Fabulous Phelps

Sunday, January 20, 2019

We had a dinner tonight at Mary Phelps home 

with some of our Thailand youth ~ such a fun evening!

Here are our cute young friends from Thailand (they are all studying 

down at BYU).   It was quite the delicious, healthy meal that Mary prepared 

(except for my fruit salad that had many preservatives and whip cream 😋😋😉)!

Such sweet, wonderful kids with such strong testimonies 

(Alaina brought her cute boyfriend, xxxxxx).

It is always so fun to get together with these kids ~ having an Ex-pat experience is the best thing in the world and brings a special 'family' bond that last forever!

Melanie & Emily Bunker, xxxxxxxxx, Mary Phelps, Alaina Pinvises and me.

 

      Healthy desserts and healthy ice cream ~ yummy 😋😋😋! 

After all the Thai kids went home there was a lunar eclipse!  Mary and I crept outside in our jammies and watched.  It was amazing ~ just beautiful. 

If you, like I, aren't sure how this took place I looked up exactly how a lunar 

eclipse happens; it's simple: it's when the Earth comes between the Sun and 

the Moon and covers the Moon with its shadow (the eclipsed Moon sometimes appears to turn red, earning it the nickname of "Blood Moon")! Pretty cool.  

The next Lunar Eclipse is in May of 2021.

Mary and I were planning on a sleepover Sunday night but instead
 we got two nights of partying! There was a huge blizzard during the night 
and I couldn't get my car out of the driveway.  It was gorgeous and I got 
to spend another wonderful day with one of my very favorite people!

The drive home on Tuesday was gorgeous!

~i hear those sleigh bells ringing

Family at a Christmas Cabin 2017

The Arrival, Dinner and the Nativity
Since we thought we were going to be in India on our mission this year we didn't reserve an Airbnb
for our Christmas Family Reunion until late in the season.  The home we did get was a
bit older than the last one but it ended up being spacious and perfect for us!
Bill and I arrived early and found a few little creature droppings throughout the kitchen.
We went to the store and got some contact pape and did a major clean-up!

The weather was gorgeous, snowy and cold.  Our driveway was super steep and
when Jamis and Marcie arrived they had to put chains on their tires just to get
up the driveway (Robbie helped gun it up until it got stuck half way up)!

Everyone arrived at different times so we got to greet each group as they trickled in which
was such fun.  Kelli organized a schedule for dinner assignments and the first couple
days Kelli, Lindsay and I got the kitchen in order and helped each other with the food.





It was so wonderful having family dinners;
sitting around, visiting and eating great food prepared by . . . everyone!
Mary and Joseph discussing their scene with the angel and baby Jesus listening in!



Loved that Robbie volunteered to play a wiseman as we were a little short on participants!


Christmas Eve is always the best night of the Christmas Season! I love to hear
Bill read from the scriptures the account of the Savior's Birth and the
reenactment by our children and now our grandchildren of that beautiful event.