Leah's Blessing!

Today we blessed our 16th grandchild. It was a special day for us. Adrienne and Justin wanted to bless Leah today so that Justin's twin brother could also bless their baby on the same day. Saved travel for his parents. We had Nichole and Justin come from Grand Junction to be with them. Others were here for Christmas so were unable to come back for the blessing. We enjoyed those who came. We had a luncheon at our home because Adrienne's apartment is too small. Even with those who came, we had a housefull.

Justin did a great job and Leah looked so sweet in her little white dress. What a special day!!

Here are a few pictures of the whole event.

The run-in with the Snow Plow!!!

Can we say SNOW!!! I can not believe how much we have gotten in such a short time...Jordan and Richard were out shoveling the driveway and had just gotten it all done when along came the snowplow and buried the driveway with 3 feet of new snow. Needless to say they were both alittle discussed about it and so they started to shovel again when they almost finished and the plow came by again and buried them again. I think it took them about an hour to get the driveway shoveled. It was a REAL experience but not an exciting one. I thought it was funny so decided to take a few pictures.

On our first day of snow, Jordan went to early morning Seminary and got to school just fine, this being the first time he has driven in snow since he got his license, but hit a slick spot going into the parking lot at school and hit the post. Not a fun experience since this is his only mode of transportation. It took out the right headlight and the fender had to be pushed out to drive it home. Needless to say he's on foot at the moment and now mom has become his taxi!! I hope it gets fixed soon but I guess replacing the fender it the expensive part, so we will see. He might be on foot till after Christmas vacation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARRETT

We celebrated Garrett's birthday on the 24th with cake and icecream. Garrett is 20 today!! We thought since he was on a mission that we would celebrate without him and send him pic's! It was great fun and Adrienne and Justin celebrated with us!! Happy Birthday Garrett! Love ya

For Thanksgiving we went to Patsy's and Larry's house! We really had an enjoyable time with them. While we were there we went to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. It was warm this year compared to other years, I guess because we didn't have any snow! The lights were still beautiful. We found among all the Nativities, one from Japan! It was so cute. We took a picture of it but don't know if you can see it very well. We also tried to find a luminary from Mexico for Garrett but couldn't find one. There were millions of them lighting the pathways. I'm sure there was one there, we just didn't see it. At the top of the Joseph Smith building we saw a Nutcracker that we had to have our picture taken with. Jordan wouldn't cooperate with me...he kept sticking out his tongue!

One morning at Patsy's we decided to take a ride in the paddle boat behind her house. There wasn't much ice so we thought it would be OK. To our surprize, when we tried to go out of the area, the paddle boat wouldn't break through the ice so we had to just do a ride in a small circle. Jordan enjoyed it anyway. The ice didn't look that thick at first. After that we helped Larry put the boat away for the winter..guess we'll have to go take a ride come summer.

While at Patsy's we did alittle Geo-Caching! They are into it big time. We looked up some finds in Tooele. We didn't do to bad...we found 3 out of the 5 we went looking for. Our last one was in a street sign. The clues for them are always interesting. It was a fun time!

Jordan broke his finger playing church basketball. The second time in three years! I'm almost ready to restrict him. you can't see it in this picture but he has a bone chip on his knuckle so it's all black and blue. He is in a splint for another 8 weeks till it heals. Guess that is it for basketball for this year. In the ER the doctor told us that Church basketball is rated #6 on the list for the most injuries. Don't know where he got that info from. Jordan had to take a math test with his hand in a full arm splint for the last day of the tri, which was Friday. The accident happened on Thursday! Not Fun !!

Garrett in Rosarito

These pictures are of Garrett ...They went to Tijuana and had lunch with the Sister Missionaries. I think these burritos are tooooo big!! They go to Tijuana for District Meetings. These other pictures are ones that Garrett sent and thought you would enjoy seeing them. The one is of his companion playing the rubic cube (hey Jennie). I guess that is one game they can play. Garrett said his companion showed him how to solve it in three days. Don't know the names of any people in the pictures so maybe next time I can tell you. Garrett didn't say!

Garrett recently sent some pictures, so we thought that we would share them with you. this first picture is one that Garrett sent Jordan. I guess that he was teaching an invesigator that had some pretty cool cars...and you know how Garrett loves his cars!

These next two pictures are of Garrett's newest baptism in the ocean.

This Last picture is of a power pole in the poor section of town. It is pretty funny how all the poor hook up there own lines to the poles. Justin reports that is how it is in most south american countries. Every so often the power companies will go around and unhook all the lines. After they leave all the people will come and rehook up all the lines to recieve free power.