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Entries from December 2007

Diamonds are a girls best friend!

December 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments

Last spring when we got home from the mission I was showering and lost one of my diamond earrings down the drain. Go figure, they were on screwon posts and I check them regularly. But, no matter I lost one and I screamed and bawled. Dad had bought them as an anniversary [...]

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Tags: anniversary

Terror on the rez

December 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

What started out to be a short drive after we had already been to church at Many Farms and Lukachukia because I wanted to finish listening to a story we had begun on our way home from the wedding in Utah.
I didn’t realize we were low in gas. Dad said we could go to [...]

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Tags: mission

550 miles

December 29th, 2007 · No Comments

We got up early Wednesday morning, like 4:00 a.m. to drive to a doctors appointment for dad in Flagstaff. We got their on time and he got seen immediately. His eye is doing better and if we have no other problems then we can see the doctore in six months. There is [...]

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Tags: extended family

Holidays on the Rez

December 29th, 2007 · No Comments

The holidays and being away from my children is probably the hardest part of serving a mission. This year I put out a plea for someone to come visit. Jared and Emily and the girls came down the friday before Christmas, braving the bad weather and wandering animals and even the possibility of [...]

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Tags: Children

Playing catch up on the rez

December 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I haven’t written in quite some time, life is demanding on the rez! The senior sisters took me and another sister to Kismish in Window Rock. Kismish is Christmas in navajo. They use the word for their Christmas craft shows etc. We went to bazaars and pawn shops and to [...]

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Tags: mission