Saturday, August 8, 2009

Visit to Joel and Cindy

We went to Salem to visit Joel and Cindy and meet Melanie who was on a business trip from Texas to the JC Penneys stores in Salt Lake.

We arrived on a Monday night and saw the new bookshelf that Joel had just finished. Dad helped him nail the back on. Boy is it a beauty. I thought you might like to see the bookshelf empty. Cindy had a picture on her blog with it filled up! It is really a darker color than this picture shows. It is a rich dark walnut color.



We hurried and fixed a yummy taco salad for supper while we were waiting for Cindy to get home from work and Melanie to arrive from the airport. Cindy had made two kinds of homemade salsa. I especially liked the pineapple-kiwi. It was pretty tasty! They were caught in a traffic jam---Joel went to class. Then we ate quickly and went to pick Joel up from school and go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. We arrived right on time for our appointment at 8:00 p.m. It was closed!!! We drove around and found a Cold Stone Ice Creamery and enjoyed each other's company.

The next day Melanie went to work and dad and I went to the temple open house. It is a beautiful temple with the theme for the stained glass windows and chandeliers being stars. There were also tall, thin evergreen trees around in the temple.


We met Melanie for lunch then headed home. We stopped in Uintah at Valley Nursery to buy a peach tree. I didn't even buy anything else, though I was tempted! :) Then we went to Brigham City and got our pickup which Joel had left there to be repaired when he borrowed it to take his bookshelf home----and it broke down!

Joel and Cindy have a nice home and Cindy is very talented in decorating and Joel in fixing things up and building great additions like the deck and the bookshelf and refinishing the table. You are both amazing. Keep up the good work.

2 comments:

  1. Why was the temple closed at your open house time? That's weird. I'm glad Melanie got to make a visit and you got to see Cindy and Joel. You have done really well at making the rounds to all the kids.

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  2. You are right. The bookshelf looks a lot different empty. It might also be the lighting downstairs since it is not as bright down there. Thanks for coming we enjoyed having you stay. I am glad you guys made it to the temple. I love all the stars inside it!

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