Provo City Temple
I spent a relaxing day at Cathi's while James went to work at Arizona Rehab. He took Ben with him because he had some lifting to do.
This afternoon Cathi and Laura went to Grady Ellsworth's Eagle Court of Honor.
Grady with his proud dad
While Cathi was gone I went shopping at the Super Target in Gilbert. I got dental floss, shampoo, and other personal items along with some food for tomorrow.
At 5 pm James and I met with other members of our family at the Serrano's in downtown Chandler. We had not made reservations. In the past we have gone to the Serrano's in Mesa where it wasn't necessary to make reservations. This Serrano's was very busy and could not accommodate us until 6:30. We walked around downtown Chandler and saw the tumbleweed Christmas tree. James and I left so he could go look at a little remodeling job for Nancy Yoshimine at her new home near Lindsey and Ray. We made it back in plenty of time before our table was ready.
Tumbleweed Christmas Tree, a
Chandler tradition
There were about 20 of us who gathered for dinner. In went something like this: James, Karen, Adam, Michael, Joshua, Kim, Brian, Joseph, Amanda, Joe's roommate who sat by me, (I introduced myself but I can't remember his name), Sheri, Alex, Ben, Max, and Evan, Jared, James, Anna, Emmy, and Molly.
Brian paid for everyone!
Thank you Brian!!
Darrel and Trina fed the missionaries tonight so we excused them. Plus Addy has been sick and they probably didn't want her to be out in the cold. The tradition is that after dinner we all go look at Christmas lights, normally starting at the Mesa temple.
It was pretty late when dinner was over and Tricia had taken her kids to see the temple lights last night so we all just agreed to drive over to Cherry St. on our own and make the rounds in the neighborhood where every house has outside decorations. Here is some of what I saw from the car window.
I'm not sure if that's the moon or a street light.
This is the yard that had a walk through Bethlehem set up
in their backyard with real live sheep and everything.
News flash from Vernon: "Terry got his elk."
It's a spike, but that's okay because Cathi says
the meat will be more tender!
