Dad's Dinner

Tonight on my dad's birthday we had the missionaries over for dinner and feed them some of dad's favorite things. They are American missionaries, from Mississippi and Utah, and always excited to get a little American food here in Mexico.

Here we have Seven-up, Bratwurst, homemade chili (you can not

buy the beans in a can, so this really was cooking all night... and it was good!), and mom's

favorite salad with apples, walnuts, dried grapes (there are no crazins here.), and a blue cheese

dressing. Some of you may have had the salad at Bucca de Beppo before! It was a

delicious meal!

To top it off we had

some Chocolate cake and ice cream,

all in all it was a pretty great party and we even received The Echol's family halloween card just in time for dinner! Thank you the kids love their spider man and Cinderella drawings! So here is wishing dad a happy fifty-nineth birthday! We love him and still think of grandpa Knudsen all the time!!

Conference Comments

I know it has been over a week since Conference, but I was so proud of the kids, I wanted to show you what they did. We gave them each a poster board to draw and color anything they see, hear, or learn from the meeting. This is what they came up with!

The first poster is Thomas', a picture of the tree of life that he say when Sis. Dibs, President Monson's daughter was talking and they showed a picture of the tree of life!

Then you will see Kirtlyn's poster with her tree of life, a picture of the "big piano," or the Organ in the center, and in the bottom left and corner is the the entire family saying prayer together. It was so exciting to see what the kids got out of Conference, and to see them paying attention at least for a little while!

I felt so up lifted and encouraged by conference, and there was a new appreciation for the blessing we have to receive the meeting in Mexico. To realize that I am one of those individuals who would not have been able to see it if it had not been for the broadcasting system!! What a blessing! So many of the talks really touched, but the one that I recall most often since the meeting was President Uchtdorf's reminder that we should be listening for the Lord's voice as we search and ponder the scriptures, as we hear our children laugh, and in our everyday life!

I know the Lord loves us and that is why he has given us a prophet upon the earth today, and we are blessed to know and enjoy that blessing!

Adventures with Flat Shayci

La Fuente Minerva, this is the main glorietta (round-about) in Guadalajara. She is the custodian of the city, the custodian of Justice, Knowledge, and Strength

This is the

Tapatillan (People from Guadalajara are called Tapatillos) version of the Arc de Triom

phe. It says that Guadalajara was founded 14 Feb 1542 as the capitol of the kingdom of New Galicia (Spanish Province).

Jennifer and the kids are standing in front of the aqueduct. It just has plants and flowers growing out of it now, but it once carried water through the city. It is right by my school and goes right over one of the major roads.

Here are

Thomas and the kids standing on the corner of the Minerva Glorietta. There was a Burger King on one of the other corners that we went to eat lunch at.

Here is Thomas sitting on a fence on the side of the road. You can see in

the distance how green everything is here. It is still rainy season and it just rains like crazy. You can also see some of the big houses here. In the picture you can only see the top two or three stories, they really are huge and beautiful.

Here is a real "Mexican Cowboy"or caballero.

He was riding through a huge forest park

area near our friends the Curtis' house.