MAY 2017

Wow!  May was a busy APM time for us!  We just kept running into our great RM's!!

First we had Alisa Baumgartner Hansen stop by for dinner with not-so-little Lincoln.  He is now walking and into everything and SO ADORABLE!  We had a blast talking and playing with him!  Oh, and Alisa too!

We got to celebrate the sealing of Connor Cardwell and his bride Nicole.  They are a beautiful couple and we loved meeting his parents as well!  So fun to tell them what a great missionary they had!
CONGRATS!

We HAPPENED TO BE DRIVING PAST Sam Stanley Ripley's home on her birthday!  And she HAPPENED to be outside so we stopped to give her a birthday hug!  It was the best!!

(Yes, we give free birthday hugs, but you may need to come to us as chances of us driving by are slim!)

I got to go up to Kaitlyn Tolley's sealing in Draper this month too.  What a beautiful sealing it was!  I loved the counsel from their sealer and was only disappointed that he will be out of town when our son Braden is sealed at that temple in June...I would have requested him!

I enjoyed meeting Kristin Williamson from Flagstaff YSA where Kaitlyn served.  She drove all the way up to be there for the sealing!

Here are the Sisters in our Italian branch this month.  The roses at the Provo Temple are so pretty in May that we wanted a Sister shot!

And this was our branch this month.  We traditionally have one of the larger branches in the MTC.

Jenny Greenwood spent and evening with us this month and it was so fun catching up with her!  Congrats to her on graduation from the U and on her internship at KSL weather!

 Our APM DINNER GROUP this month was smaller than normal...half of them came down sick that day!
Tyber Parsons, Crystal Turner, Drew and Sam Ripley and us.
It was actually a blessing to have a small group because...

...our house was also WEDDING INVITATION CENTRAL this month and our upstairs tables were full of invite stuff!

Our son Austin is a designer for Microsoft and he designed custom invites for both Braden and Breanna that were just perfect for each of them!


Here Braden and McKenna are helping out with Breanna and Elliot's invites one night after they did their own!

OK, so in relation to these weddings we have coming up...one night I was at the Draper Temple with Braden getting his Bridal/Groomal photos and I hear a "HEY SISTER TAYLOR"
from none other than Kellon Parkinson who happened to be there with his photographer girlfriend shooting another wedding party!
It was so fun to catch up with him while we were there!

And another blast from our past was getting to see Parker Geren and his fiance Mia.
They joined us for dinner one night and lots of catching up!

 President T got to take a trip back to AZ for some sweet work assignments covering the Tucson Temple Open House.
Isn't this a great shot he got?  Read Deseret News to see his full story!  And more to come!

And another shot of our favorite AZ Temple!  Oh how we love this place!

He also got to visit with the Griffins in the mission office as they are completing their third year now and returning home the end of June.  "Well done thou good and faithful servants!"

Here is what we miss about AZ the most.  The people.
If we could transplant a few, we would, but we are so grateful to be able to visit with our old mission friends when we go back!
Jim King with President T.

And as always...COME SEE US OR SIGN UP FOR DINNER!  WE LOVE YOU!