Basketball

Church basketball season has started. The kids are thrilled! Kelby is still a little small, but he plays pretty well.

The "3 point shot" -- SWISH!
My camera battery died during Kelby's game and so we didn't get pictures of Nellysa's game. I was a little busy coaching the girls anyway. Maybe next week. She is quite interesting to watch. I would be scared to play against her because she just plows through and doesn't let much slow her down.

What do you want to be??

We had ward conference today. The stake leaders taught the youth. Our Stake Young Women's President is a Batallion Chief for the fire department. She needed assistance with an object lesson and Kelby was the only young man who was small enough to fit into her boots, so he helped her.

She kept pulling more equipment out of her bag...

And he is finally suited up. I was scared that he was going to fall over backwards because of the weight of the air tank, etc.
Wish I would have had my camera for better pictures. Nellysa took these with my cell phone.

Tour the Enterprise with Captain Kirk

Kelby's Boy Scout Troop toured the USS Enterprise on Monday as part of their Citizenship in the Nation merit badge. Kirk was their tour guide. I think they really enjoyed it.

Learning about the chain and anchor up in the chain room (I know that isn't the proper name of the room, but I don't know how to spell folksel???)
On the flight deck looking down on the elevator. On the left side of the picture is "Dolly". She is the crane that moves everything!
The new lookout!
Kirk explaining how the ship operates from up on the Captain's Bridge.
... and if you get lost, just look at these thousands of #'s on each wall of the ship and it will tell you right where you are! (easy for you you to say)

We leave as the sun sets on the 65.

Mini Youth Conference

Our Stake had a mini Youth Conference this past weekend. After everybody registered, we all went in the gym and ate dinner. After dinner, I was just sitting at the table watching the youth and I noticed that about every-other person sitting at the table had one MP3 earpiece in their ear with the other earpiece in the ear of the person next to them like in the picture below. How times have changed.... back in my day, we had to put a seashell to our ear to hear music :-)

There was a youth dance and Nellysa was just dancing up a storm (not). This is proof that she did however dance and proof that she can smile.

On Saturday, the kids did service projects out in the community and then we all went back to the stake center and watched the funeral of President Gordon B. Hinkley.

Severe Winter Weather!

We had our first snowfall of the winter. It is so funny to watch all of the commotion. It started with the news stations and their "live" updates while waiting for the big storm. We were out and about yesterday and it was raining. We pulled into the parking lot of Super WalMart and they literally had three "traffic control" guys. It is more crowded than at Christmas. Everybody was out getting stocked up for the big winter storm. All I needed was cat litter. Can't get through a snow storm without cat litter. I drove over to Target. No way was I going to mingle with the big crowds.

My "city-fied" kids (notice the shorts). They gathered snow off the cars and put it in that black bucket to build a snowman in our birdbath. They also threw some snowballs at each other.

We had just enough snow to cover the grass and roofs. It was nothing, but if you watched all the commotion, you would think that we were going to be stranded for weeks. Interesting.

Oh, what fun!

Project 1

This is Kirk's first project while he has been on leave. We took the antique carpet off of the stairs and sanded, stained, and varnished them.

I think it looks so much nicer. The picture below is before the last coat of varnish and we didn't have the trim put back up. I am still cleaning sawdust in every nook & cranny.

Weekend Getaway

Kirk & I were fortunate to get away together and go to the Outer Banks, NC.

We went to Mantio and walked along the waterfront. Above is the Mantio Light. We drove down to the Bodie Island Lighthouse and arrived at dusk. The lighting was just perfect. It was perfect sweatshirt weather.

Sunset across the sound. The lighthouse is behind me in this picture and the ocean is behind the lighthouse. The Outer Banks is a strip of sand between the ocean and sound.
This is the morning view of the ocean from our motel room.
This is the Hatteras Lighthouse. It is one of my favorites. It was starting to rain when we got down there, but it was still a nice drive.