Our good friends, Steve and Kim Radford, who also were our finance and office missionary couple, sent these beautiful flowers the day before we spoke in church. They are so kind and always so loving to us.
We were finally down to crunch time for having everything done before we were speaking in church and hosting a luncheon with lots of people afterward. It was nice that the kids kept the grandchildren busy away from the house most of the day previous to that Sabbath Day.
Abe and Klarissa were here and gave their input on the best flow of traffic for all the visitors. Abe helped get the tables and chairs in place and helped us clear out furniture to make room for all the guests.
Glen and I were exhausted from all the work we had been doing every minute since we had arrived home from our mission.
We joined in with the family that evening at Mueller Park Canyon for a cook-out.
The kids had a great time roasting hot dogs over the fire.
Even more fun than roasting hot dogs was roasting marshmallows.
Some of the little ones loved roasting Starburst candies over the fire.
Then it was time for games.
Back at home, there was food to prepare for the next day. Laurie, Newland, Glen, Luke and I became the meat rolling experts. That was the last of our preparations before the big day.
One last thing before bedtime was taking family photos. In birth order--Jacob, Rebecca, Abraham, Sarah and Benjamin.
Throw Mom and Dad in the middle and we had our complete family! Just wish all the spouses had been there at the house at that time of the night and we could have included them.
We spoke in church on Sunday, July 28th, and then family, friends and missionaries came over to our home for lunch afterward.
There were canopies set up outside in the yard for people to sit out there to eat their lunch.
Missionaries were lined up clear out the door waiting to come inside and talk to us.
It was very fun to see a lot of our missionaries who had taken the time to be there that day. After talking with us, they moved on to the food table to load their plates with lunch.
Look at all those meat rolls we had worked on the night before!!
Some people found a seat in the dining room/living room to settle to eat their food. The majority of the missionaries went outside to eat and visit together under the shade canopies.
Our able kitchen help--Rebecca and Sarah--were fabulous taking care of making sure everything was going smoothly with the food.
After we had greeted everyone, we called all the missionaries together that were still there and took a group photo. A bunch of them had already left, but we worked with what we had at that moment.
Soon this photo and the individual photos the missionaries had taken of them with us inside the house started popping up on social media. It was definitely a great reunion for all of us to see each other again.
After all the guests had left, we examined the food status. Of course we had over bought by a ton. This is a whole uneaten tray of meat with another one in the refrigerator. But, that was okay. We had a family reunion the next day and we planned to use all the leftover food there.
Speaking of the family reunion... Sarah was excited to reveal the t-shirts she and the others had helped design and make.
Oh yeah!! They were adorable!!
More photos of them later on.
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