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| The scale would have been clearer if Lucy was in the picture too ... |
29 August, 2016
Lucy's new playmate
"INSIDE THE HOUSE," says Lucy's mother, Caitlin.
The Living Room
Sarah commemorates the successful completion of her first week back at school by hiking up into the hills, above and beyond Red Butte Gardens.
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| This is the place ... |
Retreat
Drew is having a cool time, doing cool things for her cool job. This weekend she and her colleagues got away to finish a draft of a script, up at and thanks to the Sundance Institute. As the poet once said, nice work if you can get it!
Pretzel
Milo, sending a message to his family (as well as working on his knot tying merit badge). We will assume it means that he loves us.
21 August, 2016
19 August, 2016
Open house
Right after Sarah's homecoming talk, Aug. 14, 2016. Her subject was "why I went on a mission." She followed Drew, whose subject was "why I didn't go on a mission."
Grandparents came, of course. It's tough, or impossible, to get the optimum facial expression from everyone, at the same time!
Grandparents came, of course. It's tough, or impossible, to get the optimum facial expression from everyone, at the same time!
Delftware
Sarah brings home an exquisite memento from her honourably, most beautifully served mission to Belgium and the Netherlands. (Plus, that accidental trip to France ...) Hoera!
Interlude, with furniture
We need to introduce this very attractive new member of our family, before proceeding with more homecoming stories. Mum bought it from the Taylors, who had imported it from England. Caitlin and Christopher and Claire and Dad and Erika and Matt and Madeline and Mum carried it over, and slotted it in. Here it is. Burnished!
18 August, 2016
Sarah's homecoming
Whew!
Last time, when we left you, a certain airplane from Amsterdam was on its way westward.
Soon after posting a commemorative graphic the family, as presently constituted, made its way up to the Salt Lake City airport. Terminal 2, it said. Accordingly ...
We were somewhat early, given that if you're not early you're late. Also, what else were we going to do, or think about, or be? We set ourselves to savouring, and counting down the minutes.
Update!
We're making our way over now. Featuring, as always, Miss Lucy Rose Miller. Plus, her conspicuously luminous mother.
Four sisters, plus a little sister (then plus Matt, who isn't little at all):
Time's a ticking, a little bit. As you recall, she'll be comin' right through here:
We get in place. How often does this happen in a young person's life, or the lives of her family members? Exciting!
Still very exciting! Kinda taking a long time! Better take some pictures of Lucy ...
Actually, what's going on? Now we're getting frayed around the edges ...
... and even a little bit uncertain.
We will now turn the time over to Mum, who wrote about it all to Spencer:
"Sarah successfully made it home even though we were at the wrong terminal to meet her. The arrival screen told us to go to terminal 2. We waited an hour for Sarah to come out. There was Caitlin, Lucy, Drew, Claire, Matt, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, Janice and Brooke. We had a fathead of Sarah and a couple of signs. She kept not coming and we were getting a little worried, then grandma sighted her pushing a luggage cart coming from the opposite direction, down by the baggage carousels. There were lots of other missionaries arriving that day, and a lot of people waiting for them. But they were all coming from Florida. Sarah had come in the international terminal since it's a direct flight from Amsterdam. Why we didn't figure that out I don't know. We felt bad not being there for her but the airport employee had fun bringing her to us, from the other end. We had our own little reunion with her away from all the crowds of the people ...
Last time, when we left you, a certain airplane from Amsterdam was on its way westward.
Soon after posting a commemorative graphic the family, as presently constituted, made its way up to the Salt Lake City airport. Terminal 2, it said. Accordingly ...
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| She'll be comin' right through here! |
We were somewhat early, given that if you're not early you're late. Also, what else were we going to do, or think about, or be? We set ourselves to savouring, and counting down the minutes.
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| Millin' |
Update!
We're making our way over now. Featuring, as always, Miss Lucy Rose Miller. Plus, her conspicuously luminous mother.
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| One of last night's signs! |
Four sisters, plus a little sister (then plus Matt, who isn't little at all):
Time's a ticking, a little bit. As you recall, she'll be comin' right through here:
We get in place. How often does this happen in a young person's life, or the lives of her family members? Exciting!
Still very exciting! Kinda taking a long time! Better take some pictures of Lucy ...
Actually, what's going on? Now we're getting frayed around the edges ...
... and even a little bit uncertain.
We will now turn the time over to Mum, who wrote about it all to Spencer:
"Sarah successfully made it home even though we were at the wrong terminal to meet her. The arrival screen told us to go to terminal 2. We waited an hour for Sarah to come out. There was Caitlin, Lucy, Drew, Claire, Matt, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, Janice and Brooke. We had a fathead of Sarah and a couple of signs. She kept not coming and we were getting a little worried, then grandma sighted her pushing a luggage cart coming from the opposite direction, down by the baggage carousels. There were lots of other missionaries arriving that day, and a lot of people waiting for them. But they were all coming from Florida. Sarah had come in the international terminal since it's a direct flight from Amsterdam. Why we didn't figure that out I don't know. We felt bad not being there for her but the airport employee had fun bringing her to us, from the other end. We had our own little reunion with her away from all the crowds of the people ...
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| " ... It was nice." |
11 August, 2016
08 August, 2016
Missionaries, part 2
Unbelievably, incredibly, and very happily, Sarah is coming home this week.
Here, both metaphorically and Netherlandishly, is how cool that is:
http://bit.ly/2ayrer3
http://bit.ly/2aFE1ep
And let's add a bit of Belgium, for good measure:
http://bit.ly/2aKB24C
Here, both metaphorically and Netherlandishly, is how cool that is:
http://bit.ly/2ayrer3
http://bit.ly/2aFE1ep
And let's add a bit of Belgium, for good measure:
http://bit.ly/2aKB24C
Missionaries, part 1
Here's a nice photo of Spencer in his new area, with his new companion, Elder Utia. Elder Utia is from Tahiti. Spencer if from our house.
These jeunes hommes are serving together in Lormont, which is something of a suburb of Bordeaux, in the South-west of France.
These jeunes hommes are serving together in Lormont, which is something of a suburb of Bordeaux, in the South-west of France.
Murderer
Journalistic, or what actually happened:
Expressionistic, or a stylized externalization/visualization of the soul's dark recesses:
Portraiture, or Nature, red in tooth and claw:
Expressionistic, or a stylized externalization/visualization of the soul's dark recesses:
Portraiture, or Nature, red in tooth and claw:
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