Other Miscellaneous Events

Here are a few moments from the past few months in our lives:


While I was in Sunnyvale for a business trip I took an afternoon to go to the Oakland Temple.


While there, I saw this couple. She looked familiar to me, but I had no idea from where. Later on she came up and asked if I'd served in Moscow. Turns out this was a member from one of the areas on my mission! We talked for a while, she asked if I still knew any Russian. The honest answer (which I gave), was hardly any. If you don't use it, you lose it. She introduced me to her husband. They were there with a senior couple from Idaho that served later on in Moscow. It was a neat experience to run into people I knew from across the world in a place I have only been once. The Lord's hand is in all things. It pretty much made my day.


We went to Ben and Julie's home during the day on Halloween. Above is Ethan, Alyssa, and a neighbor girl dressed up to go a trick-or-treatin'. Zakary was glad he didn't have to go out trick-or-treating.


Here's a picture from Thanksgiving, which we spent at Mom and Dad's house. It was a real treat to have my sister Amy and her husband Kevin visit from Kansas! You can read more about Thanksgiving from a couple posts ago (the all text one).


This is Grandpa and me from the family party. This year Rachael hosted it at her home in Logan. There was some bad snow so people couldn't stay long, which was too bad. I could have remained the whole day and caught up with cousins, aunts, and uncles!


Here is Rachael (2nd from left) with her kids, and Joanna Rachael's sister on the right. Ernesto, her husband, was unfortunately out of town.


This is mom, dad, and Joanna from a wrapping party we had. We did sub-for-Santa again this year, which is always a great experience, and we got together to wrap the gifts.


Here are some pictures from Christmastime. Look at all those presents. We certainly are blessed folks. Joanna and I spent Christmas at my parents house, then later in the day went to visit Ben and Julie.

A picture of Joanna, me and mom from the sink.

Ben and family got Rock Band. Here they all are enjoying it, like zombies.

Ben and Zakary rocked the house (literally)...

We also spent some time playing games. I already forgot the name of this game because I have subconsciously blocked it out of my mind due to the traumatic experience of trying to beat Zakary at it.

It has been a great, eventful year. We are really happy for all the friends and family who make life special!