A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life of the Pages!

Sunday, December 14th, 2014

 

 

Dad:  Reading a Christmas story as part of our December nightly family tradition.

 

 

Kathy:  Eating a yummy dessert!

 

 

 

 

Ty: Making crepes for a special Sunday breakfast.  

 

 

Michelle:  A good belly picture!

 

 

 

Afton:  Singing "Flying in an Airplane" with a quail hairdo.

 

 

 

Eliza: The backpack and my sippy cup kept ALL of us sane at church today. Two more weeks of 1pm church!

 

 

 

Bonus Picture:  Family selfie on the way to church!

 

 

Josh:  Go Broncos!

 

 

 

Elizabeth:  Look at the Santa slippers we got from Greg and Cynthia Page!

 

 

 

Jayna:  I went to stadium singing with my roommate, Megan.  It was really cold but it was fun!

 

 

 

Dallin:    This is a moto (motor bike).  I'm not sure if I mentioned these, but there's pretty much only these and the combis (mini bus) that are here.

 

Christmas Chaos!

 

 I didn't take a lot of pictures this week--we were all so busy trying to get things done!  Dad and I were talking--this was probably one of the most difficult and stressful weeks we've had all year! 

 

Thank goodness, during all of the hustle and bustle, we have moments to reflect on our Savior and the influence of his Birth, Life, Atonement, and Resurrection in our lives.  He is the "why" of everything we do--including all the wonderful things in December.  And remembering Him always brings a calm spirit.

 

 

Josh got this picture of me painting the bottom of our kitchen cabinets.  Since we couldn't stain the bottoms, I matched some paint and painted them--it turned out great!

 

 

Later in the week we went to Brandon Goss's home.  He built all new doors for us.  Josh has been helping him and learning a lot!  Josh, Elizabeth, and I went there to help put on the third coat of stain.

 

Brandon built this cool drying rack so we could stain both sides of the doors at the same time.

 

 

Friday night we had our Ward Christmas party.  I put together a group of talented people who acted out and sang "God Bless Your Way."  They did a fabulous job!

 

Ryan and Sandie Porter, Annette and Ralph Mangan, Gretchen Melton with baby Jo Jo, and Joyana Jensen

 

 

 

Eleven more glorious days until Christmas!

 

 

 

Dallin's Pictures - December 8

We went to central of Lima! it was fun! theres a lot of crazy stuff!

 

 

Also this week I had to go to immigrations again but I saw Elder Derr and Elder Clyde there!! From the CCM! So that was cool to talk with them for a while! This is my card, great picture haha.

 

 

I bought some cool socks that im using for stockings for Christmas haha.

 

We cleaned the baptismal font Friday night.

 

 

We got the baptism! She chose me to baptize, her name is Jacky .

Share the Gift

 

During the chaos of Christmas is the best time to tear apart your kitchen and stain your cabinets, right?! 

 

 After days of agonizing over whether to use water-based or oil-based stain on our cabinets, I finally decided on the water based . . . and it's time to start!  I'm a little nervous! 

 

First coat of the top cabinets done.  I think I like it!

 

 

 

Marilyn, Elizabeth's mom, got to come and visit us this week!

On Friday we went on a hike at Garden of the Gods.  It was beautiful!  Then we enjoyed a yummy breakfast at The Omelet Parlor.

 

 

Friday evening Dad and I had his Challenger Homes work party.

 

 

On Saturday we said goodbye to Gus the truck.  He has been dearly loved . . . and he will be dearly missed.

 

 

Friday and Saturday nights our church held the Creche and live nativity.  Dad conducted the last session of the live nativity on Saturday night. 

 

 

 

 

 

Dallin, Thomas and Sister Fife wanted to say hi!

 

 

 

Christmas is a wonderful time of year.  To help us remember the true meaning of Christmas, our church has started a worldwide campaign entitled "He is the Gift."  This campaign will help us to Discover the Gift, Embrace the Gift, and Share the Gift.

 

Go to the website:

http://www.mormon.org/christmas and begin!

 

Dallin's Pictures - December 1

We did a paint fight 2 pdays ago.

 

 

Elder Ollerton, my friend from the CCM.

 

 

(Dallin didn't say what this was.)

 

 

On Wednesday we went up the cerro, the big one. It was fun, we went as a zone. It took like 3 hours to go up and down it and we went down the craziest ways.

       

 

 

My tie from Aarons camp.

 

Piggyback with Elder Niño my district leader.

 

Our district.

 

 

A cemetery.

 

 

The classic Peruvian dish, Pollo y arroz.