Couponing

Karen and Verenda have started shopping the Super Savvy Way with some lady at the Daily Herald. Coupons are the way to go! They got me excited and I connected with the online sight for St. George and as soon as I get my newspaper coming in, I will start buying smarter. I have printed out online coupons from coupons.com, redplum.com and smartsource.com to get started. Since I ALWAYS have more month than money I'll let you know how I do. If you live in the greater St. George area and your only local Sunday paper is The Spectrum go to www.grocerysmarts.com and type in the code for our area which is g84cjg (case sensitive) for local specials. YEA saving!

Conference in Orem

We watched the remainder of Conference at Ron and Verenda's house. Pictured are Calvin with pen poised enjoying the "highest form of meditation" to quote Randy, which is sleeping during a church meeting. Ron picked me a colorful crop of carrots and other goodies from his garden to take home. His favorite veggie was the flying saucer squash that grew from an heirloom squash seed Karen had given him.

Temple Square

WOW! What a thrill to be in the right place at the right time with the right people...if you know what I mean. It was powerful to be seated with God's living prophet on the earth and most of the twelve apostles. Just like in days of old. The Stake President seated behind us had brought an elderly non-member relative and was showing him pictures from an Ensign of the "Twelve" and explaining their previous jobs and what they do now. It got me excited to hear him so excited as he tried to get Uncle ___ excited. We were there Saturday morning for the powerhouse talks. It was so GREAT that we ran back to Nana's apartment, gulped down her homemade veggie stew and ran to get in line for the afternoon. One of these pictures shows us after they let 600 more people in the Conference Center. We were numbers 601, 602, 603 and didn't get in. *sigh* We had to settle for watching conference in the historic tabernacle. There was lots of room in there. The next best seats were the Joseph Smith Auditorium with plush seats but we wanted to tough it out on hard wooden benches in the balcony. We were basically too lazy to walk to the Joseph Smith building.

Second Grade

Here is the bread we cultured in our class. After recess we gently rubbed our hands over a piece of whole wheat bread and then gave it three sprays of water and sealed it in a plastic bag in the dark for 2 weeks. The control bread looked good enough to eat. It was amazing what grew! Our volcanoes were lots of fun too!

Fall! I Love High School Football!

Calvin and I went to Desert Hills High School Homecoming football game last night. The stadium was packed and there were swarms of kids covering the grass over both end zones. This is a predominantly Mormon community so if each family brought an average of 5.5 kids....It was something to see. I wore my Bob's Team t-shirt and it happened to be the color of the rival team. My bad. This picture is Audrey in the pep band with her friend boy, Kyle. For half time the band stood on the field and played (no fancy moves which was disappointing because I thought they had been practicing a drill). They did look good as they marched out--perfect formation.

I Love To New Temples

So I took Allen to the St. George Temple and we had a unique experience. I had family names that needed to be done but was saving them for Ben and Connie since it was a couple. Since I had Allen with me we got to do the work for them. The baptisms had been done but we did all the rest of the work including being married. It was fun do go through the whole process all in one day.

Audrey Moments

Officially in high school, we see Audrey with friend Megan at a cross country meet with the nieces cheering on "The Thunder". She is SOOO excited to have a band uniform and get to march at football games. I wonder how long that will last? Their band is about 70 students.

The Return from Mexico

Allen returned from the mission field August 14 at 11:07pm. He looked good and had a way good accent. Allen is now officially taller than Ron 6'6' vs, 6'5'. We enjoyed him 8 days and he was off to BYU.

Ghosts of Christmas Past

If you read Karen's blog, she is catching up on her posts and inspired me to do the same. She talks about our adventure in the snow at Zion's park. Here is the cowboy riding off into the sunset at the end of our trip. I love this picture!

Memory Lane

So while we were in Animas we visited Guy and Audrey Miller in Portal. They are doing amazingly well. We were going to name Audrey after Guy if she was a boy but she was a girl so we named her after Audrey Miller. We sure had lots of fun reliving roping memories and seeing the old stomping grounds.