Vacation Time

We are in Martinez, California tonight. The elders are watching over the house and Pakamer. We've been traveling on the train since early Monday morning and it's nice to take a break and sleep in an actual bed for a night.  We have seen some very beautiful sights -- especially when we went through the Rocky Mountains.  That was amazing!  We were riding along admiring the beautiful mountains covered with tall pine trees and great rock formations, when all of a sudden it started snowing.  In a little while it began to look like Christmas to us.  Aaron would have loved it.  Probably the rest of you too.  I wanted to share some pictures with you (and I still will)  but I can't get them to load correctly onto my laptop.  I may have to wait until we get a chance to load them onto the PC.  I don't know what the difference is, but oh well.

Here's something we found very funny.  Alan brought along his scanner so he could keep track of what was going on if we got waylaid or something.  So, one evening we found ourselves sitting still and he turned it on to see what was going on.  He heard one man say, "We didn't know you had come in." (to a small station)  The reply from the engineer from our train was, "Sorry, we had our cloaking device turned on."  People are so funny.

I'll check in again when we again have internet service. We don't have it on the train.
Love,
Mom

Great News!

Hey, guess what.  We just got back from a trip to Columbia and one of our elders said, "There's a letter for you from the temple."  Aaron had just been asking me if we had heard anything about the temple thing and I wrote that we hadn't.  Now I've got to write him and tell him that we have been called as temple workers.  We are to call and make an appointment to go talk to them and set up a schedule.  I'm a little nervous about the memorization (it's not my best thing.) but I'm sure the Lord will help out with that.  Working in the temple is such a cool thing and such a wonderful place to be -- especially in these crazy times.  Maybe that, plus babies, is the reason it was time for me to retire.  What do you think??

Busy Two Weeks

My past two weeks have been pretty busy; you can check Amy's blog to see why.  I went up to Amy & Mike's house a couple of weeks ago to help out with the twin newborn foster babies.  We didn't sleep much, but the babies are ADORABLE!!  They are so worth losing sleep over, even though in the middle of the night you'd give almost anything to just shut your eyes for a few hours.

I have to say that I am so proud of Mike & Amy for what they are doing.  They are doing it for the right reason too -- just because it's the right thing to do.  Whatever else happens in those babies lives, they will be blessed for being in that home for the time they are.  I understand that Zach fed one of the little ones tonight.  I am very proud of him too.  I wish I could share a picture of them, but it's not allowed, so you'll just have to take our word for it: they are cute, sweet, and cuddly. 

So I'll just have to share a picture of my baby.  He only has about four months left of his mission.  Can you believe it?  Here he is picking grapes in the church's welfare farm.  They use them to make raisins.  He loved doing it.