Images of Meagan's Wedding

The ceremony of Matt and Meagan's wedding was held in the living room of James and Cambers home. It was very touching and personal and a history of their acquaintance and romance preceded the vows. The courtyard was used for the eating, cake cutting and the innovative delight for all, "the candy bar". After delicious snacks of all kinds, there was dancing to a terrific band by the pool. It was a fun, festive wedding that went from 3:30 till 9 pm. Meagan's mother Jennifer had made beautiful place settings and lovely shawls were given to all the women. Terrific toasts were given and the traditional first dance and throwing of the bouquet. As a sidelight, Lea, 8 year old daughter of James, caught the bouquet, just as she did at her aunt Kelsi's wedding...

The House before the Wedding

The kitchen family room--part of it... A view of the house next to the ranch on the south...

The dressing room...

The courtyard...

The pool table/movie room, oops a little blurry...

The dining room and kitchen tables...

Both sides of the living room--this will be emptied and filled with white chairs for the wedding--over 100 guests...

The ceiling of the living room... The other part of the kitchen family room...

The sink in the guest bath...

The pool next to the ranch on the south...

The plush bed in the guest wing...

Christmas 2007 at New Home

Christmas Eve...

Christmas Eve was at my son's new home in Rancho Santa Fe and both he and his wife had most of their extended families there, this was a first. There were also the missionaries and a guest from Provo so quite a large group. We played the traditional White Elephant game after a delicious ham and turkey dinner. There was plenty of room for all of us to sit down as evidenced by these pictures!! This is just one half of the living room...

 

Two large tables and two bars make lots of room to spread the food and lots of room to eat it...

Who wants my white elephant present??

Christmas Morning we had the traditional  program with songs and story and then presents...

 

The Sunday before Christmas Jimmy poses with his wife and his Mom...

 

 

The family in front of their new home already for Church before Christmas...

My Christmas Card 2007

 

Northern Lights

When I lived in Glendive, Montana we could see what we called the Northern Lights and they moved back and forth like a light show. This picture was taken in Alaska but what we saw was similar, though perhaps fainter. I just read that scientists think they have discovered the energy source. New data from NASA's Themis mission (satellites lauched this winter) found the energy comes from a stream of charged particles from the sun flowing like a current through twisted bundles of magnetic fields connecting eath's upper atmosphere to the sun.

They said there was a two hour light show in March over Alaska and Canada and the geomagnetic storm raced 400 miles in a minute across the sky (equal to a 5.5 earthquake).

I was surprised to read they had expected the existence of these wound-up bundles of magnetic fields but this is the first time it was ever mapped--and get this--mapped some 40,000 miles above the Earth.

It is an amazing world we live in and so much we still don't know about it.

Nice Weekend!

I am surely glad Mitch had a cookie decorating party and Maria invited me, too. I ate both of the ones I did and see how large they are. I haven't done this for a few years with being gone so much the last several Christmases with disasters. They tasted so good! I made some this year also to take down to San Diego for the little ones to frost.

We would put them in tupper ware in the freezer and there was always a complaint that someone had left the lid off, but it didn't matter. They were all gone before Christmas anyway. We still use the recipe I started using in college when I made cookies for my nephews.

Saturday, Maria took me to the Reno Temple and that was an enjoyable morning and then lunch with Matt and his friend Russ at Chevy Mex--they have the best salsa and chips--did you know you can buy them for your own party? Matt and Russ were stoked with all the snow at Tahoe right now and more on the way. In fact it snowed quite a bit in Reno while we were there--but not here yet.

Then we met Kristi and Mike and saw their cute little Kate walking all around. They showed us their house that is being built in the south Reno area. Very nice area and lovely house. So glad they will be close!