We had a fun week but not many pictures so bear with me. Kelly, the boys and I went on a tour of the Sweet Candy factory in Salt Lake. We put on our hair nets, took off all our jewelry and were told we would be walking very close to lots of candy and we could not touch it. They gave us samples along the way so we were able to keep our hands to ourselves. Katie and boys were suppose to go with us but they have been sick. We bought $28 worth of candy to can in jars for our emergency stash. They say in an emergency we will want chocolate. Of course we got cinnamon bears and taffy too.

Wednesday we met Sis. Payne for lunch. She was a sister missionary in Palmyra and was such a great missionary. She lives in Sandy and just got a job in St. George with a radio station there. We were happy to met up with her before she left. After lunch we went to the FH Center and visited with the Rikers who are serving a Family History Mission and served in the Palmyra Temple with us. We met the greatest people in Palmyra.

Sis. Payne is in the Red sweater and shite shirt in the middle.

Thursday morning, 7:30 am, we met the Crookstons and took a tour of the new Draper Temple. Beautiful, beautiful. We kept saying how much room they have compared to the Palmyra Temple. Friday we attended the Jordan River Temple for Ward Temple day.

Friday night is pizza and movie or game night with Kelly & Rob and Saturday morning I drove to Lehi to baby sit for Kory and Katie while they went to the temple.

Paul has come down with a cold and we hope he gets better before Wednesday when we leave to go to Idaho where we will baby sit for Kimberly and Gary while they snowmobile for a few days. Tonight, Sunday, we went to the Conference Center for a Devotional for the Jordan River Temple. The new presidency spoke and it was a great meeting. We are so blessed and count our blessings every day.

Ring out the Old, Ring in the New

On FHE night we went to Temple Square with Kelly and boys and Kory and Katie and boys. It was a beautiful night, not too cold. We took hot chocolate and donuts to enjoy. The boys didn't want to leave the visitor's center especially after I told them I would give them a quarter for each mural they could tell me the story of. They made a little money that night.

Kelly and boys at Temple Square. Rob was at work.

Gage, Kory, Tyler, Katie and Josh at Temple Square

On December 19th we celebrated Josh and Paul's birthday. Katie made two cakes, one for each of them. Josh is 5 and Paul is 65. We had a reindeer party and it was fun.

We went to Island Park two days before Christmas and missed the big snowstorm getting there. Kimberly and Gary and family came in Wednesday and Kelly and Rob had to wait til the day after Christmas to get here. Kory and family decided not to come since the roads were so bad and they could only stay the weekend. I personally went on a couple of snowmobile trips with Kimberly, Gary, and Rob. Had a great time. We spent time at the clubhouse swimming, and playing racquetball.

After snowmobiling all day the guys came in and played Guitar Hero all night. The kids had a hard time getting any time on it.

Kaylee, Gary, Mallorie, Brayden, Kimberly and Courtney on Christmas eve in the Christmas pajamas.

South Jordan has a little ice skating rink so Saturday we met Kory and Katie and tried skating. You can see that only Paul, Robbie and Kelly were brave enough to try it. We had a good time anyway.

Paul and I went to the Capital building to see Gov. Huntsman inaugurated. That was interesting and we got to hear David Archiletto sing the Star Spangled Banner. Paul got interviewed by Fox 13 but didn't make it on the evening news. We have been to the temple many times and enjoy our time there. The weather is cold and Paul keeps busy keeping the huge driveway cleared off. That was his major job at the cabin over Christmas. Have a great week. It's good to get back to blogging again. I hope to be more consistent now.