Thursday, my mother and brother Brent and sister Michelle, came to Santa Rosa for a quick visit. Adam Cox also stopped in and spent the night. (He is great!) It makes my eyes tear up just typing about it. It was so sweet to spend two days with them. I felt like I was at the ranch, really, that same feeling, even though I was sitting in my family room in Santa Rosa. That comfortable, great, happy, relaxed, peaceful, loving feeling that you get when you are at the ranch with one another. Only now I know that it is a feeling you get when you can be with your loved ones, it's not a feeling you just can have if you are in Wyoming in person. Funny how it came so strongly to me when my ranch people came to see us! I found myself wishing that all of my children could be here too, knowing they would love the chance to spend time with these three. Thank you to each of them for taking the time to come and bring that feeling with them! They are pretty special people!
Mom brought her peanut brittle (I have pretty much finished off the huge can full, sorry Tod!), which makes it officially Christmas time, and they all helped me get my Christmas cards ready to be put in the mail. We ate great, we went to the temple (a great treat for Jon and I), we walked in the rain to see the redwood trees, we drove through Napa (one of Jon's favorite drives), we may have talked Brent into bringing the cattle operation to California so he could have happy cows, and we visited, remembered and laughed...it was just a great couple of days. I only have pictures from the temple, but I got a couple of good ones from Michelle.
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| Carma, Brent, Michelle, Susan and Jon |
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| It rained all weekend. My mother is a trooper! |
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| The lights at the Oakland temple! |
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| Mother and Daughter |
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| The Oakland Visitor Center |
