Kloe's blessing week end

Even though this is Kloe's blessing week end, I don't have any pictures of her. I didn't have my camera with me when we at the chapel. She was blessed in Rexburg, Idaho, Most of Matt's family lives there, or very close, and they could all get together that week end. Matt and his brothers and sisters sang and it was just beautiful.
This is a manger scene reenactment that the Ritchie family puts on every Christmas season. Many of the youth are involved with either speaking or singing parts. The young man seated by the lamb is our friend Jared. He is a nephew of Brent and Janice Ritchie, and he lives with them. I spent lots of time with them while our girls were going to Ricks college, now known as BYU Idaho. They have a dairy farm and it was always fun to help out. I was never very good with the 4 am milkings!? Hilary stayed with them one summer and she took care of all the milkings while Janice went away for a couple of days!! Holly was able to help out one summer, and she even got to help birth a calf, which they named Holly. Janice had a Hilary and a Heidi calf too. It was VERY cold that evening, Paige looked like a little Eskimo all bundled up! The Ritchies served hot chocolate and HOMEMADE doughnuts.

Below is a picture of the front room of the bed and breakfast Steve, Holly and I stayed in. Out the back window was the Snake River, and it was just beautiful. Each morning we woke up the river was frozen over a little more.

This was the Sunday of Kloe's blessing and the owner of the B & B took this picture.

This is what we woke up to the first morning we were there, and it stayed like this just about the whole time we were there. It was a Winter Wonderland!!! Steve was a little nervous about the roads, but they were clear and we didn't have any problems.