Sock and T-shirt sale

This weekend we went to the famous "sock sale" in Northfield with another missionary couple, the Vorwallers'. Also checked out the t-shirt sale and had a beautiful ride in the snow to Roxbury to buy a couple of sweatshirts. Great fun! We have been busy, so haven't had time to update our blog. Two weeks ago, we where pleased to have a visit from our daughter & 2 of our grandkids.
While driving them back to the airport it snowed a little, the kids being from Georgia, wanted to play in the snow...but no time.

We did a little painting. Jared painted an airplane, of course, Melissa painted an abstract for her room and Heather wanted a purple leaf?

Heather, Melissa & Jared came to visit! The weather was cold, but we still managed to see a few of the Vermont sites. Enjoyed a day at the ECHO Lake Champlain Aquarium & Science Center. Even did a little Christmas shopping.

Grandma needed a hug!!

Fun with the kids in Vermont!

Before they left, on Monday, Grant got to see Grandpa at work first hand. We are putting up 100,ooo Christmas lights around the Memorial grounds. They say, it will take most of November to get them all up before the lighting ceremony, Nov. 28th.

Cassie sent her dad a "birthday party in a bag" complete with balloons, party hats, cake & candle & plates for two. We waited to celebrate his 60th while Kristie & her little family came to visit. As mentioned before, the girls sent him a GPS...it is great fun!

We visited Billings Farm, Woodstock, Tunbridge (saw some covered bridges), Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory, toured the JS Memorial and went to church in the short weekend they where here.
It was great to see them and especially enjoyed Grant & Leah...Hugs and kisses...and Leah even let me hold and play with her all during church...it was sure fun!

Trip to Bennington, VT

We Drove to Bennington and visited the oldest Church in Vermont. Buried in the cemetery is Robert Frost, who in 1920, came to live in Shaftsbury, Vt., the next town north of Bennington on Historic Rte 7A. He said, “I mean to plant a new Garden of Eden with a thousand apple trees of some unforbidden variety.”
Frost lived with his family in Shaftsbury during the height of his career as a poet until 1938, when his wife Elinor suddenly died. We able to visit his home also.

We visited the The Bennington Battle Monument, dedicated to the famous Battle of Bennington that took place during the Revolutionary war in 1777. It is a 306' stone obelisk which opened to the public in 1891. It been said that this was a turning point of the war to defeat the British.

Family Visit

Several members of my family were able to visit at the same time. During the month of October. They scheduled there trip to see the New England fall colors. The locals here call them "leaf peepers". Anyway, from left to right my brother Ray and his wife Charlotte, Norman and his wife Bonnie just in front, Nephi and Ruby and my stepmom Teresa and her husband Jack Leavitt. We had a great time but had to travel south to see some color. This picture was taken at Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home. Robert Todd Lincoln, the only surviving son of President Lincoln built his home here after becoming a successful business man and Chairman of the largest manufacturing corporation in America, the Pullman Coach Company. We visited many other sites and had a great time showing them around the beautiful state of Vermont. We spent two days at the Shelburne Museum, and learned a lot of Vermont history. We also drove around the historic barn at Shelburne Farms.

This is the chapel in So. Royalton where we attend church. Tomorrow is the last Sunday we will meeting there for about 300 days, while it is being remodeled and added on to.

It is an unusal L.D.S. Chapel, more New England looking. We are hoping it will keep its distictive look after the remodel.

The beautiful fall colors were captured from the next ridge on McIntosh Pond Rd. where we live.


Tomorrow is Nephi's 60th birthday...Happy Birthday!!! Wow, how time has flown...I thought we were still 39.

Our 4 daughters sent him a GPS system for the car. He is so excited not to have me as navigatonor anymore...And so am I!!

The Vermont Country Store @ Weston, VT

Nephi's brother Greg and his wife Donna were in Vermont last week. We had a nice visit and had fun shopping at the Vermont County Store.

Fall foliage has arrived and almost gone in about 3 weeks, it has been so beautiful! This will be our only autumn in New England, so we have been taking a lot of pictures.

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Three of the other missionaries and I entered some things in the Tunbridge Worlds Fair. I entered 2 photos and 4 paintngs. Tunbridge is about 15 min. away and is a very picturesque village, we love it.

I was pleasantly surprised when this painting received the Peoples Choice award & all 6 recieved blue ribbons. The Village Store in Tunbridge has allowed me to display some of my stuff on consignment in their store. It would be great if something would sell.

Seems like the month of September flew by. My birthday and anniversary came and went. Didn't do anything exciting, but go for a ride and take photos. We are trying to be conservative, out here on our mission. And with the economy in a noise dive, we pretty much a just spend money on our apartment, gas and food.