It was COLD, COLD, COLD those first few days we were there so we stayed bundled up as we hosted.
We met really great GA families as well. Scott and I helped host:
Sister Esplin and family
Elder Hamula and family
Elder Gavarett and guests
Elder Holland and family
(We briefly spoke with the Bednars)
Elder Walker and family
Elders Golden and Bateman and their families.
They had "Missionary Week" which overlapped with our GA tours, which really caused some great traffic jams, as missionaries will do anything to just be at the temple with people...all day long! I ended up being there every night as supervisor/organizer. It was a miracle really, that it all worked out! Great event.
What we were really excited about was the chance to take our own family through the first Saturday of January. Breanna, Elliot and Braden joined us for a great tour!
It meant everything to us to be in this special place and to share it with people we love!!
(Oh, and going to Brick Oven afterwards was pretty nice too!)
Speaking of pretty great...:)
The following week we helped host our "Special Guest" tours. Mostly we were in charge of keeping things organized and keeping hosts with groups and moving things along. We were at the temple daily organizing and supervising.
By January 14 we were mostly done with our responsibilities in Public Affairs.
I only went back once to host a Spanish group of inter-faith that came down, and Scott has gone a couple times to help host. We may have a few more opportunities for special tours, but they are harder to do with the public tours going on.
Braden had his surgery to put in a post, or dental implant, to put a tooth into the space he has had since birth...no tooth ever grew in one spot.
He loved the laughing gas to keep him relaxed, and now has a place they can attach a crown next month. He was a happy camper!
We are really enjoying having him at home this year. He goes to the gym with us, and keeps us entertained daily!
I left my "cold bag" on the couch one day and came back to find a special surprise inside as well.
We enjoyed having Aaron, Michelle, Lori and Carole down for a Home Evening this month. We had dinner together and the kids played with all our new Christmas toys! That's Matthew in the photo...growing up SO HANDSOME!
We had a RM stop by with his family when they were in town for one of his BYU swim meets, Cameron Lindsay and his family.
And as usual, we are at the MTC with our branch of missionaries learning Italian.
This is Sister Swensen from our branch, who we took over to meet up and HUG her brother, who was leaving for S America the next day.
It was a sweet chance for them to say goodbye for 2 years.
Our Sunday Dinner Groups seem to get bigger and bigger...because many of our RM's now have someone to bring along!
Back: Us, andrew and Sam Ripley, Joseph Barley, Jordan Freeman and girlfriend, Garrison Nuttall, Racheland Joseph Cotton, Kyle and Natalie Dayton (her brother).
It was Natalie's birthday so I had hurried home from the MTC to bake a birthday cake for her!
She is adorable!!
We really love our missionaries at the MTC. We get close to them in the 6-7 weeks they are with us!
We loved one Sunday when it snowed really good, the perfect snowman snow!
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Such a classic photo of a satisfied cat in a birdcage. Silvie also poked in Nathan's preschool birdcage, but she just knocked it off the dresser.
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