Great Grandma and Grandpa's House

Kate and Eli swinging at Great Gma and Gpa's House

Kanyon, on the far left, Kate and Eli with Noah pushing.

Sunday was a great day for us as a family.  I especially had a great day.  In one of the families we home teach, The Branch Family,  the father, John was baptized about a year ago and yesterday he received the Mel. Priesthood and was ordained to the office of Elder.  He asked me to do it.  It is the first time that I get to pass along my Line of Authority.  I talked to John about the Line of Authority, he had never heard of it before, and he is super excited for me to provide it for him.  I was officially released from my calling as the Young Men's President, which is a huge bummer, and sustained and set apart as the first counselor in the Elder's Quorum.  I am really excited to start working with the men and fathers in the ward.  I have been working for years with many of their boys so it will be nice to try and help out the new Young Men's President by working with and trying to ge the fathers more involved.  I went in to Elders Quorum first, so they could sustain and set me apart, then went back to Priest Quorum.  It was quite an emotional experience for me.  I started to cry and shared my testimony and love with the boys.  I wanted to say "Hasta la Vista, Baby" but couldn't as the changes had yet to be announced over the pulpit.  Lana has been working tirelessly this week on three cakes, one of which was a very difficult wedding cake.  She and Lynette were up all night Thursday and even called in some reinforcements to help them out.  Thankfully everything turned out fantastic.  She is really, really talented when it comes to anything creative.  I am glad she enjoys making the cakes, it is a great outlet for her.  I do think, however, that they will wait a while before doing another difficult wedding cake! LOL!

Great Grandpa sitting out back watching us play.

 On sunday afternoon/evening we went up to Great Grandma and Grandpa's House to spend some time with them.  Grandpa is looking lots better.  He is still pretty bruised up from his fall though.  He thinks it makes a great story.  Grandma said all the men in the ward were teasing and making jokes and and all the women were giving him sympathy so all in all I think he came out of it all right.  I convinced him to let me reroof his garage.  At least the north west section.  All the shingles are curling and look terrible, I want to get them replaced before the weather changes or he's going to have some water problems.  Grandpa came out back to look at the roof with me and to show me some shingles he has in his shed, you know how he likes to be involved on everything.   Then he sat outside in the chair and watched me push the kids on the swings for a while.

Great Gma and Gpa Spencer

Eli trying to get back to the swings in the backyard.

 Eli loved the swings so much that we had to lock him out of the backyard.  We are sitting under the awning on the driveway chatting and he kept running into the backyard so we locked him in.  He was a little irritated with us for a few minutes.  then we distracted him with candy! LOL!

Grandpa the poser.  He saw me taking the picture and struck a pose!

 Kate and Grandpa are both bugger pickers!!

My family posing with Great Grandma and Grandpa.  Cute Huh?  It was a fun evening and I think Grandma and Grandpa really enjoyed us coming over.  On our way over to visit them we drove past the mountains on Mountain Road just before the hill going up to the Catholic Church and on the North Ogden side there was a big fire.  There was a helicopter dropping water and ten fire trucks there.  Someone must have called it in fast 'cause they had it under control and when we came back home it was out, THANKFULLY!  Everything is so dry that with a little wind we could have had a serious problem.