McKneely cousins are in town!
They arrived on Thursday afternoon and that evening the big 3 girls joined Grandpa Pete's youth group at the temple to do baptisms! YAY. And the world is so small, I guess my cousin Allan Jones who recently moved into the area lives in their ward, so he was there and met Kaitlyn. He recognized Stephen from social media of all places. Strange, small world. Part of their reason was to attend the temple since their temple in Houston was flooded and is currently closed.
Friday was cold. We did get the kids out of the house to go to the park and play a crazy game of baseball. Then we went ice skating--a bucket item for all the kids of something they wanted to do over the break.
Mom and Dad McKneely arrive later this afternoon. It was a memorable visit because they forgot many things including church clothes--they hadn't planned to go to church with us but had forgotten about our plans to do temple sealings and so they had to borrow and shop for new stuff.
That evening after dinner we went for a cold excursion to go see the lights at the Dallas Zoo.
Saturday the adults had an appointment to go do an endowment session and then some family sealings. That evening we had a fun BBQ with the Bennion's and the "Dougs".
Sunday morning (New Years Eve) we watched Sound of Music, and watched some icing and snow flurries fall. We went to church and came home to make pizzas with our pizza ovens--it was QUITE the ORDEAL and was probably more fun of an idea than it was executed. And we enjoyed puff pastries, cheese dip and chocolate fondue. The younger kids got to stay up pretty late but not until midnight. We sent the older kids up just before midnight--unbeknownst to us they stayed up and listened to music until midnight and celebrated the new year!
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