Stephenson Family Ties

ITS FRIDAY: What made you happy this week?!


Its really hard to do nothing totally.
Even just sitting here, like this, our
bodies are churning, our minds are
chattering.  There's a whole commotion
going on inside   of us.
from: Stargirl
by: Jerry Spinelli

I searched all over for a picture of the celestial room of the Logan Temple...nary a one to be found.    sigh   I was happy there this week.  I love attending  that temple when Im visiting Anna and David.  


Used book store in a University town...sucked a few hours away in a lexicon of bliss.


Seeing Anna's face when she discovered that this was the week that the  in'sy of a belly button turned into an outsy!  Priceless!  She's 5 months!!


Each night, after spending time at the mill, we'd come home and My Builder would check the business emails and see new orders for rabbit food!!  Cha-Ching!!! 


Eating healthy at my daughter's home...washing it all down with caffeine free Pepsi.  Priceless!!


Sleeping well on an air-mattress, and not minding.  


Ignoring the snow...as it fell in vast quantities while  I headed south on the shuttle. UGH!! That was hard!!!!


Speaking of the shuttle.  I shared it with just 2 other ladies...fresh in from Hawaii.  (note the snow...in Oct!!) As I read my book, one of them quietly sang, just for the joy of singing. It was lovely. And get this...we might have spoken 20 words to one another the whole way down....my book is good!!....and as we pulled up to our destination, she reached over the seat and handed me a small green sticky note with her name and address and phone number written on it and INVITED me to call her if we ever got to Hawaii. She extended an invite to her home!!! Sweet Liz said, "If you ever come to Honolulu, please come stay with us!!"  How crazy and beyond kind is that!?  Here's hoping I can take her up on her offer some day!!!!


Book club has reconvened...for another try.  We have the next 5 months of books selected. 
Killing Lincoln; The Art of Racing in the Rain; Words I Wish I Wrote; Magnificent Obsession; Minding Mama.  Cant wait to dig in!!


Girls volleyball!! Whether they are winning or get clobbered by the Tongan ward, our girls have a good time!!   Gotta LOVE them!! And I do!!!


Lastly...happiness and gratitude this week to our most excellent dog sitters. My mom and dad love our Zoey and she loves them!!  We are so thankful to them for taking such good care of her while we are away.  Zoey can be a little neurotic sometimes..especially when My Builder is out of town...she misses him so...she stops eating!!!  




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*The five-story Logan Utah Temple was built entirely by volunteer labor over a seven-year period from 1877 to 1884.