Monday evening dinner guest and visitor...SURPRISE !!

It has been years !! My little brother came to visit !! It was fun !

Visitors in Escondido after Thanksgiving !

Grandsons learned about hills...and about getting pinecones and spraying fake snow !

thanksgiving photos #6 for 2010

Amy's mom brought apple turkey makings and she made the cute leaf one.

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the kids had a great time !!

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much conversation

comparing vests

the men's corner for awhile

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friends and assorted relatives came !

thanksgiving 2010 at my moms

I could not have planned the photo with Levi's pilgrim head decoration on a body if I had tried !

I think we figured out 29 or 30 people were here

annual S.D. Temple worker devotional

Last night we went to an awesome devotional at the largest chapel and rec. hall I have ever seen in one of our churches ! It was full and the power vibes in that room were awesome..almost tangible !! Our main speaker was Elder L. Whitney Clayton in the presidency of the seventy and from our ward in Whittier as kids growing up. He asked about my eldest brother by name as they are the same age and asked about mom as he knew dad was dead. His memory is amazing ! It was an awesome meeting. He made a great analogy..as the San Diego Temple was being built he lived in Irvine and commuted past it each day to San Diego for business...he watched them clear and level the land and start building and it did not slow traffic at all until the spires went up...but it almost brought traffic to a stand still when angel Moroni went up...He compared this to our spiritual development as we have to clear the field and start to build our own spirituality and as we gain more it starts to be obvious and visible and the world takes notice and wants to know more. It took 10 thousand scaffolds to cover the temple and over 50 thousand gallons of coating to resurface the outside.

fireside tonight

Tonight is the annual devotional for the San Diego Temple workers. Elder Clayton is speaking and it is in Rancho Panesquitos. I signed up to take 3 dozen cookies..I am actually taking brownies. Today I only had 3 sunbeams so it was easy even though one could NOT stay in his chair and could NOT stop talking. Raining yesterday, today and maybe tomorrow though there are patches of blue sky right now !! Yesterday I went to a fun baby shower in a part of Escondido Hills I have not been to before...after I went to a card party for a widow in our ward.

stake conference

We had an awesome stake conference today. It helps that our stake president is REAL and so funny !! {He also plays in his own band...Allen and the Haneyacts.}
We were given several challenges ..........attend the temple more !! Pray for 30 minutes without asking for anything...then stay and listen. Just pray harder in general. Don't be afraid to say something to anyone about the gospel...even if it is just the name of the church...it takes several comments to make someone interested in the church. BE GRATEFUL !!! It is the base requirement for a lot of blessings !! Think about times and things in your life that you are thankful for ..send a letter to someone thanking them !!

another Thursday

Today I am sewing..I have been for a couple of days...I got a walk in this morning and my hip exercises..I am cleaning off the table...it sure seems to accumulate stuff fast...I need to do the pots and pans that don't go into the dishwasher..I need to water the yard ..the dust is winning on the hardwood floors again...I need to get to that.. I am working on figuring out Christmas gifts ...an average day !

trick or treat...

We had trunk or treat at the church on Saturday..combined wards...I had no clue what to expect so I took 100 or so tootsie roll pops...We just left after I ran out...we had chili, hot dogs and corn bread and cookies before trunk or treating...On Sunday I had 60 pops left at home to give out ..and when I ran out I had to tell a group that came sorry..I ran out...then we had to turn off all the lights and go hide in the back bedroom with just our reading lights on...It was only 8:15 p.m..........they were driving them into this area... now I know