Beware...

...if you go to California to "look at a job" and your husband says, "Should we throw in the bikes?" And you say, "that might be fun..."

You could end up riding 20 miles (YES, I SAID TWENTY MILES!) along the beach bike path.

It actually was a lot of fun.

Even though the job is "on hold." Sigh...

Indiana Jeff

This is how my husband watches "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."



Alone. Because no one left in this house will watch it with him.
Never saw the "ripping out the heart" scene, never want to.


Maddie and I prefer movies like this! (Yes, we're all kinda dorks...)

A New Adventure

Don't you just love Relief Society sisters?

Glenna S. shows us how to make bread at our first "Raiders of the Lost Arts."

One of eight beautifully decorated tables at a Christmas dinner.

Kris B. and Michelle L., the counselors who saved my sanity the first two years of our calling.

Three birthday party celebrations, one tribute to a past president, two "Raiders of the Lost Arts," two "Nights of Music," forty Potluck Luncheons and Recipe Exchanges, seventeen (or more) funerals, haircutting class, photography class, forty play groups, 2 genealogy classes, ribbon embroidery, three Visiting Teaching Conferences, 24 Book Club meetings, 20 "Finish Your Project" get-togethers, three card-makings for Ronald McDonald house, 13 packages sent to a Cambodian Orphanage, three Food Storage/Cooking meetings, 155 72-Hour Kits in a Can, 2 Christmas party dinners, candy-making, dutch oven cooking, ethnic cooking, mexican cooking, important documents class, 3 Women's Conferences, 3 Broadcasts, stake service projects, 42 Ward Councils and PEC's, 40 Presidency Meetings, and at least 1,000,000,000 hours of loving, compassionate service from a whole group of incredibly wonderful women between the ages of 18 and 99 to their sisters and fellow members and neighbors in the Black Canyon Ward.

THAT'S what I should have answered when the Bishop released me as Relief Society president last Wednesday and asked me if any highlights of the past three-and-a-half years came to mind.

I will miss working with the wonderful ladies in my ward.

Now, it's on to a new and exciting adventure--2nd Counselor in the Young Women, where I'm sure I will have similar experiences with a group of wonderful girls ages 12-13! (Including Maddie for the next three months...)

Simple Pleasures

Who needs toys when Grandma S. hangs the laundry out to dry in Mt. Pleasant?