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| So nice to be back at the temple! |
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| Did some sealings tonight, and since Kimo came with us, we did sealings of sons to their parents. By the end of the night, Tom and I both agreed that our knees were talking back to us! |
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| The temple looks like it glows from within. |
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| Beautiful temple! |
| Tom has a love/hate relationship with fireworks. He loves to see them go off, but the noise isn't too good for his PTSD. We usually stay home on the 4th, so we did our picnic on the 3rd!  |
| Putting together a picnic means pie---blackberry pie was the choice made by all! |
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| First the pie shell |
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| Second, the filling |
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| We liked this pie so much we made another one the next day! |
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| Watermelon as far as the eye can see at the commissary! |
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| Emi looks good in my sun hat! |
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| Went to Rocky Beach as usual; saw this hardy sand flower. |
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| Always like visiting Rocky Beach! |
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| Fortunate to be able to serve at the temple open house doing three different jobs. In the welcome tent I was tasked with organizing the people who did not want to negotiate the stairs, putting them in groups that could fit onto the elevator and making sure they got situated with temple wheel chairs. |
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| Another job was to count the visitors as they left the temple, recording the totals every half an hour---lots of clicking! |
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| Third job was to slip on the shoe coverings for people doing groups tours thru the temple. Here are some of the bags of booties our Youth put into pairs. Had to stuff Tom's car to the brim hauling those bags to the temple! |
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| Kimo wasn't feeling too well the day we assisted with booties, also known as "booty duty", but he came to help out anyway. |
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| The blue sky is so vibrant against the white of the beautiful temple! |
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| Light flare from my camera makes the temple look like it's shooting a laser! |
We were fooling around with Chatgpt and at my request, Kimo wrote a prompt; to make a Strange Planet-style cartoon for Mother's Day. He gave it two prompts that reflect my mothering style.
One is that I openly admit to having been overprotective about the kids swimming in the ocean. Until they were strong pool swimmers, I never let them go out deep in the ocean waves and was constantly having to rein them in. This did scar the kids a little bit, but they are alive to tell that tale.
Secretly washed Tom's car for him as a treat and then
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| Brother Webb sporting a bedazzled tie for Father's day |
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| Got Tom a recharchable back scrubber for the shower-he liked it! |
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| Another cool twilight SpaceX launch! |
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| Nice to meet up with Maren for lunch; she's so uplifting! |
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| Curtis passed the reins to the new Coordinators of the FS Center. We made him a pop-up book to show our appreciation for him! |
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| We had a rather low-key 4th of July this year, staying home. The fireworks can be triggering to Tom's PTSD sometimes, so instead, we closed all the windows and put on white noise! |
