Musingi week with Grandma and Grandpa

On Saturday, June  16, we met Mike and Cristal in Malad, Idaho to take the kids.  Mike and Cristal are both going to YW girl's camp in Idaho Falls, so the kids came to stay with us in June, instead of August.

First stop was the Ogden RailRoad Museum and Browning Gun Museum.  The kids got to learn about trains and the history of the Golden Spike in Utah, climb on the trains and look at some old relic cars. 

Utah County Half Marathon

Scott's daughter Mariah ran the Utah County Half Marathon on Saturday, June 2nd.  She ran a blistering speed of 1:40 ish.  She did awesome.  Jacob was going to run with her, but Becca was in labor and he stayed with her.  The labor ended, so we did not get our new grand son yet.  Good thing, he was trying to make an early entrance and he needs to bake a little longer.

Parker and Zoey were at the finish line waiting for their Mom. 

Drawer fronts

Flexibility, that's what I call it!!!

When the EC was originally designed, we were going to have doors over the case with the drawers to hold the DVD's, Wii and other small items.

After the EC was installed, the hinges for the door occupied the same space as the drawer slides.  So flexibility prevailed and we decided to do drawer fronts for each drawer so each drawer could be opened individually.  The other way would have required both doors to be opened, to open a drawer.

This will work better. 

Tarrin and his boys

Tarrin is Scott's oldest son.  Ashton is 11 and Payson just graduated from Preschool. 

Piano Recital

 On Monday, June 4 we had a piano recital in Idaho Falls.  Kenyon and Myka have been taking piano lessons for 3 years, Kyra for two years.  The kids played a song solo and then did a duet with their instructor.  They did awesome.  So fun to see them learn new things and to get better as they work at skills.

 Kyra with a great job on her songs and is learning to do very well.

Myka was way nervous and her instructor said she picked a very hard song to play, but she did great and it was fun to cheer them on.  We threatened we were going to do "the wave", but we behaved ourselves and only mildly cheered them on!!

Doors Installed!!

Monday and Tuesday, June 4 and 5, installed doors on the Entertainment Center at Cristal and Mike's.  Had some face frames to finish putting on as well.  Did the bottom base board trim and got everything done on the EC except the doors for the computer cabinet.  Needed to have some extra parts for the hardware to hang the doors, but did not know that until I opened the box with the hardware.  Another trip!!!

Built doors for the case where the drawers are, but did not take into account the drawer slides, so the hinges match right up to the drawer slides.  Change of plans.  Going to build drawer fronts to match the doors so each drawer can be opened up individually instead of having to open both doors to get a drawer opened.

Flexibility, that's what I call it. 

In the picture you can see the new hand railings that Mike installed since we started this project.  The wrought iron ballisters have baskets in them.  We found handles for the doors that match the baskets in the ballisters.

There is light at the end of this tunnel and it's not a train!!!

Temple Walk - June 2, 2012

On Saturday, June 2, 2012, the Young Women in our ward did a Temple Walk.  We started at the Draper Temple, walked to the Jordan River Temple and finished at the Oquirrh Temple.  Along the way we had rest stops, with ladies in our ward set up with refreshments and drinks.  We also had speakers at each stop to talk about what people from their missions had to do to get to the Temple. 

Nate_____, who used to live in our ward and just returned from Portugual from his mission talked about the challenges those people had to get to the Temple in Spain.

Mike Musingi, my son-in-law spoke about the people in Tansania who had to travel 2,000+ miles to the Temple in South Africa.  He talked about how much people in Kenya and Tansania made in a day and how much an air line ticket costs.  He said most people ride buses for days to get to the temple.

President Nielsen met us at the Jordan River temple and spoke about people in New Zealand and what it took for them to get to the Temple.

Our Relief Society has dinner planned for us at the ward building when we were finished.

Pictures at Draper Temple before we started.  Approximately 7:15 in the morning.

On thehill below the Draper Temple.

Just leaving Jordan River Temple and headed to Oquirrh Hill's Temple.  YW President Janene Arnell, Katelyn White, Judy Nguyen, and Brittan Harris.

Between Jordan River Temple and Oquirrh Hills Temple on the sidewalk in front of Bingham High School.

Primary Children on the hill in front of Oquirrh Hills Temple to greet us as we rode up hill.

An awesome day, with lots of help and support from ward members.