Featured Fun x Five

Painted Pony and Piano Guys

Our fun friends, Jim and Kathy Jensen, invited us out for a fun evening at Tuacahn to see The Piano Guys and we met some of their Ogden friends for dinner at Painted Pony.

Brett and Diane Muse, Roger and I, Jim and Kathy Jensen and Robert and Lana Lamb

The show was truly wonderful, the best of these guys we have seen!

Mindy Runs SG Marathon

Mindy ran the SG Half Marathon on Saturday, November 4, and her family came with her to cheer her on. They came Friday night while we were with our friends at Tuacahn and left Sunday morning. 

We cheered as she crossed the finish line!

Yay, Mindy!

I fixed homemade mac and cheese (hoping the kids would like it!) and grilled pork tenderloin for dinner. 

It was fun to have them stay with us.

Double Temple Day

A Wedding

We were honored to attend the temple wedding of this beautiful couple, Bob and Holly Laird. 

They joined the church a little over a year ago, and were recently sealed in the temple.

There were 60 other branch members in attendance.

A Temple Open House

We headed that afternoon to Cedar City to go through the Cedar City Temple Open House.

It was a gorgeous day and we were so impressed with the simple beauty inside this new house of the Lord.

Veterans Day, 2017

We could hardly wait for Veteran's Day! 

Roger recently found his USAF flight "bag" and wore it to work on Friday. 

NAI posted his pic on Facebook

On Saturday, several restaurants honored the vets with free meals, so Roger and I, like last year, 
made a day of it!
Breakfast at Denny's, lunch at Texas Roadhouse . . .

. . . dinner at Applebee's and free yogurt at Menchies.
Burp!
The doggie bags actually fed us the next day!
So many kind people came up to Roger to shake his hand and thank him for his service.

These were five very different happy occasions, and each were wonderful! 

What Did We Do on Halloween?

Roger and I have spent pretty much all of the Halloweens for the past 46 years 

taking our kids/grandkids trick or treating and answering doorbells.

I was excited when Holly Laird leaned back to me from a pew in church before the meeting started 

and invited Roger and I to her Halloween Open House. 
The whole branch and neighborhood were invited with invites by word of mouth.

She said, with a twinkle in her eye, "Wear a costume, 

but if you don't, we'll only stare at you with scorn for one minute!"

Halloween Party
Bob and Holly Laird's beautiful home was decorated gorgeously
(can Halloween be gorgeous?)!

Pattie Haynes (left) took many great pics and this lovely geisha (she is really a redhead) is our hostess, Holly.

Our branch president was in US Post Office administration, so he came in uniform, and his cute wife, Lori, made a giant postcard.

There was lots of delicious, spooky food.

We each had our fortunes told by Bob Routsong.
They were actually of a spiritual nature.
He also gave us each pins he had made up with the new Cedar City Temple on them.

So Roger and I came up with this costume. He is the pilot, and I represent the T-38 plane he instructed in that is flying through the sky and the clouds!
Thanks, Min, for making my cloud hat!

We were amazed at the many great costumes!

This gal's name is Charlotte.
Get it?

There were many more not pictured.  What a great way to spend Halloween!