North Carolina - Hardys

 Monday we flew from CO back to Salt Lake City - Tuesday we flew to Greensboro - so fun to visit all around the country!  Our plane got in too late to see the girls Winter Concert - here Grace is playing some of the songs from it for us.

 Sophie's hamster - Pansy - is in the purple ball - - she rolls it all around the house - Grandpa found it stuck behind the toilets in the downstairs bathroom!

 Hardy's pretty Christmas tree.

 Noah and Luke on their way to school Friday morning ... we left at noon to drive a rental car to Pike's in Virginia.

Grace and Sophie go to school almost two hours after the boys - such lovely grand daughters!

More CO fun!

 What a darling boy - in an awesome shirt! and with an adoring Grandpa Smith!

 We opened up the front door and went out on our way to Chic-Fill-ay for dinner -- Clark ran out, climbed up the side of Kurt's truck, up the rack and stood on the top of the ladder!  what a boy!

 Fun dinner - fun kids - several teenagers said hello to Maddie ...friends from her high school.

 She told us that one friend who lives there said when they are in the drive up window and a big van pulls up and asks for 9 ice cream cones - they know it is Maddie's Family!!

 So much fun to spend some time with these lovely people.

Great evening,  good food, wonderful company!!!

Clark's Baptism

Kurt's family's giant Christmas Tree - cut from the CO mountains - brought to their house by Grandpa Sheffield's 16 foot construction trailer!!

 Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 - Sweet Clark and his baptism suit and programs...at the Newlin Meadows Chapel - Parker Colorado.

 All the kids before the program ... it was cold outside!  Two older boys are Sheffield cousins.

 Proud Grandma and Grandpa Smith and excited Clark.

 All the wonderful Smith's at their house after Church Dec. 4th - some bare footed!  They raise them tough in Colorado!

Great picture of a proud Mom and Dad and Clark.

Party afterward!

Cute Grandkids by their giant tree!

With Grandma and Grandpa Smith - loved spending time with them.

Colorado Trip - Sue and John's

 Marc is moving to Honduras - he has a job there and his wife and baby are there!  He is bringing lots of things to Sue to store for him ... expecting to be gone just a couple of years.  This is the baby's baptismal candle - lit at her 'baptism' sprinkling - and the God Parents are supposed to on the anniversary remind the child of the covenants they made at baptism...course not for a couple of years.  Sue and John stood in the the God Parents that are in Honduras...Sue said it was a sweet ceremony - just not true...but we like the idea of the anniversary of your baptism - remembering - course we do that every Sunday taking the Sacrament.

 Names on the Box of the candle.

 I couldn't talk Dad into buying this great Christmas suit - not for the 99 dollars they wanted at Macys!

 More choices!

 Actually the blue one with Santa's was worn by a brother at Kurt's ward party - - really!

 Great gas prices in Parker!!  we actually saw $1.84 in Aurora... much better than the $2.39 in Poky.

 Marc leaving for the airport and his flight to Miami and then Honduras... he face timed and we got to see Julieth and baby Dana - so precious.

Sue's 'angel' Christmas tree - all the ornaments are stars and angels... so creative.

First Snow in Pocatello

Monday morning Nov. 28th we woke up to the first real snow of the season .. very pretty and cold!

Our front flower bed has been so pretty all the warm fall - but now will die down.

Heather and Isaac's Birthdays

 Heather took Family pictures for Dan and Lindsey ... they are so good I wanted to share with all of you - great job Fairbanks and Heather!

 Nov. 25th - Heather's and Isaac's birthday!  Fun dinner and party at the Kroeber's.

 Nerf warriors getting ready for a 'war' - delightful all around!

 We signed up to feed the Elders on Saturday evening - the one on the far left is from Alabama - we told him a friend of ours from Jamaica served in the AL Birmingham mission - and he actually knew him!  Elder Collins from Junction, Jamaica served in Elder Talbots city of Selma - he told us fun stories - what a small world!!

Stan and Julie and Thia stopped on their way back to Bozeman ... sure love it when any grand kids can visit our house - isn't she darling?

More Thanksgiving

 Here's the whole group - we missed those who couldn't be with us --- thanks to Polly's sweet neighbor who came over to take the picture!

 Here are our six and their wonderful significant others - who are really very significant to us!!  love to all.

 The wonderful Williams house with lots and love and food and family and fun in it!

 More Thanksgiving dinner pictures - really needed video!

Beginning of the White Elephant game - lots of love and laughter ... hope we didn't scare Allie!