Emerson's Blessing

Sunday October 14th, was Emerson's baby blessing.   I am back blogging because I am waaaay behind.  Brad gave him a beautiful blessing and Grandpa, Grandma, Jan, Andy, Steve and Juanelle, Ashley, Nick and Jenna, Shayne, Konnor, and our family were all there.  The night before we got together at BrAshley's and had a pot luck soup dinner and then Jan made doughnuts!  While she was getting them ready Brad showed everyone the floats he was commissioned to make for the city of Summerland Nevada for their Christmas parade.  There are 6 in all.  They are a lot of work.  Each one will have a 40" TV in it powered by a generator to project ads for the Summerland Mall.  The city is so impressed with Brad that they have already asked him to make 2 more for next year.   I will keep you update on the work.  We will be delivering the first 3 this weekend.  HOPEFULLY!

188th Semi Annual General Conference

Wow, all I can say is WOW!  If you are curious about what our church is about go check it out here...Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Conference Talks.  It was such a spiritual lift.  I thought that a lot of the talks were about how we can do hard things.  So suck it up Buttercup!  The Lord needs us to help others and Satan does not want us to so he's going to make it as hard as he can.  We just need to remember that all of that comes from Satan and just say, "Not Today Satan!"  And keep moving forward no matter how hard it is to do so.  We can do it!  The Lord will not let us fail.  I love the new changed to the church process.  Meetings will now only be 2 hours long instead of 3.  I think that will help a lot of people.  The biggest announcement was that WASHINGTON COUNTY is getting a temple in the future!  It will be in conjunction with the St. George one being shut down for renovations.  It needs it.  We are super excited for all of the changes.  The Lord loves us!

This first picture was at the Women's Conference.  The rest were at JoEllen's house on Sunday.  I was showing Ashley a darling picture of a little girl's hair that I saw and how I miss doing Shayne and Sophie's hair when they were little and she asked me to braid her hair.  She's an angel.  And little Emerson looks more and more like Brad everyday.  We are hoping that he keeps that dark hair.  His eyes are looking pretty blue.  He's a cutie.

Marathon #12

So, it's that time of year again.  And you can imagine how incredibly excited I was when Joel had his new church calling plus a new job and Zero time to train for a marathon.  So I tried to talk him and Konnor out of actually running it. Neither one of them had been training.  Konnor had been doing nothing but working his butt off.  They needed to take a year off.   But, Joel didn't want to even think about it.  Well, I didn't have a teenager to drive Ben and David home from Pine Valley and Joel told me that Brian and John's families were NOT coming up to the Wells cabin so we decided to stay home and Shayne stayed up to sleep over and take the boys to the starting line.  It worked out nicely because Brad needed help painting his floats he was doing for a project so JoEllen and I went and helped him with that instead.  The next day I found out that the other families did end up going and Ben and David just stayed home and played Fortnite.  Of course the runners had their traditional night at the cabin with laying out what they were going to wear with all of their goodies to go along with it.  They also had someone's friend stay there for the race.  I don't know anything else about him. Except I think he lives out by Shayne.  Then the next day we figured out that Joel and Konnor would walk in sometime around 1pm.  So we didn't hurry by any means.  Then at 11:30 we decided to go down and got there right after Joel finished!  He did better than even he thought!  By an hour! He said that because of the rain and cooler weather he was able to push himself to go faster. He even had a faster second half.  A NEGATIVE SPLIT!  We still waited for about an hour for Konnor to finish.  He was doing his own race, helping others and enjoying his time.  Afterwards, I gave them both an IV.  ;)

 Then we ram into our old friend Creed!  His brother ran it.  And of course he was supporting him and playing with his nieces and nephews.

 It was chilly but you saw runners like this, everywhere!

 Here they are with our make shift IV pole's hanging from the curtain rod.  Oh well, it worked.

Football - that Ben doesn't play.

Well, here's the Freshman football team update.  They are still undefeated.  They are KILLING everyone!  They have not lost a game in 3 years.  They played against Dixie on Thursday the 27th and won 56-6.  And then on Wednesday Oct. 3rd they played Hurricane at Hurricane and the game was called on account of lightning at the half and we were winning 33-6.  So, tomorrow we play Desert Hills again and they were the only team that was actually ahead of us at any time in the game.  They scored first and were up at the end of the first quarter 11-6.  I think.  But we ended up winning 32 -12.  And that was one of our very first games of the season and now we have our poop in a group.  We have one more game after this one and it is up in Cedar.  I don't believe that Cedar has won a game all season, so we aren't too worried about them.  I love these boys.  They are awesome!

DSU also had a great game this last week and George was invited to play in the band!  He loved it. I also ran into our friend Jared Niko who said to tell Josh and Sophie Hi!