On Saturday Morning I went with *Sarah and Aunt Michelle to the Temple to do Baptisms. It was really neat to visit a knew temple. They picked me up at 6:30am and the temple is only 10 minutes away from Grandma's house, but it was still really busy! It was really nice.
I survived the morning until cousins came by reading The Undaunted. The first cousins to arrive was Aunt Beka, the twins and Little Owen. It took a bit of time for Landon and Braedon(3 yr. twins) to warm up to us again. Little Owen is So sweet. He was born in January, so it was really fun to see and hold him for the first time, excluding pictures. Later while I was waiting for Sarah, I had fun talking with Katie Turley. She is a next door neighbor to my grandpa and there is a low wall connecting yard so we can easily talk and jump into each yard. She brought out her 1-week old baby goat Jessy(boy). Really cute!
Later when Sarah came, we built a "mail system" from two trees parallel to each other on separate sides of the fence. We set up a rope with a basket hanging on it. We move the rope to get the basket. Pretty cool? Sorry no pics. I went home with Sarah for a sleepover. Amazingly we got bored! Finally we decided to write a story. We brainstormed Ideas but could not think of anything we wanted to do(more like couldn't agree on anything). Than Sarah suggested that we right a book about a character in the Clue game. Sarah and I LOVE Clue. We always play Clue and Clue Mysteries(awesome clue game with extra characters) A LOT when we get together. We read the plot of the game and choose the person who gets the story. We are writing about Miss Josephine Scarlet, daughter of Patricia Peacock. She is accused of the Murder because she is an actress(Like Me!). I won't give away the real answer though, because Authors NEVER do that in their books.
My family went to church with Sarah's family on Sunday. Instead of Young Womens, I helped teach Sunbeams, because it was their ward's visiting teaching conference and all the women go(including Primary teachers). We had a nice afternoon with the cousins and then went home for a rest. The Phelps(A. Anna & U. Greg), Picketts, (A.Beka & U. Danny), and the Willises(A. Rachel & U. Corey) came over in the evening. It was really nice.
Monday was the Funeral. We went early for the viewing. Great-Grandma looked very beautiful in her temple dress. She was so peaceful and at rest, now reunited with Great-Grandpa Taylor. The Funeral was lovely. I enjoyed hearing Aunt Annette(Grandpa's Sister) give Grandma's life history. I went up with all the other Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren to sing "Families Can Be Together Forever". After the cemetery, we went to the luncheon back at the church where the funeral was. I spent the afternoon reading, and playing outside till the Birthday Dinner in the Evening. They had it early since we were in town for Mom. It was Lot's of fun.
The Drive back went great. We watched a bunch of Little House on the Prairie, als0 "Wall-E" That is one of the most annoying movies ever! There is a little human talk, but mostly robots and, "Waaall-E?" and "Eeve-aah!" I read through half of it. By the end of the drive I was just about sick of Cows(we pass a lot in the last couple of hours. Every time they are spotted we get cow talk from Laurel. She still talks about cows.)
So that about sums up the trip. I unfortunately took like only a few pictures:
Cousin Mary & Me
*For those who don't know, Sarah is the oldest Grandchild(I am the second). She is the only cousin my age(both sides) and just four months older than me to the day(April & August 5). So we are really close and don't exactly like only seeing each other 1-3 times a year.
I think this is my longest post yet!
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