News for the week

Ryan's email on Tuesday said that he was getting a new companion the next day. We'll find out tomorrow who he is and where he is from. That's always a bit exciting. Ryan is still in Lafayette, Louisiana and has less than  6 months to go now.

Eric's email didn't say much, but he did send a photo of him with brand new FCHH missionary Elder Devin Teichert. Elder Teichert is from Fallon, but his family moved away quite a few years ago. Eric has only 10 days left on his mission! Devin has 2 years minus two days left to go.

Friday, due to it being a teacher Professional Development day, the students didn't have school. Alex spent part of his day making a stop motion clip of a card tower. Click here to watch it on youtube.

Friday night we had a gorgeous sunset:

Sunday we came home from church to find one out that one of Hannah's dogs, Zoe, had passed away while we were at church. We've had the dogs for 9 years now. We held a little funeral for her in the afternoon.

Glen and Hannah's project today: making a map of the missionaries serving from our stake. Most are serving in the United States.

 Glen went ahead and put a pin in for Eric...he's the red pin on the left of the yellow one in Salt Lake. Ryan is the green pin down in Louisiana. Jiaxin is the green pin near LA and Michael is the yellow one in Mexico.

Looking forward to another good week. "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" opens this Thursday at 7 pm. As with all the musicals on the CCHS stage, Glen's contribution was working on the set. It runs this weekend and next. We'll go see it with Eric on the 21st. Weird.

Alex ordained...

Last Sunday Alex was ordained to the office of a teacher, like most 14 year old LDS boys. His duties remain pretty much the same which mainly consists of passing the Sacrament on Sundays, although now he won't sit on the stand occasionally as the Bishop's messenger anymore.

Bro. K, Joseph, Grandpa, Bishop, Alex, Glen, Gary, and Alan

For Halloween Hannah had a very simple costume for work. She dressed up as an ant. She wasn't sure how an ant would act for a photo...

Halloween night we had a little scare. Not as much as the family who wound up in their truck upside down on our property. They (mother and her 2 kids--around age 10 or so?) were OK because they had been wearing their seat belts. They were able to crawl through the broken windows to get out of the truck. The mother had taken the corner too fast so she plowed through the signs and wound up in the weed patch next to our driveway. She had been speeding and apparently drinking.  :( They are so lucky/blessed.

On a happier note, we were blessed with rain in the valley and snow in the mountains this weekend. What a great way to start November off.

looking east from our driveway