Dear Family,
I side with Bella in saying that Olaf is my favorite character in "Frozen", which is a "beloved" movie around these parts as well! Eliza stands "transfixed" whenever it is on and I can count on her "staying put" and not moving an inch when she is watching it. Disney really struck it rich with that one....
Summer has officially come to Kaysville with the opening of our pool! We had a barbecue for Jake's birthday on May 26 and followed with another one for Dad's birthday on the 31st. We also plan to have some family here this next Tuesday night to help celebrate Great Grandma Horne's 91st birthday. We are going to the temple in the morning and having a swimming/dinner party here at night.
Dad has been working hard ALL DAY EVERY DAY in the yard (surprise, surprise!) - planting flowers, mowing, edging, watering, doing whatever he can to keep everything looking so nice. So much for deciding we would have "only a few areas with flowers" in our new yard - in order to "simplify"! He planted our vegetable, fruit garden as well, along with some herbs! It is a little challenge adjusting to different growing conditions, but we are hopeful...We love our yard and the view is still so beautiful with the meadow and mountains in the background. We are truly blessed....
Speaking of blessings, I had a wonderful trip (a little earlier than planned!) back to Pennsylvania to help and to welcome little Monty Gruwell into the world and into our family. What fun it was to be there to not only celebrate his arrival, but Mother's Day and Elli's birthday as well. I had fun seeing where all three girls go to school, watching Ashlan at an ice-skating lesson, visiting their ward, meeting many wonderful Gruwell friends and learning my way around (a little!) It is plain to see that Stacie, Matt and their family are very much loved by so many.
Dad continues to be busy serving as a sealer in the Bountiful Temple. He works Wednesday afternoon and evening and the early morning shift on Saturday. We both help teach one of the two missionary prep classes in our Stake. We are learning to love and appreciate the manual, "Preach My Gospel" that the missionaries use. It truly is an inspired tool. We just had three young men and one young woman leave for the mission field from our class with more leaving in the next few months.
We are looking forward to our trip this weekend to Roseville to see Cordon, Cameron, Katelynne, and Lizzy perform with their "sing and dance" groups. We weren't able to attend their performances very much when we were serving in the Fresno Temple, so we wanted to see their program this summer. Jacob is going to travel with us so we think it will be really fun. We, along with all of you, are also looking forward to our family reunion in Newport and to summer visits from different family members to our home here in Utah.
We love all of you so much and are so proud of you for the wonderful things you are doing and the way you are living your lives. I hope you are taking the time to read the talks in the Ensign from the recent General Conference. They are all so wonderful. We read President Eyring's talk, "A Priceless Heritage of Hope" last week in our family home evening and we studied Elder Nelson's talk, "Let Your Faith Show" in RS today. They are both such wonderful talks.
A huge "thank you" to Kevin and Amy for their recent blog posts! I will try to do better and hope all of you will, too! Love, Mom
Even my boys love Frozen! Although, I think they've had their fill and are back to Star Wars. ;) We are so excited to see you, dad, Scott and the Fenns soon. I'll call soon to chat with you about our plans. We love you!
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