Happy birthday to our oldest son David! Here are some pictures from his 9th and 10th grade years, with just a couple from his 9th grade year. We spent his 10th grade year in Germany. David worked really hard to learn German and was an impressive student. It was a little lonely for him since the rest of his classmates had known each other for years and were in the same school class all that time. He went to his classmate's 16th birthday which is when you are allowed to start drinking alcohol in Germany and many of the kids were drunk with people throwing up. It was his last party there. So he spent a lot of time studying and hanging out with his brothers. He enjoyed coming back to Utah in June 2006 and getting his driver's license, his Eagle Scout, and starting marching band. This first picture is a science fair project. In Vienna: At the BMW museum in Munich: This is the picture where David looks like he is enduring his family: Downtown Munich: Outside our church building in M...
For the last several years, we have been looking forward to having a temple really close to us with the Lindon temple just 3 miles away. It was announced in October 2020 and the site was announced a few months later. Every time we visited my brother or my son (who used to live nearby) we could check its progress. It felt like a really long time and it also seemed like it was ready for about a year before they finally announced the open house and dedication. But that day finally came! The open house started on March 12 and the dedication will be on May 3. We've had the opportunity to help a little bit. I played my violin for one of the VIP open houses (background music in the tent outside) and then on Tuesday morning this week, I counted people as they came in to take tours. We were averaging an impressive 500 people an hour despite it being a time when most people were at work or school. Then yesterday, we took 6 of our grandchildren first thing in the morning and it was really ni...