Humidity Rising

We are excited for this magical time of year and the inspired #LightTheWorld program. Although it's hard to be away from our family during the holidays, this gives us a lot to look forward to. On Thanksgiving morning we heard a commotion outside our our apartment and saw that there was a a race going by!  It was a Turkey Trot to benefit childhood cancer. We wish we had known about it - we would have joined in!                   We went out for a walk so we could enjoy the festive atmosphere anyway.  Our Thanksgiving celebration was unusually quiet but fun. We planned dinner with another Senior couple that live in our apartment complex - the Melzers. We cheated a bit on the food by getting what we could at Costco, but it was still delicious! It was silly of us to buy a Costco pie - but they are so good. We ended up throwing half of it away. Instead of making an apple pie I made an apple crisp and ...

We are seeing signs of Christmas here - it seems to be what we all look forward to! Some neighbors in our apartment complex have some unique lights. We had to include a photo of this beautiful antique Jaguar! Last week we went looking for an Eddie Bauer store where they were having a sale, and we ended up at this beautiful shopping center - Market Street. Now we would love to go back at night to see it with all of the lights on! The highlight for us was this little restaurant that had great food!  John was happy to have some Crystal hot sauce and the hushpuppies were sooooo good!                           There was some artwork to make us more home sick for New Orleans! On Friday night our ward had a Thanksgiving dinner.  They were surprised to learn that we don't usually have a Thanksgiving dinner at church. John said, "We usually have a ward Christmas dinn...

 This photo captures the weather we had last week when we drove a young missionary to a doctor's appointment in downtown Houston. We love getting to spend time with them on the drive. Elder Davis does a lot of driving!! We are a pretty good team - he drives and I navigate. We did have to divide up for the first time this week. John stayed home for a health council meeting via video conference, and I drove a sister missionary to a doctor appointment because it was out of her area. Sadly I forgot to get a photo with her!  This is Elder Knight - such a great young man! I am finding that many of our missionaries that have major chronic health problems like Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis or Crohn's disease seem to handle mission life so well. Some weren't sure they would be able to serve, but a place like Houston which has amazing health care makes it possible.  While we were in the area we got our car serviced and went from a white Audi to a bl...