Spiritually Fed

Conference is over and I have been spirituall fed. I have renewed my commitments to serve the Lord and others and to follow all the teachings and counsel of our Prophet and leaders.
Every conference is better than the last one, but this one is more meaningful due to the announcement of the new temple to be built in Brigham City.

Brigham's New Temple

I am so EXCITED!!! Today it was announced that a new temple will be built in Brigham City. My Mom called me after the first session to tell me the news. I missed the first 8 minutes of conference and got in on the Florida and Japan temples. Imagine my surprise when she told me.
I kept thinking I was just dreaming, but it was on the news also. Yeah for us that live here. Wouldn't it be neat if it was built on the vacant block across the street from the tabernacle. I would be able to see the spires from my windows and be able to walk to do sessions.
Yes, I am one excited Brighamite right now.

2009 1st Snow

Hunting season is just couple of days away. Today the camper goes up to the mountain. There is snow on this 30th day of September that we will be traveling in. The higher up we go the more the snow.
What a wet and cloudy day

Roses won't be pretty for to much longer

Fall is officially here like it or not!!

Our Wild & Wooly Weekend

Well as promised here is an accounting of our weekend from kitchen fires to up and personal with Brigham City's finest law officers. Wendy gave me permission to use her blog as it was so eloquently written. She gladly accepted to be my guest writer today.
(I thought I could just copy & paste her blog entry to mine, but that was not that easy. The text will do that, but the pictures had to be saved to another file then added to the blog. What was suppose to be so simple turned into a hard project and an hour of aggravation. Only one correction needs to be noted. The Indian children were in school in Brigham City from the early 1950's to 1984). Thanks Wendy for being my guest writer!!!!

What happens in Brigham City....

We went to Brigham City this weekend. We spent the weekend with Dad and Kathy, Derek and Kelly and their kids Canyon and Evan. The weekend started out great and ended on a very interesting note. We got to Brigham City Friday evening and just hung out and talked. Saturday we got the cornhole game out and had a great time playing cornhole with everybody.

We had a good time and then had navajo tacos for dinner. That was an adventure in itself. While making the flat bread for the tacos Kelly got the plate with the paper towels on it a bit too close to the flame and before you know it it had caught on fire and Kelly's attempt to put it out with tongs didn't work and Kathy's attempt with a pot holder didn't work. Derek came in and grabbed the plate and put it in the sink which did work. Then there was a slight grease fire and except for the black smudge on the wall behind the stove there was no lasting signs from the not one but two fires that were started. Later that night we learned a new game called farkle - pretty fun - even better when you win (sorry Kathy).

Sunday started out with funnel cakes and talk about going to the check out the old Indian School buildings. Just a little history- I guess back in the 60's and 70's (if I am wrong let me know and I will edit this part) several thousand indian children were sent to Brigham City for the school year . The kids were ages 6- 18 and were housed in these buildings.
We decided to stop and take some pictures of the outside of the building.

Then we found an open door so we went in to explore. Here are some pics of the inside of the building.

The open door - the one that started all our problems that were soon to follow. But doesn't Evan look so cute!
Looking down the hallway.

Creepy doll that was shoved into the wall. The view from one of the windows.

Not too long after this picture was taken I realized that I had left my keys in our van that we had left unlocked so Carl went to go lock up the van and retrieve my keys. Kelly, Kathy and Evan had gone back outside and were waiting for us when - with lights flashing- two cop cars came around the corner and stopped. My phone rang and it was Kathy telling us we needed to get out of the building because the cops were there (I had a fleeting thought about jumping out of the window and making a run for it but decided that wasn't a very good thing to do in front of my boys probably wouldn't have been too nice to let them take the fall for me either) so when we came out the cops had taken Carls license and called in all his info (he does look a little like a thug:) and Kathy's (we all know she was the ringleader of our little gang) and then he proceeded to tell us that because they have a lot of trouble with people breaking into the buildings that protocol was to take everyone 18 and older directly to jail. Not a good thing to hear especially when you have 4 kids standing there and no one close by who could have come to get them while we were being hauled off to the slammer. Luckily he said that he knew we were just curious about the buildings he would let us go with the warning to never again go past the curbs and approach the building which we all readily agreed to. So here is a picture of all of us with the cop in our first trespassing bust. We all know though that it was these sweet little faces that kept our gang out of the slammer!! So I would have to say what happens in Brigham City should Stay in Brigham City!

Week end adventure

Anyone that has access to Wendy's blog can read about our great adventure over the weekend. I will be posting about it when I can formulate the correct words to describe our run in with the Brigham City law enforcement and our near adventure to the "Brigham City Slammer".

Wild & Wooly Weekend

What a weekend!!!! Went from nearly burning the house down to nearly getting hauled off to jail. Stay tuned for details in the coming days!!

Happy Birthday Elton!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELTON

We first met you when Brook brought you home for Thanksgiving and we immediately took a strong liking to you. We could see that you really cared about Brook and her well being and also that you loved her deeply. This meant tons to her parents that worried about her all the time but lived to far away to see her all the time. A lot happened in the first year of knowing you. A daughter was born to you and Brook and how excited we were to have another little granddaughter to spoil rotten. What an joy it was when you brought her to Utah to be blessed.

You and Brook got married and it was an honor to get to go to Denver and be part of this happy celebration with you, Brook and your family. We truly had a wonderful time getting to know your family and spending some time with our grandchildren.

I loved having you come for Christmas in Brigham City. It was so fun to have you and your family with us for this special time of the year.

Before your first year anniversary another little Curry came to our family. I got to come to Denver again to meet this little feller and spend a few days there. Once again the stork made a special delivery at your home and once again the plane took me to Denver. I enjoyed everyday of the three weeks that I got to spend there helping with the new baby and with the little munchkins.
Can you believe that all this happened before you were married two years!!

Thanks for being a wonderful son in law that I love dearly. You hold a very special place in my heart and I find great joy in having you in our family. Thanks for giving us three new little ones to love and spoil. I am thankful that you are a great husband and father and that you put your family's needs first.

Hope you had a wonderful birthday.