Saturday, September 18, 2021

2021 Christensen reunion

The first day of the reunion was spent at Bear Lake, a pontoon boat was rented, and lots of the people there got to go tubing from the back of the pontoon! We also had a lot of fun just hanging out at the beach.

A beautiful full rainbow you could see from the balcony of the cabin. If you look closely, you can see a faint double rainbow above it!

The water was so clear and blue! It was beautiful. I loved the little white shells along the beach that you can see in the photo above.

Finally taller than James!


This was the naturally occurring hot springs, the water was really hot, but you got used to it after being in for a few minutes. It felt really nice, but smelled disgusting, almost reminded me of rotten boiled eggs. 

Mermaids! The tiny white shells made for some cool looking scales.
We also had a couple games of Kubb going at the beach! Everyone who played enjoyed it.


On the second day, we left in the morning and went on a cool cave tour! The Minnetonka cave. It was so cool to see all the interesting rock formations, but there was a lot of stairs! 444 total. There was one point where our guide turned out all the lights, and we couldn't even see our hands in front of our faces! 







This formation was called the "Three Sisters." some of the biggest and oldest stalagmites in the cave!

After the official reunion was over, we stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's house for an extra couple days! We had fun hanging out with everyone.

These are "Snape's Underpants" used in an actual studio c sketch! April Whitmore won them by winning at a dance battle! She was so kind and traded them to Lily for a T-shirt Lily caught!


Here you can see the sets. In between filming, a guy would come out and have some of the cast come out and do some games! 
Posing by a poster of Dalton while waiting to be seated!

We also walked around BYU campus and looked in some stores, and ate at the cafeteria!
Back at Grandma and Grandpa's house, we had some Kubb games going on!

One of the days, we also went disc golfing with a big group! 


These are pictures of Steve fishing out a disc from the water!

These next pictures are at Sam & Lilly's reception! There was dance parties, delicious food, and people hanging out.














Pictures at the temple for Sam and Lilly! They got sealed.





Some of us also went to a musical called "Bye Bye Birdie"! It was funny, and we all had a great time!


As we were leaving, we stopped off at this little place and got some pictures.




Saturday, September 11, 2021

Cleaning up Carnage trail

On the National Day of Service, Saturday, September 11th, 2021, we went to the Ballard Carnage Trail and did a huge cleanup with our community! Lots of people showed up, and there were big machines and several dumpsters and dump trailers for our use! And boy, did we use them! Most places would be dirt with a little bit of trash, but carnage trail looked like trash, with a little bit of dirt. There was so much garbage and junk everywhere!

Lani with her Stake Relief Society Presidency were delegated some responsibilities. One of those was to take pictures and post them online, so here's some of the photos from that day.

We spent 4 hours and were thankful for the gloves donated by Napa auto parts to protect our hands from the glass, barbs, and other sharp and sketchy objects. I'm pretty sure we were in a tetanus paradise.

On the Roosevelt East Stake's Facebook page there's more photos, and here's the info I shared there: 

9-11 Day of Service: Ballard Carnage Trail Project

We literally moved mountains (of trash) today!
Before we began, it basically looked like a landfill exploded. With machinery, trailers, dumpsters, gloves, rakes, and everyone’s help we hauled off numerous couches, mattresses, appliances, box springs, spoiled food storage, barrels, jugs, barbed wire, bullet shells, cans upon cans, glass upon glass, and junk upon junk!
Our project manager confirmed that we filled over 20,000 lbs. with the dump trailers and with the 3 large roll-offs we filled another 100,000 lbs. approximately. So about 120,000 lbs of garbage! Phew!
Thank you to the community for coming together to clean up today!