Lillywhite Family Letter Submission for Dec 07 (some duplication with last post)

We had a great time at the River seeing everybody. Thanks Ed and Kim! We would have liked to see Aron and Cheryl, though.
Ailsa loves her adorable Lillywhite/Hoke/Porter cousins and swears she is going to try to get down to Utah County to visit with them from time to time.
We enjoyed the beautiful river and its quieting influence. It was especially nice in the late evening, when the sun is setting down- river and everything gets calm. I caught Ed out there one evening taking it in. We enjoyed sitting and chatting with Wade about the Gospel. Laney enjoyed "fishing" with a hook that was big enough to catch a shark. I enjoyed a couple of swings at golf balls and managed to hit one across the river. (This is from someone who has held a golf club maybe four times and most recently "stroked out" (more than 10 strokes) on a hole on a Golf simulator.I tried setting a new personal best on my bike. I was doing a 10 mile sprint and the goal was to break 23 MPH I only did slightly better than 22. I've done better than that in the summer on a longer ride.
We enjoyed going to see Enchanted with almost all of the family. We enjoyed shooting the guns (Tanner was well behaved and a good shot.) Thanks again Ed for getting our Explorer unstuck! Don't worry about the taillight. I got a new one on eBay for $28.90 and it is already in place. I had a fun time building a retaining wall with Sean and Stuart and Clayton. Well, it was really two retaining lumps. But, it looks real good. We enjoyed watching "She's the Man" with everybody Wednesday night. After that we were hardly to be found during the evenings because the kids tricked us into watching the series "Firefly." And most of all we had some really good food (chocolate pie) and got to see all of the cute nieces and nephews again.
On the way back we stopped briefly at Mountain Meadows just north of Saint George a ways. It was very nice. And of course we stopped in Orem for Krispy Kreme donuts.