Last week we were called down to Salt Lake to visit with the Missionary Department for two days. While we were there we were able to see all of our family and spend a little time with them including a most precious and memorable day in the Salt Lake Temple with all our children and their spouses when little James Charles Raybould was sealed to his family there.

 We went to the Old Spaghetti Factory for Lucy's 6th birthday.

 It was SO fun to be at the ranch for an afternoon with the kids!

 This is the BEST place to be!

 A perfect day:  all our children and their spouses were in the temple for the sealing of 
James Charles Raybould to his family.  

This is Kim and John Raybould with their children, 

Grace, Jack, James, and Anna.

 Afterward we enjoyed a delicious lunch with family and friends 

at Kim's beautiful home.

 I am in Baby Heaven!

 One of Kim's friends made these darling (and delicious) cookies 

in honor of sweet baby James!

 So cute!  So yummy!

 James is loving his mommy's original 1980's Cabbage Patch baby boy.

I'm so glad I saved our girls' dolls for them!

There really is a resemblance there!

I brought all my paints (oils and acrylics) hoping to paint some of the beauties of Mormon Handcart Historic Sites, but so far all I have had time to use them for is to fix some of the displays at the Visitors' Center.

 I spent the day in the Visitors' Center cleaning the maps 

and touching up some of the lettering that has rubbed off over the years.

One of our winter missionaries, Elder Thomas, served a mission in France as a young man, and he noticed that the name of Thomas DeBeau Soleil (Tom Sun) was misspelled in our Visitors' Center. No one else has ever noticed that or tried to change it until now - after 17 years!

Many of the maps have become soiled over the years and the lettering has rubbed off with use.  The parking lot pictured above is actually now a little trail called Prairie Park where families with little children can pull a handcart around and read about the handcart pioneers on bronze plaques.

I'm hoping to "train" people to touch the dots (which are easy to repaint) instead of touching the words.

Sunset at the Statues representing the "Valley Boys" who spent the day 

carrying exhausted members of the Martin Handcart Company across the Sweetwater River

We have THE MOST BEAUTIFUL sunsets ever!!!

Damage from the early snowstorms at Missionary Village