Garrett had another birthday! This year I have been featuring pictures of my children in high school. Garrett did lots of things in high school: marching band, jazz band, track, Scouting, plus hanging out with friends and being active in church. He played the mellophone in marching band and the trumpet in jazz band and the French horn in the school band. He also took French horn lessons for some of those years. He was a busy guy! Here are some pictures from that time. Turning 14! Garrett went to a Scout leadership camp called Timberline which he really enjoyed. And he did swim team. A family vacation to Bear Lake and Bergeson Hill north of Logan: We hiked to some (smelly) hot springs near Diamond Fork Campground. I took the three boys to General Conference in the fall. Garrett really enjoyed marching band. Turning 15! Visiting Snow Canyon at Christmastime. Right after Jan's graduation (and Garrett's 10th grade year), we went on a family trip to the Grand Canyon and Snowflake, A...

 Thanks to my daughter-in-law Caroline, we learned about the Zenger nativity display a few years ago and have really enjoyed going. The Zengers are a large family with a large house out in Midway, Utah, that have collected about a thousand nativities from all over the world. Every year, they set out a portion of their nativities and generously open their home to the community to come and see their amazing collection. The last two years, we have taken our grandchildren some of whom have limited attention spans so we didn't get to stay too long but we did get to see a good number of them.  Here are a few of the ones we saw.