Big Rivers

We went to St. Louis Friday and Saturday. The temple was Friday night and then we went to Emily and Joe's to sleep - on our old bed (now in their basement) Joe was watching the Simpson's movie when we arrived and I had many a laugh. Saturday morning was nice and relaxed. When Lucy woke up from her morning nap, Steve, Joe, Lucy, Noah, and I made a little trip to the Mississippi-Missouri confluence. Translated, the confluence is where these two massive rivers meet just north of St. Louis. It is pretty impressive. The following are some photos of Noah right at the very edge.

We had a little picnic lunch while we were there. Here is Lucy enjoying a banana.

Brrr, the north wind was cold and poor Lucy was fighting a cold.

Steve and Melanie and I watched “17 Miracles” last night when we got home from St. Louis. It was really good. As I thought about it after, I tried to count the miracles – I came up way short of 17. It might have been nice to have listed them during the credits maybe? Definitely would have been tacky to have a little “ding” or something to mark each miracle while they were happening during the movie, I guess. One thing that was nice was a follow-up of the major characters in the film. I like that – “the rest of the story”.

On Friday night, Sarah went to a dance sponsored by the YSA branch. It was a “formal” which meant we had to resurrect her formal dress from her high school prom. She is now a lot slenderer so my project last week was to alter it. I unsuccessfully tried to add some cap sleeves with the fabric I cut off to make the dress a little bit shorter. That was disappointing. I feel like I am losing my sewing touch. But, in spite of my blunder with the sleeves, the dress altered very nicely and she looked beautiful.

Happy President's Day - CIS is out of school tomorrow and Tuesday. Gonna watch the final episode of Downton Abby - eeeeeeee.