Home For The Holidays

Excited Is An Understatement....

Photo from Christmas 2002, Curt's first Christmas home after his

mission to Venezuela. The Girls were so excited to have him home.

Excited to have.... Curt, Carmen, Jeffrey, Alison, and Andrew all with us for one day this weekend! Hooray!!! I am excited beyond words to have everyone together, even if it is for less than Twenty-Four Hours. We will meet in Orlando and let the fun begin. Ryan Ramos is getting married on Saturday in The Orlando LDS Temple. After the wedding and reception dinner, we will head to

Grandpa and Grandma's for an early Christmas Celebration.

Andrew flies in to West Palm Beach from Utah on Friday at 5:30pm. We will pick him up and head straight to Orlando. Curt and Carmen fly directly to Orlando from Michigan. Grandpa and Grandma will pick them up. Jeff and Alison will drive down from Gainesville. Curt, Carmen, Jeff, and Alison made reservations at the Grandpa and Grandma Hogie Inn. Andrew made reservations for the rest of us at the same Hotel Chain he works for in Salt Lake. The reunion will be short, yet oh so sweet.

This Sunday, Michael Watson speaks in Church prior to his departure for Missionary Service in Africa.

This week has been crazy. I am substituting for the Early Morning Seminary Teacher all week. It is not the getting up early that is difficult, it is the preparing a "song and dance" lesson for each day.

I think about the lesson all day long and into my dreams at night. My hat is off to anyone who TEACHES or ATTENDS Early Morning Seminary at 6am every school day. As my son, Curt, told the kids at Seminary in Utah when he attended there while we were on vacation in 1994....this is not "Real Seminary" (meaning, attending during the school day) I am sure he scored big points for verbalizing that observation. Wow...I am in awe of the entire Early Morning Seminary process. Great kids, Great Teachers!

Merry Christmas!