Smithsonians

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Lotts

Mike and I went to the Timpanogos Temple this morning to see the sealing of Josh Peaks family. We were so grateful to be able to witness this special event. The Lotts will always have a special place in my heart. Janet was so good to me when we lived in Georgia together. Besides being a great friend she spent many hours babysitting my little kids. So thankful to have known her!

Mike and Tracey - love this picture!

Tracey was on crutches because he had a gigantic crash on his bike. He was going 26 miles and had a rear tire failure. He crashed and hit a pole. 8 hour surgery and is now held together by pins and needles. He looked great though. So glad he is okay!

Janet and Stephanie

Mike and Stephanie

Janet, Tracey, Jaden, Killion, Sandra, Xander, Josh, Lucas

On the way to the temple we drove past Mike's grandparents house. His grandparents died several years ago. We were surprised to see the house still there. All the other houses around it have disappeared. It is mostly an industrial area now.

Hirschi House

We decided to stop by Mike's sisters house while we were out this direction. She was able to get the rock from their parents front entry way and put it on their porch. It looked awesome! I loved it!

Sherry's porch

They also had enough rock left over to make this cool wall. What a great idea!

Xander's Pikachu was in Conner's room. Mike kept teasing Conner about it. He insisted on getting a picture. Mike kept throwing Pikachu at Conner and trying to get a picture. Conner was a good sport and posed for Mike.

Connor and Pikachu

Mike and Sherry

Other things we did today: Chores. Preston is cute when he cleans. Well, he's cute always, but I love watching him clean.

Preston

Jorja got a new frog. She named him Speckle. She bought him herself. She sure loves those frogs!

Jorja and Speckle

Speckle

Speckle in his new home

Cute little Speckle frog

Friday, July 26, 2013

Trash Can

Today was our last day at Bear Lake. We packed up, cleaned up and were ready to head out when Mike asked me where the keys were. I had taken Shannon to the store our first morning here. I thought I put them on the counter, but they were nowhere in sight. We looked everywhere! In the couch cushions, the beds, we even pulled out the fridge and stove. No luck. I went and checked the lost and found, not there either. Finally we had everything out on the balcony and we turned in our keys. We decided to go through all of our suitcases and the garbage. We started with the garbage. Mike and I put all of the garbage in a different bag handful by handful. There they were. At the bottom of the garbage can! Thank goodness we didn't throw the garbage away! We looked for those keys for two hours! After saying a thank-you prayer we were finally on our way!

I was having a severe case of deja vu during this entire ordeal. Mike and I were planning on going to the temple tonight. Friends from Georgia were going to be there. Tracey and Janet. Josh (Janet's son) was going through the temple for the first time with his wife. They invited us and I was so excited! I was so worried we were going to miss it. (Our back-up plan was Mike would go on the 3 hour car ride home with his brother, pick up the keys and come back to get us. I was not excited about this plan. Thank goodness we didn't need to resort to that!) Anyway, what this reminded me of was Heath's wedding. Mike and I had been married for a little over a year when Heath invited us to his wedding in the temple. I was so excited. I had been having a really hard time. My mom had died several months before and I had just had a miscarriage. Heath's wedding was something I was really looking forward to. When Mike and I went out to the car on the day of the wedding we found our front window shattered. Someone broke our window, reached in our car and popped the trunk, took out our cooling fans and tossed them in the snow and stole our radiator! I couldn't believe it! We missed the wedding and I was devastated. The next day at church my bishop asked to see me. He was checking up on me to see how I was doing. I broke down sobbing. I told him I was afraid to look forward to things anymore. My brother was coming home from his mission in a month and I was so afraid that the plane would crash because I wanted to see him so badly. I know that is crazy, but that is where I was then. My sweet bishop didn't make me feel like an idiot, he just looked at me and asked me if I wanted a blessing. Anyway, I'm SO glad we were able to make it to the temple this time! And I'm so glad Brett's plane didn't crash!

Okay, enough blah, blah, blah . . . now I have a ton more pictures from yesterday.

Jorja and Stockton