November 30, 2018

Awesome snowshoe this morning.  When we set out we had no idea the beauty we would come upon.  I mean we hiked up the road by Mill Canyon and Tibble Fork and it was gorgeous.  It was a winter wonderland where we built a snowman.  Fun, I know.

November 26, 2018

Another good week for Mason.  "We started doing the musical tributes again for Christmas! Woohoo!  So we went and sang a bunch of songs for Christmas.  Let me tell ya, it's so spiritual and everyone's crying and it's awesome.  Honestly they're my favorite events ever.  Plus I was able to see a bunch of people from Cabot that I haven't seen in awhile so it was really good to see them.  It was just awesome.

November 25, 2018

Great Thanksgiving break.  We did stuff and we didn't do stuff and we went to the movie and watched a movie at home and I had lots of time with just my little family.

November 23, 2018

Wreck it Ralph 2 did not disappoint.  I laughed out loud quite a few times.  That Ralph.  He's so funny. 

November 22, 2018

Happy Darren's birthday.  We hiked out from the yurt and took naps and watched a video with movie popcorn.  Also had Thanksgiving/birthday dinner at IHOP.  Not quite the birthday celebration I was going for but Darren's a great sport.

November 21, 2018

Forced family togetherness at a yurt.  Expensive FFF for roughing it.  But worth it thanks to the togetherness part.  I really like our time at the yurt.  If only I could figure out a way to actually sleep at the yurt.  It was beautiful hiking in.  A little snow and blue skies and warmth.  Mountain House and games and laughing and farting took up the evening.  Yurt time is weird.  6:00 felt like 9:00.  Baylie loved the entire yurt experience. 

November 19, 2018

Email - "It's been another good week here in Little Rock, and as you can probably tell from the title, it snowed!!! Not like Utah snow where you get a couple feet, but it stuck enough to make a couple snowballs which is a blessing and a miracle.  The Lord knew that I wanted snow."

November 18, 2018

I just love Sunday evenings when the Randalls visit.

November 14, 2018

Just a little two square with Sadie this afternoon.  "Mom - you're good."  I know, right?!?

November 12, 2018

Email - "Hey!  How's everyone doing?  Sorry not a ton of time, we went to a trampoline park today as a zone which was super fun...This week has been awesome.  We had on of the best weeks ever!  I have a new companion named Elder Graves and he's fun so it'll be a good transfer."

November 11, 2018

Things I'm especially thankful for this week:

• Nieces and nephews.
• Gma O.
• Drs.
• Good parents.
• Prayer.
• My friend Kelly.
• Waterfalls and ice.
• Missionaries.
• Book of Mormon.
• Conference talks that reference Book of Mormon verses.

November 10, 2018

Gma O's funeral was nice.  We already miss her so much.  But it's like Elder Draper said, "I'll miss her but it's OK because we have the plan of salvation."  While that's pretty simple, it totally sums it all up. 

November 8, 2018

Day started off with a good hike to Stewart Falls with blue skies.  Ended up with my dad having surprise and successful heart surgery to remove his defibrillator.  It was good to talk to him before surgery and enjoy my dad.  Big sigh of relief after the surgery as it was a tricky one.

November 5, 2018

Ah email day - how I love email day.  Mason is staying in Pinnacle Hills.  "We met some awesome people this week, I did another baptismal interview, we set a baptismal date with someone we're teaching, and just overall it was an awesome week.  We were able to spend some time with our mission president and his wife which is always great."  He challenged us to have "mighty prayers".

November 4, 2018

13 mission months for Mason!

Other things I'm thankful for this week on this Sabbath Day:

• That I can draw cows.
• Chick Fil A and Park City shopping with R and C plus D.
• Dinner with my parents.
• Capitol Reef.
• Gma O.
• Hiking a slot canyon.
• Book of Mormon.
• Journals.
• Finding a new TV show with D - Designated Survivor.

November 3, 2018

Last minute getaway with D to Richfield yesterday evening and then on to Capitol Reef today.  It was good to have dinner with my parents and I do love Capitol Reef.  We hiked Pleasant Creek.  This is one of those hikes where if I tell you it's cool you're going to be disappointed, but if you go in with no expectations, you'll be pleasantly surprised.  Pleasant Creek was more than pleasant.  Good hike with yellows and CR rocks - white and red - so pretty.  CR was awesome in the fall.  D found us a little slot canyon which was fun.  It was long enough to make it cool even though it wasn't super tall.  Also cool was the log jammed in the slot.  Also cool were the cascades.  Watching the yellow leaves float down the river - sigh.  I had me a Subway sandwich at the beautiful cascades and I ate it faster than Kenzie ate her Jimmy John's at Desolation Lake.  Also super cool was how many people we saw on this hike.  A big fat zero.

We stopped in Nephi on the way home for some Chinese dinner.  Oriental Garden was way yummy.  Don't judge your broccoli beef by the bathroom because one was delicious and the other was disgusting. 

November 1, 2018

I like my two hiking friends.

(Lorien Caldwell, Sariah Kelly, me)