Life is Good

We have a week of with drawls.

Joe is back in Afghanistan...

was he really here with his family?

Adrienne and Oliver are back in Boise...

What a hole they left here...

it is just to to quiet.

The with drawl from all the 'fun' foods...

not good for us but so yummy shared with our loved ones.

Finding our schedule again and the groove of work...

The week started like this...

Frost being scraped by Stan with a CD cover.

Can't find a frost scraper in Florida

 Elder Hyer turned 21 Dec 27

Elder Lewis Elder Jensen (who told us his birthday was the 29) he didn't say anything till we were all done.

Elder Rydalch and Hyer

At Appelbee's

Thursday afternoon we ate with Haydee Rivera and the missionaries.

Then we got to help plant, plants for her.

I got to work her front flower bed.

Hands in soil, sand or not, was wonderful!

 Elder Wood Campbell and Sister Anna Stanley

 Elder Wood and Lewis

 Elder Wood and Stan

 Anna Stanley

 Elder Wood Anna and Elder Lewis

 Yours truly... This is the missionary work I love to do.

Sister Haydee giving instructions.

She said in her broken English...

'I told Heavenly Father I don't have a man and I need some help.

So in one day she got two neighbor men who are helping remodel her kitchen
and three Elders to help in the yard.

She was baptized last April.

What a difference a few days will make.

This little guy is actually walking out of his skin.

 New Years Eve..

Door open a warm breeze and the sound of Fire works.

California grapefruit and strawberries....

 Fresh fruit is so wonderful.

 A Camellia from Sister Haydee's yard.  They bloom in the winter.

Saturday 1-1-11
As Seniors we went to Merit Island to see the birds...
Or so we thought...
BUT
Florida is in the middle of a drought...
and the birds are else where.
There were a few but not the thousands like we were expecting.
We went to see the Manatee's and they weren't there either, there are usually 300-400 of them.

 The water should come up to the leafy parts of those little bushes.
The minimum depth of water should be 18 inches.

 Rose flat bills

 turkey buzzard

 No water just mud

Stan and Sister Swain

End of a fun and beautiful day.
Despite the fact there wasn't water it was beautiful.

Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take...

But by the moments that take our breath away.