Merry Christmas!

This guy was disqualified from his neighborhood lights contest......

I love seeing all the lights and all the festive decorations!
Were loving having the house decorated and the music!
Sunday we spent hanging around home, and got the gifts for the
neighbors and grandparents delivered. Then we went to see the lights
at Temple Square! I love going there! Down Town Salt Lake City looks amazing!
It hasnt looked so good in a few years in my opinion! It was just Ty and I and we
strolled around fighting the dozens of people there trying to do the same! :)
We forgot our camera so we used my phone camera, but on my new phone I
didnt get the cord to hook into the computer! So we are going to try to go back!
Were excited for Christmas, to spend time with family and to see each other open
the gifts from each other! (Nothing too extravagant) But it's a blizzard outside and
we have clean air to breath again! lol It's a good day!

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

The Man in Khaki Pants & Straw Hat

Brian sent us a really neat present! He wrote a letter about some of his pondering, and put it in a really neat way. He talked about as he sits in the library or at home at the desk, he finds himself pondering about things in his past. One that comes to mind a lot for him is the man in the khaki pants wearing a straw hat and white new balance tennis shoes. As he would walk down the the lane from the orchard towards the drive way. He use to stand at the end of the drive way and be so excited to see him walking home. He ponders on the impression he left on his life, the things he did and didn't do. How he patterned his life after Christs life. He sent along with the letter a band that says "Live and Remember". I was broken down into tears as I read the letter. I find myself missing Dad more and more as the time goes on. Its easy to say that its only a temporal thing, which I believe whole heatedly. However it still doesn't fill the gap that is there. I have been pondering a lot the last few weeks on Dad's example and how he taught me to live. I am very appreciative to Brian for writing that letter. I wouldn't have been able to put it better! The man in the Khaki Pants and Straw Hat wearing white New Balance Tennis Shoes is exactly the man I remember! I cherish the memories and example he was to me. He left his example to follow the savior in all we do, to remember him and remember what he did for us, that it wasn't by chance or luck. As you ponder Dad's life, you are reminded so much of our Savior and his life.