A Feast Fit for the...White House?

Mrs. Nancy and Bro. White are out of town enjoying their anniversary together. So while they are gone, I've kinda been in charge. Well, I decided to make a big dinner on Sunday as the tradition goes. The menu included: porcupine meatballs, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, salad, fruit salad, garlic bread, and a pecan (almond substitute because we didn't have any pecans) sour cream coffee cake. Oh yeah, and blastin' berry cherry + watermelon cherry Kool-aid. :) I was absolutely stuffed. Sophie helped make a lot of everything. Go team go!

Tim Burton Does Prom

Caitlin and her friend, Jordan, decided to go to prom at the last minute. They wanted to do it Tim Burton themed. They did an excellent job and looked magnanimous! Jordan's outfit cost $30.00 and Cait's was free! :)

Courtney did the make-up.
Cait said they got lots of looks and definitely freaked so folks out! :) Which is what they were going for...
I wish more people would try to have as much fun! Life is made for living!

1 Peter 3:18-20; 4:6

All year I've been hankerin' to go to the temple again to do baptisms. Fall semester was inconvenient because I could only schedule something during the daytime, but then everyone was in school.
Well, the Draper Temple opened not too long ago. They were ready and willing to accommodate us this Saturday. I wanted to go before I departed for Thailand. Might I add that it was quite, excellently marvelous?
This trip was Sophie's first time to go and actually do baptisms. I tried to prepare her as best I could. I remember that I didn't go for a year and a half after my baptism because I didn't know what to do and no one told me. :(
Nevertheless, it was quite pleasant. The spirit was present in abundance. As a prayer was being offered before we started, I felt the spirit's witness that the work we were performing was for a distinct purpose. We weren't performing good works to achieve our own salvation through credentials; it was not a rote, good Samaritan event so that we could feel warm fuzzies inside. No, this work was real. These people are real. And God's plan is unfolding and His work is pressing forward.
Afterwards, I treated all the good sports to ice cream/shakes at Iceberg.
P.S. They have an excellent coffee flavored shake (the cashier said it was only flavoring and not actual coffee.)