Matt goes to the Temple

Matt was endowed in the Logan temple on the 23rd of August.

It was such a wonderful day and we were blessed with great support from family!

               

Afterward, we all grabbed some food and met back at the house.  Charlotte Ardern had helped with Ben while we had been at the temple.  After lunch, Andy was anxious to teach his dad how to play "Four" which has been a staple the last several months whenever the Olsens and Bryans have gotten together.

So the guys played while the ladies relaxed and read books to Ben.

Nancy learned that even hippos have bellybuttons :)

August Odds and Ends 2

 My only child left to get First Day of School pics!

Here is Ben before his first day as an 11th grader!

Our T original was framed and hung!

It's so amazing to have it on that big wall above the stairs!

We payed tribute to two amazing women that have been secretaries at the institute for many a year.

Dawn Pitcher and Jeanie Chase.

 Bless them!  They've both been wonderful and such a blessing in their individual ways.

I was only able to stay at the gathering a few minutes but I thought I better document this day.

I tried to help Andy enjoy the game Sea Salt and Paper more.

When he got all 4 mermaids and automatically won the game, I think it helped :)

And for my last odd end, Abs was able to join us for her first Swiss Days.

I'm so sad I didn't get more pics 😢  Nancy, Becky, Jenny and Aubrey were also there.

We wandered quickly and saw most of the booths before Abs had to hop on the shuttle bus and head back to Orem for work.  It ended up being the longest time we've spent at Swiss Days ever!  We didn't get back until 5.  I had a terrible headache the whole time since I had gotten motion sick on the ride there and it just never went away.  When I got back to Park City I crashed on the bed and slept it off.

August Odds and Ends

 This was the last night Ang was going to be in town.  Of course we played games and I was able to stay a little later than the rest of my family for some extra play time.

One of the nights Ang and the boys came over for games, I was working on some cookies and Ang asked if I had ever had anyone take pictures of me at work.  Since I hadn't she went ahead and took some.

So kind of her to think of that :)

The first week of August Matt went on a road trip with some friends.

Ironically, they went to the Washington coast :)

   

Seth, Benji, Orren, Matt and Steven

    

This was Benji's senior trip.

  His parents also went and they all stayed in a home owned by their extended family.

They had such a blast!

These are the cookies I made for Macy's mission talk.

I have since become more educated on copyright laws (I had to look them up since I was asked to do some cookies with a Toy Story theme)  I now realize I should not have done the blue Edmonton Canada Mission cookie based on the Edmonton Oiler logo 😬

It was actually a pretty tricky cookie to make with 3 concentric circles to try and pipe evenly.

Andy really thought a hockey cookie would be perfect for the occasion though so I made it work.

Another one of Andy's ideas...I think I'll keep him around :)

Macy did awesome with her talk even if the meeting did go over by half an hour!

In addition to Macy, two brothers spoke...one leaving on his mission and one returning.  They were the bishop's sons and I think all three speakers were told to not worry about the time.

I loved watching Josh interact with Ellie and Eli's youngest, Knox.