Special Temple Day & Payson Temple Tour

What a special weekend we had in our family.  Our youngest daughter went through the Mount Timpanogos Temple for her first time.  Such a special day and can you believe it……we didn’t even take any pictures – Aghhhhh!  But I do have a picture of my daughter that I took in May, 2 years ago, by our flowering crab tree.  

It was truly a special day.  The Mount Timpanogos Temple is a special temple to her because when this temple had its public open house in 1996, our family was part of that.  She was assigned to assist those who couldn’t walk, by pushing them through the tour in wheel chairs.  Besides going through the temple for her first time, it was also her birthday.  I’m sure this is one birthday she won’t be forgetting!

Later that day, we had the opportunity to go through the Payson Utah Temple for its public open house.  This temple is one of the most beautiful temples I have had the privilege to see.  Breathtaking, really!

THIS SITE has beautiful pictures of the inside of the temple.  You know the saying…”A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words”.  Well, that statement does not ring true for this temple.  The pictures are not even close to the magnificent beauty of the inside of this temple. For a video tour, which I just came across this morning, CLICK HERE, and be sure to make your screen full size…….Oh my! 
For more information on this temple and/or to reserve a time that you would like to visit and tour the inside, you can go HERE.  Promises, promises – you will not be disappointed…..make your reservations, now…May 23rd is the last day of the public open house.

This is a picture of the Payson Temple, back in March of 2014, while it was still being built.  My sister’s friend took this photo………….

Home Fire Scare

Last weekend as I was driving home from my daughters place and miles away from my home I noticed a lot of smoke in the air.  From the angle I was at, it looked very close to my home and I was getting a little worried.  The closer I got to home, the better the view was…..the smoke was not coming from my home area, at all.  Still curious as to where all the smoke was coming from, I passed right on by my home and continued to follow the smoke.  I kept driving for a few miles before coming to where the smoke was.  As it turned out, it was a controlled burn by the fire department, and I had nothing to worry about.  Whew!

From what I was told, the owners did not want to burn the old outhouse so while the fires were burning, the fire department was continually spraying the outhouse with water so it wouldn’t catch on fire.  Old outhouses are pretty cool…..I actually have one on my yard, too.

Grandma Time Anniversary

This past weekend was GRANDMA TIME!  It was my daughter and her husbands anniversary.  Her husband set plans in motion (unbeknownst to my daughter) for me to come stay the night while he surprised her and took her overnight to a dinner/play at the Mystique Theater and then to Swan’s Inn for the night.  The next day they went to a movie and shopping.  I’m sure they had a great time, but I’m think’n I got the better end of the deal.  Grandma time is precious!  Even though my little grandson had a bad cold and his nose was constantly running, he was a very good boy.  My daughter checked in frequently to see how he was doing, but like I stated before…..he was such a good little boy.  He has his own little camo tunnel that he loves crawling through.  He would come through one end, turn around and head back through the other end.

He love to play peek-a-boo.  Every time you say the words, peek-a-boo, he covers his eyes and waits for you to say…there he is, then he moves his hands away from his face.  So-o-o-o-o-o darling!

And here he is making his lion sounds.  Too bad you can’t hear pictures because I’m sure you would be laughing if you could hear this picture, too……..”What Does the Lion Say”? 

We also had a lot of video time.  He loves, and I don’t say that lightly, he totally loves to watch his cousins on the youtube.  They do a video blog (vlog), everyday and where he was not feeling well, grandma overdid it and let him watch their vlog, over and over and over again.  He sure knows what grandma’s Kindle is.  It got to the point that every time I picked up my Kindle, he would toddle over to the couch, climb up, turn around and sit, then wait for me to come sit by him so we could watch vlogs. 

I ended up staying overnight so I could go to church in my daughters ward because her husband was giving a talk and I wanted to hear him.  Then, I even stayed another night because my other daughter who lives in Utah is going to the temple for the first time on her birthday so we went to Idaho Falls and bought her all the things she would need for this special occasion. 
I think….no, I KNOW…it was a better anniversary for grandma than it was for my daughter and her husband.

Oven-Fried Pork Chops

I am forever and ever looking at and saving recipes off the net.  I came across these oven-fried pork chops a week or two ago.  I found the recipe at the allrecipes.com site and decided I would make them.  They turned out pretty tasty so I filed this recipe in my
“Keeper” recipe book.
I changed things up just a bit in this recipe so I am posting my version below.  The recipe does not state it, but I used boneless pork cutlets and I cooked mine for a longer time than called for and they still turned out moist and tasted great.
Besides the pork chops and dressing, I added green beans and roasted potatoes to my meal with a mandarin orange jello on the side, which made it all come together nicely.  Mmmmm – good meal. 
I know the table setting in my picture is not correct but when it’s just me and my husband, I’m not too particular about where my silverware is placed.  Half the time I don’t even have silverware on the table and as we’re sitting down to eat, I realize it and have to go get it out of the silverware drawer……nope, nothing fancy about us.