Abe sent this photo asking the family to guess where they are. I guessed right--Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Abe had a good time walking down memory lane as he reflected back on how our family would go to Stone Mountain every year and feel so patriotic with the laser show going and the music playing and the fireworks going off at the end of the show.
A few days ago Abe and Klarissa celebrated their anniversary. This was a sweet post of Klarissa's commemorating the event.
Another home renovation project was underway--new rain gutters were being installed. Unfortunately, the day turned rainy and the worker had to sit it out for a couple of hours which delayed the job from getting completed by a few days.
The carpet was so cushy as we stepped on it that Glen had to spread out and see how it would feel to sleep on the carpet. Sarah's family will be sleeping there when they come to town, so he was giving it a try.
Spencer and Madison also thought it would be fun to give the soft floor a try and had a sleepover down there. So cute. Everyone is very excited to have this project completed.
From there we went to the conference center for our training/luncheon/setting apart for our new callings at the prison.
Glen started his birthday out on Saturday by taking me to the Murray Utah Stake's Share-a-thon. He went to support the efforts of that stake to try and help people out--targeting refugees who live in the area.
It had a massive amount of furniture and clothing that people had donated to the cause. Everything there was free for the taking.
The stake Relief Society president who was in charge of the event told us about a person who asked her if there were any temple dresses. She had not seen any, but they went to look anyway. They saw one white dress that had been put out at the right moment that was the exact size the woman was looking for.
The Relief Society president considered that a huge tender mercy and was so touched by the experience she came right over to share with us what had happened.
When we walked into the room and saw the tables set up with the couples' name tags, it was a flash-back to our mission president training days.
The meeting was very spiritual. Emeritus general authority Elder Don R. Clarke is the District President over all the prison branches. I was touched by the following scripture he shared as he had us insert our names in place of "Sidney and Joseph." He also changed the words "in this place" in verse 3 to "in this correctional facility."
I also felt the words to the closing hymn pierce my heart as I am nervously anticipating what the future holds for us.
We got to meet the branch president we will be working closely with. I was sad his wife could not be there. We learned of our specific assignment--the Olympus District, which is a men's unit housing the old, ill, and the prisoners who need to be protected from other prisoners.
It always makes my heart (or is it my stomach?) happy when a dessert is served that isn't chocolate!!
Because of being summoned to jury duty, we had to call off our trip to Omaha for Natalie's graduation. We were so happy Jacob sent us a link to be able to watch the graduation. It almost felt like we were there. It sure felt like we had front-row seats to the event. We were so happy to be in a temperature-controlled environment after Jacob reported it was so hot sitting out in the sun.
Dad had done such a nice job and we were so very thankful to FINALLY get that switch problem fixed that we treated him to an Arby's lunch.
Here's the guest of honor.
She is a beautiful little baby doll! Not as much long dark hair as Charlotte had, but still quite a bit of hair for a newborn.
I had to laugh when we got home and the first photo that popped up on the computer was the dapper, younger version of Glen, the birthday boy.
We really enjoyed seeing how Natalie is featured in her high school's yearbook as publishing a book. What an accomplishment for her to do while still in high school.
Sunday evening we attended a meeting that was the kickoff to get all the youth excited to attend stake youth conference. We have been asked to help with those three days which will be happening a few days after our family finishes up with our family reunion.
We have had a problem for the past 20 years--ever since we moved into this house--with the 4-way electrical switch in our house. It has been so frustrating to not have the light switches working correctly upstairs in the loft and hallway area.
So, what did we do???? We called in a master electrician who is the best of the best!!!! Glen was his able assistant.
It took one run to Home Depot for them to get the job completed.
We also had another problem of our outside outlets not working. We were feeling a little bit ridiculous when Dad pointed out the ground fault outlet button on an outlet we never use in our basement that just needed to be pushed and voila--the outlets worked!!
So glad we didn't have to pay someone to tell us such a simple thing!!
Andy and Amanda invited us to their home for a graduation celebration dinner for Rachel.
Andy grilled hot dogs and hamburgers and we ate lots of other good food as well.
Amanda had warned us a while ago that their playhouse was falling over and they were going to take it down. Sure enough, I almost cried when I saw the leaning structure that all the young children have absolutely loved playing in.
It hasn't been taken down all the way because Andy wants to preserve the roof part to put on a shed he plans to build.
I noticed the chickens and the chicken coop are no longer in their backyard either. That was always a super fun spot for the little ones to gather around as they fed the chickens.
We were excited to see Cheryl's family there because we wanted to see the new baby Haisley.
I had jury duty yesterday. I got on the WebEx call right at 8:00 a.m. as instructed. Things didn't even begin until after 8:30. They made sure everyone could see and hear. Around 9:00 the judge made an appearance and thanked us, told us the case, shared with us some Covid guidelines, and then we were broken off into groups. I was in group 5.
In our groups we were shown a Covid precautions video and another video showing what will happen during the court proceedings.
Then we waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and WAITED!!!!!!
The summons said to plan on approximately 3 hours for jury selection. It was 6 hours and 20 minutes later when the judge finally came to our group and said the jury had been selected from the previous groups and we were excused from jury duty.
It wasn't so much the length of the wait that drove me nuts because I had a good book to read. It was the many hours of us wondering if everyone else had gone to lunch and wondering why we weren't told to take a lunch break and wondering if we had been forgotten because nobody popped in to let us know what was going on.
Oh well! At least I did my civic duty and no more of my days this week are tied up in a trial. And the bright side is I got paid $18.50 for those 6+ hours of reading a book.
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