Last November Margaret and I completed our little summer home in New York and thought we should leave before the snows of winter began. The night we left we went to the temple with dear friends who were sealed as a family. What a joy! We were going to head south to see family and friends on our return. But as we prepared to leave my brother Ray offered us tickets to the BYU-Notre Dame football game in South Bend, Indiana. Since it was the weekend we were traveling and only a short ways out of our way we took him up on them. Although we were happy to be there it was not much fun. Not only did we lose but it was the coldest football game ever played at Notre Dame. It was a 9 degree wind chill factor.
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| Notre Dame Stadium, COLD,COLD, COLD!!!! |
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| Bundled to the hilt and still freezing!!! |
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| In front of stadium before game. |
With that behind us we warmed up first in Paducah, Kentucky with Margaret's cousins. Then we went on to Lubbock, Texas to spend the week with Marti and Russ. Marti was in charge for the third year of the Stake Nativity Display. For one week the display over 700 collected nativities in their chapel. It is a huge job. But hundreds of Lubbock residence came to enjoy the nativities, music and art on display. We still don't know where Marti gets all the energy. Most important we were able to attend the blessing of Kyle and Misty's baby Riley. What a sweetheart.
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| One of many rooms on display in Lubbock! |
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| Kyle, Misty, and Riley Anderson |
Our next stop was to Arizona to see Tina and Gilbert and family and Margaret's brother and sister. We loved seeing dear Aunt Charlotte. She is 97 and going strong, thanks to loving family. Thanks Marion. We shared many good time and memories with them all. This poor New York guy still can't get used to all the peppers and hot Southwest foods. But I'll keep trying. Somehow we stayed ahead of all the terrible weather that recently past by. After three weeks on the road we finally got home to American Fork and crashed.
Nancy, Aunt Charlotte and Margaret
Once home it was time to get ready for the Holidays. We are grateful for Brian and Allison taking care of things while we were gone. They will also be staying when we leave for our mission. It all culminated on December 21st when we all got together at our place for the traditional Christmas Party. Each time we grow in numbers. This year we counted 65 family and friends. We would hove loved to have had Phil, Diane and Hailey but Diane has been suffereing with a major back condition and will be having surgery in early February. Our prayers are with her. Any more and we will have to rent a larger place or go to a chapel. I see the day when even the Conference Center won't hold us all. It was particularly gratifying to see so many family travel so far just to be with us.
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| Fun was had by all |
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| What's Christmas without Santa |
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| Most important The Nativity |
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| Colton is new to this monster family and the party was almost too much for him. We love you Colton! |
The day after Christmas we headed out again. We went to California and spent time with Julie and saw the BYU bowl game. Sorry, we must make teams lose. We surely enjoyed our time with Julie and spent time in Half Moon Bay eating and buying crabs that just came in off the boat. We then went home and had our own feast!
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| Half Moon Bay on a beautiful day with Julie |
San Francisco Giants Stadium for the Hunger Bowl
Spencer Laulusa just came home from Mexico where he served a great mission. Welcome home Spence.
We are looking forward to next week when all the Laulusa'a will be up here as Elaine and Colton Thornley will be married on Jan 31st. We love having the family grow.
Now for the news about our future. We received our mission call. We will be serving in the New York Rochester mission. We are very excited. We love the people there and look forward to serving them. We want to do this while we are young! Yeah sure!! As President Hinkeley used to say, "There is no greater service than in the service of our Lord." So off we go. We start on March 17th for 18 months. That is two summers and only one winter. Good!
Our address will be: George and Margaret Domm
PO Box 112
1007 Newell Rd
Middlesex, NY 14507
All are welcome to come see us and this beautiful country.
Now for George's humor:
For awhile there I thought I was going blind. I just couldn't see myself going to work anymore.
Did you hear about the little, poor church that needed painting. The pastor bought as much paint as his meager budget would allow. But it wasn't enough to do the whole job so he kept thinning the paint down to stretch it out. One night a terrible storm came and washed the paint off the building. The next morning he heard a loud voice calling him from heaven saying, "Repaint. Repaint and thin no more."
