The Light at the end of the Tunnel!

I have loved our 2 person Sacrament meetings, but I’m excited to hear that a version of group meetings will be starting soon!  I was thankful to be able to return the library books I’ve had since February.   I have amassed a lot of names to take to the temple and look forward to that next step!  I am thrilled that daily deaths have been down and look forward to the day that they are a rarity!
We’ve had lots of time to work on the outside of the house and the yard. Richard took 6 loads to the SouthJordan clean up.
 Richard has caught a lot of fish!  I especially love it when he brings home salmon.

Kinsley and Tayson are learning to ride bikes.

These 

cousins are so cute together!

We put up shutters.

We put a roof on the play structure.

My Mother’s Day visitors.

Richard rented a stump grinder.

 We took my parents to visit their cabin in the high Uintahs.  It’s impossible to convince them that they need to take it easy!  They’re almost 91! 

My kids got me an amazing bike!  Best present ever!  Of course Josh and Meg thought of it!  

My parents became great great grandparents this week!

Still home!

We are supposed to be in Texas tending my daughters kids while she and her husband went to Puerto Rico.  We planned to be in Texas 

3 weeks seeing our grandson baptized and then tend our sons kids while he and his wife went on a cruise.  At least we have awesome masks to wear (thanks Meg) as we stay close to home.

We go for drives when we get cabin fever.  We saw this beautiful rainbow on our way back from house viewing in Brigham City.

We found the perfect house in Syracuse and then decided we really may want to stay where we are.

We saw my nephew and brother-in-law at our neighbor’s buying a junk car!  

We had a fun Easter with our quarantine partners.  I think we’d go crazy without them here!

Richard repainted the play structure.

He made me a grow box and we planted strawberries.

I had a great birthday with my daughters family, social distanced visits from my sons family and the great Arnolds.  

We visited the lot where our daughter is having a house built.

I dig up lots of dandelions, but there are always more to dig up.  

We got a desktop computer which has helped me get family history done.  

I’m thankful for Marco Polo and Zoom and the fun of seeing my my grandkids.  It’s not in person, but it keeps us closer.  I’m thankful for ebooks to checkout from the libraries and puzzles.  I’m thankful for my good husband and that we can have the sacrament and study the gospel together.  There are so many things I miss, but I feel very blessed to have a comfortable place to live with all my needs met and to have entertainment from my cute daughters family!  I am so ready to serve at church and in the temple again soon!

We had a

 birthday dinner for Joni!

More of isolation and some adventures

We got our taxes signed!  Thanks Gary for helping us get another return!  We were supposed to have 2 showers on Saturday that were  cancelled so we delivered shower gifts.  My mom saw us and had to greet us!
I was inside completely for 3 days  so Friday we drove through Antelope Island and saw lots of buffalo!
We found used puzzles for Richard 's mom.  Just had to drive to Tooele to get them. 
It feels good to be fasting for relief from the virus today!  What a blessing to have a prophet to guide us!  I'm saddened and shocked to hear of the many deaths from this virus!  We'll come out of this humbled and shaken, but more determined to serve others and to follow the prophet!  So excited for conference!  I bet it will be the most listened to conference ever!

Such a Time As This

Looking back it's wonderful to see all the preparation for such a Time As This!  Home centered church,  food storage, ministering, and so many ways to connect with church meetings and teachings from home!  Obviously Jesus Christ is guiding us through living prophets! 
We are glad we made it to the Timpanogos temple before they closed.  Richard got one more fishing trip in!
Last week we had sacrament meeting with some homebound neighbors, Monday we met our daughter's family at Estes Park in Colorado and did lots of hiking and played board games.  We stayed with their in-laws in Pueblo and looked at houses in the area.  We came home in between snow storms.  Part of I80 was closed because of a big accident so we went 60 miles north and saw part of Wyoming we'd never seen.
We found eggs and potatoes in Pueblo, and pasta and soup in Wyoming.  We celebrated Jonathan's birthday with just the 3 of us.  It's a historic time.  Our friends were telling us about living through the polio epidemic and staying inside.  Al said that 4 people on his block got polio.  It was scarier than this virus! 
We miss church with others and temple service, but we're thankful to be able to have each other and that our families are healthy so far!  We pray we come through this time with stronger testimonies and that our faith will conquer our fears.