Hurricane Irene

A beautiful view of before the storm. Actually it
didn't change much more than this.

Sister Weatherford enjoying the storm

Our experience with Hurricane Irene was uneventful as far as wind and rain but it was a wonderful experience in setting up and practicing emergency preparedness. We're grateful for that.  The worst of the rain hit earlier than expected. We had taken a member who was still healing from surgery to a meeting, and when we got home just as we got out of the car (her husband had gone to unlock the house) the clouds opened up so we sat back in the car. Her husband brought out a coat to cover her with then ran back to the car so I walked with her to the house. By the time we got there, I was soaked clear through. Elder Lovell said I looked like I had jumped into a swimming pool with my clothes on. I felt like it, too. The Sister Missionaries were evacuated to Sumter and the Elders were sent to Florence.  We stayed with the Weatherfords. It was a very pleasant evening sitting on the front porch with the trees slightly swaying. It wasn't supposed to hit us until about midnight so at 1:15 a.m. my fire ant bite woke me up so I checked the trees and they were pretty calm.  This morning there were a couple of wind gusts but not much more than most of our Idaho breezes.  Bro. Weatherford checked his rain gauge and it said we got about 2" of rain.  We'll start calling our part of the phone tree to make sure members faired as well as we did.  Thanks for your concern and prayers during this time.

August 14 - Wonderful day!

There are some days that one can mark on their calendar as almost a perfect day. Even though we were not able to be a part of physically, it will always be memorable. To start, it was Brett and Jalin's 13th wedding anniversary. To celebrate, their oldest son, Brandon, received the Aaronic Priesthood, their youngest son, Spencer, was confirmed. Then at the end of the day, Kolter Matthew Lovell (son of Damian and Kim) made his entrance into this mortal life. We are so glad Mom and baby did well. We're looking forward to meeting him in person. We don't have any pictures of the Bingham family events, but we were given permission to put Kolter's picture on our blog so we can do the "grandparent brag" for those of you who may not get it otherwise.

I think he will be loved by his sister and brothers!

Kolter Matthew Lovell - Isn't he a cutie?!!!