November 2025

Alan and Ryan fixing the dry wall in the storage room after the water heater blew a hole and was replaced.

Cutting insulation.

More cutting and we put in insulation.

We decorated the house before we had empty nesters at our house.

Bethlehem olive wood nativity.

A little Thanksgiving decorations.

Dale and Charlotte in Spain on their mission with the CES group of young adults at the temple.

Alan with Grammy and Grandpa at Ovation in Washington, UT.

The aurora borealis looking north from our front porch in Cedar.

JT's kids on Halloween

With Ashleigh and her girls before Thanksgiving.

Playing rummy with the kids Thanksgiving eve.

Turkey trot Thursday morning.

The group before we started.

Just finished.

Thanksgiving dinner

Panama Cruise 2025

Big bathroom and room for handicapped, Okay, Yeah we'll take it

                                                                                                Pizza and cookies

Our first day walking around the ship

Puerta Villarta we went to the beach and snorkeled

This was the beach

We had over 50 people at church, I taught on D&C 121-123

Puerta Vallarta

We took a van into town and saw the city.

One of the churches

Beautiful view from the hilltop in Puerta Vallarta.

We walked to Walmart when we got back and Rhonda bought a shirt.

Meanwhile, Alan is playing with the Tripps.

Yummy food!

Antigua Guatemala

The arch in Antigua

Hallowwen on the ship

Puntarenas Costa Rica

Squeezing cane sugar

Crocodile boat trip

Croc Tooth

Restaurant with yummy food and we got mango shakes.

The biggest burl table i have ever seen.

Butterfly Gardewn

Window Butterflt

Caterpillars

We bought some souvenirs and they played the marimba outside. Costa Rica is the wealthiest central American Country. Free health and education for everyone.

We played a lot of games in the library.

We went to the temple in Panama City

We did Initiatory and Endowments

One of the cemetaries by the temple for people who died working on the canal.

Panama City from our ship.

Going through the locks, our ship made it under the bridge.

Passing the temple as we go through the locks.

3 locks going up and 3 more going down to the Atlantic Ocean.

Pork luchon

We're stuffed.

The seas were rougher on the Atlantic than in the Pacific.

Cutting back on the food.

Our favorite table servers and cleaners, Harrieth from Nicaragua and Eugenio from Panama.

Curacao Hato Cave

Pretty bathroom

The exit sign to the cave.

The beaches are very nice but most are private. This was at a hotel.

Ice Cream treat.

Breakfast

Our last formal dinner night, we had salmon and vegetables

2 chefs cooking, one was comedic and the other straight

Some of the chefs

The galley

Big soup pots

The 2 chefs that were on stage.

We worked out almost everyday.

Our group of 42 on the last dress up dinner night.