Monday, November 19th, 2018

St. George, Utah,

1st operating temple

Dedicated: 6-8 Apr 1877

By: Daniel H. Wells

Jesus Christ, Davidic Descent of

Luke 3:23

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli

Book of Mormon #1

Mormon 2:1-16

*What is the difference between sorrowing and sorrowing unto repentance? How can our sorrow help turn our hearts to the Lord?

- President Ezra Taft Benson explained the nature of godly sorrow so that we might understand the sorrow that leads to cleansing repentance: "Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering. Our sins caused Him to bleed at every pore. This very real mental and spiritual anguish is what the scriptures refer to as having a 'broken heart and a contrite spirit' (DC 20:37). Such a spirit is the absolute prerequisite for true repentance." 

Book of Mormon #2

Alma 32-33

Old Testament

Daniel 9-10

General Conference

Becoming a Shepherd

Sister Bonnie Cordon

"Last April, President Nelson extended an invitation, like the Savior's to Peter, to feed our Father's sheep in a holier way through ministering. To effectively accept this invitation, we must develop a shepherd's heart and understand the needs of the Lord's sheep. How do we become the shepherd's the Lord needs us to become? As with all questions, we can look to our Savior, Jesus Christ - the Good Shepherd. The Savior's sheep were known and numbered, they were watched over, and they were gathered into the fold of God."

James and I are home alone after the morning rush for work, school, and the gym. James hangs around until around ten o'clock when he leaves for his appointment with his back surgeon, Dr. Crandall. Now I'm "home alone." I walk, study, pay the Amazon credit card, work on my last Wednesday blog post, email Ben, and have banana cream pie for breakfast. I end up throwing most of it away at Trina's earlier request. 

Lola and Trina get home before James gets back. While Trina is upstairs taking a shower Lola and I pay Llamanoes. Lola has her first dance concert tonight and we won't be here. I ask her if she could dance for me and she said, "No, not without my teacher."

Trina and Lola left for a lunch date with one of Trina's friends before James gets back. 

I re-pack the car to get all of my purchases in while James emails Ben. I emailed him earlier. 

We stopped at Fry's on the way out of town for a small turkey, a spiral cut ham, and some cranberry celebration. We also stopped at Jersey Mike's for our favorite subs.

James drives until Globe where I take over the wheel and drive until just before Show Low. 

After unloading the car and putting most everything away, I sat down to watch the "Dancing with the Stars" finale. I happened to be looking on Instagram and saw who won before I was finished watching. I was surprised to see it was Bobby Bones. He is the worst dancer of all of the four finalists but he has a lot of fans and is a great entertainer. Sharna Burgess is his partner and I'm glad for her because she has never won.

Brian and I were rooting for Evann & Keo to win,

Sheri and Kim wanted Milo & Witney, but Bobby

and Sharna took home the trophies.

Congratulations

 Charlie loves the tree lights

 And playing peek-a-boo with Tanner

This boy can run!

 Our fancy girl is taking a bow

Dancing is more fun with your cousins.

Admiring her trophy with grandpa Case

This came up and I couldn't resist posting.

When Adam was five years old and came down with diabetes, we had a haunted house in the basement in our home in Chander.  and

Ian was on the pool table inside a coffin. He

jumped up like this when the kids came by and the kids loved it!

One of my favorite family memories.

It was great to sleep in our own bed tonight!

Rowan's bed is very comfortable and

we appreciate him giving it up a few nights

for us.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

James and the boys went down for breakfast while I was getting ready.  By the time I got ready to go down there was a broken elevator and the other one was so busy, I got tired of waiting.  We get ready and leave for home. 

While we were driving home, Brian, Kim, Joe, Alex and Adam were enjoying a day at California Adventure:

Kim's favorite things: 

Brian, Joe, and Tower of Terror!

Santa really is coming!

The Radiator Springs ride.

Radiator Springs was open today and Kim said it was awesome and that Evan and Rowan would have loved it! 

The boys were hungry and needed to go potty so we stopped at a Jack in the Box in Indio.  Our next stop was at a Burger King in west Phoenix.

Two kingly guys.

Goofy, kingly guys!

We arrived at Sheri's somewhere between 4 and 4:30.  Trina came to pick up Rowan and took him to her parents house.  Addy and Ruby and Kayla, Kylie, and Kreed are already there.  Her parents are keeping them this weekend while Bryce and Lexy are in Texas.

As soon as Evan got home he had someone help him build his Lego set.  Sheri sent me this picture.

Evan loves Legos!

James leaves in his truck pulling a trailer with a piece of equipment on it that he is going to use on the Horne job.  I go shopping at Sam's Club for cheesecakes, etc., for our Young Women in Excellence dinner which is this coming Wednesday night.  After I do my shopping I go back to the house and load up my steaks, and other goodies, and leave.  I decide to go the Globe way to make James happy.  Since he couldn't stop at Burger House because he was pulling a trailer, I stop and pick up four burros for us.  

As soon as we get home we unload and go to bed.  James has an early high council meeting in the morning.  We had alot of fun with Rowan and Evan on our trip, but now it's back to work!

Saturday, October 19, 2013

This morning I had breakfast at Burger King.  I worked for a short time and then I went to Drea Boles's baby shower at Christy Wanlass's.  I said hi to Christy, who gave me a hug, Adrienne, and Tammy Wilson.  Drea, Jason and Benjamin all came to the shower.

The food was great.  There were three breakfast casseroles, muffins, fruit and water.  Sheri and I contributed to the group gift which I believe was a baby stroller.  It was fun to visit with many of my friends from Chandler.  I saw Jackie Hall, Karen Schneider, Judy Pargeter and Melanie Arntsen.  Mealnie is now the stake Relief Society president.  She was a ward president when I was the stake Relief Society president.  I also visited with Collee Tolman Geiger and Diana Dowdle.  Diana is the ward Young Women's president and so we talked about young women. 

Kim and Brian picked me up around 11.  They, along with Joe, help James and I load the truck.  Once the truck is loaded we leave for home.  James talks me into going the Globe way so we can stop at Burger House.  I get a bean burro and a green chili burro.  I eat the bean burro and save the green burro for tomorrow.  Once we get home and unload the truck we settle down to relax and watch some TV.  I am so tired, I fall asleep watching a Hallmark movie. 

Sheri, Ian, Kim, and Brian are a part of a dining out club.  Tonight they went to the Welcome Diner in Phoenix:

Chelsea Pace and Sheri.

 

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

I was on my early morning trip to Fry's to get drinking water when I got a call from the new Young Women's president.  She said she wanted me to be her first counselor and wanted Kaeli to be her second.  Then she proceeded to ask me questions about several sisters in the ward she was considering for advisors and secretary.  Before hanging up she swore me to secrecy.  I am so excited that a president has finally been called and I am excited about the choice that was made.

The girls and Kaeli (Sis Nicoll) went for one last swim this morning before we left.  Kaeli said a prayer and a blessing on the food as we are going to IHOP on our way home.  My treat.  Here is the only picture I got:

 

Left to right: Kaeli, LeeAnn, Shelly's arm

Kilee and Trenda.

 

Shelly and Kilee rode home with me.  We listened to music.  Kilee was the deejay.  Shelly especially liked the song by Carrie Underwood "Two Black Cadillacs" until I told her what it was about then she didn't want to listen to it anymore.  I think she fell asleep for most of the rest of the ride home. 

 

I bought a big Sugar Daddy at Sweetie's yesterday.  I was going to save it for Julie Wilhelm but I ate it on the way home so I could stay awake.  As a result, I lost a filling.  I am sure I will have to have a crown. 

 

Kilee and I got a drink at the Sonic in Payson but Shelly was still asleep. 

 

I got the girls home before dark and after unpacking and making myself mac&cheese for dinner I sat down to watch the latest episode of "The Next Foodnetwork Star."  Lovely went home tonight. 

 

James is still at the resort in Scottsdale.  Alex, Joe and Michael spent the night.  He took them to IHOP for dinner. 

 









Saturday, January 26, 2013

We woke up to rain, and it looks like it probably rained most of the night and shows no signs of stopping any time soon.  James, Kim and I had planned on going to the temple this morning but Kim texted me during the night with the news that the temple is closed until February 4th.  I guess next time I better check before I schedule a family temple day.

Joshua got up early today to enjoy the rain.  Before going out to splash in the puddles he enjoyed a Capri Sun as part of his breakfast.

 Joshua and his best buddy Skittles.

We had also planned on going to Max's football game but obviously it was cancelled too.  James and I packed up and left for home before noon.  It rained on us most all of the way.  I guess it's not cold enough for snow in the high country.  We had to stop in Payson and put air in my tires.  Thank goodness James was there to do it for me this time.

Unloading and unpacking is never much fun.  I guess I was a little grumpy about it, but James was very patient.  He likes the earphones I got him to use with his phone for his birthday.

 Now he can listen to 60's music to his

hearts content.

 Once everything was unpacked we relaxed and watched a little TV.  Rizzoli & Isles, and a Hallmark special that was really good called "The Lost Valentine" starring Betty White.

I love taking pictures here at our home in Vernon.

This rainbow was complete but I just took pictures

of the two ends