I am scanning my mission slides so I thought that I would share some with all of you. I arrived in Spain in October 1970. I was cold from the day that I arrived. My first district was in Barcelona. Shortly after arriving there, the branch went on an excursion up in the mountains north of the city. I was freezing, especially as I only had my overcoat, that wasn't all that warm. I was awfully fond of Spanish boots, although these weren't the customs ones that I had made later for $18.

Video Answering Myths about Mormons

An updated video from the Church answering the many myths about the Church. I thought that it was interesting and I wanted to see if I could place it on the blog.

Christmas 2007

Twelve drummers drumming at the Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert.

We had a great Christmas this year. Grandpa and Grandma Hough had a chance to get a ride down with Pitchers. They came down just in time to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert with us. It was a great concert. Greg and Melinda and kids came down just in time to go to the Beckstrand Christmas party. On Christmas Eve, Missy and Ryan and kids, Jason and Alisynn and kids joined us for a Christmas Eve dinner. It was nice to see everyone again. We had a big storm on Christmas Eve with a sunny, white Christmas day.

Melinda, Brenden, and Miles

Brenden opening his present on Christmas Eve

Reading the Christmas story from Luke on Christmas Eve. Chris and Adam thought that was longest story on earth when they were younger because they had to wait until it was finished before they could open a present.

Tatum and Cody at our house on Christmas Eve.

Jason and Alisynn at our home on Christmas Eve. Exciting time, eh?

Missy Sharpe on Christmas Eve at our house. Greg must have gotten this picture when Missy was not looking.

The picture above was taken with Adam helping Miles unwrap his present on Christmas Eve. Adam told me how much he enjoyed playing with his nephews. They are really great kids.

Grandma and Grandpa Hough left on the 26th to return home. This was a day earlier than planned, but they made it safely home.

It was fun to see the grandkids. Christmas is always more fun with little kids around.

Some of you may remember the one big screw up that I had with Janice in our 34 years of marriage. In my many travels around the world, Janice had never asked me to bring back anything. However, in 2000, I was in Israel a couple of times around Christmas and Janice asked me get her an olive wood nativity scene. I looked at them, but decided that Janice wouldn't want me to spend that much money. I was wrong!! However, I was able to redeem myself this year. A friend of mine at work went to Israel the first part of December. I had him pick me up a nativity scene and ship it back here. Janice really liked it and I think that I have now redeemed myself.

This is Janice at 3 years old.

This is Janice at 3-4 months in 1952

This is a picture of Aunt Jean's new house in Arizona

This picture was taken for Janice's tap dancing numbers in a dance review. Taken at Bountiful High. Janice (far left), Sandra 2nd from left.

I didn't know that Janice used to tap dance. Janice was quite upset that they ran out of material, so she and Sandra had to have a different costume.

This was Janice's sixth grade class picture. She was in the last row, third from left. She really liked this class because her teacher was fun and interesting

This was taken in February 1982. Greg was 2 years old and Chris was 7 months. As we look at pictures to scan, we find that we have a picture or two of Greg every month as he grew. Chris has fewer pictures and Adam has hardly any. We now wished that we had taken more pictures of Chris and Adam.

I have been scanning pictures from the various picture books that we have. This is Greg at 3 years old. It was taken in July 1982. It was a couple of months after Greg and I picked out the seats in the new Cougar Stadium.