Christmas

This Christmas Duncan, Nancy and I celebrated together. On Christmas Eve we visited Gee Gee and opened some presents with her. We got some good video footage of her eating my homemade divinity and saying, "That's all sugar." :) Duncan got some smiles and even some applause from Gee Gee after a couple numbers on the harmonica. (We got good video footage of that, too, but the files are too big to upload.)

Our Christmas Eve spread:


Our simple Christmas morning:

Baby Shower

Duncan's mom recently came to Utah for a visit and got the ball rolling for a Parker/Peterson baby shower for me. His aunt Joyce headed it up and his cousin, Joy, hosted it. Thanks to the wonderful Parker/Peterson women for a wonderful time and fabulous gifts!

Thanksgiving

We were blessed to gather with family for Thanksgiving. Craig, Janell, and their crew came down from Boise and joined us in Utah Valley (Nancy, Gina, Duncan, Chad, Maizie, and kids). We got to congregate and mom and dad's house and feel their spirit even though they were far away in Korea having their own Thanksgiving. Here are some shots from the weekend.

Janell couldn't wait to hold Olivia (Chad and Maizie's newest). Craig and Janell have legal guardianship of Cassie, who recently joined their family.

Nancy trying really hard, and Gina not trying hard at all.

Here we are ready to eat. (Duncan's taking the picture.)

At least he wore blue to the BYU/Utah game.

A serious game of couples Settlers.

Skeeter

A few weeks ago the Elders Quorum had a skeet shoot and hot dog roast. Duncan nailed his first two shots ever! (I hit a few of those clay things myself.) It was a fun activity!