Lots of happenings!

Well things have been pretty exciting this past month! Nathan & Lindsey's family moved in with us - so much fun! Lindsey baked the best German Chocolate birthday cake! Emma Jane got baptized! Daddy Daughter Dinner! Luke got the Aaronic Priesthood! Luke and Brooke had birthday's! Nathan got a new office and is setting it up! We celebrated our 39th wedding anniversary!

This cake was delicious!!

It snowed while we were in Dallas for Emma Jane's baptism!

The Daddy Daughter Dinner had an Italian theme and Dave was lucky to attend with Brenna!

They drew pictures of their dad/grandpa and they had to decide which one belonged to them.

We learned a new game that is called golf.  Brooke won more than her share of games!

We also went bowling for Luke's birthday!

Everyone like Daisy to sleep in their bed!

Layla loves the playground!

This is inside Nathan's office. 

His office is the one on the lest of these 3.

Lindsey made us these yummy lemon bars we had at EJ's baptism! Sadie contributed the pictures!

Can't believe it has been 39 years! Pretty crazy how time flies!

Brenna's Baptism

We were so excited to be able to make a quick trip to CA for Brenna's baptism! What a special day it was.  It was great to see both Lindsey and Brooke's families!
We got to go with Dallas, Brenna, Sadie & Ivy to school to see Dallas in the school spelling bee!

Guess who?

 Here we are with Brenna before her baptism.

Here is us with the grandkids that live in CA.  Too bad the sun was starting to set. We can't wait to be with them again!!!

Peanut Festival & new aquisitions

 I think we went to the Peanut Festival more this year than ever before.  Mainly because of the guy there that carves things out of wood. Our weakness.....

Here Dave is by his new face carved in wood and.....

Here I am by our new chair : )
I think we now have our fill of wood carvings.

Lucky I guess

So driving on my street a couple of weeks ago, I had this horrible sound and thought I had a blow out.  I stopped my car and checked all the tires and all seemed fine but occasionally when I would turn left or accelerate, I would get this terrible grating sound.  Long story short - I ran over this!

Can you see this metal edging blade that is resting on my tire thingie? Apparently it was lying in the road and when I ran over it, it flipped up into my tire well and gouged out a hole in my tire but didn't flatten it.  I had to get a new tire but no one could figure out what was making the noise - not the Toyota dealership twice, or Sam's club who put on the tire, or the Lexus dealership until I went there a second time (Montgomery).  Can you see it hiding in my tire well?

Here is a closer look at it because I know you want to see it

It tore into the metal body of the car

So I went to a body shop to see if they could just put some filler in it so water wouldn't get in it.

Ohhh nooooo. The heat filling the hole would catch the back seat fibers on fire so they have to take out my back seat, take off my side panel, so they can weld it and paint it so it won't rust.  What a pain for running over a 'nail' in the road.

It could have been worse. It could have caused me to wreck my car, or flown out and caused more damage. I guess I am lucky.