Tender Mercies

We just needed to share a few of the tender mercies that our family has experienced the last few days. Our son-in-law Anthony was in a professional fight in Virginia on Saturday night. He knocked his opponent out before the guy could even get a punch off at him. Anthony wasn't sure he could show his face at the gym on Monday if he didn't even have a black eye. But he said he had pictures. Anthony needed this kind of success.

Our son-in-law Josh has been performing in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Coat" with Megan during the whole month of March. Both Megan and Josh caught colds and couldn't even talk let alone sing. Doctors told Josh he wouldn't sing for three weeks. After a priesthood blessing, he only missed singing for one performance. The cast was glad that he was able to sing his solo and with the chorus. They were blessed.

Our son-in-law Curtis passed his big test which is equivalent to a PhD in his field. We know that he was blessed to be able to do this. Curtis was also awarded his Woodbadge beads for finishing the Woodbadge training for Boy Scout Leaders.

We am blessed to have wonderful children, in-laws, and grandchildren.

St. Patrick's Day trip

On Wednesday we drove down to Farmington, New Mexico by way of Shiprock. It was good to see the earth waking up for Spring. We ate lunch at Golden Corral in Farmington. (Megan- Gummy Bears on ice cream are cool.)

Then we drove a little further to Aztec, New Mexico. We spent a few hours at the Aztec Ruins National Monument. It is an ancient Indian Pueblo. We were amazed at the size of the rebuilt great kiva. They have stuccoed the walls and rebuilt the ceiling to make it look like it used to.

After touring the ruins, we drove up to Durango, Colorado. The drive up the Animas River canyon was beautiful. We had to stop at Walmart of course. We even ran into someone from Blanding there-of course. Then we drove on home in time to have Corned Beef and Cabbage (Happy St. Patrick's Day) which I had prepared the night before. It was a great day trip to help say that we went somewhere for spring break.

Trip up north the first weekend of March

Dad had Scout executive board meetings in Provo on March 6th, so we drove up there on Friday. We got a chance to visit with Michael, Carly, and Ryan. Ryan sure is growing. Then we drove up to Tori's house. They were having people over to celebrate Sophie and Chris' birthdays. After a "too short" visit, we drove up to "The Old Barn" to watch Megan and Josh in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." It is north of Tremonton by Fielding. We enjoyed watching them do a great job. Then we drove back to Provo late that night. We were able to do our Walmart shopping at 11:30 so we didn't have to shop on Sunday. We drove home the next day.

Look how Ryan is growing!

Amelia's family met us up at Tori's to save us some time. They are all getting big.

Noah didn't want to pose like the rest of the kids. He was feeling shy.