The Nelson Reunion and Roofing our House

Roofing our house. 

Last week we had the Nelson reunion at our house and we put a new roof on.  They camped on our lawn and we cooked food on the deck.  At night we had a bonfire.  We spent about an hour on Friday evening preparing the roof and planning it and then it took about 8 hours on Saturday to finish the roof.  We would like to thank Don and Joan Anderson for coordinating and planning everything.  And we would like to thank those that helped on the roof:  Jon and Jameson Nelson, .. Don, Shawn and Ryan Anderson, .. Mark Nelson and his son in law Dallas...  Hal Roberts..  Zed Jenson .. (was just home from Europe and staying with us) Eric Miller.. 

I am really grateful for the help as it saved us a lot of money.  Especially where Hal is leaving on a mission.  Those that helped us contributed greatly to the expense of a mission.

A lot of these pictures show the fun as well as the roofing.  I wish I would have taken a picture of how everybody was camped on our lawn.

A little experiment.  Zed and Hal see how many rubberbands it takes to blow up a watermelon.  They continue to add rubberbands one by one until eventually the thing blows.  I'll put up the video on my youtube page.

There it went

The wad of rubberbands after the watermelon exploded



We ate on the deck.  Lola, Mary, Don, Karen, Jon, Jameson

The kids played in the pool.  Kylee, Macey and Katey

Matilda, Kylee, Katey and Macey

Must be having a watermelon eating contest after the watermelon blew up.

Macey, Marina, Katey, Kylee and Quinn

Katey's face

Jameson, Don, Eric, Hal, Shawn, Mark

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Jon and Jameson

Mark, Lola, Joan, Sheryl, Eric

Marilyn Webster made Hal a cake symbolizing Africa where he will be going to Ghana on his mission soon.

The shingles were laid up the day before

Sunrise

I believe it goes Don, Jameson, me, Shawn and Ryan

 

Mark really liked the sunrise so I put him in with it.

 

Don, Shawn and Ryan.  Note the hot air balloons in the far background.

 All done.  I'm the last one off.  We finished by 3:00 pm

Random notes about today



Getting ready for Hal to leave.  He only has one week and a half.  Its nuts trying to get him ready.  We went to Driggs 1st ward today for Heather Ripplinger's homecoming.  She had a cousin just getting home from Ghana and he spoke for a couple minutes.  Hal and Teresa got to talk to him but I had bailed out already to get to my primary class.  Bishop Moulton made reference to Hal in sacrament and a lot of people said hi to them.

Today in Primary I was asked to talk about how one of my prayers had been answered.  I talked about the Darby hike and how Quinn about slid off the trail and how I believe that prayer helped us not to fall off the side.  My lesson in Primary was about adversity and how Joseph Smith handled it.  The whole point of the lesson is if we handle adversity well and endure to the end that Heavenly Father will reward us in the end.

I bought a new rifle recently called a .300 RCM.  Its difficult to find any ammo for it and so the only way to get it is to handload it.  I am going to be experimenting with different loads and hopefully I will find a good one for deer before the season.  I'm running out of time and there's not a lot of places around here to test the ammo.

Hal is getting closer to leaving on his mission.  Today in church I learned about the Savior and what will happen when he comes again.  Its interesting teaching primary because I am learning all the same stuff but just from a different angle.  It makes me wonder if I am in the primary because I didn't learn things very well the first time.