Had a fun weekend!!

Julia and I decided to celebrate Halloween this weekend. We made smores...


Watched "The Brothers Grimm" and "Sleepy Hollow". Two very good movies for a Halloween weekend. We also used the new grill!! Woo hoo!!


FYI... That cuban pork roast recipe is fantastic for chicken on the grill!! YUM
Then, Ola the table cloth guy visited my neighbor downstairs and we went to look and see what he brought. I bought a few things this time. I think after being married for almost 10 years, I should own at least a couple of nice/fun table cloths!



So... all in all... it was a good weekend.

Wednesdays at the Library

Every Wednesday I volunteer at the American Women's Club (AWC) Library. You can tell it's a library just by lookin', huh?


It is a rented house that is set up to be a library. All the books, magazines, and movies were donated by people who have passed through here.


This is a view from the front door. There are enough books to fill several rooms and we even have a room just for kids books. And there is also a thrift store upstairs. The library is usually open on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. It is really nice to get out and talk to people. After we close the library, we usually go out to lunch.

This was the view out the car window on the way to the library today.

The man on the ladder is either splicing into the power lines or repairing them. But my favorite part of this picture is that the ladder is not leaning against anything while he is working in that tangled mess of power lines. The three guys on the ground are the only thing holding the ladder upright. And where are the hard hats, gloves, safety ANYTHING that would be required in the US????!!!! Just another day in Nigeria.

Stake Conference

August 5th was stake conference. It was my first time going to the stake center. We were able to convince security to let us go in just one armored land rover with just one armed guard, instead of having to take the armed land rover with a security person and a chase vehicle with at least three armed guards (sometimes more). Anyway, traffic wasn't bad that Sunday so it didn't take us that long to get there. But I learned that the only things Nigerians have to model stake conference after is General Conference. And they really to their very best to pull off a mini version of General Conference. They have a choir with members from several of the wards and they all wear matching outfits. They try and even lay out the format for the meeting the same as General Conference. Luckily they don't make it the same timetable. When we got there, they had ushers seating everyone and they shuffled all us "white folk" up to the very front two rows. They said they had reserved seats for visitors and special guests. We REALLY tried to tell them that we were just regular old members, not anyone special and we didn't need any special treatment. They shuffled us to the front anyway. After it was over Roy snapped off a quick picture of the view behind us.



It was a pretty good meeting. Deffinately interesting. After the meeting we went over to the missionaries house for dinner and fun. It was nice to hang out and socialize.

And then there was the 4th of July...

I love Independence Day. You get to blow things up and watch other people blow things up!! And our friends are REALLY good at blowing things up! Every year out at their family farm, they blow up several thousand dollars worth of fireworks!! It's a ritual for them. And they invite EVERYONE they know! It was really good to see friends that I love and miss!

We love our Camilla!! Can you tell she misses me?

And of course Dean is still Dean!!!

And then they blew up the farm!! It was FANTASTIC!!