Monday, November 20, 2006
Name
For those of you wanting to know what we are really going to name the baby, it will be named Emma Elizabeth.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
11-22-06
10:40am
St. George Temple
It's a nice day for a white wedding.
Love,
Nate, Heather, and Asa
St. George Temple
It's a nice day for a white wedding.
Love,
Nate, Heather, and Asa
Change of plans
Tyler will be ordained on Thanksgiving Day at Grandpa and Grandma Wells' home. The ordination will take place at 3:00. We hope you can find time in your busy day to run over for a few minutes and wish Tyler Happy Birthday and be present for the ordination.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
What a GREAT FAMILY! Beautiful children, righteous parents doing GREAT things, and sharing the joy with us. Marsha and I are being inundated with concerned family as to WHEN the sealing will be. We are so excited, we can hardly contain our joy! We concur with John the Beloved and his statement in 3 John, verse 4. However, we still do not know when the event will happen.
Marsha is on the phone with Riley and others because there is a possibility that Riley can ordain Tyler in St. George on Thanksgiving afternoon. We'll know in a few days. I can hardly believe that I have a grandson old enough to get the Aaronic Priesthood! It seems like just yesterday that Tyler was doing the "shakies" at Lehman Cave.
And how thrilled we are to be having another granddaughter! Every family should have at least one girl to keep things civilized and so the male contingent doesn't override the Mother.
Jennifer asked that I increase her family's vocabulary by giving them a new word each week, and then Nate suggested that I share it with everyone ON THE BLOG. The first word that I gave Jennie was copasetic (or copecetic) which means "very satisfactory." Hence, we are going to have a copasetic Thanksgiving experience.
The new word for this week is salient which means standing out conspicuously; prominent; of notable significance. The salient thought of the article was that families are the basic unit of the Church. One of the salient ideas of family living is that we are all different and we need to be patient with others' differences. ENOUGH! I love you all.
Marsha is on the phone with Riley and others because there is a possibility that Riley can ordain Tyler in St. George on Thanksgiving afternoon. We'll know in a few days. I can hardly believe that I have a grandson old enough to get the Aaronic Priesthood! It seems like just yesterday that Tyler was doing the "shakies" at Lehman Cave.
And how thrilled we are to be having another granddaughter! Every family should have at least one girl to keep things civilized and so the male contingent doesn't override the Mother.
Jennifer asked that I increase her family's vocabulary by giving them a new word each week, and then Nate suggested that I share it with everyone ON THE BLOG. The first word that I gave Jennie was copasetic (or copecetic) which means "very satisfactory." Hence, we are going to have a copasetic Thanksgiving experience.
The new word for this week is salient which means standing out conspicuously; prominent; of notable significance. The salient thought of the article was that families are the basic unit of the Church. One of the salient ideas of family living is that we are all different and we need to be patient with others' differences. ENOUGH! I love you all.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
It's a.....
GIRL!
Friday, November 10, 2006
Are we last?
Hello Family-
We finally made a little bit of time to join the blog. It is fun to read what everyone is doing. We are posting the latest picture of the Aaron Wells clan. It was taken after church at the Grandparent's Eves.
Aaron had been busy with school. We see him every few days in the evening. He had an interesting situation in his clinical rotations this week. It is routine to ask the ladys if they are wearing a bra before they have an xray, the older lady took the liberty of showing him and his clinacal supervisor that she was not wearing a bra or anything else under her shirt. Nice job.
The kids are busy with school and play. Jake is reading up a storm. Katie is pretty much naughty but super cute so we will keep her. Lydia is getting ready to crawl. We think that she is going to be extra busy.
Hope all is well with everyone. We look foward to seeing you all for the holiday. CONGRATS Nate, Heather and Asa. We are so excited for you and can't wait to go to the temple with you!
Proclamation to the... Family
"The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan."
So, I guess we've decided to seal the deal. We're thinking about the day before Thanksgiving, tenatively. We are very, very excited. Love you all.
Nate, Heather, and Asa
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Tyler
We wanted everyone to know that Tyler is being ordained a Deacon on Sunday November 26. Our Sacrament meeting is at 10:50. You are invited to attend.
Monday, November 06, 2006
More pictures
Mexico City Independence Monument
Me on top of Temple of Quetalcoatl. Temples of Sun and Moon in background.
On top of Temple of Moon looking down Avenue of the Dead with Temple of Sun to the left.
Looking down the steps of Temple of Quetzalcoatl.
Temple of Quetzalcoatl.Mexico Pictures - Hopefully
Scaling the Temple of the Sun.
On top of Temple of the Moon. Temple of the Sun is in the distance.
Temple of the moon from its base.
Me and statue in front of the Museo at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl.
Mual of jaguar on the way to Temple of the Moon, along the avenue of the dead.I hope this works.
Mexico - Teotihuacan
I know you have all been waiting for me to post some information to the blog regarding Mexico. Sorry it has taken so long, I have been kind of busy trying to get all of my work done. I will probably pay for this later tonight when I have to work at my hotel room to make up time for this blog post.
Mexico City has been great. The food has been good, but I am sick of it now and I still have another five days left. The traffic here is horrible, but that is to be expected with a city of 25 million people and most streets no larger than two lanes. I am glad I don't have to drive in this mess. The streets here have no organization to them whatsoever. Most streets are one way which makes it difficult to navigate, especially when they don't have any posted signs indicating it is a one way street. You only know by the direction of the parked cars. Also, the street signs are almost non-existent. I think when the city planners decided to draw up the street designs for the Mexico City, they handed a 3 year-old a piece of paper and pencil. Whatever was scribbled on the paper became the city.
We have been staying at the Nikko Hotel, which is the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in. It has really been nice to stay there. It has made live here easier.
I spent all of last week near the Church owned school of Benemerito de las Americas at the Church Distribution Center for Mexico(DC). We spent a lot of time commuting from the hotel the DC driving through some of the poorer parts of the city. It is unbelievable how spread out the city is. There are so many homes that look like they have were made out of sticks, mud and sheet metal. Many of the homes are just concrete and cinder block and appear to be works in process. People here really struggle to live and are doing all they can to provide for themselves and their families. Nearly ever stop light and street corner has young mothers and children trying to sell goods (prepaid phone cards, fruits and vegetables, snacks, etc.) to the stopped cars.
We spent most of the day on Saturday at Teotihuacan, which is a 45 minute drive to the northeast of Mexico City, and that is if you go in the morning. Go in the afternoon and the drive will be 3 times as long. Teotihuacan is an amazing plaze with the many pyramids. We scaled the Temple of the Moon and Sun and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. The temple of Quetzalcoatl was not near the height of the other two, but it was as steep. We were pretty worn out from climbing the pyramids at the end of the day. I managed to get a pretty nice sunburn on my legs arms and neck, despite having applied sunscreen.
If you ever go to Teotihuacan, learn now how to say "NO." From the moment we arrived until the moment we left we were hounded by salesman attempting to sell us goods and items made by local artisans. One guy tried selling me a wood carving of the Aztec Calendar for $1,200 pesos (about $120 us dollars), I offered him $100 pesos and then he responded with $100. At first I thought he meant $100 pesos and I was sold until he saw me pull a $100 peso bill and then in english told me $100 us dollars. At that point I was no longer interested. Then he wanted to know the most I would pay and I replied $200 pesos, and that made him angry. I guess a $200 peso offer for his work was quite the insult. He then came back at me with an $800 offer and that was as low as he would go. At which point his buddy joined in trying sell me some obsidian statues. I just kept walking and told them in spanish to leave me alone, that I wasn't interested anymore. Besides I was going to be there another 2 or 3 hours and I didn't feel like carrying the items with me all that time. I finally did end up buying 3 obsidian statues for $250 pesos (about $80 pesos each), which turned out to be a good deal as I later saw some of the same statues at an artesans market for $175 a piece. It was quite an experience, and I would love to do it again.
I have to go. Here are some photos. Enjoy.
P.S.
I Have tried twice to add pictures to this post but it isn't happening.
Mexico City has been great. The food has been good, but I am sick of it now and I still have another five days left. The traffic here is horrible, but that is to be expected with a city of 25 million people and most streets no larger than two lanes. I am glad I don't have to drive in this mess. The streets here have no organization to them whatsoever. Most streets are one way which makes it difficult to navigate, especially when they don't have any posted signs indicating it is a one way street. You only know by the direction of the parked cars. Also, the street signs are almost non-existent. I think when the city planners decided to draw up the street designs for the Mexico City, they handed a 3 year-old a piece of paper and pencil. Whatever was scribbled on the paper became the city.
We have been staying at the Nikko Hotel, which is the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in. It has really been nice to stay there. It has made live here easier.
I spent all of last week near the Church owned school of Benemerito de las Americas at the Church Distribution Center for Mexico(DC). We spent a lot of time commuting from the hotel the DC driving through some of the poorer parts of the city. It is unbelievable how spread out the city is. There are so many homes that look like they have were made out of sticks, mud and sheet metal. Many of the homes are just concrete and cinder block and appear to be works in process. People here really struggle to live and are doing all they can to provide for themselves and their families. Nearly ever stop light and street corner has young mothers and children trying to sell goods (prepaid phone cards, fruits and vegetables, snacks, etc.) to the stopped cars.
We spent most of the day on Saturday at Teotihuacan, which is a 45 minute drive to the northeast of Mexico City, and that is if you go in the morning. Go in the afternoon and the drive will be 3 times as long. Teotihuacan is an amazing plaze with the many pyramids. We scaled the Temple of the Moon and Sun and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. The temple of Quetzalcoatl was not near the height of the other two, but it was as steep. We were pretty worn out from climbing the pyramids at the end of the day. I managed to get a pretty nice sunburn on my legs arms and neck, despite having applied sunscreen.
If you ever go to Teotihuacan, learn now how to say "NO." From the moment we arrived until the moment we left we were hounded by salesman attempting to sell us goods and items made by local artisans. One guy tried selling me a wood carving of the Aztec Calendar for $1,200 pesos (about $120 us dollars), I offered him $100 pesos and then he responded with $100. At first I thought he meant $100 pesos and I was sold until he saw me pull a $100 peso bill and then in english told me $100 us dollars. At that point I was no longer interested. Then he wanted to know the most I would pay and I replied $200 pesos, and that made him angry. I guess a $200 peso offer for his work was quite the insult. He then came back at me with an $800 offer and that was as low as he would go. At which point his buddy joined in trying sell me some obsidian statues. I just kept walking and told them in spanish to leave me alone, that I wasn't interested anymore. Besides I was going to be there another 2 or 3 hours and I didn't feel like carrying the items with me all that time. I finally did end up buying 3 obsidian statues for $250 pesos (about $80 pesos each), which turned out to be a good deal as I later saw some of the same statues at an artesans market for $175 a piece. It was quite an experience, and I would love to do it again.
I have to go. Here are some photos. Enjoy.
P.S.
I Have tried twice to add pictures to this post but it isn't happening.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Sit, Asa, sit...good dog.
I saw Wellz posted a comment about our Halloween below. So, here's the picture of Asa to go along with it. Arff arff!
Friday, November 03, 2006
How was Your Halloween?
We hope you had a very super Halloween. Spencer said it was the best day of his life because they got to do the Mummy Wrap at school, Ali had a fun time doe-si-doeing at the Harvest Hoe Down, and Sam just "licked" his costume a lot -he kept licking the strap at his chin. They had a great time dressing up as the Mad Scientist Spencer, Magical Ginny Weasley Ali, and our Lazy Lion Sam.