OUR FAMILY: Thursday, December 21, 2023: Inklings with Emily & Elaine Dalton, Kim's cookie day, My cookie day is quite different, James does dishes, walked, movie & book, Ordered Someburros

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Thursday, December 21, 2023: Inklings with Emily & Elaine Dalton, Kim's cookie day, My cookie day is quite different, James does dishes, walked, movie & book, Ordered Someburros

Barranquilla, Colombia

161st operating temple

Dedicated: 9 Dec 2018

By: Dallin H. Oaks

Book of Mormon

Ether 14:8-31

Come Follow Me

1 Corinthians 15:21-26; Colossians 1:12-22; 1 Peter 2:21-25

Jesus Christ fulfilled His mission and made it possible for me to inherit eternal life.

October General Conference

"Be Peaceable Followers of Christ" by Elder Quentin L. Cook

Another beautiful day in Vernon.

I listened to Inklings this morning. Emily & Elaine Dalton were the presenters. It was amazing, the best one ever! Here are just a couple of quotes:

Emily: "I was tutored how to hear the Spirit at a young age."

Elaine: "Can you imagine that we have a member of the Godhead within whispering distance in the Holy Ghost."

Elder Bednar: "If you go to sacrament meeting and partake of the sacrament, you will have the Spirit with you."

Kacey and I texted about it afterwards. I told Kim she should listen. She said she would try but she was in the middle of making her cookie plates.

Kim made 44 plates to give away, with 14 different kinds, plus gluten free - brownies, oreo balls, peppermint balls, rice krispy treats, and krispy kookies for Sami and Shayna.

That's a lot of cookies

Here are some of the cookies Kim made: mint brownies, gingerbread, salted chocolate chip, Martha Stewart bards, sugar almond cookies, peppermint oreo balls, Oreo balls, mini lemon and min strawberry cupcakes.

Makes my three types of cookies seem a little scant. Today I made Cowboy cookies, Snickerdoodles, and Molasses gingers. They all tasted good but the snickerdoodles were flat because I forgot to put in some extra flour for the high altitude. I made up six bags of cookies for the following families; the Crane's, Janna Gromback, Catherine Halcomb, Patsy Tedder, the Tignor's, and Virgil Cooper.

I put them in the cardboard gingerbread houses along with a pair of fuzzy socks.

Gingerbread Row Houses

For dinner we had rice pilaf, green beans and roasted chicken. James finished up the dieshes for me and then we walked and listened to "Havencross." We also watched "Miracle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania." The movie starred Laura Vandervoort and Benjamin Ayres.

Some other things I did: Ordered a Fiesta tray from Someburros for our family party Saturday night and got about a dozen Christmas cards ready to send.