Ryan and Kelly

We enjoyed getting to know our two grandchildren, Ryan and Kelly.

Eve loves water

When Eve gets a chance, she loves to play in the water such as this past Saturday when they irrigated at her apartment.

Camping

The weekend before we moved into our new home we went camping with our new Windrift Ward in the mountains near Payson, Arizona. We took our grand-daughter, Eve. It was a little cool but very pleasant. We got to know many of our new ward members. Brother Knight cooked our bishop a giant pancake.

New trees

We ordered 10 fruit trees for our yard that were delivered on 27 October. Bob and Gary Brown dug the holes with the help of a big auger. Bob and Rose planted the trees. The new trees include almond, apricot, fig, peach, pear, plumb, and pecan. They are all growing nicely after two weeks in the ground. For those who may not know, Arizona has some of the most difficult soil to work with we have ever encountered. When the soil is dry it is hard as a brick. When the soil is wet it is similar to sticky paste. We ordered a big dump truck full of top soil mixed with mulch and manure to give our trees a better chance of survival.

Our new home

We moved into our new home on 18 October. Bob's cousin, Bill Tryon, and his sons and a couple of room mates helped us load our belongings out of our storage unit into Bill's big trailer. We had arranged for our new ward to help us unload on Saturday morning at 10AM. Because Bill's crew worked so quickly and efficiently, by the time the ward help arrived there were only a few boxes left for them to carry into the house.












We bought some new furniture to replace that which we had sold before our mission. We also hung up several of our Afghan rugs.

After General Conference

We had a little bit of snow on the mountains in Utah on General Conference Sunday.








On our way home we stopped in Blanding, Utah to visit Bob's relatives, Eva and Stan Byrd. They have some fancy quilts in their visitors center.










They took us on a little outing to see some cliff dwellings.

many pictures from October

We attended our first Hungarian mission reunion.