Salt Lake outing

Here are some pictures of a Saturday in July that we spent up in Salt Lake. We visited Temple Square, went through the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house, and got to meet our new niece, Morgyn! Morgyn is Scott's youngest sister's newest baby, and she was very cute!

I have enjoyed so much the opportunity to go to the Draper and Oquirrh Mountain temple open houses. It makes me so happy to give the kids the chance to be within those holy walls, and it is exciting to help them feel the importance of going to the temple. I love having little children around, but it is so satisfying to have Justin and Ethan growing up into such good boys. They seem genuinely excited when we talk about how soon they would be able to go to the temple to do baptisms. What a blessing the temples are to parents! It gives us something to help our kids aim for. I am just so grateful for the gospel and the added perspective it gives me in my own life. Being in the temple, in particular, always helps me remember what is eternally important. Little worldly concerns just kind of float away . . . :)

Carac - ouch!

Talk about red! I am smiling because I finished the Carac treatment the dermatologist told me to do. Because of the basal cell carcinoma I had removed from the side of my nose back in April, he prescribed this Carac cream for me to put on my face for 28 days in order to get rid of pre-cancerous cells - which he saw when he did the biopsy of the tissue samples he removed back in April. Wow – it has been unnerving. Scott did this same treatment back in March and was so stoic about it, that I had no idea how uncomfortable it was. I stopped doing the medicine three days ago, and my face is still beet red, the skin under my eyes, over my lip, and next to my eyelids is dry and tawt, and I still have skin sloughing off. Very disturbing. I thought I was done with random bleeding spots, but just this morning awakened to a bloody scab under my eye again. Scott’s face was back to normal and even looked better just three or four days after he had finished doing the cream. I am guessing that my skin was more damaged, or just more sensitive, and that my face will always be red. Just kidding. I know I will heal someday. I wish the process would just hurry up a little bit so that people will stop asking me what is wrong with my face!