9 years

Well, family, its been 9 years ago today.  It's still hard, but not as hard as it used to be.  Hope everyone has been able to think positive thoughts all day and remember the good times with David.  We'll tell you what we did today, but first, here is a picture from our ward Christmas party on Saturday.  Cheeky Santa!

It was a great party.  The potato casserole they had me make for it was very yummy.  It called for 3 cups heavy cream, freshly grated nutmeg (thanks, Tracy), and fresh thyme.  I'll share it sometime.

So today, we decided to go into San Francisco, since David loved that city so much.  How lucky are we to be able to do that?  We also wanted to see some places where Grandpa Crockett spent some time when he was in High School there.  We had his address from his journal, but the house has been torn down, as it is now the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, but this is the house across the street, and some sidewalk art from where his house would have been.

He had a newspaper route that we think would have had him delivering to places like this

 

Isn't that a beautiful old home? 

 

We then ate at a bakery/deli:  these are some of the delicious cakes they had on display

Then we drove through china town, down to the Embarcadero and walked over to Fisherman's Wharf.

We had a good day. Hope all of you did as well.

It's back to work tomorrow!  Oh, last night, we helped as hosts at a crèche display that has over 350 crèches from all over the world.  It was amazing.  They didn't allow pictures, but here's the sign at the ward house that has hosted it for 20 years.

They had displays from Africa, Europe, South America, the Islands, Mexico, America.  They were so great to see, and they used very creative ways to display them.  It was very unique and beautiful.  I'd like to start collecting them.  If I could only travel to all those places to get them!

Hope everyone is enjoying the season.  It will be a very unusual Christmas for us, but we'll enjoy it and look forward to talking with everyone via Skype on Monday. 

Love to you all.