Wednesday, December 27, 2023: Another cloudless, cold day, I miss my clouds, Ham & eggs for Alayna & Joshua, Rowan arrives at 3 pm, Hitchcock movies, Stew & cornbread, Sue H. moves, Tamara meets Stacy

 

Arequipa, Peru

167th operating temple

Dedicated: 15 Dec 2019

By: Ulisses Soares

Book of Mormon

Moroni 7:35-48

Come Follow Me

Revelation 20:12-15; 21:1-4 All of God's children will be judged out of the book of life.

October General Conference

"Divine Parenting Lessons" by Elder Valeri V. Cordon

Another cloudless, cold day. I miss the clouds!

James fixed ham and eggs for Alayna and Joshua with Paul's leftover ham. 

Alayna, Joshua and Evan were waiting for Rowan to get here before they went on their Razr ride.  They thought he was coming up this morning. When I told them he wouldn't be here until this afternoon they decided to go without him. 

Snow in the high country!

Yesterday they went on a ride and they were gone so long Stacy and Paul got worried and were going to go look for them it James's truck. About the time they got ready to leave the kids returned. I was at the store and told her I was sure they were okay.

The kids were not gone nearly as long today as they were yesterday on the Razr. After Rowan got here the three of them played some games together. Rowan did go on a Razr ride up into the snow while he was here.

 Notice the size of these

Uno cards. They are

ginormous!

While the kids were playing games Paul was on his computer or fixing dinner and Stacy was watching old Hitchcock movies, such as, Charade, and Girl Friday. Cary Grant is in both of these movies. I wonder if she likes him. I love Audrey Hepburn and Stacy likes Grace Kelly.

Stacy & Ziggie. Where is her bodyguard,

Sophie? She says she doesn't care for

Hallmark movies. 

James went over to Sue Hubble's with several others from our ward to help her move. She is my good friend and I am sad to see her go, although I am glad she is only going to Snowflake instead of the valley. We are still going to go to the temple together.

Stacy started a puzzle while she was here. It was a 500 one with Easter Eggs, one that had never been done. She said she wouldn't be here long enough to do a 1,000 piece one. I helped her with it. She has a more "challenging" way of doing puzzles. Frankly, I think it just takes longer. After putting together the edge pieces she does the puzzle row by row. Once when she wasn't looking I filled in some other pieces. When she discovered what I had done she said, "No, No, No, challenge yourself." She took the pieces out. Here is the finished puzzle:

A fun puzzle to do.

Tamara Applegate dropped a set of house plans off to James early this evening. I had her come in and meet Stacy as they are both doing the intermitten fasting diet. Stacy has lost 70 lbs. over the last couple of years and she looks so much more healthy. Tamara has been very successful too, but hasn't been doing it as long.

Paul made dinner again tonight. He has a new stew recipe he got from a Foodnetwork chef, Tyler Florence. It uses red wine and corn and peas. He also made cornbread. The entire meal was delicious.

Thank you Paul. They guys in our family seem to like to cook. We as their wives and family are so lucky!

This evening James and I walked in our room and watched "A Rocky Mountain Christmas" and "Christmas in the Pines", both good movies.

I remember their reception at Trey & LeAnn Bashas'

and how cold it was!

Beautiful sunrise