Family History


Saturday, Melissa hosted a shower for Lindsey's twins. Mitch and Lexi flew in from Kansas City.  Lexi helped with the shower, while Mitch and Christopher spent the day skiing at Sundance, a "tradition" that they started just last year, but two-years-running is a good start.  We had an extra day off from the library, a temple day, a p-day, and Sunday--so four days of making family history, instead of doing family history.  A great blessing for parents is seeing their children enjoy being together.  And a great blessing of being on this mission is being able to be with family. 
Happy to be together.  
On our temple day, Elder Challis watched Henley and Hal while Jaynie and I went to the Mt. Timpanogas Temple. That was nice.  He was also the baby sitter of all five grandkids during the twin shower. Lots of bonding time and he is so good at it. 
We were all happy that Lindsey was at the shower.   All week long, that was a question because she was awakened every night with "labor" pains.  Her doctor told her that false labor can sometimes be more painful with twins, but to monitor closely and get to the hospital so "real" labor could be stopped.  That was a nerve-wracking instruction for a first-time mom.  Despite getting very little sleep, she taught school all week and was at her fun "Little Sprouts" shower.  And Saturday marked the day (34 weeks) when the doctor won't stop labor when it starts.  But still we are hoping for two more weeks.
We had an entire day of rain and then snow on Thursday, so Elder Challis got to shovel snow from Jaynie's very expansive new driveway. He loved it.   Bring on the moisture!  We are so happy to have it.
During our library hours, Elder Challis has been comparing information on family search with that left by his father on paper pedigrees. Tedious.  I have still been concentrating on my grandma Dalton's line and found some second cousins twice removed needing temple ordinances.   Thanks to my Alaska family, their ordinances have been started.  Making and doing family history together.  😊


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