First Pics Are In...

...From my camera, at least.

I can't wait for the professional ones, not to mention full video of the choreographed dance at the reception.

We did a day with our long-lost friends H. and J. and their kids, then the wedding at the Portland Temple and reception that evening, and then a few days at a beach house in Lincoln City.

That's the quickie for now!

Results Are In: He's Cooler Than The Fonz

Fathers probably have less dignity to lose, so I have no picture of S. in a humorous, slightly compromised state.  Instead, I offer this (5th annual) caricature in breakfast food.

Yes, he's got a bacon moustache and is sticking out his strawberry tongue at us all.  We love you, S.!

Blessed Are the Mothers...

. . . for they are loved well, and often, and beyond all dignity.

Harry Potter

All about Ian's themed party at Karrot Soup!

Palmyra

The Sacred Grove, "early in the spring"

Palmyra Temple, where Scott and I spent a few happy hours; and the replica of the Smith's first log cabin

The very bricks under which the plates were hidden, or so we were told

Whitmer farm (I think), where much of the translation work was done 

Cumorah

   

The kids getting their crazies out...in front of the temple...before our long drive home

 

Who knows how much they'll remember, but we all felt the goodness of what started here.