Twenty years ago, our family was in Germany for a year and during that time, we took a trip to a famous medieval town called Rothenburg during a school break. The school break was at the end of February, right after Fasching which is a week of celebration before Lent (like Carnival). Sadly, one of the gaps in our written family history is during the year we spent in Germany. But we have pictures! During Fasching, Susanna and Talmage went to kindergarten (more like preschool) and got their faces painted. The next week was a school break so we took off for Rothenburg which had lots of demos of medieval punishments: One of Garrett's favorite memories of this trip is going to a restaurant and getting a roasted half chicken all to himself. He was very fond of chicken. This was part of the wall going around the city: More city wall: At our hotel where Mindy practiced her walking which she had just started: The next day, we visited a children's museum (perhaps in Fulda) which everyon...

  Skyline of Little Rock, Arkansas Scott served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Arkansas Little Rock Mission. He served in Memphis, Tennessee, and Little Rock, Arkansas, as well as a few other places.  His last area was in Little Rock. This story is about a woman he baptized named Glenda Bennett. Two missionaries named Elder Smith and Elder Stanger knocked on Glenda's door but Glenda was really busy at that moment. Among other things, she was trying to clean her house but the plug of her vacuum had gotten stuck in an outlet and she couldn't get it out. She told the missionaries this and one of the missionaries had been an electrician so he offered to get it out for her. He was successful and they made an appointment to come back and teach her. Sadly, I have no picture of Glenda with Scott but here she is with a couple of other missionaries from his mission whom Scott served with. (Glenda is on the left) Before the appointment happened howev...

A picture of Lincoln from his mission with a soon-to-be familiar face in the background! March 6, 2016 (written by Scott) Yesterday, Ev, Su, Cam, and I went to SLC to help my mother with painting, drywall, and yard work. Talmage went to the stake powwow and was the only student in Citizenship in the Community. Everett's bball team lost in the OHS intramural tournament. He consoled himself by playing in the Mountain View Intramural bball tournament. Su and T are still both in track. Talmage's friends have apparently dropped out. Camille made a little yarn bunny in activity days, but then shredded it for fun. Su, T, Min, Cam, Paula, and I watched Ella Enchanted last night. Camille visited the kidney clinic in SLC. Her creatinine is a little higher, so we're pushing fluids a little more. Paula taught the RS lesson today and almost ran out of material. Susanna drove us to SLC to my mother's house. She has 8 hours driving in. Su, T, and E had a combined activity at the Bean ...