Aunt Christine's sketch

While Aunt Christine was with us, she drew on the packing paper with the kids at the table.  Here is some of her doodles. 

Inner Space Caverns

While Christine was with us, we took a break from packing and toured the caverns just a half hour north of us.

Inner Space Caverns was discovered in 1963 by a construction crew drilling I-35.   As they were drilling the bit broke and fell into the caverns.  Curious, a crew member was lowered down the hole into the caverns.  They named it Inner Space because it was during the height of America's obsession with outer space and the caverns were seen as the inverse of outer space.

This one resembles a sumo wrestler eating a large ice cream cone. 

Corinna's baby blessing

Sunday July 24th was Corinna's baby blessing.  As soon as Jonathan started the blessing she yelled.  She continued to express herself loudly the entire time.

After the blessing, the bishop got up and said it brought back memories of when his oldest daughter just howled during her blessing over 30 years ago.  We all know Larke, his daughter, so the congregation chuckled at his remarks.  (Later the bishop's wife told me he got a bit choked up thinking about it.)

The first speaker got up and said that he was speaking in slot usually reserved for the youth speaker, but we already heard from her today.  The congregation had a good laugh at that!

Here are some pictures Christine and I snapped after church.

Sisters

Two generations of sisters

The girls

The guys

 

The whole crew

All dressed up in her finery

Aunt Christine

 Cousins!

Cute baby Gwendolyn exploring