Tuesday evening, the day before the wedding, the preparations in the cultural hall continue, with Kristi and her crew working on the decorations for tables, chairs and displays throughout the room. A nice wedding reception doesn't have to cost an enormous sum of money, but it does require lots of work and planning, and help from friends and family.

Adele's twin brother Jacob and his wife Liz are seated in the forground, helping with the decorations for the arch where the bride and groom with be standing to greet their guests during the reception.

Acting on instructions from the mother of the bride (our dear daughter-in-law, Kristi), Jeffery and his son Jacob and Grandpa Chapman set to work on the creation of a false ceiling in the Mill Hollow Ward meetinghouse cultural hall, where the wedding reception was to take place.

We rigged a line through the basketball hoops at both ends of the hall and then measured and cut these swaths of white plastic table covering material in long, 70 ft lengths, which we then hoisted and drapped across the hall, side to side, along with strings of mini-lights. It went so well, we were surprised and quite pleased with ourselves! Kristi gave it her approval and then followed up with her crew of women and girls, to give the hall all the many final touches that would create a winter scene in blue and white for the reception the following evening, Wednesday, Dec 29.

This snow sculpture is located on the northwest corner of Main St and First West, at Broulin's Market in downtown Rexburg. With temperatures that seem determined to stay below freezing it seems likely that it will be there until springtime.

On our way over to take some things to Adele and Daniel's new apartment on the west side of Rexburg, we stopped for a picture of this home, so grandly decorated with Christmas lights and displays. The snow made it all the more beautiful!

A little later, the same day, Sunday, Dec 26, our son Jeffery, returned home from his long day of service as counselor in the bishopric of a Single Adult ward, and, joined also by Adele and Daniel, we continued to enjoy a glad reunion with our Rexburg family. Anna, Laura, Kristi and Camilla are seated on Jeffery's left as he shares a story with us.

We arrived in Rexburg on Sunday afternoon, Dec 26, bearing gifts, which Linda delighted in sharing with our grandchildren soon after our arrival.

Here you see Anna in her new knit cap and scarf, and Laura, her older sister, seated around thge dining room table, enjoying these little surprises from their grandmother.

Christmas day found us on the open road, headed toward Idaho. We decided to leave a day early so we could be of more help to Jeffery, Kristi and family as they prepare for their daugher Adele's marriage to Daniel Johnson. Adele and Daniel will be married in the Rexburg Temple on Dec 29. We are looking forward to being with them for that happy occasion.

This picture was taken on Christmas day as we headed north from Flagstaff, Arizona on US 89, out across the vast, open reaches of the Navaho nation and the plateau lands of northern Arizona.