Sam's Day

I am amazed Will looks good in this picture. He always acts so goofy.

Sam with Grandma and Grandpa Jensen

Sam was ordained an Elder and received his patriarchal blessing in one day. Receiving this ordination almost didn't happen. Sam had asked Grandpa to ordain him and so we made all of the arrangements to have Grandma and Grandpa come over for sacrament meeting and Sam had told his Dad and Cindy about it so we thought everything was all set. The Bishop was out of town and so Sacrament Meeting was going forward and they didn't say anything about Sam, so I leaned forward to Bruce Pitt and said don't they need to sustain Sam being made an elder? He said, "yes". We scrambled for a piece of paper and he wrote a note and we sent it up with one of the deacons after the sacrament and luckily it was accomplished. Thank heaven for good people to help me. It was really nice and Grandpa gave such a wonderful blessing to Sam. He does such a fantastic job. He also gave Sam one of the best Grandfather's blessings for Sam with his new adventure of college, and also preparing for his mission. I love my Dad. I know I don't usually say so much, but after Sam's patriarchal blessing when the Patriarch dropped it off, he said that his wife had commented that this young man has a lot of potential. His blessing was amazing.

Camping

I tried to upload a video and it wouldn't work, so I decided to finish up with what I have. I loaded the pictures in order which makes them out of order for the post. Oh well, here goes. And btw Scott, when you said "How long could it take?". I can tell you I have worked on this two different times and I'll bet it has been about an hour or longer. So!!!

Our camping trip to Echo Island Campground. We had a lot of fun and it was very relaxing. We rode bikes, watched videos, fished, went shopping at the local grocery store. I went for a walk and it was so beautiful and fun to run by the cows. It is amazing how much a small town doesn't have though. I went to 3 stores and couldn't find refried beans for 7 layer dip.

The coldest day of the week, but it was fun to have

Jessica, Peyton, Adrianna and Sam come up.

Me carrying the fishing gear

Only children 13 and younger and over 62 could

fish at the pond

Will catching minnows in his net

Meg fishing at the pond. I couldn't get the video to work of Meg catching her 1st fish, but it was also my first time gutting a fish. Very interesting! Meg and Will both had a hard time when it came time to killing the fish. Mark and I didn't want to keep it, but the mouth was damaged so we felt like we needed to. I voted that Mark do it!