This and That in February!

Lots of good things in February including Grandpa's jokes which Nathaniel was excited about!

Bethany left this note on her parents' bed.

She and Aubrey have been rehearsing their parts for the school play:  Aladdin!

Peter was ordained a Priest.

David did this difficult puzzle:

We went to the 80th birthday party for Bob Telford

which included seeing many old friends from the 7th ward.

We saw Bev and Bob McAdam who are both in their 90's! 

Here are Bob and Wendy, and Christine is in the picture below.  

We substituted for Presidency members in the temple for 3 days and had wonderful experiences!

I took this picture when we were leaving on our last day at 2:30 in the afternoon, wrapping up about 31 hours in the temple that week.

We hosted Phyllis Lee for a Sunday afternoon.  Phyllis is suffering from Alzheimer's and enjoys the social interaction.  She especially enjoyed being around the Perry family who joined us for dinner, a Family Home Evening and some games.

While Heidi was out in Utah, she and Elizabeth went to the Payson temple grounds.

Concurrently, Sarah was working at home on this paint by number of the Payson temple!

Heidi and Elizabeth also got to go to a BYU basketball game, shop at the bookstore and eat at the Cougareat along with attending the Mark Pope basketball show.

Speaking of BYU, these two kindergarten buddies

both got accepted to BYU!

The Melanchuks loved the Vocal Point concert in Chico

As Amanda said:  We met the incredible beatboxer Alex Brown afterward. The Alex from Signing Time with Alex and Leah! That show is how Nathaniel learned sign language! They noticed Nathaniel signing and he came to meet us and take a picture!

Jeff and Suzie got a new stove and oven!

Eleanor bought a car!

And Julia bought a car!

She has already driven it to Illinois!

We got to see Hannah in another play. 

It was lots of fun!

And she did a great job as the Aristocat kitten: Marie

Elizabeth is super excited to find out where she will be serving her mission!

Ben and a friend made this cradle for Caleb, and Courtney made the quilt when she was in high school.

Caleb is back on oxygen but he's doing very well from his Grandma McClellan's reports!

Sam is still going strong on his mission now serving as a district leader

 in the Cache Valley town of Hyde Park.

I celebrated my half birthday by going out to lunch at a new place in Folsom:

And later Grandpa and I played some games.

One of the games was Phase 10 but we used these Phase ideas we found on the internet. 

They were hard!

The next morning Grandpa reminded me that the 24th of February was his 2/3 birthday!

Lookin' good as he creeps up on 3/4 of a century!

At this age we are into fractions!!