With Halloween arriving, it's time to carve some pumpkins. Jennifer and Brad Kita came over to the house to help out with the project.
Here is a princess pumpkin that didn't get carved, just decorated.
Madeline and Emily were champion helpers in getting the pumpkins ready.
Emily learned about Christopher Columbus last week, and she got to bring home her craft of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. She was very proud of her work.
On Monday, I went to help Opal Shriver at her farm. You may remember that her husband Bill died about a month ago. She and her son Billy decided to auction off their farm equipment and a variety of tools Bill had accumulated over a lifetime of farming. As you can imagine, it was a big job. Many people from the ward helped, and on Saturday, they held an auction which raised thousands of dollars to help secure Opal's future, at least for the next several years. One thing they didn't auction off though was the farm land and house, which Opal will continue to manage for now.I wasn't able to attend or help with the auction on Saturday, because I went with several of the youth and other leaders from the ward to Washington D.C. for a temple trip. It was a long, tiring day, but it was a blessing to be in the temple. While I was there, I ran into Joanne's cousin Jeremy and his wife Rebbecca. We didn't get to talk much but it was fun to see them and we'll be with them again in a couple of weeks when their son Trenton is baptized. When we returned from the temple trip, we learned that that will be our last temple trip to Washington D.C. Our ward has been reassigned to the Columbus, Ohio temple district, which makes us happy because that temple is and hour and a half closer to us.
How funny that you ran into the Goeckeritzs at the temple. One of the last times we were at the DC temple we ran into them there too.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's more likely to happen if we are a temple attending people. By the sound of things, Jeremy and Rebbecca must be!
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