Jean & Evan

Here are some pictures Dad took. He promises to put some descriptions with them. They come from a visit to Jean and Evan and Reid and Rebecca in Colorado, Dave's family trip up to the cabin and Mom's sisters.

Our vacation this year was to visit Rebecca and Reid in Colorado Springs, CO. It was great to have all of our family in one place and to hang out watching movies, swimming in the hotel pool, eating, playing games. We were able to see the Cluff's new-to-them home and to do some painting around their home (Rebecca employed some Tom Sawyer moves for that).

Jean and Evan recently moved to Colorado Springs, too, and live in the same ZIP code as Rebecca. We visit them Monday night and let everyone get reacquainted. Friday we fajitas with their family, played Apples to Apples (Mary Ann beat us all), and watched High School Musical 2 at two different times. Even though Evan was working in Dallas, TX, for most of the week only to be asked to go to South Africa on Friday, he and Jean treated Marilee and Richard to wonderful lunch at the Broadmoor. We spent three hours eating lunch and talking about jobs, kids, and how to solve the world's problems.

We didn't take many pictures, but we share them here.

Here's a solid Torontonian snowball for each one of you,....catch !!

Things are well here, a mission isn't anything I thought it would be, it is so much better!! We are working on getting a Portuguese Branch here. There are 70 members baptized here that speak Portuguese but we only have about 20 active. So our work is cut out for us, re activating, and finding new prepared people. It is a rush!. We need 12 Priesthood holders and 50 active members , then we're in good shape. The Lord's hand is opening doors and windows and all sorts of other kinds of ways to make this happen, it really makes me smile being a part of this.