After a wonderful week of company, Beckys two brothers who were visiting and her parents, Ricky just felt like going fishing for his dinner on Saturday night. He said sushi sounded good and he and a buddy went to the neighborhood pond and here is what they caught. Not bad you too! What fun it was to have all Five Jensen cousins together. I'm sure Becky's parents have not stopped smiling yet. So glad they moved to Texas! Beautiful little granddaughters! I love sharing three of them with you Jensens!!!
Jakes parents left on Tuesday afternoon and that made 2 months of having company in the basement. They put the sleep over bed away and Tatia said the basement felt so much bigger. There is even room for the bounce house to be set up and the kids have loved bouncing around this week. Tatia is so smart and if they get certain things done, they can go bounce for a while. Saturday was an awesome day in Charlottesville. It was the Day of Service and they planned things that little ones could help do too. They loved going to an elementary school and helping with the grounds clean up and also some work inside the school. Penny and Max and Oscar were great helpers and Baby Charlie took a nice nap so I think you can say he was a wonderful helper too. Way to go Granges. Last weekend was Constituttion day and they went to one of the signers of the constitutions home where lots of special events were set up. They loved it. I love this photo of Bumpa and Charlie sporting his hat. So cute!!!!!!
This was a good week in Carmichael. Charlie got home safely and made good time traveling on his own on Sunday. Not as many bathroom stops as when the kids come too. He had a fun weekend and was back to work early Monday morning. There was a pancake breakfast at the kids school one morning and he loved getting to take them and feast on some good pancakes. They had a fun time going to play lazer tag Friday night. Their ward had an activity where she got to send a decorated a pumpkin and she was the winner of Most Clever Use of Materials. Go Keelie! She had a fun Activity day making Scripture Cookies. I just love her activity day leader. She does some way fun things with my Keelie Girl!
Stacy had a busy day on Saturday preparing for the Sisters Conference in her Stake and so Pierce said, "Let me have the kids, please!!!" He took them to Disneyland for the day like all good dads in LA do when it's their time for Daddy Day out. Oh my goodness, they had a wonderful time. I loved getting to face time with Adelaide and Jackson boy on their drive to Disney land. It was nearly, almost as fun as being right in the car with them. Thanks for calling me up you two! When cleaning up after they left last week, I found a few things that they had left behind. I loved packing up this little box and shipping it off to their home. Adelaide said it arrived and she was pretty excited to get her sparkley bag back and her two missing puzzle pieces and her NEW YORK CITY Snow globe her daddy had brought her. What fun! The post office workers just love me as I come often with Grammy packages.
Our DownTown Thiots
You may or may not remember 5 years ago when Sky had an assignment in a social media class to try to bring attention to a controversial subject. Skyler picked offering caffeine on BYU's campus. He got quite a bit of attention, was on FOX news several times and then it all died down. Well, this very week, BYU changed their mind and now offers Caffeine on Campus. The same reporter that interviewed Sky before contacted him and once again Sky was on the FOX News in SLC. They were able to interview him via SKYPE and it was kind of cool. Even though he is still feeling bad from his accident, he looked pretty dang good with his scrapes on the news. Go Sky! Ellie and I got to spend the day together on Tuesday. I rode the train to town instead of scaring myself to death with driving, and I found their house and we enjoyed being together and taking care of Sky a bit. We got to do some laundry which is my most favorite thing to do and we took a trip to the library and had story time with some children who were there picking up birth certifiicates. We loved our time together and can't wait to do it again.
I have been looking forward to last night for a month now. There is nothing in the world as nice as General Conference and the Sisters Session, as I love to call it, is always a favorite of mine. I had so wished that all of us Thiot Sisters could be together to listen, but it wasn't meant to be this time. I'm going to start planning for March right now and pray that everyone feels good and can come listen together. Laurie and Lani went together with Krista and Merijane and their girls and that looked so fun. I'm sure my mom was smiling down from heaven above. I got to listen in my home and it was lovely. I loved this quote by President Uchtdorf: "There may be many things about life that are beyond your control. But in the end, you have the power to choose both your destination and many of your experiences along the way. ... You cannot allow your circumstances to make you sad. You cannot allow them to make you mad. You can rejoice that you are a daughter of God. You can find joy and happiness in the grace of God and in the love of Jesus Christ. You can be glad." —Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Oh Yes, We can be Glad!
Dick has been in Houston since Thursday and was first there on business and then got to change his business suit for a Helping Hands shirt and was blessed to help with the clean up in Lumberton, Texas. There is a great team there from our ward and they are having Sacrament Meeting this morning at 8:00 and then will carry on the work again until 4 and then will head on home. Dick said they have worked hard and he was glad he could be there to help. Thanks for representing our family Dick Thiot!
