Nathan & Jen's visit

Katelynn came with Nathan & Jennifer to Dan's homecoming talk. They came in Sat AM and leave Monday night. Quick visit but we are glad they were here.

You can see, she really likes her grandpa's piano playing. Good thing she hasn't heard him sing!

Two beautiful girls!!

She was eyeing the rootbeer floats! Not quite yet but soon you'll be snarfing them down at mutual or on a date!!

For now, baby food will have to do.

Steph & Gary's Visit/House painting

Stephanie and Gary visited us the last few days. They went to Disneyland for several days. It been fabulous weather for them. We had Santa Ana winds (hot dry winds from the desert) that kept it in the 80's. Last night we took them to Balboa (Newport) Beach for a campfire with hotdogs. Today, we had dinner with them. Their kids were well behaved. Great houseguests.

We also started painting the house. I started on Fri but the winds were too strong to finish without taking the chance of over spray on the neighbors. Saturday had winds too. So we painted the trim. Rick Christensen and Adam came over to help Jarrod and Rick. They were a great help. Of course, Rick C took the high spots as he is not atlitude challenged like the Wilburs.

President Day projects

We spent Saturday prepping the house to paint on Monday. We got it scraped and primed. Of course it rained Sunday night with an 80% thread of rain on Monday. So we will paint another day. This is the test area of color it will be.
With the concern of rain, we painted inside. We wanted to do the upstairs bath in a 2 tone. The photo doesn't show the color well.

We also bought a new light for the front entry. I wanted the replace the old one for years. Of course, when doing home improvement, Murphy's law always applies. The existing wire was too short for the new light. I had to pull the siding off the front of the house to run new wire from the switch to the fixture. But it's done!!

Katelynn & Jen visiting

Jennifer and Katelynn are visiting this week. It's great to see them. Sorry Nathan - we know it's hard when they are away.

Growth of the Church

Some of you may have seen this before but we saw it last night at the adult session of Stake Conference. It's a interesting visual perspective on the growth of the Church.


WorldWide Stakes 1847 - 2005

Project & Dromo1

This is a project for ward conferences. It is a puzzle.

For a belated birthday (bday was Nov) Jarrod went with Adam and Sam to Dromo1 (race cars).

Breakfast in Laguna Beach

Brunch at Las Brisas in Laguna Beach with Haylee and her parents.

Christmas at Steve's

Dinner at Steve's on the 26th.

Christmas 2006

This was our traditional Gingerbread House for 2006.

Of course the real joy of the holiday is having the family with us. We had all 4 children with 2 spouses and, of course, 1 grandaughter here for the holidays. Mom and Katelynn had a good time.

Traditional Christmas Eve at the Masters Home.

The annual family-on-the-stairs-Christmas-morning photo.

Who is enjoying the toys more?

The Caudill traditional Christmas Day football game

Sue's accident

Sue was in an auto accident tonight. She was stopped to turn left (turning left from NB Wanda onto WB Monroe) when she was rear-ended. The force pushed her across traffic ending up on the other side facing the opposite direction. She was very fortunate that there was no oncoming traffic at the time. Neither her nor the other driver were seriously injured. However, she is already sore, 3 hours post - so tomorrow could be interesting. It is probably totalled - hard to image them being able to fix it. We are blessed she wasn't hurt.



11/22 - This morning I was thinking about this accident. I thought about how this young man who hit her took his eyes off the road for just a moment. This caused him and others pain, aggravation and frustration. This has similar to our lives and keeping them on the the road to Eternal Life. We need to keep our eyes on the road. If we let our guard down, even for a moment, we can cause pain and anguish for us and others around us. Let us all keep our eyes on the road - physically and spiritually.

Two Beautiful Babes