Dinner with an uninvited guest

Went to Church about an hour away and we got everything ready to have dinner with the Haynies and the Hoems who are serving as our mental health missionaries. I got a cake to sing happy birthday to Daniel but what was so funny and a little embarrassing is that out of no where a huge cockroach by our window came into the scene as we were eating dinner. I tried to pretend like I didn't see it hoping to get rid of it as soon as our guests left but  that is when one of our guests said there is a cockroach behind the climbing the curtain so at  that point his wife took her shoe off and smashed it and that pretty much ended our fabulous dinner.

Making a journal

Today we had a great Relief Society activity to learn about journaling and family history so I made a few of those journals to give away and one to keep. I have started the habit of writing something each night before going to bed about what my day was like and I think is fun going back to read about it when time has passed. 

HR Seminar

We woke up around 6:00 a.m. went to have breakfast and Nika had brought a cake for my belated birthday. How special! Then we went to listen to Daniel's presentation and to Ocean Adventure. We saw two shows and took photos with the dolphins. the Hotel we said Camayan Beach Resort was next to the park and the shore. It has a nice swimming pool.

Christmas 2017

Our Christmas in 2017 started by going to Denver, Idaho, and Daniel is managing to go to Nebraska, the day after Christmas. We go visit our kids even if is only for a day or two. This is our Christmas most cherished traditions of reading Luke 2 as we dressed up the children as Joseph, Mary, the shepherds, the angel etc.

Charlotte's baptism

We made it to Charlotte's baptism on December 16th 2017. They had to make special arrangements for her to be baptized on a different day than when the stake had it scheduled so we are glad they waited for us since we were coming all the way from the Philippines. Daniel has not missed a baptism of nay of our grandchildren yet.

Char is 8

Our little Charlotte is growing up too fast. 

This is  a new milestone for our sweet granddaughter who is turning 8 on November 10th 2017.  

She is smart, beautiful, a hard worker and has a good heart. We can't wait to see our sweet Charly bear in a month! 

Trip to Utah October 2017

Our time in Utah was very short but productive. We sold our Mill circle home and purchased our apartment 502 in City Creek.  We had our appointees with our doctors: Hansen, Hales, our Dentist etc. Attended General Conference, of course and the meetings afterwards. We got to see some of our friends too, visited with our DTA friends at the annual dinner hosted by Tim Sloan, went to dinner with Maria and Craig Noakes and  went out to have dinner with the Allreds and family to our favoriterestaurans but the most sacred and special thing for our family during the visit was to witness the ceiling of Norah to Bianca and Joseph on October 7th 2017.