Annual Father Son Campout
Frank took the boys on the Annual (church) Father/Son Campout in early May, which was held at the Charlie Elliot Wilderness Preserve, which is about 45 minutes from where we live. Larry and Seth got to go with them this year. They had a great time until they went to bed and it started POURING [...]
Pinewood Derby 2009
So, we had a Pinewood Derby in April. I had been to a few but never been in charge of one…so it was a learning experience. We only have a handful of Cub Scouts, so we invited our two 11-year-old Scouts (PJ is one of them) to participate as well. PJ won overall in the [...]
A Baptism
Ealier this month DeVaughn, a friend from church, got baptized. Here are a few photos: Above: Elder Hunter, Frank, Shayne, Liz, DeVaughn, Elder Chappell. He’s a really good young man…and we were very happy for him. Above: Elder Hunter, Elder Chappell, and Frank. Three awesome missionaries! Above: Vanessa, Liz & Sariah at the baptism. Everyone [...]
Church Christmas Parties
We got to go to two Christmas Church events this year. Aunt Sandi goes to the First Baptist Church, and they put on “The Living Christmas Tree” each year, which is a large production with music and a play. Sandi plays the trumpet in the orchestra. We also had our Ward Christmas Party at our [...]
Donovan = Wolf
Shayne is the Den Leader for the Wolves in our ward (that’s Cub Scouts for those of you that haven’t had to do this – yet . In November we went on a Recycling Field Trip – the Recycle bins were at a Fire Station and one of the firemen came out to talk to [...]
Cody’s Korean Mission Pictures
Cody is a million miles away from us, so we never get many photos of him to put on here. So, I was digging through some of his photos from his 2 year LDS mission to Korea (he’s been home over a year now) and thought I would put some of them on here. I’ll [...]
Donovan’s Baptism
Donovan was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on September 6th. It was a really nice day for all of us. Megan gave a great talk on baptism (there was cheeze whiz involved – you’ll have to ask her), Frank performed the baptism and Grandpa Slade got to confirm [...]
Young Women Camp 2008
I was called to be the Stake Young Women Camp Director over a year ago. **NOTE for those of you not familiar with that** Every year each local church group puts on a one week summer camp for the girls ages 12 to 18 in our geographic area. We take the girls up into the [...]
