food, crochet, merriment
Oooooh, our BYU team is doing GREAT this year!!!
So great, in fact, that I was totally inspired to make this cute little fellow right here.
In case you aren’t from around these parts…
and don’t recognize…
this dude…
his name is COSMO!!
Go BYU!!
Go to my Gracious Rain Shop on Esty to find this and other awesome stuff!
Had a bit of drama with this little sweetheart, poor thing.
While running and chasing with her brothers she ran into the door jam and cracked herself in the eye–the brow bone to be exact. The swelling when down to her eyelid by morning and looked so spooky that…
they took to be checked at the hospital and…
even did an MRI to make sure she didn’t injure the bones around her eye.
Luckily, she didn’t.
Phew. It still looks scary–but it’s getting better every day.
Heal fast little one.
We love you.
My heart is broken.
Rest in peace Charlie.
We will miss you.
We woke up to a glorious, HUGE breakfast that Dane made while we were all still sleeping. This guy is awesome.
Next, sacrament meeting with the families.
And, no, I probably shouldn’t be taking pictures during the prayer. But tell me this little guy isn’t the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.
I couldn’t help myself.
Dane taught the Gospel Doctrine class…
and even had the missionaries help.
He is such a good teacher…and SO handsome!
Afterwards the kids came back from their classes and we got ready to go home.
The ladies made us another lovely feast.
Merrick chose to postpone his “birthday” cake until we came to visit, so we gave him our presents too and had a mini birthday party for him.
Then we headed back to church for the whole reason that we came to Arkansas…
Merrick turned eight…
and today was his baptism day!!
So proud of this sweet boy and his family.
Josh did the tech stuff so the folks back home could tune in.
April and Lily…
were in charge of the music.
The Bishop spoke.
I spoke too, but there is no physical evidence. Thank goodness.
What a wonderful day. Congratulations Merrick!
I sure do love these people.
Heading out to road trip it allllll the way to Dane & Kortney’s place. Yes, we are very, very brave to do this without the usual menfolk in the wagon train.
First stop–Lyndi’s place to pick up some things she needed us to take. We really wanted her to jump in the car with us, but she wasn’t able to do it…this time. We’ll miss you Lyndi!!
For some strange reason, we were feeling particularly sturdy-mountain-women-ish for this trip…which we may laugh about later.
We’ll see.
Arkansas here we come!!
Lots of roads.
Lots of clouds.
Lots of prairie.
Ooooh. Dairy Queen is ALWAYS a good idea. Heh, heh.
Not stir crazy yet!! All these cuties did so-so well, playing games, watching movies and napping.
Made it to Colorado…
and our hotel…
in great time.
Everyone was ready…
for a nacho feast!
with a little popcorn on the side…
and the floor.
Haha.
I was ready for bed but these little fishies wanted to swim before sleeping after being cooped up in the car all day. What a great idea!
Zzzzzzzzzz…
