Saturday, February 1, 2025

January's snow, basketball and a new deacon

In January, our family and the Church got a new deacon! James turns 12 this year and so he joined the Young Men program and was ordained on Sunday, January 12.





He now passes the sacrament every Sunday and is getting better and better at it. JB took him to the temple for baptisms.



During the school winter break, Ben took James to see "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" as his Christmas gift.


Ben played lots of basketball. JB and I always tried to catch the tipoffs on camera, where Ben almost always got the ball.




Our favorite spots to sit were right behind the bench. Though often JB was at the scorers' table for JV games.


Millie also came to many games.







One game was at East High School, and we were so happy to have cousins and Nona and Papa come.








 We also had to search for the sites from the High School Musical movies that were filmed there.







During the month, Andrew helped James make a T-rex jaw for his science fair.







We were asked to sing in sacrament meeting and two people sent us these photos.



James did a Junior Jazz season.







I was invited onto Studio 5 to talk about movies and shows to watch now that Hallmark Christmas movies were over.



Random breakfast picture. Ben would love to have the newspaper come every morning. It comes Wednesdays and Fridays in the afternoon mail.



It snowed a bunch!







We took Millie with us to a wedding reception in Lindon on a Wednesday night when the boys had Young Men activities.


JB and Ben now have matching black vests.


Millie made a First Vision scene in a shoebox from an activity in the Friend magazine.



JB took the boys to a Utah Hockey Club game.





And here is one of the photos of our missionary! Gosh we miss him!