Comfortable Checkers?

Christmas 2005

Thanksgiving 2005

Pascagoula Trip

It's hard to imagine what this house may have looked like before Hurricane Katrina. Notice the steps in the front, I'll bet it was beautiful. Notice the bricks scattered everywhere. I went with my Church group to Pascagoula, MS this weekend to help with the cleanup efforts. We mostly cleaned up the trash and debris in residential yards. There were about 4000 of us from the SE US area.





If you don't look too closely at this house on the right, you may be able to imagine how beautiful it once was.





But when you look at the close up picture on the left, you can see that the first floor is just gone. Gone. The first floor is just hollow. Look how beautiful the 2nd floor windows are as a comparison. There was a hush in the car as we drove down this road near the gulf. You can even see a large fallen tree in the backyard from this view.




Here is another house where only the outside remains. Sorry about the quality of these pictures, since they were all taken from inside a van. We didn't have time for sightseeing or time to stop and take pictures.





Here is an example of all the trash that each house had in its front yard. It's like a dump truck came and dumped its load in their front lawns. Some of our duties were to clean up all this trash from residential lawns.

Guess where we went yesterday?

Elder Russell and me

This is a picture of Elder Russell and me. He was one of my favorite sealers to work with in the Orlando Temple.

New Furniture

Finally got the sectional I've always wanted.

My Favorite Calling (and a cake made to look like it)

One day my old roommate was teaching a lesson on Temples. She made this cake. It has a square large bottom layer, then a smaller layer, then can you figure out how the steeple was made? Why, it's an upside down ice cream cone, complete with a candle on the top to represent the Angel Moroni that can be found on the tops of most of the Temples.



This is the Orlando Florida Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I can't figure out if it's more beautiful during the day or at night as shown.

Visit of the Flowers - June 2005

This is what happens when he gets a little tired but still
wants to play one of his favorite games.... Twister! Isn't he cute??





Yes, as you can tell, there aren't a lot of toys at PJ's house. If you really want to play with something, I bring out the big guns, also knows as Tupperware. He seemed to have just as much fun with them than he would with "real" toys!

One of my favorite pieces of furniture is shown here. My Cordaroy's Bean Bag Chair. There's nothing more comfortable, especially when you use the ottoman. Relaxing on one of my favorite pieces of furniture is one of my favorite nephews. Life doesn't get better than looking at this adorable face!

Luling Vacation - March 2005