Terry and Janet

Terry and Janet

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Another Anniversary...


Terry and I have been married for 33 years
We were married in the Mesa Temple on August 27th.


Terry got us some tickets for Wicked..
We have seen it many times but I love it...
I want to sing the whole time.


Life is good for the Turks
We are not enduring our marriage, We are enjoying every minute...
because my sweet husband lives by this quote by Pres. Hinckley

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a 
matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.” 

I love you Terry...
Thanks for taking such great care of me...
Every second of Every day I feel Extremely Loved!

Monday, August 24, 2015

One More....

We attended one more wedding this weekend.
My nephew Cannon Collins married beautiful
Brittany Carlin on Saturday.

She is from California
but she was nice enough to get married
in the Mesa Temple in August.
 I think that the temperature was only 107 that day...
Not that bad!  

Terry and I were married in Mesa in August 
and it was a scorcher...
but if you can stand that kind of  heat on the wedding day
then the marriage will be a piece of cake!

Monday, August 17, 2015

Zach's Wedding...


We went to St. George, Utah for these two great people
this last weekend...
This is my nephew Zach Collins
and his new wife, Sarah Vaughn Collins


They are a beautiful couple and were sealed in the magnificent St George Temple.

This Temple resembles the Nauvoo Temple which I love so much.



We first flew into Las Vegas and were able to 
go see this show "The Beatles ...Love... Show"
before we rented a car and picked up my brother
Tom and his wife Melissa at the airport
and then we all drove to St. George.


 We also saw the musical
"Beauty and the Beast" in St. George
at the awesome outdoor theatre... Tuacahn.


The production was great...  so much talent and the venue
was incredible!


By the Way, the St. George Temple was the first Temple built in Utah
and is one of the most beautiful... It is pure white
and stands out against the red rock of the mountains in St. George


A little history that is amazing....

A temple for St. George was announced on 9 November 1871 by Brigham Young and was dedicated on 6 April 1877. Even though the Salt Lake Temple had been announced and commenced years earlier (1847 and 1853), construction on that temple was not completed until 1893. The St. George Temple was built to satisfy the church's immediate need for an appropriate place for temple ceremonies and ordinances. Because of the pressing need, the building's groundbreaking ceremony was held on the day the temple was announced. It was the third to be completed by the church and the first one in Utah.[1]
Brigham Young chose a 6-acre (24,000 m2) plot as the temple site. Builders soon discovered that the chosen site was swampy with numerous underground streams. Young was consulted on moving the site, but he remained firm in the idea that this was the site for the temple. To deal with the swampy site, workers created drains to eliminate as much water as possible. Then they brought lava rock to the site and crushed it into a gravel to create a dry foundation for the temple. This led to a new problem: how to crush the rock. Someone suggested using an old cannon that the city had acquired. After creating a pulley system, the cannon was used as a pile driver to compact the lava rock and earth and create a firm foundation.
The old cannon has an interesting history. It was made in France and used by Napoleon during his siege on Moscow. During Napoleon’s hasty retreat, however, the cannon was left behind. It was later dragged to Siberia, then Alaska, and finally ended up at a fort in California. Members of the Mormon Battalion acquired the cannon, had it mounted on wheels, and brought it to Utah. Today, the old cannon is displayed on the St. George temple grounds.
After stabilizing the foundation, work began on the structure. The walls of the temple were built of the red sandstone common to the area and then plastered for a white finish. Local church members worked for over five and a half years to complete the temple. Historians James Allen and Glen Leonard made note of the dedication shown by the pioneers in Southern Utah. The workers opened new rock quarries, cut, hauled and planed timber, and donated one day in ten as tithing labor. Some members donated half their wages to the temple, while others gave food, clothing and other goods to aid those who were working full-time on the building. Women decorated the hallways with handmade rag carpets and produced fringe for the altars and pulpits from Utah-produced silk. At its completion, it contained 1,000,000 board feet (2,000 m3) of lumber, which had been hand-chopped and hauled between 40 and 80 miles (60 and 100 km). They also used 17,000 tons of volcanic rock and sandstone, hand-cut and hauled by mule teams.
In honor of the temple, the church's April 1877 General Conference was held there. The temple dedication ceremony took place on 6 April 1877. Young presided and Daniel H. Wells, his second counselor, gave the dedicatory prayer. The St. George Temple was the only temple completed while Brigham Young was president. Shortly after the dedication and the conference, Young returned to Salt Lake and died on 29 August 1877, at age 76.
After remodeling of the interior, the temple was rededicated on 11 November 1975.[2]

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Grandpa Dean...


We celebrated Grandpa Dean's Birthday on the 6th.
He is 78 years old.
(Dean is Terry's Father)


Here's a few of the grandkids and kids...
It is so much fun to get all together...
It's more like a preschool...
We have 8 grandkids and 
my nephew Myles was there with his wife Kat 
and cute baby Gwynnie!

Thank you Grandpa .... Happy Birthday!
Look at all the fun that you have created!

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Monsoon 2015


We had quite the storm today in Gilbert...
It hit us hard... I was praying for our new trees in the back
and then ended up soaked and muddy as
I ran out to save them all.... 
It was hilarious.

I called my daughter to tell her about my tree saving 
and she was yelling at me out in the rain as she was 
trying to get her trampoline out of a tree...

This is her trampoline that flew over that brick fence and into this tree...
We thought that the worst was over and then it hit us
all again after we got all of our trees anchored and tied up....
We will have to do it all again tomorrow morning!

How do people live in tornado alley?

There was a beautiful lightning show though!

And He's Off...


Just got back from the setting apart of Luke Shill our nephew.
He heads to the MTC tomorrow

And then he is off to 
Buenos Aires, Argentina South mission.
Here he is below with more of our nieces 
and nephews...

He's a great young man and we are thrilled he's 
heading out to be a part of 
the greatest army on the earth.



His brother Rock is returning from his mission 
in El Salvador in just a couple of weeks.
They will be apart for 4 years.

Nothing better than a hardworking Missionary
Best of Luck Luke!