Snow Angel

Finishing off November with our first snow of the season.

Our cute little Snow Angel!

 

Thanksgiving

After delivering pies, we came home to start cooking Thanksgiving Dinner

FYI - It is also Naomi's 8-month birthday

She loved all the food

Our Crew

and Kids Table Crew

Finished off with some pickleball,

Feeling so grateful to live in this wondrful area at this time, with all the goodness and blesssings God provides His chilldren. 

 

 

Thanksgiving Pie Deliveries

Pie pick up at Harmon's

grabbing donuts & hot chocolate before we hit the road

First stop - Firehouse 7 Salt Lake City

Found the best firefighters ever

I think we spent over an hour visiting and getting to know them

Then onto a UofU Urgent Care that's open on Thanksgiving to take care of people

Thank yoU!

 

Downtown

Spent the evening visiting all the fun sites downtown this time of year 

Giving Machines

Candy Windows

Joseph Smith Memorial Building

City Creek Christmas Trees

We love living so close to downtown SLC

 

Gentri

Excited to see Gentri tonight at the Eccles Theater in downtown Salt Lake City

Gentri is a Gentlemen's Trio and they are amazing!

Glad to be here with Robert

and with Francee

We could listen to them sing all day long

And got to see our recently called prophet, President Oaks and his wife Kristin.

 

Pool Progress - 0

Pool progress since August - Zero

Still waiting on permits from the county. No ideas how long this could take.

 

Naomi Lately

Baby Naomi is almost 8 months old.

She is happy, curious, like to explore and take baths.

We love her so much and love having her in our house.

 

Font Fillers

Now we have 2 font fillers on the house.

Brenna in Woodbridge and Dad in Herriman.

Though Dad usually fills it he put his suit on.

 

Fall Bike Ride

Bike ride around Utah lake in Saratoga with the boys, Raider, & Milo 

They were so fast, I could barely keep  up with them running

Beautiful fall leaves on a beautiful afternoon.

 

100 Days

100 days until these two are sealed to another for time and all eternity. 

We are all excited for their special day!

 

Em & Mitt

Emily has been looking forward to Mitt Romeny coming to campus to deliver a 3-day lecture series on Public Service put on by the Wheatley Institute. She loves being able to learn from those who have given so much of the lives to serving in Public Office from local government officials to U.S. Senators. She wanted to talk with him about public service as well as the Peacemaker Project she is a part of at BYU.

Little did she know that she would not only be able to hear him speak at the forums, but that he would also come to one of her MPA class to visit with the students. She wished she had dressed nicer for class that day, but it's all in a day's work. 

Dream Team

Dream Team here in Woodbridge.

Every week Brenna write us about how her mission is so awesome and couldn't get any better......and then it does. She continues to meet, learn from, and love more and more people each week and now she is serving in a trio with Hermana Morales y Hermana McGee - and somehow next week life will get even better. Milagros!

 

MTC Tour

When missionaries are called to service missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints they first report to a Missionary Trainning Center before moving to their assigned mission area.

ThereThe MTC campus has 16 buildings on a 39-acre site, including residence, classroom, and administrative buildings, and an MTC store.

The Provo MTC can train up to 3,700 missionaries at a time and is usualoly at capacity during the summer months when so many new missionaries are heading out. The MTC was last renovated in 2017, and our family had a chane to tour it at that time (MTC Tour 2017)

Kayla spent a few weeks at the Provo MTC before being transferred to the Manilla Philippines MTC (Kayla Sightings at the MTC)

Brenna was last here in June of 2025 as a guest of Jon & Alexis when he Jon spoke at a MTC Devotional (MTC Devotional June 2025)

Friends in our stake invited us to take a MTC Tour back in August, when Brenna was still living at the Provo MTC, but we decided to wait a bit. Knowing MTC tours were now an option again,  we got online and booked tickets for a time in November, and here we are.

In front of the 'infamous' MTC scripture wall. 

Stacy & Lee's son will be entering this MTC in March before heading off to Australia. Lee had not been back to0 the MTC since he was here 30+ years ago. Some things were familiar, but lots of growth, change, and additional buildings added since that time.

Buildings the missionaries live in while they are here

Another beautiful and infamous picture of the Nephites living in the America's

We also brought James & Christy, as well as their son Logan and his girlfriend Ella - who will both be headed to the MTC soon as they prepare to serve in Morristown, New Jersey and the Ohio Church History Sites. So glad they could join us for this tour.

This chandelier is that last thing the missiionaries see as they leave the Provo MTC to head out on their assigned missions.  It is a reminder to them to always LOOK HEAVENWARD.

So thankful for this amazing dedicated Missionary Training Center that prepares our missionaries 

(both young and not so young) to "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" Matthew 28:19