The first week of December Joseph and I flew out to Missouri so we could be there for Zachary's baptism. We flew into Kansas City where we rented a car to drive to the DeLeeuw's. They had a massive storm that came out of the south, but thankfully it went just south of I-70 so we had good roads getting to their house before they were hit with snow. It left in its wake very cold weather. I had only brought a light wool coat with me so it was hard to keep warm when we went out. We had the opportunity to go to Zachary's piano recital. As always we visited several antique shops. I bought an ornament similar to ones that were on our tree growing up. Since we flew there I only looked for small things.
Zachary's baptism was really nice. They had a lot of support from their ward. Joseph had the opportunity to give one of the talks and it was really nice to hear Joseph share his personal feelings about his own baptism and what his membership in the Savior's church means to him.
While there we attended their ward Christmas party, which was very nice. We were helping clean up afterwards and the Bishop came up to Joseph and said jokingly: "If you stay just one more week I'll give you a calling". They really have a good Bishop. Joseph and I often think of moving where the Lord could use us more.
We went to Bass Pro sporting goods store on Monday night while we were there as they were offering free pictures with Santa. It is really a nice thing that they do. They had different activity areas set up for the kids.
In the background is the train that the kids could run themselves. Here they are at the shooting range.
Brian and Trevor taking their turn.
Brian with Santa.
With Santa.
Zachary talking to Santa.
They had a race track set up, remote control monster trucks as well as an archery range for the kids.
They also had a free ornament the kids could make. I was really impressed that they would provide such a fun event for the community.
Our trip came to an end too soon but the Deleeuw's wouldn't be too far behind us as they came out to Utah to spend Christmas with us. When we got in Tuesday night we decided rather than having Keith drive down and pick us up we would try out the new trax line at the airport. Since it was night the front runner only runs once every hour, so we had about a half hour wait going from the trax line to the front runner line but now we know how the system works and plan on using it again.
