Names of Christ List of Songs and Hymns

I created a document of several hymns and songs which include "Names of Christ" for my advent study. I thought I would include it here if anyone is interested in the document.  It is not a complete list--just a start. Enjoy!

Orchestra

Grandma and Grandpa are home for a bit

Baptisms for the Dead with Mallory-- June 10th

.  Mallory and I went to the Ogden Temple to do Baptisms for the Dead for some of our ancestors.  We tried to take a selfie while looking into the sun-- which didn't work out so well. What a great day to be in the Ogden Temple and to be there with Mallory!!

First Temple Trip: Logan, Brigham City, and Ogden Temples

Brittney's vocabulary sentences

Mallory's Meal Planning and Preparing Personal Progress Goal

Swimming

Stake YW's Camp Preparations

This week has kind of been a whirl wind! On Monday, I worked all day on camp things—compiling sign-up sheets and sending a big informational email. Becky (the camp director, I am the assistant stake camp director) left last Thursday and was gone 10 days! I am kind of down to the wire with just 14 days until camp and next week is the Peterson Cabin trip. I accomplished a lot for camp this week—printing and laminating certification cards, formatting a schedule for all the girls, ordering charms and crimp beads, ordering more crimp beads, purchasing jewelry making tools at JoAnn’s with 40% of coupons (and having several people come with me to use other coupons I had) plus writing and answering many emails and texts and phone calls along with three different meetings. I think I spent about 30 hours on camp this week alone!! I am looking forward to it!!

 I dreamed that the cinch backpacks I ordered were made out of gauze fabric that ripped as soon as they girls touched them.  Luckily, they arrived on Thursday, just as I hoped they would be—they will work nicely to hold the girl’s scriptures and Ensigns.

Piano Guys Concert

Tonight was our long awaited for Piano Guys Concert at Usana Amphitheater in West Valley (we gave Mallory the tickets for her birthday). We got there at 6:30 to find a place in the lawn seating and the concert didn’t start until after 8:30 when the sun had gone down on the stage. It was such a great concert! They added humor and seriousness to their show. They played classical music along with popular music and even a few hymns. It was so good! We were able to be a part of a music video they recorded live for YouTube for their new song "Okay". They played it twice and the audience was asked to wave our phones in the air with our flashlights on. We just may be famous! Haha This concert was definitely worth it! The girls were enthralled and inspired! My favorite song they played was “How Great Thou Art” mixed with a classical piece. They played their music video in the background of where they shot the video in Rio de Janero at the Christus statue and near a beautiful waterfall in Brazil in the rainforest. We also really liked the version of Pachelbel’s Canon they did too---it was hilarious!

Clinton City Days Parade

This morning was the Clinton City parade. It now goes down the street right behind our house. Aleece and her kids came over and we sat with a lot of neighbors and friends to watch the parade. The girls all got a lot of candy (especially salt water taffy), cola bottles of water, necklaces and frisbees.

Clinton City Days Carnival and Movie

This week is Clinton Heritage Days. At about 8:30 p.m. tonight, we headed out as a family to the carnival. We bought some tickets and Mallory convinced Hayley and Brittney they need to ride the Ferris wheel. When Hayley got on, she told the Ferris wheel operator how scared so was. He gave her a few pointers as they loaded their chair. Brittney decided to go with me. The guy wouldn’t take my tickets because he said he always lets parents ride free with their kids. As soon as Brittney and I went up into the air so another chair could be loaded, Brittney started to cry and wanted to get off (we were waiting almost at the top of the ride at this time while others were loading). I convinced Brittney that she was alright and wasn’t going to throw up if she just closed her eyes. Brittney and I made it through the 20-minute ride (which including loading everyone and then going around a dozen times without stopping). Brittney was more than willing to get off when it was our turn. Brittney does have bragging rights over Scott since she made it longer than he did on the Ferris wheel (from many years ago before the girls were born). When he got to Mallory and Hayley, he asked if they wanted to stay on a few more minutes. They said yes and their 20-minute ride turned into a 45-minute ride. Hayley was a little scared at first but then she really liked it. 

We ended up going down the huge slide as a family and then the girls went again. 

We also stayed for the last half of the movie in the park, the new Star Wars movie. It ended at 11:45 p.m.!

Great Aunt Elva's Funeral

This morning, I was able to attend my Great Aunt Elva Peterson Hackwell's funeral in Ogden. It was a blessing to me being able to be there. When I arrived, I was relieved to see my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Jon walking in the building. I was excited to see my Aunt LaRae and Uncle Lyle in the foyer when I walked in (they received permission to attend the funeral from their zone leader-- they are serving a full time mission in the Family History Library in Salt Lake). I went in and talked to my dad's cousin, Kay, Elva's daughter.

I have great memories of Aunt Elva (my Grandpa Peterson's sister) at our Peterson Family Christmas parties. She was always dressed just beautifully with every hair in place. She was a former kindergarten teacher also and so we had that connection.

It was so good to be with family! When I went back into the foyer, my sweet grandma had arrived along with my Aunt Tamara. A few minutes later, my Aunt Jami came in, she had drive down from Idaho. I attended the family prayer along with my grandma, aunts and uncles. During the funeral, I was sitting on a row together with my Grandma Peterson, my aunts and uncles. During the funeral, I was pretty emotional because I felt the strength of my Peterson family-- they were filling that void of my parents. I felt of their strength and love and I could not control my emotions very well.

Aunt Elva's funeral was beautiful. Her grandson, Erik, sang one of my favorite hymns (especially the words and meaning in Spanish) "Abide with Me" (in Spanish, the title is "Acompaname" or accompany me-- I just love thinking of that closeness). Roger, Elva's grandson-in-law gave a beautiful talk and her son, Richard's talk was wonderful (I think he ought to add his talk to his mother's memory page on familysearch.org). Richard shared tons of memories of his mother and father and how they met and stories of my Great Grandfather Peterson.

After we walked out of the funeral, I gave my Aunt Jami a hug and just started bawling again. I was finally composed enough to tell my aunts and uncles how they were strengthening me in my parents absence. They then understood why I was having such a hard time during the funeral. I told my aunt, " I just need an aunt hug" and I have been known to ask a wonderful friend, Linda Wayment, in my ward for a "mom hug" on at lease one occasion in the past few months. I am very blessed to have wonderful family in my life-- family who loves me no matter what-- family who would do anything for me -- family who has know me my entire life. What a great blessing eternal extended families are! I am grateful to my Heavenly Father for reminding me of the great love of family!

Classic Waterslides

The girls and I went with Julie and Brittyn to Classic Waterslide in Riverdale and we had a great time. It wasn’t very crowded and the girls went down slide after slide after slide (I went down too—I learned that it was best if I didn’t sit on a mat—I went really fast if I was sitting on a mat and got knocked all over—I’m too old for that!) We got there right after it opened and stayed until they closed at 6. We had buy one admission get one free coupons we used so it was a great day for only $19 (plus $4 total for snow cones). Not bad for an afternoon of fun and water slides!

Mallory's IKEA cart

Today we had to run an errand in Salt Lake for Scott so we met Sarah and her kids at Ikea. I had never been there before so we grabbed lunch and looked around. It’s a bit of an overwhelming store! There were two things I had seen that people had purchased at Ikea so that’s what I was looking for. We looked around for about an hour before we needed to head home. Mallory bought herself a little teal cart with three shelves which she was excited to put together all by herself (which she did as soon as we got home from a church meeting-- she was able to do it all by herself reading the instructions-- Mallory is quite handy).