Last Tuesday lots of people turned out to watch the construction crews place the statue of the Angel Moroni on top of the temple in Brigham City. He arrived onm a flat bed truck, all wrapped up, and when he was finally lifted off the truck, a huge cheer and loud clapping greeted him.

The estimate several days before said there might be 15,000 people to watch, but it rained heavily and I would guess that there were about 4-5,000 people there. The rain set back the actual placement of the statue by about two hours, but it was still exciting.

The estimate is that the building will be ready next summer. It is nearly all enclosed, and will soon be weather-tight for the winter.

Last weekend we had a birthday for Hannah and Madeline (Maddy) Jeppsen (Kami and Chris's girls). We discovered that Hannah swings a bat left handed and swings pretty hard for her size and age. This picture shows her trying to break open the Princess Castle pinata. It took many more swings from all the little ones present before the pinata was separated from its candies.

Maddie took her swings, too, but I don't think she quite got the idea. However, when the candy started to fall from the pinata, she knew what to do then. The big kids were better at it, but with help from several of the moms, it eventually evened out.

We have known for several weeks that Kami is expecting, and yesterday she had an ultrasound. She is due in December and will be having a little boy. That will even out the grandkids at four of each. We are all very excited.