the small amount of dates that are ripening on the palm trees. 
 
Other highlights
After midnight on Sunday, our house was rattled with tons of thunder. I was able to sleep through most of it. and then we were blessed with another very big rain storm! Biggest one this summer. So thankful!!

Friday, we attended a rally for some of our republican candidates and President Trump. We went and stood in line for two hours. Unfortunately, we were so far from the entrance to the event and the preparations for heat that the venue had made, we had to leave. Secret Service would allow no back packs or purses so we only had the water we could carry and that was no enough. So sad we missed out on the speakers but so glad we were able to chat with so many many people of so many different ages. 




Sunday, August 18, 2024

Week of August 11 - August 17, 2024

Spiritual
Sunday was good. Nice talks in Sacrament Meeting. We had teacher training during primary. Normally is is about teaching our classes but this was only about how things were going with Come Follow Me as a parent teaching our children. I. Said. Nothing. Did not pertain to me. Not doing that again. I will stay in Primary if this happens again. 

Dee was able to attend the temple this week on Thursday.  

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

I have indexed 44,115 records and reviewed 18,174 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family
Josh started high school this week. Week two for Sam and Allison.



The Ethan Rice Family
Fun Sunday activities for Ethan, Cameo, the kids and their friends. 







Kaylee had her first cross country meet this week and had a great time! She facetimed as she prepared to attend a birthday/slumber party for one of her friends. 

The Doran Rice Family
Doran and Amber are adjusting to the new home in Tennessee. Kids got enrolled in school. Cars are now registered in Tennessee. Their belongings arrived on Wednesday and the rest of their time was moving in. Jobs and school start next week. 

Morgan
Morgan and Cassie had a good week.

Kayty
Kayty had a good work week. 

The Nathan Rice Family
Nathan, Jessica and the girls had a good week. Homeschooling is going well. Nathan got a lot of prep work done for deer hunting in a couple of months. Work is going well. 


Dad's Garden
Dad got some discounted soil ammendments at CAL ranch stores in both Flagstaff and Prescott and is working things into the garden beds. Annie texted me on Friday. 

 
Other highlights
Dad traveled to Prescott for work on Wednesday and to Gilbert on Friday. Lots of Honeywell problems to solve. 


Sunday, August 11, 2024

Week of August 4 - August 10, 2024

Spiritual

We were 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 42,926 records and reviewed 17, 944 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family
It was back to school for Mom and Sam. They had a great start and a great week
Josh enjoyed his final week of summer. Grace got a part time job working as a preschool teacher and she is very excited!! They had a fun family pickle ball evening on Thursday.

The Ethan Rice Family


The Doran Rice Family
Doran and Amber packed up on Monday, cleaned on Tuesday, stopped by on the way out of town on Tuesday night, and left after they ate a quick dinner, headed for Tennessee. They had a great time as the made an overnight stop at Nathan and Jessica's. 









Morgan
Happy Birthday, Morgan on Thursday. 

Dad was invited up to Flagstaff on Saturday to fish with Morgan and Cassie.  No fish caught but the weather was great and they had a good time. 






Morgan was promoted at work and he and Cassie are enjoying their jobs and time off. 

Kayty
Kayty took Monday off. Got her car emission tested and did lots of errand running. Work week was good. 

1 major save

The Nathan Rice Family
Nathan, Jessica and the girls are busy as ever. Home schooling is getting back to normal and the girls are enjoying it. They especially enjoyed a visit from their cousins. Nathan continues to work on his jeep, fine tuning, and completing the fencing in their front yard. 


Dad's Garden
Dad and I continue to get horse manure and he works it in to the garden beds, readying for planting. 
 
Other highlights
We enjoyed a wonderful typical monsoon storm on Wednesday evening: dust storm, heavy wind, thunder, lightning, lots of rain. 


Sunday, August 4, 2024

Week of July 28 - August 3, 2024

Spiritual
We had a good Sunday. Church and Primary went well, other than our little special needs classmate had a rough day. Rest of the day was quiet. 
Dee attended a session at the temple on Friday afternoon. 

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

I have indexed 41,321 records and reviewed 17,840 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family
Busy week as Allison returned to work. Lots of meetings. However her week ended with a great award for best reading accomplishments for her last years class throughout the state. Hooray Allison!

The Ethan Rice Family
Kaylee and Wade started school this Thursday. They were both very glad to get back to friends. 








The Doran Rice Family
Doran and Amber completed their last week at their current jobs. Doran's coworkers made him a cake to celebrate. The weekend has been spent doing the last laundry. Movers come soon and they plan to be on the road to Arkansas and then Tennessee early Wednesday next week. 

Morgan
Morgan and Cassie briefly came into town while we slept and picked up their little fishing boat they stored in our front yard. They are doing well. 

Kayty
Kayty had a good week at work. 

The Nathan Rice Family
Received a FaceTime from Nathan and the girls on Sunday. They finished Harry Potter (the first one) and celebrated with a meal of  Gryffendor Casserole and Pottermelon. Dental and Orthodontic appointments happened this week. Nathan got his car repaired without needing a fuel pump. He continues to work setting gate posts to fence off the front part of their back yard. 

Dad's Garden
We gathered horse manure and left over alfalfa and dad is working it into all the garden beds. Planning for fall winter garden is underway. 

 Other highlights
I saw Orion for the first time this year on August 2.