Ballroom dancing has taken the front stage for two of our families recently. Mink Creek had three young performers participating in Dancing With the Stars event at Preston High School. Jyllian and Greenlee Christensen are daughters of Lacey and Kerry Christensen. Hazen Baird is the son of Liesa and LaRon Baird. Greenlee and her partner, Dr. Hansen, were awarded 3rd place for their fast-stepped dance. Beautiful gowns, dancing music and performers, what a great show!
Eldon and Danita Wilcox enjoyed a warm trip to Cloverdale, CA to reconnect with friends made while serving in Pennsylvania on their mission. While down that way they visited four new Latter-day Saint temples. Then they drove up the coast to Kennewick, WA, and the Tri-Cities to spend time with Eldon’s brother. On the trip home they managed two more temples, Twin Falls and Meridian.
Lorraine Christensen spent some time in Layton, UT, with daughter, Carrie and Ken Melton and their family. The occasion was that of Carrie receiving her Masters Degree from Weber State in Ogden. Later they were able to take in a tour of the open house at the Layton Temple, along with the Melton grandchildren.
ReNae Egley recently joined her friends Jill Hobbs and LeLan Daines for another trip abroad. This time it was back to parts of Europe: Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. It was a mixture of scenery, architecture, statues, new foods and all sorts of long ago history. Monasteries, castles, the Danube River, multiple lakes, rose gardens, ancient Roman ruins and artifacts, museums, cities large and small. It was an amazing adventure for this traveling trio.
There are reports, with pictures, of moose moving around in Strawberry Canyon. It is amazing how those big creatures can pop out of the forest while crossing the highway in front of a vehicle.
Long before I had any idea I would spend most of life in Mink Creek, Idaho, a friend's father who had passed through this valley many times going from Star Valley to Utah described it as an "apple valley." He had memories of smelling the blossoms on the trees as they drove thru in the spring, and again a more mature scent of the trees filled with apples in the fall trip. Now it is the spring apple valley time in Mink Creek. Breathe it in.
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