The B Date and General Conference Weekend

On Monday, for Family Home Evening, we invited the Nixons over for dinner.  Then Brother Nixon taught us about Family History and showed us a lot of great websites that can help us.

 

 Did you know that Emer Harris, the older brother of Martin Harris, is my fourth great grandfather?!  He was baptized by Hyrum Smith.  He was an expert carpenter and helped build the circular staircase in the Kirtland Temple.  I was able to look at pictures and documents of his life.  I'll share them with you soon--but check out Doctrine and Covenants 75:30!

 

 

 

Tuesday evening Josh and Elizabeth went golf ball hunting along a creek.

They found 289 golf balls!

 

 

 

It was a difficult week for the Payne family in Mississippi.

After throwing up for over 48 hours, Afton was admitted to the hospital.  She was severely dehydrated.  She had to stay at the hospital all day and overnight.

 

Seeing the pictures of Afton reminded me of this picture of Dad and Jayna.  Jayna had just turned two--so she and Afton were close to the same age.  She was in the hospital for almost a week.

Thank goodness for good dads!

 

 

Friday was our B date.  I was in charge.

I hung a new "blackboard" I made to announce the evening!

 

 

We started the evening with "burgers" from Five Guys.

 

Then we played "basketball."  We played two games of horse. 

 

Then we came inside and played two games of  "Blokus."

Can you see the "Baby Ruth" candy bars? 

 

Then we made "Butterfinger Blizzards" and watched "Bronco" and the "BYU" cougars play football against Utah State while snuggling in our "blue" blanket.  It was a "blast!"

 

 

Saturday evening the boys headed off to the Priesthood session of General Conference.

 

While they were gone Elizabeth and I got Panda Express, played Rummikub, and watched one of my favorite chick flicks--While You Were Sleeping.

 

The boys continued their tradition of being the first ones out of the Church, going to Sonic, and then coming home and watching a game.  They watched the Ole Miss and Alabama game.  They were cheering for Ole Miss--so it was an exciting game!

 

 

Dad came up with a new Gorp for General Conference.  We forgot about the peanuts and pretzels and mixed all kinds of M&Ms together.  Genius!

 

General Conference breakfast.

 

Watching General Conference . . . or maybe just listening to it. 

 

Remember how Sunday evenings Josh would get really antsy and drive us all crazy.

Not much has changed.  Just sayin.